The Best Rpg sandbox Games

Update, : Cygnus Enterprises added at rank #49.
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Kenshi (2018)

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PC Windows Android

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.


  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • survival
  • open-world
  • squad
  • free-roaming
  • real-time
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • decent
  • simulation
  • strategy
  • open-ended
  • building
  • crafting

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Dragon Quest Builders (2016)

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Playstation 4 vita Playstation 3 Nintendo Switch Android IOS iPhone

Explore a world made of blocks as you gather, craft, and build to defeat the evil Dragonlord! Build everywhere from anywhere in DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS, available now on mobile. Brought to you by SQUARE ENIX!


  • rpg
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • japanese
  • jrpg
  • combat
  • construction
  • survival
  • building
  • classic
  • spin-off
  • minecraft

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DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2 (2018)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 4

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.


  • rpg
  • japanese
  • crafting
  • jrpg
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • building
  • combat

4

The friends of Ringo Ishikawa (2018)

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Xbox One Mac OS Nintendo Switch PC Windows

The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa is a unique and inscrutable narrative-brawler that explores the lives of high school seniors contemplating their future after graduation. You play as Ringo and take part in 2D brawler-style combat, buy food and books to replenish your health and stamina, attend classes, study, work part-time jobs and train at the gym.


Pros:
  • Unique experience full of freedom
  • Cool pixelated graphical style
  • Atmospheric soundtrack
  • Discover routines in the town
  • Follow them and learn different actions you can take
Cons:
  • No tutorials or hints provided
  • No world map or quest markers given
  • Combat could feel more responsive

  • beat-em-up
  • brawler
  • 1980s
  • martial
  • arts
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • pixel
  • scroller
  • atmospheric
  • drama
  • sandbox
  • anime
  • brawler-type
  • 2d

5

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is an expansive open-world RPG/strategy hybrid set in a Medieval world. You lead a rag-tag group of mercenaries and gradually build up your forces, recruiting more troops, improving the quality of your army and taking on ambitious tasks. As you progress through the game you can choose to live a peaceful life or aim to become a powerful ruler with the ultimate goal of becoming the new ruler of Calradia.


Pros:
  • In-depth character creator
  • Intense melee combat and tactical battles
  • Thousands of hours of potential gameplay
  • emergent storytelling and replayability
  • Sandbox mode with customizable scenarios
  • Multiplayer modes for instant action distraction
Cons:
  • Difficult console controls
  • old-fashioned character models
  • overwhelming opening hours

  • medieval
  • sandbox
  • battle
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • combat
  • war
  • horses
  • political
  • fight
  • open-world
  • empire

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Portal Knights (2017)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch Android IOS iPhone

The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!


  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • cooperative
  • boss
  • combat
  • dungeon
  • boss-fight
  • adventure
  • 3d

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Amazing Cultivation Simulator (2020)

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PC Windows

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.


  • arts
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • martial
  • mythology
  • colony
  • strategy
  • building
  • rpg
  • ice
  • resource
  • crafting
  • mind-boggling
  • bare-bones
  • survival

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Deiland (2018)

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Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone PC Windows Playstation 4 Mac OS

Deiland is a single-player adventure RPG with several sandbox elements, such as farming, crafting, and building. Put on the mantle of the Little Prince of Deiland and rule over your own planet!


  • adventure
  • sandbox
  • crafting
  • rpg
  • farming
  • building
  • cute
  • relaxing
  • family-friendly
  • single-player
  • casual
  • simulation
  • controller-support
  • atmospheric
  • third-person

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Aurora Dusk: Steam Age (2016)

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PC Windows

An amazing mix of RPG, strategy, simulation, sandbox and survival game. Aurora Dusk looks like many other games, but instead of being alone, you live in a community. You can play one or more villagers and evolve from the Wood Age to the Steam Age.


  • collaborative
  • strategy
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • moddable
  • crowdfunded
  • touch-friendly
  • tower-defense
  • farming
  • 2d
  • medieval
  • real-time
  • fantasy

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Fabled Lands (2021)

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Mac OS Android PC Windows

Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.


  • rpg
  • rogue-like
  • choices
  • hex
  • party
  • old-school
  • text
  • fiction
  • sandbox
  • turn-based
  • open-world
  • interactive
  • fantasy
  • grid
  • 2d

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