The Best Sandbox Games for Xbox One

Update 26 August 2024: Core Keeper added at rank #10.

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TerraTech is the perfect game for creative kids who love to build their own vehicles and explore a randomly generated world. Construct powerful machines, bases, and weapons to defend against rival miners, gather resources, and improve your standing with the Mining Corporations. Explore treacherous mountain ranges, luscious grasslands, and huge deserts while building and creating your own unique style. The gameplay is fun and intuitive, and the simplistic graphics don't require high-end hardware.

• Fun and intuitive gameplay
• Creative freedom with lots of room for your own style
• Enticing game with interesting mechanics
• Simplistic graphics don't require high-end hardware
• Provides a unique and addictive experience

• Feels empty with repetitive fetch quests
• Lack of big updates
• Multiplayer needs a lot of work

• sandbox
• building
• crafting
• open-world
• construction
• vehicle
• survival
• robots
• physics
• early-access
• exploration
• funny-looking
• online
• vehicles

Good match + 188 Bad match - 268

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Just Die Already is an old people mayhem sandbox game created by the designers of Goat Simulator. You are old and angry and you've just been kicked out of your retirement home. How will you survive in a world that wants you to Just Die Already?

• sandbox
• open-world
• physics
• cooperative
• funny
• gore
• comedy

Good match + 98 Bad match - 119

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Grow: Song of the Evertree is an awe-inducing experience firmly planted between an adventure game and a sweet casual farm game. The game is beautiful with opportunities to explore the world around you and keep it casual with the gameplay, whilst feeding you the story. You get to customize your character and go on a journey to save the Evertree and nurture the world back to health from the Withering. You even get your very own sweet dragon companion!

• Beautiful art style & music
• Customizable character
• Relaxed gameplay
• Dragon companion
• Non-binary characters supported
• No punishment or rush for doing things wrong

• Slow going
• Not strictly accessible in terms of customization options

• farming
• simulation
• city-building
• sandbox
• open-world
• exploration
• wholesome
• world-crafting
• management
• relaxing
• cute
• agriculture
• colourful
• life
• adventure

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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is an expansive open-world RPG/strategy hybrid set in a Medieval world. You lead a rag-tag group of mercenaries and gradually build up your forces, recruiting more troops, improving the quality of your army and taking on ambitious tasks. As you progress through the game you can choose to live a peaceful life or aim to become a powerful ruler with the ultimate goal of becoming the new ruler of Calradia.

• In-depth character creator
• Intense melee combat and tactical battles
• Thousands of hours of potential gameplay
• emergent storytelling and replayability
• Sandbox mode with customizable scenarios
• Multiplayer modes for instant action distraction

• Difficult console controls
• old-fashioned character models
• overwhelming opening hours

• medieval
• sandbox
• battle
• rpg
• strategy
• combat
• war
• horses
• fight
• open-world
• tactical

Good match + 8 Bad match - 17

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Embark on a cosmic journey in Astroneer, where you can shape worlds to your heart's content. Dig, build, and survive in a sandbox universe, creating bases and vehicles with friends. Uncover mysteries and enjoy a crafting odyssey across vibrant planets—your space adventure awaits!

• Engaging crafting and building mechanics
• Vibrant, immersive worlds
• Relaxing, open-ended gameplay
• Satisfying cooperative multiplayer
• Regular updates with new content

• Occasional control and camera issues

• survival
• crafting
• sandbox
• cooperative
• open-world
• exploration
• space
• drop-in
• drop-out
• resource
• base-building
• adventure

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Terraria is an addictive, systems-heavy, 2D sandbox-survival game that offers exploration, crafting, and combat, where you must defeat enemies and gather resources to build increasingly powerful weapons, armor and housing for NPCs. With pixelated visuals, great controls, and sound, Terraria provides hours of entertainment and is a must-have for Minecraft fans looking for something different in this genre.

• Addictive gameplay
• Pixelated 2D sprites that are beautifully designed
• Complex systems-heavy gameplay
• The game has a purpose to serve with the housing of NPCs
• Great and responsive controls

• The game has too many shortcuts and menus, which may overwhelm new players
• Not a lot of screen space on small touch-screen devices

• crafting
• sandbox
• survival
• boss
• inventory
• adventure
• pixel
• 2d
• multiplayer
• open-world
• exploration
• platform
• online
• cooperative

Good match + 71 Bad match - 110

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Trailmakers lets you explore the adventure of building creative vehicles that can be unleashed into the open world. Simulate the driving capabilities of your favorite vehicle: from helicopters to racing cars, combat jets, robots, hovercrafts and many more. The limit is your imagination.

• jet
• vehicle
• sandbox
• building
• moddable
• submarine
• destruction
• racing
• tanks
• space
• physics
• open-world
• flight
• multiplayer
• robots

Good match + 78 Bad match - 102

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Wobbly Life is a lively open world physics sandbox. Play with your friends online and in local co-op, discovering jobs, mini games and story missions. Earn cash to spend in the world on clothes, vehicles and houses. There is a whole wobbly world out there to explore!

• cooperative
• sandbox
• open-world
• split-screen
• local
• physics
• simulation
• multiplayer
• family-friendly
• child-friendly
• adventure
• online
• life
• funny
• 4-player

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Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.

• goat
• sandbox
• physics
• simulation
• funny
• next-gen
• open-world
• comedy
• multiplayer
• achievements

Good match + 142 Bad match - 231

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Put simply, DEEEER Simulator is a “Slow-Life Town Destruction Game”. You can spend your days enjoying a nice, relaxed frolic here and there together with the other animals around town, or you can choose to relieve some stress and absolutely destroy the town and everything in it.

• sandbox
• horses
• parody
• physics
• destruction
• memes
• surreal
• run
• simulation
• third-person
• funny
• comedy
• cute
• gun
• exploration

Good match + 65 Bad match - 153

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