Sandbox games give players more freedom over goals, progression, building, trade, conflict, or community activity than a strictly linear campaign. Some offer persistent shared worlds and economies, while others provide flexible systems inside smaller multiplayer servers.
The sandbox tag does not guarantee unrestricted building or full-loot PvP. Check each game page for the specific systems that make it open-ended, including crafting, housing, territory control, modding, custom servers, or player-run markets.
Hybrid games can also appear in the MMORPG, action, survival, or point-and-click categories when those exact tags are present in the database.
Oxide: Survival Island
Hyperhug · 2025
Oxide: Survival Island is a free mobile multiplayer survival game by Hyperhug. Gather, craft, build, and raid on persistent shared servers on Android and iOS.
My Racing Career
F&L Creative · 2012
Start your engines and make your career as a world-class racing driver in one of the most established motorsport management games.
Launc...
FiveM
Cfx.re · 2015
FiveM is Cfx.re's free Windows PC client for joining customized Grand Theft Auto V servers. A valid copy of GTA V is required.
Arma 3: Contact
Bohemia Interactive · 2019
Deploy to Livonia as a NATO drone operator in Arma 3 Contact, a military sandbox expansion where a routine exercise turns into humanity's first alien encounter across 163 km² of Eastern European terrain.
Town Star
Gala Games · 2020
Gala Games' Town Star, a new game from the creative minds behind Farmville by Zynga, is a masterpiece of town-building, organization and ...
A Twisted Path To Renown
Game Labs · 2024
A Twisted Path To Renown: is a Multiplayer, loot-focused, PvEvP extraction shooter, set in the rugged 1899 United States!
Strap on your h...
Palia: The Elderwood
Singularity 6 · 2025
Palia: The Elderwood is the largest expansion to Singularity 6's cozy life-sim MMO, adding an ancient overgrown forest zone with new creatures, artifacts, relics, story quests, and cross-platform play across PC, PS5, Xbox, and Switch.
Star Citizen
Cloud Imperium Games Corporation · 2013
Star Citizen is a sandbox open-world MMO "SpaceSim" by Cloud Imperium Games. Explore the 'verse, fight, trade, and more when you play Sta...
MegaWorld
Unknown · 2018
Autonomous Web3 city builder game.
Construct buildings to produce Resources required by other buildings to be constructed, maintained an...
Animal Jam: Play Wild!
Unknown · 2015
Welcome to Animal Jam – Play Wild!, where you will become your favorite animal, create a style to express the real you, and explore the b...
Marble Racing Manager
Pixel by Pixel Studios · 2025
Marble Racing Manager is an idle racing game where players collect and manage marbles that compete automatically. Players begin with free...
Gray Zone Warfare
MADFINGER Games · 2024
In Gray Zone Warfare, realism meets tactics in an open-world MMOFPS where every move matters. Deploy with a Private Military Company, sur...
Occupy White Walls
StikiPixels · 2022
To say it’s a PC sandbox-building, AI-driven MMO where people play with Art, developed by folks who really love architecture and abstract...
Supremacy: The Metaverse Game
Ninja Syndicate · 2022
Supremacy is a collection of games that connect players into one immersive, interactive, and interconnected universe offering a unique ex...
Guild Wars
ArenaNet · 2005
Guild Wars is ArenaNet's pioneering online RPG that removed the monthly subscription from the MMO equation. With skill-based PvP, instanced exploration across three standalone campaigns and one expansion, and a dual-class system offering hundreds of build combinations, it redefined what an online RPG could be.
MapleStory 2
NSquare · 2015
MapleStory 2 is a new MMORPG set in a colorful 3D block universe. Embark on epic quests, build your dream world, and explore a new dimens...
Legend of Ymir
Wemade Co Ltd · 2025
Legend of YMIR is a free-to-play, MMORPG inspired by Norse mythology, available on PC and mobile platforms.
Experience the awe-inspiring...
Waven
Ankama Games · 2023
Waven is a new roleplaying game experience that is accessible, fun and immersive. It combines adventure and turn-based strategy, inspired...
Minecraft: Java Edition
Mojang Studios · 2011
Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized ...
Guild Wars: Eye of the North
ArenaNet · 2007
Guild Wars: Eye of the North is the first expansion for Guild Wars with content geared exclusively for level 20 characters.
Return to ...
Anarchy Online
Funcom · 2001
Anarchy Online (AO) is a science fiction themed massive multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) set almost 30,000 years into the fut...
Cardania: Epoch Wars
Cardania · 2023
Epoch Wars is a live multiplayer strategy game with hundreds of players from around the world. Battle for strategic resources, explore my...
The Sims Online
Maxis · 2002
The Sims Online was the first massively multiplayer online variation on Maxis's highly popular computer game The Sims, the second being t...
Xera: Survival
Spotted Kiwi Interactive · 2021
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal Xoids. Raid for resources alone or with team-mat...