Best Sandbox Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated sandbox games.

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Interstellar Space: Genesis Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!

Price -99% 0.37€
Rating 7.9
Release 25 Jul 2019
People Playground Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.8
Release 23 Jul 2019
The Orville - Interactive Fan Experience Step aboard the USS Orville (ECV-197), the Planetary Union's finest mid-level exploratory class cruiser. With every room on every deck recreated with painstaking accuracy, you are free to explore the ship at your leisure and engage in all manner of shenanigans!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Jul 2019
Dead Frontier 2 Survival horror MMO. As one of the few survivors of the outbreak, you must scratch a living out of the decaying ruins of society. Scavenge for supplies, improve your skills, and trade with other players. All the while, keeping your eyes peeled for the infected lurking around every corner.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 15 Jul 2019
Waltz of the Wizard Waltz of the Wizard is a wizard simulator where you find yourself in a fantastical realm filled with spells, secrets and some pretty strange characters.

Price -25% 12.74€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Jul 2019
Steel Division 2 Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.

Price -77% 9.37€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Jun 2019
ZUSI 3 - Aerosoft Edition Zusi 3 Aerosoft Edition is a train simulation for PCs, the professional version of which is also being used in railway companies for engine driver training purposes.

Price -33% 40.16€
Rating 8.5
Release 18 Jun 2019
Seeds of Resilience Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Price -96% 0.57€
Rating 6.6
Release 13 Jun 2019
SpaceEngine The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.

Price -40% 17.39€
Rating 9.3
Release 11 Jun 2019
OCTOPATH TRAVELER Eight travelers. Eight adventures. Eight roles to play. Embark on an epic journey across the vast and wondrous world of Orsterra and discover the captivating stories of each of the eight travelers.

Price -79% 12.68€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Jun 2019
Cooking Simulator A realistic cooking sim where every ingredient reacts with real physics. Master 80+ dishes in Career mode or go wild in Sandbox as you cook, experiment, or cause total kitchen chaos in a fully interactive chef’s playground.

Price -85% 2.59€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 Jun 2019
TheoTown Build and manage your dream city in this captivating simulation game. Create unique urban landscapes and enjoy compatibility with the mobile versions. Unleash your creativity and shape the metropolis of your dreams.

Price -35% 6.33€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Jun 2019
Alchemist's Awakening Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.

Price -61% 3.76€
Rating 7.0
Release 03 Jun 2019
Generals & Rulers What will be the strategy game if you throw out all the grind from it, all the boring annoying actions and leave only strategy and tactics? It became interesting to us and as a result we received Generals & Rulers. Try it now!

Price -29% 7.10€
Rating 6.0
Release 31 May 2019
PixARK Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Price -57% 8.38€
Rating 7.2
Release 31 May 2019
Rise of Liberty Rise of Liberty is a FPS single-player massive Revolutionary War battle simulator. Fire deafening cannons into the thick of the battle, stand in line formation and fire devastating volleys into the enemy. Gather your men for these monumental battles and defeat the enemy!

Price -66% 2.24€
Rating 8.1
Release 30 May 2019
It Lurks Below It Lurks Below is an action-oriented, survival RPG in a randomly generated world. Fight through the massive underground dungeon, customize your character with random items and find out what evil lurks below.

Price -85% 2.51€
Rating 8.0
Release 29 May 2019
Rescue HQ - The Tycoon Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?

Price -80% 3.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 May 2019
Interstellar Transport Company Build a galactic transportation empire and supply humanity with everything it needs to colonize the stars. In this sci-fi logistics simulator, grow your company from a local transport agency into an interstellar logistics behemoth! Singleplayer, vs AI, and online multiplayer.

Price -75% 5.49€
Rating 6.5
Release 24 May 2019
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS Unite Ancient China under your rule through a thrilling blend of turn-based empire building and real-time battles. Use the Guanxi System and diplomacy to forge alliances, and build powerful armies with hundreds of unique infantry, cavalry and war machine units.

Price -79% 8.49€
Rating 7.2
Release 23 May 2019
American Fugitive FREE UPDATE; STATE OF EMERGENCY, OUT NOW! Framed for your father’s murder, you’ll need to do whatever it takes to unveil the real culprit. Tackle thrilling missions for the criminal underworld - just don’t let the cops track you down!

Price -98% 0.46€
Rating 7.3
Release 21 May 2019
RAGE 2 RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.

Price -95% 2.39€
Rating 6.2
Release 13 May 2019
HOME HOME is a feel-good walking simulator experience in which you create your own poem and music. Embark on a poetic and musical heartwarming journey about what home means to you.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 11 May 2019
Rise of Industry Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Price -98% 0.61€
Rating 7.1
Release 02 May 2019
Imperator: Rome Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.

Price -83% 7.02€
Rating 6.4
Release 25 Apr 2019
Nova-Life: Amboise Nova-Life: Amboise is a multiplayer role-play simulation video game. Create your character and start your second life!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 22 Apr 2019
Race for Tuning The city at night, the roar of the engine, nitrous, neon, a tuning... What else do you need for a street race? Burn rubber and become the king of the streets!

Price -75% 1.24€
Rating 6.7
Release 19 Apr 2019
Embark Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Price 24.50€
Rating 6.0
Release 18 Apr 2019
Forager The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Price -85% 3.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Apr 2019
Anno 1800 Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Price -75% 14.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 16 Apr 2019
No Time Go on a trip through time! Experience the freedom of traveling into any date, hour and minute in time between the years 1 and 3033 AD! Help your best friend Edward in his scientific affairs! Watch out for the Time Agents & avoid yourself!

Price -30% 8.39€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Apr 2019
Staxel Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.

Price -95% 1.10€
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Apr 2019
Vacation Simulator The latest VR sensation from the creators of ‘Job Simulator’, now with free DLC! Welcome to Vacation Simulator: a rough approximation of VACATION inspired by real human NOT JOBBING. Reallocate your bandwidth and get ready to splash, s’more, snowball, and selfie your way to optimal relaxation.

Price -30% 13.65€
Rating 8.6
Release 09 Apr 2019
Feather Feather is a multiplayer game about exploration, relaxation and immersion. Transform yourself into a bird, take flight, and enjoy a zen-like, picturesque landscape on your own terms. Swoop, glide, and backflip your way around mysterious locations to uncover hidden paths that only birds can follow!

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 7.7
Release 05 Apr 2019
Tropico 6 El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Price -84% 6.76€
Rating 8.6
Release 29 Mar 2019
The White Laboratory The White Laboratory is a sandbox style physics-based tower defense and RTS game in which you modularly build and command robotic structures. Use them to defend against or conquer other disobedient mechanical blocks on a facility floating in the atmosphere of a remote gas planet.

Price -70% 2.45€
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Mar 2019

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