60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Sandbox, Open World, Simulation.
Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!
Kerbal Space Program
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Aviassembly
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Why similar: Science 24.4% ★, Space Sim 22% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Physics 11.7%, Building 10.2%
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Why similar: Transportation 27% ★, Science 14.6% ★, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Physics 10.6%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Mars 48.7% ★, Co-op 13%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10.1%, Open World 8.7%
Kerbal Space Program 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed space-flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Enter the next generation of space adventure with exciting new parts, stunning visuals, fully revamped UI and Map View, and rich new environments to explore.
Why similar: Science 23.7% ★, Space Sim 17.9% ★, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Physics 10.2%
Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!
Why similar: LEGO 44.6% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 13.4%, Open World 9.8%, Physics 9.8%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Mars 43.1% ★, Transportation 27.9% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 7.8%, Procedural Generation 7.3%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Transportation 32.6% ★, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Logic 11.6%, Procedural Generation 10.9%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.8% ★, Co-op 18%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Physics 10.9%
Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.
Why similar: Mars 65.4% ★, Open World 12.4%, Physics 10.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, Co-op 2.7%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.8%, Co-op 24.9%, Building 19.1%, Open World 16.2%, Simulation 5.3%
A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.7% ★, Science 23% ★, Physics 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Open World 9.1%
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Why similar: Space Sim 24.2% ★, Robots 17.7%, Logic 10.8%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.2%
Take On Mars places you right in the middle of mankind’s most exciting undertaking. Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mars 47.9% ★, Science 12.6% ★, Space Sim 11% ★, Building 6.4%, Sandbox 5.3%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 23%, Sandbox 18.3%, Co-op 17.1%, Physics 15.4%, Open World 14.6%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Building 25.4%, Space Sim 22.2% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Open World 18.5%, Simulation 8.2%
Reclaim the Lost Kingdom brick by brick! Join Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Thorin and his company of Dwarves in an epic adventure across Middle-earth to recapture the Lonely Mountain in the most expansive LEGO game to date.
Why similar: LEGO 85.2% ★, Co-op 6.5%, Open World 4.5%, Funny 2.6%, Puzzle 0.7%
Set 50 years after the climactic events of the original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla allows players to take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force.
Why similar: Mars 55.8% ★, Open World 19.2%, Physics 13.8%, Sandbox 6.8%, Co-op 2.9%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Co-op 30.3%, Building 21.4%, Open World 19.4%, Sandbox 17.6%, Exploration 6.7%
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Why similar: Co-op 30.3%, Sandbox 17.3%, Physics 16%, Open World 14.1%, Funny 11.7%
Based on The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy, LEGO® The Lord of the Rings follows the original story-lines of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, taking players through the epic story events re-imagined with the humor and endl
Why similar: LEGO 78.6% ★, Co-op 9%, Open World 7%, Funny 3.2%, Puzzle 1.4%
Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.
Why similar: Science 22.3% ★, Space Sim 18.2% ★, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.5%, Physics 10.9%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Mars 45.8% ★, Science 17.2% ★, Robots 14.2%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Co-op 19.1%, Robots 18.9%, Building 13.7%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Sandbox 12.7%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: Science 29.2% ★, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 15.7%, Stylized 13.3%, Physics 12.6%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Space Sim 22.2% ★, Co-op 21.1%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 10.2%
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Why similar: Space Sim 24.8% ★, Physics 18.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 9%, Simulation 8.9%
The game "Terraspace" offers you a unique experience of planet settlement and terraforming — creating conditions for life on unsuitable planets. This will require you to build the necessary structures to populate the planet.
Why similar: Mars 29.2% ★, Space Sim 19.1% ★, Science 10.8% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Stylized 8.5%
Rover Builder is a 3D engineering sim tasking you to create the right rover to complete the job. Unleash your creativity in the garage, building vehicles using an impressive array of parts, materials and machinery. Or try your hand at level editor - creating entire missions and levels from scratch!
Why similar: Mars 38.3% ★, Science 16.2% ★, Robots 11.8%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 8.8%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Co-op 32.2%, Building 23%, Sandbox 17.3%, Open World 16.5%, Exploration 9%
Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.
Why similar: Transportation 34.6% ★, Space Sim 24.7% ★, Physics 10.8%, Open World 10%, Sandbox 9.4%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Building 21.4%, Co-op 19.5%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Logic 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Co-op 28.5%, Open World 21.4%, Sandbox 18.5%, Building 16.8%, Exploration 10.1%
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Why similar: Mars 45.1% ★, Space Sim 14.6% ★, Robots 11.8%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.5%
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
Why similar: Mars 40.5% ★, Science 14.9% ★, Space Sim 14.2% ★, Building 7.3%, Stylized 6.4%
Embark on scientific expeditions with this new off-road adventure game. Lead research missions as you drive a variety of all-terrain vehicles, using high-tech tools and managing your camp and crew to ensure your success in the wild.
Why similar: Transportation 27.3% ★, Science 20.2% ★, Co-op 15.5%, Building 10.6%, Physics 8.5%
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Why similar: Space Sim 47.1% ★, Building 29.2%, Exploration 10.7%, Simulation 8.4%, Singleplayer 4.6%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Co-op 36.1%, Building 32%, Sandbox 29.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Why similar: Physics 39%, Sandbox 33.5%, Open World 27.5%
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Why similar: Co-op 26.7%, Sandbox 24.6%, Physics 22.4%, 3D 9.2%, Puzzle 8%
Mars Bot Battle is a simulation of American and China robots sent to Mars to prepare for future human colonists. It is based on the technologies proposed for a Mars base.
Why similar: Mars 62.2% ★, Space Sim 17.4% ★, Robots 9.5%, Simulation 5.5%, Exploration 3.1%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Transportation 45.2% ★, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Exploration 9.9%, 3D 8.2%
Master the hardcore, Starship-style catch maneuver in Critical Descent. Pilot massive boosters and agile upper stages across 50+ handcrafted levels on Earth, the Moon, and Mars. Featuring global leaderboards, multiple difficulties, and a realistic physics system, for the ultimate landing experience.
Why similar: Mars 48.4% ★, Space Sim 20.5% ★, Science 12.1% ★, Physics 8.7%, Stylized 6.4%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Science 40.9% ★, Building 21%, Sandbox 20.4%, Exploration 10.4%, Simulation 7.3%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Sandbox 27.1%, Building 19.8%, Open World 14.2%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Logic 11.9%
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 54.3%, Open World 41.9%, Singleplayer 3.8%
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 78.9%, Singleplayer 21.1%
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Why similar: Puzzle 32.6%, Logic 30.4%, Simulation 14.2%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.3%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Building 37.1%, Sandbox 34.5%, Simulation 13.6%, Procedural Generation 6.9%, Open World 5.6%
Build physics-based mechanical toys and complex gearworks in a cozy workshop. Solve puzzles your own way, or freely tinker in sandbox mode. Use premade Kits or craft from scratch. Customize your creations with colors, scale, and glue to bring your clockwork ideas to life.
Why similar: LEGO 30.5% ★, Science 14.8% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 10%, Physics 8.8%
Create physics-based sea creatures and discover evolution through surprising challenges! Control, test, and share your creatures made with our flexible building system! Evolution is full of quirky surprises, can you be more creative than nature it self?
Why similar: LEGO 33.9% ★, Science 16.8% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7.8%, Physics 7.5%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Building 37.6%, Transportation 35.7% ★, Simulation 19.5%, 3D 4.7%, Singleplayer 2.5%
Get ready for the next-generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends!
Why similar: Sandbox 27.7%, Open World 23.7%, Physics 18.9%, Simulation 15.3%, Exploration 14.4%
Opportunity is an atmospheric narrative game where you become the famous NASA rover and brave the many obstacles littering the desolate red planet in order to finally complete its mission.
Why similar: Mars 43.1% ★, Space Sim 24.9% ★, Science 8.3% ★, Simulation 7.9%, Exploration 5.5%
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?
Why similar: Puzzle 29.4%, Exploration 22.3%, Stylized 20.2%, 3D 13.7%, Simulation 9.3%
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Why similar: Open World 31.6%, Exploration 24.3%, Stylized 22.5%, Simulation 10%, 3D 7.9%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Co-op 28.9%, Sandbox 19.6%, Building 18.6%, Open World 14.9%, Funny 10.2%
As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!
Why similar: Transportation 31% ★, Building 18.6%, Co-op 18.3%, Physics 14%, Simulation 7.1%
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
Why similar: Open World 100%
Build and manage space outposts on the Moon and Mars in this realistic simulation game. From the first step on the Moon to Mars colonization, launch rockets, take care of your astronauts and expand your base as you explore the cosmos. No grind, just pure management and exploration fun.
Why similar: Mars 43.3% ★, Science 17.8% ★, Space Sim 15.2% ★, Sandbox 6.3%, Building 6.3%
Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
Why similar: LEGO 45.4% ★, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Physics 11.4%, 3D 6%
