Mall Fury

A destruction sandbox with a simple premise: here is a shopping centre, here is the ability to wreck it, and there is nothing else you are expected to do. No timer, no objective list, no fail state — which sounds thin and is exactly the appeal, because the entire value of the genre is in how the physics respond. They respond well enough to justify it. Shelves collapse into each other, glass behaves differently from wood, and stacked objects transfer force in ways that make big chain reactions possible if you think about where to start. That gives the sandbox a skill to it that it does not demand: you can swing at everything, or you can find the load-bearing display that takes out half a store, and the second is more satisfying. It is a short experience by nature — a few minutes of wrecking, and the novelty is spent until the next time you feel like it, which is fine for something that asks nothing of you. It runs in the browser without a download, it needs a moderately capable machine to keep the physics smooth in a busy room, and it makes no pretence of being more than it is.