Hidden Sandbox Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated sandbox games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Sandbox games on Steam.

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Diorama Builder The pleasure of assembling, admiring, and interacting with your own Dioramas collection, without ever losing a piece.

Price -70% 1.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jun 2024
Spirit Realm English version not ready

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.5
Release 21 Jun 2024
TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer Travel. Buy. Sell. Protect. Fight. Do Quests.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 18 Jun 2024
Quest Master Quest Master is a dungeon maker inspired by the classics that first made us love dungeon crawling. Unleash your imagination, alone or in local co-op, to make dungeons full of puzzles, traps and monsters. Upload them for others to explore and challenge yourself with other players’ creations.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 May 2024
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 May 2024
Croakoloco Croakoloco is a relaxing frog collecting idle game. Watch them jump, croak, and eat delicious flies. Grow frogs, feed frogs, or take control of one in “Froggy Mode” for a more active play style!

Price 5.89€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 May 2024
Denizen Make a living for yourself in a city full of opportunity while you meet a variety of locals, explore unique locations, and work your way to the top in this open-world life simulator.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.3
Release 29 Apr 2024
Oriental Valley Welcome to the weird and wonderful world where modern country life meets quirky simulation adventure! Here you'll immerse yourself in a laid-back lifestyle full of traditional customs, make a bunch of quirky new friends, and embark on bizarre adventures.

Price -60% 6.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 25 Apr 2024
Diluvian Winds Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.

Price -71% 4.49€
Rating 6.9
Release 25 Apr 2024
Internet Cafe Evolution This is a business simulation + construction game. It tells the evolution history of Internet cafes that began in the 1990s, and imagines the future of internet cafes. There are also some small emotional stories.

Price -46% 8.05€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 Apr 2024
Underspace The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe with Day 1 mod support and a planned PvP/co-op multiplayer on the Early Access roadmap. You're going to need a bigger ship.

Price -35% 10.91€
Rating 7.6
Release 10 Apr 2024
Laysara: Summit Kingdom Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Apr 2024
Center Station Simulator Mine, farm, manufacture components and build a wide range of machines in an infinite basement. Forget primitive tasks thanks to automation! And sell your products to your customers! Build a parking, a gas station...

Price -10% 17.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Apr 2024
Anonymous Hacker Simulator Step into the shoes of a skilled Anonymous hacker and embark on a mission to unveil the truth hidden behind a sinister organization's plans to monitor civilian data and enforce mass surveillance.

Price -29% 13.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Apr 2024
Dishwashing Simulator A short, unique survival-farming-base-building-tycoon-horror game where you must survive through washing dishes. Explore mysterious depths, manage resources, and unravel a cryptic narrative. In DWS, a chore becomes a journey to freedom.

Price -75% 2.43€
Rating 8.3
Release 03 Apr 2024
Pathless Woods Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Price -43% 11.14€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Apr 2024
From Glory To Goo From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

Price -25% 7.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 02 Apr 2024
Aquarist A relaxing sandbox casual simulation game where you perform various, even strange, aquarium-related tasks on very diverse levels. As an Aquarist you must create and manage a home to amazing fish🐟, sea turtles🐢, sharks🦈, octopuses🐙, and more🐬. Aquarium is their world and life. Make it worth...

Price -87% 2.17€
Rating 8.1
Release 29 Mar 2024
AutoForge A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Mar 2024
The Magical Mixture Mill Gather exotic ingredients, brew complex mixtures, and expand your magically automated production lines -- keeping your shelves stocked, your customers happy, and your pockets full.

Price -60% 8.07€
Rating 7.8
Release 27 Mar 2024
Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles Bulwark mixes elements of a casual and creative building experience with light grand strategy and exploration elements. It's a genre bending experimental game that can be both a casual building experience and an epic conquest with airships, warbirds and fortresses.

Price -78% 4.38€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 Mar 2024
Rise of Gun Rise of Gun - immerses you in a world of zombie apocalypse as a gun store owner. Buy parts, craft, sell, upgrade your store and hire workers. Help to humanity survive

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Mar 2024
Tchia A Tropical Open-World adventure. Climb, glide, swim, and sail your boat around a beautiful archipelago in this physics-driven sandbox. Take control of any animal or object you can find, and Jam on your fully playable Ukulele.

Price -99% 0.51€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Mar 2024
Grim Realms A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Price -74% 3.87€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Mar 2024