Free To PlayEVE Frontier
MMORPGEarly access
Civilization collapsed generations ago, and EVE Frontier hands survivors nothing but a ship, a signal from three black holes, and the very real job of...
Sandbox MMOs
No quest markers pointing the way, no single "correct" path to follow — sandbox MMOs hand players a set of systems and a world, then step back. Player-driven economies, freeform crafting, territory control, and emergent stories (the kind that come from other players, not scripted NPCs) define the genre far more than any fixed progression track. It's the direct opposite of the theme park model, trading a guided experience for real creative and strategic freedom — and often a much steeper learning curve as a result. This tag covers sandbox MMOs and MMORPGs built around player agency, from EVE Online's player-run galaxy to survival-leaning sandboxes where the world only becomes a story through what players do in it.
Free To Play
Buy To PlayThe Isle
MMORPGSimulatorsEarly access
One egg, no second chances, and an entire lifetime to lose — that's The Isle. This hardcore multiplayer survival game puts you inside a dinosaur's ful...
Buy To PlayARK: Survival Evolved
MMORPGReleased
Released by Studio Wildcard in 2017, ARK: Survival Evolved puts players on a prehistoric island where taming, breeding, and riding over a hundred dino...
Buy To PlayConan Exiles
MMORPGReleased
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,...
Buy To PlayDune: Awakening
MMOFPSMMORPGReleased
Dune: Awakening drops you onto Arrakis in a timeline where Paul Atreides was never born and the Fremen have vanished without explanation. Extract wate...
Free To PlayOnce Human
MMORPGMMOFPSReleased
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...
Free To PlayHaven & Hearth
MMORPGReleased
Haven & Hearth is a sandbox MMORPG of foraging, crafting and settlement-building in a world drawn from Slavic and Germanic myth, made by two Swedish d...
Buy To PlayStar Citizen
MMORPGCBT
Backed by more than a billion dollars from players since 2012, Star Citizen is the most heavily crowdfunded game ever made and still runs as an alpha....
Free To PlayWurm Online
MMORPGReleased
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...
Free To PlaySigma World Online
MMORPGCBT
Industry that poisons the ground it stands on, robots you program instead of command, and a particle collider you assemble by hand to fuel quantum jum...
Free To PlayGloria Victis
MMORPGAnnounced
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...
Free To PlayArcheAge
MMORPGReleased
Released by XL Games in 2013, ArcheAge built its reputation on sandbox freedom rarely matched since — housing, farming, shipbuilding, and open-ocean p...