Best 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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Sweet Transit Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.

Price -75% 7.53€
Rating 6.7
Release 22 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
The Crew Motorfest Welcome to Motorfest, the ultimate open-world driving experience. Explore the Hawaiian islands of O'ahu and Maui. Celebrate the best of car culture through 20+ themed campaigns (street racing, offroad, drift...) and collect hundreds of iconic vehicles. Enjoy the game free for five hours!

Price 69.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 Apr 2024
Survisland / 实境求生 Survisland is a super hardcore sandbox survival game that pays great attention to restoring the real survival experience. The character has rich and realistic actions and reactions to , and the process logic of making props is no different from reality.

Price 12.49€
Rating 6.2
Release 14 Apr 2024
Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure A Shipwrecked Adventure is a free prologue immersing you into the vast world of Tinkerlands. Uncover the story of the first survivors on these mystical islands. Explore the breathtaking archipelago, craft essential tools, build your settlement, and strive to survive!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Apr 2024
Infection Free Zone Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Price -20% 19.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 11 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
The Planet Crafter A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.4
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
The Lost Village Once there was a prosperous village of Martials, now none of it remains. As the son of the former Master, you will lead your followers to rebuild this village. Recruit followers and enter the mysterious illusional domain, acquire lost wonders. Will you see the rebirth of ancestors’ glory again?

Price 10.75€
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Apr 2024
Sons of Valhalla Sons of Valhalla is a combat and base-building game set in the Viking Age. Build fortresses and lay siege to enemy strongholds, gather warriors and board longboats, and engage in personal combat as you raid and conquer across England.

Price -70% 6.00€
Rating 6.6
Release 05 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
BMX Streets Ready to hit the streets? BMX Streets brings the essence of BMX riding to your fingertips. Experience the next generation of BMX gaming with realistic physics, massive amounts of customization and gorgeous maps. Practice, experiment and explore to find your own unique style and master the streets.

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.4
Release 04 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
Beltmatic Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.

Price 6.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Mar 2024
Maniac Ever just tired of it all? Ready for change? Wanna bet it all on sheer mayhem and destruction? In comes Maniac, a rogue-lite crime action game in which the world goes against you, and your insanity creates chaos!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 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