Sandbox 2020 — top best games in the Sandbox genre

Racing, Simulation, Sandbox, Exploration, Open world, Online, Adventure

April 28, 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The continuation of the off-road driving simulator Spintires: MudRunner. You can expect realistic control mechanics, a well-developed gameplay process, as well as...

Wobbly Life

Action, Simulation, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Open world, Adventure, Online

July 8, 2020

VGTimes: 7.4/10

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 97/100

A vibrant co-op game where players explore a vast open world, encountering new quests and secrets every day. Over a hundred unique professions, from pizza delivery...

Teardown

Action, Simulation, First-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Open world, Online

October 29, 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A heist simulator in which you can completely destroy the world around you using tools and weapons. Missions begin with exploration: the player can explore the area...

Factorio

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Crafting

February 25, 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Factorio is a top-down sci-fi management strategy game. You have to prepare an alien planet for comfortable living of earthly inhabitants. You will be able to mine...

Zompiercer

Arcade, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Stealth, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Zombies

April 3, 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Zompiercer is an adventure shooter with a first-person view and survival elements in a zombie apocalypse setting. In the game you will travel on a train, which has...

Starbound

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival, Sandbox, Space

July 22, 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship. Fleeing from...

Dreams

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

April 16, 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Dreams is an adventure arcade game from the creators of LittleBigPlanet and Tearaway. You can go on an amazing journey through other people's dreams, where you can...

Unturned

Online, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Sandbox, Survival, Zombies

July 7, 2014

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Unturned is a multiplayer sandbox action game with a first-person view. The main goal here is to survive by defending yourself from zombies and hostile players...

Stormworks: Build and Rescue

Arcade, Indie, Third-person view, First-person view, Action, Shooter, Educational game (Education), Combat robots, Flight Simulator, Warships / Submarines, Sandbox, Construction, Open world

September 17, 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 90/100

Stormworks: Build and Rescue is a fun sandbox simulator where you take control of your own search and rescue team by modeling and creating vehicles. As you...

Hydroneer

Indie, Simulation, First-person view, Adventure, Action, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Online

May 8, 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Hydroneer is an exciting mining simulator with a first-person view, where you have to get gold and other necessary resources from the soil. As you progress, you...

Besiege

Puzzle, Logic, Sandbox, Simulation, Strategy, Action, Medieval era

January 28, 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 94/100

A construction game in which the player creates unique medieval siege engines and uses them to destroy fortified fortresses. Players can build siege weapons...

HARD BULLET

Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Comedy

October 23, 2020

Steam: 84/100

Hurricane VR action, fully focused on spectacular shootouts and hand-to-hand combat using advanced physics. A variety of firearms and melee weapons are available in...

Townscaper

Strategy, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation, Construction, Sandbox, Casual game

June 30, 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Townscaper is a vibrant casual strategy game in which the player builds a city on an island. The player selects colors and creates blocks of houses on a grid, and...

Cepheus Protocol

Action, Shooter, Strategy, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Survival, Sandbox, Zombies

May 15, 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 77/100

Cepheus Protocol is a tactical real-time strategy game with first-person shooter elements. The Pangu virus has been released in San Francisco, turning thousands of...

Cooking Simulator

Simulation, Arcade, First-person view, Indie, Business / Management, Sandbox, Virtual Reality (VR), Casual game

June 6, 2019

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 85/100

Cooking Simulator is a realistic simulator with management elements and a first-person view. In the game you have to become an unsurpassed chef. You will find...

Avorion

Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Sandbox, Exploration, Construction

March 9, 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 89/100

This cooperative space sandbox follows an expedition across a galaxy divided by a cataclysm. A ring of torn hyperspace fabric blocks access to its center, where the...

DEEEER Simulator

Simulation, Adventure, Action, Third-person view, Shooter, Exploration, Sandbox

January 21, 2020

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 94/100

DEEEER Simulator is a simulator of a deer, but not an ordinary one, but one capable of flying on dragons and doing many other unusual things. Deer can install...

Space Engineers

Simulation, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Logic, Tactics, Sandbox, Construction, Space

October 23, 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 81/100

Space Engineers is a third-person educational simulator set in outer space. You will design, build and maintain spaceships. You will be able to build space stations...

Dreamlive

Action, Sandbox, Simulation, First-person view

February 21, 2020

Players: 6.9/10

Dreamlive is a sandbox with a lot of freedom in creating various in-game objects. The game features photorealistic graphics and sophisticated physics. For example...

Crafting and Building

Action, First-person view, Adventure, Sandbox, Online, Cooperative (co-op)

January 27, 2020

Players: 7.4/10

Crafting and Building is a first-person action-adventure game with editor elements. You have to decorate your house with furniture and learn more, have pets...

Kill It With Fire

Arcade, First-person view, Action, Simulation, Comedy, Sandbox

August 13, 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Kill It With Fire is an action game in which the player destroys spiders in a house. For your purposes, you can use various weapons, fire, objects and environmental...

My Diggy Dog 2

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Sandbox

October 22, 2019

Players: 7/10

Steam: 87/100

My Diggy Dog 2 is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer about a brave archaeologist dog who helps his owner find his wife. Once upon a time, adventurers in...

Save the Earth (2023)

Strategy, God Simulator, Isometric, Sandbox, Casual game, Simulation

April 21, 2020

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 82/100

The player needs to develop the planet so that humanity lives in harmony with nature. The main task is to prevent environmental disasters that arise during the...

Tinkertown

Adventure, Indie, Top-down view, Role-playing game, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Sandbox, Online, Open world, Procedural generation

December 3, 2020

Steam: 64/100

A cooperative sandbox with elements of crafting, survival and a top-down view. The events of the game take place in a magical land, where only imagination limits...

Amazing Cultivation Simulator

Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Mysticism / Supernatural, Role-playing game, Strategy, Indie, Simulation, Sandbox

January 11, 2019

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Amazing Cultivation Simulator is a sect management simulator based on Chinese mythology and inspired by well-known projects such as Dwarf Fortress and...

Songs of Syx

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, City Building

September 22, 2020

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

The player develops a small village and tries to turn it into a thriving metropolis. It is necessary to build various buildings, gather resources, and create...

Ostranauts

Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Roguelike, Simulation, Sandbox, Survival

September 10, 2020

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 76/100

Ostranauts is a sci-fi survival simulator with management elements and a side view. In the game you have to survive aboard a spaceship in a solar system where...

MMORPG Tycoon 2

Role-playing game, Strategy, Simulation, Online, MMO, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie, Sandbox, City Building, Business / Management

January 6, 2020

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 85/100

MMORPG Tycoon 2 is an incredible sandbox with a first-person view, in which you take control of a full-size world and fill it with monsters, cities, NPCs and quest...

From the Depths

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Construction, Sandbox, Crafting

November 6, 2020

Steam: 90/100

A vehicle-building sandbox with strategy and simulation elements, From the Depths lets players assemble war machines from blocks and command them in battles across...

Shakedown: Hawaii

Arcade, Action, Top-down view, Open world, Sandbox, Construction

May 7, 2019

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Shakedown: Hawaii is a top-down arcade action game in pixel style. The game is the ideological successor to Retro City Rampage and the events develop 30 years...

Junkyard Simulator

Simulation, Action, Business / Management, First-person view, Open world, Sandbox

October 13, 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 62/100

Junkyard Simulator is a unique first-person simulator in which you manage a real scrap metal yard. You can completely customize your workspace, purchase different...

Landlord's Super

Simulation, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Construction, Open world, Sandbox

April 30, 2020

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 80/100

An unusual simulator where the main character “builds and drinks, drinks and builds.” The game takes place in Britain in the 80s. In the game you will not only...

Totally Reliable Delivery Service

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Sandbox, Casual game

June 24, 2019

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 76/100

Totally Reliable Delivery Service — a fun third-person action game about a "reliable" delivery service that is actually not reliable at all. The main idea is to go...

shapez

Strategy, Construction, Top-down view, Sandbox, Crafting

June 7, 2020

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 96/100

The player creates a factory that should automatically produce geometric shapes. The shape of the figures becomes more complex over time, so production chains will...

Mainframe Defenders

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Tactics, Science fiction, Exploration, Sandbox, Roguelike

February 25, 2020

Players: 4.2/10

Steam: 87/100

Mainframe Defenders is a turn-based roguelike tactics game focused on interesting items and customization. The game resembles a hybrid of XCOM: Enemy Unknown...

No School No Rules

Action, Adventure, Stealth, Simulation, Third-person view, Sandbox

November 9, 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 63/100

No School No Rules is an action-adventure game with a third-person view and elements of a schoolchild simulator. In the game you have to go to the harshest school...

Son of Aral

Free game, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Sandbox, Survival, Open world, Strategy, Role-playing game

July 23, 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 91/100

A free-to-play sandbox with tower defense elements, in which the player must destroy hostile turrets to be able to escape from the island. The game has minimalistic...

80's OVERDRIVE

Racing, Indie, Arcade, Third-person view, Cyberpunk, Sandbox, Old school

November 19, 2020

Steam: 76/100

80's OVERDRIVE is an indie racing arcade game with a third-person view in the cyberpunk genre. This is a game that will take you back in time, when the world was...

Levelhead

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Combat robots, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

April 18, 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Levelhead is a fun side-scrolling arcade platformer set in a sci-fi setting. In the game you have to control the GR-18 delivery robot through various levels with...

Bomber Dudes

Action, Arcade, Top-down view, Sandbox, Online, Casual game

December 4, 2020

Steam: 74/100

Bomber Dudes — arcade action with a top view and online capabilities. This is a classic Bomberman style game where you can bomb zombies and your friends. You...

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Best Games in the Sandbox genre of 2020