Sandbox game

a : a video game or part of a video game in which the player is not constrained to achieving specific goals and has a large degree of freedom to explore, interact with, or modify the game environment … Untitled Goose Game is a sandbox in which objectives sometimes feel more like suggestions.

All Grand Theft Auto games are of a sandbox type .

Whereas open world refers to the lack of limits for the player’s exploration of the game’s world, sandbox games are based on the ability of giving the player tools for creative freedom within the game to approach objectives, if such objectives are present.

The game itself, which you buy and download directly from Minecraft.net, is in what some call the Sandbox genre . It means that you’re given free rein in a world where there is little or no plot to drive gameplay; the gameplay emerges from the tools and the world you’re in.