- #1 Lost Existence
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: Lurid Spectre Games
Windows
Explore vast, forgotten lands, cryptic abandoned ruins, and mysterious caverns, in this open-world voxel action-RPG. Create your own uniquely crafted class. Build multiplayer dungeon, PvP, or siege experiences. Run, vault, and leap effortlessly across endless wilderness, or delve deep underground.
Why similar: Experimental 40.8%, RPG 17.8%, Adventure 12%, Sandbox 11%, Action 10.7%
- #2 Medieval Engineers
96% matchMixed52% of 7,310 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Sandbox 56.1%, Simulation 24.8%, Action 8%, Indie 5.7%, Adventure 5.4%
- #3 Planet Explorers
95% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Sandbox 50.1%, RPG 19%, Adventure 13.1%, Simulation 7.5%, Action 5.3%
- #4 Pixelum
94% matchMixed48% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: ZXC Games
Windows
Pixelum is a whole world made up entirely from interactive pixels. Explore procedurally generated sandbox with advanced physics. Dig and mine, fight mobs, build bases, craft items, and progress throughout the pixel canvas!
Why similar: RPG 22.7%, Simulation 22.6%, Sandbox 19%, Adventure 14.8%, Action 11.8%
- #5 Modiverse
93% matchMixed57% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: Deep Voodoo Games
Windows
An open multiplayer sandbox game; includes tools, props, levels, NPCs, character models, game-modes and much more! Make your own using our mod kit!
- #6 Masterspace
94% matchMostly Negative28% of 177 reviews2015
Dev: Mastertech
Windows
Masterspace is a game about mining, creating and exploring, featuring fully destructible environments and spaceships that allow you to travel between different planets. Use explosives to mine metal ores or watch your newly constructed home get smashed to pieces by a meteorite impact.
Why similar: Simulation 26.4%, RPG 25.8%, Sandbox 22.1%, Action 15.8%, Indie 10%
- #7 StarsOne
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 537 reviews2016
Dev: IllusoryWorldEntertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space.
Why similar: Sandbox 54.8%, Action 25.9%, Indie 19.3%
- #8 Voxel Project VR
91% matchVery Positive85% of 323 reviews2025
Dev: 180°
Windows
Voxel Project offers an immersive sandbox experience set in a fully destructible voxel environment. Explore a dynamic world teeming with vehicles, dynamic fire mechanics, enemy NPCs, voxel gore, weapon customization, and a bunch of additional features to discover.
Why similar: Sandbox 51.2%, Simulation 22.7%, Action 14.1%, Adventure 12%
- #9 Voxile
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: VoxRay Games, Inc.
Windows
Quest, craft, loot, build, destroy, and shoot your way through gorgeous voxel islands! Encounter mutated wildlife, discover secrets, and find out what went wrong in both pre-designed adventure and procedural survival worlds. Play in Early Access today--alone or with friends!
Why similar: Sandbox 55.1%, RPG 44.9%
- #10 Rise of Ages
91% matchMixed44% of 217 reviews2019
Dev: Anguis Game StudioPub: 99Gamers Digital
Windows
Rise of Ages is a sandbox game, allowing you to explore, build, found cities, make wars and evolve technologies to reach the highest level of a civilization and then travel to other planets! The game begins in prehistory and will advance ages, one by one, as the player evolves.
Why similar: RPG 28.9%, Sandbox 24.2%, Adventure 17.7%, Action 17.3%, Indie 11.9%
- #11 Modbox
89% matchVery Positive86% of 222 reviews2016
Dev: Alientrap
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox for Desktop+VR
Why similar: Experimental 56.2%, Sandbox 20.2%, Simulation 12.2%, Action 6.2%, Indie 5.1%
- #12 StarMade
89% matchMixed68% of 2,989 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 50%, Simulation 13.5%, Adventure 11.2%, RPG 10.9%, Action 8%
- #13 Evospace
88% matchVery Positive83% of 391 reviews2019
Dev: Quantum Rivet
Windows · Mac
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Why similar: Sandbox 39.8%, Simulation 29.8%, Adventure 18.1%, Indie 12.2%
- #14 Planet Miner
87% matchVery Positive80% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: Cherniukh Andrii
Windows
Remove fog, look for and mine minerals, construct buildings, upgrade the rover and reach the portal.
Why similar: Simulation 53.7%, Adventure 38.9%, Indie 7.4%
- #15 Star Rangers™ XE
86% matchMixed40% of 153 reviews2016
Dev: Project Whitecard Studios Inc.Pub: Awestruck Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore space and build on other worlds in Star Rangers! Star Rangers is a space exploration and construction game that allows players to build habitats and spacecraft, acquire gear and explore the solar system.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.4%, Simulation 24.5%, Adventure 14%, RPG 13.3%, Action 10.1%
- #16 Machine World 2
85% matchMixed49% of 200 reviews2017
Dev: Trino GamesPub: Trino AB
Windows · Mac
Take control of a range of different machines and operate them in a unique environment. Each new game generates a new world, and it is yours to develop: Dig and build anything, anywhere! All machines have been carefully modelled down to small details.
Why similar: Sandbox 43.2%, Simulation 43%, Indie 13.8%
- #17 Voxel Turf
84% matchVery Positive88% of 576 reviews2017
Dev: L Twigger
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Voxel Turf is a block based urban sandbox. Build cities, blow up buildings, complete missions or fight for territory. Build a real estate empire, or perhaps just drive around and blow stuff up. Its your choice!
Why similar: Sandbox 43%, Simulation 29.5%, Action 16.7%, Indie 10.7%
- #18 TerraTech
82% matchVery Positive91% of 24,767 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 32.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Sandbox 62.8%, Adventure 15.1%, Action 14.8%, Indie 7.3%
- #19 Lay of the Land
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,072 reviews2026
Dev: Southern Cross Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
Why similar: Sandbox 40.5%, RPG 26.1%, Adventure 18%, Action 15.4%
- #20 Boundless
83% matchMixed69% of 2,770 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Sandbox 47.1%, RPG 19%, Adventure 13.1%, Action 9.3%, Simulation 7.4%
- #21 Starship EVO
81% matchVery Positive84% of 1,485 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Sandbox 31.3%, Simulation 26.3%, Adventure 15.6%, Action 15.2%, Indie 11.7%
- #22 Project Explore
82% matchMixed67% of 242 reviews2017
Dev: Fern Nigro
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A 2D sandbox survival game designed for creators, players, and everyone else.
Why similar: Simulation 36%, Adventure 26.4%, Action 20.4%, Indie 17.2%
- #23 Creativerse
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Sandbox 43.4%, RPG 27%, Adventure 18%, Indie 11.6%
- #24 Sandbox World
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 134 reviews2024
Dev: XMAKE
Windows
Welcome to the Sandbox World! Here, you bring your ideas to life: create tanks, airplanes, ships, and anything else – with over 120 unique blocks at your disposal. Engage, defend, and showcase your masterpieces in tense multiplayer battles that await you!
Why similar: Sandbox 49.8%, Simulation 33.6%, Action 16.7%
- #25 GRAV
79% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Sandbox 51.7%, RPG 17.6%, Adventure 14.7%, Action 11%, Indie 5%
- #26 Planet Centauri
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,376 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!
Why similar: Sandbox 47.6%, RPG 25.1%, Adventure 16%, Indie 11.3%
- #27 Building Destruction
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 115 reviews2023
Dev: 180°
Windows
Multiplayer sandbox with destructible environment. Destroy different maps, build your own, and play with your friends and other people online
Why similar: Sandbox 53.3%, Simulation 27.2%, Action 16.8%, Indie 2.7%
- #28 Total Miner
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 767 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.
Why similar: Sandbox 40.5%, RPG 22.1%, Adventure 14.2%, Action 13.1%, Indie 10.1%
- #29 Infinite Gravity
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Gravity Wave Interactive
Windows
This is a build sandbox game We have hundreds of elements for your choice We offer a variety of materials in building their ideal architectural works for you We will also open survival mode in the future
Why similar: Sandbox 37.2%, Simulation 21%, RPG 19.1%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 8.9%
- #30 Rising World
76% matchVery Positive86% of 5,920 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Sandbox 60.5%, Adventure 24.8%, Indie 14.7%
- #31 Brickadia
73% matchVery Positive80% of 1,371 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Brickadia is a next-generation brick building sandbox that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build massive worlds, invent cool contraptions, and play in them however you like - all with your friends!
Why similar: Sandbox 100%
- #32 Starbase
75% matchMixed56% of 6,734 reviews2021
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 91.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Why similar: Sandbox 50.8%, Simulation 34.1%, Action 15.1%
- #33 Metaverse Construction Kit
76% matchMixed67% of 227 reviews2015
Dev: Metaware
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 32%
The Metaverse Construction Kit is a virtual environment to construct your own 3D creations. Use the twenty-four structural elements to define your structures and then style your creations with sixty-four material types like organics, metals, minerals, and composites. Then Publish!
Why similar: Sandbox 60.1%, Simulation 29.3%, Indie 10.6%
- #34 Dig or Die
73% matchVery Positive90% of 4,273 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Sandbox 60%, RPG 12.8%, Action 11%, Indie 8.5%, Adventure 7.7%
- #35 Space Engineers 2
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,798 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Sandbox 56.9%, Simulation 32.5%, Indie 10.6%
- #36 Orebound
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 944 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Why similar: Sandbox 45.2%, Simulation 34%, Adventure 20.8%
- #37 Sector Space
70% matchVery Positive96% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Robin M. FarrellPub: Outer Vision Games
Windows · Linux
Explore a procedurally generated galaxy, mine asteroids, refine minerals, colonize planets, build stations, deploy drones, salvage rare items, construct gear, level up, improve your ship, assemble a fleet, engage in combat, and take on the void.
Why similar: RPG 41.7%, Simulation 38.1%, Adventure 7.9%, Action 6.9%, Indie 5.4%
- #38 JCB Pioneer: Mars
74% matchMixed42% of 154 reviews2017
Dev: AtomicomPub: GamesCo
Windows
JCB Pioneer: Mars drops you onto the surface of The Red Planet. Your mission: To survive and prepare Mars for future human colonization.
Why similar: Simulation 38.8%, Adventure 24.1%, Action 21.5%, Indie 15.7%
- #39 Procelio
69% matchVery Positive92% of 76 reviews2026
Dev: Ironshell Studios
Windows
Procelio is a multiplayer vehicle builder/shooter set amidst a proxy war on the red planet. Build and refine your custom machines from orbit, then pilot them in a distant war against CPU and enemy players.
Why similar: Sandbox 42.4%, Simulation 36.1%, Action 21.5%
- #40 Project 5: Sightseer
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 547 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.7%, RPG 27%, Adventure 19.4%, Action 14.9%, Indie 11.1%
- #41 Astral Terra
74% matchMixed50% of 152 reviews2015
Dev: Tethys Interactive LLC
Windows
Explore, Adventure, Craft, Build, Survive. How will you shape your world? Astral Terra is a Smooth Voxel, Procedurally Generated Open World game with RPG and Survival Elements!
Why similar: Sandbox 44.5%, RPG 22.2%, Adventure 14.5%, Action 10.4%, Indie 8.5%
- #42 Everwind
67% matchVery Positive81% of 3,601 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Sandbox 48.2%, RPG 31.7%, Adventure 20.1%
- #43 Crafting Block World
72% matchMixed46% of 54 reviews2019
Dev: IO Games
Windows
Crafting Block World is an adventure with sandbox elements that will help you build your ideal world!
Why similar: Sandbox 41.6%, Simulation 25.5%, Adventure 13%, Action 11.6%, Indie 8.4%
- #44 STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions
67% matchMixed59% of 794 reviews2026
Dev: System Era SoftworksPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Join the ESS Starseeker crew to explore strange new worlds, working together with friends to complete planet-wide objectives before the station journeys on to new planetary destinations. Collect and unlock powerful tech to help the crew tackle the perils of space!
Why similar: Sandbox 37.8%, Adventure 32.7%, Action 29.4%
- #45 Keep Digging
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,191 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Dog
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.
Why similar: Sandbox 47.4%, Simulation 32.9%, Adventure 19.7%
- #46 Space Engineers
67% matchVery Positive89% of 133,963 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Sandbox 50%, Simulation 32.1%, Action 17.9%
- #47 ChilloutVR
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,412 reviews2021
Dev: ChilloutVR TeamPub: Disconeering LLC
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 34.5 hrs≥1hr: 52%
ChilloutVR is a social sandbox game enabling players and content creators to create, share and explore content in a massive multiplayer metaverse alone, with friends or anyone around the world. Meet new people and explore virtual worlds together. Playable with and without a VR-Headset.
Why similar: RPG 32.9%, Simulation 32.4%, Action 18.2%, Indie 14.1%, Adventure 2.5%
- #48 Lootfest
71% matchMixed67% of 69 reviews2015
Dev: vikingfabian.com
Windows
Powelful voxel editor, create a world with friends online.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 SpaceCraft
66% matchMixed67% of 2,264 reviews2026
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
Why similar: Sandbox 49%, Simulation 30.6%, Adventure 20.4%
- #50 World Wide Hack
69% matchMixed63% of 83 reviews2021
Dev: Lotus Innovations
Windows · Linux
Reveal company secrets while hacking and exploring their quantum simulation networks. Fights for control with other players, coop with your faction, gather best tools, build most secure servers, write scripts and webs, or choose to be solo hacker who makes the right choices to change the world.
Why similar: Sandbox 40.8%, Simulation 33.4%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 11.3%
- #51 Necesse
63% matchVery Positive93% of 27,498 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Sandbox 41.8%, RPG 21.7%, Adventure 15.6%, Action 10.9%, Indie 9.9%
- #52 TerraTech Worlds
66% matchMixed63% of 2,256 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Sandbox 74.5%, Adventure 25.5%
- #53 Blockscape
70% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Sandbox 56.2%, Simulation 15.2%, RPG 11.1%, Indie 7.8%, Adventure 7.2%
- #54 Take On Mars
69% matchMixed55% of 2,032 reviews2017
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.
Why similar: Simulation 56.7%, Sandbox 37.6%, Adventure 5.7%