Games Like Autocraft

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 26.9%, Sandbox 26.3%, Physics 16.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive physics-based building sandbox that mirrors the mechanical freedom and creative vehicle design of Autocraft.

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: Sandbox 21.5%, Building 18.7%, Space 14.7%, Physics 14.6%, Space Sim 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep, complex engineering and space-based construction that rewards players for building functional, physics-compliant machines.

Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.

Why similar: Space 24.3%, Sandbox 21.9%, Building 19.2%, Physics 15%, Crafting 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at intuitive vehicle construction and physics-based exploration, making it a perfect successor to the Autocraft experience.

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: Sandbox 35.2%, Building 26.9%, Physics 18.5%, Simulation 8%, Multiplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines modular vehicle building with high-fidelity destruction, allowing you to test your creations in chaotic, physics-driven environments.

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: Sandbox 33.3%, Building 33%, Crafting 11.6%, Physics 8.6%, Open World 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on modular vehicle building and combat, where you scavenge parts to upgrade your machines for exploration and survival.

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: Sandbox 32%, Building 27.4%, Physics 21.7%, Simulation 13.6%, Multiplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic physics-based building game where you construct siege engines to destroy structures, focusing on the same satisfaction of mechanical engineering.

Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.

Why similar: Sandbox 37.5%, Building 32%, Physics 25.1%, Open World 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a highly detailed flight-focused building experience that emphasizes aerodynamics and physics-based performance.

Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!

Why similar: Building 29.5%, Sandbox 29.5%, Physics 21.1%, Simulation 12.5%, Open World 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sophisticated engineering sandbox that allows for complex mechanical systems and realistic physics interactions.

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: Sandbox 41.1%, Building 31%, Physics 22%, Open World 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep engineering experience where you must design functional vehicles to handle complex environmental challenges.

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: Sandbox 24.7%, Building 22.8%, Physics 16.1%, Space 13%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled level of detail in vehicle engineering, allowing for the construction of complex ships, planes, and tanks.

Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

Why similar: Sandbox 28.4%, Space 18.5%, Physics 16.1%, Space Sim 14.3%, Simulation 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more cosmic in scale, it provides the same satisfying physics-based experimentation and destruction found in Autocraft.

Crash through walls and tear down buildings in Instruments of Destruction, a vehicle-action game featuring advanced physics-based demolition. Pilot 130+ unique vehicles across scores of challenge-packed missions or design your own contraptions and wreck highly-interactive sandbox worlds.

Why similar: Physics 57.2%, Simulation 32.6%, Casual 6.8%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based demolition game that lets you build custom vehicles specifically designed to tear down structures.

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: Sandbox 39.3%, Building 36.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused sandbox that allows players to build and share complex vehicles and machines.

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: Sandbox 19.9%, Building 17.4%, Space 17.1%, Space Sim 16%, Physics 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building custom space drones to survive and explore, blending creative design with physics-based combat.

Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.

Why similar: Building 29.1%, Sandbox 27.6%, Physics 20%, Crafting 10.3%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A flight-focused building sandbox that emphasizes physics and aerodynamics for custom aircraft designs.

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: Sandbox 27.5%, Building 23.9%, Physics 18.1%, Crafting 12.7%, Simulation 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A highly creative robotics sandbox that gives you the tools to build complex, functional machines from scratch.

Design your car from scratch: from the frame to the suspension and race it!

Why similar: Sandbox 36.3%, Building 33.3%, Simulation 16.2%, Physics 9%, Indie 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep focus on automotive engineering, allowing you to build and test custom cars in a physics-based environment.

The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!

Why similar: Sandbox 30.1%, Space 23.8%, Building 18.5%, Crafting 6.1%, Space Sim 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based space sandbox that allows for massive ship construction and complex mechanical systems.

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Why similar: Building 23.9%, Sandbox 22.4%, Space 18.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Space Sim 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A creative space-building sandbox that allows for highly detailed ship construction and exploration.

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: Building 31.3%, Space 24.5%, Space Sim 19%, Simulation 12%, Multiplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for intricate space ship design where the layout and engineering directly impact your performance in tactical combat.

Dieselpunk Wars is a vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 300 elements to build a war machine of your dreams. Construct vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat and test your skills!

Why similar: Sandbox 32.8%, Building 28.1%, Physics 21.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Open World 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A vehicle construction game that emphasizes building unique war machines to battle in a physics-driven world.

Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

Why similar: Sandbox 34.8%, Building 23.2%, Physics 18.3%, Simulation 10%, Multiplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate physics sandbox that provides endless tools for building and experimenting with mechanical contraptions.

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Building 28.4%, Sandbox 28.3%, Physics 16.9%, Crafting 8.2%, Simulation 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on structural engineering and physics, allowing you to build castles and siege machines that react realistically to stress.

Water Physics Simulation & Sandbox! Build ships and let them sink! Build cars and let them sink! Use bombs and destroy ragdolls. Play with natural disasters or create towns.

Why similar: Sandbox 34.7%, Physics 21.6%, Building 20.8%, Simulation 17.7%, Casual 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A specialized sandbox that focuses on the interaction between structures and realistic water physics.

Brickadia is a next-generation brick building sandbox that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build massive worlds, invent cool contraptions, and play in them however you like - all with your friends!

Why similar: Sandbox 35.6%, Building 28.3%, Physics 24.3%, Multiplayer 6%, Casual 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused sandbox that provides extensive building tools and physics-based interactions.

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: Sandbox 27.7%, Building 23.8%, Physics 17.8%, Space 16.6%, Simulation 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to build vehicles that can navigate complex, physics-based terrain and obstacles.

In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

Why similar: Sandbox 27.8%, Space 17.7%, Space Sim 15.9%, Simulation 10.5%, Building 9.9%

Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.

Why similar: Space 28%, Sandbox 26.3%, Simulation 16.7%, Building 14.2%, Space Sim 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based engineering game where you build ships block-by-block to survive in a harsh, physics-driven universe.

Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.

Why similar: Sandbox 22.2%, Building 18.9%, Space 14.4%, Physics 13.5%, Space Sim 9.1%

Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.

Why similar: Sandbox 21%, Building 18%, Space 13.2%, Physics 12.6%, Space Sim 11.3%

Unleash your creativity and craft anything from flying cars to jet-powered toilets.Fair warning: there's a learning curve. But once you've got it, the sky's the limit for your creations!While active development is paused, we focus preserving the game and keeping it accessible.

Why similar: Sandbox 25.2%, Building 21.6%, Physics 16.7%, Space 15.6%, Crafting 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A vehicle design sandbox that emphasizes the engineering and racing aspects of custom-built machines.

Developed by the creator of the original Kerbal Space Program, KitHack Model Club is a physics-based model building sandbox that offers limitless freedom for you and your friends. Design, build, battle, fly (and crash!) your very own RC vehicles, or experiment with over 2,400 ready-made vehicles!

Why similar: Sandbox 26.3%, Building 22.5%, Physics 18%, Crafting 12.4%, Simulation 11%

Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Building 33.2%, Physics 24.9%, Crafting 16.1%, Simulation 13.9%, Multiplayer 7%

A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.8%, Physics 29.8%, Simulation 20%, Open World 6.2%, Multiplayer 5.9%

A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Why similar: Building 33%, Sandbox 31.9%, Space 24.3%, Physics 3.6%, Indie 2.9%

Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?

Why similar: Simulation 20.5%, Sandbox 19.9%, Physics 12%, Building 10.8%, Space 10.4%

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: Building 42.1%, Physics 29.6%, Simulation 21.4%, Multiplayer 6.9%

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: Sandbox 23.7%, Space 21.3%, Physics 14.9%, Building 13.8%, Space Sim 11.2%

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: Sandbox 25.8%, Space 24.5%, Building 18.9%, Crafting 10.2%, Multiplayer 6.8%

Kinetic Void is a 3D space adventure with a focus on customization and enjoyable space simulation. The shipyard allows players to construct their ship piece by piece. Ships can be as simplistic as a cockpit, a hull, a engine and a gun, or as complex as a player wants.

Why similar: Space 33.4%, Sandbox 25.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Building 11.7%, Space Sim 6.2%

Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.

Why similar: Sandbox 43.1%, Building 27.2%, Simulation 25.6%, Indie 2.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%

SimplePlanes is back! Build planes, cars, or anything else using powerful procedural parts! Explore detailed environments with friends in multiplayer, cause chaos, or download 1,000,000 community crafts for free.

Why similar: Sandbox 37.1%, Building 32%, Simulation 16.3%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Open World 6.2%

Masterspace is a game about mining, creating and exploring, featuring fully destructible environments and spaceships that allow you to travel between different planets. Use explosives to mine metal ores or watch your newly constructed home get smashed to pieces by a meteorite impact.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.1%, Simulation 25.2%, Space 22.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Indie 7.5%

Game allows you to build many kinds of towers from a variety of bricks and experience their dynamic destruction physics in a sandbox environment.

Why similar: Simulation 38.3%, Sandbox 20.6%, Building 15.3%, Physics 13%, Indie 12.8%

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Why similar: Sandbox 46%, Building 20.4%, Crafting 13.6%, Open World 7.1%, Multiplayer 5.5%

Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.

Why similar: Building 23.2%, Sandbox 22.1%, Space 15.1%, Space Sim 15%, Simulation 9.7%

Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

Why similar: Building 22.1%, Sandbox 20.4%, Space Sim 14.5%, Physics 14%, Space 13.9%

ShipCrafter is a naval sandbox simulation game. Build your ship, unlock new components and defeat increasingly powerful foes in the campaign !

Why similar: Sandbox 40.1%, Simulation 26.1%, Casual 10.8%, Physics 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%

PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.

Why similar: Sandbox 27.6%, Building 20%, Physics 18%, Space 17.3%, Simulation 10.4%

Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.

Why similar: Sandbox 29%, Physics 19.6%, Simulation 16.4%, Space 11.8%, Space Sim 10.4%

Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!

Why similar: Sandbox 23.6%, Building 22%, Space Sim 15.8%, Space 14.4%, Crafting 11.8%

Habitat is a physics-based space game where you build, fly, and fight with whatever you can find out in space. Upgrade and arm your creations with weapons and structures you find in orbit, fly and explore using rocket physics.Battle deadly enemies in Campaign Mode to save humanity or explore Sandbox Mode for true creative control.

Why similar: Space 32.9%, Sandbox 30.2%, Simulation 19%, Physics 11.4%, Indie 6.5%

Use your godly powers to craft amazing pixel worlds or destroy the universe! Play with physics, over 200 elements and controllable heroes. Make your own games or levels, and then share your creations online. There are no limits to your creativity and imagination!

Why similar: Sandbox 52.8%, Physics 15.2%, Simulation 13.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 4%

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: Sandbox 18.1%, Building 18.1%, Space 14.6%, Physics 12%, Space Sim 11.2%

Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.

Why similar: Sandbox 23%, Building 19.8%, Space 16.6%, Physics 15.4%, Space Sim 12.5%

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: Sandbox 27.6%, Building 23.5%, Space 18.1%, Space Sim 16.6%, Simulation 9.9%