Sandbox 2020 for PC — top best games in the Sandbox genre

SnowRunner - a game in the Sandbox genre

Racing, Simulation, Sandbox, Exploration, Open world, Online, Adventure

Game released: PC → 28 April 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The continuation of the off-road driving simulator Spintires: MudRunner. You can expect realistic control mechanics, a well-developed gameplay process, as well as...

Factorio

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Crafting

Game released: PC → 14 August 2020

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Factorio is a top-down sci-fi management strategy game. You have to prepare an alien planet for comfortable living of earthly inhabitants. You will be able to mine...

Townscaper

Strategy, Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation, Construction, Sandbox, Casual game, City Building

Game released: PC → 26 August 2021

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Townscaper is a vibrant casual strategy game in which the player builds a city on an island. The player selects colors and creates blocks of houses on a grid, and...

Besiege

Puzzle, Logic, Sandbox, Simulation, Strategy, Action, Medieval era

Game released: PC → 18 February 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 94/100

A construction game in which the player creates unique medieval siege engines and uses them to destroy fortified fortresses. Players can build siege weapons...

Dreamlive

Action, Sandbox, Simulation, First-person view

Game released: PC → 21 February 2020

Players: 6.9/10

Dreamlive is a sandbox with a lot of freedom in creating various in-game objects. The game features photorealistic graphics and sophisticated physics. For example...

Stormworks: Build and Rescue

Arcade, Indie, Third-person view, First-person view, Action, Shooter, Educational game (Education), Combat robots, Flight Simulator, Warships / Submarines, Sandbox, Construction, Open world

Game released: PC → 17 September 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 90/100

Stormworks: Build and Rescue is a fun sandbox simulator where you take control of your own search and rescue team by modeling and creating vehicles. As you...

Hydroneer

Indie, Simulation, First-person view, Adventure, Action, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PC → 8 May 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 86/100

Hydroneer is an exciting mining simulator with a first-person view, where you have to get gold and other necessary resources from the soil. As you progress, you...

Levelhead

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Combat robots, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: PC → 30 April 2020

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Levelhead is a fun side-scrolling arcade platformer set in a sci-fi setting. In the game you have to control the GR-18 delivery robot through various levels with...

Noita

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Dungeons, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 15 October 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Noita is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will find procedural generation of levels, the irreversible death of the hero, as well...

Amazing Cultivation Simulator

Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Mysticism / Supernatural, Role-playing game, Strategy, Indie, Simulation, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 25 November 2020

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 91/100

Amazing Cultivation Simulator is a sect management simulator based on Chinese mythology and inspired by well-known projects such as Dwarf Fortress and...

Avorion

Simulation, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Sandbox, Exploration, Construction

Game released: PC → 9 March 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 89/100

This cooperative space sandbox follows an expedition across a galaxy divided by a cataclysm. A ring of torn hyperspace fabric blocks access to its center, where the...

Totally Reliable Delivery Service

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Indie, Sandbox, Casual game

Game released: PC → 1 April 2021

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 76/100

Totally Reliable Delivery Service — a fun third-person action game about a "reliable" delivery service that is actually not reliable at all. The main idea is to go...

My Diggy Dog 2

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 11 August 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 87/100

My Diggy Dog 2 is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer about a brave archaeologist dog who helps his owner find his wife. Once upon a time, adventurers in...

The Falconeer

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 10 November 2020

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 65/100

The Falconeer is an open-world fantasy RPG featuring unconventional combat featuring aerial combat and acrobatics. The action takes place in a world called The...

MMORPG Tycoon 2

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Kill It With Fire

Arcade, First-person view, Action, Simulation, Comedy, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 13 August 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Kill It With Fire is an action game in which the player destroys spiders in a house. For your purposes, you can use various weapons, fire, objects and environmental...

From the Depths

Action, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Construction, Sandbox, Crafting

Game released: PC → 6 November 2020

Steam: 90/100

A vehicle-building sandbox with strategy and simulation elements, From the Depths lets players assemble war machines from blocks and command them in battles across...

Sector's Edge

Free game, Indie, Shooter, Action, Sandbox, Futurism (Future), Online

Game released: PC → 31 October 2020

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 82/100

A free indie shooter in a futuristic style with a completely destructible environment. From small buildings to sky-scraping cranes, everything in the game can be...

Star Sonata 2

Space, Sandbox, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 12 June 2020

Steam: 66/100

A multiplayer space RPG with action and sandbox elements, Star Sonata 2 lets players explore the universe and build empires. Players pilot ships in top-down 3D...

Void Destroyer 2

Open world, Sandbox, Action

Game released: PC → 6 February 2020

Steam: 79/100

This open-world space sandbox is set in a desolate asteroid field on the outer edges of the solar system, where factions pursue competing goals. Starting with a...

Project Existence Testing Environment

Free game, Simulation, MMO, Online, Arcade, Third-person view, Crafting, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: PC → 30 October 2020

Steam: 53/100

A free multiplayer life simulator with sandbox elements, where you can do whatever you want: build the house of your dreams, or isolate yourself from everyone with...

Offroad Mania

Simulation, Puzzle, Indie, Racing, Third-person view, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 10 February 2020

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 94/100

Offroad Mania is an exciting racing simulator with a third -person view based on real physics. The game contains more than 120 different levels where you have to...

Jelly Brawl

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Wurm Online

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

Game released: PC → 24 July 2020

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 61/100

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

Ben 10: Power Trip

Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Open world, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 9 October 2020

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 78/100

Ben 10: Power Trip is a vibrant third-person action game based on the Ben 10 animated series. In the story, Ben and his family are enjoying a European vacation, but...

80's OVERDRIVE

Racing, Indie, Arcade, Third-person view, Cyberpunk, Sandbox, Old school

Game released: PC → 19 November 2020

Steam: 76/100

80's OVERDRIVE is an indie racing arcade game with a third-person view in the cyberpunk genre. This is a game that will take you back in time, when the world was...

Sink Again

Isometric, Turn-based, Tactics, Action, Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Dungeons, Sandbox, Open world

Game released: PC → 17 December 2020

Steam: 66/100

Sink Again is a pirate adventure with turn-based combat, RPG elements and plenty of humor. In it you can gather your brave team and explore the Caribbean islands in...

Mainframe Defenders

Strategy, Top-down view, Turn-based, Tactics, Science fiction, Exploration, Sandbox, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 25 February 2020

Players: 4.2/10

Steam: 87/100

Mainframe Defenders is a turn-based roguelike tactics game focused on interesting items and customization. The game resembles a hybrid of XCOM: Enemy Unknown...

Son of Aral

Free game, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Sandbox, Survival, Open world, Strategy, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 23 July 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 91/100

A free-to-play sandbox with tower defense elements, in which the player must destroy hostile turrets to be able to escape from the island. The game has minimalistic...

shapez

Strategy, Construction, Top-down view, Sandbox, Crafting

Game released: PC → 7 June 2020

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 96/100

The player creates a factory that should automatically produce geometric shapes. The shape of the figures becomes more complex over time, so production chains will...

CSC | Space MMO

Futurism (Future), MMO, Action, Flight Simulator, Shooter, Third-person view, Space, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 3 September 2020

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 61/100

CSC | Space MMO is a free-to-play space sandbox in which you can freely explore an open world that includes more than 40 star systems. The game belongs to the MMO...

SimCasino

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

Game released: PC → 16 November 2021

Steam: 74/100

SimCasino is a simulator for creating and managing your own casino, in which you can change almost every aspect. You can decide for yourself whether your gaming...

Terrain Generator

Adventure, Action, First-person view, Roguelike, Sandbox, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 6 September 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Terrain Generator is a clone of the popular first-person sandbox Minecraft, but without the blocks. At the same time, you will still be given the opportunity to...

Solar Panic: Utter Distress

Free game, Shooter, First-person view, Adventure, Indie, Comedy, Casual game, Exploration, Sandbox, Action

Game released: PC → 28 January 2020

Players: 3.3/10

Steam: 88/100

Solar Panic: Utter Distress — a free adventure comedy game with a first-person view and an open world in the spirit of Postal, where the main character is Darwood...

Action Supercross

Arcade, Platformer, Sports game, Sandbox, Motorcycle racing, Indie, Casual game, Simulation

Game released: PC → 25 May 2020

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 92/100

Action SuperCross is a physics-based motorcycle simulator built around levels that test speed and control. A precursor to Elasto Mania, it introduced concepts and...

Sandbox

Best Games in the Sandbox genre of 2020 for PC (Game released)