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
3,303 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Front Lines
Physics-based battle simulator with soldiers from ancient to modern times
70% positive
Free
DF-41 Simulator
A free military sandbox centered on preparing a nuclear launch
53% positive
Free
Little Lives
Open-world life sim built around managing your time and money
81% positive
262 reviews
Demo My Fire Is Bigger Than Yours
Physics-based incremental game about growing a fire larger than the sun
76% positive
262 reviews
Fast Food Manager
First-person restaurant management sim about growing a street food business
69% positive
261 reviews
Needle In A Haystack
Co-op hidden-object simulation about finding needles among piles of hay
74% positive
261 reviews
Star Explorers
Open-world space exploration with limited supplies and dangerous planetary conditions
81% positive
259 reviews
Demo Chromosome Evil 2
Top-down survival strategy with squad combat and convoy management
83% positive
259 reviews
Lantern Forge
Isometric survival RPG with crafting, building, and underground exploration
55% positive
258 reviews
Miner: Dig Deep
A 2D mining game about carving your own underground routes
91% positive
258 reviews
Toast Defense
Tower defense against ducks, with paths you draw yourself
85% positive
Free
Demo Mars Attracts
Theme park management on Mars, with abducted humans as exhibits
86% positive
258 reviews
Ingnomia
A free sandbox colony simulator about building a gnome settlement
73% positive
Free
Train Station Simulator
Station-building simulation linking trains with buses, taxis, and trams
56% positive
257 reviews
Assembly Planter
Farming automation game where production lines shrink into single machines
89% positive
257 reviews
Excidio The Kaiju Simulator
Third-person monster action with physics-based destruction across city maps
90% positive
257 reviews
Bloody Rally Show
Top-down racing where running over pedestrians refills your nitro
88% positive
256 reviews
River Towns
Riverside town-building puzzles with shuffled pieces and connected districts
92% positive
256 reviews
Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead
Physics-based bridge-building puzzles set in a zombie apocalypse
69% positive
255 reviews
Demo MoteMancer
Fantasy factory automation across six overlapping elemental planes
91% positive
255 reviews
Little Aviary
An idle bird collector where birds perch on desktop windows
84% positive
255 reviews
Rencounter
Turn-based dungeon crawling with a squad to feed and equip
72% positive
254 reviews
Demo Pandemic Train
Survival strategy aboard a train carrying survivors through plague-stricken wastelands
57% positive
254 reviews
The Spatials: Galactology
Space colony management with tourism, trade, and planetary expeditions
69% positive
253 reviews