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
1,544 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Sons Of The Forest
Open-world survival horror with base building and cooperative exploration
88% positive
321K reviews
People Playground
2D physics sandbox for building contraptions and destroying ragdolls
98% positive
318K reviews
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Open-world fantasy RPG with dragons and flexible character builds
95% positive
318K reviews
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Medieval sandbox RPG combining personal combat with army command
88% positive
298K reviews
New World: Aeternum
Open-world fantasy MMORPG with classless action combat and large-scale PvP battles
67% positive
297K reviews
Arma 3
Open-world military simulation built around realistic combined-arms warfare
90% positive
296K reviews
Cities: Skylines
Single-player city builder about growth, budgets, traffic, and public services
93% positive
292K reviews
Satisfactory
First-person factory builder about automating an alien open world
97% positive
280K reviews
VRChat
Free social VR platform for exploring user-created worlds and avatars
75% positive
Free
Fallout: New Vegas
Open-world action RPG shaped by factions and player choices
96% positive
262K reviews
RimWorld
Sci-fi colony sim where an AI storyteller drives survival
98% positive
247K reviews
Factorio
Factory-building strategy game about automating production and defending your industry
98% positive
235K reviews
Human Fall Flat
Co-op physics puzzle platformer built around wobbly movement and mishaps
95% positive
227K reviews
Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
Open-world crime action with heists, driving, and online play
83% positive
226K reviews
鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal
Open-world cultivation RPG with martial arts, relationships, and branching choices
56% positive
225K reviews
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Third-person open-world crime action across three intersecting stories
83% positive
204K reviews
theHunter: Call of the Wild™
Open-world hunting simulation built around tracking, stealth, and ballistics
89% positive
Free
The Sims™ 4
Free-to-play life simulation about creating Sims, homes, and stories
86% positive
Free
Stellaris
Real-time grand strategy about building and shaping a galactic empire
86% positive
197K reviews
Counter-Strike: Source
Team-based tactical FPS with competitive matches and Source-engine physics
96% positive
193K reviews
Once Human
Open-world multiplayer survival crafting amid monsters and polluted wilderness
79% positive
Free
Mount & Blade: Warband
Medieval sandbox action RPG about raising armies and claiming a throne
98% positive
172K reviews
Batman™: Arkham Knight
Open-world superhero action with stealth, combat, and a drivable Batmobile
90% positive
160K reviews
Slime Rancher
First-person ranching sandbox about collecting, feeding, and combining colorful slimes
98% positive
157K reviews