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
3,696 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Fallout 4
Open-world post-apocalyptic RPG with gunplay, choices, and settlement building
81% positive
311K reviews
Sons Of The Forest
Open-world survival horror with base building and cooperative exploration
88% positive
308K reviews
7 Days to Die
Open-world zombie survival sandbox built around crafting and base defense
86% positive
296K reviews
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New World: Aeternum
Open-world fantasy MMORPG with classless action combat and large-scale PvP battles
66% positive
274K reviews
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Arma 3
Open-world military simulation built around realistic combined-arms warfare
90% positive
249K reviews
Satisfactory
First-person factory builder about automating an alien open world
97% positive
247K reviews
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Medieval sandbox RPG combining personal combat with army command
86% positive
244K reviews
Cities: Skylines
Single-player city builder about growth, budgets, traffic, and public services
89% positive
240K reviews
Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
Open-world crime action with heists, driving, and online play
82% positive
232K reviews
Fallout: New Vegas
Open-world action RPG shaped by factions and player choices
95% positive
227K reviews
The Sims™ 4
Free-to-play life simulation about creating Sims, homes, and stories
86% positive
Free
RimWorld
Sci-fi colony sim where an AI storyteller drives survival
97% positive
221K reviews
theHunter: Call of the Wild™
Open-world hunting simulation built around tracking, stealth, and ballistics
88% positive
Free
Once Human
Open-world multiplayer survival crafting amid monsters and polluted wilderness
78% positive
Free
鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal
Open-world cultivation RPG with martial arts, relationships, and branching choices
57% positive
206K reviews
Demo Factorio
Factory-building strategy game about automating production and defending your industry
97% positive
206K reviews
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition
Third-person open-world crime action across three intersecting stories
83% positive
201K reviews
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Open-world fantasy RPG with dragons and flexible character builds
94% positive
192K reviews
Human Fall Flat
Co-op physics puzzle platformer built around wobbly movement and mishaps
94% positive
192K reviews
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Physics-based strategy sandbox where wobbly armies fight unpredictable battles
98% positive
158K reviews
Demo Slime Rancher
First-person ranching sandbox about collecting, feeding, and combining colorful slimes
98% positive
155K reviews
Counter-Strike: Source
Team-based tactical FPS with competitive matches and Source-engine physics
96% positive
153K reviews
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Stellaris
Real-time grand strategy about building and shaping a galactic empire
83% positive
153K reviews
Demo Mount & Blade: Warband
Medieval sandbox action RPG about raising armies and claiming a throne
98% positive
146K reviews