At the end of April this year, Facepunch Studios, known for Garry’s Mod and Rust, unveiled a new premium project called s&box. The developers positioned it as a “spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod”—a game creation platform based on the newer Source 2 engine.
However, many players did not appreciate the project's quality and criticized it. s&box received numerous negative reviews and quickly lost its audience.
Facepunch Studios first lowered the price, and have now decided to switch s&box to a free-to-play distribution model—early buyers will receive commemorative gifts:
If you have already bought s&box—thank you. You believed in us early on, and we have not forgotten that. Everyone who owns the game before the transition to the free model will receive exclusive Steam inventory items that will not be available after December 10. We will announce what exactly this will be in the near future.
You can add s&box to your Steam wishlist via the following link. The game continues to be sold for now. The transition to the F2P model is scheduled to take place on December 10, 2026.