The sandbox is a type of simulation where, instead of following uninterrupted storyline, the player needs to entertain himself on his own in a "open world" map - similar to "playing in a sandbox". Usually player should decide on his own what to do next, where to go, what events to do in what order. Main characteristics of the genre are a calendar (i.e. time management), map movement, various resources and statistics you need to gather and level up, repeatable events which often can have various upgrades/continuations depending on how many times you did them before, new unlockable events depending on various conditions etc. A key difference from pure Dating Simulation or Raising Simulation games is that the sandbox is not necessarily about dates/romance, and various parameters you need to level up are not focused exclusively on a protagonist or on other characters, though elements of those genres may be present. The most common example are various corruption games. [b]While VNs with sandbox elements are allowed in the database, sandboxes with brief VN elements are not.[/b] VNs such as Insexual Awakening are a good example of that genre.