> the canonical sandbox game
is GTA, really.
Re:Video Games Are Boring
by peterashford on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @07:46PM
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I would have said Elite, which predates GTA by, what? A decade? And pretty much created the concept of a sandbox game
Other categories of nonviolent or non-FPS games would be puzzle games like Tetris or Candy Crush. Also, video games can reproduce or make single-player versions of the classic board, card, and dice games like chess or yahtzee.