Content Puzzle Sandbox 
Game Refinery
MARCH 27, 2025
Thats particularly true of the midcore side of the market, with almost 60% of the top 200 titles incorporating them as part of their LiveOps strategy, especially those within the shooting, sandbox, and 4X strategy genres. The key, it seems, is to ensure that each collaboration offers something unique or caters to a different genre.
Raph Koster
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
I just watched a couple of videos about sandbox vs themepark games (in particular one by NerdSlayer and another by Josh “Strife” Hayes )… One thing that struck me about the ways players often talk about this (because at this point the history is so old) is that people think of sandbox as the older version of MMOs, and themeparks as newer.
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Deconstructor of Fun
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
6 focusing on web3 projects, primarily content creators, with 5 in gaming and one mobile play-to-earn platform. — The company has developed two mobile titles— Word Tiles Puzzle: Word Search and Restaurant Tycoon. The studio raised $25m in Oct’24 to develop a narrative sandbox game based on an original IP.
Logic Simplified
JULY 11, 2023
Players typically interact with the environment and other characters in order to solve puzzles containing clues to advance in the gameplay. Role-playing Games (RPGs) Role-playing games are one of the most immersive and content-rich games one can play. Some of the best RPG games are Skyrim, Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 17, 2023
When looking at time spent in games, Creative Sandbox games such as Roblox and Minecraft dominate growth in many markets. Overall, in the key Western markets, MMORPGs, Roguelikes, Merge and Puzzle genres largely bucked the recession in terms of revenue. The lockdowns over 2020 and 2021 significantly increased time on a device.
The Bottom Feeder
OCTOBER 9, 2024
It doesn't matter how good your content is if nobody sees it. Portal was a solid 2 hour puzzle game. A lot of people don't want sandboxes. Baldur's Gate 3 is too long. Yeah, I know, you loved this character or that side quest or whatever. Doesn't matter. That percentage doesn't lie. Humor is hard, and there's never enough of it.
Grid Sage Games
JULY 17, 2022
The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. It’d sure be nice to resolve that!
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