Games Like RuneScape

Jagex's community-driven version of RuneScape based on the game's 2007 era. OSRS combines classless skill progression, gathering, crafting, farming, player-owned houses, a huge player economy and dangerous Wilderness PvP with a polling system that gives players a direct vote on proposed game updates.

Pearl Abyss's open-world fantasy MMORPG mixes action-combat theme-park progression with extensive sandbox systems. Its life-skill and economy layer includes gathering, processing, crafting, trading, farming, fishing, housing, worker networks and production nodes, while guilds compete through large-scale Node and Conquest Wars.

A cross-platform sandbox MMORPG built around crafting, trade, territory warfare, a player-driven economy, classless equipment-based progression, and risk-based PvP.

A long-running sandbox MMORPG centered on terraforming, building, crafting, farming, skill progression, settlements, and player-created communities.

An old-school open-world sandbox MMORPG with uncapped skills, crafting, gathering, housing and player trading.

A fast-paced PvP sandbox MMORPG set in a seamless, zone-free persistent fantasy world. Players form guilds, conquer fortresses and guild cities, build realms, trade and craft without being locked into a single prescribed role.

A deliberately old-school fantasy MMORPG with open-ended exploration, hidden systems, unusual skills, classless skill combinations and a strong emphasis on discovery rather than guided progression.

An open-source sandbox MMORPG set on the living planet Atys, featuring classless progression, harvesting, deep crafting, optional PvP, guilds, factions, outposts and player-influenced politics.

A hardcore survival-crafting sandbox MMORPG centered on settlement building, farming, hunting, industry, exploration, trade, crime and emergent player politics in periodically regenerated worlds.

One of the foundational sandbox MMORPGs, built around persistent shards, open-ended skills, housing, crafting, trade, social systems, and long-lived player communities.

A persistent science-fiction sandbox MMO built around player corporations, territorial conflict, industry, logistics, politics, piracy, and a deeply player-driven economy.