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Game details

  • Description Build, share, and play community-made games with a modern C# editor on a Source 2–based creation platform—one-click play, multiplayer, and exportable standalone releases.
  • Genre Action, Building, Casual, Sandbox, Game Development
  • Developer Facepunch Studios
  • Publisher Facepunch Studios
  • Release Date Apr 28, 2026

Latest updates

Familiar Territory

Steam Workshop for Games With tonight’s update we’re releasing the first version of Steam Workshop for games. A lot of players missed the familiarity of the steam workshop, with this update we are bringing it back. Discoverability is still backed by our own workshop, it's a gradual process that we'll give developers time to adjust to. Eventually when we migrate fully to the steam workshop, games, and maps that are not yet published will not be accessible. So we encourage developers to...

Stability & Bug Fixes

A small maintenance update with crash and bug fixes.

Stability
  • Fixed a GPU crash on characters with facial animation and other morphs.
  • Fixed a GPU crash when reflection probes were baked with the Quality filter.
  • Fixed crashes involving 3D skyboxes, including when the world they belong to is unloaded.
  • Fixed a crash when UI elements were added or removed while the UI was updating.
  • Fixed a crash from animations using out-of-range parameters. ...

Rethinking

I’ve been rethinking what s&box should look like over the past couple of weeks. The platform is not well liked, it doesn’t have good retention. I’m embarrassed by our reviews, I am ashamed. Listening to all the negative feedback, absorbing, taking it seriously and deciding what we should and shouldn’t be doing. It’s not a big secret that it hasn’t been going well. ...

Neck & Neck

Game Jam: Final Four Roundabout has been eliminated and earns 5th place for £5000. Four finalists remain, the next round of votes is now open. Citizen 2.0 I've updated the citizen. They now have a default non frowny face and they can have a neck. We have sliders to alter other aspects of the body like their chest, waist, neck, and nose size. You can choose their eye colour too. So if you liked having no neck, you can bring that back with a slider. ...

This Is My Jam.

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post. https://sbox.game/news/update-26-09-22 Game Jam Progress The Game Jam is 19 days in and we've had over 200 entries. I think we're all pretty stunned by the quality of some of these entries.. and it's really obvious that we should have done a Jam 6 months ago. We'll definitely be making this a regular thing from now on. ...

Update 26.09.15

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post. https://sbox.game/news/update-26-09-15

Painter

Painter is a small utility struct that replaces HudPainter and the panel rendering system. It's now used to render the whole panel system and you can use it to render things like UI, HUDs, panels and world panels manually using a common sense API.Shapes are generally SDF rendered so they are totally antialiased and beautiful. We have the ability to draw Arcs, Arrows,...