The Best Survival sandbox Games - Page 3

Update : Forsaken Isle added at rank #29.
Here are our 10 Best Survival sandbox Games, position 21 to 30:
21

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

22

Necesse (2019)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Necesse is an open-world, top-down sandbox game with a huge amount of potential. Explore procedurally generated islands, build towns, recruit settlers and complete quests - either on your own or with friends. There are forest, snow, swamp and desert biomes to discover as well as mobs and boss battles to fight. The crafting recipes are intuitive and the base building is fun and easy to learn.

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What we like:
  • Procedurally generated world of islands
  • Mobs to fight
  • Boss battles
  • Intuitive crafting recipes
  • Base building system
  • Online multiplayer
What could be improved:
  • Not much verticality in the build system yet
  • Minimal cosmetic changes for builds
  • Some bullet hell elements during boss fights

  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • colony
  • building
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • survival-craft
  • replay-value
  • 2d
  • multiplayer
  • farming
  • online

23

Empyrion - Galactic Survival (2020)

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PC Windows

Empyrion - Galactic Survival is a 3D open world space sandbox survival adventure. Build powerful ships, mighty space stations and vast planetary settlements to explore, conquer or exploit a variety of different planets and discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

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  • space
  • survival
  • sandbox
  • voxel
  • open-world
  • crafting
  • simulation
  • ego
  • exploration
  • building
  • construction
  • pve
  • pvp

24

Scrap Mechanic (2016)

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early access Android PC Windows

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!


  • building
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • physics
  • simulation
  • cooperative
  • moddable
  • third-person
  • multiplayer

25

Dig or Die (2018)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One j Xbox Series X

In Dig or Die, you are stranded on a hostile planet and must build strong defenses to survive massive attacks each night. Explore, craft, and build intricate structures in a science-fiction world with realistic physics and even a water cycle to manage. With no hunger needs to worry about, the game is all about surviving the night attacks and ultimately building a rocket ship to escape the planet. Experience fast and fun laser gun fights in a procedurally generated environment and a global real-time simulation.

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What we like:
  • Interesting gameplay mechanics
  • Good difficulty balance
  • Replayability with randomly generated maps and several game modes
  • Unique gameplay ideas and concepts
  • Physics-based gameplay with liquid and structural physics
What could be improved:
  • Jetpack mechanics are dull
  • Jumping is not perfect
  • Limited monster variety and no melee combat or interesting weapons
  • Physics simulation with buildings can be weird
  • Exploration and material gathering can get tedious

  • crafting
  • survival
  • sandbox
  • terraria
  • open-world
  • physics
  • 2d
  • building
  • tower-defense
  • base-building

26

Keplerth (2022)

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early access PC Windows

Keplerth is a 2D survival game set on an alien planet. You have the ability to craft weapons and tools like clubs, axes, and torches from the resources you find in order to survive. You'll also need to buy armor and supplies from other residents of the planet. There is also a storyline with a robot helper who needs your help to save his friend Danny, who was taken away by the Meco people.


What we like:
  • Crafting weapons
  • Buying armor and supplies from other characters
  • Deep story line with robot helper
  • Ability to modify your character's genes and improve stats
What could be improved:
  • Graphics are more simplistic than other titles in this genre
  • Lack of direction at times
  • Confusing inventory system until you understand it

  • survival
  • sandbox
  • building
  • open-world
  • sci-fi
  • farming
  • exploration
  • crafting
  • rpg
  • 2d
  • sprite-work
  • base-building
  • multiplayer
  • adventure
  • casual

27

Urge (2021)

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PC Windows

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

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  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • survival-horror
  • building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • sandbox
  • loot
  • gore
  • atmospheric
  • horror
  • shooter
  • exploration
  • first-person

28

Creativerse (2017)

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PC Windows Mac OS

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

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  • sandbox
  • crafting
  • voxel
  • survival
  • open-world
  • building
  • cooperative
  • exploration
  • multiplayer
  • family-friendly
  • action-adventure
  • third-person
  • block

29

Forsaken Isle (2025)

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PC Windows

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

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  • crafting
  • survival
  • pixel
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • burton
  • casual
  • farming
  • pirates
  • adventure

30

Aloft (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

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  • crafting
  • open-world
  • survival
  • building
  • sailing
  • sandbox
  • cooperative
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • naval
  • agriculture
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • farming

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