The Best Survival sandbox Games for Android

Update : Aloft added at rank #37.
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Satisfactory (2024)

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Android PC Windows

Satisfactory is an engaging first-person factory-building game on an alien planet, allowing players to explore a pre-generated world and harvest natural resources to create automated factories. With great power systems and conveyor belts to help automate resource collection and transportation, the game offers a fun and addictive experience for control freaks and automation enthusiasts. The added survival element provides extra depth, making it a must-play for exploration and building game fans.


What we like:
  • Engaging first-person factory-building experience
  • Pre-generated world for unique gameplay experience
  • Fun power systems and conveyor belts for resource automation
  • Survival element adds extra depth
  • Great for building and automation enthusiasts
What could be improved:
  • May require significant time investment to unlock useful devices and modes of transportation
  • Demands patience, structure and adaptability

  • sandbox
  • first-person
  • factory
  • open-world
  • automation
  • survival
  • factory-builder
  • robo-said
  • crafting
  • base-building
  • rps
  • cookie
  • cooperative
  • whale
  • resource

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Space Engineers (2019)

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Xbox One Android Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Players build space ships, space stations, planetary outposts of various sizes and uses, pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive.


  • sandbox
  • volumetric
  • survival
  • physics
  • block
  • space
  • open-world
  • crafting
  • building
  • construction
  • realistic
  • grid

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Terraria (2011)

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Android Xbox One Xbox 360 Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile wii u vita Playstation 4 Playstation 3 PC Windows Nintendo Switch Nintendo 3DS Mac OS Linux IOS iPhone stadia

Terraria is an addictive, systems-heavy, 2D sandbox-survival game that offers exploration, crafting, and combat, where you must defeat enemies and gather resources to build increasingly powerful weapons, armor and housing for NPCs. With pixelated visuals, great controls, and sound, Terraria provides hours of entertainment and is a must-have for Minecraft fans looking for something different in this genre.


What we like:
  • Addictive gameplay
  • Pixelated 2D sprites that are beautifully designed
  • Complex systems-heavy gameplay
  • The game has a purpose to serve with the housing of NPCs
  • Great and responsive controls
What could be improved:
  • The game has too many shortcuts and menus, which may overwhelm new players
  • Not a lot of screen space on small touch-screen devices

  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • boss
  • inventory
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • adventure
  • multiplayer
  • open-world
  • exploration
  • platform
  • cooperative
  • zombies
  • online

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No Man's Sky (2016)

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PC Windows Android Mac OS Xbox Series X osvr psvr Playstation 5 Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

No Man's Sky is a massive universe-sim sandbox experience that lets you explore an infinite number of planets with unique lifeforms and environments. Upgrade your ship and suit for survival and choose your own path - whether you want to be a trader, fighter, or explorer. The game offers great graphics and good VR support with the ability to play with friends and share your discoveries.


What we like:
  • Deliver on promises
  • Great graphics
  • Cross-play enabled
  • Good VR support
What could be improved:
  • Some bugs present
  • Not challenging enough
  • No co-op progression

  • inventory
  • survival
  • exploration
  • sci-fi
  • crafting
  • pirates
  • resource
  • discovery
  • aliens
  • trading
  • multiplayer
  • space
  • sandbox
  • open-world
  • management

5

Survivalcraft 2 (2016)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

Explore, mine resources, craft tools and weapons, make traps and grow plants. Survivalcraft brings features you love to your mobile device: infinite worlds, caves, logic elements (electricity), pistons, weather, boats, rideable animals, explosions, clothes, armor and many more.

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  • sandbox
  • survival
  • long-running
  • horses
  • construction
  • open
  • parkour

6

Creative Destruction (2018)

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Android IOS iPhone PC Windows

Welcome to the world of Creative Destruction where everything is fully destructible! Creative Destruction is a new FPS/TPS sandbox survival game that features the utmost fun of building and firing.

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  • sandbox
  • survival
  • battle
  • shooter
  • fight

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Scrap Mechanic (2016)

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early access Android PC Windows

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!


  • building
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • physics
  • simulation
  • cooperative
  • moddable
  • third-person
  • multiplayer

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DayZ (2018)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Android

How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

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  • survival
  • zombies
  • sandbox
  • multiplayer
  • inventory

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Sky (2023)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

SKY is a new way of looking at urban planning strategies. Change voxel landscapes at your discretion, develop technologies, build environmentally friendly cities of the future, and withstand any blows from the elements.

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  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • voxel
  • city-building
  • automation
  • open-world
  • multiplayer
  • survival
  • sky
  • procedural
  • pve
  • pvp
  • action-adventure
  • immersive
  • management

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Starbound (2016)

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PC Windows Xbox One Android Linux Mac OS

Starbound is a 2D space-based exploration and crafting sandbox game that offers endless possibilities. With a multitude of different planets to visit, you can mine, gather resources, manage your inventory, buy and sell items, farm crops, steal from others, and craft objects. There are three different modes to choose from, and you can play alone or with a friend through Steam for a cooperative experience. The game has a large variety of weapons, and nearly everything in it can be upgraded. Although combat is the weakest element of the game and there could be more customization options for your ship, Starbound is still highly enjoyable, with countless ways to keep yourself engaged for hours or even days.


What we like:
  • Infinite potential
  • Community mods add to the game
  • Aesthetically pleasing
  • Building and farming mechanics are fun
  • Terrarium-like exploration
What could be improved:
  • Stuttering and punishment system can be frustrating
  • Combat mechanics need refining

  • sandbox
  • crafting
  • exploration
  • survival
  • dungeon
  • space
  • farming
  • boss
  • survival-craft
  • open-world
  • adventure
  • cooperative
  • medieval
  • robots
  • 2d

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