Sandbox
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Best Games in the Sandbox genre of 2025 for PC
Action, First-person view, Science fiction, Shooter, Collectible card game (CCG), Cooperative (co-op), Online, Crafting, Old school, Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Survival
Early Access: PC → 2 May 2024; Game released: PC → 22 July 2025
Players:
9.4/10
Metacritic:
88/100
The GATE network of secret laboratories is engaged in research in all areas, including the paranormal. One day, one of the experiments ends in a massive failure...
Action, Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 9 May 2023; Game released: PC → 7 November 2025
Players:
7.4/10
A cooperative survival action game in which the player becomes a member of the crew of an interdimensional train. The hero sets off to explore a mysterious world...
Simulation, Business / Management, First-person view, Sandbox, Casual game, Dungeons, Crafting, Procedural generation
Game released: PC → 7 February 2025
Players:
7.8/10
The main character bought a house and now digs a hole in his garden. In the process, different values come across, for example, silver and even bags with money...
Action, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Open world, Fantasy, Crafting, Procedural generation
Early Access: PC → 12 December 2019; Game released: PC → 16 October 2025
Players:
6.8/10
A colorful action sandbox that combines exploration, crafting, settlement building, and cooperative play. The procedurally generated world is filled with various...
Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Sandbox, Dungeons, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 25 August 2025; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
6.6/10
The player explores a procedurally generated fantasy world where they found themselves after a shipwreck. There are a variety of skills that are not tied to...
Adventure, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox, First-person view, Action, Space, Science fiction, Survival, Crafting
Game released: PC → 14 May 2025
Players:
8.2/10
A colorful open-world sandbox in which the player confronts a galactic infection called the Red Darkness, which threatens the entire galaxy. As you progress, you...
Role-playing game, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Survival, Exploration, Sandbox, Open world, Crafting, Indie
Early Access: PC → 22 June 2023; Game released: PC → 14 April 2025
Players:
7.9/10
Metacritic:
67/100
The game takes place on Earth destroyed by an environmental disaster. To survive and understand what happened, the hero collects resources, fights dangers, searches...
Online, Business / Management, Isometric, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Construction, Farm Simulator
Game released: PC → 23 April 2025
A colorful farming simulator in which players explore the tropical eucalyptus forests and scorching deserts of an island inspired by the wild Australian outback. As...
Action, Simulation, Business / Management, First-person view, Sandbox, Comedy, Open world, Construction
Game released: PC → 22 August 2025
Players:
8.7/10
A crazy water park management simulator where your imagination is your only limit. As you progress, you can build slides of unimaginable shapes, design pools...
Shooter, Online, First-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 11 October 2023; Game released: PC → 30 October 2025
Players:
6.4/10
The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by mutant zombies and gangs. In another reality, the world has been conquered by a tyrannical empire, but...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Sandbox, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Medieval era, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 27 November 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026
Role-playing action game with survival elements and an open world, set in a fantasy environment with magical creatures. The player starts as a simple recruit of the...
Simulation, Action, Sandbox, Adventure, Exploration, Third-person view, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Space, Open world, Science fiction
Early Access: PC → 27 January 2025; Game in development: PC → 2027
Training simulator, whose events develop in outer space. In the game, it is necessary to design, build and serve spaceships. As you pass, you can build space...
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
The main action takes place in the cursed city of Svetlograd and its surroundings in the Carpathian Mountains. Players explore a vast open world, encounter mythical...
