Top Sandbox Games
60+ sandbox games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Singleplayer, Simulation, Open World, Indie.
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- #1 People Playground98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 308,374 reviews2019Developer: mestiezPublisher: Studio MinusPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 7.9hMean: 53.6h≥1hr: 84%
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
- #2 Terraria98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011Developer: Re-LogicPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 33.2hMean: 149.0h≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
- #3 Garry's Mod98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,226,319 reviews2006Developer: Facepunch StudiosPublisher: ValvePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 25.5hMean: 284.3h≥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.
- #4 Rust98% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018Developer: Facepunch StudiosPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 52.0hMean: 416.6h≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
- #5 Stardew Valley94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 992,215 reviews2016Developer: ConcernedApePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 22.7hMean: 83.6h≥1hr: 92%
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
- #6 Project Zomboid93% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013Developer: The Indie StonePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 14.8hMean: 82.3h≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
- #7 BeamNG.drive92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 384,707 reviews2015Developer: BeamNGPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 9.9hMean: 91.9h≥1hr: 87%
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
- #8 Human Fall Flat91% matchVery Positive95% of 223,253 reviews2016Developer: No Brakes GamesPublisher: Curve GamesPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 5.9hMean: 22.2h≥1hr: 91%
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
- #9 Kenshi91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018Developer: Lo-Fi GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 9.9hMean: 70.4h≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
- #10 Cities: Skylines90% matchVery Positive93% of 286,936 reviews2015Developer: Colossal OrderPublisher: Paradox InteractivePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 10.0hMean: 65.0h≥1hr: 87%
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
- #11 Factorio90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020Developer: Wube Software LTD.Platforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 44.8hMean: 188.9h≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
- #12 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord90% matchVery Positive88% of 286,599 reviews2022Developer: TaleWorlds EntertainmentPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 61.2hMean: 152.2h≥1hr: 96%
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
- #13 Kerbal Space Program90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 133,317 reviews2015Developer: SquadPublisher: Private DivisionPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 5.3hMean: 65.2h≥1hr: 84%
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
- #14 Unturned89% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017Developer: Smartly Dressed GamesPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 5.2hMean: 71.6h≥1hr: 76%
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
- #15 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 147,242 reviews2021Developer: LandfallPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 4.2hMean: 20.0h≥1hr: 80%
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
- #16 Stellaris87% matchVery Positive86% of 191,915 reviews2016Developer: Paradox Development StudioPublisher: Paradox InteractivePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 19.5hMean: 142.4h≥1hr: 89%
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
- #17 Satisfactory86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024Developer: Coffee Stain StudiosPublisher: Coffee Stain PublishingPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 31.8hMean: 108.4h≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
- #18 Starbound86% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016Developer: ChucklefishPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 17.2hMean: 64.1h≥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...
- #19 Black Desert86% matchMostly Positive74% of 92,177 reviews2017Developer: Pearl AbyssPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.0hMean: 178.7h≥1hr: 75%
Played by over 20 million Adventurers - Black Desert Online is an open-world, action MMORPG. Experience intense, action-packed combat, battle massive world bosses, fight alongside friends to siege and conquer castles, and train in professions such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and more!
- #20 Mount & Blade: Warband86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 170,226 reviews2010Developer: TaleWorlds EntertainmentPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 18.6hMean: 120.3h≥1hr: 92%
In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!
- #21 RimWorld83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018Developer: Ludeon StudiosPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 59.1hMean: 259.4h≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
- #22 Scrap Mechanic83% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016Developer: Axolot GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 11.1hMean: 57.3h≥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!
- #23 WorldBox - God Simulator81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,884 reviews2021Developer: Maxim KarpenkoPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 9.1hMean: 28.7h≥1hr: 92%
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
- #24 Don't Starve81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 reviews2013Developer: Klei EntertainmentPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 4.2hMean: 28.2h≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
- #25 Teardown81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 126,822 reviews2022Developer: Tuxedo LabsPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 6.7hMean: 28.0h≥1hr: 88%
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
- #26 The Scroll Of Taiwu81% matchMostly Positive70% of 62,126 reviews2018Developer: ConchShip GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 13.2hMean: 56.4h≥1hr: 88%
"The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.
- #27 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal81% matchMixed54% of 226,468 reviews2023Developer: 鬼谷工作室Platforms: WindowsMedian: 30.8hMean: 72.8h≥1hr: 96%
Tale of Immortal is an open-world sandbox based on Chinese mythology and cultivation. You will grow to become immortal, conquer the beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Season, make your choices carefully and grasp your own destiny.
- #28 The Sims™ 480% matchVery Positive87% of 191,803 reviews2020Developer: MaxisPublisher: Electronic ArtsPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 5.4hMean: 52.8h≥1hr: 79%
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
- #29 Planet Zoo80% matchVery Positive91% of 93,912 reviews2019Developer: Frontier DevelopmentsPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 6.4hMean: 34.2h≥1hr: 84%
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
- #30 POSTAL 280% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 130,845 reviews2012Developer: Running With ScissorsPlatforms: Windows, LinuxMedian: 4.2hMean: 16.8h≥1hr: 85%
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
- #31 Brick Rigs79% matchVery Positive95% of 56,117 reviews2023Developer: Fluppisoft GmbHPlatforms: Windows, LinuxMedian: 10.2hMean: 77.6h≥1hr: 88%
Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!
- #32 Cities: Skylines II80% matchMixed54% of 86,513 reviews2023Developer: Iceflake StudiosPublisher: Paradox InteractivePlatforms: WindowsMedian: 23.8hMean: 72.6h≥1hr: 94%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
- #33 House Flipper79% matchVery Positive94% of 101,908 reviews2018Developer: EmpyreanPublisher: Frozen DistrictPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 7.2hMean: 24.9h≥1hr: 89%
House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!
- #34 ASTRONEER78% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019Developer: System Era SoftworksPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 11.7hMean: 44.1h≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
- #35 Albion Online78% matchMostly Positive79% of 90,120 reviews2018Developer: Sandbox Interactive GmbHPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.5hMean: 81.4h≥1hr: 73%
Albion Online is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG featuring a player-driven economy, classless combat system, and intense PvP battles. Explore a vast open world full of danger and opportunity. Grow your wealth, forge alliances, and leave your mark on the world of Albion.
- #36 Just Cause™ 378% matchVery Positive84% of 126,130 reviews2015Developer: Avalanche StudiosPublisher: Square EnixPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 5.8hMean: 33.4h≥1hr: 86%
With over 1000 km² of complete freedom from sky to seabed, Rico Rodriguez returns to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways imaginable.
- #37 Goat Simulator77% matchVery Positive91% of 69,728 reviews2014Developer: Coffee Stain StudiosPublisher: Coffee Stain PublishingPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 3.1hMean: 14.7h≥1hr: 81%
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
- #38 Ravenfield77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 77,990 reviews2017Developer: SteelRaven7Platforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 11.2hMean: 61.9h≥1hr: 89%
Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!
- #39 Planet Coaster77% matchVery Positive91% of 71,331 reviews2016Developer: Frontier DevelopmentsPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 4.3hMean: 22.2h≥1hr: 77%
Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
- #40 Jurassic World Evolution 277% matchVery Positive90% of 45,488 reviews2021Developer: Frontier DevelopmentsPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.9hMean: 22.3h≥1hr: 83%
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.
- #41 Prison Architect76% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015Developer: Introversion SoftwarePublisher: Paradox InteractivePlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 6.0hMean: 30.1h≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
- #42 Trove76% matchVery Positive80% of 92,653 reviews2015Developer: gamigo US Inc.Platforms: WindowsMedian: 3.4hMean: 49.0h≥1hr: 69%
Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for an epic procedurally generated adventure in Trove! Battle the Shadow in realms filled with dungeons and items created by your fellow players. Whether hunting treasure or building realms of your own, it’s never been this good to be square!
- #43 Just Cause 276% matchVery Positive91% of 51,289 reviews2010Developer: Avalanche StudiosPublisher: Square EnixPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 3.0hMean: 18.8h≥1hr: 70%
Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.
- #44 Jurassic World Evolution75% matchVery Positive87% of 54,890 reviews2018Developer: Frontier DevelopmentsPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 7.3hMean: 28.0h≥1hr: 89%
Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
- #45 Space Engineers75% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019Developer: Keen Software HousePlatforms: WindowsMedian: 9.0hMean: 95.7h≥1hr: 87%
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.
- #46 CarX Drift Racing Online75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 87,838 reviews2017Developer: CarX Technologies, LLCPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 11.4hMean: 60.6h≥1hr: 90%
CarX Drift Racing Online is your chance to immerse yourself in the real world of drifting. Get together with friends, tune your car and burn some tires!
- #47 Universe Sandbox75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,587 reviews2015Developer: Giant ArmyPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 2.4hMean: 23.5h≥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.
- #48 Dyson Sphere Program74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021Developer: Youthcat StudioPublisher: Gamirror GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 13.2hMean: 75.2h≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
- #49 Oxygen Not Included74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019Developer: Klei EntertainmentPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 8.9hMean: 67.7h≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
- #50 Dwarf Fortress73% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022Developer: Bay 12 GamesPublisher: Kitfox GamesPlatforms: Windows, LinuxMedian: 5.5hMean: 38.4h≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
- #51 Stormworks: Build and Rescue73% matchVery Positive90% of 57,601 reviews2020Developer: GeometaPlatforms: Windows, MacMedian: 17.4hMean: 111.9h≥1hr: 91%
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
- #52 Slime Rancher73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 151,397 reviews2017Developer: Monomi ParkPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 6.9hMean: 21.5h≥1hr: 86%
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
- #53 Blade and Sorcery72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 60,681 reviews2024Developer: WarpFrogPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 5.9hMean: 23.8h≥1hr: 84%
Blade & Sorcery is a built-for-VR medieval fantasy with full physics driven melee, ranged and magic combat. Become a powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer and devastate your enemies.
- #54 SPORE™73% matchVery Positive93% of 70,545 reviews2008Developer: Maxis™Publisher: Electronic ArtsPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 5.1hMean: 19.3h≥1hr: 86%
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
- #55 Don't Starve Together73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528,033 reviews2016Developer: Klei EntertainmentPlatforms: Windows, Mac, LinuxMedian: 8.0hMean: 64.1h≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
- #56 Conan Exiles72% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018Developer: FuncomPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 16.9hMean: 111.3h≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
- #57 Noita72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 85,805 reviews2020Developer: Nolla GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 4.6hMean: 29.2h≥1hr: 77%
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
- #58 Amazing Cultivation Simulator72% matchVery Positive86% of 23,413 reviews2020Developer: GSQ GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 9.4hMean: 58.4h≥1hr: 84%
Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.
- #59 Portal Knights72% matchVery Positive83% of 22,116 reviews2017Developer: Keen Games GmbHPublisher: 505 GamesPlatforms: WindowsMedian: 5.7hMean: 21.2h≥1hr: 82%
The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!


