- #1 SimplePlanes
97% matchVery Positive93% of 10,914 reviews2015
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Flight 35.4%, Building 18.4%, Sandbox 14.5%, Physics 13.5%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for accessible, physics-based aircraft design and flight testing.
- #2 Flyout
96% matchVery Positive83% of 2,296 reviews2023
Dev: Stonext Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build and fly realistic aircraft. Use free-form fuselage and wing editor tools and tune your engines to recreate aircraft from any era or design your own.
Why similar: Flight 31%, Building 18%, Sandbox 17.3%, Physics 12.6%, Science 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers an incredibly deep aerodynamic simulation engine that allows for precise, custom aircraft design.
- #3 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
96% matchVery Positive91% of 60,190 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 113.9 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: Flight 28.2%, Building 21.5%, Sandbox 19.3%, Physics 14.4%, Open World 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines complex vehicle construction with a challenging open-world environment that demands functional engineering.
- #4 Juno: New Origins
95% matchVery Positive89% of 3,554 reviews2023
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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: Flight 24.6%, Building 18.6%, Science 18.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Physics 11%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly detailed aerospace engineering experience with a focus on custom part design and complex flight systems.
- #5 Trailmakers
94% matchVery Positive92% of 39,576 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Flight 29.5%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Physics 12.2%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly accessible and fun approach to physics-based vehicle building and exploration.
- #6 Scrap Mechanic
92% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 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 29.6%, Sandbox 19.5%, Physics 17.4%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox that excels in allowing players to build complex, moving mechanical contraptions and vehicles.
- #7 Kerbal Space Program
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 147,368 reviews2015
Dev: SquadPub: Private Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 66.3 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 23.2%, Sandbox 21.2%, Physics 18.4%, Building 18.3%, Simulation 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive aerospace sandbox that rewards players for learning real-world orbital mechanics and engineering principles.
- #8 GearBlocks
91% matchVery Positive91% of 802 reviews2023
Dev: SmashHammer Games
Windows · Linux
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 28.8%, Physics 19.4%, Sandbox 19.2%, Destruction 15.9%, Open World 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It features a detailed mechanical building system that emphasizes realistic physics and complex machine operation.
- #9 TerraTech
91% matchVery Positive91% of 25,032 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 32.4 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 32.8%, Sandbox 22.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 13.6%, Physics 8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on modular vehicle building where you scavenge parts to upgrade your machine for combat and exploration.
- #10 Besiege
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 53,310 reviews2020
Dev: Spiderling Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 18.7 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: Flight 25.7%, Building 19.7%, Sandbox 15.5%, Destruction 15.1%, Physics 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based construction game that challenges you to build mechanical siege engines to complete varied objectives.
- #11 Brick Rigs
89% matchVery Positive95% of 59,870 reviews2023
Dev: Fluppisoft GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!
Why similar: Building 22.4%, Sandbox 19.8%, Destruction 17.8%, Physics 14.6%, Flight 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox focuses on the physics of vehicle operation and destruction, allowing for highly creative builds.
- #12 From the Depths
89% matchVery Positive89% of 12,853 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.8 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 31%, Sandbox 22.6%, Physics 20.4%, Crafting 17.2%, Simulation 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: An extremely deep vehicle construction game that allows for the creation of complex ships, planes, and tanks with functional internal systems.
- #13 Nuclear Option
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 11,179 reviews2023
Dev: Shockfront Studios
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics across dynamic battlefields, facing land, air, and sea threats. Wage war against AI or rival pilots using an array of advanced weaponry, including tactical and strategic nuclear weapons capable of annihilating anything in your path.
Why similar: Flight 45.5%, Sandbox 22.1%, Physics 21.8%, Simulation 6.8%, 3D 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic flight combat experience with a focus on modern aviation and physics-based weapon systems.
- #14 Main Assembly
88% matchVery Positive83% of 1,355 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 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: Building 22.5%, Science 20.9%, Sandbox 18%, Physics 15.4%, Crafting 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly flexible robotics and vehicle construction system with a focus on creative problem-solving.
- #15 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
86% matchVery Positive94% of 12,916 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 54.1%, Exploration 14.7%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 7%, Atmospheric 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features modular ship building where the layout of your ship directly impacts its performance in physics-based combat.
- #16 Space Engineers
86% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 26.9%, Sandbox 20.7%, Physics 19.6%, Open World 13.4%, Exploration 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive sandbox for building and operating complex machinery, ships, and stations in a physics-based environment.
- #17 RoadCraft
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 16,417 reviews2025
Dev: Saber InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 35.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 30.4% ★, Building 25.1%, Physics 16.4%, Destruction 13.2%, Simulation 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the physics of heavy vehicle operation and logistics within challenging, deformable environments.
- #18 Derail Valley
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,839 reviews2019
Dev: Altfuture
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
Why similar: Transportation 48.5% ★, Physics 15.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 11.8%, Simulation 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-driven simulation that captures the complexity of operating heavy machinery and transportation systems.
- #19 Airport CEO
84% matchVery Positive83% of 8,359 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 30.3% ★, Flight 28.5%, Building 19.1%, Sandbox 14%, Simulation 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that focuses on the infrastructure and logistics of flight operations.
- #20 Hydroneer
83% matchVery Positive86% of 28,536 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Building 31.4%, Sandbox 27.6%, Open World 16.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Simulation 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features physics-based building and automation mechanics that allow for creative base and machine design.
- #21 Learn to Fly 3
82% matchVery Positive95% of 11,333 reviews2017
Dev: Light Bringer Games inc.
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
Why similar: Flight 38.2%, Physics 23.8%, Sandbox 23.3%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: A lighthearted, physics-based flight game that focuses on iterative design and progression.
- #22 Stationeers
82% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Building 24%, Science 23.8%, Sandbox 18.4%, Physics 18.1%, Crafting 15.7%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore engineering simulation that requires you to manage complex atmospheric and electrical systems in your builds.
- #23 Instruments of Destruction
80% matchVery Positive91% of 1,574 reviews2024
Dev: RadiangamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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: Destruction 40.1%, Physics 37.2%, Simulation 10.2%, 3D 5.9%, Stylized 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines advanced physics-based destruction with a creative vehicle-building system.
- #24 SimAirport
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,050 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
Why similar: Flight 44.2%, Building 26.5%, Sandbox 19.3%, Simulation 5.2%, Strategy 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: It allows you to design and manage the complex logistics of an airport, including runway and terminal operations.
- #25 Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
81% matchVery Positive94% of 18,050 reviews2015
Dev: Camshaft Software Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 53.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?
Why similar: Building 29.6%, Sandbox 19.5%, Science 15.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Physics 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers an incredibly deep engineering simulation for designing engines and car chassis from the ground up.
- #26 Fly Corp
79% matchVery Positive85% of 3,423 reviews2023
Dev: KishMish Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Develop your own transport network in different regions and cities: open new routes, buy and upgrade new planes, and increase airport capacity!
Why similar: Transportation 36.3% ★, Flight 26.2%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 12.6%, Simulation 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: A logistics and transportation management game that focuses on building a global flight network.
- #27 SimplePlanes 2
76% matchVery Positive92% of 1,439 reviews2026
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: Building 28.1%, Sandbox 22%, Destruction 20.4%, Open World 14.1%, Exploration 7.7%
- #28 Volcanoids
79% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Building 26.7%, Sandbox 21.1%, Crafting 18.9%, Open World 12.8%, Exploration 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game where you build and upgrade a massive, drill-based steampunk vehicle to explore a hostile island.
- #29 Carrier Command 2
78% matchVery Positive82% of 3,781 reviews2021
Dev: GeometaPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!
Why similar: Exploration 29.7%, Simulation 24%, Strategy 16.2%, 3D 11.3%, Atmospheric 11%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic simulation that requires you to manage and operate various vehicles and aircraft in a persistent war zone.
- #30 Space Engineers 2
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,654 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Building 18.3%, Science 14.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Destruction 12.4%, Physics 12%
- #31 Lakehopper
76% matchVery Positive88% of 481 reviews2026
Dev: Photon Games
Windows · Linux
Take flight in a seaplane flight simulator through a rugged world where you are responsible for the care and maintenance of your plane. Deliver cargo between far-flung communities in a flooded landscape that challenges your piloting skills! Fix your plane and keep flying!
Why similar: Flight 32.6%, Transportation 29.7% ★, Physics 8.9%, Sandbox 8.5%, Simulation 5.9%
- #32 Sandustry
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Building 25.4%, Sandbox 20.8%, Crafting 17.5%, Open World 13%, Exploration 7.9%
- #33 Plane Mechanic Simulator
78% matchMixed56% of 1,688 reviews2024
Dev: Cobble GamesPub: Ultimate Publishing
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 42%
England, 1940. The Luftwaffe is preparing for the invasion of Britain and the RAF need every man to stop it. They need you. Join the ground crews as they struggle to keep the aircraft flying. Repair engine, patch bullet holes, rearm machine guns and more.
Why similar: Building 41.2%, Simulation 21.7%, Destruction 20.9%, Adventure 4%, Strategy 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed look at the maintenance and construction side of historical aircraft.
- #34 Mars First Logistics
74% matchVery Positive95% of 3,795 reviews2025
Dev: Shape Shop
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.4 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: Transportation 27.3% ★, Building 14.8%, Science 14.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Physics 10.6%
- #35 Spaceflight Simulator
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,809 reviews2022
Dev: Team Curiosity ✦
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 24.1%, Science 21.6%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Physics 9.3%
- #36 Screw Drivers
73% matchVery Positive85% of 6,786 reviews2026
Dev: CreactstudiosPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 30.9%, Physics 21.8%, Destruction 18.3%, Crafting 17.4%, Simulation 5.6%
- #37 Approximately Up
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,121 reviews2026
Dev: Approximately Games
Windows
Median: 12.9 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build, crash, rebuild! Explore new planets in co-op multiplayer with your fully modular spaceship made from whatever bolts together long enough to fly. Mount giant thrusters, annoying cables, and everything in between. Complete wild missions, face the dangers of space and argue with your crew!
Why similar: Flight 38%, Sandbox 25.7%, Exploration 8.2%, Open World 7.9%, Simulation 7.1%
- #38 Kerbal Space Program 2
77% matchMostly Negative26% of 32,033 reviews2023
Dev: Intercept GamesPub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 21.7%, Building 21.6%, Sandbox 16.9%, Physics 15.6%, Open World 9%
- #39 MineMogul
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Building 27.2%, Physics 19.3%, Sandbox 17%, Crafting 15.4%, Open World 8.6%
- #40 Sky Haven Tycoon - Airport Simulator
73% matchMixed58% of 1,368 reviews2022
Dev: Real Welders
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build your own airport in Skyhaven! Live out your airplane tycoon and simulation game fantasies and make the best surroundings and strategy for both airline manager and passenger alike. Schedule flight plans, build terminals, landing strips and more and create an airport tycoon empire in Skyhaven.
Why similar: Flight 44.3%, Building 27.9%, Simulation 11.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Strategy 6.7%
- #41 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
71% matchMixed60% of 22,687 reviews2024
Dev: Asobo StudioPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 133.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Explore the world with our largest fleet of aircraft and take simulation to new heights while pursuing your aviation career within Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
Why similar: Flight 53.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 9%, Simulation 8.3%, Exploration 5.7%
- #42 Medieval Engineers
75% matchMixed52% of 7,326 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 26.8%, Sandbox 18%, Physics 14.9%, Destruction 14%, Open World 10%
- #43 Poly Bridge 2
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,237 reviews2020
Dev: Dry Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!
Why similar: Building 34.9%, Physics 20.3%, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Simulation 5.9%
- #44 Starship EVO
71% matchVery Positive83% of 1,546 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 40.5%, Sandbox 25.5%, Open World 10%, Simulation 9.5%, Physics 9.2%
- #45 Railroads Online
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 6,042 reviews2024
Dev: Stefan KelnbergerPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 64.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!
Why similar: Building 29.3%, Sandbox 21.8%, Physics 21.4%, Open World 15.1%, Exploration 8.2%
- #46 Nimbatus - Drone Creator
70% matchVery Positive91% of 275 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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: Flight 18.9%, Science 14.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Physics 11%, Crafting 10.9%
- #47 Captain of Industry
68% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 40.3%, Transportation 30.3% ★, Simulation 11.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Strategy 7%
- #48 KitHack Model Club
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 688 reviews2024
Dev: Floating Origin InteractivePub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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: Building 22.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Physics 16.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 12.1%
- #49 Voxel Tycoon
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,793 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Why similar: Transportation 34.7% ★, Building 19.7%, Sandbox 15.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 7.4%
- #50 Poly Bridge 3
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,176 reviews2023
Dev: Dry Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
The best just got better! Rediscover your engineering creativity in this genre-defining bridge engineering and puzzle solving masterpiece.
Why similar: Building 36.7%, Physics 24.6%, Simulation 13.2%, Crafting 13.1%, 3D 4.3%
- #51 Motor Town: Behind The Wheel
68% matchVery Positive94% of 9,730 reviews2021
Dev: P3 Games
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 46.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enjoy realistic driving in the open world. Relaxing cargo deliveries or driving buses and taxis will give you enough money to buy new cars and parts. You can test your driving skills at the race track. It's all about pure driving pleasure!
Why similar: Transportation 60.7% ★, Open World 17.6%, Exploration 7.9%, Simulation 7.2%, Atmospheric 3%
- #52 Atomcraft
66% matchVery Positive95% of 434 reviews2026
Dev: Triplejump
Windows
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Science 27.5%, Sandbox 22.5%, Crafting 18.2%, Physics 17.6%, Open World 7.2%
- #53 SimplePlanes VR
69% matchVery Positive85% of 200 reviews2021
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows
SimplePlanes VR is a flight sim with an ever-expanding collection of hand-crafted aircraft to download and fly for free. Airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats, and more are available and new crafts are added every day.
Why similar: Transportation 30.5% ★, Flight 27.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Physics 10.6%, Open World 5.6%
- #54 Autocraft
72% matchMixed56% of 298 reviews2017
Dev: Alientrap
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
Why similar: Building 29.1%, Sandbox 27.6%, Physics 19.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Simulation 7.7%
- #55 Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 73,147 reviews2026
Dev: Asobo StudioPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 35.2 hrsMean: 164.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
From gliders and helicopters to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.
Why similar: Flight 58.1%, Open World 13.9%, Physics 12.7%, Simulation 9.2%, Atmospheric 2.3%
- #56 Rocket Science
70% matchVery Positive81% of 176 reviews2020
Dev: unbeGames
Windows
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: Flight 22.2%, Building 17.1%, Science 16.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Physics 12.5%
- #57 Lou's Lagoon
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 188 reviews2026
Dev: Tiny RoarPub: Megabit Publishing
Windows
A cozy exploration-and-crafting adventure: fly your seaplane between tropical islands, collect resources with the Swirler, rebuild storm damaged communities, and unravel the mystery surrounding Uncle Lou’s disappearance.
Why similar: Flight 30%, Building 14.9%, Crafting 14.2%, Sandbox 13%, Open World 10.9%
- #58 Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
65% matchVery Positive87% of 4,406 reviews2026
Dev: Mumpitz Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!
Why similar: Physics 65%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Colorful 6.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #59 To The Core
66% matchVery Positive93% of 5,200 reviews2023
Dev: SomethingExtra
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
To The Core is an incremental game about extracting and using resources from planets to buy upgrades.
Why similar: Destruction 59.5%, Stylized 15.8%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 6.7%, Singleplayer 6.3%