- #1 Scrap Mechanic
97% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 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 24.3%, Sandbox 21.9%, Open World 16.1%, Physics 14.3%, Multiplayer 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: Like Brick Rigs, it lets you build goofy vehicles from parts and test them in a playful physics sandbox alone or with friends.
- #2 BeamNG.drive
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 415,472 reviews2015
Dev: BeamNG
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 97.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Why similar: Destruction 26.6%, Driving 17.6%, Sandbox 12.8%, Physics 10.5%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: If Brick Rigs' vehicle handling and spectacular wrecks are your favorite part, BeamNG.drive offers deeper soft-body driving physics and destruction.
- #3 Trailmakers
96% matchVery Positive92% of 38,735 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: Sandbox 16%, Building 15.2%, Family Friendly 14.2%, Open World 11.7%, Physics 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its snap-together vehicle creator, multiplayer sandbox play, and emphasis on driving and crashing homemade machines make it one of the closest alternatives.
- #4 Screw Drivers
94% matchVery Positive85% of 6,574 reviews2026
Dev: CreactstudiosPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.0 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 24.3%, Building 16.6%, Driving 15.6%, Physics 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building cars block by block, then racing, smashing, and showing them off in multiplayer sandboxes.
- #5 Garry's Mod
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,260,759 reviews2006
Dev: Facepunch StudiosPub: Valve
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 289.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.2%, Building 20.5%, Physics 15.1%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Funny 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It's the classic physics toybox for spawning contraptions, driving add-ons, roleplaying, and causing multiplayer chaos with user-made content.
- #6 Teardown
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 135,234 reviews2022
Dev: Tuxedo Labs
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.0 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 38.3%, Sandbox 18.7%, Driving 13.7%, Physics 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its fully physical destruction and open-ended sandbox experimentation scratch the same break-everything-and-improvise itch.
- #7 Brickadia
93% matchVery Positive81% of 1,421 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 33.7 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: Sandbox 29.9%, Building 25.8%, Physics 20.6%, Multiplayer 15.4%, FPS 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same brick-built creativity and multiplayer sandbox spirit, with player-made vehicles, contraptions, and social mayhem.
- #8 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
92% matchVery Positive91% of 59,745 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 113.5 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: Sandbox 27.9%, Building 22.7%, Open World 18%, Physics 15.3%, Flight 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep vehicle construction and cooperative sandbox play for players who love engineering custom creations and taking them into a big world.
- #9 Besiege
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 53,170 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: Destruction 31.2%, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 16.5%, Physics 12.3%, Multiplayer 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Building absurd machines and watching physics-driven destruction unfold feels very close to Brick Rigs' creative-chaos loop.
- #10 TerraTech
91% matchVery Positive91% of 24,920 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 32.5 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 29.8%, Sandbox 27.7%, Open World 19.7%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Physics 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Modular building, driving your own creations around an open sandbox world, and blowing things up line up well with Brick Rigs' appeal.
- #11 GearBlocks
89% matchVery Positive91% of 782 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: Destruction 23.5%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Driving 13.2%, Physics 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its construction system is more mechanical, but the appeal of designing functional vehicles and testing them in physics sandboxes is similar.
- #12 LEGO® Worlds
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 15,639 reviews2017
Dev: TT GamesPub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.7%, Building 20.7%, Open World 17.4%, Destruction 15%, Multiplayer 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the playful, family-friendly sandbox energy of Brick Rigs, especially if you enjoy building and messing around with friends.
- #13 Instruments of Destruction
89% matchVery Positive91% of 1,569 reviews2024
Dev: RadiangamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 43.3%, Driving 21.1%, Physics 16.4%, Racing 8.3%, Simulation 5%
Why You'll Like It: It is all about driving powerful machines through highly satisfying physics destruction, echoing Brick Rigs' chaos-heavy side.
- #14 Space Engineers
88% matchVery Positive89% of 134,313 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.4 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: Sandbox 23.1%, Building 21.9%, Open World 17.4%, Physics 16%, Multiplayer 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more sci-fi, but its multiplayer building sandbox and emphasis on physical vehicles and player-made contraptions are a strong match.
- #15 People Playground
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 317,170 reviews2019
Dev: mestiezPub: Studio Minus
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 57.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.2%, Destruction 29.3%, Physics 16.3%, Building 11.7%, Funny 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: If you mainly enjoy setting up elaborate physics experiments and destruction chains, this sandbox delivers that in a 2D format.
- #16 SimplePlanes
87% matchVery Positive93% of 10,898 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: Sandbox 20%, Building 18.6%, Flight 14.7%, Physics 13.7%, Open World 13%
Why You'll Like It: Creative vehicle building and immediate physics-based test flights give it the same invention-and-experiment vibe.
- #17 Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,920 reviews2020
Dev: Laumania ApS
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
FIREWORKS MANIA is a small casual explosive simulator game where you play around with fireworks, create beautiful firework shows or just blow stuff up.
Why similar: Destruction 22%, Sandbox 21.2%, Building 17.2%, Physics 12%, Multiplayer 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: It channels the same toybox spirit of setting up silly scenarios and then enjoying the resulting physics chaos.
- #18 Wreckfest
85% matchVery Positive88% of 41,415 reviews2018
Dev: BugbearPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 25.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 37.5%, Racing 15.3%, Driving 15.2%, Physics 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It drops the building, but few games match Brick Rigs for gleeful vehicle crashes, multiplayer mayhem, and metal-twisting destruction.
- #19 Wobbly Life
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 35,490 reviews2025
Dev: RubberBandGames
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Wobbly Life is a vibrant open-world physics sandbox. Play with your friends online or in local co-op, with exciting jobs, mini games and wacky story missions. Earn cash to spend in the world on clothes, vehicles and houses. There is a whole Wobbly World out there to explore!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.8%, Open World 20.3%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Physics 12.1%, Family Friendly 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: The focus here is on goofy open-world multiplayer sandbox fun rather than building, but the lighthearted social chaos is very familiar.
- #20 Fun with Ragdolls: The Game
84% matchVery Positive88% of 5,182 reviews2019
Dev: Jadon BarnesPub: Fun & Simple
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Become a ragdoll and create your own environments in Sandbox Mode, explore worlds created by others, or just flop around your destructible sets! Fun with Ragdolls®: The Game lets you enjoy everything you love about ragdolls!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.8%, Physics 17.4%, Building 14.8%, Destruction 11.5%, Funny 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is another playful physics sandbox where experimentation and unpredictable outcomes are the main attraction.
- #21 Dream Car Builder
84% matchVery Positive93% of 1,079 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 22.9%, Sandbox 19.7%, Building 19.3%, Driving 13.3%, Racing 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its modular vehicle construction and physics testing appeal to the same players who love engineering in Brick Rigs.
- #22 From the Depths
82% matchVery Positive89% of 12,793 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: Building 25.4%, Sandbox 25.3%, Physics 16.8%, Gun Customization 14.9%, Multiplayer 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: It lets you build intricate land, sea, and air vehicles and then watch them behave under detailed physics and combat.
- #23 Main Assembly
83% matchVery Positive83% of 1,351 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: Sandbox 30.6%, Building 28%, Physics 19.2%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Simulation 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox is built around constructing weird robots and vehicles, then testing them in open-ended physics challenges.
- #24 Kerbal Space Program
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 146,254 reviews2015
Dev: SquadPub: Private Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 66.1 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: Sandbox 33.5%, Physics 21.4%, Building 21.2%, Open World 10.9%, Simulation 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It is a deeper sim, but the joy of building something ridiculous and seeing whether physics lets it survive is very Brick Rigs-like.
- #25 My Summer Car
77% matchVery Positive95% of 116,962 reviews2025
Dev: Amistech Games
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 47.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.
Why similar: Driving 25.1%, Open World 17.8%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Racing 7.3%
- #26 Juno: New Origins
79% matchVery Positive89% of 3,531 reviews2023
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.
Why similar: Building 26.1%, Sandbox 22.1%, Open World 16.5%, Physics 15.5%, Flight 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers another robust build-and-test sandbox for players who enjoy creating vehicles and seeing them behave in a simulated world.
- #27 SimplePlanes 2
76% matchVery Positive92% of 1,301 reviews2026
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 7.8 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 25%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 13.9%, Driving 13.4%, Open World 11.1%
- #28 Crossout
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 69,758 reviews2017
Dev: Targem GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 56.7 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: Sandbox 27%, Building 25.1%, Gun Customization 23.6%, Multiplayer 20.9%, Action 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Custom-built combat vehicles, multiplayer action, and destructive driving make it a good fit if you want a more combat-focused spin on the formula.
- #29 Sprocket
78% matchVery Positive93% of 12,843 reviews2021
Dev: Hamish Dunn
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 38.2 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: Sandbox 37.2%, Building 33.6%, Physics 15.7%, Gun Customization 12.2%, Action 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: Designing tanks piece by piece and then driving them around scratches part of the same hands-on vehicle-building itch.
- #30 Maximum Override
80% matchMixed68% of 312 reviews2017
Dev: Alientrap
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Maximum Override is a chaotic city destruction game where the machines come alive. Wreak havoc in a fully destructible randomly generated city with anything you can find.
Why similar: Destruction 66.6%, Sandbox 21.5%, Simulation 8.1%, Action 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its destructible city playground and vehicle-hijacking chaos make it a fun lower-priority pick for Brick Rigs fans.
- #31 Aviassembly
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,371 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.2 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: Building 22.5%, Sandbox 19.7%, Destruction 18.1%, Physics 14.6%, Flight 11.1%
- #32 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,164 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 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: Sandbox 28.1%, Building 26.8%, Open World 20.5%, Physics 19.1%, Action 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: Building custom drones and testing them through physics-driven missions hits a similar invention-first gameplay loop.
- #33 Voxel Project VR
75% matchVery Positive85% of 339 reviews2025
Dev: 180°
Windows
Voxel Project offers an immersive sandbox experience set in a fully destructible voxel environment. Explore a dynamic world teeming with vehicles, dynamic fire mechanics, enemy NPCs, voxel gore, weapon customization, and a bunch of additional features to discover.
Why similar: Destruction 31.1%, Sandbox 18.1%, Driving 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Physics 10.4%
- #34 Mon Bazou
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,666 reviews2025
Dev: Santa Goat
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?
Why similar: Driving 21.3%, Sandbox 19.3%, Building 15.9%, Open World 11.8%, Physics 10.1%
- #35 Ultimate Ragdoll Game
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 747 reviews2024
Dev: Sunday's Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Ultimate Ragdoll Game is a Sandbox game without any limits. Have fun with ragdolls available in Steam Workshop and build your very own constructions using wide variety of blocks.
Why similar: Destruction 32%, Sandbox 21.1%, Building 16.7%, Physics 13.7%, Funny 4.7%
- #36 ACTION SANDBOX
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,016 reviews2022
Dev: Vona Soft
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Why similar: Destruction 32.5%, Sandbox 20.1%, Building 17%, Physics 13.4%, Zombies 6.9%
- #37 GoreBox
74% matchVery Positive84% of 24,589 reviews2023
Dev: F2Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
GoreBox is a chaotic physics-driven sandbox where creativity meets destruction. Use the Reality Crusher to spawn, manipulate, and obliterate anything. Customize, roleplay, or face devious creatures. In this world, your imagination rules, and chaos is your playground!
Why similar: Sandbox 50.4%, Physics 29.4%, FPS 11.1%, First-Person 6.5%, Action 2.5%
- #38 Turbo Dismount® 2
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 777 reviews2026
Dev: Secret Exit Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Turbo Dismount 2 is a comedy physics racing sandbox with Mr. Dismount and his friends. It is the officially ambitious sequel to the wildly popular, immensely successful, world-renowned entertainment juggernaut - Turbo Dismount.
Why similar: Destruction 36.3%, Sandbox 19.9%, Racing 11.4%, Family Friendly 7.9%, Physics 7.4%
- #39 My Garage
71% matchVery Positive90% of 4,210 reviews2026
Dev: Viking Game Studio
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 69.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
MY GARAGE is a car simulation game with main focus being simulating real car repair, maintenance and physics.
Why similar: Sandbox 16.8%, Driving 15.6%, Open World 14%, Building 12.3%, Physics 10.1%
- #40 Ravenfield
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 79,893 reviews2017
Dev: SteelRaven7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 63.0 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: Sandbox 41.9%, FPS 15.8%, Physics 14.7%, Funny 9%, First-Person 7.4%
- #41 Sand:box
70% matchVery Positive94% of 1,717 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Destruction 38.9%, Sandbox 25.3%, Building 15%, Physics 14.2%, Simulation 5.7%
- #42 Universe Sandbox
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 32,034 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 24.4 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 28.1%, Sandbox 26.3%, Open World 16.6%, Physics 15.2%, Family Friendly 7.6%
- #43 Animal Revolt Battle Simulator
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,828 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: Sandbox 45%, Physics 27%, Funny 13.1%, Simulation 9.8%, Action 3.5%
- #44 Blockland
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 5,537 reviews2013
Dev: Eric HartmanPub: Step 1 Games LLC
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Sandbox 31.1%, Building 22.2%, Open World 13.8%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Racing 4%
- #45 Ancient Warfare 3
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,773 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: Sandbox 39.3%, Physics 14.4%, Building 11.7%, Simulation 8.2%, Zombies 6.7%
- #46 Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 18,642 reviews2023
Dev: Nils JakrinsPub: Excalibur Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Play solo or in up to 10-player multiplayer co-op! Flashing Lights is an open world police, firefighting and EMS simulator game with plenty of opportunity for role-play or more relaxed fun with friends. Become the law or save lives! Discover leagues of player-created mods!
Why similar: Destruction 25.8%, Driving 18.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Open World 11.2%, Physics 10.4%
- #47 Turbo Dismount™
71% matchVery Positive94% of 5,917 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 32.1%, Sandbox 14.3%, Physics 14.2%, Driving 14%, Funny 9.5%
- #48 Building Destruction
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: 180°
Windows
Multiplayer sandbox with destructible environment. Destroy different maps, build your own, and play with your friends and other people online
Why similar: Destruction 30.5%, Sandbox 25.1%, Building 22.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Simulation 4.6%
- #49 MudRunner
69% matchVery Positive92% of 43,969 reviews2017
Dev: Saber InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
MudRunner is the ultimate off-road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!
Why similar: Driving 30.3%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Open World 14.1%, Physics 12.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #50 Railroads Online
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 6,018 reviews2024
Dev: Stefan KelnbergerPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 64.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Driving 17.8%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 16.2%, Open World 13.2%, Physics 11.8%
- #51 The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
68% matchVery Positive92% of 713 reviews2023
Dev: PeatyTurf
Windows
Median: 2.5 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 35.2%, Building 24.6%, Physics 21.2%, Funny 9.3%, Simulation 6%
- #52 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 153,279 reviews2021
Dev: Landfall
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 19.9 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 42.1%, Physics 22.2%, Funny 13.4%, Family Friendly 9.5%, Simulation 9.4%
- #53 Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 23,870 reviews2026
Dev: RUST LTD.
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 55.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Do you like hot dogs? How about horseshoes? Hand grenades? (everyone likes hand grenades) Anyway, we've got all that, and guns. SO MANY GUNS. So if you like ordnance, meat, and far too many groan-worthy puns, this is the VR sandbox game for you.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.3%, Destruction 21%, Physics 16.6%, Gun Customization 12.5%, FPS 7.3%
- #54 Purplis Sandbox
70% matchMixed66% of 211 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGOLITEPub: DRAGOLITE STUDIO
Windows
Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.2%, Destruction 30.5%, Building 23.4%, Simulation 11.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #55 Total Tank Simulator
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,751 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 46.1%, Simulation 14.8%, Physics 14.1%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Action 5%
- #56 Junkyard Truck
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,286 reviews2022
Dev: Keystone Knight
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Junkyard Truck is an open-world off road driving and mechanic simulator. Build, upgrade, and maintain your old off road truck. Make money using your skills in driving, scavenging, gambling, or moonshine brewing. Try to build a truck capable of taking on the difficult challenges around the map.
Why similar: Driving 40.7%, Open World 31.3%, Simulation 10.3%, Automobile Sim 7.6%, First-Person 5.9%
- #57 Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
66% matchVery Positive88% of 87,777 reviews2018
Dev: Landfall
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
Why similar: Physics 24.5%, Multiplayer 21%, Family Friendly 18.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 9.4%
- #58 Regular Human Workshop
66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,242 reviews2022
Dev: Dead Joker
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Regular Human Workshop is a 2D physics simulation sandbox. There are no predefined goals or objectives. Simply throw objects into the world and interact with them in various ways.
Why similar: Sandbox 27.2%, Building 22.1%, Destruction 19.6%, Physics 18.2%, Funny 6.3%