Gaming 10 greatest sandbox games of all-time?

[Fortitude]

Sneakily trying to find games to play that I've not had the pleasure of experiencing yet... might as well make a constructive thread of it.

I guess there's two questions to ask in relation to the title: Enjoyment at the time and re-playability factor. A great sandbox game makes for a classic you can play from scratch multiple times, or no?

How does your top 10 look, which sandbox games have given you that warm, fuzzy feeling?

 

[Olly Gunnar Solskjær]

GTA: Vice City
Driver
Sleeping Dogs
Skate/Skate 2/Skate 3
Driver Parallel Lines
GTA: III

Can't think of anymore at the moment but I love all those.

Edit: If Breath of the Wild counts put that at the top of my list.

 

[Motorman]

Roller-coaster tycoon

 

[Maluco]

I don’t play a massive amount of games, but really enjoyed the most recent Far Cry games, so they would probably make my top 10 by default. If it is strictly open world/sandbox, it is probably something like this...

1. Skyrim
2. Red Dead 2
3. Breath of the Wild
4. GTA 5
5. Red Dead
6. GTA 4
7. San Andreas
8. Far Cry 5
9. Far Cry New Dawn
10. Sleeping Dogs

Big Shenmue and God of War fan too, but obviously don’t qualify as sandbox

 

[Massive Spanner]

Vice City
Breath of the Wild
Witcher 3
Fallout New Vegas
Red dead redemption
Mafia

Not sure what order.

 

[Walrus]

"Sandbox" can mean a number of things. Personally I am not sure that several of the previously mentioned games truly qualify as sandboxes rather than just "open world". Still, a couple of mentions from me;

Minecraft
Mount & Blade (amazing mods for this too)
Kenshi
Subnautica (this one is a stretch to qualify as a sandbox too, I'll grant)

 

[2mufc0]

Saints Row should be in there, really entertaining.

 

[The Cat]

I'm gonna throw one of the first ones in there - Skooldaze

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Any love for Just Cause?

 

[V.O.]

Any love for Just Cause?

Have only played JC2 but you can't beat it as far as just having fun dicking about in an open world goes.

 

[Stactix]

Mount & blade Warband & now Bannerlord.. + Mods.. mods mods.

 

[Cloud7]

In no particular order:

Skyrim
Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout 3
RDR2
GTA V
GTA San Andreas
Witcher 3

 

[2mufc0]

Any love for Just Cause?

I love those games, just blowing shit up, no. 3 is my fave.

 

[mariachi-19]

Open world list of games i've played.

Red Dead 2 (just stunning)
San Andreas
GTA IV (Ballard of Gay Tony is one of the best parts of the franchise period). Wish they'd do a remake with some of the elements of GTAV... post stock market crash would also be great;
Red Dead
Sleeping Dogs
GTA V (I dont find myself wanting to return after Red Dead 2 - There's alot of nothingness in that game and the story does not invite you to do side quests for any real benefit unlike RDR2)
Just Cause 2 (neither 3 or 4 have lived up to it)
Far Cry 3/4 (both are quality, Far Cry 5 is shit)

 

[mariachi-19]

Saints Row should be in there, really entertaining.

Entertaining games, but overrall as far as a sandbox goes, outside of missions its pretty poor.

 

[Berbaclass]

New Vegas is my #1