Games like Birthdays the Beginning
by Arc System Works, TOYBOX Inc.
The origins of the world are yours to decide in this engaging and open-ended builder experience! Shape the geography, control the temperature, and give rise to diverse lifeforms. Witness the birth of an entirely new ecosystem, made with your very own hands!
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May 29 · Reuniko
Both: Voxel · Sandbox · God Game
Online voxel sandbox where you can build anything imaginable. Forget simple cubes – sculpt slopes, curves, and structures of any size with many realistic materials. Your imagination is the only limit!
Early AccessVoxelBuildingSandboxProcedural GenerationLevel EditorFantasyChoose Your Own AdventureGod GameCharacter Customization
-33%$40.19Jurassic World Evolution 3
Oct 21 · Frontier Developments
Both: Dinosaurs · Sandbox
Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.
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$14.99Once Upon The Universe
May 29 · Paweł Witkowski ByteEncode
Both: God Game · Sandbox
Once Upon The Universe is a god-game that takes you to the VERY beginning of creation. You begin the game just after the big bang, with nothing but an empty space and a lot of super hot hydrogen in the entire universe. Fill the universe with life and watch it thrive - or destory it.
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$4.99POWDR
3 days ago · SUBLIMINAL SOFTWARE
Both: Sandbox · God Game
POWDR is a high performance interactive particle sandbox featuring realistic fluids, sands, solids, interactions, and more! Every pixel is simulated. Every material interacts. Every experiment can become a catastrophe.
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$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: Voxel · Sandbox
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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$29.99Pax Dei
Oct 16 · Mainframe Industries
Both: Sandbox
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
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Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: Sandbox
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
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$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Sandbox
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
AutomationOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingSandboxOpen WorldOnline Co-OpBuildingSurvivalAdventure👍 2,515
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Voxel · Sandbox
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
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$11.99Collision Course
May 29 · Crynosaurs
Both: Dinosaurs
An asteroid is hurtling toward the planet! Sneak, scavenge and blast your way through an immersive prehistoric world filled with Humans, Dinosaurs, Droids and Mother Nature’s fury!
AdventureActionIndieDinosaursSurvivalEarly AccessOpen WorldFirst-PersonMultiplayerFPS👍 302
$24.99Flotsam
Dec 4 · Pajama Llama Games
Both: Sandbox
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
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-40%$17.99Slime Rancher 2
Sep 23 · Monomi Park
Both: Creature Collector
Continue the adventures of Beatrix LeBeau as she journeys across the Slime Sea to Rainbow Island, a land brimming with ancient mysteries, and bursting with wiggly, new slimes to wrangle in this sequel to the smash-hit, Slime Rancher.
CuteRelaxingSingleplayerOpen WorldColorfulFirst-PersonCreature CollectorAdventureSimulationCasual👍 43,609
$19.99The Front
Oct 30 · Samar Studio
Both: Sandbox
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerSurvivalCraftingBase BuildingBuildingOpen WorldTower DefenseSandboxShooter👍 9,553
$19.99Ostranauts
Aug 3 · Blue Bottle Games
Both: Sandbox
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
FlightSimulationSpace SimSandboxDifficultSurvivalSpaceExplorationLife SimProcedural Generation👍 3,141
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Sandbox
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
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$19.99Castle Craft
Apr 19 · Twin Earth
Both: Voxel · Sandbox
Will your castle survive the relentless onslaught, or collapse under pressure? Build, manage resources, and outsmart your foes in a world where everything can be destroyed. Use strategy and creativity to turn the chaos into your greatest advantage!
VoxelSurvivalThird PersonMagicActionCity BuilderHack and SlashMedievalBase BuildingSandbox👍 480
$24.99Anymaker
3 days ago · Geometa
Both: Sandbox
Embark on your creative journey of vehicle design, as you create and operate vehicles to survive this dangerous open world. Anymaker is a detailed and technical vehicle builder and survival game. Design your chassis, build your engine, connect components, and travel into the unknown.
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$14.99Vonkelveld
Jul 2 · Software MoosS
Both: God Game · Sandbox
Shape a living god-sim where every spark is a soul. Zoom from one life to a whole world that curls into a torus; raise land, call rain, touch one fate, and ask why any place became itself. Choose what endures; the Chronicle remembers what your hand preserved.
Early AccessSimulationStrategyGod GameColony SimSandbox2.5D2DMinimalistTop-Down
$29.99Palworld
Jul 9 · Pocketpair
Both: Creature Collector
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Open WorldSurvivalCreature CollectorMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOnline Co-OpCraftingIndieCo-opAdventure👍 412,343
-15%$12.74Biovoid
3 days ago · Dzedou
Both: Sandbox
Biovoid is a creature-building roguelike game where you slay hordes of hostile aliens. Combine a variety of cells and mutations to create game-breaking builds and evolve from a fragile hatchling to a deadly predator.
Action RoguelikeSimulationSandboxNatureSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuildingPerma DeathDifficultAliens
$19.99The Last Starship
Feb 3 · Introversion Software
Both: Sandbox
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
StrategySandboxSpaceSimulationSingleplayerBase BuildingSci-fiSpace SimBuildingMining👍 1,625
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Oct 16 · Fair Games ApS
Both: Sandbox
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
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Both: Creature Collector
Collect, raise and fuse 99 creatures inspired by organisms that once lived on Earth. Journey across 11 ancient eras, build powerful teams, face an era boss at the end of each age and preserve your collection beyond extinction.
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Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Sandbox
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
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Aug 13 · Lantto Games
Both: Sandbox
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
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Oct 22 · FreeMind S.A.
Both: Sandbox
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Both: Sandbox
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Sep 25 · Shape Shop
Both: Sandbox
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Both: Sandbox
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Both: Sandbox
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CasualRelaxingAtmosphericCozyExplorationLore-RichGod GameStory Rich2DTactical RPG
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Both: Family Friendly
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