- #1 VRChat
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 269,263 reviews2017
Dev: VRChat Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 176.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Join our growing community as you explore, play, and help craft the future of social VR. Create worlds and custom avatars. Welcome to VRChat.
Why similar: VR 40.8%, Memes 33.8%, Multiplayer 13.3%, First-Person 5.4%, Sandbox 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like Resonite, it is a premier social VR platform driven by community-created avatars, worlds, and interactive experiences.
- #2 ChilloutVR
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,413 reviews2021
Dev: ChilloutVR TeamPub: Disconeering LLC
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 34.6 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: VR 66.5%, Casual 21.2%, First-Person 8.5%, Exploration 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: Another major social VR alternative focusing on customizable avatars and user-generated worlds for hanging out with friends.
- #3 Modbox
94% 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: Programming 37.7% ★, VR 19.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 13.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines VR sandbox physics with visual logic programming to let you build complex interactive contraptions and games.
- #4 Plasma
93% matchVery Positive90% of 1,160 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: Programming 27.8% ★, Game Development 21.7% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 11.1%, Logic 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers advanced physics-based robotics and visual scripting tools for engineering intricate contraptions.
- #5 Logic World
92% matchVery Positive94% of 369 reviews2021
Dev: Mouse Hat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
Why similar: Programming 34.5% ★, Education 16.4%, Building 13.1%, Logic 12.6%, Sandbox 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the deep logic and circuit-building aspects found in Resonite's advanced programming systems.
- #6 Brickadia
91% matchVery Positive81% of 1,433 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 35.8 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: Game Development 26.1% ★, Sandbox 20.3%, Building 18.9%, Logic 14%, Multiplayer 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: A modern multiplayer building sandbox where you can construct elaborate structures together using versatile brick pieces.
- #7 Garry's Mod
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,267,518 reviews2006
Dev: Facepunch StudiosPub: Valve
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 290.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.2%, Building 26.8%, Multiplayer 17.6%, First-Person 10.4%, Exploration 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: The classic PC sandbox for physics experimentation, building, and multiplayer shenanigans that heavily influenced modern creation platforms.
- #8 Tabletop Simulator
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 74,618 reviews2015
Dev: Berserk Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 58.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!
Why similar: VR 33.2%, Sandbox 29.6%, Multiplayer 25%, First-Person 7.8%, Casual 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Shares Resonite's community-driven sandbox ethos, allowing players to build and script custom games in a fully interactive 3D space.
- #9 Universe Sandbox
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 32,344 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Why similar: God Game 45.6% ★, Education 24.7%, Sandbox 19.3%, Exploration 6.4%, Casual 4%
Why You'll Like It: Appeals to the god-game and simulation aspects of Resonite by letting you manipulate celestial bodies and physics.
- #10 Tiny Town VR
87% matchVery Positive92% of 1,262 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: VR 32.6%, God Game 26.6% ★, Sandbox 25.7%, Building 9.9%, Casual 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A casual VR world-building game that lets you construct dioramas and interactive miniature towns.
- #11 Anarchy Arcade
88% matchMixed68% of 2,205 reviews2014
Dev: Elijah Newman-Gomez
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 43.1 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 36.8%, VR 25.3%, Multiplayer 20.9%, Building 7.5%, Casual 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Turns your PC applications and media into a 3D sandbox environment you can explore in VR or desktop mode.
- #12 Sandboxels
84% matchVery Positive95% of 1,172 reviews2025
Dev: R74n
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: God Game 36.1% ★, Education 19.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A complex falling-sand game that scratches the same experimental god-game itch with intricate element interactions.
- #13 Banter
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 154 reviews2023
Dev: SideQuest Ltd
Windows
Welcome to Banter, the ultimate social VR sandbox where goofy physics and good times reign supreme! Adventure, excitement, and hilarious experiences with friends await you in the Bantaverse. So, what’re you waiting for? UNMUTE THE VIDEO! Can you recognise the voice?
Why similar: VR 37.5%, Sandbox 31.8%, First-Person 12.1%, Exploration 10.6%, Casual 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A lightweight social VR platform focused on casual hangouts and user-friendly world exploration.
- #14 Sansar
86% matchMixed52% of 622 reviews2018
Dev: Sansar, Inc
Windows
THE ULTIMATE PLAYGROUND FOR CREATIVE MINDS AND VIRTUAL EXPLORERS. Experience anytime, anywhere on PC & VR!
Why similar: VR 67.3%, Casual 32.7%
Why You'll Like It: A social VR platform focused on high-fidelity user-created events, avatars, and interactive worlds.
- #15 Mix Universe
83% matchVery Positive96% of 125 reviews2023
Dev: Chris ZukowskiPub: Zuko Media LLC
Windows · Mac
Mix Universe is a musical sandbox game where you play as a Mixonaut connecting nodes to create music that you can upload to the universe for everyone to play!
Why similar: Building 32.3%, Sandbox 28.1%, Crafting 27.7%, Exploration 7.2%, Casual 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines sandbox building with audio production and procedural generation for creative tinkerers.
- #16 Blockworks
82% 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: VR 36.7%, Sandbox 28.3%, Building 24.6%, Casual 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A casual VR building game focused on physics and sandbox construction.
- #17 The God
84% matchMixed66% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: Struct9
Windows
Feel the power of god and create your dream world in a beautiful low-poly style. Share your creations with your friends and enjoy.
Why similar: God Game 58.3% ★, VR 31.7%, Casual 10%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist VR god-game where you interact with a small virtual world and its inhabitants.
- #18 Conductor: Creative Joy Engine
82% matchMostly Positive80% 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: VR 44.6%, Sandbox 32%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Casual 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A psychedelic VR sandbox that encourages abstract creation and visual experimentation.
- #19 Sand:box
78% matchVery Positive94% of 1,758 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 78.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: God Game 35.3% ★, Education 16.4%, Sandbox 16%, Logic 11.5%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D pixel-art physics sandbox that satisfies the urge to experiment with raw elements and systems.
- #20 Tower Unite
76% matchVery Positive90% of 21,815 reviews2025
Dev: PixelTail Games
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 69.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
PLAY, CREATE, PARTY! Tower Unite is a community-based virtual world party game with online games, entertainment, activities, and absolutely NO microtransactions.
Why similar: Memes 42.8%, Multiplayer 25.3%, Sandbox 24.1%, Casual 7.8%
- #21 Lavender
81% matchMixed43% of 71 reviews2019
Dev: Take Over Games
Windows · Linux
Lavender is a community-driven social sandbox. There are no limits on performance, physics or scripting. If you want to make it, you can. Come imagine with us.
Why similar: Casual 100%
Why You'll Like It: An indie early-access social VR space for casual exploration and interaction.
- #22 PolyDome
81% matchVery Positive89% of 54 reviews2016
Dev: Plan8
Windows
Step into the Polydome, a musical environment that changes and progresses when you interact with it.
Why similar: VR 85%, Casual 15%
Why You'll Like It: A casual VR sandbox simulation centered around building low-poly floating islands.
- #23 Modiverse
78% 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: Programming 36.2% ★, Game Development 33.4% ★, Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.3%, First-Person 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: An early-access immersive simulation featuring sandbox and custom adventure elements.
- #24 SurrealVR
79% matchMixed62% of 81 reviews2016
Dev: Surreal Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Giant emojis? Check. Robot puppies? Check. Avatars? Check. Doodle with friends? Check. Come hang out in a surreal, magical place being built by people who love virtual reality, gaming, and buzzing dinosaurs with drones.
Why similar: VR 68.2%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Casual 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: An early social VR environment focused on exploration and meeting people in virtual spaces.
- #25 LAN Party
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: LAN Party Technologies, Inc.
Windows
Experience in-person gaming, online! LAN Party is designed to be the perfect compliment to your gaming group. Whether you're playing the same game competitively, cooperatively, or playing different games entirely, LAN Party makes communicating and sharing gameplay so much easier.
Why similar: Memes 46.9%, Sandbox 27.3%, Multiplayer 19%, Casual 6.8%
- #26 Metaverse Construction Kit
77% matchMixed67% of 227 reviews2015
Dev: Metaware
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 31%
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 32.3%, Building 32%, VR 15.4%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Crafting 5.8%
- #27 CARTOONITE
75% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2023
Dev: Tuning Mania
Windows
Choose your favorite vehicle from an infinite number of possibilities. Have fun crashing into objects to collect resources and build your own world. Show your friends what you've built and do stunts with them.
Why similar: Building 34.4%, Sandbox 28.8%, Multiplayer 20.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Exploration 7.3%
- #28 Doodle God
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,555 reviews2015
Dev: JoyBits Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Doodle God is an addicting puzzle & world building game where players use logic and ingenuity to create the entire universe. Starting with the basic elements of earth, wind, fire and air players can build a world filled with locomotives, Dragons, skyscrapers, Aliens and more.
Why similar: God Game 47.9% ★, Memes 20%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 13.4%, Casual 4.6%
- #29 Electronauts - VR Music
74% matchVery Positive92% of 500 reviews2018
Dev: Survios
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Immerse yourself in an interactive sonic environment where you build, drop, and jam with your friends and top artists. Remix over 80 tracks and express yourself like never before. Electronauts sets the stage for you to DJ, perform, and make music magic in virtual reality.
Why similar: VR 71.8%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Casual 13.3%
- #30 Museum of Other Realities
73% matchVery Positive90% of 442 reviews2020
Dev: MOR Museum Inc.
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 65.0 hrs≥1hr: 31%
An immersive multiplayer art showcase in virtual reality, the Museum of Other Realities is a space to connect, share, and experience a growing collection of mind-bending VR art with others.
Why similar: VR 73.4%, Casual 26.6%
- #31 Home Improvisation: Furniture Sandbox
73% matchMixed68% of 226 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: VR 55.3%, Building 32%, Casual 12.7%
- #32 ERRANTE
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 68 reviews2022
Dev: Errant Interactive
Windows
This is an experimental project, a sandbox life simulator that gives you the power to suggest how the game should evolve, which features we should focus on, which slice of life to tell and everything you can imagine.
Why similar: Sandbox 49.2%, Crafting 36.4%, First-Person 14.4%
- #33 Infinite Turtles
71% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Charlie Brej
Windows · Mac · Linux
Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle. Your completed creations become components to solve future challenges. As you design a circuit and can place your design within it, where there is a smaller you doing the same, and so on to infinity.
Why similar: Programming 40.8% ★, Education 16.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Logic 14.1%, Building 12.5%
- #34 Nebula Realms
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 80 reviews2022
Dev: Xaloc Studios S.L.
Windows
Welcome to Nebula Realms! Enjoy your stay in this free to play online 3D interactive world. Socialize, meet new people and become friends. Express your inner self through your fully customizable avatar and your own decorated home, play games and explore this wonderful handcrafted universe.
Why similar: Memes 67.8%, Multiplayer 24.4%, Casual 7.8%
- #35 ViRo Playspace
73% matchMostly Negative40% of 552 reviews2019
Dev: LewdTube LLC
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Immersive adult playspace featuring a diverse range of intimate experiences to explore in a safe, judgement-free, anonymous environment. Our innovative sex-tech allows you to see, hear, and FEEL the action in perfect sync. Compatible with all popular haptic sex toys, or even your game controller!
Why similar: VR 58.1%, LGBTQ+ 30.3%, First-Person 11.6%
- #36 R.A.V.E - Real-time Audio Visual Experience
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: SURREALIST GAMES, LLC
Windows
R.A.V.E is a multiplayer concert simulator for experiencing livestreamed events. Create the stage, set the lighting, and start the show! Your audience awaits.
Why similar: VR 55.2%, Multiplayer 24.9%, First-Person 13.7%, Casual 6.1%
- #37 SuchArt: Creative Space
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,158 reviews2021
Dev: Goose MindedPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 44%, First-Person 17.8%, Multiplayer 16.3%, VR 15.9%, Casual 6%
- #38 The Sandbox
71% matchMixed55% of 575 reviews2015
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.9 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 50.1%, God Game 45.5% ★, Casual 4.5%
- #39 Project Chemistry
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 228 reviews2021
Dev: Ata TürkoğluPub: Espale Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.
Why similar: Education 24%, God Game 23.1% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Logic 16.1%, Sandbox 14.2%
- #40 Graffiti Bombing
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 130 reviews2020
Dev: Urban Weaponry
Windows
Step into the virtual world of Graffiti Bombing and become a graffiti writer. Whether you’re a new artist, seasoned veteran, or all-city hero, experience the thrill of graffiti in the (relatively) crime-free safety of Virtual Reality (VR).
Why similar: VR 81.5%, Casual 18.5%
- #41 Primitier
66% matchVery Positive94% of 327 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: VR 44.5%, Sandbox 29.9%, Crafting 25.6%
- #42 cyubeVR
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,135 reviews2018
Dev: Stonebrick Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 17.9 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: VR 34.5%, Building 23.3%, Crafting 21.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Exploration 6.7%
- #43 Teleporter: World of Gamers (Alpha)
69% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2020
Dev: Teleporter Realities Inc.
Windows
Teleporter is the World of Gamers in VR that unites us in one place to play, watch, and hang out together and find like-minded others in 3D fantastic environments.
Why similar: VR 100%
- #44 Snap Game
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 99 reviews2026
Dev: BegulaPub: IQ GROUP
Windows · Mac · Linux
A chaotic multiplayer building game where creativity and teamwork collide. Build together, experiment freely, and see what wild ideas you and your friends can create.
Why similar: Sandbox 37.5%, Building 34.8%, Multiplayer 27.7%
- #45 Project Third Eye
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 177 reviews2023
Dev: YueWorks
Windows
Enter the groundbreaking world of Project Third Eye, a VR physics game where creativity meets interactivity. Build anything with powerful tools and add logic using the visual scripting panel. Embark on an immersive adventure of endless possibilities. Get your copy now!
Why similar: Programming 38.7% ★, VR 21.1%, Education 15.8%, Sandbox 15.2%, Logic 9.3%
- #46 s&box
63% matchMixed58% of 9,414 reviews2026
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
S&box is a game creation platform built on the Source 2 engine. Play, create, and share games, explore community creations, and experience endless sandbox fun with powerful modern tools.
Why similar: Game Development 47.6% ★, Sandbox 18.5%, Building 17.9%, Crafting 6.7%, First-Person 5.5%
- #47 Ripple Effect
68% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2017
Dev: Well Played Studio, Inc
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Welcome to Ripple Effect, a free VR gaming platform set in a wide array of different environments. Explore over 4 different environments or one of the 5 games included in launch. A new game will be added to the Universe every week! Play by yourself, or with one of your friends from around the world.
Why similar: VR 74.8%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Casual 8.6%