Combining a beloved barnyard animal with unbelievable physics proved to be a million-dollar idea for the developers of Goat Simulator. Even if it only provided a slight chuckle and several minutes of entertainment, the gif-able nature ...

Easy Day Studios has announced that sandbox skateboarding sim Skater XL will leave Early Access on July 7, 2020, bringing its host of famous skaters, locations, and brands to PC and consoles. Players will be able to step into the scuffed-up...

Terraria's Journey's End update isn't just rekindling the tireless sandbox game with new items (loads and loads of new items), it's also adding Journey Mode – an alternate, player-choice-driven way to play. When it launches for PC on ...

Riot Games has an answer to Minecraft and Roblox, and it's called Hytale. The creator of League of Legends and Valorant announced that it has acquired Hypixel Studios, the team behind Hytale, a bound-to-be-huge sandbox RPG that's scheduled ...

It's been ages since some of us last explored the sandbox world of Terraria, but that might change next month when Journey's End launches on May 16, 2020, for PC. The update is a long time coming, but it's a major addition – I'm talki...

In today's contest we've got PSVR copies of Paper Beast to give out! Virtual reality has come a long way since the days of the Virtual Boy. Why'd I choose that? Because that's sadly what I think is the general impression people get when the...

Eric Chahi, the creator of Another World, is coming out with an ecosystem simulation game about origami creatures for PlayStation VR. Paper Beast has a story mode – you can alter the terrain and weather, not unlike a god game, to solv...

It's a pleasant surprise to hear that Hardspace: Shipbreaker is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One after its Steam Early Access run starts this summer. In the sci-fi sim game, you play as a salvager who's working to pay off a debt by stra...

In a cruel Monkey's Paw twist of fate, Commander Shepard and company have finally made their way to the Nintendo Switch. However, it's not in the long-requested remaster of the original Mass Effect trilogy. It's in a Minecra...

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord has narrowed down its launch window to a launch day, a moment that's many, many long years in the making. The sprawling medieval RPG is releasing on March 31, 2020. This should come as no surprise to Mount &...

During last December's stacked State of Play presentation, Sony dropped a trailer for a strange and esoteric-looking VR title, Paper Beast. Now developer Pixel Reef is peeling back the layers on this stylistic release, with a new trailer sh...

Maybe you don't need another survival-focused sandbox game in your life right now. To be honest, I don't either! But every so often I'll want to scratch that itch, and The Survivalists has potential. It's a shipwrecked "survival-lite" game ...

When it comes to Minecraft, the 2010s are leaving the exact same way they entered: With Mojang's sandbox builder as hot as blocky lava. Time has not yet begun to carve away at the phenomenon of Minecraft. YouTube has just released a year i...

A year after it first launched in Japan, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is finally getting a PC port. In July, it came to PS4 and Switch in North America and Europe. At the time, CJ gave it a hearty recommendation, but not quite the standing ...

Square Enix is giving Dragon Quest Builders 2 fence-sitters a chance to play the game for a matter of "hours" with a new Jumbo Demo that's out on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Steam. The demo doesn't just span the introductory Isle of...

Do you remember Noita? I can't be the only one who's tried to keep tabs on this game over the past several years. It's a spell-slinging rogue-lite from the developers of The Swapper, and it has a curious point of inspiration: those old fall...

It's cathartic to see an upcoming release you've followed for years finally come out (or at least hit a major milestone). It's not quite time for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, but my goodness, we're getting there. The medieval sandbox R...

Dragon Quest Builders is one of the only games on the market that arguably does Minecraft better than Minecraft. It took the open-world, craft-em-up gameplay of the possibly best-selling game of all time and gave it all meaning, a...

Just as I was losing track of Terraria on Nintendo Switch, Re-Logic has come out with a proper (and very immediate) release date. The sandbox adventure RPG launches for Switch on June 27, 2019. That's the big day for the digital version on...

Go on the run with today's contest and win a copy of American Fugitive for Switch, PS4, Xbox One, or PC! I reckon most of us obey as many laws as we can, at basically all times. Probably very few of us want to pay fines or go to jail or eve...

When Microsoft shelled out $2.5 billion to buy Minecraft back in 2014, everyone knew why the price was so steep. Minecraft is one of the most popular video games on the planet, a block-building machine that absolutely prints money...

It's possible to (officially) play Minecraft Classic for free in your browser like it's 2009 all over again. You won't need to bust out a separate launcher or catch up on in-depth wikis – it's a cinch. In celebration of the game's fas...

There are games that let us fulfill our fantasies of pointing off into the distant horizon and follow our curiosity. They let us traverse, on and off the beaten track, to discover what lies just beyond our vision. Games like Skyrim or Breat...

While I wasn't able to play Dragon Quest Builders when it released in 2016, the community members of Destructoid seemingly loved it as it was all they could talk about in the community Discord for a few weeks. So of course I know most of th...

[This week, Destructoid is brought to you by Deiland, available now on Steam! Here is a fun giveaway from the publisher.] You may have heard about Deiland, the charming new sandbox game with RPG elements. It released on Steam this past week...