Elite Dangerous
400 billion star systems, each one flyable without a loading screen — that scale is still Elite Dangerous's calling card more than a decade after laun...

Star Citizen is Cloud Imperium Games' space sim built on MMO sandbox foundations, where your ship is a place you walk through and repair by hand, and every profession — mining, salvage, hauling, medicine — runs on its own set of rules.
The games below were picked along three lines: sandbox freedom with a player-driven economy, detailed flight and ship-system simulation, and crews sharing one vessel between several stations. Some cover one of those; a few manage all three.
400 billion star systems, each one flyable without a loading screen — that scale is still Elite Dangerous's calling card more than a decade after laun...
EVE Online has run continuously since 2003, and the studio behind it just went through its biggest change in years: CCP Games split from parent compan...
No Man's Sky's galaxy holds quintillions of procedurally generated planets, each one landable with no loading screens breaking the illusion. Hello Gam...
Capture anomalous creatures called Deviations, install them in your base to mine ore and cook your meals, then send them ahead to the next season when...
Dune: Awakening drops you onto Arrakis in a timeline where Paul Atreides was never born and the Fremen have vanished without explanation. Extract wate...
Conan Exiles is an open-world survival sandbox set in the Exiled Lands of Robert E. Howard's Hyboria, where players raise fortresses from bare desert,...
A post-apocalyptic nomadic survival MMO set on a dying Earth that has stopped spinning. Build and pilot massive wooden, wind-powered walkers, flee the...
Ashes of Creation was a crowdfunded fantasy MMORPG from Intrepid Studios built on a settlement system where player activity grew cities from wildernes...
Gloria Victis is a low-fantasy medieval sandbox MMORPG where politics, territory, and siege warfare matter as much as combat skill. Guilds fight for c...
Ultima Online launched in 1997, predates the term "MMORPG" itself, and is still adding new content today, currently under Broadsword Online Games, who...
Five great houses are locked in a struggle for land, power, and wealth in Bellatores, a classless medieval fantasy sandbox MMORPG from South Korean de...
Pick a hillside, and Wurm Online lets you flatten it, tunnel through it or pave a road across it — permanently, on a map where every structure was bui...