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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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while True: learn() You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!

Price -73% 2.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Jan 2019
My Time at Portia Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Price -93% 2.29€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Jan 2019
Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019 Much more than just a train driving simulator. Build, drive and operate the railroad of your dreams with Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019.

Price -28% 28.38€
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Jan 2019
Medieval Kingdom Wars Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…

Price -96% 0.69€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Jan 2019
Beasts of Bermuda Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 21 Dec 2018
Wrench Wrench is a mechanic simulator where players prepare and maintain race cars. The parts in Wrench are the most detailed of any game in the genre. Extreme attention has been paid to even the smallest components, including fasteners which are accurate to the thread pitch and install torque.

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Dec 2018
ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Dec 2018
Garden Paws You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.

Price -62% 6.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Dec 2018
Miscreated Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Price -77% 5.87€
Rating 6.5
Release 18 Dec 2018
Bloons TD 6 The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

Price -53% 6.51€
Rating 9.6
Release 17 Dec 2018
DayZ How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

Price -54% 22.50€
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Dec 2018
Kenshi A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Price -80% 5.42€
Rating 9.4
Release 06 Dec 2018
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 5.55€
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 -75% 0.99€
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 -90% 5.44€
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 -65% 8.78€
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 -91% 0.78€
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 5.99€
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% 0.80€
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 4.99€
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 15.50€
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 -96% 0.78€
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 -70% 7.49€
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 -98% 0.58€
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 -79% 3.57€
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 -50% 16.18€
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 -86% 2.90€
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% 15.55€
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 -98% 0.42€
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 20.99€
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 1.59€
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 -5% 7.82€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Sep 2018

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