School Fury

A destruction game with a timer, which is what separates it from a sandbox. Each room is full of breakable furniture, breaking things drops coins, and a countdown is running the whole time — so you are not wrecking the place for its own sake but optimising how much of it you can get through before having to leave. That constraint makes the physics matter in a practical way. A single swing at the right desk in a row collapses the rest of it, which is worth several individual hits, and the efficient route through a room is the one that sets off chains rather than the one that touches everything. Coins fund upgrades to your swing and your speed, which compound across runs and make previously impossible rooms clearable. Runs are two or three minutes and end either way, which keeps the pace high. The 3D presentation is simple and the destruction is satisfying enough to justify the repetition. It plays with a keyboard and mouse or on-screen controls, needs a moderately capable machine when a room is mid-collapse, and saves the upgrade progress between runs.