Ragdoll Games
Physics-driven playgrounds full of momentum, loose joints, unexpected collisions, and experiments worth repeating.
Melon Sandbox
A 2D ragdoll physics sandbox with no objectives. Spawn characters, pick up props, and watch what the simulation does with them.
Melon Playground
The same ragdoll playground under its original name. Load a scene, move objects, and stress-test a physics world that never tells you what to do.
Ragdoll Physics
Grab and move a floppy ragdoll through a strange, endlessly falling physics scene.
Zipline Rescue – Physics Puzzle
Draw safe rope paths around hazards and guide every passenger to safety.
What are ragdoll games?
A ragdoll is a character with a jointed skeleton instead of hand-animated movement. Each limb is loosely connected to the others, so when a force hits the body the engine works out what happens: the arm swings, the knee folds, the whole figure goes limp and tumbles. The technique started as a way to make character deaths look less repetitive, and it turned out to be far more entertaining than the games it was built for.
Ragdoll games lean into that. Instead of hiding the floppy physics behind a death animation, they make the ragdoll the entire point — something to grab, drag, throw, drop things onto, and generally stress-test. The results are never quite identical, which is what keeps the genre alive.
Playing with jointed physics
The controls in most of these games are deliberately minimal, because the complexity lives in the simulation rather than the input. You grab a limb with the cursor, and the rest of the body follows from that joint. Swing a ragdoll by the ankle and the torso trails behind. Pick it up by the head and the arms hang. Those two grabs produce visibly different motion from the same starting position.
That property is what makes ragdoll sandboxes worth returning to. You are not memorising a fixed move set; you are learning how the jointed body responds to how you handle it. Melon Playground and Melon Sandbox build a full prop library on top of that foundation, so the ragdoll can be dropped into traffic, buried under crates, or launched off a ramp.
Ragdolls outside the sandbox
Not every ragdoll game is a pure playground. Zipline Rescue asks you to draw a safe rope path for a floppy character who will absolutely not help you keep them upright — the physics is the obstacle rather than the toy. Ragdoll Physics strips things back further, leaving you with a single body and a cursor.