Best Sandbox Games
Sandbox games offer maximum freedom: there is no strict plot dictating the order of actions — you decide what to build, explore, or destroy. This selection features the best sandbox games on PC and consoles: from Minecraft and Terraria to complex survival games, building simulators, and open-world RPGs. We selected projects based on the depth of interaction systems, richness of the game world, modding support, and replayability.
Sandbox games are especially great for co-op play — most projects on the list support cooperative and multiplayer modes. The selection includes games of various scales: from cozy building simulators to harsh survival games with procedurally generated worlds.
Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
February 2, 2021
Players:
8.5/10
A fantasy sandbox with survival elements. You can play alone or with others, exploring the world and gathering resources, finding and raiding tombs, building bases...
Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting
August 15, 2011
Players:
7.6/10
Metacritic:
83/100
An exciting sandbox game focused on freedom of action and exploration of a virtually endless open world. Created through procedural generation, it is filled with...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival, Open world
August 9, 2016
Players:
7.9/10
Metacritic:
75/100
No Man's Sky is an adventure simulator with a first-person view set in a futuristic environment. You will embark on a journey to explore space and planets, some of...
Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival, Open world
December 14, 2014
Players:
8.7/10
Metacritic:
83/100
A single-player adventure in a vast open world, with a first-person view, survival elements, and sandbox features. Playing the game will evoke feelings that arise...
Role-playing game, Action, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
January 24, 2024
Players:
8.4/10
The main character is Born of Flame, the last hope of a dying race. In a bloody struggle for power, the ancestors caused a plague that consumed the world and...
Action, Online, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world
December 3, 2021
Players:
7.5/10
Metacritic:
70/100
Cooperative action with survival elements from the creator of DayZ, where a group of prospectors lands on the dangerous planet Icarus in search of rare resources...
Adventure, Online, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Exploration, Crafting, Farm Simulator
March 8, 2022
Players:
7.7/10
Metacritic:
86/100
An arcade sandbox that you can play with friends in co-op for up to eight people. The main character is an explorer who wakes up in an ancient dungeon filled with...
Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox
September 4, 2008
Players:
8.8/10
Metacritic:
84/100
Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Survival, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Online, Zombies
December 13, 2018
Players:
7/10
DayZ is a multiplayer survival horror game with an open world. Before us is the post-Soviet country of Chernarus, which was struck by an unknown virus. Most of the...
Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Crafting
May 14, 2026
A continuation of the popular survival simulator, the events of which take place on a new planet, and you can explore the world in the company of up to four...
Simulation, Futurism (Future), Educational game (Education), Sandbox, Science fiction, Online, Exploration
February 24, 2023
Players:
5.4/10
Continuation of a fun sci-fi simulator based on real laws of physics. In the game you need to create a space program, build a powerful spaceship, design colonies to...
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