Sandbox
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Statuses
Best Games in the Sandbox genre for PC
Survival, City Building, Side view, Simulation, Business / Management, Sandbox, Construction, Strategy
Early Access: PC → 6 November 2023; Game released: PC → 1 May 2025
Players:
9.3/10
Steam:
87/100
The player controls a city inhabited by mice. Each resident of Ratopia has their own skills and characteristics — they need to organize...
Action, Simulation, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 15 August 2024; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
7/10
Steam:
77/100
The game takes place on ruined islands inspired by Greek myths. Discontent is brewing in the underworld, so the hand of Charon saved the hero from...
Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting, Farm Simulator, City Building
Early Access: PC → 5 December 2024; Game released: PC → 18 March 2026
Players:
10/10
Steam:
55/100
A co-op game for 1-6 people to manage a kingdom. As the city develops, more and more people will come for protection - they can be given tasks to...
Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Third-person view, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, City Building, Sandbox
Early Access: PC → 14 December 2021; Game in development: PC → 12 November 2026
Players:
5.5/10
Steam:
83/100
Noble Fates is a management strategy with elements of a colony simulator with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. In a land far, far away...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 5 November 2024; Game in development: PC → Q4 2026
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
81/100
An ancient civilization once ruled the island of Luminora. They learned to extract the life force from living beings, but this led to a curse that...
Adventure, Simulation, Sandbox, Trains, Indie, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Game in development: PC → 2027
Anticipation Rating:
9.8/10
An open-world survival simulator where players customize their own train and travel through different locations. Gamers start with nothing and...
Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Survival horror
Game released: PC → 8 October 2025
Players:
5.6/10
Steam:
48/100
The main action takes place in the cursed city of Svetlograd and its surroundings in the Carpathian Mountains. Players explore a vast open world...
Role-playing game, Warships / Submarines, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Open world, Procedural generation
Game released: PC → 22 May 2025
Steam:
79/100
An open-world adventure RPG about sea voyages, trade, and life as a captain. The game builds on the ideas of the original Windward from 2015. As a...
Fantasy, Medieval era, Open world, Simulation, Role-playing game, Exploration, Sandbox, Crafting, Farm Simulator
Game released: PC → 6 November 2024
Players:
8/10
Steam:
73/100
Metacritic:
66/100
A life simulator with a living open world, a huge number of random events and skill leveling. The world consists of six diverse regions and three...
Open world, Indie, Action, Third-person view, Exploration, Science fiction, Space, Survival, Procedural generation, Sandbox, Crafting, Simulation, Shooter, Futurism (Future)
Early Access: PC → 2 September 2024; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
7/10
Steam:
70/100
An open-world space sandbox in which gamers explore the entire solar system. The game has both single player mode and multiplayer mode, allowing you...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Sandbox, Dungeons, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting, Isometric, Survival
Early Access: PC → 25 August 2025; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
6.6/10
Steam:
77/100
The player explores a procedurally generated fantasy world where they found themselves after a shipwreck. There are a variety of skills that are not...
Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Science fiction, Sandbox, Grand strategy
Game released: PC → 14 May 2015
Players:
6.4/10
Steam:
77/100
Metacritic:
81/100
Galactic Civilizations 3 is a continuation of the global turn-based strategy in a science fiction setting. You have to create your own space empire...
Isometric, Strategy, Construction, City Building, In real time, Business / Management, Sandbox, Simulation
Early Access: PC → 2 March 2023; Game released: PC → 20 July 2023
Players:
9/10
Steam:
75/100
The player is trying to restore an old military camp. You will have to set up logistics and the economy, correctly arranging buildings and selecting...
