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These are the best Sandbox games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Sandbox games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what Sandbox fans genuinely keep coming back to.

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

Terraria beats 77%

ARK: Survival Ascended beats 90%

Brick Rigs beats 92%

No Man's Sky beats 78%

Grand Theft Auto V Legacy beats 76%

Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced beats 78%

Palworld beats 76%

Noita beats 77%

BeamNG.drive beats 79%

Anno 1800 beats 80%

Cities: Skylines beats 73%

Songs of Syx beats 79%

Kenshi beats 78%

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition beats 74%

V Rising beats 76%

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim beats 72%

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City beats 78%

ASTRONEER beats 72%

Banished beats 89%

Fallout Shelter beats 72%

Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box beats 78%

DEAD RISING® beats 78%

Don't Starve beats 71%

Crusader Kings II beats 71%

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord beats 73%

Arma Reforger beats 80%

Hardspace: Shipbreaker beats 86%

Cities in Motion 2 beats 86%

My Time at Portia beats 75%

TerraTech beats 85%

Foxhole beats 76%

Half Sword beats 84%

Lightyear Frontier beats 76%

PowerWash Simulator beats 71%

LEGO® City Undercover beats 78%

Universe Sandbox beats 78%

Timberborn beats 83%

Planet Coaster 2 beats 77%

Elite Dangerous beats 70%

Dune: Awakening beats 81%

7 Days to Die beats 69%

Conan Exiles Enhanced beats 71%

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas beats 68%

Far Cry® 2 beats 71%

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era beats 71%

shapez 2 - Factory beats 71%

Goat Simulator beats 68%

Biped beats 78%

Stardew Valley beats 65%

Wartales beats 78%

Stonehearth beats 78%

Planet Zoo beats 66%

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record beats 78%

Blade and Sorcery beats 69%

Prison Architect beats 65%

The Universim beats 69%

Game Corp DX beats 75%

HITMAN World of Assassination beats 65%

Battle Brothers beats 74%

Nuclear Option beats 74%

Last Call BBS beats 70%

Sons Of The Forest beats 63%

Anno 117: Pax Romana beats 73%

Oxygen Not Included beats 64%

RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack beats 67%

Prototype 2 beats 67%

HITMAN™ 2 beats 62%

ARK: Survival Evolved beats 61%

Just Cause 2 beats 62%

Kingdoms and Castles beats 64%

Tabletopia beats 66%

Out of Ore beats 67%

Saints Row IV: Re-Elected beats 60%

Let's School beats 66%

Fly Corp beats 66%

Victoria II beats 62%

RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe beats 66%

Project Zomboid beats 59%

Poly Bridge beats 60%

The Guild II Renaissance beats 66%

Enshrouded beats 60%

Wobbly Life beats 65%

Jurassic World Evolution beats 61%

PowerWash Simulator 2 beats 61%

The Lab beats 61%

Hello Neighbor Alpha 2 beats 65%

Niche - a genetics survival game beats 65%

Need for Speed™ Payback beats 60%

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator beats 58%

Green Hell beats 58%

Satisfactory beats 57%

Mount & Blade: Warband beats 58%

Aviassembly beats 63%

Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox beats 60%

Sleeping Dogs beats 60%

HumanitZ beats 62%

Townscaper beats 58%

Abiotic Factor beats 59%

Electrician Simulator - First Shock beats 61%

Bloons TD 6 beats 56%

State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition beats 58%

Black Skylands beats 60%

Your Only Move Is HUSTLE beats 57%

Mortal Online beats 60%

TaleSpire beats 60%

Evil Genius 2: World Domination beats 60%

Bloons TD 5 beats 59%

Stronghold HD (2012) beats 56%

The Farmer Was Replaced beats 56%

The Isle beats 56%

Generation Zero® beats 56%

The Forest beats 54%

Forts beats 58%

Tropico 6 beats 58%

Railway Empire beats 58%

Moonbase Alpha beats 56%

Brick-Force beats 58%

ArcheAge beats 56%

Hydroneer beats 56%

The Planet Crafter beats 55%

Poly Bridge 2 beats 56%

Core Keeper beats 54%

Thief Simulator beats 54%

Assassin’s Creed® III beats 56%

Fallout 4 beats 53%

Godot Engine beats 54%

SPORE™ Creepy & Cute Parts Pack beats 56%

Saints Row 2 beats 53%

Saints Row: The Third beats 53%

TrackMania Nations Forever beats 53%

Supermarket Together beats 53%

ICARUS beats 55%

Fallen Earth Classic beats 55%

American Fugitive beats 55%

Jalopy beats 54%

Blueprint Tycoon beats 54%

Slime Rancher beats 52%

Bully: Scholarship Edition beats 53%

Manor Lords beats 54%

Don't Starve Together beats 52%

News Tower beats 53%

Forager beats 52%

Valheim beats 52%

SPORE™ Galactic Adventures beats 52%

Trailmakers beats 52%

Two Point Hospital beats 52%

IdleOn beats 52%

Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm beats 52%

A Game About Digging A Hole™ beats 52%

Tropico 3 beats 52%

Cubic Castles beats 51%

Teardown beats 51%

SPORE™ beats 51%

POSTAL 4: No Regerts beats 51%

Dawnlands beats 51%

Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition beats 51%

RimWorld beats 51%

POSTAL 2 beats 50%

TrackMania² Stadium beats 50%

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition beats 50%

Fields of Mistria beats 50%

Hearts of Iron IV beats 50%

Untitled Goose Game beats 50%

Craft The World beats 50%

Town to City beats 50%

Ultimate Ragdoll Game beats 49%

Dwarf Fortress beats 49%

Grow Home beats 49%

Tropico 5 beats 49%

Supermarket Simulator beats 49%

Alchemy Factory beats 49%

Gear Up beats 49%

Learn to Fly 3 beats 48%

Rec Room beats 49%

The Escapists 2 beats 49%

The Survivalists beats 47%

Guilty as Sock! beats 47%

Planet Coaster beats 48%

Ale & Tale Tavern beats 46%

Kerbal Space Program beats 48%

Transport Fever 2 beats 47%

Portal Knights beats 46%

Europa Universalis IV beats 48%

Ravenfield beats 46%

Shadows of Doubt beats 47%

Hitman: Codename 47 beats 46%

CarX Street beats 45%

Nova Lands beats 44%

Totally Accurate Battlegrounds beats 47%

Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE beats 45%

Farming Simulator 22 beats 45%

Arma 3 beats 46%

Jurassic World Evolution 2 beats 44%

MMORPG Tycoon 2 beats 44%

Stationeers beats 43%

Reign Of Kings beats 44%

Cooking Simulator beats 42%

Mount & Blade beats 41%

Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator beats 44%

Kill It With Fire beats 41%

Kill It With Fire: Ignition beats 41%

Just Cause™ 3: Multiplayer Mod beats 40%

Grounded beats 43%

Hello Neighbor Pre-Alpha beats 39%

RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Platinum beats 39%

Cash Cleaner Simulator beats 39%

Kebab Chefs: Prologue beats 38%

8BitMMO beats 38%

Bloons TD Battles 2 beats 43%

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin beats 38%

Canvas of Kings beats 37%

Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 beats 41%

Game Dev Tycoon beats 42%

Blender beats 43%

Hobo: Tough Life beats 39%

Going Medieval beats 36%

Cortex Command beats 39%

Amazing Cultivation Simulator beats 35%

Besiege beats 39%

Necesse beats 39%

BLOCKADE 3D beats 37%

Volcanoids beats 35%

Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition beats 35%

Job Simulator beats 34%

Far Cry 3 beats 40%

SnowRunner beats 34%

Dorfromantik beats 39%

Hello Neighbor Alpha 1 beats 36%

King Arthur's Gold beats 33%

StarRupture beats 33%

s&box beats 32%

Urbek City Builder beats 32%

RPG Maker VX Ace beats 32%

Stronghold Crusader 2 beats 35%

Garry's Mod beats 41%

VRChat beats 41%

PixARK beats 31%

Endzone - A World Apart beats 31%

shapez beats 36%

Ace of Spades: Battle Builder beats 34%

Golf It! beats 37%

Bridge Constructor Portal beats 36%

Just Cause™ 3 beats 39%

Black Desert beats 39%

Albion Online beats 39%

Crusader Kings III beats 37%

Scrap Mechanic beats 38%

Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends beats 36%

Space Engineers beats 37%

theHunter: Call of the Wild™ beats 37%

MicroWorks beats 29%

PC Building Simulator beats 34%

Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) beats 36%

Bum Simulator beats 32%

Mindustry beats 32%

Train Simulator Classic beats 28%

Hello Neighbor beats 35%

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator beats 37%

Sandboxels beats 31%

SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition beats 27%

The Long Dark beats 35%

Rustler (Grand Theft Horse) beats 26%

Graveyard Keeper beats 36%

Grand Theft Auto III beats 29%

Project Highrise beats 29%

Towns beats 29%

Jurassic World Evolution 3 beats 24%

Tabletop Simulator beats 36%

Atom Zombie Smasher beats 24%

DCS World Steam Edition beats 28%

HITMAN™ beats 32%

Saints Row: Gat out of Hell beats 23%

EVE Online beats 34%

MudRunner beats 27%

Surviving Mars beats 31%

Tiny Glade beats 22%

Villagers and Heroes beats 22%

Overgrowth beats 27%

Blockstorm beats 27%

Just Survive beats 29%

Age of History II beats 26%

Pixel Piracy beats 28%

Spaceflight Simulator beats 25%

APB Reloaded beats 31%

Industry Idle beats 19%

Tropico 4 beats 28%

Kingdom Eighties beats 18%

Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition beats 23%

Colony Survival beats 23%

The Sims™ 3 beats 23%

Toribash beats 23%

Godus beats 17%

Crossout beats 31%

Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion beats 23%

Little Inferno beats 29%

Robocraft beats 32%

LEGO® Marvel Super Heroes 2 beats 22%

Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition beats 27%

Rise of Industry beats 16%

Mini Thief beats 15%

Scribblenauts Unlimited beats 28%

Trove beats 31%

Pizza Connection 3 beats 15%

Starbound beats 29%

Solar 2 beats 23%

People Playground beats 29%

The Sims™ 4 beats 30%

Gold Mining Simulator beats 19%

Creativerse beats 28%

skate. beats 29%

One-armed cook beats 29%

Dyson Sphere Program beats 23%

Fun with Ragdolls: The Game beats 18%

Universe Sandbox Legacy beats 10%

Counter-Strike Nexon beats 23%

Medieval Dynasty beats 21%

Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead beats 19%

Wallpaper Engine beats 28%

Unturned beats 28%

House Flipper beats 26%

The Planet Crafter: Prologue beats 6%

Human Fall Flat beats 24%

Little Big Workshop beats 13%

Stranded Deep beats 15%

Youtubers Life 2 beats 10%

Walking Zombie 2 beats 16%

Stellaris beats 21%

Digger Online beats 10%

WorldBox - God Simulator beats 14%

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