The Best Survival sandbox Games - Page 3

Update : Forsaken Isle added at rank #50.
Here are our 10 Best Survival sandbox Games, position 21 to 30:
21

DayZ (2018)

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PC Windows Android Xbox One Playstation 4

How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.


  • survival
  • zombies
  • multiplayer
  • sandbox
  • cooperative
  • post-apocalyptic
  • first-person
  • open-world
  • shooter
  • pvp

22

The Planet Crafter (2024)

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PC Windows

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • sandbox
  • automation
  • exploration
  • base-building
  • sci-fi
  • building
  • resource-management
  • space

23

Sky (2023)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

SKY is a new way of looking at urban planning strategies. Change voxel landscapes at your discretion, develop technologies, build environmentally friendly cities of the future, and withstand any blows from the elements.


  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • voxel
  • city-building
  • automation
  • open-world
  • multiplayer
  • survival
  • sky
  • procedural
  • pve
  • pvp
  • action-adventure
  • immersive
  • management

24

Castle Craft (2025)

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early access Android IOS iPhone PC Windows

Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!


  • voxel
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • magic
  • medieval
  • hack-and-slash
  • sandbox
  • building
  • third-person
  • city-building
  • survival
  • strategy
  • fantasy
  • destruction

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

Starbound (2016)

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PC Windows Xbox One Android Linux Mac OS

Starbound is a 2D space-based exploration and crafting sandbox game that offers endless possibilities. With a multitude of different planets to visit, you can mine, gather resources, manage your inventory, buy and sell items, farm crops, steal from others, and craft objects. There are three different modes to choose from, and you can play alone or with a friend through Steam for a cooperative experience. The game has a large variety of weapons, and nearly everything in it can be upgraded. Although combat is the weakest element of the game and there could be more customization options for your ship, Starbound is still highly enjoyable, with countless ways to keep yourself engaged for hours or even days.


What we like:
  • Infinite potential
  • Community mods add to the game
  • Aesthetically pleasing
  • Building and farming mechanics are fun
  • Terrarium-like exploration
What could be improved:
  • Stuttering and punishment system can be frustrating
  • Combat mechanics need refining

  • sandbox
  • crafting
  • exploration
  • survival
  • dungeon
  • space
  • farming
  • boss
  • survival-craft
  • open-world
  • adventure
  • cooperative
  • medieval
  • robots
  • 2d

27

Dinkum (2025)

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PC Windows

Step into the rugged and beautiful Australian wilderness in Dinkum. This game lets you explore the harsh conditions of the outback, build a thriving town, and gather resources for survival. You can customize your home, care for animals, and cultivate crops. Enjoy the gameplay with friends, and experience the unique setting and design. You can even show off your interior designing skills in your cozy abode!

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What we like:
  • Lots to unlock and build
  • Easy money earning
  • Cute animals and easy relationship building
  • Vehicles for quicker travel
  • Constant improvements and unique Australian setting
What could be improved:
  • Repetitive and shallow NPC quests
  • Unengaging mechanics in combat
  • Lack of future development information

  • farming
  • crafting
  • agriculture
  • open-world
  • simulation
  • survival
  • fishing
  • life
  • hunting
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • cute
  • building
  • australian

28

It Lurks Below (2019)

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PC Windows Xbox One

It Lurks Below is an action-oriented, survival RPG in a randomly generated world. Fight through the massive underground dungeon, customize your character with random items and find out what evil lurks below.


  • loot
  • rpg
  • survival
  • pixel
  • raw
  • combat-which
  • pixel-hunt
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • dungeon-crawler
  • 2d
  • action

29

The Matchless KungFu (2024)

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PC Windows

The Matchless Kungfu is an open world sandbox RPG game based on a WuXia background. You can play any martial arts role you imagine in this wild world. Travel through the great wilderness, or be the leader of the group. The most important thing is, build your own story and live the experience!


  • martial
  • arts
  • sandbox
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • crafting
  • turn-based
  • deckbuilder
  • character
  • type
  • base-building
  • survival
  • building
  • funny

30

Space Engineers (2019)

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Xbox One Android Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Players build space ships, space stations, planetary outposts of various sizes and uses, pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive.


  • sandbox
  • volumetric
  • survival
  • physics
  • block
  • space
  • open-world
  • crafting
  • building
  • construction
  • realistic
  • grid

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