Melon Sandbox — a physics playground with no rules

Melon Sandbox has no score, no timer and nothing to win. It hands you a flat world, a menu of objects and ragdolls, and lets you find out what happens.

Melon Sandbox Arcade · Free

How to play

Everything is done with the mouse: pick an object from the menu, drop it in, drag it around, rotate and resize it. There is no failure state, so the only way to finish is to clear the scene and start over.

MouseSpawn, drag and drop objects

Drag handlesRotate and scale what you placed

ResetClear the scene and start fresh

Tips & tactics

01Build the contraption before you add the ragdoll. Adding it first just gets it flung across the map.

02Small objects are easier to aim than large ones — scale down before you place, not after.

03Save nothing, expect nothing. The point is the experiment, not the result.

04If the scene starts lagging, clear it. Physics objects accumulate faster than they look.

About Melon Sandbox

Melon Sandbox belongs to the open-ended physics-toy genre: no missions, no progression, no way to lose. What holds attention is the interaction between objects, not any designed challenge.

It is the least game-like thing in this catalogue and one of the most played, which says something about what people actually want from a browser tab.