Best games
Best sandbox games
The 250 best sandbox games, ranked from 17,388 critic and player ratings.
How this ranking is built
- Games are ranked on the aggregated critic score out of 100 imported from IGDB and Metacritic, never on Tier's own grades.
- A game only enters the ranking with at least 80 external ratings, so a single enthusiastic review never outranks a proven classic.
- Community grades from F to S are shown next to every game, and only stated as a fact above 5 Tier ratings.
- Release window covered: 1970 to 2026.
- 50 games are listed on this page, carrying 17,388 ratings between them.
- Rankings are recomputed hourly; this one was last rebuilt on 29 September 2026.
Ranking, page 5
201
Space Pirates and Zombies
74
/100
202
No Man's Sky
74
/100
203
Immortals Fenyx Rising
74
/100
204
A
Cyberpunk 2077
73
/100
205
inFAMOUS: First Light
73
/100
206
Black Desert Online
73
/100
207
Hitman: Codename 47
73
/100
208
Astroneer
73
/100
209
Project Highrise
73
/100
210
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
73
/100
211
Tera
73
/100
212
Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage
73
/100
213
S
Mafia II
73
/100
214
Gun
73
/100
215
Vangers
72
/100
216
A
Palworld
72
/100
217
Bully: Scholarship Edition
72
/100
218
Mad Max
72
/100
219
Mount & Blade
72
/100
220
Rebel Galaxy
72
/100
221
Albion Online
72
/100
222
Test Drive Unlimited 2
72
/100
223
Total Overdose
72
/100
224
Hohokum
72
/100
225
Block N Load
72
/100
226
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
72
/100
227
True Crime: Streets of LA
72
/100
228
Cities in Motion 2
72
/100
229
Crackdown 2
72
/100
230
The Sims 2
71
/100
231
Assassin's Creed III: Remastered
71
/100
232
SimCity 2000
71
/100
233
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
71
/100
234
Assassin's Creed Rogue
71
/100
235
Roblox
71
/100
236
Superflight
71
/100
237
Forager
70
/100
238
My Time at Portia
70
/100
239
Human: Fall Flat
70
/100
240
AdVenture Capitalist
70
/100
241
Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
70
/100
242
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
70
/100
243
A
SPORE Galactic Adventures
70
/100
244
New World
70
/100
245
Democracy 3
70
/100
246
Starpoint Gemini 2
70
/100
247
TrackMania Nations Forever
70
/100
248
Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight
70
/100
249
Animal Crossing: City Folk
70
/100
250
DayZ
69
/100
Space Pirates and Zombies
74
/100
202
No Man's Sky
74
/100
203
Immortals Fenyx Rising
74
/100
204
A
Cyberpunk 2077
73
/100
205
inFAMOUS: First Light
73
/100
206
Black Desert Online
73
/100
207
Hitman: Codename 47
73
/100
208
Astroneer
73
/100
209
Project Highrise
73
/100
210
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
73
/100
211
Tera
73
/100
212
Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage
73
/100
213
S
Mafia II
73
/100
214
Gun
73
/100
215
Vangers
72
/100
216
A
Palworld
72
/100
217
Bully: Scholarship Edition
72
/100
218
Mad Max
72
/100
219
Mount & Blade
72
/100
220
Rebel Galaxy
72
/100
221
Albion Online
72
/100
222
Test Drive Unlimited 2
72
/100
223
Total Overdose
72
/100
224
Hohokum
72
/100
225
Block N Load
72
/100
226
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
72
/100
227
True Crime: Streets of LA
72
/100
228
Cities in Motion 2
72
/100
229
Crackdown 2
72
/100
230
The Sims 2
71
/100
231
Assassin's Creed III: Remastered
71
/100
232
SimCity 2000
71
/100
233
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
71
/100
234
Assassin's Creed Rogue
71
/100
235
Roblox
71
/100
236
Superflight
71
/100
237
Forager
70
/100
238
My Time at Portia
70
/100
239
Human: Fall Flat
70
/100
240
AdVenture Capitalist
70
/100
241
Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
70
/100
242
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
70
/100
243
A
SPORE Galactic Adventures
70
/100
244
New World
70
/100
245
Democracy 3
70
/100
246
Starpoint Gemini 2
70
/100
247
TrackMania Nations Forever
70
/100
248
Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight
70
/100
249
Animal Crossing: City Folk
70
/100
250
DayZ
69
/100