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.
#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 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.
#3 A Valley Without Wind 2
A Valley Without Wind 2 is a marvelous piece of art, as compared to a lot of other titles of this specific genre. The game offers beautiful Action-Adventure, Strategy, RPG, Exploration, Crafting, Building and Platform aesthetics just like Starbound and lets you enjoy being part of a world where you can do almost everything you want. A Valley Without Wind 2 lets you be a Mage who in search of some important info, infiltrates the inner most circle of Demonaica. Your task is to be the Mage, acquire the info, unlock the thrilling power of Immortality and finally defeat the Demonaica to save the world around you and the populace. With 2 brilliant main modes, varying difficulty levels, turn-based strategic game-play, wonderful quests, missions, brutal enemies and lot of other great things, A Valley Without Wind 2 is a super cool game to play and enjoy.
#4 Pixel Piracy
Pixel Piracy is an Action-Adventure video game with Real-time Strategy, Sandbox, and Rough-like elements created by Quadro Delta and published by Re-logic. The game casts the player in the role pf the pirate captain and doesn’t have any specific jobs for the player, and the player is free to adventure in his own style. The player reaches an Island where he can build his ship using a variety of blocks and hire his crew, after customizing the setting. The player must struggle to collect supplies to feed his crew and deal with weapons and equipment requirements. The game features permadeath, so when the player dies by starvation, or by a wild animal, or event another pirate the player’s captain doesn’t restore. It offers a massive map where the game takes place, and the player must select his destination on the map. Each location filled with danger, and population. In actual, the computer controls the sailing, but the ship will stop for a fight when some another pirate attack. With superb gameplay, addictive graphics, and wonderful visuals, Pixel Piracy is the best game to play and enjoy.
#5 StarMade
StarMade is another marvel and a super cool addition to the Sandbox genre. This brilliant Action-Adventure, RPG, Indie video game takes you to an amazing space themed game world and allows you to explore the whole universe, create or craft ships, weapons, shields to defy the enemy attacks, go planet to planet, collect resources, engage in epic battles with enemy and survive and save your crew members. Ship customization, encounters with space pirates and ability to build the whole space stations etc. are the coolest parts of this wonderful game. With amazing quests, a huge world to explore, lot of collectibles, Economy driven game-play, great visuals and a lot of other exciting things, StarMade is a great alternative to Starbound.
#6 Trove
Trove is a Sandbox MMORPG video game developed by Trion Worlds. With a Minecraft and Cube World inspired game-play and visuals, Trove is one of the best game of this specific genre. The game lets you select player character from a number of classes, select skills and go to the Arena called Hub to access the Portals and reach to other worlds to fight against the opponents, go to amazing quests, interact with NPCs and other online players, defeat the bosses and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. Trove allows you to select any character from any available character classes, use their special abilities to explore the world, to craft buildings, weapons and loads of other cool items and go against a number of different types of enemies to enjoy the game. Trove lets you explore a massive game world, filed with all kinds of wonders, different types of enemies etc. and it lets you have some of the most coolest Power Ups and upgrades to enhance your abilities and keep on playing the game until you get tired. Trove offers a brilliant Sandbox gameplay similar to the biggest names of the genre such as Minecraft, Cube World and others and offers a truly amazing MMORPG experience ever. Do give it a try, you’ll definitely love this game.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 3079 – Block Action RPG
3079 is a futuristic Open-World Action-Adventure, RPG and Sandbox Style video game by PhrOOt’s Software. The game offers an action packed First person perspective and allows you to explore a ridiculously huge game world, craft different items like weapons, buildings, farms, etc. go on epic Quests and fight against the equally advanced enemies. 3079 features extremely challenging puzzles, Multiplayer gaming mode, First person Shooting elements, procedurally generated world and randomly generated quests, challenging AIs, superbly immersive game-play, great visuals and a lot more wonderful things to discover.
#10 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.