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s&box — Steam Gift

About the game

s&box is the new sandbox from Facepunch, the studio behind Garry's Mod and Rust, built on the Source 2 engine. It's less a single game and more a whole platform: thousands of community game modes, full physics, a builder and an editor where you create your own games and jump straight into them. You get a full copy of s&box as a Steam gift — our bot sends it to you itself.

Once the gift is delivered it cannot be refunded. If Steam rejects the gift due to region mismatch, the full amount is returned to your site balance.
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How to receive the gift

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Enter your Steam friend invite link and your account region.
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Where to get the link: open your Steam profile → “Add Friend”.
Where to get the link: open your Steam profile → “Add Friend”.
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Copy the quick invite link (looks like s.team/p/...).
Copy the quick invite link (looks like s.team/p/...).
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Place the order. The bot adds itself as a friend and sends the gift — usually within a couple of minutes, no need to accept anything.
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Accept the gift in Steam — the game is yours. The bot then removes itself.

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Buy s&box — a Steam gift for a sandbox and game creation by Facepunch

s&box as a gift: what the lot unlocks

s&box is not an ordinary game with a beginning and an end, but a whole sandbox platform by Facepunch, the studio everyone knows from Garry's Mod and Rust. It launched in 2026 and combines two things under one roof: a library of user-made games you can just jump into and play, and a powerful set of tools for creating your own modes. We sell s&box as a Steam gift for PC: you take a lot, our bot sends the platform straight to your account, and it is added to your library without manual key entry. It is a ticket into a constantly growing universe of amateur games.

The spiritual successor to Garry's Mod

To understand s&box, just recall Garry's Mod — the legendary 2006 sandbox. Behind both projects stands one person, Garry Newman, and his studio Facepunch. The idea has not changed: give people simple, flexible tools so they can invent games, modes and crazy experiments themselves and then share them with others. But whereas the old Garry's Mod was limited by the engine of its era, s&box is built with modernity and far broader capabilities in mind — a deliberate step forward, not a cosmetic remake. Facepunch stresses that it is building not a sequel to one game but an open gaming platform: a place where hundreds of authored projects live side by side, and the player browses them like a feed and chooses what to dive into today. In spirit it is closer to a whole store of amateur games inside a single program than to an ordinary title.

Under the hood — Source 2

The technological foundation of s&box is the Source 2 engine, the very one behind Half-Life: Alyx and Counter-Strike 2. It handles the low-level systems, while Facepunch wrote the higher-level part of the platform in C# and .NET. This stack delivers modern visuals, physics and performance while staying developer-friendly. Worth a special mention is hot code reloading: script changes apply right while running, without long rebuilds, which greatly speeds up creativity.

Create your own games in C#

The heart of s&box is a built-in editor where you can assemble your own games in C# with visual scripting support. You are not tied to one genre: want a shooter, a racer, a horror, a role-playing sandbox or something without a name yet — the platform gives you the foundation. Facepunch also open-sourced the C# side of s&box under a free license, so the community can improve the platform itself. For anyone who always wanted to try game development, this is a low and pleasant barrier to entry. You can start simple — move a couple of objects around in a ready-made mode — and then gradually grow into your own full game, learning C# right in the process. And even if writing code is not your thing, you can always just play what others have already built.

Multiplayer without server hassle

One of the main emphases of s&box is shared play. You can gather friends and jump straight into a mode you like without spinning up separate servers or digging through configs. The platform is built from the ground up for communal, multiplayer entertainment: that is where the life of s&box happens. This echoes the spirit of the old Garry's Mod servers, where half the fun came from the unpredictable behavior of real people around you.

Creators earn money

An important part of the s&box philosophy is that authors earn money when others play their creations on the platform. There is also an announced option to later release especially successful projects as standalone Steam games royalty-free. In other words, s&box is interesting not only for those who want to play but for those who dream of making games and perhaps earning from it. For beginner developers this is a rare chance to show an idea to a wide audience without huge investment.

How s&box gets to your library

The process is familiar to any Steam user. You open the client, go to the Friends section, click "Add a Friend" and add our bot via the invite link. The bot sends s&box as a gift, and you confirm acceptance in the pop-up window — after that the platform appears in your library ready to download. You do not have to keep Steam Guard on to accept, and we never request login, password or account access: it is all on your side.

The s&box region is read from the price currency

Steam gifts have a regional logic that is important to account for in advance. The region is visible by the price currency: a ruble lot is for the CIS region, a lot in another currency for the matching one. Always choose the version for your Steam account's region. If you do not have a suitable account for the right region, a Steam gift card will help — it makes it easy to top up your wallet in the correct currency and pay for the purchase.

Refunds and the Early Access status

If the lot's region does not match the account or s&box is already in your library, the gift will not be accepted and the funds return to your shop balance — you take the correct lot or another game. On status: s&box entered Steam Early Access on 28 April 2026 and is actively evolving — new modes, tools and features are being added. You are getting the PC version for Steam and essentially grow together with the platform, receiving updates as they roll out.

Who needs s&box and how ordering goes

s&box is a pick for creative players, Garry's Mod fans, aspiring developers and anyone who likes the idea of "play and immediately make your own". Buying from us goes without mandatory registration, payment is in a convenient currency, and a promo code from a sale goes into the field on the payment page. Usually the bot sends the gift quickly, as a rule within a couple of minutes after payment and friending; with a queue we try to sort it out promptly. Grab the lot for your region — and discover a platform with everything still ahead of it.