- #1 The Maker Way
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Brave Games Inc.
Windows
Build creative machines, rovers, drones or robots. Use them to gather resources, discover new machine parts, source energy, construct bases and battle enemy factions in a physics-based open world.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.7%, Crafting 17.9%, Automation 14.8%, Building 13.3%, Physics 8.5%
- #2 Everlost
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kub3sqtPub: Orivilon
Windows
Stranded in a world that never stops growing. Gather, craft, build and survive in an infinite procedurally generated wilderness where no two worlds are ever the same.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.9%, Crafting 20.3%, Building 19.9%, Exploration 12.5%, Survival 11.8%
- #3 Craft in Peace
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TonysCraft
Windows
A relaxing pixel-art survival crafting game. Gather resources, craft tools, build your home, and use magical teleportation to explore the forest.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.4%, Crafting 18.5%, Survival 12.3%, Nature 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
- #4 2D Factory
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alexandre Hamelin
Windows
Start bare-handed in a quiet forest. Chop, mine, then let machines take over: steam power, a grid you wire yourself pole by pole, trains, and finally a reactor. Five biomes, five tiers, 58 achievements. Solo or online co-op. A cosy top-down automation game.
Why similar: Sandbox 24.4%, Automation 14.8%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 11%, Simulation 9.6%
- #5 WormWorld
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kyjmo
Windows
A creative sandbox adventure with a focus on exploration, discovery and survival. Shape your worlds, build, mine, and farm. Expand your reach and travel to other worlds using your ship, and worm holes!
Why similar: Sandbox 19.3%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 15%, Nature 12.6%, Survival 9.3%
- #6 Survivor Island
92% matchMixed63% of 27 reviews2018
Dev: SGStudio Games
Windows · Linux
Try to survive on this island by collecting resources and building items that will help keep you alive.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.8%, Crafting 19.5%, Building 16.6%, Nature 13.9%, Survival 12%
- #7 Kindling Wilds: Symbiotic Wasteland
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EasyLovePub: 猫耳游戏
Windows
Ember: Symbiotic Wilderness is a 2D pixel-art co-op survival game set in a living wilderness shaped by temperature, weather, seasons, and ecology. Start with a single fire, divide the work with your team, and build a camp that can endure.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.7%, Building 15.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%
- #8 GardenGrow
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ADIRINK
Windows
A cozy houseplant simulation where every plant is alive. Grow, water, prune, and train unique species. Apply buff cards to push plants beyond their natural limits and create your own species with a capable plant editor.
Why similar: God Game 31.8% ★, Sandbox 24.3%, Simulation 11%, Nature 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%
- #9 Junkman101
89% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: MaryIsHere
Windows · Mac
在一个程序化生成的 2D 像素沙盒世界中探索、挖掘和建造。收集矿物并熔炼,合成物品,升级标签。挑战怪物、发现遗迹,体验自由的冒险与创造之旅。
Why similar: Sandbox 28.4%, Building 14.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Exploration 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%
- #10 The Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe!
89% matchMixed42% of 1,516 reviews2016
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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 35.5%, God Game 21.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Physics 7.5%
- #11 Keplerth
87% matchVery Positive84% of 4,148 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.8%, Building 18.7%, Survival 14.1%, Exploration 10.9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #12 Shaper
88% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: 生长工作室
Windows
《Shaper》 is a sandbox building exploration game. Defeat enemies and monsters by collecting square materials to synthesize tools and equipment. Build unique buildings to survive and develop in this fantastic world.
Why similar: Sandbox 35.4%, Building 16.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Exploration 11.8%
- #13 Shuttle World
86% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Starry Sky Team
Windows
Shuttle World is a first person open world sandbox game, integrating exploration, construction, survival, entertainment and other elements. Players can embark on adventures alone in the game, exploring the entire vast planet! Various free gameplay, welcome to download...
Why similar: Sandbox 23.4%, Automation 19.9%, Building 15.9%, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 10.6%
- #14 Elacoria
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lightborn68
Windows
Explore an endless open world — vast in width, length, and depth — filled with mysteries to uncover. Join up to 8 friends to survive, farm, mine, build, and fight together in a living world with day-night cycles, seasons, and dynamic weather.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.3%, Building 18.5%, Crafting 17%, Survival 14%, Exploration 11.9%
- #15 Biosphere Simulator
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ioStudios
Windows
Biosphere Simulator is a planetary god game sandbox where you guide a dead volcanic world through billions of years of evolution. Seed life, shape ecosystems, unleash cataclysms, and watch civilizations rise from primordial microbes to spacefaring societies.
Why similar: God Game 24.5% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Nature 13.2%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 7.9%
- #16 Corelink Protocol
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Corelink Studio
Windows
A peaceful 2D sandbox. Explore biomes, build bases above and below water, manage oxygen, pressure, seasons and energy. Automate conveyors, fluid systems, sensors and advanced machines. Grow crops, tame animals, create a living world driven by logic, systems and creativity — all without combat.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.8%, Automation 21.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Building 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%
- #17 Rocks Tools Hordes
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neural Monkeys
Windows · Mac
Rocks, Tools, Hordes is a survival crafting game where a brave little girl explores vast caves, builds her base, and battles endless zombie waves. Play the Demo! Add to Wishlist! Mine resources, craft gear, and pilot powerful robots to withstand the horde. Robots, rocks, and really rude zombies.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.9%, Building 15.9%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 15%, Exploration 9.7%
- #18 Blossom
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Luminae Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embark on a quest of growth and exploration in a beautifully handcrafted open world. Explore the lands and discover their forgotten history. Are you ready to automate and expand your beautiful flora against the vile Corruption?
Why similar: Sandbox 22.8%, Automation 20.5%, Building 16.9%, Nature 14.1%, Exploration 9.9%
- #19 HARM Weather Warfare
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aurora Studio
Windows
He is prepared to do anything to save himself and his daughter from the violent grasp of death. Face anomalies, solve the mystery of extreme weather changes and find the origin of a mysterious object. HARM is a survival FPP in which you will not only battle your own weakness but also face a brutal..
Why similar: Sandbox 19.3%, God Game 16.3% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.3%, Nature 9.4%
- #20 Natura: Reborn
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stargazing Games
Windows
Natura: Reborn is a top-down sandbox adventure where nature and creatures have fused. Explore, survive, and fight through an overgrown fantasy world.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.1%, Crafting 14%, Building 13.7%, Exploration 11%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%
- #21 Steamwrecked
81% matchMixed66% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: sTeam
Windows
Ascend the skies and escape the hot desert caused by humanity's over usage of fossil fuels. Find blueprints, scavenge and craft items to build your airship to soar the skies up to society once more. Can you survive this tragedy or fall prey to the harsh nature of this decaying world?
Why similar: Sandbox 36.3%, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 15.6%, Building 14.7%, Exploration 10.1%
- #22 Primestone
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MrBeef
Windows
Primestone is a brutal stone age survival-craft game that won’t hold your grubby little hand. Use your big, beautiful brain to invent tools, tame fire, outsmart rival tribes - and maybe uncover the ruins of something much older than you.
Why similar: Sandbox 18.4%, Crafting 16.8%, Automation 12.1%, Survival 11%, Building 9.7%
- #23 Sand:box
79% matchVery Positive94% of 1,697 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 76.4 hrs≥1hr: 51%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: God Game 20.9% ★, Sandbox 19%, Automation 11.1%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.6%
- #24 Terra Firma 2
78% matchVery Positive92% of 168 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.
Why similar: God Game 26.3% ★, Sandbox 23.2%, Nature 12.4%, Building 10.9%, Physics 10.3%
- #25 Small Living World
79% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: 777 Pixels
Windows
An ecosystem simulation running in your hands. Transform a desertic world into a lush forest. No stress, play at your own pace. This world is at your disposal. Terraform the landscape, add plants and animals. Create your perfect ecosystem.
Why similar: God Game 24.8% ★, Sandbox 20.2%, Nature 13.9%, Building 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
- #26 Scrap Mechanic
75% matchVery Positive92% of 120,816 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 62.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Sandbox 23%, Building 21.2%, Crafting 18.7%, Survival 12.3%, Physics 10.8%
- #27 IslaNode Rescue Signal
77% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Gor Yeritsyan
Windows
IslaNode Rescue Signal it is a unique survival adventure ,set on deserted island where you have nothing but natural resources. Stranded alone, you’ll need to explore, gather materials, and craft with unique node-based crafting system.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.4%, Crafting 19.2%, Building 15.4%, Nature 13.2%, Survival 13.1%
- #28 The Sandbox
80% matchMixed55% of 573 reviews2015
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 55%
READY FOR CRAFTING VIRTUAL WORLDS ON YOUR PC?The acclaimed world-building game featuring a unique mission-based approach is coming onto PC via Steam Early Access. With over 16 million players on mobile & tablets versions and 1,500,000 pixel blocks creations shared in the Online Gallery to date, this PC version is taking world...
Why similar: Sandbox 51.2%, God Game 23.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Simulation 7.2%, Physics 3.1%
- #29 Evospace
78% 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 19.9%, Crafting 19.7%, Automation 16%, Building 14.6%, Exploration 6.3%
- #30 ClassBoom
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Alkibit
Windows · Mac
This is a physics-based casual sandbox game, where there are no limits to your creativity. Mess around with liquids, explore the space, build machines, or just explode everything you can see.
Why similar: God Game 23.6% ★, Sandbox 22.7%, Building 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Physics 9.1%
- #31 Hazy Hollow
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crimson Eye Games
Windows
Dig and explore the depth of the earth. Mine and harvest miscellaneous resources. Craft better tools and weapons and expand your base ! Fight against local mobs. Unlock electricity to lighten the darker depths. Automate harvesting to reign on the underground world !
Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Exploration 8.6%
- #32 Small Living World 2
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 777 Pixels
Windows
Is a peaceful ecosystem simulator, bringing every aspect of nature to life. From the water cycle and plant growth, to animal behaviors and reproduction, observe your small living world evolve. All the tools are at your disposal to create your perfect forest.
Why similar: God Game 27% ★, Sandbox 24.1%, Nature 18.3%, Simulation 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
- #33 Autocraft
77% matchMixed56% of 298 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 34.9%, Building 22.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Physics 13.2%, Simulation 8.7%
- #34 Lifecraft
74% matchVery Positive81% of 147 reviews2024
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: Sandbox 20.3%, Automation 18.4%, God Game 18.3% ★, Crafting 16.4%, Building 15.3%
- #35 Billion Egg Farm
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yamei Games
Windows
Billion Egg Farm is a first-person automation game where you put chickens to work laying eggs and build production lines for eggs, meat, and processed goods.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Sandbox 21.7%, Building 18.3%, Physics 12%, Survival 11.3%
- #36 LANDLOCK Project Wild
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheDeskCrewPub: Cory Green
Windows
Embark on a hardcore survival journey in LANDLOCK, where creativity meets unforgiving challenges. Explore, build bases, fight enemies, terraform landscapes, craft strategically, and let your imagination run wild in this pioneering adventure! Are you ready for your ultimate test of survival?
Why similar: Sandbox 20.6%, Crafting 16.8%, Building 14.7%, Nature 12.7%, Survival 11.2%
- #37 The Joy of Mining
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: spielepk
Windows
Mine, loot, craft, build, fight, and explore the open world in this Minecraft/Terraria-inspired game. It includes quests from NPCs, farming and fishing, as well as a variety of arcade games to play in-game.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.1%, Crafting 25.5%, Survival 13.9%, Exploration 12.6%, Nature 8.4%
- #38 Camping Simulator: The Squad
72% matchMixed58% of 1,084 reviews2025
Dev: CubeCube Sports Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.
Why similar: Sandbox 22%, Crafting 18.8%, Building 14.5%, Survival 13.1%, Nature 12.6%
- #39 Shards of Azuria
74% matchMixed60% of 101 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Potion Games
Windows
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: Crafting 26.8%, Sandbox 24.2%, Building 15.1%, Survival 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
- #40 Water Box: Sandbox Playground
71% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Gaming-Apps.com
Windows
This water physics sandbox lets you experiment with realistic fluid behavior, sink ships by using bomb explosions, and enjoy a ragdoll people playground built to simulate destruction.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.2%, God Game 24.8% ★, Physics 11.8%, Building 11.3%, Simulation 9.9%
- #41 Wispera
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lunarlane
Windows
Wispera is a procedurally generated, open-world sandbox survival game. Craft weapons to battle monsters at night, or expand your base and create a safe haven. If you prefer to remain mobile, travel away and explore new places. Whether you’re a monster hunter or a builder, the choice is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 21.4%, Crafting 17.9%, Building 16.6%, Survival 12%, Nature 8.4%
- #42 The Last Seed
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YebStudio
Windows
Restore life on a dying planet in this 2D automation strategy game. Build production chains, reclaim the ecosystem, and survive a hostile world with the help of The Last Seed.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Automation 19.8%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 7.8%
- #43 Starvector
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justus BlairPub: Octopus Inc. Studios
Windows
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.2%, Automation 17.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Building 13.7%, Survival 11.2%
- #44 Pixel Factory
70% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: White Flame
Windows
Build and automate your own factory in Pixel Factory. Paint cubes in different colors and create unique patterns, design efficient production lines and upgrade your buildings to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Crafting 22.4%, Building 18.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
- #45 Limits of intelligence
70% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2024
Dev: MATTGRV
Windows
Create your own machine. Engineer it!
Why similar: Sandbox 33.4%, Crafting 25.7%, Building 14.9%, Physics 12.6%, Simulation 10.4%
- #46 Sol Survivor
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Evil Space Games
Windows
Build, host, and survive in a persistent multiplayer space sandbox set in the outer Sol system. Construct orbital habitats, manage fragile station systems, and keep your crew alive while expanding through zero-g, Saturn-ring danger, and player-built infrastructure.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.6%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 15.9%, Automation 14.8%, Survival 9.4%
- #47 Horrors Glade
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: djva caravana
Windows
You are a young scientist whose experiment turned into a disaster. When you wake up in the heart of a creepy forest, where every whisper of the wind hides a threat, you realize: there are no rules here. There is only hunger, fear, and shadows hungry for your flesh.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.4%, Crafting 27%, Survival 18.4%, Exploration 10.9%, Open World 7.5%
- #48 Outpath
67% matchVery Positive93% of 3,089 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Sandbox 17.4%, Automation 16.4%, Crafting 15.3%, Building 13%, Nature 10.3%
- #49 Edge Of Survival
69% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Studio Builderline
Windows
Escape to a relaxing, survival sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your base into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, hunting, cooking, and growing your own food.
Why similar: Crafting 20.3%, Sandbox 19.6%, Building 17.2%, Survival 14.1%, Nature 12.7%
- #50 Anything Simulator
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: FunHeartDreamMaker
Windows · Mac
A powerful 2D sandbox simulator — physics and magic, characters and animation. Create anything you can imagine!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.3%, God Game 25.1% ★, Building 19.4%, Physics 11.3%, Simulation 6.8%
- #51 Sandboxels
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,085 reviews2025
Dev: R74n
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: God Game 23.7% ★, Sandbox 22.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Building 13.6%, Nature 12.9%
- #52 Sunny Shores
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mungbungo
Windows · Linux
Sunny Shores is software for casual and retired gamers who have prematurely reached unc-status in their careers. It features cozy lo-fi fishing mechanics, block-building and an open-world sandbox. Play with friends or play with yourself.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.6%, Building 18.6%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 12.5%, Exploration 8.9%
- #53 Minibuilder
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: astroboat2
Windows
Minibuilder is a 2d top-down sandbox game where you explore infinitely generating worlds, find naturally generating structures, fight monsters, acquire materials, hunt for food, build bases, and choose to play alone or with friends
Why similar: Sandbox 25%, Crafting 16%, Building 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Exploration 10%
- #54 Cosmic Cubicle
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Catbox Game Studios
Windows
Cosmic Cubicle is a magical crafting puzzle game where you create the elements that make up the world. Watch the elements explode, splash, and crackle with simulated physics as you combine and hurl the elements at each other.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.5%, God Game 26.7% ★, Crafting 22.6%, Physics 12%, Simulation 6.5%
- #55 Sheep Island
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Arkhamsoft
Windows
You've get a no people island. Then there is only one thing to do. Use your hands to increase the number of sheep.
Why similar: God Game 33.4% ★, Sandbox 29%, Simulation 11.7%, Nature 10%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
- #56 Corner World
67% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Lactose Free
Windows
Game where you can build, break or craft things.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.8%, Building 21.4%, Crafting 16.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Casual 8.4%
- #57 Cosmorists
67% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Stellar Roots
Windows
You find yourself completely alone on a different yet very familiar looking planet. Explore the planet, craft tools, fight enemies, and build bases! Do science to learn new technologies that will allow interplanetary travel and better tools at your disposal!
Why similar: Sandbox 20.8%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 13.2%, Survival 11.2%, Exploration 8.1%