Sandbox Games for Mac

Browse 70 Sandbox Games for Mac on AlternativeTo with popular options like Sandbox Games and Open Source.

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  1. Minecraft icon
     1037 likes

    Venture into endless 3D worlds where creativity meets exploration and survival. Craft, build, and explore to your heart’s content against ongoing challenges.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
    • FreeBSD
    • Playstation
    • Fire TV
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
    • NetBSD
    • Meta Quest
    • OpenBSD
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    4.4
    Very Good57 reviews
  2. Terraria icon
     193 likes

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. The world is your canvas and the ground itself is your paint.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
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    Underground exploration, mining gold.
    Boss-Monster Eater of Worlds
    +6
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    73 alternatives
  3. Garry's Mod icon
     84 likes

    Garry's Mod is a Sandbox Game based around the idea of building. Unlike most other games there aren't any objectives - you can't lose and you definitely can't win. Doesn't work on MacOS 11.15 or higher.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
    • SteamOS
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    +9
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    27 alternatives
    4.9
    Excellent9 reviews
  4. Roblox icon
     97 likes

    Online platform for 3D world building, avatar customization, multiplayer play, and user-generated game development with trading, achievements, and a virtual economy.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • HTC Vive
    • Kindle Fire
    • Playstation
    • Gear VR
    • Xbox
    • Meta Quest
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    +2
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    63 alternatives
    3.9
    Good26 reviews
  5. EVE Online icon
     37 likes

    EVE Online is a massive multiplayer online game that offers limitless potential to discover, explore and conquer an amazing science fiction universe where you pilot spaceships, fight, trade, and form corporations and alliances with other players.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Wine
    • Steam
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    +2
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    29 alternatives
  6. RimWorld icon
     36 likes

    RimWorld follows three survivors from a crashed space liner as they build a colony on a frontier world at the rim of known space. Inspired by the space western vibe of Firefly, the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, and the epic scale of Dune and Warhammer 40,000.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
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    +13
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    23 alternatives
  7. Vintage Story icon
     13 likes

    Vintage Story is a game about innovation and exploration. It thrusts the player into a carefully-generated semi-autonomous world and challenges them to survive and overcome the natural and unknown threats of their new home.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    +1
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    20 alternatives
  8. Algodoo icon
     49 likes

    Algodoo gives you the opportunity to play with physics. Use your own hands and simple drawing tools to design, construct and explore the world of physics.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPad
    iPad
    Mac
    14 alternatives
  9. Hytale icon
     12 likes

    Sandbox adventure merges procedural worlds, dungeons, block-building, responsive combat, and creator-focused tools for crafting minigames and custom content.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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    +2
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    16 alternatives
  10. Dwarf Fortress icon
     83 likes

    Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy simulator. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. The world is procedurally generated with distinct civilizations spanning centuries of detailed history, multitude of towns, bodies...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    +1
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    26 alternatives
  11. Terasology icon
     31 likes

    Terasology (started under the name Blockmania) is an open source project started by Benjamin “begla” Glatzel to research procedural terrain generation and efficient rendering techniques in Java using the LWJGL.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    61 alternatives
  12. KoGaMa icon
     7 likes

    Play Free games created by the community in your browser, create Amazing multiplayer games together with your friends and share Games with friends, family, and the world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
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    KOGAMA Homepage - 2025
    16 alternatives
  13. Polytoria icon
     8 likes

    Polytoria is a free-to-play platform and website similar to Roblox. You can create levels, play levels, talk in a forum, customize your avatar and do many more activities.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flatpak
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    +3
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    13 alternatives
  14. Endless Sky icon
     15 likes

    Explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers, or completing missions. Use your earnings to buy a better ship or to upgrade the weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates. Take sides in a civil war.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
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    Early on in the game, you can earn a living just by buying commodities for a low price in one star system and selling them at a profit elsewhere..
    Finding trade routes, made easy: the map view shows commodity prices for other star systems and can color them based on price, to help you decide what trade goods you should buy in the current system for sale elsewhere.
    +2
    Once you've saved up enough money, you can spend it on upgrading your ship's equipment and weapons, or on a bigger ship.
    16 alternatives
  15. Starsector icon
     6 likes

    Starsector (formerly “Starfarer”) is an in-development open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration, and economic game. You take the role of a space captain seeking fortune and glory however you choose.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    +1
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    9 alternatives
  16. Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and download more from the community. Share your creations online.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Steam
    • Humble Bundle
    • Android Tablet
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    +16
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    10 alternatives