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 this week on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The demo doesn't just span the introductory Isle ...

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...

[This week, Destructoid is brought to you by Deiland, a sandbox RPG about protecting a small planet. Here's a note from the game's publisher] Deiland, a sandbox game with RPG and survival elements landed on Steam on August 9. The Steam laun...

It's time to check out Sea of Thieves again. Along with a big ol' shark to fight, the game's first big content update provides players with more ship-to-ship communication options like a speaking trumpet, pirate cosmetics like tattoos and s...

The Hungering Deep, the first major content update for Sea of Thieves, is set to arrive on May 29. Microsoft and Rare debuted a trailer on Inside Xbox, and if you've been following along, you'll know not to expect anything too concrete from...

Explosive sandbox title Just Cause 3 has been made available as part of the Xbox Live Gold Free Play Days campaign. Gold subscribers can check the game out gratis from today until May 6.Originally released back in 2015, Just Cause 3 sees de...

Rockstar's 2013 magnum-opus Grand Theft Auto V has seen a re-release this week in the form of the new Grand Theft Auto V: Premium Online Edition. This definitive edition-style release is on retail shelves for consoles now, and will be comin...

Rare has begun detailing its post-release support for Sea of Thieves. First up is a content update called The Hungering Deep, which adds "a new AI threat" for crews to "discover and defeat as part of a unique event." That'll arrive in May, ...

I'm very much looking forward to next month's State of Decay 2, but I know it'll only be a matter of time before the harsh realities of keeping people alive in a zombie-infested sandbox crash down on me. Painful losses are all a part of the...

Grand Theft Auto's online universe continues to run and run, with Shark cards being snapped up weekly, and shed-loads of players still leaping into the carnage-filled cities with little more than mindless chaos and wanton destruction in min...

The very large MMO about giant dinosaurs is coming to the platform that's physically the smallest. ARK: Survival Evolved is getting a mobile adaption. Developer Studio Wildcard just announced that ARK will be released on both iOS...

The peculiar ecosystem simulator Birthdays the Beginning is coming to Nintendo Switch as Happy Birthdays, and as announced today, the port will hit North America on June 5 and Europe on June 8. The game is a slow burn and requires patience,...

Deep Rock Galactic is a sci-fi shooter about dwarven space miners teaming up on an alien planet to punch through caves, collect minerals, and get the goods back home. As a solo experience, I probably wouldn't be super interested. But as a f...

I was skeptical of Dragon Quest Builders when it was first announced, but Square Enix's take on the sandbox genre ended up hitting the mark. It's not just Minecraft through the lens of Dragon Quest as some initially feared -- there's a prop...

Rust's four-year run on Steam Early Access will soon wrap up. The multiplayer sandbox survival title will appear on Steam proper as of February 8, 2018. That said, its development is far from over. Announcing the decision in a blog post, Fa...

Today marks the end of the road for The Tomorrow Children, Q-Games and Japan Studio's strange, somber, gorgeous, and oftentimes mundane social sandbox game about rebuilding a destroyed world. The free-to-play PlayStation 4 title shut down i...