The Best Survival sandbox Games

Update : Tinkerlands added at rank #1.
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Tinkerlands (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

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  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • building
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • cooperative
  • procedural
  • 2d
  • replay-value
  • exploration

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Blacksmith Master (2025)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS Linux j

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.


  • colony
  • moddable
  • economy
  • automation
  • management
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • building
  • resource-management
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • strategy
  • open-world
  • survival

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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

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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

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Lost Skies (2025)

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early access j PC Windows

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

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  • open-world
  • crafting
  • survival
  • base-building
  • cooperative
  • sandbox
  • vehicle
  • exploration
  • mass
  • character
  • ship-building
  • flight
  • pve
  • adventure
  • customization

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Dysterra (2025)

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Android PC Windows

On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!

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  • survival
  • crafting
  • pve
  • first-person
  • post-apocalyptic
  • base-building
  • shooter
  • character
  • pvp
  • fps
  • sandbox
  • 3d
  • customization
  • realistic
  • open-world

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Space Engineers 2 (2025)

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early access PC Windows

The ultimate space sandbox, reimagined. Unleash your creativity with powerful building tools, explore the mysterious Almagest system, and uncover its captivating story. Join the Early Access and shape the future of space engineering!

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  • sandbox
  • space
  • simulation
  • choices
  • exploration
  • realistic
  • action-adventure
  • open-world
  • 3d
  • futuristic
  • third-person
  • survival
  • relaxing
  • sci-fi
  • first-person

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Piworld (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Piworld is a unique multiplayer game where everyone can find something to do to suit their desires. Try out different roles: from a simple fisherman to an adventurer. Explore the world alone or with friends, fight evil, develop your skills, and create your own story.

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  • class
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • pvp
  • trading
  • hidden-object
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • survival
  • colourful
  • open-world
  • 2d
  • funny

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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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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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