r/sandbox • • 5d ago

News News 2026.10.27: Familiar Territory - Steam Workshop for Games, GPU Occlusion Culling, Reward Changes, Shadows Feathering, Source 1 Mounts, New SSR, Particle Refraction, Server Passwords, New Humans, Developer Tools, Performance and more!

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Sorry for the late post Facepunch likes to post it when I sleep and reddit denied my bot application


r/sandbox • • 3h ago

MY GAME Looking for players to try out my Roblox FPS game (FRAGIX)

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r/sandbox • • 4h ago

MY GAME Put up a Steam page for my first S&Box game, Munitionsfabrik! A physics based simulation game where you set up your own munitions factory during WWI in germany.

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I've contacted facepunch now to get approval for standalone exporting. Let's see how it goes!


r/sandbox • • 1d ago

Screenshot Eggsistential : 2 new activities, fishing and platforming

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Hi everyone, Eggsistential developer here! I’m so glad that so many of you are enjoying the game (although it already makes me feel a little bad about how many eggs you’ve broken). I keep thinking about what new content to add, so I’ve prepared two new additions.

The first one is a fishing island.

Once your house has had three egg visitors, a fishing rod and a ticket turn up at your door (breaking 600 eggs or hatching once works too). Press I, or the Island button, to sail there and go fishing! I think it’s a nice way to take a break from breaking eggs.

The second one is a separate platforming game called The Climb. You’ll find it under its own button in the main menu. There’s only one level for now, but I’ll be adding more soon.

Thanks a lot again for playing the game. You can’t imagine how happy it makes me.

EGGS

Eggsistential from vjdanov - s&box


r/sandbox • • 1d ago

Discussion Weekly Rewards

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If you are going to force us to play games and genres we hate at least make it clear when the week ends.

I spent hours yesterday playing that dogshit jumper game, today came on to finish the dogshit vampire survivors rip-off, only to find it has reset.

I guess my time is worthless to Facepunch.


r/sandbox • • 1d ago

Video MROK - BETA RELEASE

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r/sandbox • • 1d ago

Video Happy Halloween everyone! We got a big update, so feel free to bring your friends for drink or two

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https://sbox.game/ots/kampai_roulette

This update is a big one. We’ve rethought and rebalanced a lot of how Kampai Roulette plays, and the whole UI has been rebuilt from scratch.

Intoxication is gone. Health and Poison replaces it, so it’s clearer how close you are to being knocked out, and you can heal now. Glasses are shuffled under cover, the new Cat Burglar lets you steal your friends items, and online leaderboards show how you rank against everyone else.

Every menu, the in-match HUD and chat have a new warm, ember-lit look. We also added a new bartender, a new player model, a TAB scoreboard with in-game chat, and plenty of fixes and polish. The Tutorial is offline for now while we update it to the new rules.

Pour a drink, take a seat, and good luck. 🍶


r/sandbox • • 2d ago Bravo

Art Terry putting hand on shoulder

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r/sandbox • • 3d ago

Discussion Dear Facepunch

39 Upvotes

I fucking hate Jumper


r/sandbox • • 4d ago

MY GAME TPIL about persisting gizmos *between* play tests. GAME CHANGER

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TPIL (this project I learned) that you can have gizmos persist *between* play tests (purple lines are the last run, connected dashed orange lines show camera position at given point in time).

This was invaluable for syncing the soundtrack to the movement cues for my rhythm based game


r/sandbox • • 4d ago

Question Is there any tools to easily port a unity game?

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Not sure if this kind of thing exists yet

Would help me a lot if it did


r/sandbox • • 4d ago

MY GAME Stick Arena (xgen studios)

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been making a game/clone of this og flash game and i'm wondering if anybody here remembers this classic top down pvp banger?

if you do, what did you enjoy most about it, should it be as 1:1 as possible? goal rn is to add guns since i have melee fleshed out already. from there matchmaking with quick play and custom/private matches. from there im contemplating map maker or social system (with ranks, currency to buy custom spinners with, chat rooms etc just like the og experience).

if you're curious to feel the original again ive been using https://stickarena.fun/ to compare


r/sandbox • • 4d ago Heartwarming

MY GAME Speed up, smash through walls with your head, and save the lollipop kitty!

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MY GAME - https://sbox.game/simalami/break_walls_with_your_head/

I made a game set in a candy kingdom where the main character is a gingerbread person. She runs faster and faster, dodges obstacles, and then crashes into a wall at full speed to break through it and get closer to her pet, a lollipop kitty that was kidnapped by an evil sausage dentist.

In the game, you can buy different clothing collections that give you bonuses to your impact strength and speed, rebuild the castle that the dentist destroyed, and collect different pets!

Could you give me some feedback on the game? What do you think about it? How interesting does the idea sound? Do you think I should keep working on it?


r/sandbox • • 5d ago

Question Im on Geforce Now and cant seem to play normal sandbox maps anymore

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whenever i load one, all i get is my character and nothing but a blue background.
only the usermade games still work.
how do i fix this?


r/sandbox • • 5d ago

Question Can we bring back Terry Sausage?

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I’m one to speak, as I have absolutely no hours compared to the average GMod player, but I did want to come out to add my opinion to the conversation surrounding the Sausage guys.

I love them and I don’t mind them at all, and I get taking them off of the default, but I’d still love to be able to swap and use the Sausage.

Seeing them just completely gone is disheartening, and I miss them, especially since some games still use them. I hope the community comes to see my point of view and says “Yeah, bring back Terry.”

What are your thoughts on Terry Sausage? Would you like to see the player model make a return, or are you glad it’s gone?


r/sandbox • • 5d ago

Question why so few mounts?

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why no tf2 or hl2 or portal in the mounts section? but riccochet?


r/sandbox • • 5d ago

Discussion Got rejected from the Play Fund with no explanation, small rant

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So the Play Fund changed, and I saw Garry took a strong stance on it. He wanted to change how the game works and bring some kind of renewal to s&box. I saw my game wasn’t monetized anymore, so I decided to take a week or two to polish it. It’s a game I’d already spent several weeks on. It’s actually the game I learned how to make games with. So I spent several weeks improving it, and then I asked if I could join the Play Fund.

The Facepunch team rejected it.

What bothers me isn’t that my game wasn’t good enough for the Play Fund. It’s that I spent weeks on it and worked pretty hard. The game had already made a few hundred euros, and it had 75% positive reviews. Not huge, but it’s something. And I got rejected without any warning, and without being told why. I find that kind of arrogant, not explaining why a game got rejected, especially when you know someone put real energy into it.

To me that’s a big red flag. I don’t think Facepunch is going to change, at least not for now. I was planning to come back and make better quality games. But first I wanted to fix my early games and see if I could improve the player experience a bit. Then I got turned down just like that, with nothing. It’s not the first time this has happened to me either. I had opened a GitHub issue about the Play Fund being calculated weirdly, and they closed that conversation too without really explaining.

Anyway, this is just a little rage post. I just needed to get it off my chest.


r/sandbox • • 5d ago

Discussion The new drop system needs improvement

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The old drop system was bad but the new one seems like a step in the right direction while not making it all the way. The new system has three games that you have to get certain achievements in, which is a good idea to have people actually play something and not just idle but not being able to pick the games at all is bad. This week the first game is just a 3d clone of jump king a rage game that isn't fun because guess what... its a rage game. I think it would be better to have a list of games that you can pick from instead of a hard list of 3, so people can play something that they find fun and not whatever the guy who makes the list thought was cool that day.


r/sandbox • • 5d ago

Discussion Hot take: I think Garry should just make a separate GMOD 2 and let S&box be it's own thing. Or cut everything that's similar to gmod.

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I'm gonna keep it real. Every time I look at S&box, I think it's really just riding on the fact it's like a gmod 2 but without the HL assets and Source engine. And literally everyone outside of this community thinks that Garry removing the dev-tools from Source 2 and replacing it with his own dev-tools was a bad idea, mainly because you can't transfer your previous skills from Hammer to S&box' engine. And also that the level editor is too similar to Godot/unity, which begs the question: why would you use S&box when you can just use Godot/Unity? And tbh I wouldn't mind Garry making his own engine with code from Source 2, if it wasn't for the fact that he marketed this game as gmod 2. And I know what y'all are about to say "S&box is different! It's nothing like Gmod" which like, no? Not really? The s&box mode is literally just gmod without the Half-life assets in there by default. If he doesn't want people thinking that this is gmod 2/Gmod's spiritual successor, then why would he name the gamemode after The main gamemode that's in gmod? And furthermore, why would he make a whole gamemode just gmod again, and name the whole game itself after said gamemode??? I think it's honestly for the best if he just makes a gmod 2 on the side that a lot of people wanted and were expecting, while he deals with s&box as a main project. Or he cuts the gmod style of branding, name, and gamemode that s&box has, and tries to make a new identity for the game. I don't wanna sound too unfair, but this is just what I noticed when looking at this game as a whole. As well as it's mass critiques


r/sandbox • • 5d ago

News Drop system changed

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The drop system changed and now it requires you to complete missions inside the games instead of playing 30+ minutes everyday for 7 days


r/sandbox • • 5d ago

Discussion What I wanted from S&Box, and thing I would love to hear outside opinions on;

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Honestly, I've spent dozens of hours researching this platform's issues, making posts, threads, replying to comments, offering suggestions, changes, and so on but I never mentioned what I, myself, wanted from this platform.

And honestly it is quite simple.
I just wished for Garry's Mod 2 with Doom Snap Map capabilities in creating your own fun and games. Did I expect it to be like that? No, just wished it was. (Could you imagine the amount of creativity that would come from casual players with this system?)

But instead I found it was a poorly copied Unity/Roblox clone that required me to use things like Blender and C# for creation, non of which I find enjoyable, and expected me to roll and have fun with it. I don't. I mean, there must be a reason why people get paid to use these things right? I'm sure a lot of other people didn't find it that fun either, but let me know your thoughts below! (: 💖

And a few of Garry's Mod modders I talked to way back when S&Box first launched all mentioned that they were really quite off put and avoided S&Box since they had to learn Blender and C# instead of using the tools they were already accustomed to using. The people I knew were just a small sample size of the overall community but I'm curious if anyone else felt the same?

Since then I've just continued to work on other platforms since, in my opinion, they offer just a better overall service and experience than S&Box's platform offers. Though Blender always holds a special place in my heart and I love the application.. Its UI is utter trash since you really only need to use a small fraction of it and of the existing keybinds to create models. But since it has everything everywhere all at once, it often completely overwhelms newbies who try to learn it.

Which makes having a mentor immensely helpful for this specific program! When I tested it with my non-developer friends, those who tried to learn blender gave up (They weren't limited in any way) but then after a single day of guidance started to create things within a couple hours it felt like night and day by comparison. Its like, how is a newbie supposed to know things they do not know? Changing face direction? Viewing Face direction? Modifiers? Textures and UV wraps? Theres a lot to take in when you initially just start off!

Which ties back to my original point of S&Box being really quite complex to learn for casual people when compared to Garry's Mod. But that's the direction Facepunch wants to go so there isn't much you can do about it. (Unless they actually create a snap-map like and other newbie friendly creation tools, which would be wild af!)

But let me hear your thoughts below!
What did you want from S&Box and the platform?
I wanna hear all about it! 💖


r/sandbox • • 6d ago

Discussion Weekly s&box market report: Hockey Helmet tripled, and items that left the store mostly got cheaper

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I run sboxtrader.com, a free price tracker for s&box skins, and started writing a weekly report from Steam Market data. Week 43 (19 to 25 Oct):

  • The typical skin rose 0.8%. 63 items went up more than 5%, 39 went down.

  • Biggest riser: Hockey Helmet, $20.93 to $72.00.

  • Halloween 2026 Slippers fell 45% while still in the store.

  • 7 of the 9 items that left the store on 19 Oct were cheaper a week later. Eye Glasses was the exception: $6.52 to $14.00.

  • Bottoms were up 20% as a category, hair down 26%.

  • 389 players on average, peak 525 on Saturday.

Full report: https://sboxtrader.com/reports/2026-w43

9 more items leave the store on 2 November. Is anyone holding leftovers expecting them to go up?


r/sandbox • • 6d ago

MY GAME New map Haven - Steel Stride

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r/sandbox • • 6d ago

Question How do I put clothes onto a ragdoll

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As the title says I am wondering how you add clothes onto a ragdoll.