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Video Games Encyclopedia by Gamepressure.com
A list of Upcoming sandbox video games sorted by popularity among gamers.
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My Summer Car
Simulation TBA (early access since 24 October 2016)
A simulation game developed by independent Finnish developer who uses nickname Royal John Love. The title enables the player to repair old and wrecked cars as a fan of 90s cars, who one beautiful summer decides to fix his old sports car. When the game starts, the player has only a tractor and a van useful when transporting larger parts. The pieces ordered by mail must be installed while focusing on details like selection of proper tools and correct combination of all engine parts.
Sunkenland
Action October 2024 (early access since 26 August 2023)
A first-person game set in a submerged world. Sunkenland has us exploring oceanic depths and scarce islands, building bases and fighting off pirates.
Assassin's Creed: Shadows
RPG 15 November 2024 (early access since November 2024)
The thirteenth main installment of the Assassin's Creed series. The story of AC Shadows takes place in 1579 in Feudal Japan. We can switch between playing as the black samurai Yasuke and the female shinobi Naoe. The game is singleplayer only, featuring a massive open world.
Sengoku Dynasty
RPG 2024 (early access since 10 August 2023)
Sengoku Dynasty is a life sim in the Japanese Middle Ages. The player's task is to take care of his family, develop the settlement and fight against the enemies that threaten it. The action takes place in an open world and the game focuses on a realistic representation of the local culture and history.
Mon Bazou
Simulation September 2024 (early access since 16 December 2021)
FPP sim with racing game elements. In Mon Bazou you race in illegal night races, and earn money by toiling in a variety of activities - from cutting down trees to producing and selling maple syrup.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
RPG 2024
A sequel of the first-person perspective RPG set in the Medieval times in the Czech Republic. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 continues the story of Henry, but this time on a grander scale. The game offers two huge maps, as well as many new and improved gameplay mechanics.
Flyout
Simulation 2026 (early access since November 2024)
A cross between a simulation game and a plane builder. Flyout lets us design our own aircraft, deciding upon their parameters and appearance, as well as take part in test flights over the Earth-sized procedurally generated world.
Grand Theft Auto VI
Action 2025
The sixth main installment of a wildly popular series of sandbox games by Rockstar Games. GTA 6 has been rumored about for years, but the developers still haven't shared any official info about it.
Where Winds Meet
RPG TBA
An action RPG that takes us to a fantasy version of China at the end of the 10th century. In Where Winds Meet, we take on the role of a swordsman traversing the world and facing enemies as he searches for a place for himself in a land in conflict.
Project Castaway
Simulation August 2024 (early access since August 2024)
A survival FPP game in which we end up on a deserted island on the Pacific Ocean. Project Castaway forces us to create useful tools and shelter, gather resources and hunt for animals. We also need to take care of our needs, monitor current health and avoid going insane.
7 Days to Die
Action June 2024 (early access since 16 August 2013)
A post-apocalyptic sandbox FPS developed by a debuting indie studio The Fun Pimps. The game takes you to a near future, when a nuclear war allowed a dangerous virus to spread across the entire world. The virus kills its victims in 7 days, as the title suggests, and turns them into bloodthirsty zombies. You play as one of the few not infected people, fighting for survival in Navezgane County, Arizona. 7 Days to Die allows you to freely explore its open world, adjusting the story to your actions.
Timberborn
Strategy 2024 (early access since 15 September 2021)
Timberborn is a Polish economic strategy from the genre of city builders with survival elements, in which our goal is to create a thriving town inhabited by beavers. The game was developed by Mechanistry studio.
The Isle
Action 2024 (early access since 02 December 2015)
A survival sandbox, in which the player assumes the role of a dinosaur. The Isle Development Team enabled the player to control creatures like Austroraptor, Carnotaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Gallimimus, Utahraptor, Acrocanthosaurus and Allosaurus. The main and only objective of the game is to survive on an island the size of more than a dozen of square kilometers. Depending on the selected creature, the player must hunt for smaller dinosaurs, hide in bushes from predators etc.
Life by You
Simulation TBA
Life by You is a life simulator and a potential competitor to The Sims. The game is the debut project of Paradox Tectonic.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Strategy 20 June 2024 (early access since 15 March 2019)
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a city builder by 3Division. It tasks us with managing, expanding and leading a fictional Soviet republic to a bright future.
inZOI
Simulation TBA
A life sim by KRAFTON and a competitor to such games as The Sims and Paralives. inZOI has us creating a character and having them live their everyday life. The game features graphics of extremely high quality.
Satisfactory
Simulation 2024 (early access since 19 March 2019)
Shooter enriched with elements of simulation game and economic strategy, in which our task is to create a powerful factory complex on one of the distant planets. To do this, we travel the map in search of useful raw materials, construct buildings, construct various equipment and production lines, as well as face aggressive predators living in the wilderness.
Techtonica
Simulation October 2024 (early access since 18 July 2023)
An FPP simulation-strategy game, in which we construct futuristic factoties. Techtonica is set on the titular planet, tasking us with extracting its resources, building complex industrial systems and discovering its secrets.
Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown
Racing 12 September 2024 (early access since September 2024)
The third part of the open-world racing game series that is a part of Test Drive cycle. Test Drive Unlimited 3 is the work of the Kylotonn studio, and the release of this production was handled by Nacon, which took over the rights to this cult brand in 2016.
Necesse
Action 2025 (early access since 12 December 2019)
An open-world action adventure game with an extensive crafting system. Necesse is set in a procedurally-generated fantasy land. It's up to us how we'll live in it. The game supports singleplayer and multiplayer.
SpaceBourne 2
Action 2024 (early access since 17 February 2023)
SpaceBourne 2 is a sequel to a sandbox action game with RPG elements from 2020, set in a sci-fi world filled with celestial bodies to explore. It was developed and published by an independent developer, Burak Dabak.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Action 05 September 2024
Produced by the Ukrainian studio GSC Game World continuation of the action game S.T.A.L.K.K.E.R.: The Shadow of Chernobyl once again takes players to the post-nuclear world inspired by the novel by the brothers Arkadija and Boris Strugatsky "Picnic on the edge of the road".
Night-Runners
Racing 2025
An open world racing game, allowing for illegal night races of highly tuned cars taking place on Japanese highways. Night-Runners wants to be a spiritual successor of the Need for Speed Underground games, however the atmosphere of the game is heavier and more serious.
The Precinct
Action 2024
An action game, in which we play as a rookie cop. The Precinct tasks us with maintaining order in the city of Averno, foiling procedurally generated crimes while investigating the death of the protagonist's father. We'll get to traverse the city on foot, in a police car or a helicopter.