Sandbox 2014 — top best games in the Sandbox genre

Action, Adventure, Online, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Crafting, Arcade

Game released: Xbox 360, Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 5 → 9 May 2012

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...

GTA 5

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Online, Third-person view, Sports game, Stunts, Sandbox, Open world

Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 1 October 2013

VGTimes: 9.2/10

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 92/100

A legendary sequel to the popular Grand Theft Auto series. The game is set in Los Santos, a city beloved by fans since Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. For the first...

Terraria

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Roguelike, Sandbox, Survival, Online

Game released: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Amazon Fire TV, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PS Vita, Android, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Stadia, iOS, Mac, Linux → 16 May 2011

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Terraria is an adventure sandbox game with platformer elements and a side view. You will embark on a colorful journey where you can create various items, build...

Geometry Dash

Arcade, Platformer, Sandbox, Indie, Side view, Music game

Game released: PC, Mac, Android, iOS → 22 December 2014

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 93/100

Geometry Dash is a fast-paced arcade platformer where you have to jump and dodge over various obstacles. The game has many levels that will bring many challenges...

Craft The World

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Platformer, Crafting, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS, Android → 24 November 2014

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 82/100

A sandbox strategy game with platforming elements about leading a tribe of dwarves in randomly generated worlds inhabited by dangerous creatures. The player orders...

Serious Sam 3: BFE

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy

Game released: Mac, PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Linux → 23 April 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Set in a future Egypt amid crumbling cities and ancient temples, this first-person shooter is a prequel to Serious Sam: The First Encounter, following Earth’s final...

Minecraft: Pocket Edition

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Sandbox

Game released: iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Windows Phone → 17 November 2011

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 53/100

Minecraft: Pocket Edition is a sandbox version of Minecraft, ported to mobile devices. Players explore spacious worlds and build various structures from cubes. To...

Panzer Corps

Strategy, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based, Sandbox

Game released: PC, Mac → 11 July 2011

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Panzer Corps is a historical top-down turn-based strategy game. The game is dedicated to the Second World War, where you can play both a campaign for the Germans...

Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies

Online, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Free game, Zombies, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 7 October 2014

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 59/100

Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies is a free-to-play competitive tactical shooter with a first-person view in the Counter-Strike series. The game is built on the...

Creativerse

Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, MMO, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: PC, Mac → 12 August 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 75/100

Creativerse is a free-to-play multiplayer sandbox with a first-person view, where you can transform the world as you wish. You will be able to explore the worlds of...

Frozen Synapse: Prime

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Sandbox, Tactics

Game released: PS Vita, PC, Android, iOS, PlayStation 3 → 24 September 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 84/100

This turn-based tactical strategy game is set in a dystopian future, where a resistance group seeks to stop a corporation from taking over a city. In the...

Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, iOS → 10 March 2009

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 58/100

This third-person action platformer sends Duke Nukem to New York City in pursuit of the villain Mech Morphix. Duke fights across skyscraper rooftops and through...

Perpetuum

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, MMO, Sandbox

Game released: Mac, PC → 17 October 2014

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 72/100

This science-fiction MMORPG sandbox centers on piloting combat robots across an alien planet and exploiting its resources. Perpetuum has a persistent world where...

Windforge

Arcade, Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Indie, Steampunk, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 11 March 2014

Players: 7/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 53/100

This side-scrolling, block-building role-playing adventure takes place in the steampunk world of Cordeus, where civilization depends on oil from sky whales. As...

Dustforce

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Xbox 360, Linux → 1 May 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Dustforce — the gameplay is based on acrobatic stunts. Playing as one of four cleaning heroes, the player tries to clear the dirt from the level as quickly as...

Project Spark

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Sandbox

Game released: PC, Xbox One → 7 October 2014

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

A game creation tool for building original games and worlds, then playing and sharing them. Project Spark combines content-creation tools with the ability to play...

Turbo Dismount

Simulation, Action, Logic, Indie, Sandbox

Game released: iOS, PC, Android, Mac → 24 September 2014

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 94/100

A physics-based sandbox about high-speed crashes featuring Mr. Dismount and the cars that love him. Points are awarded for damage, with outcomes shaped by...

Signs of Life

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Sandbox, Survival

Game released: PC → 27 January 2014

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 80/100

This science-fiction survival sandbox platformer follows a survivor of a colony ship’s destruction. Escaping in a small pod, the protagonist is left with no...

Distant Worlds

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Space, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 23 May 2014

Steam: 71/100

This pausable real-time 4X space strategy game follows the growth of an interstellar empire across a vast galaxy. The player explores star systems, expands their...

Pixel Piracy

Role-playing game, Arcade, Simulation, Platformer, Indie, Sandbox, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 31 July 2014

Players: 8/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 52/100

Motorbike

Third-person view, Stunts, Motorcycle racing, Sandbox, Online, Racing, Sports game, Action

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Ouya, Amazon Fire TV, PlayStation 3, Linux → 15 November 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 59/100

Motorbike — motorcycle racing with a third-person view. This game will test your skills and is full of action and real physics. You will find 100 original...

Frozen Synapse: Red

Strategy, DLC, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS → 30 May 2012

Steam: 70/100

An expansion for Frozen Synapse, adding missions, co-op play and tactical options to the turn-based strategy game Frozen Synapse. Its single-player campaign...

Castaway Paradise

Arcade, Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Business / Management, Casual game, Sandbox, Role-playing game

Game released: PC, Mac, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 19 May 2015

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Castaway Paradise is a top-down arcade management simulator where you have an entire island at your disposal. The game is a universal sandbox with many interesting...

Astral Terra

Role-playing game, Action, MMO, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world, Survival, Sandbox

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → лето 2014

Players: 1/10

Steam: 33/100

This fantasy sandbox combines RPG and survival elements in a procedurally generated smooth-voxel world that can be reshaped and rebuilt. As a Planar Warden, the...

Amazing Frog?

Arcade, Simulation, Action, Indie, Sandbox, Open world, Exploration

Game released: PC, Mac → 20 November 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 94/100

An open-world physics sandbox turns Swindon into a playground for farting ragdoll frogs that can be flung around by collisions. In Amazing Frog?, players explore...

Selfie Slam

Platformer, Sandbox, Free game

Game released: iOS → 15 September 2014

Selfie Slam is a platformer with a mixture of sandbox and shareware game from the developers from the Lvl 11 studio. The main publisher of the game is Rovio...

Freddi Fish & Luther's Maze Madness

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: Mac, PC, Windows 3.x, Linux → 1996

Players: 10/10

Steam: 86/100

This arcade puzzle game follows Freddi Fish and Luther as they navigate a maze of underwater caves and collect scattered kelp seeds. Players explore more than 50...

CubeGun

Action, Indie, Free game, Sandbox, Online

Game released: PC → 21 May 2014

Steam: 59/100

A multiplayer sandbox about battles between player-built armed airships. The editor lets players design ships and islands from cubes, fitting vessels with weapons...

Command H.Q.

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Historical, Sandbox

Game released: DOS, Mac, PC-98, PC, Linux → 1990

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 97/100

A real-time strategy game about global conflict between superpowers in World Wars I–V. The player allocates resources and troops, gathers military intelligence, and...

Drawn to Life

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Sandbox

Game released: Nintendo DS, iOS → 4 December 2008

Metacritic: 73/100

A platformer with sandbox elements in which the player’s drawings become part of the game world. Using a stylus, the hero rebuilds a small village by drawing...

Pinball Block Breaker Craft

Pinball, Arcade, Sandbox

Game released: iOS, Android → 24 January 2014

Pinball Block Breaker Craft is a pinball simulator with arcade and sandbox elements from the masters from the Crave Creative Games studio. The game is published by...

NoLimits 2 Roller Coaster Simulation

Simulation, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Sandbox

Game released: PC, Mac → 21 August 2014

Steam: 96/100

This roller coaster simulator lets players design rides and experience them in real time. NoLimits 2 features a CAD-style editor for placing tracks, support...

Anarchy Arcade

Arcade, Logic, Free game, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 September 2014

Steam: 68/100

Anarchy Arcade is an arcade game with elements of a shareware game from the masters from the Elijah Newman-Gomez studio. The game is published by Elijah...

Contraption Maker

Puzzle, Sandbox, Simulation

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 7 July 2014

Steam: 92/100

This puzzle sandbox with simulation elements centers on solving challenges by arranging contraptions and characters that interact with one another. Contraption...

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Best Games in the Sandbox genre of 2014 (Game released)