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People Playground — a physics sandbox where you make the rules
People Playground is a 2D sandbox built around believable physics and experiments on ragdoll humans. There are no missions, no score and no timers: you open an empty stage, pull tools out of the menu and see what happens. Electric current, wind, fire, acids, lasers, melee and firearms, fluids and gases — everything runs on physics rules and interacts in ways you won't always predict. The game is made by a solo developer known as mestiez (Studio Minus), and over the years it grew from a small experiment into one of the most recognizable physics sandboxes on PC.
Here you buy the full game as a Steam gift: we send People Playground straight to your Steam account, and it lands in your library like a normally purchased game — with all updates, cloud saves and Steam Workshop support.
What you can actually do in People Playground
The stars of the show are the ragdolls, with carefully simulated bodies: they have bones, flesh, blood, a nervous system and pain responses. Around them you build any scenario you like. Test how a dummy reacts to different weapons. Assemble a clever machine out of beams, joints, motors and wires and set it loose. Or stage a massive chain reaction of explosives, electricity and flammable liquids purely for the spectacle.
- Body physics: fractures, burns, electric shocks, pressure and temperature affect the ragdolls in different ways.
- Tool arsenal: dozens of weapons, electrical parts, pumps, gas canisters, heaters and freezers.
- Contraptions: use beams, joints, motors and logic to build your own machines, traps and mechanisms.
- Fluids and gases: water, acid, fuel and steam follow the simulation and mix with each other.
Why it eats up hundreds of hours
The magic of People Playground is freedom. The game asks nothing of you and limits nothing — it just honestly computes physics and hands you the result. That's why every session feels different: one evening you run "scientific" tests, the next you build a ten-step Rube Goldberg machine, and the next you recreate a scene from a favorite movie. The community has shared contraptions and mods for years, so there's no shortage of ideas and ready-made builds.
Steam Workshop and mods
People Playground supports Steam Workshop: subscribe to other people's contraptions, weapons and mods in one click, or upload your own creations. Since this is a full account gift, once you receive the game Workshop works for you exactly as it would with a direct Steam purchase — the gift adds no restrictions.
How we deliver the game
People Playground is delivered as a Steam gift through our bot. At checkout you provide your Steam friend invite link and your account region. The bot then adds itself to your friends, sends the gift, and removes itself after delivery — you don't need to accept the request. The whole process usually takes a couple of minutes. Steam Guard is not required.
There are two simple conditions Steam needs to accept the gift: your account region must match the gift region, and People Playground must not already be in that account's library (Steam won't hand over a gift for a game you already own). Also make sure friend requests are allowed in your profile settings — otherwise the bot can't reach you.
System requirements and platform
The game runs on Windows PC and doesn't need powerful hardware — it's a lightweight 2D simulation that starts even on modest laptops, so you don't need a gaming rig to enjoy it. After you accept the gift, People Playground is available offline, and updates pull through Steam automatically whenever the developer ships something new.
Similar games in our catalog
If you enjoy physics sandboxes and rule-free experiments, take a look at Teardown with its fully destructible voxel world, the genre classic Garry's Mod with endless room for creativity and mods, and Totally Accurate Battle Simulator with its gloriously goofy battle physics.
Buy People Playground as a Steam gift, add it to your own library, and start running your own physics experiments today.