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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Just Cause 4 Reloaded Rogue agent Rico Rodriguez journeys to Solis, a huge South American world home of conflict, oppression and extreme weather conditions. Strap into your wingsuit, equip your fully customizable grappling hook, and get ready to bring the thunder!

Price 5.58€
Rating 6.1
Release 04 Dec 2018
Simmiland Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!

Price -70% 1.19€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Nov 2018
X4: Foundations Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.

Price -89% 5.59€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 Nov 2018
Parkitect Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!

Price -67% 8.36€
Rating 9.1
Release 29 Nov 2018
Equilinox Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game in which you can create and nurture your own ecosystems. Shape the world to your liking, cultivate and raise hundreds of different species, and evolve your wildlife to unlock more exotic plants and animals.

Price -95% 0.43€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Nov 2018
Age of History II Age of History II is a grand strategy wargame that is simple to learn yet hard to master.Your objective is to use military tactics and cunning diplomacy to either unify the world, or conquer it.Will the world bleed out or bow before you? The choice is yours..

Price -20% 4.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Nov 2018
Sunset Overdrive Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.

Price -96% 0.84€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Nov 2018
Wallpaper Engine Use stunning live wallpapers on your desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos/websites and share them on the Steam Workshop!

Price -20% 3.99€
Rating 9.7
Release 16 Nov 2018
河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu : The Books of Dragon) Ho Tu Lo Shu: The Books of Dragon offers a highly freedom to play in an wuxia style open world. With realistic art style and rich character development, you can explore a vast wuxia world and create your own adventure with the company of various memorable characters.

Price -50% 7.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 14 Nov 2018
Thief Simulator Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.

Price -97% 0.71€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Nov 2018
The Wall [Servers Temporarily Shut Down!] Build. Gather. Breach. The Wall is a never-before seen mix of genres, where dynamic maps, slick combat, base building, and economy management all come together.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Nov 2018
Project Hospital Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

Price -81% 4.85€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Oct 2018
The Colonists Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Price -97% 0.72€
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Oct 2018
Star Shelter Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Oct 2018
EXAPUNKS The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Oct 2018
RimWorld A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Price -42% 18.87€
Rating 9.7
Release 17 Oct 2018
Rogalia Rogalia is the sandbox with fantasy open world, meal-based character leveling, nice graphics and cozy atmosphere.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 15 Oct 2018
Farm Together Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!

Price -88% 2.58€
Rating 9.2
Release 11 Oct 2018
Mashinky Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.

Price -37% 15.45€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Oct 2018
Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.2
Release 28 Sep 2018
Niffelheim Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla

Price -99% 0.37€
Rating 6.9
Release 26 Sep 2018
Deity Empires Deity Empires is a 4X, turn-based strategy game with a powerful “just one more turn” feel! Enter an intricate fantasy world as one of many deities posed to become ruler of the world.

Price -50% 10.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 25 Sep 2018
Orion Sandbox Enhanced This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.

Price -35% 1.03€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Sep 2018
Dream Car Builder Design your car from scratch: from the frame to the suspension and race it!

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Sep 2018
Maximum Action MAXIMUM Action is a brutal and satisfying physics-based first person shooter influenced by Hong Kong cinema, heroic slow motion bloodshed, and old-school FPS ACTION.

Price -40% 11.70€
Rating 8.7
Release 19 Sep 2018
Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection The wildly popular Zoo Tycoon series gets set to crank up the excitement, challenge, and fun of building the ultimate zoo. Let your imagination run wild with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Build, manage, and maintain your dream zoo alone or with up to four players.

Price -78% 3.81€
Rating 6.3
Release 14 Sep 2018
Megaquarium The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

Price -70% 7.64€
Rating 9.1
Release 13 Sep 2018
Boundless Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.

Price -95% 1.03€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 Sep 2018
303 Squadron: Battle of Britain The enemies are close, would you dare to join the Squadron? Tweak planes in a 1st person mechanic mode, set the clouds on fire in aerial fights sim and discover extra missions in an open world of RAF Base. Enjoy a gameplay based on a real history and become the Ace of Sky.

Price -91% 0.87€
Rating 6.0
Release 31 Aug 2018
Ultimate Fishing Simulator Bored of waiting for a bite? Would you like to catch some fish? You're lucky - in Ultimate Fishing Simulator, fish bite like crazy! Spinning, float fishing, ground fishing, and more! Comprehensive fishing simulator that allows using various techniques, in different places around the world!

Price -94% 1.19€
Rating 8.7
Release 30 Aug 2018
Two Point Hospital Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Price -87% 4.14€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Aug 2018
THE GREAT GEOMETRIC MULTIVERSE TOUR LIBERATE THE GEOMETRIC PEOPLE AND SAVE THE MULTIVERSE! Fight through the randomly chosen universes of the Geometric Multiverse, arming yourself to the teeth with insane weaponry and mutating your mind, body, and soul with the unrelenting power of genetically altering pills.

Price 0.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Aug 2018
Graveyard Keeper Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Price -90% 1.98€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Aug 2018
Mist Survival MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Price -25% 6.74€
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Aug 2018
GROUND BRANCH From one of the developers behind the original Rainbow Six® and Ghost Recon® games, comes a thinking-man's first-person shooter featuring in-depth character and weapon customization. Take your time. Think ahead. Get the job done.

Price -15% 21.24€
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Aug 2018
TerraTech TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Price -96% 1.12€
Rating 8.9
Release 10 Aug 2018

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