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Games like The Sandbox

PIXOWL INC. · 2015 · 54 % positive of 563

24 games that play like The Sandbox and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe!, Sand:box and Creativerse.

Player tags

  • Sandbox
  • Simulation
  • Indie
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Casual
  • God Game
  • Strategy
  • 2D

At a glance

What games like The Sandbox have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Sandbox: Sandbox (23 of 24), Simulation (18) and Open World (9).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2023, 19 of them after The Sandbox (2015).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Space Engineers (88 % positive of 132,347).
  • The Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe! and Purplis Sandbox both play and look like The Sandbox.

By gameplay

Plays like The Sandbox

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox74 % positive of 6,570Shared: Sandbox · Pixel Graphics · Open World
  2. ACTION SANDBOX74 % positive of 987Shared: Sandbox · Simulation · Pixel Graphics
  3. Doodle God75 % positive of 1,377Shared: Sandbox · Simulation · God Game
  4. Space Engineers88 % positive of 132,347Shared: Sandbox · Simulation · Strategy
  5. Mod and Play43 % positive of 1,641Shared: Sandbox · Physics · Open World
  6. Logic World93 % positive of 308Shared: Sandbox · Simulation · Indie
  7. LEGO® Worlds78 % positive of 15,303Shared: Sandbox · Simulation · Open World
  8. Doodle God Blitz68 % positive of 804Shared: Simulation · God Game · Indie
  9. Autocraft56 % positive of 294Shared: Sandbox · Simulation · Physics
  10. Blockland73 % positive of 5,551Shared: Sandbox · Open World · Indie
  11. Mini World: CREATA57 % positive of 4,354Shared: Sandbox · Simulation · Open World
  12. Rising World84 % positive of 5,335Shared: Sandbox · Indie · Early Access

By look

Looks like The Sandbox

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Shooting Stars!82 % positive of 949
  2. WorldBox - God Simulator95 % positive of 44,062
  3. Super Mining Mechs90 % positive of 585
  4. Time Survivors64 % positive of 270
  5. Freaking Meatbags85 % positive of 168
  6. DinoScape81 % positive of 244
  7. Castle Woodwarf84 % positive of 186
  8. Mining Mechs90 % positive of 1,834
  9. Reventure94 % positive of 9,224
  10. Purplis Sandbox67 % positive of 205
  11. Dinocide53 % positive of 227
  12. Caveblazers85 % positive of 4,394

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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