Sandbox 2025 for Linux — top best games in the Sandbox genre

Vaudeville - a game in the Sandbox genre

Adventure, Detective, Procedural generation, Text quest, Sandbox, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 28 November 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 48/100

An unusual detective adventure, the main feature of which is that dialogues with NPCs in it are generated in real time using artificial intelligence. The game takes...

Necesse

Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting, Procedural generation, Online

Game released: Linux → 16 October 2025

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 94/100

A colorful action sandbox that combines exploration, crafting, settlement building, and cooperative play. The procedurally generated world is filled with various...

Havendock

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

Game released: Linux → 22 April 2025

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...

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

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

Game released: Linux → 22 February 2025

Steam: 69/100

The player is building a space base. You can arrange different buildings both vertically and horizontally. Each of the five planets has its own characteristics...

PyramidValley: Reborn

Strategy, Simulation, City Building, Casual game, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

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 the pyramids...

Stellaris: Infernals

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

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2025

Steam: 41/100

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...

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...

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 strange creatures...

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 seasons change...

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Best Games in the Sandbox genre of 2025 for Linux (Game released)