Sandbox Games
As technology has grown, so have constraints on what the limits of video games can be. Nowhere is this any more evident than the ever-expansive sandbox genre of video games. With a surge of popularity due to the likes of Minecraft, games in this category focus on providing the player with unlimited agency, hence the name being based off the concept of a kid in a sandbox.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Sandbox Game
- Crafting Game
- Survival Game
98 alternatives to Minecraft- Mac
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Minecraft is a sandbox game that revolves around using building blocks to create anything you want. At night, monsters come out; make sure to build a shelter before that happens. The game also has multiplayer capabilities.
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- Free • Open Source
- Sandbox Game
- Crafting Game
55 alternatives to Minetest- Mac
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Minetest is a near-infinite-world block sandbox game and a game engine, inspired by InfiniMiner, Minecraft, and the like.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
- Sandbox Game
- Game Development Tool
71 alternatives to Roblox- Mac
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Roblox allows you to create games, build whatever you want with lego-like bricks, play other games made by users of the community, and even participate in the economy by trading, selling, buying, and collecting items.
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- Paid • Proprietary
- Crafting Game
- Sandbox Game
- Exploration Game
69 alternatives to Terraria- Mac
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- Freemium • Open Source
- Factory Building Game
- Sandbox Game
8 alternatives to Mindustry- Mac
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Create elaborate supply chains of conveyor belts to feed ammo into your turrets, produce materials to use for building, and defend your structures from waves of enemies. Play with your friends in cross-platform multiplayer co-op games, or challenge them in team-based PvP matches.
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MineClone 2 is a survival sandbox game. Survive, gather, hunt, build, explore, and do much more. This goal of this project is to create a free clone of Minecraft.
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- Paid • Proprietary
- Open World Game
- Sandbox Game
- Survival Game
16 alternatives to No Man's Sky- Windows
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No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival video game developed and published by the indie studio Hello Games.
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- Free • Proprietary
- City Building Game
- Survival Game
- Sandbox Game
23 alternatives to Dwarf Fortress- Mac
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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...
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A game famous for geting you hooked from the start. You build and optimize a factory and well, its addictive.
Factorio Features
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- Paid • Proprietary
- City Building Game
- Simulation Games
- Sandbox Game
30 alternatives to SimCity- Mac
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SimCity is a series of city-building simulation games, where you are given the task of founding and developing a city, while maintaining the happiness of the citizens and keeping a stable budget.
Represent entire series of SimCity games.SimCity Features
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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.
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An alternative to the Java web game "Minecraft Classic" that was listed on the official Minecraft site but taken down in 2016-2017.
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Creativerse: The Definitive Edition is a sandbox adventure game set in a beautiful yet treacherous world shrouded in mystery. Adventure solo or bring your friends, unearth secrets, and tame the land together!
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