People Playground
In People Playground you shoot, stab, burn, poison and crush ragdolls in a sandbox where objects have weight, sharpness and conductivity. The game simulates temperature, electricity and rigid body dynamics, and those systems produce things nobody planned. Players assemble airplanes, walkers, impenetrable bases and computers.
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Much of this was missing at launch in 2019. The developer, mestiez, added Steam Workshop support two weeks later, added mod support to it in June 2020, and only taught the game to track temperature in May 2021. With it, hot metal started to glow and the arsenal gained a freeze ray and a heat ray.
Steam trading cards arrived nine months after release. The developer admitted to not caring much about inventory items. But since nearly every game has cards, the reasoning went, this one would get them too.
Be warned that the store page itself flags extreme cartoon gore, with blood, bones and organs. Players leave 97% positive out of 302,201 reviews. By our Recommended Score it is #1,227 of 4,736 games.
Liked it? Try Garry's Mod, where a physics gun grabs objects and a tool gun welds them together in a world with no set goal, and Teardown, where whole levels are made of destructible voxels and most missions set off an alarm timer.
Major updates
1.28 - Careful reopening · Oct 2026All 5
System requirements
Minimum 4 GB RAM · 500 MBiSteam Deck PlayableMin & recommended
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 7 SP2+ | Windows 10 |
| Processor | 2 GHz | 3 GHz |
| Memory | 4 GB | 8 GB |
| Graphics | Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities | Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities |
| DirectX | 10 | 12 |
| Storage | 500 MB | 5 GB |
From the game’s Steam store page.
