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.
Kitchen Simulator 2015
Restaurant management sim where you cook orders and handle crises
40% positive
331 reviews
Sumerians
Historical city builder centered on irrigation, trade, and planning
87% positive
331 reviews
Cozy Keep: Farm, Craft, Manage
Medieval shopkeeping sim where farming, crafting, and exploration stock shelves
94% positive
330 reviews
Virtual Circuit Board
Sandbox logic simulator for drawing and testing your own circuits
92% positive
322 reviews
Gone: Survival
First-person open-world survival with crafting, shelters, and zombies
44% positive
319 reviews
This Grand Life 2
Life simulation about managing households through an inflation-driven economy
88% positive
313 reviews
Overthrown
Hands-on city builder with magical lifting and direct combat
56% positive
313 reviews
Space Architect
Top-down space station management with automation and corporate debt
74% positive
309 reviews
Border Town
Open-world farming RPG mixing village rebuilding and monster hunts
79% positive
308 reviews
A Merchant's Promise
Medieval merchant sandbox about hauling goods and surviving the road
87% positive
307 reviews
Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition
Turn-based space strategy in a race for habitable worlds
50% positive
306 reviews
Final Factory
Space factory builder with movable stations and automated fleets
79% positive
306 reviews
The RPG Engine
A tabletop roleplaying toolkit for building and exploring 3D worlds
85% positive
Free
Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond
Modern grand strategy about governing a nation and reaching space
38% positive
303 reviews
Train Valley World
Railway management strategy with automated deliveries and global logistics challenges
70% positive
301 reviews
Master of Chess
Chess career simulator built around matches, training, and tournaments
83% positive
299 reviews
Dragons Legacy
Online dragon survival sandbox with flight, clans, and nesting
80% positive
296 reviews
Star Sonata 2
Top-down space MMORPG with ship combat, trading, and base building
67% positive
Free
Making History: The Second World War
Turn-based World War II strategy where any nation can change history
78% positive
291 reviews
Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar
Third-person insect life sim about surviving from egg to adulthood
87% positive
291 reviews
Cosmonious High
VR adventure using alien powers to fix a malfunctioning school
94% positive
289 reviews
Flock
Creature-collecting adventure where you charm wildlife into a flying flock
96% positive
287 reviews
Galaxy Pass Station
Space station management game mixing alien passport checks and construction
85% positive
286 reviews
Deep Despair
2D survival sandbox with layered caves, crafting, and farming
67% positive
284 reviews