The Best Rpg sandbox Games

Update : Tales of Seikyu added at rank #14.
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Border Town (2024)

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PC Windows

Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.

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  • building
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • action-adventure
  • shooter
  • survival
  • top-down
  • old-school
  • first-person
  • cartoony
  • simulation
  • adventure
  • magic

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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.


What we like:
  • 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
What could be improved:
  • 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

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DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2 (2018)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One Android

Embark on an epic journey to rebuild destroyed lands and battle against the evil Children of Hargon in the open-world fantasy block-building RPG, DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2. With unlimited building combinations and online play, the creative possibilities are endless. Try the DEMO to experience this critically acclaimed game now!


What we like:
  • Fun and addictive gameplay
  • Engaging story and characters
  • Large variety of building materials
  • Lots of customization options
What could be improved:
  • Limited multiplayer options
  • Tedious early game building
  • Repetitive music
  • Some rooms/recipes not well-explained in-game

  • rpg
  • farming
  • japanese
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • building
  • jrpg
  • combat
  • multiplayer
  • adventure
  • open-ended
  • narrative
  • cult
  • boss-fight
  • survival

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Portal Knights (2017)

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Android PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone

Embark on an epic adventure in Portal Knights, where you craft, battle, and build your way through a fantastical world of floating islands. Forge your path, conquer the Hollow King, and restore light to a land shrouded in darkness. Dive in alone or team up with friends to become the ultimate hero in a land of endless possibilities!


What we like:
  • Vibrant, engaging sandbox world
  • Diverse combat classes and enemies
  • Deep crafting and building systems
  • Exciting multiplayer and co-op gameplay
  • Expansive worlds with unique challenges
What could be improved:
  • Repetitive resource gathering
  • Clunky inventory management

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

5

Mount & Blade: Warband (2010)

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Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!


  • medieval
  • sandbox
  • battle
  • rpg
  • combat
  • open-world
  • horses
  • fight

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Kenshi (2018)

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PC Windows

Experience the ultimate freedom in Kenshi, a unique open-world RPG that lets you forge your own path. Play as anyone, from a trader to a warlord, and shape your destiny in a harsh desert environment. Craft new equipment, build fortified havens, and research technologies to survive. With no limitations and a dynamic world, this is not just a game - it's a simulated life waiting to be conquered.


What we like:
  • Open world sandbox gameplay
  • Unique and interesting characters
  • High replayability
  • Immersive atmosphere
What could be improved:
  • Graphics could be better
  • Lack of a deep story

  • squad
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • post-apocalyptic
  • free-roaming
  • farming
  • management
  • open-ended
  • real-time
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • empire
  • travelling

7

Ancient Warfare: The Han Dynasty (2023)

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early access PC Windows

Ancient Warfare: The Han Dynasty is a wargame demonstrating ancient warfare in China and combining elements of Big Strategy, RTS and RPG. You can learn little-known stories of heroes in ancient China by experiencing battles accommodating thousands of soldiers.

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  • tactical
  • real-time
  • wargame
  • grand-strategy
  • strategy
  • historical
  • rpg
  • hand-drawn
  • drama
  • sandbox
  • stylized
  • military
  • war
  • story
  • single-player

8

Walking Zombie 2 (2019)

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Android PC Windows

Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.


  • crafting
  • first-person
  • survival
  • open-world
  • zombies
  • fps
  • shooter
  • post-apocalyptic
  • gun
  • humor
  • rpg
  • sandbox
  • dark
  • enemies-zombie
  • stylized

9

Low Magic Age (2017)

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early access PC Windows

Adventure and fight in a medieval fantasy open world! Build heroic characters with various abilities, travel through villages, cities, or perilous dungeons. Strategic turn-based combat system and advanced character building - Fog of war, charging and flanking, and more in the fast-paced Arena mode.


  • turn-based
  • rpg
  • traditional
  • rogue-like
  • dragon
  • movement
  • tactical
  • old-school
  • party
  • sandbox
  • dungeon
  • character
  • dungeon-crawler
  • medieval

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Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword (2011)

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PC Windows

The standalone expansion for Mount & Blade! With Fire & Sword builds and expands upon the highly regarded combat system from Mount & Blade: Warband. Firearms have been introduced to the battlefield.


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

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