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...

We're mere weeks away from the Xbox One X launch. Think you'll get one? (Now, or ever?) Studio Wildcard has spoken about its Xbox One X update for ARK: Survival Evolved and while the new hardware won't lead to a silver bullet that fixes all...

Initially ARK: Survival Evolved didn’t leave much of an impression on me. Not only did I forget I actually owned the game, but that I had played it as well during early access at some point. It got lost among a sea of other games of i...

The direction technology aesthetic usually heads is toward the sleek, chic, and on-fleek. This new limited edition Xbox is kind of the antithesis of that. Just announced this afternoon at gamescom, there's a Minecraft edition Xbox One...

Agent 47, consummate professional that he is (here's a video of him kicking a toilet onto someone's head), is always looking to improve. In his line of work, staying alive is a secondary objective right behind efficient killing. Now he's a ...

Citadel: Forged with Fire has a lot of familiar elements, at least in this announcement trailer. People have been quick to draw comparisons to everything from Skyrim to Harry Potter to BioShock. I can see it all, and I can also see the app...

The first time I played Birthdays the Beginning, I didn't put the controller back down for four hours. I was in a trance, totally incapable of wrestling free. The next few nights went similarly: multi-hour sessions ...