17 Best Sandbox RPG Games for Linux

Endless Sky is a 2D Role-playing, Adventure, Sci-fi, Sandbox, Space Trading, and Single-player Exploration video game created and published by Michael Zahniser for multiple platforms. It mainly focuses on space trading and combat elements and offers the superb gameplay inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. You as the protagonist must work your way up from a cargo ship, wimpy shuttle, or a fighter, to customize and upgrade the flagship to progress through the game. The game rewards you with money for each completed levels, and you can use to unlock further content. Earn as much money as possible by carrying passengers or cargo, bounty hunting, escorting convoys, or plundering the enemy ships. It takes place in the large galaxy consists of hundreds of start system, planets and several alien species with unique technology. The game becomes tough to play, as you advance to score enough points. During the gameplay, you can interact with non-player characters, encounter alien species and take down them to advance through the story. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics, Endless Sky is the brilliant game to play and enjoy.

Space Station 13 is a Round-based RPG and Sandbox video game, where the player takes on the role of the protagonist, a crewmember on the space station. The game supports Multiplayer mode and lets the player to struggle with other players to keep the space station running smoothly, while dealing with enemy forces who invade to sabotage the mission. In the start of each round, the player must select a crew member on the space station, ranging from captain to engineer, medical doctors, scientist, and security officer. At the start of the game, the game will give the antagonistic role one or more players randomly. In the game, the player examine and use any object and the result will appear based on different variables in given instruction. The player explores the world from a top-down perspective, interact with his crew members, and command them to complete a variety of tasks to running the station. Space Station 13 includes prominent features such as Dynamic Atmosphere System, Fully Destructible Station, Random Events, Powerful Admin Tools, Chemistry System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

VoidExpanse is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, Space Exploration, Sci-fi themed, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created and published by AtomicTorch Studio for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the huge world and mixes the Action Role-playing, and Science-fiction element set in deep space. The player takes on the role of the spaceship pilot with a task to manipulate the large galaxy, encounter planets, space stations, space pirates and several alien species as well as friends. During the gameplay, the player needs to mine asteroids for valuables, collect resources, trade to upgrade his ship, and effort to complete the requirements of story-based missions offered by one of different faction each with its unique agendas, characters, and skill trees. It offers Sandbox feature, enabling the player build, craft, trade, explore, deploy, battle and trade his way to earn experience points. VoidExpanse offers prominent features such as Open Exploration, Upgrade your Ship, Real-time Combat System, Multiple Factions, Character Customization, Trading System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Albion Online is a Massively Multiplayer Online, Role-playing, and Medieval video game created and published by Sandbox Interactive. There are different character classes, and the player can select from one of them, customize it using different items and options and dive into the medieval-themed world. The ultimate task of the player is to fight for his life and his people whose life depend on him. The game uses isometric view and allows the player move freely, collect resources, grow crops, maintain a farm, and craft different weapons and goods. Create a home, decorate and furnish it with a unique style. Place comfy beds, furniture, and tables in his home to decorate. Interact with other players, immerse himself in PvP battle arena and show off his powers. The player can create his guild, and start a battle against foes and their bosses with other players and defeat them to earn points. The game rewards the player with experience points and amazing rewards that he can use to unlock further content in the game. Cross Platform, Player Driven Economy, Fight against Eight Hundred Territories, etc. are the prominent features of the game.

3079 is an FPS, RPG and voxel based sandbox video game that is greatly inspired by Minecraft. The game is set in a Sci-Fi and open world game world and lands you in the middle of an ongoing war between the two block clans. The game lets you be part of the conflict by choosing the sides and start fighting against your enemies and zombies on the same time. You can craft your own weapons, food, armor and bunkers to save yourself from the bullets. You can also interact with NPCs (Non Player Characters) and get the locations or maps for different quests and adventures. The game awards you with experience points on every achievement and that experience points can be used to buy upgrades like weapons an skills etc. Because of being so much similar to Minecraft, CubeWorld, and a number of other great Sandbox games, 3079 provides with an amazing and a unique game-play and best 3D graphics you’ll ever experience. Do try it out, you’ll like it for sure.

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.

King Arthur’s Gold is an amazing voxel-based sandbox video game that lets you be a “King” in a world made up with 3D blocks. The game is set in medieval era and allows you to build a castle for yourself, make it a stronghold against the invading armies, train massive amounts of troops and engage in bloody wars against your enemies. King Arthur’s Gold allows you to destroy and rebuild the defensive structures and towers to fend off your enemy at initial stages. As being a Massively Multiplayer Online RTS game, King Arthur’s Gold lets the players unite against you in the form of mega alliance and attack your castle, so you must search for resources and use them to buy upgrades for your castle and its surroundings. You can build multiple castles to distract the enemy by engaging them on multiple places, once they are engaged in battles all scattered up, you can unleash your might upon them and eliminate them easily. You can build catapults, arrow throwers, boats etc. too and use them against your enemies from seas and from the ground. King Arthur’s Gold is a great sandbox game to play and enjoy. You’ll definitely get quite entertained playing.

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.

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.

Manic Digger is an Action, Exploration, Building, Crafting, First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game. The game takes place in voxel-based 3D Environment populated with different creatures. It lets you a chance to create your world using different blocks. Explore the game world, accomplish missions, and discover new blocks having special powers. It puts you into the fully destructible world where you can create and destroy everything. Use different types of material to build a house, building, and structure. It unlocks further content as you progress in the game. Use your wits and unleash your creativity. Manic Digger offers the similar gameplay to Minecraft. It has a variety of levels and the game become more challenging as you progress in it. Your character can move freely and can run and jump. Craft useful items and use them during gameplay. Immerse yourself in the First-person experience. Manic Digger is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Build and Shoot is a First-person Shooter, Sandbox, and Single-player video game developed by Build Then Ship, LLC. The game takes place in the destructible environment based on blocks and lets you get into the role of the protagonist who has to explore the world from the first-person perspective. In the game, your character equips with lots of tools that can be used to construct different structures, craft weapons and destroy the environment. Control the character and fight against enemies, defeat them and earn points and use them to unlock further content in the game. As the match progress, other features will be unlocked, and it became involved. Interact with NPCs to progress through the game and immerse yourself in Minecraft-like gameplay. There are different blocks, and each block has its unique abilities. Build your unique world using blocks and share it with friends to impress them. Build and Shoot offers prominent features such as Open World, Exploration, Customization, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

The Long Dark is a new Sandbox-Style Action-Adventure, Survival and Exploration-based video game that takes you to a Frozen World. The world around you gets devastated after a huge Geomagnetic event happens and the environment changes rapidly. Left in the wilderness, your task is to survive the chilling cold and all the threats Mother Nature throws at you. The game lets you think and find the ways to survive, explore the land, gather up the resources, create and craft different items with all the available materials, make shelter for yourself and keep yourself well fed by trapping the animals and drinking plenty of water. With an always changing environment and weather, loads of native creatures such as deer, rabbits, snakes, Wolves, Bears birds etc. you must know how to interact with them and how to survive the attacks. To save yourself from the unforgiving environment, you must know how to make cloths, harvest the wood to keep the fire burning, harvest different medicinal plants to make antibiotics and stuff etc. The Long Dark offers an amazing simulation like game-play, stunning visuals and lots of things to discover and Survive.

RPG MO is a Sandbox Styled MMO-RPG video game created by Marxnet. The game provides with a highly inspired and similar game-play to Swords Art Online and RuneScape and provides with options such as building and decorating your own houses in a huge game world and raising, petting and breeding animals etc. This simple yet addictive and engaging video game lets you fight against some epic monsters, enemy bosses and level yourself up to a more advances tier. Multiplayer gaming mode allows you to invite your friends to the game world, engage yourself into the most epic activities, combats, PvP and PvE events and enjoy the ultimate fun. With a whole amazing variety of Unique Skills, Epic Quests, Dungeons to Explore, a lot of fun Mini games, different kinds of enemies, Great Crafting system that helps you craft Weapons, Spells, Pets, Food, etc. and an addictive game-play, this game is quite fun to play and enjoy.

Neo Scavenger is another great Action-Adventure and Survival video game that leaves you right in the middle of a Wasteland and lets you survive in an unforgiving environment, find out who you really are and why are you here. The game totally lets you decide what to do with your life and where to go from here, how to start exploring the world, how to scavenge for all the necessary items and supplies and how to approach all the ones you encounter. In order to survive, you’ll have to keep yourself properly fed, and drink plenty of water because the dehydration element will challenge you again and again, lack of weapons and tool will force you to collect different materials and create useful items. You must know how to survive in an apocalyptic environment or else you’ll perish. With a marvelously unique setting, turn-based game-play, permadeath element presence, choices between sandbox or story modes, amazing crafting abilities and a totally realistic gaming experience, Neo Scavenger is one of the brilliant games of this genre ever created. Do try it out.

The Repopulation is a Sandbox-Style MMORPG set in a Sci-Fi environment. This masterpiece from Above and Beyond Technologies is one of the most played and well-accepted video game. The game is currently in its Late Alpha Phase and you can have it for Early Access on Steam. In The Repopulation, you can have a totally choice-based experience, go for traditional RPG elements or if you want you can engage yourself into Action-oriented game-play too. Exploration, Resource Collection, Crafting abilities, unique Weapons, Social Interaction and Sandbox Environment are among the most prominent features of this brilliant game. With a number of unique Skills, amazing PvP and PvE combat Events, epic boss encounters, Multi-Racial Character selection and Customization options, the ability to switch between Action-Oriented or RPG game-play types, unique economy system and loads of other cool features to discover, The Repopulation is one of the most played and well liked MMORPG game. Do give it a try, its quite amazing.

Darkfall: Unholy Wars by an Independent Game Development Company Aventurine SA is a fantastic Combination of MMORPG, Real Time Strategy and Sandbox-Style environment. The game offers a fast-paced, Action-packed game-play in which your task is to start and manage whole Clans of individuals like yourself, go battle against the enemies in order to conquer the world around you while exploring and collecting the resources in a seamless and Zoneless world of Agon. Darkfall: Unholy Wars allows you to recruit and train more troops into your forces, make finest warriors and go conquering the fortresses, clans and the whole cities, engage yourself into epic Ground and Naval Battles against the enemies and enjoy taking part in PvP and PvE Combat events and eventually grow stronger, built a massive Empire and rule the world. With a Sandbox-Style environment and game-play Darkfall: Unholy Wars offers a land without bounds to explore, master unique Skills and talents, create and conquer whole new empires, craft items like weapons, food and other resources and enjoy every bit of this brilliant game.

Castle Story is an amazing voxel based sandbox and survival video game that takes you to an amazing strategically enhanced and quite adventurous game-play. Just like a lot of other sandbox games, Castle Story allows you to explore a massive 3D game world in which you can gather resources, destroy and build different structures etc. The main objective of the game is to build a massive impenetrable castle that will be your stronghold against the enemies lurking in the wilderness of the game world. You can also gather up characters like you and make strategies that will define the fate of everyone including yourself. The game also focuses on how you strategically defeat your enemies and save your people, your castle and your resources from looting. Your troops will scavenge for resources and upon their arrival you can build more cubed structures using that resources. The “Yellow” people in the game are the ones you should be worried about because if any “Yellow Dude” dies your life gets shorter, so build strong defenses to save them and your castle.