Sandbox for Linux — top best games in the Sandbox genre / Page 5

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Indie, Sandbox, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 9 June 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 73/100

Crea is a sandbox role-playing game set in procedurally generated worlds, where the hero explores new lands, fights monsters, and uncovers the...

Tiny Life

Simulation, Isometric, Sandbox, Casual game, Old school, Indie

Early Access: Linux → 3 May 2023; Game in development: Linux → 2027

Steam: 88/100

Isometric life simulator with a pronounced retro aesthetic reminiscent of the early parts of The Sims. The action is centered around one large house...

Wurm Unlimited

Open world, Sandbox, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 21 October 2015

Steam: 72/100

Wurm Unlimited is a fantasy role-playing sandbox and a standalone version of the world of Wurm Online. Players can explore vast lands, practise...

1942: The Pacific Air War

Simulation, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Historical, Sandbox, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 1 April 2015

Steam: 60/100

This historical flight simulator focuses on aerial combat over the Pacific during World War II. Players can fly for either the U.S. or Japanese Navy...

Dominions 3: The Awakening

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

Game released: Linux → 29 September 2006

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This turn-based strategy game takes place in a fantasy world where, after the Old God’s departure, pretenders vie for true godhood. At the start of a...

Earth 2150 Trilogy

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Isometric, Collection, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 1 November 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 77/100

Earth 2150 Trilogy is a collection of three real-time strategy games set in the distant future, where humanity faces conflict across space and...

Freeciv

Strategy, Business / Management, Isometric, Top-down view, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 5 January 1996

Players: 9.6/10

A turn-based strategy game about guiding a civilization from a tribal settlement in 4000 BC through the centuries and toward space colonization. The...

Holotz's Castle

Action, Platformer, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 25 October 2004

Players: 5.5/10

Holotz's Castle is an action game with platformer and sandbox elements from the MainReactor studio. The game is published by...

Jewel Twist

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 2009

Jewel Twist is a strategy game with puzzle and sandbox elements from the masters at Kristanix Studios ANS. The game is published by Kristanix Studios...

Tasty Static

Racing, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

Game released: Linux → August 2009

Tasty Static is a third-person racing game with sandbox...

Amazing Frog?

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

Early Access: Linux → 21 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...

PyramidValley: Reborn

Strategy, Simulation, City Building, Casual game, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

The gamer controls the city of the pharaohs in Ancient Egypt. You can play as iconic figures such as Cleopatra and build legendary structures such as...

Screeps: World

Strategy, MMO, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 16 November 2016

Steam: 86/100

A strategy MMO sandbox about programming a colony in a shared, persistent online world. Players write JavaScript code to control units known as...

Gridworld

Simulation, Sandbox, Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 24 December 2015

Steam: 85/100

This artificial life and evolution simulator models a two-dimensional ecosystem in which creatures search for food, avoid danger, and compete to...

Winds Of Trade

Sandbox, Business / Management, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2017

Steam: 61/100

Worlds are procedurally generated, and prices respond to supply and demand. The player transports goods, takes on contracts and can choose to...

Booster Logic

Arcade, Action, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 24 August 2007

Booster Logic is a third-person arcade game with elements of action, strategy, platformer, puzzle and sandbox from the masters from the Strongbox...

Galcon (2006)

Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 2006

Galcon (2006) is a top-down action game with strategy and sandbox elements from the studio Imitation Pickles. The game is published by Imitation...

Wings 2

Arcade, Action, Shooter, In real time, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 2006

Players: 10/10

Wings 2 is a third-person arcade game with action, shooter and sandbox...

Reassembly

Action, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Construction, Space, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 19 February 2015

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 94/100

A space sandbox with action and strategy elements, Reassembly has players designing ships and exploring a procedurally generated universe. Resources...

Voxel Turf

Arcade, Action, Simulation, Third-person view, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 14 September 2017

Steam: 87/100

Voxel Turf is an engaging third-person sandbox simulator. In the game, you will not be building meager block shelters, but entire cities with...

Fourmiworld

Platformer, Puzzle, Sandbox, Side view, Exploration, Open world, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Linux → 8 August 2025

Steam: 98/100

A game about an explorer of a strange world revolving around a dying star. Along the way, the girl finds the remains of a lost civilization, meets...

Contraption Maker

Puzzle, Sandbox, Simulation

Game released: 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...

Junk Jack

Sandbox, Adventure, Survival

Game released: Linux → 1 December 2016

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Junk Jack is a 2D sandbox about survival and construction in procedurally generated worlds. The player explores caves and biomes, gathers materials...

Vulture for NetHack

Role-playing game, Roguelike, Procedural generation, Dungeons, Sandbox, Turn-based

Game released: Linux → 2 February 2015

Steam: 71/100

An isometric graphical interface for the roguelike NetHack presents its dungeons in a point-and-click format while retaining the original keyboard...

Crayon Physics Deluxe (2011)

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 27 July 2011

Metacritic: 79/100

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game where drawn objects become real, physical objects. The player solves puzzles by drawing and...

Exciting Adventures of Master Chef Ogro

Role-playing game, Action, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 21 April 2009

Exciting Adventures of Master Chef Ogro is a first-person role-playing game with action, puzzle, fantasy and sandbox elements from Platinum Arts. The...

SubTerra

Action, In real time, Top-down view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Role-playing game, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 18 September 2017

Steam: 67/100

SubTerra is a role-playing game about humanity, banished from Earth’s surface to an underground world where the remnants of civilization live under...

Theseus and the Minotaur (2009)

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

Game released: Linux → 2009

Theseus and the Minotaur (2009) is a top-down strategy game with puzzle and sandbox elements from the masters at Kristanix Studios ANS. The main...

StarMade

Action, Shooter, MMO, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Free game, Space, Sandbox, Open world

Early Access: Linux → 4 December 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 66/100

StarMade is a voxel-based space sandbox about exploring a procedurally generated universe and building ships, stations, and bases. Players can travel...

Astral Terra

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

Game released: Linux → summer 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...

Chuck's Challenge 3D

Puzzle, Isometric, Indie, Sandbox, Arcade, Construction, Logic

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2013

Steam: 81/100

This isometric puzzle game follows Woop, a purple alien navigating a universe of challenges created by Chuck Sommerville in search of an exit. Across...

Goblin.Life

Free game, Adventure, Third-person view, Platformer, Role-playing game, MMO, Casual game, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 30 April 2021

Steam: 50/100

Goblin.Life is a free-to-play multiplayer sandbox with a third-person view in which players can cooperatively explore 3D worlds created using the...

Rogalia

MMO, Role-playing game, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 15 October 2018

Steam: 70/100

Rogalia is a crafting-focused role-playing sandbox set in a fantasy world shaped by its players. Characters develop by gaining vitamins from food...

Happy Room

Simulation, Action, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 19 December 2016

Steam: 90/100

This action sandbox simulator is set in a laboratory where weapons are tested on artificially grown human clones. The player oversees the trials and...

Alex the Allegator 4

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

Game released: Linux → 2004

Alex the Allegator 4 is a third-person arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer and sandbox from developers from the Free Lunch Design...

Cubosphere

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 18 January 2010

Cubosphere is a third-person action game with a mixture of strategy, puzzle and...

Planet Centauri

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Sandbox, Exploration, Open world

Early Access: Linux → 3 June 2016

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 73/100

Planet Centauri is an action RPG and sandbox adventure about developing a planet and protecting the native Chloridian species from the Night Walkers...

Towns

City Building, Indie, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 7 November 2012

Steam: 25/100

A city-building game with RPG elements, Towns centers on managing a settlement above an active dungeon. Rather than venturing underground as a hero...

MewnBase

Crafting, Exploration, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2023

Steam: 92/100

MewnBase is a 2D exploration and survival game about a space cat stranded on an uncharted, barren planet without enough food or essential gear. The...

Dynamite Jack

Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 10 May 2012

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This top-down action-adventure follows Jack, a space marine trying to escape the Anathema Mines. He can sneak past guards or use bombs to eliminate...

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