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...
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...
Black Desert Online's character creator is deep enough that players spend hours before ever touching combat, and the payoff is a fluid, chain-combo ac...
Darkfall Online is the full-loot sandbox MMORPG that pushed open-world PvP further than almost anything else in the genre: six races, no classes, no c...
The Quinfall exited Early Access and launched its 1.0 version on February 6, 2026, and developer Vawraek Technology has kept up an unusually aggressiv...
Profane is an upcoming sandbox MMORPG from Brazilian studio INSANE, set in a single-shard world where NPC settlements grow on their own and player gui...