Multiplayer Sandbox Games

Top 17 multiplayer sandbox games

1. 1

   Garry's Mod

   It's a physics sandbox with no goals where you spawn objects and vehicles and weld them together to build things. Most people play community-made modes such as Prop Hunt and Trouble in Terrorist Town.

   2–64 online

2. 2

   Stardew Valley

   You inherit a run-down farm and get it going by planting crops, raising animals, fishing and mining. Everyone shares the same farm, and you choose whether money is pooled or separate.

   2–8 online · 4 on one screen

3. 3

   Schedule I

   Starting from nothing in a small city, you build a drug business by producing, selling to customers, buying properties and hiring staff while avoiding the police. Mixing ingredients creates strains with different effects and prices.

   2–4 online

4. 4

   Satisfactory

   On an alien planet, you build a factory: mining ore, processing it in machines linked by conveyor belts and producing parts for a space elevator. Factories are built vertically, with multiple floors, trains and pipes.

   2–4 onlineCrossplay

5. 5

   Factorio

   You crash on a planet and build an automated factory from mines, conveyor belts, robotic arms and trains to launch a rocket. The factory's pollution provokes attacks from the native bugs.

   2–64 onlineCrossplay

6. 6

   Fortnite

   You drop from a flying bus onto an island, find weapons and fight until one team is left, building walls and ramps for cover. It also includes LEGO Fortnite, Fortnite Festival and player-made islands.

   2–16 online · 2 on one screenCrossplayFree

7. 7

   Minecraft: Java Edition

   You explore a randomly generated world of blocks, mining resources, crafting tools, building anything you want and fending off monsters at night. Java Edition supports community-made mods and servers.

   2–10 online

8. 8

   Minecraft (Bedrock Edition)

   In a randomly generated world of blocks, you mine resources, craft tools, build anything you want and fend off monsters at night. Bedrock is the edition for consoles, phones and Windows, with a map store.

   2–10 online · 4 on one screenCrossplay

9. 9

   Hytale

   The world is randomly generated from blocks, with fantasy zones, dungeons and creatures, and you fight, craft gear and build in it. It ships with tools for making your own mods, models and servers.

   2–10 online

10. 10

    Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced

    In GTA Online you create a criminal in Los Santos and earn money through heists, missions and illegal businesses to buy cars and properties. Heists are multi-part missions where each player has an assigned job.

    2–30 online

11. 11

    Teardown

    The whole map is made of voxels you can break with sledgehammers, vehicles and explosives. In the campaign you smash open a route to steal several targets and escape within the alarm's one-minute timer.

    2–12 online

12. 12

    theHunter: Call of the Wild

    Across open nature reserves, you hunt deer, bears, birds and other animals by following tracks and calls. Animals detect noise, your silhouette and scent carried on the wind, and each kill is scored.

    2–8 onlineFree

13. 13

    Space Engineers

    Ships, stations and rovers are built block by block in space and on planets, mining asteroids for materials. Everything you build obeys physics, so ships need power and thrusters and break apart in a crash.

    2–16 onlineCrossplay

14. 14

    ASTRONEER

    Astronauts explore several planets, dig and reshape the terrain with a tool to extract resources, and build bases with printers, vehicles and automated machines. Oxygen reaches you through tethers run from the base.

    2–4 onlineCrossplay

15. 15

    Elite Dangerous

    In a full-scale replica of the Milky Way, you fly spaceships to trade, mine, explore systems, hunt pirates or fight the alien Thargoids. Every player shares the same galaxy.

    2–4 online

16. 16

    Scrap Mechanic

    Stranded on a farming planet, mechanics build vehicles and machines from blocks, engines, pistons and sensors. In survival mode you grow food and defend the farm from robots that raid it at night.

    2–4 online

17. 17

    Barotrauma

    Beneath the ice of Europa, Jupiter's moon, you crew a submarine. Everyone has a job, like captain or medic, and together you patch leaks, run the reactor and fight sea monsters.

    2–16 online