Best Open World & Sandbox Steam pages, scored

141 open world & sandbox store pages measured on capsule, screenshots, description, tags, trailer and setup. The average scores 79/100. Open-world pages sell scale: lead with wide, bright vistas rather than menus and close-ups.

What the best open world & sandbox pages do differently

The top quarter of open world & sandbox pages by score, against the rest. Measured from public store data.

Measured	Top 25%	The rest
Capsule brightness at 231 × 87	118/255	88/255
First five screenshots, brightness	98/255	83/255
Trailers	5.5	3.0
Languages	14	12
Short description length	227 chars	238 chars
Tags	20	20

Top 30 open world & sandbox Steam pages

#	Game	Score	Weakest section
1	Dying Light	90	Short description
2	Cairn	90	Tags
3	Stormforge	90	Short description
4	PEAK	89	Links & community
5	Palworld	88	Short description
6	Once Human	88	Tags
7	DREDGE	88	Links & community
8	Cyberpunk 2077	87	Long description
9	Teardown	87	Capsule visibility
10	over the hill	87	Short description
11	Infinity Nikki	87	Tags
12	Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced	87	Short description
13	Where Winds Meet	87	Tags
14	NTE: Neverness to Everness	87	Trailers
15	Not Now, Aliens!	87	Short description
16	Project Zomboid	86	Links & community
17	Kenshi	86	Capsule visibility
18	Rust	86	Short description
19	BeamNG.drive	86	Short description
20	Satisfactory	86	Short description
21	DREADMOOR	86	Tags
22	Horses of Hoofprint Bay	86	Links & community
23	No Man's Sky	85	Links & community
24	theHunter: Call of the Wild™	85	Trailers
25	Raft	85	Links & community
26	Hela: of Mice & Magic	85	Capsule visibility
27	Pionero Capital	85	Trailers
28	Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School	85	Short description
29	Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced	85	Links & community
30	RV There Yet?	85	Links & community