Yes, the falling sand roots of Noita make it a little tricky, because it's a really good Roguelike platformer/shooter, that has a lot of interesting systems and mechanics, but the sand mechanics and physics are kind of a "value add" rather than core gameplay. I haven't played much Noita, but from what I know the wand system is more important for success than taking advantage of the environment. It somewhat misleading because the game was introduced with "ever pixel is simulated", but that doesn't actually matter as much as advertised in most runs.

For years (I even pitched it to Dennis Gustafson, the creator of Teardown) I've wanted to do a 3D falling sand game that could naively be described as Noita x Teardown, but outside of the technical challenges I haven't thought of a concept that truly takes advantage of falling sand automata and isn't just a sandbox.