- #1 MachineCraft
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 889 reviews2016
Dev: G2CREW
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 34%
The main purpose of this game is showing and watching machines made out of blocks. Some of the game-modes allow you to battle or race against other players. (testing phase) You can create your original machine with ease by reassembling those machines that are distributed, or by using the automatic control block.
Why similar: Building 40.7%, Sandbox 37.2%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Indie 2.7%
- #2 ShotForge
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 82 reviews2016
Dev: Alix
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A sandbox to build the coolest guns in.
Why similar: Simulation 73.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #3 Blockworks
95% matchVery Positive93% of 60 reviews2023
Dev: Elastic Sea
Windows
Blockworks is a creative VR block-building sandbox game. Follow instructions or express your creativity and build anything you can imagine with hundreds of blocks and materials. Decorate your room environment. Share your creations on steam workshop.
Why similar: Sandbox 38.8%, Building 34%, VR 15.4%, Casual 10.7%, Singleplayer 1%
- #4 Tiny Town VR
94% matchVery Positive92% of 1,217 reviews2017
Dev: Lumbernauts
Windows
Create an original world and fill it with buildings, roads, vehicles and more. Give it life with posable characters. Tell a story with custom speech bubbles and in-game photo captures. Then, share with friends!
Why similar: Sandbox 41.4%, Building 16.1%, VR 16.1%, Simulation 14.6%, Casual 6.2%
- #5 Autocraft
94% matchMixed56% of 297 reviews2017
Dev: Alientrap
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
Why similar: Sandbox 39%, Building 32.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Casual 4.6%, Crafting 3.6%
- #6 Anarchy Arcade
92% matchMixed68% of 2,205 reviews2014
Dev: Elijah Newman-Gomez
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 42.5 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Turn your entire digital life into a game. AArcade is a 3D desktop that launches shortcuts to absolutely anything you like. Join the anarchy of the persistent online metaverse, or remain in your own private reality. Casual in-game building features, plus hundreds of thousands of addons.
Why similar: Sandbox 47.1%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Simulation 11.1%, VR 9.9%, Building 9.7%
- #7 Worlds Adrift Island Creator
91% matchVery Positive83% of 553 reviews2016
Dev: Bossa Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Worlds Adrift is a Community-Crafted MMO: each and every island has been crafted by our playerbase. With the free Island Creator tool, this is your chance to create your own adventure for the community to experience. A crumbling ruin, or a teeming jungle, help expand the edges of Foundation ever further!
Why similar: Building 49.6%, Simulation 33.9%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Indie 5.3%
- #8 MyDream
91% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2015
Dev: MyDream Interactive, Inc
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Build, terraform, quest, and explore your way across beautiful voxel-based worlds in MyDream!
Why similar: Sandbox 45.1%, VR 29.1%, Casual 15.5%, Indie 10.2%
- #9 Infinite Gravity
90% 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 41.9%, Building 41.7%, Simulation 12%, Indie 4.4%
- #10 IKEA VR Experience
89% matchMixed69% of 383 reviews2016
Dev: IKEA Communications AB
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Explore and interact with an IKEA Kitchen in Virtual Reality! Walk around freely, open drawers and put your vegetable peelings in the waste sorting station. You can even enjoy the visual impact of different material finishes and experience things from a child’s point of view.
Why similar: Sandbox 49.8%, VR 23.4%, Simulation 14.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Singleplayer 2%
- #11 Lost Skies: Island Creator
86% matchVery Positive84% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Humble Games
Windows
Sculpt your island, design places for other players to explore, and even set traps or create puzzles in the Lost Skies: Island Creator! Each island tells its own story; are you ready to craft yours?
Why similar: Building 48%, Sandbox 42.9%, Simulation 8%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #12 Machine World 2
88% 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 47.2%, Simulation 23.9%, Building 22.4%, Indie 6.5%
- #13 Metaverse
87% matchMixed43% of 77 reviews2016
Dev: Metaware Limited, LLC
Windows · Mac
In Metaverse you will dig, discover, design, deploy, and defend. Explore, build upon, or tear apart your own procedurally generated voxel planet. And now in the early stages of our multiplayer implementation, help conquer or build the planets of others.
Why similar: Sandbox 59.9%, Simulation 29.5%, Indie 10.7%
- #14 Rec Room
82% matchVery Positive89% of 75,175 reviews2021
Dev: Rec Room
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
Why similar: Sandbox 34%, VR 31.1%, Multiplayer 19.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Casual 5.8%
- #15 Modbox
84% 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: Sandbox 32.8%, Building 29.7%, VR 13.2%, Simulation 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #16 Modiverse
84% 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!
Why similar: Building 84.2%, Crafting 15.8%
- #17 House Builder 2
80% matchMixed53% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: FreeMind S.A.
Windows
In House Builder 2, you build your dream structures in a vibrant, open-world low-poly environment! Purchase materials for your work, load them up, and head off to diverse tasks in the ultimate building adventure!
Why similar: Building 41.5%, Sandbox 39%, Casual 6.9%, Simulation 6.7%, Indie 4.1%
- #18 sok-worlds
82% matchVery Positive81% of 99 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 6 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Make and explore 3d collage worlds in sok-worlds! Release your inner creativity and use internet images to create weird, funny or artsy worlds!
Why similar: Sandbox 44.4%, Building 42.8%, Indie 12.8%
- #19 My Little Blacksmith Shop
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,165 reviews2025
Dev: DasiusPub: Noble Games Studio
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Craft weapons, armor and tools, manage resources and expand your workshop. Experience realistic physics-based forging, unlock new recipes and special orders, and interact with a medieval town's inhabitants as you work to become the greatest blacksmith in the land.
Why similar: Sandbox 32%, Simulation 25.1%, Crafting 17.4%, Casual 10.4%, VR 9.3%
- #20 The Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe!
81% matchMixed42% of 1,512 reviews2016
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Use your godly powers to craft amazing pixel worlds or destroy the universe! Play with physics, over 200 elements and controllable heroes. Make your own games or levels, and then share your creations online. There are no limits to your creativity and imagination!
Why similar: Sandbox 68.3%, Simulation 13.8%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 5.8%, Indie 4.1%
- #21 Conductor: Creative Joy Engine
78% matchVery Positive81% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Club Transcendia
Windows
Conductor is an audiovisual experience creation engine that encourages you to craft, save, and share funky environments with its vibrantly creative tool-set alongside all of your favorite media.
Why similar: Sandbox 45.8%, VR 19.6%, Simulation 15%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Casual 8.4%
- #22 Cubic Castles
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,272 reviews2014
Dev: Cosmic Cow LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Your blocks, your castle, your world! Build anything you can dream up and explore with other players! Cubic Castles is a mini-MMO that combines the best of block-building and 3D platform action! Create fantastic parkour challenges, explore worlds made by other players, or even make friend!
Why similar: Building 43.3%, Sandbox 35.3%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Crafting 5.9%, Casual 2.7%
- #23 CubeGun
79% matchMixed60% of 321 reviews2014
Dev: candyrocketstudio
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A Sandbox Multiplayer Airship Shooting Game.Design battleships with weapons in a "rock paper scissors" mechanic.Shoot or Collide enemy ships into pieces.Challenge players all over the world with ships designed by yourself!
Why similar: Sandbox 55.2%, Building 18.6%, Multiplayer 16%, Indie 6.2%, Crafting 4.1%
- #24 Primitier
73% matchVery Positive94% of 304 reviews2025
Dev: Ota Mato
Windows
Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.
Why similar: Sandbox 51%, VR 23.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Indie 3.4%
- #25 SuchArt: Creative Space
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,140 reviews2021
Dev: Goose MindedPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Why similar: Sandbox 53.9%, Simulation 20.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%, VR 6.4%, Casual 5.5%
- #26 Blocksworld
77% matchMixed65% of 764 reviews2017
Dev: Fortell Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Build anything from characters that run around to mighty machines that drive, blast, crawl, and fly! Then play with your creations in action-packed games, share what you’ve built with your friends, and explore creations made by people all over the world!
Why similar: Building 38.3%, Sandbox 37.3%, Simulation 12.5%, Casual 6%, Indie 4.3%
- #27 Plasma
73% matchVery Positive90% of 1,062 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Sandbox 44%, Building 34.9%, Simulation 14.4%, Crafting 3.8%, Multiplayer 2.4%
- #28 Creativerse
75% 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: Building 38.4%, Sandbox 37.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Crafting 7.8%, Indie 4.3%
- #29 Purplis Sandbox
76% matchMixed67% of 209 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGOLITEPub: DRAGOLITE STUDIO
Windows
Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.
Why similar: Sandbox 43.8%, Building 32.7%, Simulation 20.1%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 1%
- #30 Medieval Engineers
77% matchMixed52% of 7,282 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.8 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: Building 42.3%, Sandbox 35.6%, Simulation 8%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Crafting 4.5%
- #31 Brickadia
71% matchVery Positive87% of 1,234 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 29.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 42.5%, Building 40%, Multiplayer 11%, Casual 5.5%, Singleplayer 1%
- #32 Alchemy Factory
69% matchVery Positive90% of 2,078 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Building 34.9%, Sandbox 34.4%, Multiplayer 9%, Simulation 8.3%, Crafting 6.3%
- #33 Home Improvisation: Furniture Sandbox
75% matchMixed68% of 225 reviews2016
Dev: The Stork Burnt Down
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build beautifully precise or wildly creative furniture! Decorate an entire house with your creations. 4 players can play locally, or invite an online player to help you build! Full support for the HTC Vive, including local and online multiplayer
Why similar: Building 36.9%, Simulation 25.2%, VR 19.4%, Casual 10.8%, Indie 7.8%
- #34 KitHack Model Club
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 666 reviews2024
Dev: Floating Origin InteractivePub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Developed by the creator of the original Kerbal Space Program, KitHack Model Club is a physics-based model building sandbox that offers limitless freedom for you and your friends. Design, build, battle, fly (and crash!) your very own RC vehicles, or experiment with over 2,400 ready-made vehicles!
Why similar: Building 37.4%, Sandbox 37%, Simulation 12%, Crafting 7.6%, Indie 4.4%
- #35 Theme Park Studio
76% matchMixed41% of 464 reviews2016
Dev: Pantera Entertainment
Windows
Theme Park Studio is a powerful suite of tools that allows players to design, build, and experience stunning amusement parks of their own design. Players can build whatever they can imagine, and then share it online for others to experience. Theme Park Studio includes Steam Workshop integration.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.5%, Simulation 28.6%, Building 25.5%, Indie 6.4%, VR 5.3%
- #36 Locomancer
74% matchVery Positive85% of 110 reviews2017
Dev: Eric Lipschutz
Windows · Linux
The genre defining VR model train game. Build and ride the model train layout of your dreams without the cost and excessive model foam dust getting in your nose!
Why similar: Sandbox 34%, Building 33.6%, VR 11.8%, Simulation 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.3%
- #37 Microsoft Maquette
73% matchVery Positive91% of 98 reviews2019
Dev: Microsoft Corporation
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Microsoft Maquette makes it easy to sketch and iterate ideas quickly in 3D space. Maquette is a virtual reality tool which aims to make immersive spatial prototyping easy and fast, all from within a VR headset.
Why similar: VR 63.5%, Casual 36.5%
- #38 vrkshop
71% matchVery Positive82% of 170 reviews2021
Dev: scopatgames
Windows
vrkshop is a VR woodworking game. You are challenged to build projects with hand tools without snap-to-guides or limits on how to cut or fasten the lumber. The precision of your project is left entirely up to you. Have fun. Be productive.
Why similar: Building 48.8%, VR 23.2%, Simulation 13.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Casual 5.5%
- #39 SUPER BUILD
72% matchVery Positive82% of 241 reviews2019
Dev: MOONBEAR
Windows · Mac
Build, design, and explore your own fantasy world using over 1000+ items, in this relaxing sandbox game. No missions, no objectives, no timers. Just stress-free building, exploration, and good vibes.
Why similar: Sandbox 44.7%, Building 32.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Casual 5.8%, Indie 3.9%
- #40 Realistic Tower Destruction
72% matchMixed65% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita Markin
Windows
Game allows you to build many kinds of towers from a variety of bricks and experience their dynamic destruction physics in a sandbox environment.
Why similar: Simulation 37.5%, Sandbox 26.1%, Building 22.9%, Indie 13.6%
- #41 Resonite
68% matchVery Positive81% of 1,475 reviews2023
Dev: Yellow Dog Man Studios
Windows
Enter a novel digital universe with infinite possibilities. Whether you resonate with people around the world in a casual conversation, playing games and socializing or you riff off each other when creating anything from art to programming complex games, you'll find your place here.
Why similar: Building 43.2%, Sandbox 43.1%, Casual 7.5%, Crafting 6.2%
- #42 Construction Simulator 2015
70% matchVery Positive82% of 6,829 reviews2014
Dev: weltenbauer. Software Entwicklung GmbHPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In Construction Simulator 2015, you take the controls of 16 realistic construction machines made by LIEBHERR, STILL and MAN with high-quality 3D graphics.
Why similar: Building 49.2%, Simulation 28.2%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Sandbox 6.6%, Casual 3.4%
- #43 TrainerVR
70% matchVery Positive93% of 60 reviews2017
Dev: Sumalab
Windows
TrainerVR is a unique physics-based VR train construction game. In TrainerVR you can create from simple tracks to an elaborate rail network, just like the wooden piece game, but to the infinity and beyond, and drive trains inside your creations!
Why similar: Building 29.5%, Simulation 27.2%, VR 20.1%, Casual 13.3%, Indie 9.8%
- #44 Sandbox World
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 105 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 71%, Simulation 24.3%, Multiplayer 2.5%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #45 Teravit
70% matchMostly Negative32% of 215 reviews2023
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
Welcome to "Teravit", a sandbox game created by players! With its three elements of "Create, Play, and Share", you can travel to the world of adventure and endless creation, alone or with friends!
Why similar: Building 40.4%, Sandbox 36%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 7.6%, Casual 5.1%
- #46 Main Assembly
67% matchVery Positive84% of 1,337 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Building 35.8%, Sandbox 34.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Crafting 7%
- #47 Ultimate Coaster X
67% matchVery Positive87% of 263 reviews2019
Dev: Phony Game Studios
Windows
Ultimate Coaster X is a free roller coaster simulator built with simplicity and utility in mind. The in-game roller coaster and world editors allow you to create and experience rides of many types.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #48 cyubeVR
67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,125 reviews2018
Dev: Stonebrick Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!
Why similar: Building 43.6%, Sandbox 26.7%, VR 19.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #49 House Builder: First Job
66% matchVery Positive84% of 398 reviews2021
Dev: FreeMind S.A.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Become a one-man construction crew! Travel around the world and through the ages to build iconic designs! Beware unpleasant temperatures and dangerous fauna!
Why similar: Building 41.6%, Sandbox 34.5%, Simulation 13.3%, Crafting 6.5%, Casual 4.1%
- #50 Sansar
69% matchMixed52% of 618 reviews2018
Dev: Sansar, Inc
Windows
THE ULTIMATE PLAYGROUND FOR CREATIVE MINDS AND VIRTUAL EXPLORERS. Experience anytime, anywhere on PC & VR!
Why similar: Casual 54.2%, VR 45.8%