Sandbox for Linux — top best games in the Sandbox genre / Page 3

Furnish Master - a game in the Sandbox genre

Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Sandbox, Construction

Early Access: Linux → 20 February 2024

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 81/100

The player has access to a section of the city where he can buy apartments. The premises need to be renovated and furniture placed to increase their value. There is...

Haven & Hearth

MMO, Role-playing game, Construction, Crafting, Sandbox, Top-down view, Adventure

Early Access: Linux → 2 November 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 72/100

A multiplayer game set in a fictional world inspired by Slavic and Germanic myths. Locations change due to actions taken by gamers. You can complete tasks, obtain...

Signs of Life

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

Early Access: Linux → 27 January 2014

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 76/100

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...

Nebuchadnezzar

Strategy, Indie, Isometric, Simulation, City Building, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: Linux → 17 February 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Nebuchadnezzar is an isometric city-building simulator in which you can get acquainted with the mysterious history and culture of ancient Mesopotamia. As part of...

Voxel Tycoon

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Sandbox, Trains, Indie, Construction, Crafting

Early Access: Linux → 15 April 2021

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 77/100

Voxel Tycoon is a management simulator with an isometric camera view, set in an endless world of voxels. As you progress, you will have to mine resources...

The Garden Path

Simulation, Business / Management, Adventure, Top-down view, Sandbox, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 30 July 2024

Steam: 70/100

A meditative life simulator with unusual graphics, where time flows the same way as in the real world. As the player progresses, he extracts resources, trades...

Beer Factory

Indie, Simulation, First-person view, Business / Management, Action, Sandbox, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 10 January 2024

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 40/100

A simulator about managing your own brewery. Players take control of a modern brewery, where they need to set up beer production, import and export goods, monitor...

Hidden in My Paradise

Casual game, Hidden Objects, Indie, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2024

Steam: 90/100

The main character is an aspiring photographer named Lali, who travels through picturesque places with the fairy Coronia. The girl completes tasks and collects...

Stellaris: Infernals

Strategy, Simulation, Sandbox, Science fiction, Space, Grand strategy

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2025

Steam: 40/100

Players can explore burning worlds — a new type of planet with its own districts, events, and archaeological sites. The developers have also added two origins...

KnightShift (Director's Cut Special Edition)

Role-playing game, Strategy, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2013

Steam: 76/100

This fantasy game combines a role-playing campaign with real-time strategy, and the two parts can be played together or separately. In the RPG, the hero explores...

Rising World

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Sandbox, Indie, Survival, Construction

Early Access: Linux → 3 December 2014

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 86/100

Rising World is a voxel-based open-world sandbox with procedurally generated, destructible environments and survival elements. Starting with basic tools, players...

Veliri: Planet of Machines

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, Futurism (Future), Free game, Tactics, Sandbox, Simulation

Game in development: Linux → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.3/10

Veliri is a browser-based multiplayer role-playing game in a sci-fi setting. The game will tell about the conflict between armies for territory and resources on an...

Timeflow: Time and Money Sim

Logic, Educational game (Education), Isometric, Business / Management, Sandbox, Role-playing game

Early Access: Linux → 1 January 2019

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 91/100

Timeflow: Time and Money Sim is a logical educational business game with an isometric view. You have to learn how to manage your money and time. You can make a...

The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Online, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy, Sandbox

Early Access: Linux → 2 July 2021

Steam: 90/100

The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time is an action-adventure sandbox with a third-person view, co-op and stealth. In the game you will control a squad of fighting...

Gish

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2005

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This action-adventure game with puzzle elements follows Gish, a ball of tar who ventures into the subterranean sewers of the forgotten city of Dross to rescue his...

Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns

Strategy, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2001

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 87/100

This fantasy strategy game combines real-time combat with turn-based planning. Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns moves away from micromanaging individual units and focuses...

Wild Terra Online

Role-playing game, Online, MMO, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 18 December 2017

Players: 5.2/10

Steam: 60/100

Wild Terra Online is a free-to-play multiplayer role-playing simulator of life in a medieval world. The main feature of the project is that there are absolutely no...

MMORPG Tycoon 2

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

Game released: Linux → 6 January 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...

Pixel Horizons

First-person view, Action, Survival, Crafting, Construction, Sandbox, Science fiction, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 7 February 2025

Steam: 66/100

The main character finds himself on the mysterious island and tries to survive. It is necessary to explore locations and fight with monsters. In this case, it is...

Motorbike

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

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2015

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...

Staxel

Role-playing game, Simulation, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Farm Simulator, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: Linux → 11 April 2019

Players: 7/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Staxel is a sandbox farming adventure with RPG elements and a first-person perspective. Nurture your farm and farm the village on your own, or enlist the help of...

SkateBIRD

Arcade, Third-person view, Sports game, Skateboards, Exploration, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 16 September 2021

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 59/100

SkateBIRD is a dynamic racing arcade game with a third-person view about birds on skateboards. Expect the familiar gameplay of skate simulators, several platforms...

Altiros

Role-playing game, Action, Online, MMO, Platformer, Third-person view, Fantasy, Medieval era, Sandbox, Crafting, Open world

Game in development: Linux → 15 March 2027

Anticipation Rating: 7/10

Multiplayer role-playing game in a fantasy setting. The action takes place in the vast world of Elteria, where almost every part of the landscape can be destroyed...

Jelly Brawl

Online, Action, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Top-down view, Sandbox, Mini-game / browser-based, Platformer, Free game

Game released: Linux → 27 October 2020

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 75/100

Jelly Brawl is a top-down cooperative indie action game. This is a game with simple controls that are easy to learn. Without quick reactions and timely taps, it's...

Lumencraft

Tactics, Roguelike, Top-down view, Shooter, Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Action, Strategy, Sandbox

Early Access: Linux → 13 April 2022; Game released: Linux → 28 February 2023

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 75/100

The events of the game take place back in 2221. More than two centuries ago, the surface of the planet became uninhabitable. The remnants of humanity are struggling...

Last Call BBS

Logic, Puzzle, Card game, Arcade, Simulation, Casual game, Sandbox

Early Access: Linux → 5 July 2022; Game released: Linux → 3 August 2022

Steam: 94/100

Last Call BBS is an exciting retro arcade game with a set of old-school mini-games. You can enjoy 8 interesting games using the Z5 Powerlance retro computer. The...

Tropico 6: Tropican Shores

DLC, Strategy, Simulation, City Building, In real time, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 18 June 2024

Steam: 72/100

The add-on introduces new opportunities for the construction and expansion of the island, 15 buildings, a new resource — pearls, a new scenario that will...

Havendock

Simulation, Sandbox, Casual game, City Building, Construction, Crafting, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 22 April 2025; Early Access: Linux → 20 April 2023

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 81/100

A colorful survival and settlement management simulator in the middle of the ocean. The goal of the game is to build a huge city on the water. The player starts by...

Creatures Docking Station

Simulation, DLC, Educational game (Education), Casual game, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 2001

Steam: 94/100

Creatures Docking Station is a simulator with elements of an educational game from the Creature Labs Ltd. studio. The game is published by Creature Labs...

Aquaria

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Metroidvania, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 15 December 2008

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Aquaria is a metroidvania set in a vast underwater world filled with living creatures and ancient secrets. Naija, a solitary ocean dweller, searches for her family...

FortressCraft Evolved!

Shooter, Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Business / Management, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Crafting, Construction

Game released: Linux → 9 November 2015

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 71/100

FortressCraft Evolved! is a unique mixture of voxel landscapes, tower defense, crafting, logistics, exploration and charged action with a first-person view. The...

Locomancer

Simulation, Indie, Arcade, Virtual Reality (VR), First-person view, Trains, Action, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: Linux → 28 February 2017

Steam: 84/100

Locomancer is an exciting arcade game with a first-person view for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality and Valve Index. In the game...

Ruins To Fortress

Online, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting, Free game

Early Access: Linux → 13 December 2024; Game in development: Linux → 2026

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 65/100

A pixel game with multiplayer support in which gamers explore a post-apocalyptic island. You need to collect resources to build shelters and craft equipment. You...

Iron Roads

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Sandbox, Trains, Construction

Early Access: Linux → 21 January 2025

Steam: 72/100

The gamer develops their iron roads to create an efficient network that provides comfort and punctuality for passengers. The main mechanics are inspired by board...

Vagabond

Role-playing game, Arcade, Action, Adventure, Online, Sandbox, Beat them all, Open world, Procedural generation

Early Access: Linux → 1 May 2023

Steam: 76/100

An action role-playing game in which the world is created using procedural generation. The player, in the role of an adventurer, sets out to conquer a huge open...

Pixel Piracy

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

Game released: Linux → 31 July 2014

Players: 8/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 52/100

Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, God Simulator

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2017

Steam: 53/100

Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox — a science fiction real-time strategy sandbox. You will have to create the perfect ecosystem in a desert world. You...

Liberty Universe

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Third-person view, Sandbox

Game in development: Linux → 2027

Players: 1/10

A minimalistic sandbox shooter with an open world and controllable vehicles. The game has many scenarios and maps, including post-apocalypse, mysterious island...

Manor Madness

Action, First-person view, Comedy, Sandbox, Fantasy, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Linux → 14 January 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

The game is about a young ghost, Gustav, who wants to become a real poltergeist. The main character can interact with various objects in the estate. You need to...

Besiege: The Broken Beyond

Action, Strategy, Simulation, Sandbox, Logic, Science fiction, Medieval era

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2026

Steam: 88/100

A space expansion that enhances the game with interstellar travel and new physical challenges. Flights in gravitational conditions, dodging asteroids, and...

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Best Games in the Sandbox genre for Linux