Best Free Sandbox Games for PC in 2024!

Explore a bright and fantastical anime-styled world in miHoYo's free-to-play online RPG Genshin Impact. Assemble your crew of adventurers and shift between them on the fly, as you journey across the world of Teyvat and fight monsters, solve puzzles, and help the townsfolk.

Play Fortnite in a totally new way, in Fortnite: Battle Royale, the free-to-play spinoff of Epic Games' builder/shooter. Like other classic BR games, you'll be dropped into the world and forced to scavenge and survive.

Get your cozy MMO on as you work to build your house, collect bugs, fish, and help out friends.

Neverwinter is an action MMORPG based on the acclaimed Dungeons and Dragons universe. In Neverwinter you take on the role as a mighty hero who must set out to protect the lands of Neverwinter from those who conspire to see it destroyed.

Trick out your ride and take to the post-apocalyptic roads for battle in Crossout, the free-to-play vehicular combat game from Gaijin Entertainment! Featuring a vehicle design system with endless customization and fast-paced, armor-crunching combat, Crossout offers high-octane excitement in brief and explosive matches.

Albion Online is a 3D sandbox MMORPG with player freedom being at the center of the game. Players will be able to claim land, build a house, gather resources, craft items which they can use or sell, and engage in Guild vs Guild or open world PVP.

Mabinogi is a free online game developed by devCAT Studio during three years. It’s also an innovative free MMORPG that offers an amazing cartoon look, thanks to a technique called Cartoon Rendering.

Chimeraland is a free-to-play sandbox MMO that has so many character customization options that some of you may be in the creator for hours… no joke

Go it alone or team up with friends (or enemies you decide to spare) in this cross-platform, survival shooter.

RPG MO is a free-to-play retro-style sandbox MMORPG featuring pixilated graphics and wide, colorful world in which players can level up various combat abilities, or take a break from the hack-and-slash and focus on crafting skills. This 2D open-world MMORPG is available on PC via browser, client and Steam.

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited (DDO) is a free to play 3D Fantasy MMORPG based on the classic Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) tabletop role playing game. The game was originally released as a subscription based game but is now free-to-play with an item shop.

Dive into hyper-realistic battle royale action in Landfall's Totally Accurate Battlegrounds, now free-to-play. Up to 60 players compete to be the last man wobbling, using weapons like the balloon crossbow, inflatable hammer to achieve their murderous goals.

Listen up all of you 8­bit lovers out there! As the name would suggest, 8BitMMO is a free to play retro­style 2D massively multiplayer game!

Age of Wulin, also known as Age of Wushu in North America is a new free to play fantasy 3D martial arts MMORPG with some unique features. Set in the Ming Dynasty (Jianghu) during the Chinese Feudal Empire.

An "old school MMORPG" that pays tribute to those that came before it.

ArcheAge is a fantasy sandbox MMORPG that sends players on a journey across the great continents of Nuia and Harihara. In search of the legacy of the Delphinad, the greatest city to ever exist, they will unfold the secrets of the Lost Continent as well as whatever adventures and treasures that turn up along the way.

Unturned is a first person survival FPS in which players must scavenge for supplies as they traverse a zombie-filled environment. Players may choose to play offline by themselves or join others on community hosted servers in either PvE only or PvP configurations.

Roblox is a massively multiplayer 3D game environment with of thousands of games that use physics to simulate the real world, and a virtual economy with millions of highly customized characters. Players on Roblox demonstrate incredible creativity limited only by their imagination, using core building components to create their own elaborate online games, social hangouts, and custom virtual items.

Second Life is one of the most famous, if not the most famous free online virtual world games ever created. From the moment you step into the world designed by Linden Lab, you’ll find a place where there are opportunities to do everything you want to.

In Creativerse, a free-to-play building game from Playful Corporation, you can explore, mine, craft, and build to your heart's content in a lush and vibrant 3-D world. Many elements will be familiar to players of similar games, but Creativerse streamlines much of the gameplay, making it easy to jump right in and start building the structure of your dreams!

Choose your path and create your legacy in Legends of Aria a free-to-play sandbox MMORPG from Citadel Studios. Create your character exactly how you want it, choosing from over 30 skills, and put yourself to the test in a vast open world where danger lurks around every corner.

Trove is a Voxel-based MMO from Trion Worlds that generates exciting new worlds on a regular basis. It features free-form exploration that makes going through a mountain as rewarding as going over it, and enables community contributions to significantly impact the game through player created creatures and environments.

Get creative and build the world of your dreams in Ylands, a free game-builder from Bohemia Interactive.

Entropia Universe is free to play 3D Sci-Fi MMORPG with interesting economic and social features. MindArk’s virtual economy universe is known by many names depending on when you started playing the game and what planet was the key planet at the time.

APB: Reloaded (All Points Bulletin) is a free to play 3D massively multiplayer online third-person shooter game (MMOTPS) based in the modern-day fictional city of San Paro featuring two factions, Law Enforcement who take on the challenge of supporting and safeguarding justice, or as Gangs, who operate against the law and any opposing groups by any means necessary. Players can join either faction, and then form their own customized team and group to join the constant battle across the urban landscape.

Make friends, make enemies, and survive the elements in Wild Terra Online, a free-to-play survival MMORPG from Juvty Worlds Ltd. With over 100 buildings to choose from, you can build your settlement up from scratch and defend it from all comers in skill-based combat, or just engage in crafting and the economical aspects of the game.

Block N Load is a free-to-play multiplayer online FPS game developed by Jagex that looks like a mix of Minecraft and Team Fortress 2. Get ready for the ultimate in multiplayer online gaming; you’ll face off in battles of 5v5, where everything you build, destroy, construct or shoot at has a devastating impact on the entire game.

Robocraft is a vehicular shooter, in which players build and then battle with their very own robotic creations. Robocraft features an incredibly flexible vehicle editor, which lets players place individual blocks in hundreds of configurations, giving them the ability to create truly unique robot designs.

Create your own world and enjoy endless customization in Pixel Worlds, a 2-D free-to-play MMORPG from Kukouri Mobile Entertainment that's now on Steam! Gather resources through mining and farming, using what you can to build and trading away what you can't to other players, thanks to an economy that's 100% created by the players.

Salem is a free-to-play crafting MMORPG developed by Seatribe and Mortal Moments, Inc. Players will experience an enormous open-world colonial setting where creation is the goal and all the necessary materials are for the taking – and permanent death is a real possibility.

Wakfu is a free to play 2D anime-style MMORPG with unique features like a ecosystem, citizenship and much more featuring tactical turn-based combat, vast character customization, and a deep player influenced world. One of the goals of the game is to develop your character, not only by finding its place in the world of Wakfu, but also by improving its characteristics and battle skills.