Terraria 2
Terraria 2 is an Action-Adventure, Survival, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Re-Logic and published by 505 Games. The game combines the elements of Side-scroll, Sandbox, crafting, exploration, and combat. You assume the role of the protagonist, and your primary goal is to manipulate the 2D randomly generated the world. You can start the game with three primary tools such as a sword for combat, a pickaxe for mining and an axe for woodcutting. Explore the world, collect resources, craft useful items and fulfill challenging tasks to progress through the game. It becomes difficult, as you advanced. There are a variety of items available, and you can find them only in certain areas of the map, stored in rare and common containers. Craft new items, and use different items to take down enemies. Slimes, Demon eyes, Zombies, Region-specific Enemies, etc. are prominent foes in the game. Score the highest points and use them to unlock further content in the game. With brilliant mechanics, addictive gameplay and superb visuals, Terraria 2 is an excellent game to play and enjoy.
#1 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.
#2 Terraria
Terraria is an open world Action-Adventure, Survival RPG and Voxel-based Sandbox video game set in a 2D game world. The game lets you be part of the game world with three basic tools, a pickaxe, a sword and a wood cutting axe and allows you to explore, gather resources and fight off your enemies. The game world is filled with things that would like to slay you so you need to be a bit more careful while exploring. As the game mainly focuses on night time game-play, the enemies attack at night, so you must be a bit more attentive to the details and your surroundings. Combats are normally melee type so you will have a better chance of earning the XP points that will help you buy some upgrades. Because of being a 2D game, Terraria seems a bit different than other sandbox games, but it isn’t actually. You’ll experience almost the same game-play and a lot of other exciting things. Terraria is available to play on multiple platforms.
#3 Minecraft Pocket Edition
Minecraft Pocket Edition is a super amazing Sandbox and Mining game inspired by the popular Minecraft video game. The game allows you to explore a randomly generated 2D world, dig into the ground, collect minerals and ores, mine for riches, take them to surface and sell them. Furthermore, Minecraft Pocket Edition allows you to build different structures with blocks by the use of your best strategies, build castles, decorate them and fight against the enemies who are habitual of attacking your buildings. With amazing 2D graphics, an addictive game-play and a brilliant open world environment, Minecraft Pocket Edition is a super exciting game to play and enjoy. Try it out and you’ll love it.
#4 Block Story
Block Story is another great Action-Adventure, MMORPG and a Voxel Based Sandbox video game. The game allows you to have a Minecraft and Trove like feeling, Explore a procedurally generated game world, Mine for resources, craft different items, build structures, go on epic quests and engage in hardcore combats with enemies etc. With the hard earned experience points, Block Story allows you to level yourself up by boosting up your expertise, increase your strength and eventually rise as the most superior being in the whole game world. Block Story offers unique characters, skills, and the ability to tame the wildlings, make them your companions, embark on epic journeys together and enjoy the game. Weapons crafting is a wonderful routine in the game, it allows you to craft unique weapons (swords, Staffs, Guns, Bows and Arrows etc.) and go against the most advanced, heavily armored and challenging enemies. With a wonderful setting, great visuals and an immersive game-play, Block Story is a brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#5 The Sandbox
The Sandbox takes the players to a world built entirely on the Laws of Physics and offers an access to over 230 different elements. The game allows the players to get into the world, explore and use the elements to craft various items with all the freedom in the world. The Sandbox lets the players be apprentices of a Deity, explore the world, gather all the necessary resources and craft whatever and wherever they like and eventually create their own beautiful universe of Sandbox. The game allows the players to have resources such as Water, Sand, Glass, Soil, Lava, and Lightning as well as a lot of other types of resources. There are various other complex elements in the game such as Humans, mechanical beings, and wildlife that the players can interact with and use wherever they need. The unique task system of the game allows the players to complete various tasks such as collect water, combine it with dirt and make Mud, build electrical circuits with the help of chemical elements present in the game world and enjoy controlling their own life and a what’s all around them. Some of the coolest features of The Sandbox are Pixel Art Graphics, Availability of the game on all major platforms such as Android and iOS, smooth touch and tilt controls, 24 main campaigns and over 350 exciting game levels, online gallery and loads of other great things to discover. Considering all things, The Sandbox is one fantastic Sandbox video game that offers plenty of room for the gameplay. Do give it a try, The Sandbox is fun playing.
#6 Block Fortress
Block Fortress is another FPS, voxel-based sandbox and survival video game like “Minecraft”. The game focuses on your defense building techniques and strategies, assesses your abilities of defending yourself and your barracks from the enemies. This means that the game allows you to destroy or rebuild different structures to make your keep impenetrable. All the enemies become deadly at night so you must design and build your defenses according to the scenarios. You can also search for resources and use them to build defensive structures in a short time. The tower defense element in the game allows you to build towers around your keep to target incoming enemies. “Block Fortress” is a great mix up of Shooting, Strategy, and RPG elements and will definitely take you to an adventure filled and exciting game-play experience.
#7 Castle Story
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.
#8 WorldCraft
WorldCraft is an Action, First-person Perspective, Sandbox, City-building, Single and Multiplayer Simulation developed and published by Playlabs, LLC. The game takes place in the fully destructible world where you can build and destroy anything that you can see. It lets you a chance to create your dream world according to your style, gather resources, craft useful items and survive as long as possible to progress through the game. Through Multiplayer mode, you can interact with players, and work together to create an amazing world consists of villages, city, mines, houses and more. In the game, you can create a different building, mountains, rivers, etc. using different blocks. There are thousands of players are available in the procedurally generated world around the globe to interact with you. Navigate the world from the first-person perspective, build different objects, chat with other players and engage yourself in social experience. WorldCraft includes prominent features such as 3D Environment, Creative Mode, Colored Chat, Parent Control with Password, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#9 Jade Dynasty
Jade Dynasty is a Massively Multiplayer Online and Role-playing video game developed by Beijing Perfect World and published by Perfect World Europe. The game has released up to seven massive expansion packs recently, and its core gameplay is based on a famous Chinese internet novel Zhu Xian. It takes place in the stunning word focused on ancient China, where dark secrets of immortality and martial-arts were fought over by six different factions of human such as Lupin, Skysong, Modo, Incense, and more. However, their epic pursuit of forbidden knowledge brought them into massive battle with the noble tribes of the Athan such as Forta, Rayan, Arden, Balo, and more. Each faction introduces its different unique skills, styles of play, and strengths as well as weaknesses. During the game, the player can become powerful through 150 challenging levels, high ascended level and many endgame skill systems are available. In the start, the player has to choose one of many character classes and try to take over the land to restore peace and order. With engaging gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics, Jade Dynasty lets you engage yourself in MMORPG gameplay.
#10 Block World
Block World takes you to a beautiful world of Blocks where it gives you the power to Explore, Craft and enjoy manipulating the environment as you like. The game allows the players to collect resources and build whole new villages, construct monumental buildings and enjoy the infinite supply of block of every possible color in the universe. Block World offers easy to learn mechanics and excellent touch and tilt controls, beautifully created 3D graphics, plenty of room for the gameplay as well as the freedom to explore the world. Furthermore, Block World offers fantastic new features such as infinite terrains, biomes and edgeless oceans, amazing HD Graphics, over 350 unique and differently colored block shapes for constructions, over 100 unique items for dye support, third-person perspective, cool weapons to eliminate any enemies, achievement system and lots of other great things. All things considered, Block World is a fun Sandbox video game to play and enjoy, do give it a try.
#11 SurvivalCraft
SurvivalCraft is a Sandbox, Action and Survival video game by Candy Rufus Games. The game leaves you on the shores of an infinite and Blocky World where, in order to survive, you’ll have to survive, Explore, Mine for Resources and Craft tools and Weapons. The secondary objectives of the game include, hunting animals for food, tailoring cloths, building a Shelter and survive the Coldest nights. To traverse through the world and minimize the Distances, SurvivalCraft allows you to ride on Horses, Camels and Donkeys and tasks you to Save the Herd Cattle from harsh weather and the hunters. Start off with an Axe, and blast your way through the rocks with the help of explosives, craft weapons and complex electronic devices and enjoy inventing things. As this is the game’s thirtieth edition, SurvivalCraft offers way more advanced items and weapons for you to keep traversing the environment easily and face all the threats with bravery. With an amazingly addictive gameplay, beautiful 3D visuals and all the exploration fun along with the dynamic environment and revamped game mechanics, SurvivalCraft is a fun Sandbox video game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try.
#12 Exploration
The last one on our list of games like “Island Castaway: Lost World” is Exploration. “Exploration” is a wonderful Sandbox styled Building and Management video game that allows you to build your own unique base, mine for resources, build castles and other buildings and use your imagination to create and build new things. You are walking through a part of terrain that needs a little bit of makeup, terraform it by using your imagination and best skills. This game is all about exploring a beautiful 3d Sandbox world and develop it in whatever the way you like. With astounding visuals, a great immersive game-play and a lot of other cool things, “Exploration” is fun to play and enjoy.
#13 Minecraft: Story Mode
Minecraft: Story Mode takes the players on an Epic journey of Episodic, Point-and-Click Graphic Adventure. This fantastic Sandbox and Single-player Marvel is developed by Telltale Games. It is available on multiple platforms such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation, Xbox, Android, iOS and Nintendo Wii U. Minecraft: Story Mode’s Episode format follows the footprints of Telltale Games’s Top notch creations such as The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. It features a new player character named as Jesse, who can be picked up by both male and female players. The primary objective of the game is to team up with the allies and together as one united power, defeat the Wither Storm and save the world. Minecraft: Story Mode offers unique Crafting and Character modification options and allows the players to wholly or partially change the appearance of the character. They can change faces, skin tones, genders, etc. and enjoy the game even more. Along with the main character of Jesse, Minecraft: Story Mode includes many Human characters in the game that can play their role side by side with the main character. Every Episode of the game offers a new story and requires the players to go with the flow and enjoy the game to the fullest. Till date, the game has released 5 main episodes and three more will be published in the mid of 2016 as DLCs. With a spectacular game setting, beautifully portrayed game story, fantastic graphics, and great mechanics, and plenty of room for the gameplay, Minecraft: Story Mode, offers a truly remarkable Point and Click and Graphic Adventure experience for all the hardcore enthusiasts.
#14 World of Cubes
World of Cubes by SolverLabs is a brilliant Sandbox Online Multiplayer Action and Survival video game. The game takes the players to a world built entirely of the blocks and allows them to create their own beautiful worlds, interact with hundreds of thousands of other online players and enjoy an astoundingly immersive experience of Sandbox gaming. The multiplayer mode lets the players build loads of different items in collaboration with other online players and enjoy spending their time on quality gaming. An amazing feature of the game is that it allows the players to create and protect their crafted items with strong passwords and allow friends to view the items by giving them the access. World of Cubes offers infinite game maps and allows the players to explore the worlds and survive while finding various types of resources, and crafting items with them such as shelter, weapons, and tools. At night, the Zombies attack, so the game allows the players to secure their shelters with traps and obstacles, defend their home by shooting the Zombies and “Pumpkin Heads”, The gory enemies. To survive for a long time, World of Cubes tasks the players to find food. Edible resources such as Cows, Horses, Pigs, and Chickens are the most favorite ones to get food. With all the fantastic gameplay, amazing crafting and building abilities, survival and exploration elements, World of Cubes offers infinite possibilities and proves to be the most creative experience. Try it out and enjoy the ultimate Blocks fun.
#15 Minebuilder
Minebuilder offers the similar gameplay like Minecraft and focuses on Crafting, Exploration, Building and Sandbox element. The game is available to play on Mobile platforms such as Android and iOS developed and published by Space Walrus Studios. It takes place in the block-based world and lets you explore it from the first-person perspective. There are different crafting tools, blocks and equipment and each has its unique property. You can create your own world using different blocks consists of mountains, rivers, towers, buildings, trees and more. The game world is populated with NPCs and you can interact with them. Earn experience points to unlock special blocks and use them to create the fantastic world. Your character can run, climb up and down, jump and attack. Create various monsters and animals using tools and immerse yourself in the multiplayer experience. It has two different modes such as Creative and Survival, select one of them and start your adventure. Rail Tracks, Electric Copper Wires, Animals, etc. are the prominent features of the game.
#16 Block City Wars
Block City Wars is an Action, Shooter, Open World, Exploration and Sandbox Simulation created by G-Games Apps. It offers a block-based world where the game takes place and includes different foes, challenges, and quests. It has a multiplayer mode and lets the player select and customize his character to dive into the world where he can interact with other players, fight against them and complete a set of missions. The game offers the similar gameplay like Minecraft and lets the player use different items, weapons, and tools to slaughter enemies. The player will be rewarded with experience points as he completes the missions and can use these points to unlock further quests, tools, and weapons. The player can explore the world from third-person view. It has different modes such as Single-player, PvP Deathmatch, Sandbox, Online, etc. Block City Wars offers key features such as Monsters and Zombies, Drive Cool Cars, Play with Fellows, Ten PvP Maps and more. With superb controls, brilliant gameplay, and immersive visuals, Block City Wars is the best game to play and enjoy.
#17 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.
#18 Brick Force
Brick-Force is an indie, Sandbox Buiding and FPS (First person Shooter) game developed by Exe Games in collaboration with Infernum. This Unity Engine based game lets the players create maps and worlds brick by brick and share the data with other online game players around the world. The game features 3D graphics, open world gaming environment, single and multiplayer gaming modes and a fast paced action game-play. Player can choose from any one of the four gaming modes (Team Mode, Survival Mode, Blast Mode and CTF Mode), different player characters and a lot of weapons to play. During the gun battles with enemies, player can build covers to save himself from the bullets by placing the bricks in front of him in the form of bunkers or walls. With a lot of power-ups and many trivial facts, this game is fun to play. Brick-Force is available on Android, iOS and Microsoft Windows platforms.
#19 Block Warfare: Operations
Block Warfare: Operations is an FPS (First Person Shooter) Sandbox building video game developed and published by Ammonite Design Studios. This game is also known as Block Ops and is a Voxel based game, available to play on iOS, Android and PC (Microsoft Windows). Block Warfare: Operations features single and multiplayer gaming options, eye catching 3D graphics, an open world gaming environment and a fast paced action game-play. According to the storyline of the game, player goes on missions to infiltrate enemy strongholds to rescue the hostages, sabotage their settlements and devastate their might and power. Block Warfare: Operations provides with a great new experience of FPS, Sandbox and Building elements for you. You must try it out. Block Warfare: Operations is available to play on Microsoft Windows, iOS and Android platforms.
#20 Growtopia
Growtopia is an Addictive, Massively Multiplayer Online, Adventure, and Side-scroll Simulation created by Robinson Technologies Corporation. The game takes place in the fantasy world of Growtopia populated with thousands of other players around the world. In the game, the player can create his imaginary world using different items and accessories. He can compose his own music and sell to another player to earn money. There are different professional such as Doctor, Teacher, Businessman and more. To jump into the game world, the player has to select his role and create his character as he wants. The player can customize his character with different outfits and can craft amazing items using seeds. To unlock further content, he has to gather lots of gems and cool packs. The game consists of different events and achievements. The game revolves around three elements such as Punch, Grow, and Build. Growtopia offers core features such as Collaborate with Real Players, Mini-games, Protect Items, Plant Seeds, Splice Seeds, Explore the Universe, Communicate with each other, and more. Growtopia is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#21 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.