The Best Survival sandbox Games - Page 5

Update : Forsaken Isle added at rank #26.
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Noch (2023)

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Android PC Windows

Go alone (or with a friend) to find the girl who destroyed the world. An ominous surreal first-person adventure full of dangerous monsters and secrets of the deceased world


  • gothic
  • hunting
  • off-road
  • investigation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • survival-horror
  • thriller
  • demons
  • dark
  • sandbox
  • atmospheric
  • 3d
  • survival
  • story
  • exploration

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Starsand (2021)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

In Starsand, you'll explore a vast and unforgiving desert, scavenging for resources, building a shelter, and hunting to survive. With dynamic weather and day/night changes, you'll have to plan and act wisely to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization and make it back home. Can you survive in this harsh environment and make it out alive?


What we like:
  • Good survival elements
  • Interesting premise
  • Nice desert atmosphere
  • Nice exploration aspects
  • Unique navigation system
What could be improved:
  • Limited content
  • Clunky gameplay
  • Unforgiving resource allocation
  • Bugs and glitches
  • Lack of save points

  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • inventory
  • 3d
  • management
  • sandbox
  • aliens
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • realistic
  • first-person

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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

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The Survivalists (2020)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4

Explore a wild island inhabited by creatures, both mythical and dangerous. The Survivalists is a survival game that tests your resourcefulness, while giving you the freedom to craft weapons, build structures, complete quests, and uncover secrets. Team up with friends and use the help of trained monkeys to survive the island's challenges. With its captivating graphics and joyful storyline, it's a game you'll want to play again and again.


What we like:
  • Cute graphics
  • Captivating gameplay
  • Fun multiplayer
  • Heartwarming story
  • Unique monkey mechanic
What could be improved:
  • Limited replay value
  • Complicated crafting
  • Sparse tutorial
  • Risk of griefers in public games

  • survival
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • cooperative

45

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

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Soulmask (2024)

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early access PC Windows

Escaping a deadly sacrificial ritual, you find an ancient mystical mask on your journey. This mask holds potent knowledge, changing the world you knew. Face the harsh challenges of nature, survive, rally followers, and build your own tribe. Explore and unveil the truths behind the enigmatic mask.

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  • survival
  • open-world
  • crafting
  • multiplayer
  • sandbox
  • building
  • mmo
  • hunting
  • base-building
  • third-person
  • simulation
  • exploration
  • realistic
  • 3d

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Crea (2016)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux IOS iPhone super famicom

Furthering the emerging sandbox genre, Crea features combat and crafting in randomly generated, fantasy-style worlds for you to explore, tear apart and build back up. Crea differentiates itself in many ways such as RPG-style character progression, several unique systems, extensive mod support and a charming art style.


  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • open-world
  • 2d
  • rpg
  • crafter

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Miniland Adventure (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch

The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!

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  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • base-building
  • pixel
  • building
  • farming
  • underground
  • collectathon
  • god-game
  • resource-management
  • inventory
  • relaxing
  • 2d

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Citadel: Forged with Fire (2019)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows

Citadel: Forged with Fire is an immersive MMORPG that gives players the freedom to explore a massive open-world and create their own future. With bright visuals and tons of loot, there's plenty to do as you progress your way through the game.

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What we like:
  • Immersive MMORPG experience
  • Huge open-world
  • Beautiful visuals
  • Tons of loot
  • Endgame bosses and raids
What could be improved:
  • Poor tutorial explanation
  • Keybinding issue can stop progress
  • Daily quests not directly tied to area they are in

  • crafting
  • multiplayer
  • mmo
  • open-world
  • survival
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • dragon
  • magic
  • platform
  • exile
  • base-building
  • easy-to-use
  • online
  • fantasy

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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

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