Ashen Empires
Ashen Empires is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing video game for Microsoft Windows, by Doug Gesler and Pixel Mine. The game takes place in the 2D world where the player can move freely. The fantasy environment is full of other players from across the world, and the game is also described as a free-roam game. There’s no restriction for the players, instead of using tried and true pen and paper stats, including Intelligence, Dexterity, etc. to determine how good the player character is an assigned task. There are four different attributes such as Strength, Constitution, and more. The game starts with the player choosing his one of three different races such as Humans, Orcs, and Night Elves. Using the crafting element the player can create equipment, tools, and weapons to use while in battle. Different factions will let the player experience the different gameplay each time he plays. Ashen Empires includes prominent features such as Attributes, Three Races, Multiple Factions, Crafting, etc.
#1 Starbound
Starbound is an amazingly addictive Action-Adventure, RPG and Indie video game developed by Chucklefish Games. Starbounds fixes you up into the character of the protagonist who flies from his planet and crashes on another. The game takes you to an amazing 2D procedurally generated game world and allows you to explore, craft different items such as weapons, armors, and other objects, fight against the enemies and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. Starbound lets you craft different weapons and tools for survival and allows you to fight against the enemies using different types of skills and tactics. As the universe around you is kind of infinite, you’ll experience an amazing and quite addictive endless game-play along with great visual details and story of the game. With a number of challenging game levels, puzzles, quests, and missions, sandbox type layout, super cool 3D visuals and an immersive game-play, Starbound is a wonderful game to play.
#2 Roblox
Roblox, developed and published by Roblox Corporation is an MMO (Massively Multiplayer online) and a Sandbox video game available to play on PC, Mac OS X, iOS and Android platforms. The game lets you be part of a virtual world by selecting and customizing an online avatar for yourself, explore an open world, interact with a lot of online players, play games together, make friends online and focuses on your creative and building abilities by manipulating the blocks and create whatever you want. You can talk over the mic or chat with your friends via an online text based platform. Everything you see in the game is basically situated inside the differently stylized, sized and colored bricks and blocks, and offers you a unique experience of Voxel based sandbox gaming. You get to visit different places, some provided by the game itself and some user created (Maps created by Lua 5.1 Programming Language), you can walk, run, jump, ride on skateboards, bikes, cars etc. and buy houses to live in. Roblox allows you to buy a structure and decorate it according to your likes and dislikes. If you don’t like a building or you want to destroy something you can totally bring it down and rebuild just according to your style and demands. The game provides you with best 3D graphics, two types of virtual currency (Tickets and Robux) to buy things, a lot of upgrades that you can buy with Tickets or Robux and a lot of other exciting things to do and enjoy.
#3 Craft the World
Craft the World is a marvelous Sandbox Construction, Management, and MMO and RTS Simulation by Black maple games. The Simulation actually lets you be an in charge of a whole big Dwarf Society that with time changes into a fully developed community. Your task is to explore the world around you, collect resources, battles against the monsters, craft different items like “weapons, vehicles, buildings” etc. and discover new technologies to equalize your worth and strengthen your defenses, Defeat your enemies in order to capture their lands and to loot their resources etc. With a number of complex game levels filled with pure awesomeness and fun, amazing amounts of resources, and sandbox aesthetics, wonderful visuals, immersive gameplay and a lot of other cool things, Craft the World is one of the best game to play. Do try it out.
#4 Minecraft
Minecraft, developed by Mojang and 4J Studios and published by Mojang, Microsoft Studios and Sony Computer Entertainment is an indie, Sandbox building and FPS (First Person Shooter) video game. This game is available to play on multiple platforms like PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. The game allows the player to construct buildings out of textured cubes in a 3D generated open world. Player can craft different objects, explore the world, gather resources and engage in combats with enemies. Minecraft also features Survival, Creative and Adventure gaming modes. According to the storyline, player roams in an open world with no specific goals to accomplish breaking and making different kinds of structures with the help of blocks. Walking through deserts, snowfields and jungles, the player switches from first person perspective to third person perspective upon his will and engages in gunfights with the enemy. Minecraft is a great Sandbox, Building, Crafting and Shooting video game to play and enjoy. You must try it out.
#5 Ace of Spades
Ace of Spades is a freemium MMO Sandbox FPS video game that takes you to an amazing combination of shooting, building, crafting and exploring wonder. The game mostly resembles Minecraft, Team Forest and Brick Force and derives a lot of characteristics from them. You can be part of an open world, build different structures with the help of blocks, craft tools and weapons for yourself and explore to gather resources. Ace of Spades allows you to engage yourself in different challenging game modes to show off your creative, development and combat skills. With the help of tools you can dig to create trenches or you want to erect defensive buildings. Ace of Spades mostly focuses on shooting elements, so it provides with different engaging game modes like Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Zombie Survival, Diamond Mine, Territory Control etc. You can put your defense, strategic and building skills on best show to achieve the game objectives and rewards. Ace of Spades is a great game to play and enjoy. Do try it out if you want to experience an amazing game-play.
#6 Cubic Castles
Cubic castle is a freemium MMO and Sandbox video game that lets you build your own realm in a 3D game world with the help of cubes. You can be part of the game world by selecting and customizing your online avatar and once you are inside the game world, you can interact with other online players or visit their realms collect resources or help them build whatever they are building. In your own realm, you can create different buildings and mines to produce more resources and spend them to develop you defenses, barracks, train troops etc. Just like “Roblox”, Cubic Castles allows you to explore a massive open world and manipulate the cubes to create and develop whatever you want. Cubic Castles is one of the best alternatives to “Roblox” and will definitely entertain you enough.
#7 Algodoo
Algodoo is another best alternative to “Roblox” and presents with a Physics based 2D simulation environment. It allows you to create and develop different kinds of structures and things with the help of different physical objects. Algodoo is basically marketed as an educational tool because it provides with an amazing learning environment and encourages you to experiment and challenge yourself with super brainy puzzles and stuff. Algodoo inherits most of the characteristics from another popular sandbox masterpiece “Phun” and takes it to a new level of improved graphics, objectives and sandbox gaming experience. Do try it out if you are in search of some good replacements to “Roblox”.
#8 Blockland
Blockland is an MMO, voxel-based sandbox video game set in a world made of Lego building blocks. Blockland is an open world game with no such goals and allows you to roam freely in the game world, gather resources, build structures as you like them to be and fight off your enemies. You can interact with other online players and build structures together or you can also destroy anybody’s buildings, but that will start a combat and you can either run from there or you can fight and kill your enemy. You can always create an army of NPCs (Non Player Characters) and control them, make different vehicles etc. to ride on and travel to any place you like in the game world. As the game has no objectives, you can sit all day doing nothing or you can get up and make the game-play engaging and thrillingly amazing with all the action-packed things the game offers. Blockland is one of the best alternatives to “Minecraft” and will definitely entertain you enough.
#9 Rising World
Rising World is a Voxel based Sandbox, Action-Adventure, Indie and RPG video game that takes you to an amazing world of procedurally generated and fully destructible environments. Co-op mode of the game allows you to play this cool game with your friends and have an amazingly addictive game-play experience. Your duty in the game is to explore, gather resources, craft basic tools to dig and store the resources fight off the enemies, survive and build massive cities or huge castles etc. You can get help from your friends and build the whole game world together if you want. With random game worlds, modifiable gaming environments, over 200 different materials to build, great environmental physics and so cool upgrades this game is quite fun to play and enjoy.
#10 Planet Explorers
Planet Explorers is an Open World Action-Adventure, Indie, RPG video game that takes place on a distant planet. This voxel based Sandbox video game allows you to use the unique crafting system of the game and build and destroy whatever you want, explore the procedurally generated game world, collect items, and fight off the enemies with your specially designed and sophisticated weapons. You can use different vehicles to travel to places and create new objects wherever you want in an open world environment. Planet Explorers provides you with five main game modes Story Mode, Adventure Mode, Build Mode, Co-OP and Versus and allows you to play and enjoy this cool game to the limits. Other great features include! Over 70 different enemy types, 20 plus NPCs, Ability to dig, build, plat, etc. a lot of upgrades etc.