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.
Wakfu
Ankama · 2012
Immerse yourself in the WAKFU universe with this free to play MMORPG. Select your class, travel the world, meet adventurers to challenge ...
Russian Fishing 4
Russian Fishing · 2021
Russian Fishing 4 is a fishing simulator with RPG elements. There is no story line and the whole process is based on the concept of an op...
Dofus Retro
Ankama Games · 2019
Dofus Retro is a new server option for Dofus released in 2019. The goal of Retro is to let players experience Dofus as close as possible ...
Dual Universe
Novaquark · 2020
Dual Universe is a Continuous Single-Shard sandbox MMORPG taking place in a vast Sci-Fi universe, focusing on emergent gameplay with play...
Puzzle Pirates
Three Rings Design · 2003
Brace yourself for swashbuckling puzzle action as you pillage your way to glory across the briny deep.
Create and customize a pirate, co...
HEX: Shards of Fate
Cryptozoic Entertainment · 2016
HEX: Shards of Fate is a new breed of digital card game, combining classic TCG gameplay with elements of an online RPG. Create powerful d...
Travian: Legends
Travian Games · 2004
Travian is a persistent, browser-based, massively multiplayer, online real-time strategy. Set in classical antiquity, Travian is a predom...
Black Desert
Pearl Abyss · 2014
Black Desert is Pearl Abyss's buy-to-play action sandbox MMORPG with 28-plus classes, fluid combo-driven combat, ten life skill systems, node wars, and a seamless open world on PC and console.
Stick Fight: The Game
Landfall Games · 2017
Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the ...
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
Antimatter Games · 2017
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam is a sequel to the stand-alone expansion pack to Rising Storm and focuses on the Vietnam War.
Ark: Survival Ascended
Studio Wildcard · 2023
Ark: Survival Ascended is a next-generation remaster of our beloved ARK: Survival Evolved, harnessing the power of Unreal Engine 5. The b...
Elite: Dangerous - Horizons
Frontier Developments · 2015
In the first of Elite: Dangerous' expansions, Horizons, players can journey seamlessly from space to the ground and choose their own land...
Party Hard 2
Kverta · 2018
It's the Holiday Season, and you don't get your Christmas Bonus. The only logical solution is to start a killing spree at a corporate par...
Creativerse
Playful Corporation · 2017
Stranded in a vast, mysterious world. Surrounded by ferocious beasts and remnants of ancient technology. Awash in treasure, treacherous c...
Faces of War
Best Way · 2006
Through the eyes of Allied, German and Russian squad leaders, experience the most immersive World War II time strategy game where each ba...
AFK Journey
Farlight Games · 2024
AFK Journey is a 3D world-based strategy card Gacha RPG. Continuing from AFK Arena, all aspects of its still active predecessor are impro...
Block N Load
Jagex · 2015
Five of you. Five of them. Face off in a battle where everything you build, destroy, construct or shoot has a devastating impact on the e...
Squad 44
Periscope Games · 2018
Formerly known as Post Scriptum, Squad 44 is the most authentic WW2 first-person shooter, featuring 20 large-scale battlefields, upwards ...
Holdfast: Nations At War
Anvil Game Studios · 2020
Fight on multiple fronts in Holdfast: Nations At War - A multiplayer first and third-person shooter set during the great Napoleonic Era a...
Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed
Sony Online Entertainment · 2004
Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed was the first expansion pack to the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies.
This expansion finally allowed pla...
Soccer Online: Ball 3D
Unusualsoft · 2017
Soccer Online: Ball 3D is an online multiplayer soccer game designed to make you feel like you would play real-life soccer.
WWII Online
Cornered Rat Software · 2001
WWII Online isn't just another WW2 game—it's a massive, player-driven battlefield where your tactics and strategy shape the outcome of a ...
Dreadnought
Yager Development · 2017
Players take command of massive capital ships in the sky within the title’s core competitive and cooperative multiplayer suite and its ep...
War Thunder
Gaijin Entertainment · 2013
War Thunder is the most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game dedicated to aviation, armored vehicles, and naval ...