- #1 Scrap Mechanic
97% matchVery Positive92% of 117,933 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.5 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 26.5%, Sandbox 21.5%, Physics 18.1%, Moddable 16.3%, Multiplayer 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its freeform vehicle construction, mechanical logic, and physics sandbox make it one of the closest matches for players who love inventing strange working machines.
- #2 Trailmakers
96% matchVery Positive92% of 37,343 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 26.9%, Vehicular Combat 25.1%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Physics 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: It captures Besiege's playful build-test-improve loop with modular vehicles, physics-driven challenges, and both solo and co-op experimentation.
- #3 From the Depths
96% matchVery Positive89% of 12,716 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: Naval Combat 31.2% ★, Vehicular Combat 20.8%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Physics 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep block-by-block construction and combat where engineering choices directly determine how your machines perform and break apart.
- #4 Brick Rigs
95% matchVery Positive95% of 58,216 reviews2023
Dev: Fluppisoft GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 77.3 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: Destruction 31.2%, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 16.5%, Physics 12.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its sandbox vehicle building and wonderfully breakable physics make it a strong fit if your favorite part of Besiege is creative construction followed by spectacular failure.
- #5 SimplePlanes
94% matchVery Positive93% of 10,879 reviews2015
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.7 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 23.9%, Moddable 19.1%, Vehicular Combat 17.1%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same itch of carefully building a machine from parts and then stress-testing whether it can actually fly, fight, or hold together.
- #6 Main Assembly
94% matchVery Positive83% of 1,346 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 25%, Sandbox 23.8%, Physics 20.6%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Simulation 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Like Besiege, it is all about assembling custom contraptions from parts and then seeing whether your design actually works in motion.
- #7 Space Engineers
93% matchVery Positive89% of 133,963 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.1 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: Moddable 26.6%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.6%, Physics 11.2%, PvP 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its detailed block building, physics simulation, and sandbox problem-solving make it a natural next step for players who want Besiege on a larger scale.
- #8 GearBlocks
91% matchVery Positive91% of 754 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: Moddable 25.4%, Destruction 21.6%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Physics 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is a pure engineering sandbox where you assemble functioning mechanical creations and experiment with how physical parts interact under load.
- #9 Nimbatus - Drone Creator
92% matchVery Positive91% of 274 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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: Destruction 24%, Flight 20.3%, Simulation 16.7%, Sandbox 15.9%, Physics 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: This focuses on designing custom drones from components and iterating on physics-heavy builds to solve missions and survive combat.
- #10 TerraTech
91% matchVery Positive91% of 24,767 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 32.8 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 28.2%, Sandbox 23.6%, Vehicular Combat 17.5%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Physics 8%
Why You'll Like It: Building combat vehicles from modular blocks and taking them into open-ended battles delivers a similar creative engineering-to-destruction payoff.
- #11 Forts
90% matchVery Positive92% of 25,028 reviews2017
Dev: EarthWork Games
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!
Why similar: Destruction 21.7%, Moddable 21.2%, Level Editor 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Physics 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It turns structural building and destruction into a competitive artillery sandbox, preserving the same appeal of building something clever and watching physics decide the rest.
- #12 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
89% matchVery Positive90% of 59,051 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 112.8 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%, Sandbox 22.5%, Building 20.4%, Physics 15.8%, PvP 13%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes intricate machine design, mechanical systems, and rewarding trial-and-error in a way that appeals strongly to Besiege tinkerers.
- #13 Teardown
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 133,039 reviews2022
Dev: Tuxedo Labs
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Why similar: Destruction 40.9%, Sandbox 18.6%, Physics 16.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Puzzle 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its highly interactive destruction sandbox rewards the same experimental mindset as Besiege, even if the emphasis is more on demolition than machine construction.
- #14 Instruments of Destruction
88% matchVery Positive91% of 1,557 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 38.4%, Vehicular Combat 31.3%, Physics 17.4%, Simulation 7.7%, 3D 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: While less construction-focused, it delivers the same joyful physics carnage and machine-based destruction that makes Besiege so satisfying.
- #15 Airships: Conquer the Skies
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,532 reviews2018
Dev: David Stark
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Why similar: Naval Combat 22.9% ★, Moddable 20%, Vehicular Combat 19.1%, Wargame 14.1%, Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Designing your own war machines and testing them in combat echoes Besiege's mix of invention, destruction, and strategic iteration.
- #16 BeamNG.drive
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 402,893 reviews2015
Dev: BeamNG
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 94.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Why similar: Destruction 31.2%, Moddable 25.2%, Physics 14.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Besiege's fascination with realistic physical behavior and spectacular breakage, especially if you enjoy testing vehicles to their limits.
- #17 Medieval Engineers
87% matchMixed52% of 7,310 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: Destruction 23.4%, Building 18.7%, Medieval 16.3%, Sandbox 15.4%, Physics 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its medieval setting and physics-based construction give it some of Besiege's atmosphere, even though it is broader and less puzzle-oriented.
- #18 Poly Bridge
85% matchVery Positive91% of 18,588 reviews2016
Dev: Dry Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!
Why similar: Building 28.2%, Physics 18.9%, Level Editor 18.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 9%
Why You'll Like It: Its appeal comes from the same satisfying process of inventing a structure, simulating it, and watching physics expose every flaw.
- #19 Kerbal Space Program
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 144,009 reviews2015
Dev: SquadPub: Private Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 66.0 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: Moddable 28.3%, Sandbox 23.1%, Physics 19.1%, Building 16.3%, Simulation 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy Besiege for the engineering experimentation and hilarious catastrophes, Kerbal offers that same cycle with rockets and orbital physics.
- #20 Poly Bridge 3
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,080 reviews2023
Dev: Dry Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
The best just got better! Rediscover your engineering creativity in this genre-defining bridge engineering and puzzle solving masterpiece.
Why similar: Level Editor 20.2%, Building 19.1%, Moddable 17.8%, Physics 14.9%, Simulation 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: Like Besiege, it rewards clever building, iteration, and learning from collapses, just with bridges instead of siege machines.
- #21 Poly Bridge 2
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,206 reviews2020
Dev: Dry Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!
Why similar: Building 25.3%, Level Editor 20.7%, Physics 17.1%, Sandbox 15.9%, Puzzle 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It narrows Besiege's engineering fun into level-based structural problem-solving where physics and creative solutions are everything.
- #22 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 151,370 reviews2021
Dev: Landfall
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Why similar: Sandbox 31.6%, Physics 21.6%, Wargame 19.4%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It lacks the building depth of Besiege, but its goofy medieval-ish physics battles and sandbox experimentation can scratch a similar chaos-driven itch.
- #23 People Playground
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 314,481 reviews2019
Dev: mestiezPub: Studio Minus
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 55.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Why similar: Moddable 29.2%, Sandbox 21.6%, Destruction 21.2%, Physics 14.1%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is a sandbox for setting up contraptions, physics interactions, and destruction scenarios, which overlaps with Besiege's experimental chaos side.
- #24 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
80% matchVery Positive94% of 12,715 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.5 hrsMean: 41.2 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 46.8%, Multiplayer 22.3%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 15%
Why You'll Like It: Designing functional warships room by room and seeing your layout decisions matter in battle scratches a similar builder-combat itch.
- #25 Reassembly
81% matchVery Positive94% of 4,079 reviews2015
Dev: Anisoptera GamesPub: Indie Voyage
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 45.4%, Sandbox 36.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Physics 5.4%, Simulation 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: Building custom ships from modular parts and refining them through combat offers a similar design-driven sandbox loop in space.
- #26 Aviassembly
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,083 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Why similar: Flight 25%, Building 19.8%, Destruction 15.6%, Sandbox 15.6%, Physics 14.8%
- #27 Screw Drivers
77% matchVery Positive85% of 6,221 reviews2024
Dev: CreactstudiosPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.2 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: Destruction 31.1%, Building 21.5%, Physics 17.6%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Simulation 7.5%
- #28 Contraption Maker
79% matchVery Positive91% of 1,311 reviews2014
Dev: Kevin RyanPub: Top Meadow
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.
Why similar: Moddable 28.1%, Level Editor 23.7%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 11.9%, Physics 11%
Why You'll Like It: It shares Besiege's love of physics-based contraptions and creative chain-reaction problem-solving, though in a more puzzle-focused format.
- #29 Crossout
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 69,326 reviews2017
Dev: Targem GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 56.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 37.2%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Multiplayer 11.6%, PvP 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its custom-built combat vehicles and emphasis on functional design under fire appeal to players who like engineering for battle rather than pure simulation.
- #30 Bridge Constructor Portal
78% matchVery Positive92% of 7,388 reviews2017
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.
Why similar: Building 21.4%, Physics 19.6%, Level Editor 17.1%, Puzzle 13.1%, Simulation 11.3%
- #31 Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 12,242 reviews2017
Dev: Brilliant Game Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Here is a sandbox like no other. Create massive battles with absolutely no limits. Want to see 10,000 chickens fight an army of Romans?? Sure, why not. Want to see a company of WW2 U.S soldiers fight 11,000 Medieval soldiers?? There are simply no limits to the carnage you can achieve in UEBS.
Why similar: Sandbox 43.3%, Medieval 23.8%, Simulation 20.9%, Strategy 12.1%
- #32 Ravenfield
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 79,372 reviews2017
Dev: SteelRaven7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 62.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!
Why similar: Moddable 39.9%, Sandbox 31.7%, Physics 14.4%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 6.7%
- #33 Total Tank Simulator
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,704 reviews2020
Dev: Noobz from PolandPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Commander in the ranks. Soldier at heart. Choose a faction and deploy and command your army into massive physics-driven WWII battles to the last man standing. Destroy everything on sight with an insane amount of units that will behave tactically.
Why similar: Sandbox 36.6%, Simulation 22%, Strategy 20.9%, Physics 14.4%, Multiplayer 6%
- #34 Robot Arena III
79% matchMostly Negative28% of 325 reviews2016
Dev: Gabriel InteractivePub: Octopus Tree
Windows
Create custom robots in the Bot Lab and battle to find out who is the mightiest ‘bot builder of them all!
Why similar: Simulation 52.2%, Building 47.8%
Why You'll Like It: Building combat robots from components and testing them in destructive arena battles fits the same custom-machine fantasy in a more direct PvP format.
- #35 Animal Revolt Battle Simulator
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,751 reviews2022
Dev: VDimension
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The ultimate physics-based, sandbox battle simulator where you can create funny battles between all sorts of ragdoll creatures! You can also make your own monsters with the unit creator or even join the battles yourself in the first-person mode!
Why similar: Moddable 30.8%, Wargame 22.1%, Sandbox 17%, Physics 13.2%, Simulation 6.9%
- #36 Landfall Archives
73% matchVery Positive94% of 3,612 reviews2023
Dev: landfall
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Why similar: Wargame 26.5%, Physics 19.1%, Medieval 12.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, PvP 10.6%
- #37 Brickadia
72% matchVery Positive80% of 1,371 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Vehicular Combat 23.5%, Sandbox 18.4%, Building 17.7%, Physics 16.5%, Multiplayer 10%
- #38 Bridge Constructor Medieval
76% matchVery Positive82% of 606 reviews2014
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Bridge Constructor Medieval turns back the clock a few centuries to the time of knights and castles. Build sturdy bridges to supply your city with provisions - or cunningly constructed bridges that collapse under the weight of attacking troops, sending the horde of enemies into the abyss below.
Why similar: Building 34.8%, Simulation 25.6%, Medieval 18.2%, Physics 13%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #39 Medieval Machines Builder
71% matchVery Positive82% of 130 reviews2026
Dev: FreeMind S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Step into the boots of a medieval engineer and master the art of siege warfare. In Medieval Machines Builder, you design, build, and operate powerful war machines capable of bringing down even the strongest fortress walls.
Why similar: Destruction 29.2%, Medieval 16.4%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Physics 13.5%
- #40 Sinking Simulator
74% matchVery Positive85% of 4,397 reviews2019
Dev: WicparPub: Pac0master
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%
The sequel to the unfinished Sinking Simulator, now with a lot more POWER!!!! Witness your witty love of chaos and destruction sinking 2D ships and everything else on board!
Why similar: Destruction 40.8%, Sandbox 27.2%, Physics 15.7%, Simulation 14.2%, Multiplayer 2.1%
- #41 Bridge Constructor
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,747 reviews2013
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Become an appraised bridge engineer and architect in Bridge Constructor. Create and design your own constructions and watch the cars and trucks pass over them - or see them fall and crash while your inferior creations collapse due to weight and the laws of physics!
Why similar: Building 30.7%, Physics 29.8%, Simulation 25.1%, Puzzle 14.4%
- #42 ABRISS - build to destroy
71% matchVery Positive82% of 557 reviews2023
Dev: RandwerkPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
ABRISS is an atmospheric physics-destruction building game.Build structures from parts to let them crash into your targets. Unlock new parts, destroy more, witness entropy at its worst in digital-brutalist cityscapes. Build to destroy.
Why similar: Destruction 30.7%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Physics 14.2%, Puzzle 7.2%
- #43 Sprocket
69% matchVery Positive93% of 12,547 reviews2021
Dev: Hamish Dunn
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Carefully balance mobility, firepower and armour in a dedicated tank designer. Then uncarefully put them to the test in a series of combat scenarios progressing through the ages of the tank. Here, your limit is what you can fit inside your hull and turret while still being able to move forwards.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 26.4%, Wargame 19.9%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 17.3%, Physics 9.5%
- #44 MachineCraft
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 889 reviews2016
Dev: G2CREW
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 32.1 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 37.2%, Sandbox 33.3%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Simulation 11.3%
- #45 When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
71% matchVery Positive86% of 880 reviews2019
Dev: Hugecalf StudiosPub: Curve Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters! Build contraptions to help every passenger reach their destination. Enjoy the sports by controlling your riders away from (or towards if you feel like it) peril!
Why similar: Building 23.4%, Level Editor 23.4%, Physics 17.6%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 11.6%
- #46 Goat Simulator
70% matchVery Positive91% of 70,062 reviews2014
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
Why similar: Destruction 33%, Sandbox 21.8%, Physics 18.7%, Simulation 17.8%, Dark Humor 7%
- #47 SimplePlanes 2
66% matchVery Positive92% of 1,088 reviews2026
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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: Destruction 27.8%, Vehicular Combat 24.7%, Building 16%, Sandbox 15.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%
- #48 Universe Sandbox
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 31,636 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Destruction 34.5%, Sandbox 30%, Physics 22.4%, Simulation 13.1%
- #49 Ancient Warfare 3
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,763 reviews2024
Dev: JNI Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 29.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into a sandbox full of action and customization! Choose from different game modes like deathmatch, conquest, king of the hill, zombie survival and many more. Create your own scenarios and content in the easy to use in-game editors or use one of the 50k+ workshop items from other players...
Why similar: Moddable 34.7%, Sandbox 26.2%, Physics 12.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 8.7%
- #50 KitHack Model Club
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 679 reviews2024
Dev: Floating Origin InteractivePub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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: Moddable 23.4%, Vehicular Combat 19%, Level Editor 15.6%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #51 The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
67% matchVery Positive92% of 703 reviews2023
Dev: PeatyTurf
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game! Enjoy the freedom of completely gridless 3D sandbox building combined with hilarious ragdoll third person controls, offering a truly unique and hilarious "Enjeniring" experience!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.6%, Medieval 21.8%, Building 19.1%, Physics 19.1%, Simulation 7.9%
- #52 Gear Up
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 8,352 reviews2015
Dev: Doctor Entertainment AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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 33%, Multiplayer 24.6%, PvP 17.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Strategy 4.1%
- #53 Flyout
67% matchVery Positive82% of 2,240 reviews2023
Dev: Stonext Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 18.8 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 31.6%, Sandbox 20.5%, Building 17.5%, Physics 14.2%, Simulation 11.4%
- #54 Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator
69% matchMixed53% of 369 reviews2022
Dev: Screambox Studio
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator is a physics-based tactical strategy game where you must lead a military force in a fantasy medieval world. Build an army. Construct siege equipment. Experience epic battles. Lead your people to victory!!
Why similar: Moddable 20.7%, Wargame 19.3%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Physics 10.8%
- #55 Dream Car Builder
68% matchVery Positive93% of 1,074 reviews2018
Dev: RoKo0 (Roman Konyukhov)
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Design your car from scratch: from the frame to the suspension and race it!
Why similar: Destruction 30%, Building 25.8%, Sandbox 23.2%, Simulation 10.5%, Physics 7.5%
- #56 Turbo Dismount™
68% matchVery Positive94% of 5,892 reviews2014
Dev: Secret Exit Ltd.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Turbo Dismount is a kinetic tragedy about Mr. Dismount and the cars who love him. It is the official sequel to the wildly popular and immensely successful personal impact simulator - Stair Dismount.
Why similar: Destruction 40.8%, Physics 21.7%, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 11.3%, Moddable 8.1%
- #57 Wooden Battles
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 532 reviews2017
Dev: SP Digital Arts Inc.
Windows
Build a wooden fort, place your units, watch the mayhem!
Why similar: Destruction 22.2%, Wargame 20.5%, Sandbox 16.5%, Physics 14.1%, Building 10.7%
- #58 Robot Rumble 2
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 271 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: Moddable 17.7%, Destruction 17.4%, Vehicular Combat 14.2%, Level Editor 13.7%, Building 8.2%