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.
Indie DB
APRIL 22, 2024
Complete challenging puzzles in Puzzle Mode or create awe-inspiring tracks in Sandbox Mode. Customize your courses and enjoy fully simulated physics!
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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.
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. This category encompasses sub-genres, such as action RPGs, sandbox RPGs, tactical RPGs, MMORPG and more. Some of the best RPG games are Skyrim, Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3.
Deconstructor of Fun
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
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. While neither became widely popular, they generated around 1.4 million downloads collectively.
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
Portal was a solid 2 hour puzzle game. A lot of people don't want sandboxes. Be Funny When someone asks me what an underserved market is in video games, I always have the same first answer: Humor. Humor is hard, and there's never enough of it. Humor is easier to sell than anything else. People keep telling stories in games.
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