- #1 MAKE IT as an Artist
86% matchVery Positive82% of 119 reviews2017
Dev: Deathink
Windows
Super happy fun time artist simulator!!!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #2 MachineCraft
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 889 reviews2016
Dev: G2CREW
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 32.2 hrs≥1hr: 34%
The main purpose of this game is showing and watching machines made out of blocks. Some of the game-modes allow you to battle or race against other players. (testing phase) You can create your original machine with ease by reassembling those machines that are distributed, or by using the automatic control block.
Why similar: Building 44.1%, Simulation 28.5%, Multiplayer 19%, Open World 4.2%, Indie 4.2%
- #3 Construction Simulator 2 US - Pocket Edition
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 609 reviews2018
Dev: weltenbauer. Software Entwicklung GmbHPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 49.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
The mobile hit Construction Simulator 2 is available on Steam! Experience one of the most comprehensive construction simulators for mobile devices, optimized for your PC.
Why similar: Simulation 54.5%, Building 36%, Multiplayer 9.6%
- #4 Space Engineers
72% matchVery Positive89% of 133,192 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Building 32.7%, Simulation 28.5%, Open World 22.6%, Multiplayer 16.1%
- #5 Giant Machines 2017
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 586 reviews2016
Dev: Code Horizon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Take control over seven of the biggest industrial machines in the world. During the 14 mission campaign you will punch through the snows of Greenland, plow the steppes of Wyoming and travel all the way to sunny Florida. Your hard work will be completed by launching a space shuttle into space.
Why similar: Simulation 62.2%, Building 20.9%, Open World 9.4%, Indie 7.5%
- #6 Bongo Cat
54% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 95,019 reviews2025
Dev: Marcel ZurawkaPub: Irox Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 26.7 hrsMean: 261.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Why similar: Simulation 66%, Multiplayer 21%, Indie 13%
- #7 Mob Rule Classic
72% matchVery Positive83% of 264 reviews2017
Dev: System 3
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 59.9 hrs≥1hr: 27%
This is a dog-eat dog world of corruption, murder and sex – and as the new kid on the block you’re looking a little like ‘milk on the bone’!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #8 SCUM
53% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,783 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 101.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World 100%
- #9 Dune: Awakening
52% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,162 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.8 hrsMean: 95.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Building 44.7%, Open World 32.2%, Multiplayer 23.1%
- #10 ARC Raiders
50% matchVery Positive86% of 370,194 reviews2025
Dev: Embark Studios
Windows
Median: 40.1 hrsMean: 85.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
Why similar: Multiplayer 59.1%, Open World 40.9%
- #11 ARK: Survival Ascended
57% matchMixed60% of 99,899 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.8 hrsMean: 196.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Building 39.2%, Open World 37.2%, Multiplayer 23.6%
- #12 Marvel Rivals
51% matchMostly Positive77% of 377,233 reviews2024
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 62.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Marvel Rivals is a Super Hero Team-Based PVP Shooter! Assemble an all-star Marvel squad, devise countless strategies by combining powers to form unique Team-Up skills and fight in destructible, ever-changing battlefields across the continually evolving Marvel universe!
Why similar: Multiplayer 100%
- #13 ARK: Survival Evolved
64% matchVery Positive83% of 762,696 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Building 38.7%, Open World 34.4%, Multiplayer 25.1%, Indie 1.8%
- #14 Bridge Constructor Stunts
69% matchMixed60% of 171 reviews2016
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Stuntman and engineer in one? No problem with Bridge Constructor Stunts! Build imposing ramps and loops to reach your goal in the diverse stages. But building structures alone isn't enough this time: you sit behind the wheel of the vehicles yourself and have to maneuver them skillfully to the goal.
Why similar: Simulation 75.9%, Building 24.1%
- #15 Skyscraper Simulator
71% matchVery Negative18% of 479 reviews2013
Dev: ActalogicPub: Libredia
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 25%
You're a constructer and you’ve specialized in the "bringing up" of skyscrapers. Due to your specialization over the years you constantly get new orders for higher and higher skyscrapers in town. Within your responsibilities are the planning, the supply with construction materials and the worker management.
Why similar: Simulation 67.2%, Building 32.8%
- #16 Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
55% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 129,506 reviews2022
Dev: Insomniac GamesPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 26.4 hrsMean: 40.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, the worlds of Peter Parker and Spider-Man collide in an original action-packed story. Play as an experienced Peter Parker, fighting big crime and iconic villains in Marvel’s New York. Web-swing through vibrant neighborhoods and defeat villains with epic takedowns.
Why similar: Open World 89.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #17 Besiege
59% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,083 reviews2020
Dev: Spiderling Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Building 42.5%, Simulation 38.2%, Multiplayer 19.3%
- #18 Conan Exiles
61% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,387 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Building 43.8%, Open World 37.5%, Multiplayer 18.7%
- #19 ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
50% matchVery Positive92% of 82,764 reviews2023
Dev: FromSoftware, Inc.
Windows
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A new action game based on the concept of the ARMORED CORE series that uses the knowledge gained from FromSoftware's recent action game development.
Why similar: Multiplayer 100%
- #20 Rival Books of Aster
51% matchMostly Positive73% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: Games by Stitch
Windows · Mac
Rival Books of Aster is a strategy deck building game that features over 140 hand illustrated spells that you can use to build custom decks and go head to head against other players. Each spell is also a page in a living story book that translates itself and reveals its secrets as you play the game.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #21 Overwatch®
53% matchMostly Negative29% of 389,855 reviews2023
Dev: Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 89.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Overwatch®, A FUTURE WORTH FIGHTING FOR! Overwatch® is an always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based action game set in an optimistic future, where every match is the ultimate 5v5 or 6v6 battlefield brawl.
Why similar: Multiplayer 100%
- #22 Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
52% matchVery Positive93% of 51,379 reviews2022
Dev: Insomniac GamesPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
After the events of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, teenage Miles Morales is adjusting to his new home while following in the footsteps of his mentor, Peter Parker, as a new Spider-Man. When a fierce power struggle threatens to destroy his home, Miles must take up the mantle of Spider-Man and own it
Why similar: Open World 89.7%, Multiplayer 10.3%
- #23 N.a.N Industry VR
60% matchPositive95% of 22 reviews2019
Dev: Armin RigoPub: Baroque Software
Windows
N⸱a⸱N Industry is a VR puzzle game where you build a "factory" by placing action blocks in space, arranged so that the inputs move towards the expected output location—their blocks possibly modified, split or combined along the way.
Why similar: Simulation 56.1%, Building 33.6%, Indie 10.3%
- #24 Scrap Mechanic
61% matchVery Positive92% of 116,970 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 40.3%, Open World 23.3%, Simulation 16.8%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Indie 2.9%
- #25 Tower Empire Builder
60% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Rice Rocket
Windows
In Tower Empire Builder you will construct a state of the art skyscraper in a rapidly growing city. You will need to balance your supply of condos, offices, retail space, and hotel rooms to meet market demand, while supplying high end amenities and quality staff to keep everyone happy.
Why similar: Simulation 61.4%, Building 27.2%, Indie 11.3%
- #26 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
56% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,064 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Simulation 32.2%, Building 32.2%, Open World 22.1%, Multiplayer 13.6%
- #27 Kerbal Space Program
61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 133,043 reviews2015
Dev: SquadPub: Private Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 65.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Simulation 48.3%, Building 33%, Open World 14.6%, Indie 4.1%
- #28 ATLAS
60% matchMixed47% of 42,842 reviews2018
Dev: Grapeshot Games
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 112.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Why similar: Open World 66.5%, Multiplayer 33.5%
- #29 WWII Online
51% matchMixed51% of 3,784 reviews2023
Dev: Cornered Rat SoftwarePub: Playnet, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 28%
WWII Online is a massive, persistent free-to-play MMO FPS driven entirely by players. Fight as Army, Air, or Naval forces and earn Victory Points to access more units. One global server. No scripts. Real outcomes. No zones. Huge world (300,000 km²). ENLIST NOW!
Why similar: Simulation 41.1%, Open World 29.6%, Multiplayer 23.2%, Indie 6%
- #30 ASTRONEER
56% matchVery Positive92% of 136,550 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Open World 32.4%, Building 27.9%, Multiplayer 23.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Indie 2.5%
- #31 Construction Simulator 2015
62% matchVery Positive82% of 6,826 reviews2014
Dev: weltenbauer. Software Entwicklung GmbHPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In Construction Simulator 2015, you take the controls of 16 realistic construction machines made by LIEBHERR, STILL and MAN with high-quality 3D graphics.
Why similar: Simulation 47.3%, Building 29.9%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #32 Build a Bridge!
45% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: BoomBit
Windows · Mac
Bridge building game that will test your engineering skills across multiple levels in five different worlds! Complete mind-bending challenges in a stylized and colorful world!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #33 Noita
53% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 85,691 reviews2020
Dev: Nolla Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Open World 80.9%, Indie 19.1%
- #34 DearCraft
59% matchMostly Negative38% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: Fairy Studio
Windows
DearCraft is a game that allows players to create a world with imagination and creativity unboundedly and play their own 3D sandbox game spontaneously.
Why similar: Simulation 62.9%, Building 25.6%, Indie 11.6%
- #35 From the Depths
52% matchVery Positive89% of 12,511 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Why similar: Building 47.8%, Simulation 32.2%, Multiplayer 20%
- #36 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
52% matchVery Positive90% of 57,496 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 112.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Why similar: Building 59.2%, Open World 40.8%
- #37 Lumberjack's Dynasty
53% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,768 reviews2021
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come.
Why similar: Simulation 64.4%, Building 22.3%, Open World 13.4%
- #38 Construction Machines 2014
64% matchVery Negative11% of 313 reviews2014
Dev: GameCask
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 17%
Become a boss of a construction company. Demolish old houses, flatten the ground, fill foundations with concrete and build new buildings - this is what you do. Sit behind the wheel of different construction machines - from trucks and diggers to huge cranes.
Why similar: Simulation 82.3%, Building 17.7%
- #39 Avorion
52% matchVery Positive90% of 14,272 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 98.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Building 41.3%, Simulation 31.3%, Open World 27.4%
- #40 Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
51% matchVery Positive95% of 175,526 reviews2019
Dev: World's EdgePub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 10.8 hrsMean: 86.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Why similar: Multiplayer 100%
- #41 Isotower
45% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Isotower
Windows
Isotower is a skyscraper management tycoon game, where you start with an empty lot, and construct a building of your dreams. Anything from a small, ratty motel, to a large scale arcology where people never leave the building they're born in.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #42 Psyia
45% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lachlan Sleight
Windows
In a black void, several hundred thousand tiny cubes dance and flow around gravitational fields emitted from the Vive controllers. Endless hypnotic and beautiful behaviours emerge from the simplest of physical laws.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #43 我们的大学
45% matchNo user reviews
Dev: yitian
Windows
加入这个世界,一起来重温大学校园里的点点滴滴吧!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #44 Gravity Tunnel VR
45% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Qverty.com
Windows
Gravity Tunnel is a VR experience which lets you immerse yourself in space. Sounds cool? Yeah, it feels good too! Your brain will be put to test as you go further – luckily, there's a series of levels on which you can train your sense of balance. We prepared all you may need in space – narrow planks, dynamic obstacles, cool music, colors.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #45 Time De Tour
45% matchNo user reviews
Windows
By molding time itself, you can create your own universe! Influence the development of mankind! Any change you make early on in the timeline will have lasting repercussions later on. Will you create a utopia or a dystopia? Only time can tell!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #46 K-Pop VR
45% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Reality ReflectionPub: Reality Reflection
Windows
Meet world's first dancing digital human in a virtual world. 'K-pop Dance in VR' is a teaser video of a VR experience where a digital celebrity dancing along her song in front of you.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #47 Hollowhead's VR Time Machine
45% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hollowhead, Inc.
Windows
You, the time traveler, explore ancient habitats and observe species – from the first bacteria to powerful dinosaurs to modern mammals – in action as they struggle to survive in their environment. Each life-form the time traveler encounters will have a corresponding recorded narration.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #48 Istrolid
57% matchVery Positive87% of 2,683 reviews2016
Dev: treeform
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 50%
In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.
Why similar: Building 68.8%, Multiplayer 24.2%, Indie 7%
- #49 MechWarrior Online™ Legends
57% matchVery Positive80% of 12,606 reviews2015
Dev: Piranha Games Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 56.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
MechWarrior Online™ Legends is a tactical, 'Mech-based online shooter set in the vast BattleTech Universe. Assume the role of an elite MechWarrior, piloting powerful BattleMechs, fighting for supremacy over the Inner Sphere.
Why similar: Simulation 54.4%, Multiplayer 45.6%
- #50 TerraTech
53% matchVery Positive91% of 24,441 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Building 50%, Open World 28.8%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Indie 3%
- #51 Savage Lands
50% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World 36.4%, Simulation 34.4%, Multiplayer 22.7%, Indie 6.6%
- #52 Last Oasis
52% matchMixed62% of 24,191 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 120.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World 38.2%, Building 37.1%, Multiplayer 18.5%, Indie 6.2%
- #53 Gear Up
58% matchMostly Positive75% of 8,351 reviews2015
Dev: Doctor Entertainment AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Feel the adrenaline as you control your unique tank in multiplayer arcade action! Build your ultimate war machine from over a million different combinations. Now, will you go for the rumbling caterpillar tracks or the crawling spider legs?
Why similar: Building 45.2%, Multiplayer 29.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Open World 10.7%, Indie 3.1%
- #54 Construct PRO
45% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: EnterUserNamePlease
Windows
Construct PRO is a sandbox-designer, where you can assemble any structure using metal parts, bolts, and nuts and test its physical behavior.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #55 Morning Star
44% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MetkisPub: Alliance
Windows
Morning Star is a first-person farming game set in a post-cyberpunk world where computers are your soil and software is your seeds.
Why similar: Simulation 84.5%, Indie 15.5%