- #1 Terraria
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Sandbox 66.2%, Adventure 24.3%, Indie 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: As the definitive 2D sandbox survival game, it offers the deepest crafting, combat, and exploration mechanics that inspired the genre.
- #2 Core Keeper
96% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Sandbox 55.8%, Adventure 26.1%, Indie 18.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a highly addictive loop of mining, crafting, and base-building within a mysterious, procedurally generated underground world.
- #3 Starbound
96% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Sandbox 64%, Adventure 22.2%, Indie 13.8%
Why You'll Like It: This space-faring sandbox adventure expands the 2D survival formula to include multiple planets and complex quest-driven exploration.
- #4 Necesse
95% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 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 56.3%, Adventure 25.7%, Indie 18%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox game blends survival and base-building with complex boss fights and village management mechanics.
- #5 Miniland Adventure
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 328 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Why similar: Sandbox 80%, Adventure 20%
Why You'll Like It: This minimalist sandbox survival game focuses on peaceful exploration and expanding your territory at your own pace.
- #6 Tinkerlands
93% matchVery Positive86% of 3,746 reviews2025
Dev: CodeManuPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!
Why similar: Sandbox 57%, Adventure 24.3%, Indie 18.7%
Why You'll Like It: A modern take on the 2D survival genre that emphasizes fast-paced exploration and intuitive crafting.
- #7 Junk Jack
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 468 reviews2016
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!
Why similar: Sandbox 54.6%, Adventure 28.4%, Indie 17%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming 2D sandbox experience with a heavy focus on creative building and discovering hidden treasures.
- #8 Keplerth
92% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 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 57.8%, Adventure 29.7%, Indie 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: This procedural 2D survival game offers robust RPG elements and a vast world to explore with friends or solo.
- #9 Planet Centauri
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,359 reviews2024
Dev: Permadeath
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 13.6 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 57.9%, Adventure 23.5%, Indie 18.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep 2D sandbox experience with extensive crafting, monster taming, and customizable magic systems.
- #10 Nova Lands
90% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Sandbox 58.6%, Adventure 28.2%, Indie 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: It blends sandbox exploration with automation, allowing you to build a self-sustaining base on a vibrant alien planet.
- #11 Dig or Die
91% matchVery Positive90% of 4,268 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 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 74.3%, Indie 14.1%, Adventure 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the survival aspect by forcing players to build defenses against nightly waves of enemies in a hostile alien environment.
- #12 Craft The World
89% matchVery Positive88% of 16,818 reviews2014
Dev: Dekovir EntertainmentPub: Dekovir Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Sandbox 77.7%, Indie 13.4%, Adventure 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines sandbox survival with strategy, tasking you with managing a tribe of dwarves as they build and defend their fortress.
- #13 Aground
89% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Sandbox 100%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on a satisfying progression loop where you start with primitive tools and advance through technology to reach the stars.
- #14 Forager
88% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Sandbox 52.2%, Adventure 25.5%, Indie 22.2%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on gathering and expansion, it captures the addictive 'just one more thing' loop found in sandbox survival games.
- #15 Black Skylands
86% matchVery Positive84% of 4,328 reviews2023
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
Why similar: Sandbox 59.4%, Indie 21.5%, Adventure 19.1%
Why You'll Like It: This open-world sandbox game features unique sky-based exploration and base management in a beautifully realized pixel-art world.
- #16 MoonQuest
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 107 reviews2020
Dev: Wizard Mode
Windows
A procedurally-generated adventure game! Explore unique worlds with wild forests, ice-capped mountains and ancient ruins. Talk to giant snails, seek out magical items, and forge the weapons that will help you on your journey!
Why similar: Adventure 59.4%, Indie 40.6%
Why You'll Like It: A procedurally generated adventure that captures the charm of 2D exploration with a focus on roguelite elements.
- #17 Deep Despair 2
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Deep Despair 2 is an open world survival adventure action game with procedural generation and complete freedom of action: building, crafting, hunting, farming, livestock, brewing, cooking, traveling, fight, and more.
Why similar: Sandbox 66.6%, Adventure 33.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a hardcore 2D survival experience with a focus on crafting, building, and surviving in a dangerous wilderness.
- #18 Edge of Space
86% matchMostly Negative33% of 2,729 reviews2015
Dev: Handyman StudiosPub: Reverb Triple XP
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Why similar: Sandbox 60.8%, Adventure 22.1%, Indie 17.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi 2D sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration, high-tech crafting, and intense combat against alien threats.
- #19 Project Explore
85% matchMixed67% of 242 reviews2017
Dev: Fern Nigro
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A 2D sandbox survival game designed for creators, players, and everyone else.
Why similar: Adventure 58%, Indie 42%
Why You'll Like It: A casual survival experience that focuses on the basics of gathering and building in an open environment.
- #20 Creativerse
83% 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 53.7%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 19.4%
Why You'll Like It: Though 3D, it provides a similar sandbox experience to Squarelands with a strong emphasis on creative building and exploration.
- #21 Lantern Forge
84% matchMixed54% of 284 reviews2014
Dev: Hearthfire Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Lantern Forge is a sandbox survival game with building, crafting, and RPG elements. Mine and forage for resources to build a home, plant crops, and craft weapons and armor. Then venture out to explore the wilderness, find hidden dungeons and temples, fight unique monsters, and collect the treasures they guard.
Why similar: Sandbox 57.8%, Adventure 31.3%, Indie 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This RPG-lite sandbox survival game focuses on building and crafting while exploring a dangerous, procedurally generated land.
- #22 Tile Miner
82% matchMixed62% of 63 reviews2021
Dev: nalothchrisPub: MadSwan
Windows · Mac
Explore a vast world. Manipulate every tile. Build your kingdom. Conquer the elemental dungeons. The moldable world of Tile Miner is at your fingertips!
Why similar: Sandbox 65.8%, Adventure 34.2%
Why You'll Like It: A simple and direct 2D sandbox game that focuses on mining and building in a blocky, procedurally generated world.
- #23 Elsewhere
79% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.
Why similar: Sandbox 64.8%, Adventure 19.5%, Indie 15.7%
Why You'll Like It: This early-access title focuses on exploration and survival in a mysterious, procedurally generated landscape.
- #24 Alchemage
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 308 reviews2020
Dev: 量子艺界（QUANTUM ARTS）
Windows
Begin your otherworldly life from scratch—with nothing but a single magic staff in hand. Shape the world with your own hands, build the home you love, or unleash the powers of alchemy and magic to battle relentless monsters from beyond.Set forth, Warlock!
Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Sandbox 34.8%, Indie 26.8%
Why You'll Like It: This casual sandbox adventure focuses on exploration and light combat, making it a relaxing alternative to more intense survival games.
- #25 Arcane Worlds
82% matchMixed45% of 237 reviews2014
Dev: Ranmantaru Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 21%
A game inspired by classic Magic Carpet, with modern graphics and features. You play as a sorcerer, exploring mysterious worlds, changing them, discovering ancient secrets, creating new spells, fighting creatures and other mages, building and destroying as you please.
Why similar: Sandbox 41.9%, Adventure 30.7%, Indie 27.4%
Why You'll Like It: An indie sandbox game that emphasizes exploration and action in a world filled with magical secrets.
- #26 Warlocks Quarry
79% matchVery Positive91% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Sub Orbital Software
Windows
Use your skills in looting, fighting, exploring and base building to survive and progress in Warlocks world.
Why similar: Sandbox 62.4%, Adventure 37.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game blends action-adventure with farming and survival elements in a 2D sandbox setting.
- #27 Pixelum
78% matchMixed49% 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: Sandbox 38.7%, Adventure 36.4%, Indie 24.9%
Why You'll Like It: An RPG-focused sandbox game that emphasizes character progression and exploration in a pixelated world.
- #28 Cube World
80% matchMostly Negative37% of 18,693 reviews2019
Dev: Picroma
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up entirely of cubes.
Why similar: Adventure 47%, Sandbox 30.8%, Indie 22.2%
Why You'll Like It: This voxel-based adventure focuses heavily on exploration and combat in a vast, colorful open world.
- #29 Shards of Azuria
81% 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: Adventure 41.7%, Sandbox 39.7%, Indie 18.6%
Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure sandbox game that emphasizes crafting and combat in a fantasy-themed world.
- #30 waxweaver
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 506 reviews2025
Dev: kaiakairos
Windows
A short sandbox rpg game that takes place on a square planet. Explore the world, gather resources, build a home and become stronger.
Why similar: Sandbox 81.8%, Adventure 18.2%
- #31 Miniland Adventure: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive87% of 721 reviews2023
Dev: Imilkowski DevPub: Gameparic
Windows
Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!
Why similar: Sandbox 72.5%, Adventure 27.5%
- #32 Rise of Ages
78% 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: Sandbox 39.2%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 26%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that tracks your progress through different historical eras, adding a unique layer to the standard sandbox loop.
- #33 Crafting Block World
77% matchMixed46% of 52 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 60.7%, Adventure 22.9%, Indie 16.4%
- #34 Border Town
71% matchVery Positive81% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: GoHoGamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.
Why similar: Sandbox 65%, Adventure 35%
- #35 SparkDimension
77% matchMostly Negative33% of 81 reviews2016
Dev: Asixa
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Sparks Dimension is an independent sandbox game where you can build your own base on this alien Planet, design and manufacture your own vehicles and Aircraft, and even use your own spliced weapons to fight wild monsters
Why similar: Sandbox 42.4%, Adventure 34.1%, Indie 23.5%
- #36 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
70% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Sandbox 67.9%, Adventure 32.1%
- #37 The Adventures of Tree
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 492 reviews2016
Dev: Dune Clockidy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
The Adventures of Tree takes you on an open-ended adventure to save your species from the evil invaders; Florps! Explore the vast open world to discover its many secrets while completing quests, enjoying quirky dialogue, and upgrading your abilities and gear along the way.
Why similar: Adventure 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #38 RealmCraft
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Tellurion Mobile
Windows
RealmCraft is the original Sandbox Game. Build Cubes & Explore 30+ Blueprint Worlds in 3D. Try to Survive & Use 100+ Types of Blocks to Build Your Unique Town.
Why similar: Sandbox 53.7%, Adventure 29.5%, Indie 16.8%
- #39 Wild Terra Online
73% matchMixed60% of 1,830 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Sandbox 61.2%, Adventure 20%, Indie 18.8%
- #40 Orion Sandbox Enhanced
72% matchVery Positive94% of 1,099 reviews2018
Dev: y8.com
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.
Why similar: Sandbox 46.1%, Adventure 32%, Indie 21.8%
- #41 Deep Despair
73% matchMixed67% of 280 reviews2020
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Sandbox 37%, Indie 25.2%
- #42 STAR-BOX: RPG Adventures in Space
75% matchMixed50% of 86 reviews2015
Dev: Michael FlynnPub: FlynnFour Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
STAR-BOX – RPG Adventures in Space!Strap on your gravity boots, power up your laser, and climb aboard your spaceship for a retro-styled, RPG-jaunt into the unknown!Travel an open-world, sandbox universe where you are the architect of your own story.
Why similar: Adventure 37%, Sandbox 32.7%, Indie 30.3%
- #43 Tinkertown
70% matchMixed67% of 1,340 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gather your friends and come to Tinkertown - A refreshing new Multiplayer Sandbox Experience! Explore magical places filled with loot, danger, and creativity.
Why similar: Adventure 40.9%, Sandbox 33%, Indie 26.1%
- #44 Forsaken Isle
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 512 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Sandbox 44.2%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 19.6%
- #45 Age of Reforging: The Freelands
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,196 reviews2025
Dev: PersonaeGame StudioPub: Kunpan Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Age of Reforging: The Freelands is a medieval high-freedom sandbox adventure CRPG. You'll be a reforger in the freelands chosen by the Goddess to embark on a medieval adventure tour at your own pace, gathering teammates, fighting for survival, and craft your unique legend!
Why similar: Sandbox 64.5%, Adventure 35.5%
- #46 Astral Terra
73% 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 60.6%, Adventure 23.8%, Indie 15.5%
- #47 Rock the Islands
67% matchVery Positive90% of 292 reviews2024
Dev: HYPE GAME LLC
Windows
Team up with friends and dive into adventure! Rescue dwellers, let them work for you so they farm resources and protect you from enemies. Upgrade your equipment, explore new lands, complete quests and fight evil with glory!
Why similar: Sandbox 64.4%, Adventure 35.6%
- #48 Project 5: Sightseer
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 543 reviews2019
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 41.9%, Adventure 35.4%, Indie 22.7%
- #49 Cube Life: Island Survival
71% matchMixed69% of 177 reviews2018
Dev: Cypronia
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.
Why similar: Sandbox 44.4%, Adventure 32.6%, Indie 23.1%
- #50 Windforge
71% matchMixed68% of 616 reviews2014
Dev: Snowed In Studios
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Why similar: Sandbox 59.5%, Indie 30%, Adventure 10.5%
- #51 TerraTech Worlds
67% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 70.7%, Adventure 29.3%
- #52 Ylands
69% matchMixed64% of 8,354 reviews2019
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #53 Planet Explorers
69% 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 69%, Adventure 21.8%, Indie 9.1%
- #54 Terra Randoma
66% matchVery Positive90% of 163 reviews2024
Dev: Deniz K.
Windows
Terra Randoma is a turn-based roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated open world. Travel a world full of curiousity and perilous dungeons. Develop your character however you want with skills, talent stones and randomized items while you discover an ancient secret.
Why similar: Sandbox 85.9%, Indie 14.1%
- #55 Everwind
63% matchVery Positive82% of 2,069 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 66.6%, Adventure 33.4%
- #56 Realms of Magic
66% matchVery Positive81% of 986 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Sandbox 43.4%, Adventure 33.7%, Indie 22.8%
- #57 Pathless Woods
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: Sandbox 64.6%, Adventure 19%, Indie 16.4%
- #58 StarsOne
69% 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 67.8%, Indie 32.2%
