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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Demo Black Skylands
Open-world top-down shooter with airship battles among floating islands
83% positive
2,970 reviews
Demo Yaoling: Mythical Journey
Open-world creature-collecting RPG with automatic battles and village building
88% positive
2,969 reviews
Demo Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
A physics-based 3D platformer where you slice your own path
92% positive
2,957 reviews
Game Corp DX
A game studio management sim with rival companies to outdo
88% positive
2,956 reviews
Gnomoria
Sandbox colony sim with digging, crafting, and mechanical contraptions
75% positive
2,953 reviews
UNDERDOGS
VR roguelite with physics-based mech fights in underground arenas
97% positive
2,949 reviews
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
World War II combat flight sim with hundreds of flyable aircraft
87% positive
2,929 reviews
Beast Saga
Open-world martial arts RPG with branching quests and village rebuilding
79% positive
2,927 reviews
The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time
Physics-based co-op heists where penguins steal or cause chaos
89% positive
2,926 reviews
Parkasaurus
Casual dinosaur park management with customizable exhibits and chaotic escapes
92% positive
2,914 reviews
EverQuest
Free-to-play fantasy MMORPG with old-school challenge and decades of content
77% positive
Free
Maltese's Fluffy Onsen
Desktop idle simulation for decorating and managing an animal bathhouse
94% positive
2,909 reviews
Shoppe Keep
First-person fantasy shop sim with pricing, thieves, and adventurers
62% positive
2,894 reviews
Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019
Train simulation with route building and AI railroad management
76% positive
2,890 reviews
Train Fever
Railroad management simulation connecting growing cities with passenger and freight routes
61% positive
2,885 reviews
Feel The Snow
Pixel-art survival adventure with co-op, crafting, and snowy exploration
86% positive
2,880 reviews
Alchemy Factory
Medieval factory automation built around supplying your own alchemy shop
87% positive
2,870 reviews
Growtopia
A multiplayer sandbox for building worlds and playing player-made mini-games
28% positive
Free
Occupy Mars: The Game
First-person Mars survival sandbox with technical base building and co-op
65% positive
2,839 reviews
Demo Towns
Isometric settlement builder above dungeons explored by visiting heroes
27% positive
2,835 reviews
Demo Space Pirates And Zombies 2
Space action and strategy with modular ships and shifting factions
78% positive
2,819 reviews
FortressCraft Evolved!
Voxel survival factory builder with automated mining and alien defenses
71% positive
2,812 reviews
Proteus
First-person island exploration with music shaped by your surroundings
76% positive
2,804 reviews
Demo DrainSim
First-person drainage simulator about clearing blockages and pumping away floodwater
90% positive
2,803 reviews