Sandbox Games

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  1. Minecraft icon
     1032 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
     192 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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    74 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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    26 alternatives
    4.9
    Excellent9 reviews
  4. Tiny Glade icon
     10 likes

    Tiny Glade is a relaxing free-form building game. Tap into the joy of making something pretty with no management, no combat, or wrong answers — just kick back, doodle some castles, and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    • SteamOS
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    36 alternatives
  5. Roblox icon
     95 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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    62 alternatives
    3.9
    Good26 reviews
  6. 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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    28 alternatives
  7. 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
  8. Algodoo icon
     48 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. Saints Row icon
     49 likes

    Saints Row is an action-adventure video game series created by Volition and published by Deep Silver, that tells the story of a gang called the Third Street Saints; the title comes from the name of the district of the gang's home territory.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
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    24 alternatives
  10. Vintage Story icon
     12 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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    19 alternatives
  11. 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
  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
    14 alternatives
  13. Qanga icon
     1 like

    Seamless open-world space sandbox with exploration of planets, moons, and stations. Engage in contracts, combat, and base building across the cosmos.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
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    +14
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    18 alternatives
  14. 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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    60 alternatives
  15. The Powder Toy icon
     27 likes

    The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling sand' physics sandbox game, it simulates air pressure and velocity as well as heat!.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • PortableApps.com
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    11 alternatives
  16. Just Cause icon
     23 likes

    The orders are simple: Hunt down and execute a rogue agent that has stolen top-secret intelligence and millions in Agency cash. For agent Rico Rodriguez, the mission is anything but routine. The target is Tom Sheldon, Rico’s former commanding officer, mentor and friend; a...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
    Just Cause 4
    Just Cause 4
    Just Cause 4
    +5
    Just Cause 4
    25 alternatives
  17. Hytale icon
     10 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
  18. Satisfactory icon
     8 likes

    Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Pioneering for FICSIT Incorporated means charting and exploiting an alien planet, battling alien lifeforms, creating multi-story factories, entering conveyor belt heaven...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Epic Games Store
    • Steam
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    +1
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    9 alternatives
  19. Infiniminer icon
     13 likes

    Infiniminer is a multiplayer block mining game with several different player classes to choose from.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    41 alternatives