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The Best New Sandbox Builders & Freeform City-Building Games

GamerZakh· 228K subscribers

11d ago · en-GB audio

Would you call these city building games or not? When it comes to free form sandbox building, it's a bit of a contentious topic. Do you find it compelling, relaxing, like a spa day, or do you find it pointless and boring? These games that I'm going to be showing off today are building games that have no particular objective in mind, but it allows you to express your creativity and build cities or towns in ways that…

3.0×Score at discovery
67.7KViews
22.4KMedian · 46 videos

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This score was measured on Sat, 07 Nov 2026 23:48:44 GMT. Current view counts may differ.

67.5K views ÷ a 22.4K baseline = 3.0×. Compared with 46 earlier videos from the same channel, matching the format recorded at scoring time. Older-upload baseline: reference videos had at least as long to gain views. This comparison is not age-matched.

YouTube snapshot: Sun, 08 Nov 2026 02:43:27 GMT. Counters may have changed.

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Channel-balanced percentile: 44

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35 videos from 25 other channels, with each channel weighted equally. Same format and language, with 100,000–999,999 subscribers. Observed at 279 hours after publication, within ±48 hours.

This describes the collected sample, not all of YouTube. Updated Sun, 08 Nov 2026 03:10:14 GMT.

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