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A natural disaster game you play free in your browser
Most natural disaster games hand you a round and ask you to survive it. Apocalypse Sandbox turns that round: you choose the disaster, when it starts and what it hits, and a life-size 3D town full of people, cars and buildings reacts to it. It is free, it runs in the browser and there is nothing to install.
Play Apocalypse Sandbox, free →Free in your browser, no download. Best on a laptop; it works on a phone too.
Cause the disaster, then watch the town respond
Each event has its own tile in the Disasters panel, so you can start one, stack several or press Doomsday and let them run in sequence. People flee and look for shelters, new arrivals keep the streets busy, and fire engines, ambulances and evacuation buses work through the damage. Destruction scores points, and a quick chain of it builds a combo.
Every natural disaster in one town
- Tornadoes: the classic storm, the Firenado, the electric tornado, the Blizzard ice tornado, two funnels that merge (Fujiwhara) and the Final Boss wedge.
- Earthquake: a chasm opens in the ground, sometimes with lava and a Lavanado.
- Volcano: an eruption out of the earthquake's fissure.
- Flood: a dam break sweeps the valley, then drains again.
- Meteors, with lava bombs.
- Downburst: sinking air that flattens what it hits.
- Lightning strikes you aim with a reticle, and an electric storm.
- Solar storm: auroras and a blackout street by street.
- A waterspout over the lake.
Nothing to install
The game is a web page built with Three.js and WebGL. Open it on a laptop or a phone, wait for the town to build behind the loading bar, and the first storm is already counting down. On a touch screen the panel opens as a sheet that scrolls, and the driving and tornado modes use one floating joystick.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this Natural Disaster Survival?
- No. Natural Disaster Survival is a Roblox game where players survive rounds of disasters. Apocalypse Sandbox is a separate free browser game where you choose and cause the disasters yourself, with no Roblox account.
- Which natural disasters can I cause?
- Tornadoes of six kinds, earthquakes, a volcano, a dam break flood, meteors, a downburst, lightning, a blizzard, a solar storm and a waterspout.
- Is it an unblocked game?
- It is a plain web page on its own domain with nothing to download. Whether it opens on a school or office network depends on that network's filters.
- Does it run on a Chromebook?
- It needs a modern browser with WebGL, which Chrome on a Chromebook has. Older or low-powered machines may run it less smoothly.