Sandbox Evolution is the follow-up touchscreen game to The Sandbox.
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The Sandbox Evolution delivers pixelated user-generated worlds on Steam

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Indie game studio Pixowl had a big hit with its mobile game The Sandbox, a user-generated content game where you can create just about anything with pixel art. Pixowl launched a sequel, The Sandbox Evolution, on mobile devices in July. And now it is debuting on Steam.

The original game debuted in 2012 and it has been downloaded more than 25 million times. With The Sandbox Evolution, the San Francisco company has created another 2D pixel-art world-building game for “makers” who want to create, share, and play original games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.