The Sandbox
Short description
READY FOR CRAFTING VIRTUAL WORLDS ON YOUR PC?The acclaimed world-building game featuring a unique mission-based approach is coming onto PC via Steam Early Access. With over 16 million players on mobile & tablets versions and 1,500,000 pixel blocks creations shared in the Online Gallery to date, this PC version is taking world...
- Developer
- PIXOWL INC.
- Publisher
- PIXOWL INC.
- Release
- Mon, Jun 29, 2015
- Price
- $4.99
- Reviews
- 524
- Positive
- 55%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 50K – 100K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
- Features
- Steam Workshop
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $4.90, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $4.99 launch price. That is 2% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
2 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 164 further data points reach back to Apr 1, 2014 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $0.99 on May 15, 2017.
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Reus | Abbey Games 2 titles | 4 | − Pixel Graphics − Casual + Strategy + Singleplayer | $9.99 | 4,882 | 78% | Thu, May 16, 2013 | $2m $881k – $9m |
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Everything | David OReilly 2 titles | 4 | − Pixel Graphics − God Game + Philosophical + Relaxing | $14.99 | 3,184 | 84% | Fri, Apr 21, 2017 | $1.9m $1.4m – $2.7m |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.