Sandbox for Linux — top best games in the Sandbox genre / Page 4

No Time To Explain: Season 2

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 15 December 2011

Players: 8.5/10

Tidalis

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox, Casual game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 16 July 2010

Steam: 68/100

Tidalis is a block-based puzzle game in which falling blocks must be connected into chains by color and arrow direction. The player traces a path...

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

Don't get lost

Simulation, Online, Procedural generation, Open world, Sandbox, Construction, Strategy, In real time, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2023

Players: 4.8/10

Steam: 78/100

A colony simulator with a procedurally generated world and co-op support. The player manages the settlement and creates production chains to...

Just Crow Things

Action, Simulation, Third-person view, Sandbox, Comedy, Adventure, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 15 August 2024

Steam: 94/100

The player in the role of a little crow tries to make friends with other animals and disturbs people on the streets of the city. There are 10 levels...

Dustforce

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

Game released: Linux → 17 January 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...

AssaultCube

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 11 April 2006

Players: 8.3/10

Deadly Rooms of Death: Architect's Edition

Strategy, Top-down view, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2003

Players: 10/10

Deadly Rooms of Death: Architect's Edition is a top-down strategy game with a mixture of puzzle and sandbox from the developers of Caravel Games...

Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery

Action, Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Casual game

Game released: Linux → June 2007

Players: 10/10

Steam: 100/100

This puzzle-platformer follows Professor Fizzwizzle as he investigates a strange volcano. To thwart the Bat-Bots and a cunning villain, he masters...

Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises

Strategy, MMO, In real time, Free game, City Building, Sandbox, Grand strategy

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2016

Steam: 47/100

A real-time strategy game set in a mystical medieval world, where players build a kingdom and command armies. Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises includes the...

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...

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...

Bitburner

Role-playing game, Educational game (Education), Sandbox, Free game, Text quest, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2021

Steam: 94/100

An unusual role-playing game with elements of programming and automation, set in a cyberpunk world. Instead of the usual battles and quests, the...

Crimson Fields

Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 1 March 2001

Crimson Fields is a third-person strategy game with sandbox...

Frozen Bubble

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 6 February 2002

Frozen Bubble is an arcade puzzle game in which a penguin clears the playfield by shooting colored bubbles. The player aims a cannon and matches...

Postal 2: Share the Pain

Action, Shooter, DLC, First-person view, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 4 February 2005

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 59/100

An expansion for Postal 2, combining the POSTAL 2 single-player game with the Share The Pain multiplayer mode. The game takes place in open 3D...

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...

Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars

Role-playing game, Strategy, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Sandbox, Online

Game released: Linux → 14 November 2003

Metacritic: 76/100

A turn-based fantasy strategy game about rival claimants to a divine throne. The player takes the role of a being who considers itself the one true...

SimCity 3000 Unlimited

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Sandbox, City Building

Game released: Linux → December 2001

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A city-building simulator with a sandbox mode in which the player creates and develops a city. SimCity 3000 Unlimited adds Asian- and European-style...

Animal world

Adventure, Top-down view, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2022

Players: 1/10

Animal world is an old-school sandbox in which you take on the role of a researcher exploring the world in search of rare...

8BitMMO

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, MMO, In real time, Isometric, Indie, Free game, Construction, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2015

Steam: 57/100

This retro-styled 2D MMO combines role-playing action and building in a shared world created by players. In 8BitMMO, players can construct houses...

Windward

Role-playing game, Action, Warships / Submarines, Historical, Indie, Sandbox, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Windward is an action sandbox about sailing a ship through a procedurally generated world shaped by growing towns, trade, and conflict. Each voyage...

Mountaincore

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

Game released: Linux → 22 April 2025

Steam: 65/100

The player controls a colony of gnomes in a fantasy world. Each settler has their own needs and desires that must be satisfied. The weather and...

Gnomoria

Sandbox, City Building, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 23 February 2016

Steam: 73/100

A sandbox village-management game about a group of gnomes settling new lands and growing their small community into a kingdom. Each playthrough takes...

Advanced Strategic Command

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

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2000

Advanced Strategic Command is a top-down strategy game with sandbox elements. Advanced Strategic Command is also known as...

DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold

Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2005

Steam: 100/100

This fantasy puzzle game follows Beethro Budkin and his nephew, Halph, who take a secret passage through the king’s dungeon and end up deep...

Heavy Gear 2

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Top-down view, Sandbox, Combat robots

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2000

Players: 9/10

Heavy Gear 2 is a first-person simulator with action, sandbox and robot simulator elements from developers at Activision studio. The game is...

UFO: Alien Invasion

Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 15 November 2006

UFO: Alien Invasion is an isometric strategy game with sandbox...

LandTraveller

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Fantasy, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

A hybrid of classic RPG and modern indie sandbox, combining a randomized environment and a hand-built...

Command H.Q.

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

Game released: Linux → 6 November 2014

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...

Cube (2008)

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → January 2002

Cube (2008) is a first-person action game with a touch of shooter and...

FreeCol

Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 2 January 2003

Players: 7/10

FreeCol is an isometric strategy game with a mixture of business simulator, historical game and sandbox. FreeCol: The Colonization of America is an...

World War 2: Panzer Claws

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Third-person view, Historical, Sandbox, Tanks

Game released: Linux → 27 September 2013

Players: 1/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 61/100

A real-time strategy game about World War II battles in Europe, where the player commands Allied, German, Russian, or French Resistance forces. Its...

Wurm Online

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

Game released: Linux → 12 December 2012

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 62/100

A sandbox MMORPG in which players settle untamed lands and reshape the world around them. Wurm Online offers PvE and PvP servers: exploration and...

Bunny Mahjo

Simulation, Indie, Strategy, Tactics, Online, Board / Group Game, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: Linux → 10 October 2018

Steam: 92/100

Bunny Mahjo is an online simulator of a strategic tactical board game. This is classic mahjong with the ability to create your own levels and play or...

The Spatials: Galactology

City Building, Business / Management, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2018

Steam: 68/100

This space-building simulation puts the player in charge of a colony station in the distant future, with the goal of developing it while exploring...

Freddi Fish & Luther's Maze Madness

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

Game released: Linux → 17 April 2014

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...

LBreakout2

Action, Third-person view, Sandbox, Arkanoid

Game released: Linux → 28 March 2003

LBreakout2 is a third-person action game with a touch of sandbox and arkanoid from the masters from the LGames studio. The game is published by...

Mutant Storm

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 19 May 2003

Mutant Storm is a top-down arcade game with a mixture of action, shooter and sandbox from the developers from the PomPom studio. The main publisher...

Unreal Gold Edition

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 30 June 2004

Unreal Gold Edition is a first-person action game with shooter and sandbox elements from the studios Digital Extremes, Inc., Epic Games, Inc. and...

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