- #1 LogicBots
83% matchMostly Positive79% of 184 reviews2017
Dev: Incandescent Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.
Why similar: Programming 32.3% ★, Robots 21.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 9.5%
- #2 Hogwarts Legacy
69% matchVery Positive90% of 363,041 reviews2023
Dev: Avalanche SoftwarePub: Warner Bros. Games
Windows
Median: 26.5 hrsMean: 43.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.
Why similar: Singleplayer 50.4%, Puzzle 49.6%
- #3 Save the Reactor
71% matchVery Positive95% of 132 reviews2022
Dev: Hypnohead
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
What if you happened to be in a control room of a nuclear reactor and something went wrong? Save the Reactor gives you the opportunity to fully experience these emotions! This simulator is great for those who like to challenge themselves and aren't afraid of difficulties!
Why similar: Logic 41.1%, Simulation 31.1%, Education 25.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #4 God of War
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 176,394 reviews2022
Dev: Santa Monica StudioPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 23.6 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.
Why similar: Singleplayer 62.6%, 3D 37.4%
- #5 Geareo
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WITWELD INC.
Windows
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 21.3% ★, Science 12.1% ★, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.9%, Physics 7.8%
- #6 Prime Mover
70% matchVery Positive89% of 214 reviews2018
Dev: 4Bit Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
Why similar: Programming 53% ★, Science 14.6% ★, Simulation 10.6%, Education 10.2%, Puzzle 10.1%
- #7 Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2
65% matchVery Positive95% of 967 reviews2022
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Explore your kingdom and rule wisely in the card game - Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2
Why similar: Funny 46.7%, Simulation 39.8%, Singleplayer 13.5%
- #8 Revenge of the Boxer: Moscow Criminality
65% matchVery Positive90% of 183 reviews2024
Dev: Alligator Friends SoftwarePub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Fight to clear your name in this action 2D fighting game from Alligator Friends Software! Professional sports and the big ring played a major role in his life. This continued until he was accused of a murder he didn't commit. Once in prison, the hero realizes that it is possible to restore justice..
Why similar: 3D 64.3%, Singleplayer 35.7%
- #9 Paper Pirates
67% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2020
Dev: Iteration Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw your crewmates overboard, but fear not - nobody’s ever out of the game!
Why similar: Funny 84.8%, Singleplayer 15.2%
- #10 GizmoLab VR
65% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: De Martini Games
Windows
A VR sci-fi sandbox game where you can put your skills to the test to build crazy inventions, with mechanics analogous to real-life electrical engineering.
Why similar: Programming 18.9% ★, Science 17.7% ★, Destruction 11.2%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #11 Brick Rigs
62% matchVery Positive95% of 56,002 reviews2023
Dev: Fluppisoft GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 77.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 30.5% ★, Destruction 19.1%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.7%, Driving 11.3%
- #12 Virtual Circuit Board
64% matchVery Positive93% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie Foundry
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.
Why similar: Programming 23.1% ★, Science 16.9% ★, Automation 11.9%, Education 11%, Building 10.1%
- #13 Nature & Life - Drunk On Nectar
63% matchVery Positive88% of 277 reviews2025
Dev: Venugopalan Sreedharan
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Play as Animals, Live in Nature! Multiple game modes include Realistic Lifecycles, Survival, Sandbox, Fantasy and Exploration. Unique gameplay for each species! Currently featuring Monarch Butterfly, Praying Mantis, Jumping Spider and other iconic creatures. Mammals, Birds, Reptiles coming soon!
Why similar: Science 43.5% ★, Education 24.1%, Sandbox 22.6%, Simulation 9.8%
- #14 Main Assembly
65% matchVery Positive84% of 1,337 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Programming 17.5% ★, Science 15.1% ★, Robots 12.2%, Automation 11.5%, Building 9%
- #15 Crafty Crasher
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Peterclark
Windows · Mac
Craft and trigger contraptions to perfection or glorious chaos! Smash cars, rescue heroes, and create hilarious scenes with your own interactive systems! From giant hammers to epic chain reactions, anything is possible!
Why similar: LEGO 23.6% ★, Destruction 15.2%, Level Editor 11.9%, Driving 10.8%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #16 OCTOPTICOM 3D
64% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: UP DEVELOPMENT LTD.
Windows · Linux
OCTOPTICOM 3D is a major upgrade to your favorite open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Featuring 3D graphics and gameplay, refined ui, rewritten simulation, all original levels and components plus new additions, histograms and more.
Why similar: Programming 29.4% ★, Science 14.3% ★, Logic 11.5%, Level Editor 9.3%, Education 8.9%
- #17 The Qubit Factory
62% matchPositive98% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: Logical Basis
Windows · Mac
The Qubit Factory is an open-ended puzzle game incorporating real-life concepts from the cutting-edge field of quantum computing. Design and build logic circuits that manipulate bits and qubits (quantum bits) to solve devious computational challenges!
Why similar: Programming 28.5% ★, Automation 17.9%, Science 11.7% ★, Logic 11.2%, Education 9.5%
- #18 iRobot Factory
64% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Einfach Genial gGmbH
Windows
Solve logic puzzles and obstacle courses in this robot simulation game! Immerse yourself in the exciting world of robotics and programming! Create your own robot, connect logic blocks and teach it to solve challenging tasks!
Why similar: Programming 26.4% ★, Robots 17.7%, Logic 13%, Education 11.6%, Building 9.5%
- #19 Robot Rumble 2
63% matchMostly Positive79% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Nerd Island Studios, LLC
Windows · Mac
Build your robot. Battle your robot. Robot Rumble 2 is the premier robot combat building simulator, where you create your robot from real-world inspired parts, then drive it in the arena to defeat other robots.
Why similar: Programming 17.3% ★, Destruction 15.6%, Robots 14.4%, Level Editor 11.1%, Driving 11%
- #20 Creaturing - Sea Wonders
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: A Little Smarter
Windows
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 27.2% ★, Science 15.8% ★, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8%, Physics 7.7%
- #21 VR Slugger: The Toy Baseball Field
66% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2017
Dev: Poly Poly Games
Windows
The best VR batting experience ever! Welcome to the Toy Field! You will play against the robot pitcher who can throw a nasty breaking ball. But don't be afraid! Pick your bat! Swing big! Knock it out of the park! Find out secret triggers in the field and achieve high scores ever!
- #22 Logic Arrows
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artem Yashin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Logic Arrows is a sandbox game where you design your own mechanisms: from logic gates to an entire computer. Use simple elements to build complex systems, solve engineering challenges and master computer logic.
Why similar: Programming 22.2% ★, Automation 18.5%, Science 11.8% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Education 10.4%
- #23 Rabbit Hole
64% matchMostly Positive79% of 268 reviews2022
Dev: Nikita UstinovPub: Blazes Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
An ancient evil has descended upon the rural town of Rabbit Hole. Now Shaun Turner not only has to untangle a twisted web of supernatural events and mysteries to save his family but also escape from the hellish remains of his hometown.
Why similar: Puzzle 78.6%, Singleplayer 21.4%
- #24 RoboCo
60% matchVery Positive88% of 204 reviews2026
Dev: Filament Games
Windows
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
Why similar: Robots 21.4%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 15%, Education 14%, Physics 13.2%
- #25 Operation Outsmart
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unifiq
Windows
Physics-based sandbox game where you build wacky machines to solve environmental puzzles. Create alloys from a mix of metals to reinforce your builds, recruit koalas to operate your weapons, solve puzzles to get rewarded with parts and weapons, and save the island from the erupting volcano!
Why similar: Science 16.6% ★, Destruction 15.2%, Building 14.1%, LEGO 13.1% ★, Sandbox 11.9%
- #26 JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
61% matchMostly Positive78% of 349 reviews2025
Dev: Prof. SchererPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Why similar: Programming 22% ★, Science 14.3% ★, Automation 13.4%, Robots 12.4%, Education 9.4%
- #27 Brickmasters
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Brain Seal Ltd
Windows
A physics based brick building game
Why similar: LEGO 28.1% ★, Destruction 18%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 12.5%, Physics 11.1%
- #28 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: Science 29.4% ★, Sandbox 18.2%, Physics 15.4%, Building 13.5%, Education 10.5%
- #29 Metro Simulator 2
62% matchMixed64% of 768 reviews2023
Dev: KishMish Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Metro Simulator 2 is a unique game featuring recreated Moscow Metro and realistic train controls.
Why similar: Driving 54.3%, Simulation 20%, Physics 13.1%, 3D 10.5%, Singleplayer 2%
- #30 SirKwitz
60% matchVery Positive95% of 85 reviews2024
Dev: Predict Edumedia
Windows
Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!
Why similar: Programming 28.1% ★, Education 17.3%, Robots 16.6%, Automation 13%, Logic 12%
- #31 Crispy Circuits
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Turing Studio
Windows · Mac
Discover the world of electronics by fixing your hamster’s RC plane. Connect, test, assemble and fail in spectacular ways. This cozy simulator lets you electrocute your hamster without authorities getting involved!
Why similar: Programming 22.9% ★, Automation 14.7%, Science 14.5% ★, Logic 9.5%, Education 9.1%
- #32 Hard Chip
60% matchVery Positive92% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Elorth
Windows
Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.
Why similar: Programming 23.6% ★, Science 18.2% ★, Automation 12.7%, Education 11.2%, Logic 11%
- #33 Knot
64% matchMostly Positive73% of 30 reviews2017
Dev: Warlock Arts
Windows
For lovers of burr and block puzzles.
Why similar: Physics 33.3%, Logic 24.9%, Puzzle 17.1%, Simulation 12.4%, 3D 9.2%
- #34 Mechanic 8230: Escape from Ilgrot
61% matchVery Positive91% of 121 reviews2022
Dev: Nudiventra
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Mechanic 8230: Episode 1 is an adventure game in the point-and-click genre. Help the mechanic find his robot friend RO-2 and together unveil the secrets of the world destroyed by the Cataclysm.
Why similar: Robots 67%, Puzzle 18%, 3D 10%, Singleplayer 5%
- #35 Charge!
63% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Hidden Depths Games
Windows
Charge is a level-based puzzle game where you control the flow of charge around a circuit board. Arrange pre-built components into wondrous machines that take advantage of available resources and design your own modules from scratch.
Why similar: Programming 27.7% ★, Automation 17.9%, Science 14.9% ★, Logic 10.3%, Building 7.8%
- #36 Blow it up
59% matchPositive100% of 47 reviews2025
Dev: Brain Seal Ltd
Windows
Blow it up is a physics destruction game. Unlock new bombs, explore the world and go on an epic journey of destruction.
Why similar: LEGO 31.3% ★, Destruction 23.7%, Level Editor 13.8%, Physics 11.2%, Puzzle 5.1%
- #37 Plasma
60% matchVery Positive90% of 1,060 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Programming 22.6% ★, Automation 14.7%, Robots 14%, Sandbox 14%, Building 12%
- #38 Circuit Artist
60% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: lets_all_be_stupid_forever
Windows · Mac · Linux
A circuit simulator where you draw everything. Wires are pixels, gates are triangles. Design chips, watch signals glow as they propagate, and debug by rewinding time.
Why similar: Programming 25.8% ★, Science 14.1% ★, Automation 13.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Education 11%
- #39 Psych
61% matchMostly Positive78% of 339 reviews2022
Dev: MediaTale
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience the story of Alexander Green and find out what happened on the day of the accident in this First Person horror Adventure. Follow the development of Alex, solve puzzles around the event and try not to fall into madness as you search for answers.
Why similar: Puzzle 64.6%, 3D 21.2%, Singleplayer 14.2%
- #40 Dumbino
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Smoke Studios
Windows
Dumbino is a funny chaotic physics-based puzzle game where you topple dominoes with explosions, wild chain reactions, and pure madness. Embrace the epic goofy mayhem as you create and solve unhinged levels. Build and share your craziest designs and custom levels with the community!
Why similar: LEGO 25.8% ★, Level Editor 13.6%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Destruction 10.7%
- #41 RGB Rush
60% matchVery Positive96% of 170 reviews2022
Dev: Follow the funPub: RGB Rush
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
How accurately can you recreate a random colour? Forget using a colour picker, learn to form hex codes in your mind. Impress your crush. Prove your abilities under the clock, blindfolded. Practice today.
Why similar: Education 59%, Programming 39.9% ★, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #42 Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2
61% matchVery Positive98% of 92 reviews2020
Dev: Northway Games
Windows
The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!
Why similar: Building 17.7%, Physics 16.8%, Education 10.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Simulation 8.4%
- #43 while True: learn()
60% matchVery Positive91% of 8,049 reviews2019
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
Why similar: Programming 39.5% ★, Education 15.9%, Science 14.7% ★, Building 8%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #44 Days Gone
59% matchVery Positive93% of 112,424 reviews2021
Dev: Bend StudioPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 43.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #45 ComPressure
62% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Charlie Brej
Windows · Mac · Linux
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Programming 22.5% ★, Science 17.3% ★, Automation 15.6%, Building 11.1%, Education 10.2%
- #46 Rainbow Reactor
62% matchVery Positive93% of 106 reviews2019
Dev: Tunermaxx Media GmbH
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Welcome to the future! In this fun-packed VR game which is easy to understand but hard to master, you'll throw, mix and match colorful energy balls to power the entire city - at the RAINBOW REACTOR!
Why similar: Physics 62.4%, Puzzle 37.6%
- #47 Dark Prospect
61% matchMixed69% of 102 reviews2023
Dev: CashcowGames
Windows
Dark Prospect is an asymmetrical FPSvsRTS multiplayer game. FPS players must survive by gathering resources, building defenses and fighting against a player or AI who summons, commands, upgrades monsters and casts spells from an RTS perspective.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #48 CHR$(143)
61% matchVery Positive96% of 79 reviews2021
Dev: Nicolas Jean
Windows · Linux
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
Why similar: Programming 25.6% ★, Automation 22.6%, Building 15.1%, Physics 11.5%, Logic 9.6%
- #49 Turing Complete
59% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,074 reviews2021
Dev: LevelHead
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 40.4% ★, Logic 15.3%, Education 15.2%, Automation 9.8%, Building 5.8%
- #50 Gravity
60% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Sky Cypher
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to the world of Gravity! 100 levels of physics and logic await you. Solve puzzles, place blocks, and enjoy completing each level!
Why similar: Programming 20.1% ★, Level Editor 17.1%, Logic 12%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.5%
- #51 Hexahedra
59% matchPositive100% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: Sidequest Ninja
Windows · Linux
Hexahedra is a puzzle game about beautiful efficiency. Design, program, and optimize factories to build cubes, used galaxy-wide as crates, satellite housing, even chic coffins. Rewind the action to hunt for improvements. Compete with friends, and help a tiny octopus with a nightmare family visit.
Why similar: Programming 29.6% ★, Automation 18.2%, Level Editor 14.4%, Logic 13%, Education 11.2%
- #52 ABI-DOS
58% matchVery Positive93% of 401 reviews2024
Dev: ABI.DOS.SOFTWARE
Windows
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Why similar: Programming 29.6% ★, Automation 18.4%, Education 11.1%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #53 Electric Alps
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dirty Paws Studio
Windows
You are an electrician, moving back to your hometown in the Austrian Alps, which you find lacks a certain... spark. Promptly tasked with wiring up the village, you solve electrical puzzles, blow fuses and master real-world circuitry techniques. Electrify the Alps, one circuit at a time.
Why similar: Science 18.2% ★, Programming 17.9% ★, Automation 16.6%, Education 15.6%, Logic 12.1%
- #54 Anarchy: Wolf's law
60% matchMostly Positive78% of 811 reviews2023
Dev: Anarchy Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Action. Chaos. Power. Anarchy: Wolf Laws is a dynamic first-person shooter with elements of RPG, survival, and strategic management. Capture territories, upgrade your production, and run your business in a world of total lawlessness.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #55 Boing Odyssey
60% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Tuonele
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build contraptions with various tools to end all roasted chickens rightly in this physics puzzle game, or create and share your own challenges!
Why similar: Level Editor 18.2%, Building 15.5%, Physics 13.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Education 11.6%
- #56 Mars First Logistics
56% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,460 reviews2025
Dev: Shape Shop
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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!
Why similar: LEGO 22.9% ★, Science 15.6% ★, Robots 12.5%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #57 Kaizen: A Factory Story
57% matchVery Positive93% of 643 reviews2025
Dev: CoincidencePub: Astra Logical
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
Why similar: Programming 31.8% ★, Automation 18%, Logic 12.1%, Education 11.6%, Building 10%
- #58 Sand:box
58% matchVery Positive94% of 1,477 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Destruction 17.4%, Automation 14.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Science 13.2% ★, Physics 10.4%
- #59 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
58% matchVery Positive85% of 619 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Programming 27.6% ★, Automation 18.5%, Robots 17%, Education 14.7%, Sandbox 12.3%