Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 04:21 am
Sandbox Zombies – Simulation Game Review
Sandbox Zombies is a Simulation game from Elliot Gilchrist, first launched in 23rd March 2018.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 305+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Sandbox Zombies Stand Out
Sandbox Zombies is a chaotic battle simulator where the only goal is to have fun. Create your own levels with crazy scenarios in whatever way you choose.
More than just zombies, you can pit humans against each other as they fight for territory, or have them face off against a variety of other monsters: vampires, werewolves, angels, demons, ghosts, mummies, skeletons, ghouls, witches and ninjas, each with unique abilities. Some of those types can even overlap, such as zombie werewolves, or vampire ghosts. Some can even gain powers from each other, for example a ghoul that eats a demon can then breath fire.
There's a wide arsenal available. Shotguns, snipers, sub-machine guns, rocket launchers, and much more. Some pretty silly options too, like paintball guns, teleporters, mind control guns, or even a mop to clean up the battlefield after too much carnage.
Regularly updated and completely ad-free with only an optional one-time purchase for the full version. But the base version is free, so jump in and start having fun!
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Sandbox Zombies is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Level importing and exporting, better wires, new level creation UI, bug fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Sandbox Zombies is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Sandbox Zombies on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game and think its mechanics are fun but it does not update anymore.
Could you please add a button that allows you to clear the entire map.
Add the M4A1,Glock with only one hand,M9,50 cal,AKM,and other types of military weapons. Also this game is awesome. Those were ideas. Heavy ballistic vest,Black ops vest, riot armor with the helmet, and other you can do this if you want and the police vest. Have a great day and thank you for doing everyones day.
We really like the game and the idea of it, and its worth paying for the locked items. But the only reason why we give it a four star is because it doesnt have sounds. It just feels empty with no sounds. When we first download the game. We were a little concerned and confused, we were turning off and on our silence button and raising our volume. We thought it was broken like a little bug, so we deleted the game and then re-downloaded it. Still no sounds. We dont know if the developer is making the sounds really realistic. If they are, that would be even 2x better. The one thing you should add is the people should get to hold a pistol one-handed. It feels weird them having 2. Oh yeah, one more thing, you should make the map just a little!!!! Bit bigger. Because we always put it to the max, and.. We still wanted it more bigger.
Whenever we try to get the full game we cant get it. It just says cant connect to the Internet, but the game is connected to the Internet, but we do like the game a lot.
Ive played the game for quite a while till around 2023-2023 until It just got killed off for us for just one simple thing, we have had paid for the Full Version before the recent updates once the newer updates came all the sudden what we have paid for which was full access to locked content, was gone. Which is just ridiculous in our words for paying for something and yet it doesnt stay well unlocked till you delete the game and such. While for our Example, Worldbox they keep everything unlocked for you even when new updates came. Ive deleted the game as of 2025 and two other things, the Roadmap doesnt work (Could be WIP but if it is should just put a WIP Label or something alike such as Splash Text) and the Changelogs which doesnt function or anything.
This game is Very Very Fun! The price for Premium version is worth it! No It not Joke,it for Real. Seriously this Game is great we are very supportive for this game and exited for new updates in the future! Super Great game, means triple times the FUN.
We really like it we just wish it had a vaccine and we hope the dev got our email and read it Ill link it here So we thought of a idea that we think would be cool being able to upgrade the turrets like tower defense style You would start off with a blunder bust > flamethrower > sniper > standard > rocket launcher then you can upgrade to any other of the types we also thought of a animation for the upgrading where its 1 of the door texture or the barrel being retracted and then the upgraded barrel extends out Now this next part might be a little too much but we think it would also be cool if you could then add a shield: barbed wire > sandbags > wooden crate > the concrete walls > metal crate) and also turret expansions like a damage module to place it you have to add a turret wire node. (turret wire node) is basically the wire that is in the game and when you place a normal wire it shows like a node/hud/the node that is red when the wire has no power and green when it does. Back to the TWN, A TWN is required to be able to place a damage module and you can place TWNs by upgrading the turret to lvl 6 which gives you 1 TWN which is = to 1 damage module and your turret can have 8 TWN/lvl 13. Damage modules can be upgraded to also have a shield just like the turret. That is basically it if you want you could make lvl 14 either the turret can have 2 barrels or have it be able to use the seeking rocket>super rocket launcher. Also make it where you can choose to have either an upgradable or normal turret, normal as in it cant be changed or have TWN/damage modules. Lastly if you do decide to do this idea please make it available for people who use the free version of your game, because we play your sandbox zombies game and we are only 14 so we cant play with the premium version. We know that you probably have a lot of emails but If you read ours and you dont want to do this idea then could you at least add the M249 light machine gun to sandbox zombies. From E.L A soon to be engineer.
We played the original sandbox zombies and it doesnt even compare to the original. This new version has so many features and blocks. You can even change alliances now! The only thing that needs to change is the sound! Add sound please! Just bullet sounds and ambient sounds would make this game 3 times better.
Even for just a few bucks for the full version, everything is just fantastic, especially the mechanics that the game has to Offer, the smallest things from Units running to health pads (if that is what you call it we think) to solar panels that open and close doors is brilliant. We hope this game gets widespread soon and having that roadmap completely finished. Anyway, truly good game. (Also to people who thought they lost money there is a Restore button that is there when you click to buy the full version again).
Can you add fat zombies that explode.
When we played this game this game was so fun!. But later we may have break the game. Yep we did we kind of got confused that. HOW THE HECK DID we GET THE LOCKED GUN!?.first we got happy about our first time trying a locked gun but when we clicked of the locked gun and trying the other locked guns but we got send to the game pass when coming back. We couldnt try the locked guns anymore. Please fix this.
So a long time ago we stumbled upon this game but also noticed it hadnt received any updates in years; still, it didnt stop us from playing it. The game was pretty fun and simple; place blocks, spawn people, and kill zombies, and thats enough to make an entertaining experience. Anyway, a couple of years go by, and we decided to check the App Store for any sandbox games until we found this game again. Noticing there was new content, we were surprised and excited to see this game had finally gotten the attention it deserved from the developers. Im glad the money we sprint on this game didnt go to waste lol.
We love this game, we dont know what else to say, but please add sound. Its entirely silent when we play it. Also, we have a suggestion, can you add neutral units that dont get territory, and only attack things that attack them, and can join teams if they go into a territory for too long.
Bro Garfield 1. If ur game is laggy, ur phone is probably horrible. Make the ghosts die when their host dies cause its to deadly. You call this a game? This need a a world record for best game.
We downloaded this game and right away got hooked and Ive been playing it for a while now, we love it but we wish there was more building options and generally more things like units or building pieces. Personally we love to make scenarios and just see how they crash out, we feel like adding decor in the building section would really be nice to add to the atmosphere to the battleground, we kept trying to make environments where people would be defending in a house but it never really looked right, maybe adding like wooden walls that can be pierced by bullets and maybe something like a brick wall that cant. We feel like adding lighting would be really cool, acting as the opposite version of the fog block. We can really see this game getting popular in the future, we love it personally.
Great game and great concept but theres too little features, needs more frequent update.
We bought the full game then we uninstallled it and reinstalled it now we have to pay again.
You should add a military Type npcs,bosses?you could change the land scale than just having block flooring add like grass lands, desert,ect.this game is very good but if u could add this it would make it way better 4 stars.
We love the game and the premium is really good but, we feel like adding sound would make it even better.
It is a very good game but we stops being fun after a while we thought you would be able to access everything but then we had to pay wish it was free though but the rest is great.
We used to play this game as a kid and yall made our childhood wishes come true.
This game is absolutely amazing. We love it and would love to see much more to come. Bigger maps, more guns, more terrain blocks etc. Please add sound though.
Could you please add a button that disables the tutorial? We already know the game, and it wont allow us to alter settings without completing it.
This game has NO ads even though its free, and you dont even have to buy the full game if want hours of fun, and if you do want to buy the full game, then its super cheap. Also recently its been getting tons of big and small updates. This is likely the greatest mobile game of all time, unless there is somehow, something that beats this, but if something like that existed, then the world would be so much better by this point.
The game is great we played it before but it needs something Well… Yeah we guess it could be five or something but Ill tell you something first off can you add the character to have blood on their clothes so that you can tell The damage theyre taking secondly add some furniture so like it can fit The game very well (fact: tvs can also connect to Solar panels and they can work wired to a wall/crate) thirdly add some more clothing to Face/clothing (if you like you can make it textured the clothing or anything youd like to be) fourthly add some vehicles it kind of fits the thing (eactually you can add go karts/golf carts or any type of vehicle you like to add) and fifthly can you add more weapons like shotguns or no weapons defense and more rifles and one pistol decider and yeah thats all And one more thing can you add the level size again we really miss it a lot and thats all we need we hope youre doing well Dev this seem like a much or harsh but you can add one thing at a time or add all of them you can have all that if you like to anyways your sandbox zombies veteran godmadness/Erummr.
This game was good at first then died But now its making a comeback!!! Thank you so much.
Pls add airstrikes they would make wars a little bit more realistic.
We loved this game so much on our Galaxy device, and we hoped everyday that it would come back, and to see it finally on the iPhone is quite spectacular. Now we do have this on our iPhone for the full version but how do we transfer the full version to our iPad? Id be willing to buy it again but we were just wondering if there is a way. Updated 12/16/23 Loving the new updates! Ive had this game for years now and its always a cool little sandbox game to mess around with. Thank you for continuing to support your game! Im letting some of our friends know about this :).
This game is a lot of fun and we had it a little over a year ago but deleted it because we got bored of it but recently found it and its great to see the developers making updates! The game looks and feels a lot better and its fun to run through your own scenarios. We would recommend adding a tutorial and maybe what everything in the game means and does. Great game.
Its a great game but it would be cool if you added sounds and maybe some speed pads that make any unit that steps on them go faster while on it and more melee weapons and it would be nice if you could limit the random weapons to only spawn units with certain weapons like it could be sword, duel pistol ext. And maybe some lighting and light sources and more guns would be nice maybe add more abilities and more units or unit types and maybe some animals and maybe make units able to switch weapons and maybe you could make guns that are placable so a unit that can hold weapons can pick it up maybe you can add some option to change the background.
Hello, loved this game a lot, Ive been imagining all kinds of zombie events and battle for a long time, this game satisfies all of our thoughts of zombies and thx for coming back after 5 years! Ive been waiting for updates And we wanted to ask ifs its possible to add a button in setting where we could choose fire spreading or not.
So Ive seen the update and have an idea, why dont you add new tiles? Our suggestions are ghoul cave, stay too long in its area and it summons a starving ghoul, radiation area, be unfortunate enough and you die a slow and extremely painful death from radiation (it damages npcs over time), landmine, if you walk on it you go boom, simple (it has a 10 second cooldown), you should also add the ability to control npcs, that would be amazing, anyways, have a good day.
A game such as this getting an update after so long is certainly a treasure, undoubtedly we had thought it wouldve been a bigger update with other stuff (like cars or more chaos) nonetheless we found ourselves enjoying the games content with its simplicity and subtle randomness.
Excellent game with unique interactions between different units. Very entertaining and rewards experimentation. Also the new update is excellent.
We got an idea for this game to add, what about armor? Units can pick it up from the ground and we can spawn units with armor. Very light, light, standard, light-heavy, heavy, juggernaut.
We LOVE THIS GAME AND NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD GET AN UPDATE NOW NOW HERE IT ISSSSSS.
We noticed that the dev had came back for a bit Well hes not that really old after all maybe… Well the game is still great when we played it way back anyways game is great and have a great day.
So we played the game many times by its cool nature until after all those years, you update!, thanks for that and now maybe there will be more reviews on this, keep it up.
Just a genuinely fun experience, we just loaded up the game today to see a massive update.
We absolutely love this game, but we feel like you could maybe add some more mechanics to the four gangs. Like, maybe some objectives that the gangs could try and capture, like a king of the hill fight. Or maybe flags for a capture the flag fight. Maybe you could at least do an attack and defend thing for the gangs to fight each other or for the survivors to defend against the zombies. Also, maybe you could add a med pack for a medical unit instead of the priest, so that they only heal and dont fight, and so that they only heal people from a certain group. Also, land mines are more terrain options could be nice. We think that these additions could make the game better. (Edit: Oh our god! Theyre back! After 5 years!).
Needs updates… Even though the game seems to be abandoned.
Games just so fun, if you have a device that isnt garbage then game runs smoothly. Childhood gem for us.
Listen, we swear on our entire life, that this game is honestly the most amazing and most entertaining game Ive ever had on our phone. Its super entertaining, even without premium, and its definitely a must download, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TF2 REFERENCE.
Good with all the stuff purchased but is there still gonna be updates like medics witch heals anyone expect red gang or it could be a tool for every unit can have when spawned with it.
This game is a blast to play so we recommend it this game is great unless you want to control the characters because you cant and cds not it doesnt crash for us so they probably updated the game.
- Add bombs 2. More maps pls. Thats all but great game.
Hi developer the latest update was 3 years ago please come back your jokes were funny and we loved you we all miss you please just please come back:(.
Is there a restore purchases button before we bought the full version then we uninstalled it and it says we have to buy it again.
We wish there was food you could eat that when you did, it would heal you.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6.7
- Size: 41.19 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: [Elliot Gilchrist]()
Last updated: 1st September 2025 | Genre: Simulation | Developer: Elliot Gilchrist