- #1 Trailmakers
97% matchVery Positive92% of 34,107 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.4 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: Vehicular Combat 34.5% ★, Building 19.5%, Sandbox 18.5%, Physics 16.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Like Besiege, it asks you to iteratively build physics-driven vehicles and refine them until they can solve traversal and combat-style challenges, with co-op as a bonus.
- #2 Scrap Mechanic
96% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Building 26.4%, Sandbox 21.5%, Physics 18.2%, Moddable 16.3% ★, Multiplayer 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly playful machine-building sandbox where bearings, pistons, and moving parts let you create goofy but effective contraptions alone or with friends.
- #3 Main Assembly
96% 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: Building 24.9%, Sandbox 23.8%, Physics 20.7%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Simulation 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its core loop of designing block-built robots from scratch, testing them, and rebuilding around physics-based objectives feels extremely close to Besiege's trial-and-error engineering.
- #4 Instruments of Destruction
95% matchVery Positive91% of 1,507 reviews2024
Dev: RadiangamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 37.9%, Vehicular Combat 31.5% ★, Physics 17.4%, Simulation 7.9%, 3D 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Besiege is building something ridiculous and watching structures collapse, this delivers that same satisfying physics-driven destruction focus.
- #5 Brick Rigs
94% matchVery Positive95% of 56,117 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 37.1% ★, Destruction 19.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.3%, Physics 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its brick-based vehicle creator, destructible environments, and toy-box sandbox chaos capture a lot of Besiege's creative destruction appeal.
- #6 From the Depths
94% matchVery Positive89% of 12,523 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.6 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 31.4% ★, Vehicular Combat 20.7% ★, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Physics 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It expands the custom-war-machine fantasy into ships, tanks, aircraft, and siege platforms, rewarding deep tinkering and explosive testing.
- #7 SimplePlanes
93% matchVery Positive93% of 10,799 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: Moddable 20% ★, Flight 19.7%, Vehicular Combat 18% ★, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 12%
Why You'll Like It: It channels Besiege's build-test-iterate satisfaction into aircraft design, with functional parts, weapons, and plenty of sandbox experimentation.
- #8 Mars First Logistics
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,474 reviews2025
Dev: Shape Shop
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 45.4% ★, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Physics 11.4%, 3D 6%
Why You'll Like It: The wobbly physics and mission-based vehicle construction make it feel like Besiege redirected toward cargo-hauling instead of castle-smashing.
- #9 ABRISS - build to destroy
91% matchVery Positive83% of 545 reviews2023
Dev: RandwerkPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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: LEGO 35.9% ★, Destruction 19.6%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Physics 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is a distilled build-to-break puzzle game where each level revolves around engineering a machine that can smash a target apart.
- #10 Medieval Engineers
92% matchMixed52% of 7,282 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.8 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 23.2%, Building 18.6%, Medieval 16.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Physics 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest thematic matches, combining medieval construction, physics systems, and siege-minded sandbox building.
- #11 Forts
90% matchVery Positive92% of 24,366 reviews2017
Dev: EarthWork Games
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.4 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 21.6%, Moddable 21.1% ★, Level Editor 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Physics 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Although 2D and more strategic, it still centers on building armed structures under physics constraints and blowing the enemy apart.
- #12 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
89% matchVery Positive90% of 57,601 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.9 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 28.1%, Sandbox 22.4%, Building 20.3%, Physics 15.8%, PvP 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its detailed modular vehicle builder rewards the same kind of clever engineering and repeated prototyping, just in a rescue-and-utility sandbox.
- #13 Teardown
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 126,822 reviews2022
Dev: Tuxedo Labs
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 28.0 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 40.8%, Sandbox 18.5%, Physics 16.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Simulation 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It lacks the same construction depth, but its destructible sandbox and improvisational problem-solving scratch a similar physics-destruction itch.
- #14 GearBlocks
87% matchVery Positive91% of 717 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 21.7%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 13.4%, Physics 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is less combat-focused, but the freedom to assemble functioning mechanical creations makes it a strong fit for players who love Besiege's tinkering.
- #15 Poly Bridge
88% matchVery Positive91% of 18,451 reviews2016
Dev: Dry Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.0 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 28.1%, Physics 19%, Level Editor 18.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is a simpler but still excellent match for Besiege players who especially love the structural engineering side of the game.
- #16 TerraTech
86% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 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 23.7%, Vehicular Combat 17.4% ★, Multiplayer 11.5%, Physics 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Building modular combat vehicles piece by piece and field-testing them against enemies scratches a lot of the same creative-combat itch.
- #17 Hello Engineer: Scrap Machines Constructor
86% matchMixed63% of 186 reviews2023
Dev: tinyBuild RigaPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Build incredible machines with scrap parts, navigate the wildest Amusement park rides and challenge iconic creepy Neighbor and his evil bots! Become a true Engineer, solo or with friends!
Why similar: Building 24.4%, Sandbox 22.8%, Physics 19.8%, PvP 12.3%, Multiplayer 12%
Why You'll Like It: It similarly revolves around assembling bizarre machines from modular parts and seeing whether they can survive practical obstacle-course challenges.
- #18 Space Engineers
85% matchVery Positive89% of 133,238 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 95.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Why similar: Moddable 26.4% ★, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Physics 11.3%, PvP 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same open-ended creative building ethos, though it is more focused on large-scale sandbox survival than compact objective missions.
- #19 Poly Bridge 3
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,977 reviews2023
Dev: Dry Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
The best just got better! Rediscover your engineering creativity in this genre-defining bridge engineering and puzzle solving masterpiece.
Why similar: Level Editor 20.4%, Building 18.8%, Moddable 18.4% ★, Physics 14.1%, Simulation 13%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy Besiege most as an engineering puzzle, this offers the same satisfaction of refining a design until the physics finally work.
- #20 Poly Bridge 2
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,114 reviews2020
Dev: Dry Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!
Why similar: Building 25.1%, Level Editor 20.8%, Physics 17.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Puzzle 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its appeal comes from the same loop of building, testing, failing, and iterating on a physics-based solution.
- #21 Kerbal Space Program
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 133,317 reviews2015
Dev: SquadPub: Private Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 65.2 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 28.1% ★, Sandbox 23.2%, Physics 19.2%, Building 16.2%, Simulation 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its scale is larger and slower, but the joy of designing something unstable, testing it, and iterating through physics failures is pure Besiege energy.
- #22 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,144 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Building 25.2%, Sandbox 23.9%, Physics 21%, Strategy 17.4%, Puzzle 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Designing drones block by block for missions and sandbox fights delivers the same satisfying engineering loop in a sci-fi setting.
- #23 Homebrew - Patent Unknown
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 974 reviews2014
Dev: Copybugpaste
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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: Building 24.4%, Sandbox 23.8%, PvP 21.4%, Physics 20.7%, Simulation 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It leans into custom weaponized vehicles and physics-driven experimentation, feeling like a rougher but very Besiege-adjacent sandbox.
- #24 Airships: Conquer the Skies
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,403 reviews2018
Dev: David Stark
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 36.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Why similar: Naval Combat 26.9% ★, Moddable 23.2% ★, Vehicular Combat 22.2% ★, Building 11.2%, PvP 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Designing armed, modular war machines for bombardment and siege gives it a kindred mechanical-combat spirit despite the 2D strategy layer.
- #25 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 147,242 reviews2021
Dev: Landfall
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 38.9%, Physics 26.9%, Simulation 16.4%, Strategy 11.9%, 3D 5.9%
- #26 Sprocket
78% matchVery Positive93% of 12,133 reviews2021
Dev: Hamish Dunn
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.5 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 33% ★, Sandbox 21.5%, Building 21.4%, Physics 11.7%, PvE 9%
Why You'll Like It: Tank design is its focus, but the detailed part-by-part vehicle creation and battlefield testing should appeal to Besiege builders.
- #27 Crazy Machines 3
79% matchVery Positive94% of 10,052 reviews2016
Dev: Fakt SoftwarePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Crazy Machines 3 is the latest, greatest, most amazing and craziest part of the series and fascinates once more with physic-based puzzles. Build your own crazy machines and share your awesomeness across the world thanks to the Steam® Workshop.
Why similar: Physics 28.3%, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 14.6%, Puzzle 14.4%, Strategy 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: Another contraption-focused physics puzzler, it rewards experimentation, chain reactions, and weirdly effective designs.
- #28 Screw Drivers
77% matchVery Positive86% of 5,641 reviews2024
Dev: CreactstudiosPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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: LEGO 29.5% ★, Destruction 22.2%, Building 14.9%, Physics 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #29 Contraption Maker
80% matchVery Positive91% of 1,303 reviews2014
Dev: Kevin RyanPub: Top Meadow
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 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 13.6%, Building 11.9%, Physics 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This classic physics-puzzle sandbox is all about combining parts into machines that behave exactly as cleverly or catastrophically as planned.
- #30 BeamNG.drive
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 384,707 reviews2015
Dev: BeamNG
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 91.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Why similar: Destruction 31.2%, Moddable 25.1% ★, Physics 14.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 7.8%
- #31 Bridge Constructor Medieval
79% matchVery Positive82% of 599 reviews2014
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.2 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 34.6%, Simulation 25.8%, Medieval 18.3%, Physics 13.1%, Puzzle 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is much narrower in scope, yet its medieval theme and physics-first engineering challenges make it a lightweight cousin to Besiege.
- #32 Brickadia
75% matchVery Positive87% of 1,234 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 29.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 18.5%, Building 17.7%, Physics 16.6%, Multiplayer 9.9%
- #33 Aviassembly
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,303 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 6.9 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 28.9%, Building 18.5%, Destruction 15%, Sandbox 14.8%, Physics 13.9%
- #34 Bridge Constructor Portal
76% matchVery Positive92% of 7,257 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 21.3%, Physics 19.7%, Level Editor 17%, Puzzle 13%, Simulation 11.4%
- #35 The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
74% matchVery Positive91% of 691 reviews2023
Dev: PeatyTurf
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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%, Physics 19.2%, Building 19%, Simulation 8%
- #36 Total Tank Simulator
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,576 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 36.5%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 21.1%, Physics 14.5%, Multiplayer 5.7%
- #37 Ravenfield
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 77,990 reviews2017
Dev: SteelRaven7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 61.9 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 39.6% ★, Sandbox 31.5%, Physics 14.7%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 6.8%
- #38 Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 12,209 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 43.1%, Medieval 23.8%, Simulation 21%, Strategy 12.1%
- #39 People Playground
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 308,374 reviews2019
Dev: mestiezPub: Studio Minus
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 53.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Why similar: Moddable 29.4% ★, Sandbox 21.7%, Destruction 21.4%, Physics 14.3%, Building 8.9%
- #40 Animal Revolt Battle Simulator
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,594 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 39.4% ★, Sandbox 21.8%, Physics 17%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 7.4%
- #41 Goat Simulator
72% matchVery Positive91% of 69,728 reviews2014
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
Why similar: Destruction 32.7%, Sandbox 21.8%, Physics 18.7%, Simulation 18%, Dark Humor 7.1%
- #42 MachineCraft
73% 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 33.4%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Simulation 11.4%
- #43 Landfall Archives
69% matchVery Positive94% of 3,496 reviews2023
Dev: landfall
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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: Physics 25.9%, Medieval 17.2%, Sandbox 16.3%, PvP 14.4%, Simulation 11.4%
- #44 Sinking Simulator
71% matchVery Positive85% of 4,380 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 40.6%, Sandbox 27.2%, Physics 15.8%, Simulation 14.3%, Multiplayer 2.1%
- #45 Universe Sandbox
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,587 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 23.5 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 34.9%, Sandbox 30.4%, Physics 22.9%, Simulation 11.8%
- #46 Medieval Machines Builder
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 113 reviews2024
Dev: FreeMind S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Medieval - times of constant sieges. Acquire plans, gather resources, create most powerful and destructive machines and then test them in battle. Thanks to your creations you will conquer more than one castle. The knights wage wars, but thanks to your machines they win them.
Why similar: Destruction 29.7%, Medieval 16.9%, Building 14.2%, Physics 13.8%, Sandbox 13.7%
- #47 Space Engineers 2
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,293 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.
Why similar: Moddable 26.4% ★, Destruction 23.9%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 14%, Physics 11.4%
- #48 Bridge Constructor
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,734 reviews2013
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 30.5%, Physics 29.9%, Simulation 25.3%, Puzzle 14.2%
- #49 When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
69% matchVery Positive86% of 871 reviews2019
Dev: Hugecalf StudiosPub: Curve Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 23.3%, Physics 17.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 11.8%
- #50 Gear Up
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 8,351 reviews2015
Dev: Doctor Entertainment AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Feel the adrenaline as you control your unique tank in multiplayer arcade action! Build your ultimate war machine from over a million different combinations. Now, will you go for the rumbling caterpillar tracks or the crawling spider legs?
Why similar: Building 32.9%, Multiplayer 24.4%, PvP 18%, Sandbox 16.6%, Strategy 4.2%
- #51 Turbo Dismount™
69% matchVery Positive94% of 5,842 reviews2014
Dev: Secret Exit Ltd.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 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 40.7%, Physics 21.9%, Sandbox 17%, Simulation 11.4%, Moddable 7.9% ★
- #52 World of Contraptions
68% matchVery Positive87% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: JCP Games Studio
Windows
World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.
Why similar: LEGO 29% ★, Destruction 17.4%, Level Editor 12.4%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #53 Wreckfest
67% matchVery Positive88% of 39,799 reviews2018
Dev: BugbearPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.
Why similar: Destruction 57.1%, Physics 17%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 4.6%
- #54 Rover Builder
67% matchMixed68% of 81 reviews2022
Dev: Hatfuls GamesPub: PQube
Windows
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: Vehicular Combat 23% ★, Level Editor 21.6%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 14.3%, Physics 12.1%
- #55 Robot Rumble 2
65% 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: Moddable 17.7% ★, Destruction 17.4%, Vehicular Combat 14.2% ★, Level Editor 13.6%, Building 8.1%
- #56 Ancient Warfare 3
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,746 reviews2024
Dev: JNI Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 29.9 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 34.6% ★, Sandbox 26.1%, Physics 12.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 8.7%
- #57 Blockland
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 5,537 reviews2013
Dev: Eric HartmanPub: Step 1 Games LLC
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Blockland is a non-linear sandbox game with no set goals, giving players the freedom to design and construct elaborate structures. Styled as a tiny minifigure, players build inside of the virtual world using bricks reminiscent of toy blocks.
Why similar: LEGO 41.1% ★, Moddable 18.4% ★, Sandbox 18.2%, Building 14.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #58 Beast Battle Simulator
66% matchVery Positive87% of 1,263 reviews2018
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Beast Battle Simulator is a physics based battle-simulation sandbox game featuring dinosaurs, animals, and humans. Kamikaze Zebras VS. T-Rex with laser guns, Lions VS. medieval knights; anything is possible! Watch as the beasts dismember and rip each other apart in gory detail!
Why similar: Sandbox 39.5%, Simulation 23.6%, Strategy 15.3%, Physics 11.9%, Medieval 9.7%