100 Best Sandbox Games

Minecraft Pocket Edition is a super amazing Sandbox and Mining game inspired by the popular Minecraft video game. The game allows you to explore a randomly generated 2D world, dig into the ground, collect minerals and ores, mine for riches, take them to surface and sell them.

Astrox: Hostile Space Excavation focuses on Dogfighting, Action, and Space Combat Simulation gameplay developed by Jace Masula. The game has Single-player mode and mixes the Adventure, Sandbox, Crafting and Open world components.

Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom mixes the elements of Action-Adventure, Platform, and Sandbox created by Heavy Iron Studios and published by THQ. The game takes place in the stunning world, and puts you in the role of the protagonist, who has to explore the environment to gather various items, including shiny object, golden spatulas, etc.

Gang Beasts is a Fighting, Physics-based, Beat ‘em up and Multiplayer video game developed by Boneloaf. The game focuses on brutal melee combat with gelatinous characters. It takes place in the fictional Beef City known as Metropolis.

Garry’s Mod is a Single and Multiplayer Physics-based Sandbox video game by Valve Corporation. Initially, Garry’s Mod was a Mod for Valve Corporation’s popular title Half-Life 2, but later on, it was made into the most amazing Standalone game back in 2006.

Mythruna is a fantastic, Sandbox, Construction and Role-playing video game available to play on cross-platform. The game takes place in the randomly generated world of the sandbox and introduces a variety of blocks that you can use to show off your creation.

Autocraft is a mix of Sandbox, Building, Physics-based, Crafting and Simulation elements developed and published by Alientrap. It supports Single-player mode only and offers the similar gameplay to Scrap Mechanic. It takes place in the destructible world full of machines and objects.

Space Rogue combines the Strategy, Sci-fi, Tactical, Role-playing, and Space Combat Simulation elements developed and published by Red Beat. The game takes place in the space environment and puts the player in the role of the protagonist, who is a captain.

Dragon Quest Builders is a wonderful Action Role-playing, Sandbox and Single-player video game developed and published by Square Enix. The game takes place in the block-based world like Minecraft and offers an exciting gameplay set in Alefgard, the world of Dragon Quest.

Kingdoms and Castles is a Strategy, City-Building, Sandbox, and Management Simulation developed and published by Lion Shield, LLC. The game features Single-player mode and is about building a castle from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling town.

TerraTech is a mix of Sandbox, Open World, Building, Physics-based and Adventure elements developed and published by Playload Studios. The game supports Single-player mode and takes place in the procedurally generated infinite world where you can build each and everything that you imagine.

Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins is a Sandbox-style, Action-Adventure, Open World, Driving and Single-player video game created by TT Fusion and published by Nintendo. It is the pre-sequel to the Lego City.

Automation mixes the elements of Building, Management, Sandbox, and Strategy Simulation developed and published by Camshaft Software. The game supports Single-player mode only and lets you become a CEO of a company to create and design your own cars.

Evochron Legacy revolves around Dogfight, and Space Combat Simulation gameplay with Sci-fi, Sandbox, and Exploration elements created by StarWraith 3D Games LLC. Select your spaceship and set out on epic missions to battle against enemies.

Garbage Day combines the Sandbox, Action-Adventure, Open World, First-person Shooter, and Exploration elements created and published by Svajunas Zemaitis. The game puts you in the role of the protagonist, who stuck in the time loop and live his same day again and again.

Disney Infinity 3.0 takes the Action-Adventure and Sandbox gaming to a whole new level and offers gameplay and mechanics similar to its predecessors Disney Infinity and Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes. With a more in-depth and Complex Combat system, Disney Infinity 3.0 offers a similar experience to some of the biggest names such as Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Kingdom Hearts, Spider-man and Devil May Cry series.

Fantastic Contraption is a Puzzle, Sandbox, Physics-based and Single-player video game with Virtual Reality elements developed and published by Northway Games and Radical Games. The game offers an opportunity to the player to unleash his creativity and construct different machines using building materials to accomplish challenges.

RollerCoaster Tycoon World is a Construction and Management Single-player Simulation developed by Nvizzio Creations and published by Atari, Inc. It is the fourth massive title in the series of RollerCoaster Tycoon game.

Project Spark is an Action-Adventure, Sandbox, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Team Dakota and published by Microsoft Studios. It is a digital canvas uses to create games, animation movies, and other experiences.

LittleBigPlanet 3 combines the elements of Puzzle-Platform, and Sandbox developed by Sumo Digital and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and available to play on PlayStation platform.

X Rebirth is an addictive Space Simulation by Egosoft and offers the similar gameplay like Sins of a Solar Empire. It is an Action-Adventure, Combat, Trading, Sandbox, Sci-fi, and Single-player game.

Minecraft: Wii U Edition takes place in the procedurally generated world developed by 4J Studios Ltd and published by Microsoft Studios. The game is a mix of Sandbox, Survival, Construction, and Exploration elements and has two different modes such as Creative and Adventure.

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is a Single and Multiplayer Real-time Strategy and Space video game with Adventure and Fantasy elements developed by Tindalos Interactive. The game takes place in the Universe of Warhammer 40,000 and offers an open space environment.

Rise to Ruins published by SixtyGig Games and developed by Raymond Doerr. The game supports Single-player mode and offers an exciting gameplay with Strategy, Survival, Rough-like, City-building and Tower-defense elements. It focuses on 90s era RTS (Real Time Strategy) games like Warcraft and puts you in the role of the King who must create his village.

Universe Sandbox is an Action, Education, Physics-based, Space, Adventure and Single-player Simulation developed and published by Giant Army. The game takes on a massive space environment where you can build, and destroy anything that you imagine.

Mutilate a Doll 2 is a Ragdoll, Physics-based, Sandbox and Single-player video game available to play on Browser. The game offers an exciting gameplay and allows you unleash your anger and beat a buddy using different items, and tools.

Detonate is the City-Building, Destruction, Exploration and Crafting Simulation created by Wildebeest. The game combines the elements of sandbox and role-playing and takes place in the fully destructive world where you can create your various structures using a variety of parts and blocks.

Lego City: Undercover is an Action-Adventure, Sandbox, Open World and Single-player video game developed by TT Fusion and published by Nintendo. The game takes place in the massive Lego City and lets the player assume the role of the protagonist, who is an undercover police officer named Chase McCain.

Total Miner is an Action-Adventure, Sandbox, Online Multiplayer, and Single-player video game created and published by Studio Forge. Miner Dig Deep inspires the game and it deals with exploration, crafting, building and first-person elements.

Manic Digger is an Action, Exploration, Building, Crafting, First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game. The game takes place in voxel-based 3D Environment populated with different creatures. It lets you a chance to create your world using different blocks.

3D Dot Game Heroes is an Action Role-playing, Open World, Exploration and Single-player video game developed by Silicon Studio and published by FromSoftware. The game takes place in a voxel-based 3D world.

Timber and Stone developed and published by Game by Robert, LLC for Windows. With more than hundred resources to craft and gather, Timber and Stone looks a Real-time Strategy game with more complexity and depth.

CastleMiner Z is an Action, Survival, Zombies, Crafting, FPS, Horror, Co-op, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by DigitalDNA Games LLC. The game combines the elements of Dragon, Exploration, Sandbox, and Building and takes place in the block-based environment populated with blood-thirsty zombies and dragons.

Crackdown is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Real-time Worlds and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game takes place in the fictional City called Pacific and the story revolves around the protagonist who is an Agent.

3079 is an FPS, RPG and voxel based sandbox video game that is greatly inspired by Minecraft. The game is set in a Sci-Fi and open world game world and lands you in the middle of an ongoing war between the two block clans.

World of Cubes by SolverLabs is a brilliant Sandbox Online Multiplayer Action and Survival video game. The game takes the players to a world built entirely of the blocks and allows them to create their own beautiful worlds, interact with hundreds of thousands of other online players and enjoy an astoundingly immersive experience of Sandbox gaming.

Masterspace is a cool Action-Adventure, RPG and Sandbox video game like Starbound that takes heavy inspiration from Minecraft. The game takes you to an epic Space Adventure and allows you to explore and terraform different planets, collect resources, construct buildings and other objects.

Salem is an upcoming Freemium MMORPG, Shooting and Sandbox Style Video game by Mortal Moments. The game is set in 17th Century in England and focuses on Witchcraft and Lovecraftian mortals.

Rising World is a Voxel based Sandbox, Action-Adventure, Indie and RPG video game that takes you to an amazing world of procedurally generated and fully destructible environments. Co-op mode of the game allows you to play this cool game with your friends and have an amazingly addictive game-play experience.

Space Engineers is a brilliant Voxel-based Sandbox Simulation that offers both Single and Multiplayer gameplay. Developed and distributed by Keen Software House, Space Engineers is available to play on Steam and Microsoft Windows.

Kogama is a fermium MMO and sandbox building video game that is probably the closest one to “Roblox” on our list of alternatives. You can play this game online in your web browser and design your own game levels or you can just randomly pick up other online user created levels and start playing.

Algodoo is another best alternative to “Roblox” and presents with a Physics based 2D simulation environment. It allows you to create and develop different kinds of structures and things with the help of different physical objects.

Galactic Civilizations 3 is another great Strategy and Turn-based video game. The game offers wonderful Sandbox aesthetics and allows you to engage yourself into an amazing game-play spread across the galaxy. Your task is to conquer the world by Diplomacy, trade, Cultural values, and by the might of your massive military.

Sandbox gaming on almost every platform captures your attention as in terms of being so attractive and appealing. BlocksWorld is one super engaging game that reaches to your hands via your iOS devices and provides with beautiful graphics, an engaging and quite addicting game-play and lots of Blocks to build and enjoy.

Block Warfare: Operations is an FPS (First Person Shooter) Sandbox building video game developed and published by Ammonite Design Studios. This game is also known as Block Ops and is a Voxel based game, available to play on iOS, Android and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Miner of Duty, an amazing mix-up of two most played and well-known games Minecraft and Call of Duty is an indie Sandbox building and FPS (First person Shooter) game. The game features single and multiplayer gaming modes, super cool 3D graphics, an open world gaming environment, lots of unlock able weapons and user created custom maps.

Block World takes you to a beautiful world of Blocks where it gives you the power to Explore, Craft and enjoy manipulating the environment as you like. The game allows the players to collect resources and build whole new villages, construct monumental buildings and enjoy the infinite supply of block of every possible color in the universe.

Crackdown 2, developed by Ruffian Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios is a Third Person Shooter, Action-Adventure and RPG game presented in a sandbox style to play on Xbox 360 gaming platforms.

Life is Feudal: Your Own is an amazing new MMORPG video game by Bitbox Ltd. that takes you to an amazing 3D Sandbox Setting of medieval era and allows you to team up with your friends and terraform an empty land.

Deepworld is a Massive Multiplayer Online, 2D Crafting, Adventure and Sandbox video game developed and published by Bytebin. The game takes place in the breathtaking environment and puts the player in the building experience.