Best Sandbox games on PC
Sandbox games use open-ended worlds and systems that let players choose how to pursue objectives. Activities may include exploration, building, crafting, survival, combat, or multiplayer play.
- Open-ended world exploration
- Freedom to choose activities
- Interacting gameplay systems
Related: Open World, Survival, Crafting, Multiplayer
3,300 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Paralives
Sandbox life sim with gridless building and customizable characters
89% positive
21K reviews
Assassin's Creed® Revelations
Open-world stealth action through Ottoman Constantinople with rooftop parkour
83% positive
21K reviews
BONELAB
First-person VR physics sandbox with combat, puzzles, and modding
82% positive
21K reviews
Train Simulator Classic
Single-player train simulator with licensed locomotives and editable routes
73% positive
21K reviews
Tropico 6
Political city builder about managing a banana republic across islands
87% positive
21K reviews
Demo Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
Turn-based fantasy strategy with city building and creature armies
86% positive
20K reviews
X-Plane 11
Realistic open-world flight simulator with working cockpits and multiplayer
92% positive
20K reviews
Mr.Mine
Idle mining game about upgrading drills and uncovering deeper secrets
92% positive
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker
First-person zero-gravity simulation about dismantling hazardous spaceships for salvage
88% positive
20K reviews
Fallout 3
Open-world RPG with post-nuclear exploration and targeted combat
80% positive
20K reviews
Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game
Physics-based skateboarding sandbox with independent control of each foot
87% positive
20K reviews
Cooking Simulator
First-person cooking simulator with hands-on recipes and kitchen physics
84% positive
20K reviews
Viscera Cleanup Detail
First-person sci-fi cleaning simulation with gore and unruly physics
92% positive
20K reviews
Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Xianxia colony simulator about rebuilding and managing a cultivation sect
85% positive
20K reviews
A Game About Digging A Hole™
Single-player mining sandbox about digging, selling finds, and upgrading gear
89% positive
20K reviews
Craftopia
Open-world survival RPG combining crafting, combat, farming, and automation
75% positive
19K reviews
Demo Soulmask
Open-world survival crafting with recruitable tribes and automated bases
75% positive
19K reviews
Far Cry® 2
Open-world first-person shooter where fire, malaria, and factions shape combat
75% positive
19K reviews
Poly Bridge
Physics-based bridge-building puzzles with budgets, hydraulics, and collapsing cars
91% positive
19K reviews
Toribash
Turn-based 3D fighting where you control every ragdoll joint
88% positive
Free
Farm Together
Casual farming sandbox with real-time growth and cooperative farm building
94% positive
19K reviews
Demo Empires of the Undergrowth
Ant colony RTS about building nests and commanding insect swarms
93% positive
19K reviews
Victoria II
Historical grand strategy built around politics, industry, and population
88% positive
19K reviews
Call to Arms
Modern warfare RTS with direct first- and third-person combat
80% positive
19K reviews