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...
Code of War
XDEVS · 2018
Code of War is an online shooting game created by the company, Extreme Developers. Presented in realistic 3D graphics, Code of War offers...
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...