Sandbox is a term for video games, in which the player can navigate the virtual worlds and complete a series of objectives freely. In Sandbox games, players have been freed from the direction and structure of the traditional game, and instead selects when what, and how they desire to approach the available content. Sandbox games use the open world structure since the 1980s, and brings the gameplay without rules, focuses on open-ended choices. These games include creative and building activities and takes place in an open world setting, to offers the freedom to the player. It emphasizes roaming and enables the player to choose the task. Instead of introducing the numbered levels or segmented areas, a Sandbox game appears in a world and offers the full access to the player from start to end. The Sandbox is also known as a Free-roaming or Open world game. The Sandbox games provide structured elements such as Tasks, Storylines, Submissions, Mini-Games, and more.

14 Best Sandbox Games on Steam

#1 Gang Beasts

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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. Select your character to get into the world where you have to fight against other players to pull, grab, and force from window to win. There are over fourteen stages, and each stage offers exciting and funny gameplay. To win, you have to throw your foes into hazardous machinery by kicking and punching. The game unlocks other levels, as you fulfill the requirements. Immerse yourself in beat ‘em up party gameplay experience with a simple task to punching and kick against characters until they are the knock-out and finish them off using one of map hazards. With superb mechanics, addictive gameplay, and brilliant controls, If you want to take revenge from your mates then Gang Beasts is the best game that will satisfy your hunger for revenge with the crazy battle. Here are some similar games to Gang Beasts.

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#2 Kingdoms and Castles

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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. It takes place in the medieval settings, and you have to build your kingdom surrounded by dangerous castles. You start the game from an empty land, and your objective is to establish a city by placing different buildings, gather resources, and complete a series of missions to collect money. You must recruit your army, equip them with weapons and lead them during battlefield to defend the city and its inhabitant. Expand your city further and raise your people up and keep them happy by offering the best services. You explore the world from an isometric perspective, unlock additional content to use during the game and decorate your city to look beautiful. Navigate the open-ended world and immerse yourself in sandbox gameplay experience. Kingdoms and Castles offer core features such as lots of Levels, Upgrades, Types of Buildings, Resources to collect, and more.

#3 TerraTech

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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. It is the combination of Crafting, Combat, Exploration, and Construction gameplay. Use tons of parts and objects to create your favorite thing like vehicles, tanks, building and more. Explore the world from third-person perspective and engage yourself in open environment. Participate in battles against AI robots and defeat them using a variety of weapons. As the game proceed, it becomes challenging and other levels and features will be unlocked. It has a series of levels and each level offers challenging gameplay with advanced items to craft lots of stuff. Unleash your creativity and create something unique to impress your fellows and show off your abilities. TerraTech offers prominent features such as Campaign World, Gauntlet Challenge, Creative Sandbox and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

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#4 X Rebirth

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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. The game takes place in the X-Universe near the future. In the game, the player can assume the role of the protagonist and the game revolves around combat, piracy, trade, and others. The primary goal of the player is to gain wealth and build his own space station and control fleet of starships and expand it. It sets the player on an epic adventure where he must collect items and fight against aliens and other factions with the use of various weapons, and must defeat them to save his space station and earn a lot of money. The game offers the open-ended game world and allows the player immersive himself in action-packed space combat experience. In the game, the player can build his own empire, trade with large factories, and crush his enemies. X Rebirth includes core features such as Trade, Build, Customization, Fight, Upgrades, Unique Weapons System, Economy System, and others. With the exciting gameplay, brilliant mechanics, superb visuals, and smooth controls, X Rebirth is the excellent game to play and enjoy.

#5 Rise to Ruins

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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. The ultimate task is to build a unit, and struggle to maintain the balance between the complexity and depth of the village simulation. Control the creatures, build shelters, craft different items and navigate the world from top-down perspective. It has several modes such as Peaceful, Sandbox and Survival. It features godlike elements, through this you can’t only manage your village, but also can alter the terrain, destroy enemies, interact and pick up objects or creatures, speed up the growth of resources and more. Build a Village, different Modes, godlike Elements, Tons of Themes and Maps, etc. are the prominent features of the game. Try it out and you’ll love it.

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#6 Universe Sandbox

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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. It focuses on real-time gravity, collision, climate, space exploration, and material interaction. Your ultimate task is to navigate the environment, interact with objects and NPCs and reveal the secrets behind the scenes. There are tons of stars, planets, and galaxies are available to manipulate. In the game, you can encounter various alien species and can combat against them to score the points. Unlock other items using your points and dominate the galaxy. Learn about space, planets, black hole, and the atmosphere of space, etc. in this game and show off your skills and abilities by creating different things like planet, stars, etc. Universe Sandbox includes core features such as Simple Introduction, Fun-filled Activities, Physical Quantities in units (seconds, meters, and kilograms, etc.), 3D Mode, Two Collision modes (Combine and Bounce), and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#7 Rising World

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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. Your duty in the game is to explore, gather resources, craft basic tools to dig and store the resources fight off the enemies, survive and build massive cities or huge castles etc. You can get help from your friends and build the whole game world together if you want. With random game worlds, modifiable gaming environments, over 200 different materials to build, great environmental physics and so cool upgrades this game is quite fun to play and enjoy.

#8 Garry’s Mod

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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. From then on, Gary’s Mod is available to play on Microsoft Windows and a bunch of other platforms such as Linux and OS X. The gameplay of Gary’s Mod is all about Physics as it allows the players to enjoy exploring the world without any set rules and objectives, and enjoy the freedom to manipulate Ragdolls and various types of Props such as Dumpsters, Furniture, Shipping Containers and loads of other environmental objects. The game provides the players with a “Physics Gun” that helps the player pick up Objects such as Ragdolls and Props, Rotate them, or freeze them in place, or simply place them in the Sandbox form with the help of Installed or Player created collections of Source Engines (PHX3 or others). However, the another great item of “Tool Gun” helps the players perform multiple types of tasks such as Use it to hold the Props together, Create various types of Interactive and Clickable buttons, Winches and Wheels to transfer the Props from one place to another. With a unique and modified Source Engine known as Havok Physics Engine at the core, Gary’s Mode lets the players enjoy playing with the Laws of Physics and enjoy real Simulations and do some nasty experiments to satisfy the inner mad scientist. Gary’s Mod offers free access to the users to use the Source Engine and create amazing content for the game such as Spawn models, maps, tools, vehicles, and enjoy it all in the amazing Multiplayer gaming mode. The creators announce a sequel to Gary’s Mod and it will soon be available in the markets. Hopefully, the sequel will be as amazing as Gary’s Mod itself and will offer loads of hours of endless entertainment to all the hardcore fans around the globe.

#9 Wild Terra Online

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Wild Terra Online combines the MMORPG, Hunting, Crafting, and Sandbox elements developed by Juvty Worlds Ltd. The game takes place in the fantasy-based world and offers multiple characters from which the player can select his or her one of them to start his quest. During the gameplay, the player has to manipulate the open-ended medieval-themed world, deal with hunger, dangers, and starvation. The ultimate task is to gather resources, hunt wild animals from an isometric perspective while building shelters. Using crafting element, the player can create multiple tools, weapons, and equipment and can use them to hunt deer, rabbit, and other animals while avoiding the attack. As the player progresses, the game becomes tough to play and unlock additional content. The player can interact with other players or non-player characters to progress through the game and get access to secret areas with rare animals and resources. Destructible Building, PvP Arena, Deep Crafting System, NPCs, etc. are core features of the game.

#10 Blocks That Matter

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Blocks That Matter is a Puzzle-Platform, 2D Crafting and Building video game created by Swing Swing Submarine. The game casts you in the role of the Robot named as Tetrobot, which can gather blocks by hitting from drilling or under them and can build different structures using multiple blocks in puzzle mode. It has a set of levels, and each level needs a completion of individual objectives to progress. In the start, the game looks easy enough, but after playing some levels, it turns into a challenging gameplay. Lots of hurdles and obstacles are available in each level to make the gameplay tough for you, but you must use your wits to overcome all the difficulties and solve puzzles to become the master. It offers the similar gameplay to Tetris, but with limited features. The game introduces over eight blocks such as Obsidian, Sand, Wood, Stone, Iron, and Diamond. It has two different Modes such as Adventure and Puzzle. Blocks That Matter offers core features such as Unique Gameplay, Forty Levels, Bonuses, Unlockable Achievements, and more.

#11 Junk Jack

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Junk Jack is a brilliant Action-Adventure, Crafting and Sandbox video game created and published by Pixbits for multiple platforms. Like other Crafting and Sandbox games, Junk Jack has no clear objectives with no particular plot. The player has an ability to create his storyline based on his experience. The game comprises collectible items to traverse to other lands to perform various tasks. It takes place in the procedurally generated world filled with thousands of new content to discover, craft to learn, loot to equip and monster to fight. The world contains more than twelve planets and each with hand-crafted environments. Both Single-player and Multiplayer modes are available to play alone or with friends. The game offers a chance to the player to unleash is creativity and build anything he can imagine. It has tons of decorations, objects, and blocks to place. Day/night and dynamic weather system are also introduced in the game. Junk Jack offers core features such as two different Styles Crafting, Deep Electronic System, Online Multiplayer, Hundreds of Objects, Travel between 12 Planets and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#12 Solar 2

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Solar 2 is a Space, Open World, and Single-player Sandbox video game produced by Jay Watts and published by Murudai. It is the sequel to the game Solar and offers an exciting gameplay that you have never experienced before. In the beginning, you must control an asteroid with the task to accumulate enough mass to destroy multiple planets to score the points. The game offers an open environment filled with asteroids, starts, planets, moons and solar systems. You can explore the environment from a top-down perspective and can use different asteroids to enhance your size and can use to destroy enemy planets while avoiding their missiles. At the beginning of the game, you must accumulate mass by colliding your asteroid with others and become a small planet. Grow your size by observing different asteroids, tiny planets, and more. There are multiple levels available, and each level offers challenging gameplay. With engaging gameplay, superb mechanics, and incredible graphics, Solar 2 is the best game to play and enjoy.

#13 Goat Simulator MMO Simulator

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Goat Simulator MMO Simulator is a Sandbox, Massively Multiplayer Online, Open World, Action-Adventure and Third-person Simulation by Coffee Stain Studios. It is the F2P DLC pack for Goat Simulator and introduces five different classes such as Microwave, Magician, Warrior, and Rogue. It offers enhanced mechanics, gameplay and environment and lets you get into the role of the goat and explore the fantasy world from third-person view. Smash everything that comes in your way, and complete a series of quests to earn experience points. The game puts you into the world populated by thousands of real players around the world and you can interact with them, explore the world together and can complete challenging quests with the assist of each other. Goat Simulator MMO Simulator offers core features such as a set of Levels, MMO element, brilliant Environment, different Classes, Customization Options, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy this DLC Pack very much.

#14 Valhalla Hills

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Valhalla Hills is a Strategy, Mythology, City-building, Management and Single-player Fantasy-based Simulation created by Funatics Software and published by Daedalic Entertainment. The game offers a brilliant story, in which you spent your entire life in the service of the Asgard’s gods. When you die, you receive a place in the halls of Valhalla. When you reach there to receive your final rewards, no answered. Odin has shown his back to the people including you and underestimated the Viking Spirits. You as the protagonist must lead your people on Valhalla Hills and battle enemies to prove your strength, honor, and worthiness. Explore the environment, gather food, chopping wood, and build complex structures to survive. Dominate each battle and reach the portal at the top of the highest mountains, and cry loud enough for Odin to hear your voice. If they don’t agree to give you and your people the reward you deserve, then using your axe, you have to take it from them. The game features procedurally generated worlds comprise a variety of levels with different challenges. Earn your Place in Valhalla, complete Basic Needs, Fight enemies to eliminate, Upgrades, and Randomly Generated Levels, etc. are the prominent features to play and enjoy.