Sandbox
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Platforms
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Statuses
Best Games in the Sandbox genre
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...
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Survival, Online, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox
December 13, 2013
Players:
8.1/10
Metacritic:
41/100
Players find themselves in a world gripped by a zombie apocalypse, where the main task is survival. During the day, they search for resources, build...
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...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, City Building, Sandbox, Exploration, Historical, Cooperative (co-op)
April 16, 2019
Players:
8.4/10
Metacritic:
81/100
Anno 1800 is a new game in the real-time management strategy series Anno. The events unfold at the dawn of the industrial age, during the times of...
Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Construction, Crafting, Zombies
April 7, 2026
The action of the game takes place at a remote gas station somewhere in the wastelands of Nevada, where the Spotter — not the luckiest survivor...
Action, First-person view, Science fiction, Shooter, Collectible card game (CCG), Cooperative (co-op), Online, Crafting, Old school, Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Survival
May 2, 2024
Players:
9.4/10
Metacritic:
88/100
The GATE network of secret laboratories is engaged in research in all areas, including the paranormal. One day, one of the experiments ends in a...
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...
Simulation, Business / Management, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, City Building, Construction, Crafting
April 3, 2026
Metacritic:
73/100
A post-apocalyptic city-building simulator in which any building can collapse. As the leader of a small group of survivors, you will have to build a...
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, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting
May 9, 2023
Players:
7.4/10
A cooperative survival action game in which the player becomes a member of the crew of an interdimensional train. The hero sets off to explore a...
Adventure, Simulation, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
June 20, 2024
Players:
7.8/10
A cooperative game in which the gamer creates the perfect Viking settlement alone or with up to three friends. You need to give commands to settlers...
Strategy, Isometric, In real time, Simulation, City Building, Sandbox, Historical, Fantasy, Construction
November 1, 2022
Players:
8.2/10
Metacritic:
91/100
A city-planning simulator in a dark fantasy world in which you need to restore civilization and save it from deadly rains. Players take on the role...
Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
August 26, 2023
Players:
8.2/10
An open world survival simulator. The game takes place in the near future, when glaciers have melted and global warming has submerged most of the...
Adventure, Simulation, Isometric, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting
January 6, 2026
Players:
8.8/10
A co-op game where characters explore a mysterious planet torn apart by repeated disasters. It is possible to build a complex industrial system to...
Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, City Building, Strategy, Survival, Zombies, Sandbox, Business / Management
April 11, 2024
Players:
6.8/10
The world is engulfed by a virus that turns those infected into aggressive and powerful monsters. Settlements are deserted and resources are scarce...
