15 Best Toy PC Games That Let You Play as Action Figures and Miniature Characters

by Fernando Diaz / Articles, Lists / 08 Aug 2025

PC gaming often revels in the grandiose. We move starfleets, build empires across continents, and wield godlike powers. But there’s a corresponding, reverse appeal that’s just as potent: the magic of being smaller. It’s a fantasy ingrained in us since childhood—the fundamental notion that the moment we vacated the room, our plastic soldiers and action figures sprang to life, waging secret wars across the broad, shag-carpeted expanses of our bedrooms.

This isn’t a roundup of games that give you a virtual building set. No, this is something closer to the source: our definitive list of games that put you right inside the plastic, die-cast, or stitched-together shoes of a toy, letting you loose in a world that’s suddenly, wonderfully, and terrifyingly bigger-than-life.

15. Micro Machines World Series

Play it for: Traditional top-down racing chaos on a breakfast table.

A true classic of the genre. Before 3D racers perfected the formula, Micro Machines was king when it came to turning ordinary places into insane racetracks. This new edition keeps the classic top-down perspective and the core fantasy intact: you’re a tiny toy car, and the world is your big, dangerous track. It’s a pure, simple, and classic dose of toy-racing nostalgia…

14. Re-Volt

Play it for: A great dose of ’90s nostalgia and the best RC car physics around.

A cult classic for a reason. Re-Volt perfected the zippy, slightly wayward feeling of controlling a high-powered remote-control car. The tracks were masterpieces of “real-world” design—a supermarket, a museum, a suburban street—all transformed into epic circuits from the low-to-the-ground perspective of an RC buggy. It’s a timeless classic that still plays beautifully today.

13. Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes

Play it for: The raw, plastic-melting warfare of the ’90s.

For an entire generation, this was the game that fueled our toy soldier battles. Stepping into Sarge’s clunky plastic boots, you battled the Tan army across the foreign landscapes of a kitchen, backyard, and attic. Its brilliance was its commitment to the subject matter: enemies melted into puddles, guns were recognizably “toy-like,” and the sensation of being a miniature soldier in a world of giants was perfectly captured.

12. Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Play it for: The most charming and pleasingly tactile “plush toy” platformer.

While PlayStation owners had Little Big Planet, PC gamers were treated to this absolute gem. You play as Sackboy, a charming little hero made of yarn and stuffing. Every level is a vibrant, handcrafted explosion of color and texture. The game is a masterclass in co-op platforming, but its greatest achievement is making you feel like a living, breathing soft toy scurrying through a world built from cloth, cardboard, and imagination.

11. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Play it for: The ultimate fantasy of being a living minifigure in a galaxy-sized playset.

This is less a Star Wars game and more a game about playing with LEGO Star Wars. The distinction matters. You are a walking, talking minifigure. Defeated enemies satisfyingly explode into their component bricks. The entire universe is a gorgeous collection of LEGO sets, and the pure joy of smashing, building, and collecting studs is as compelling as ever. It’s the ultimate digital recreation of a living room floor playset.

10. Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue

Play it for: The definitive “play as a toy” 3D platforming experience!!

A PS1/PC-era classic, this game was a top-notch platformer that perfectly translated the movie’s adventure through its toy’s-eye-view perspective. Andy’s House wasn’t just a setting but a massive, vertical environment to navigate, packed with secrets, challenges, and awesomely gigantic threats. It replicated the feeling of being Buzz Lightyear on a heroic quest like nothing else.

9. Besiege

Play it for: The thrill of being a medieval engineer with a physics-based box of war toys.

Besiege gives you a pile of blocks, wheels, and weapons, then asks you to build destructive war machines. You aren’t a single toy but the mad god of a physics-based toy box, constructing and unleashing your chaotic contraptions. The fun lies in both the construction and the resulting, often hilarious, destruction. It’s the virtual version of a high-tech, weaponized construction set.

8. Scribblenauts Unlimited

Play it for: A never-ending toy box where your imagination is the only limit.

This game recreates the beautiful, irrational logic of play itself. By letting you summon any object into existence just by typing its name, Scribblenauts hands you the keys to creation. You’re not playing as one toy; you’re playing as the creative force that calls a “rideable, tiny, polka-dotted elephant” into existence to solve a puzzle. It’s imaginative play in its purest form.

7. Garry’s Mod

Play it for: The ultimate, anarchic, anything-goes PC digital playground.

More a pure creativity engine than a structured game, Garry’s Mod gives you a physics gun, a universe of props, and simply lets you do what you want. Create hilarious dioramas with your favorite game characters, construct complex Rube Goldberg devices, or just spawn a hundred explosive barrels. It’s the ultimate digital equivalent of emptying every toy you own onto the floor and just seeing what happens.

6. Toy Soldiers: HD

Play it for: Commanding a WWI diorama and then joining the battle yourself.

This game strikes a perfect balance between strategy and direct action. You command a beautifully rendered tabletop battlefield, moving tin soldiers and artillery with the eye of a master general. But its coup de grâce is letting you take direct control of any unit, from a machine gunner in a trench to a pilot in a biplane. It’s a brilliant combination of the wargamer’s god-like viewpoint and the ground-level thrill of being an individual toy soldier.

5. LEGO Builder’s Journey

Play it for: The calm, meditative pleasure of bringing LEGO creations to life.

A masterpiece. This is not an action game; it’s a game about the meditative, tactile process of building. You solve puzzles by manipulating single bricks in a gorgeous, ray-traced world. The satisfying click as pieces slot into place is audio nirvana. It replicates the calm, creative focus of sitting with a small pile of bricks and making something beautiful. It’s a game about the very essence of LEGO.

4. Toy Shire

Play it for: Fighting a toy box civil war in a genius offense-defense hybrid.

This is the dark side of Toy Story. As the commander of a platoon of green army men, you must defend your base from the armies of old, broken toys that have risen up in a jealous rage. But this isn’t straight tower defense; you must also train and dispatch your own troops to launch counter-attacks. It’s a deep and addictive strategic tug-of-war fought across the bedroom floor, with a clever premise and a great mode that lets you design your own battlefields.

3. Toy Story 3: The Video Game (Toy Box Mode)

Play it for: The finest open-world “playtime” simulator ever created.

The main game was fine, but its “Toy Box Mode” was a masterpiece ahead of its time. It understood that the greatest joy of playing with toys is making up your own stories. It gave you a giant sandbox, a chest full of your favorite characters, and the freedom to create your own Wild West town and adventures. It was years ahead of its time and remains a high-water mark for games that truly understand imaginative play.

2. Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged

Play it for: The ultimate fantasy of being a die-cast car on an impossible track.

A perfect mix of a beloved brand and incredible game design. Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 is a blazingly fast arcade racer that nails the feeling of being a tiny metal car. The sense of scale is immaculate as you drift past giant furniture and boost through massive environments. Its heart and soul, however, is the track builder, which gives you the unlimited orange track of your dreams. It’s pure, high-octane wish fulfillment.

1. Hypercharge: Unboxed

Play it for: The definitive, high-fidelity co-op shooter where action figures come to life.

This is it… This is the game we all dreamed of as kids!! You’re a fully posable action figure, fighting alongside your friends to defend your childhood bedroom from armies of weaponized toys. The combination of first-person shooting and tower defense (building forts out of bricks and tape) is genius. The passion for the subject matter and the attention to scale and detail are unparalleled. Hypercharge: Unboxed is the ultimate, triumphant realization of that childhood fantasy of a toy’s secret life, and it is the undisputed champion of this list.

Fernando Diaz

Fernando is doing what he always did, sharing his honest opinions about games whenever he can. The difference is now he is writing and not talking about it.

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