- #1 Sand:box
96% matchVery Positive94% of 1,644 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Simulation 55.2%, Casual 24.1%, Indie 20.7%
- #2 Front Lines
97% matchMostly Positive71% of 214 reviews2019
Dev: Marco S HampelPub: Firez Studios
Windows · Mac
Battle on the Front Lines with funny, crazy physics. Create your own battles between men and test out everything to the limits.
Why similar: Strategy 34.9%, Simulation 33.4%, Casual 17.9%, Indie 13.7%
- #3 Pyroworks
95% matchVery Positive92% of 2,125 reviews2023
Dev: Deepest Inertia Studio
Windows
Pyroworks is a free-to-play online multiplayer game containing fireworks from real-life companies from all over the globe. You can choose to make your own show, cause destruction and chaos or simulate new years. Don't miss out on playing with your friends - the most fun part.
Why similar: Simulation 70.8%, Casual 15.8%, Indie 13.4%
- #4 Gods and Idols
96% matchMixed69% of 757 reviews2016
Dev: JatteGames
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Take the role of a newly ascended deity in Gods and Idols. Carve your place among the stars in an open, dynamic, and massive MMORTS universe. Command the powers of the cosmos, form alliances, and use your worshipers as instruments to further your goals.
Why similar: Strategy 42.1%, Simulation 40.2%, Indie 17.7%
- #5 Doodle God Blitz
94% matchMixed68% of 848 reviews2017
Dev: JoyBits Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Doodle God is an addicting puzzle & world building game where players use logic and ingenuity to create the entire universe. Starting with the basic elements of earth, wind, fire and air players can build a world filled with locomotives, Dragons, skyscrapers, Aliens and more.
Why similar: Simulation 50.1%, Casual 28.1%, Indie 21.7%
- #6 Water Physics Simulation
94% matchVery Positive81% of 97 reviews2021
Dev: Gaming-Apps.com
Windows
Water Physics Simulation & Sandbox! Build ships and let them sink! Build cars and let them sink! Use bombs and destroy ragdolls. Play with natural disasters or create towns.
Why similar: Simulation 74.9%, Casual 13.9%, Indie 11.2%
- #7 Rag Doll Joe
93% matchVery Positive81% of 179 reviews2019
Dev: GritStudios
Windows
Toss the Rag Doll into objects and watch them fly! Can you make it to the end?
Why similar: Casual 56%, Indie 44%
- #8 Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,820 reviews2020
Dev: Laumania ApS
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Simulation 56.1%, Casual 28.9%, Indie 14.9%
- #9 Crusaders of the Lost Idols
92% matchVery Positive83% of 3,036 reviews2015
Dev: Codename Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 383.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Crusaders of the Lost Idols is an idle game of heroic awesomeness! Create a band of fighters to fight monsters, earn gold and create strategies for the perfect formations over multiple campaigns! Upgrade your heroes, collect unique gear, and unlock new Crusaders in regular new events.
Why similar: Casual 42.3%, Strategy 30%, Indie 27.7%
- #10 Pawggle
91% matchMixed62% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: Pandaroo Interactive
Windows
Pawggle is a physics puzzle game. Help poor-sighted adorable fur creatures by strategically positioning your pegs and immerse yourself in a joyous furry symphony.
Why similar: Simulation 41.5%, Strategy 36.8%, Casual 21.7%
- #11 Ethereal Estate
89% matchVery Positive86% of 271 reviews2021
Dev: Emergence StudioPub: UQAT - Création et nouveaux médias
Windows
As an Ethereal Estate agent, your job is to make a mess out of a mansion and its helpless inhabitants. Never before has a ghost unleashed such devastating chaos... until now!
Why similar: Simulation 61.7%, Casual 20.5%, Indie 17.8%
- #12 The Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe!
90% matchMixed42% of 1,516 reviews2016
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Use your godly powers to craft amazing pixel worlds or destroy the universe! Play with physics, over 200 elements and controllable heroes. Make your own games or levels, and then share your creations online. There are no limits to your creativity and imagination!
Why similar: Simulation 73.1%, Indie 26.9%
- #13 Shark Simulator
89% matchVery Positive88% of 630 reviews2017
Dev: Aerilon Studios
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Shark Simulator is a WTF physics sandbox. Play as Ed the shark, and give those tourists a vacation they will remember!
Why similar: Simulation 52.7%, Casual 26.1%, Indie 21.1%
- #14 Landfall Archives
86% 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: Simulation 34.2%, Strategy 32.8%, Casual 18.9%, Indie 14%
- #15 Cargo! The Quest for Gravity
88% matchVery Positive80% of 449 reviews2011
Dev: Ice-Pick Lodge
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Create crazy, yet functional, custom vehicles to solve missions with your own unique style!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #16 Purrrifiers: Cleaning Chaos (Play for Free with Friend's Pass)
86% matchMixed60% of 135 reviews2025
Dev: Rubens GamesPub: FreeMind S.A.
Windows
A chaotic “Goofylike” co-op cleaning sim for up to 4 players. Purr cats, cast spells, clean messes, craft weird tools, and cause trouble in equal measure. Your mission? Make it shine or at least less disgusting.
Why similar: Simulation 54.3%, Casual 28.5%, Indie 17.2%
- #17 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: Simulation 46.3%, Strategy 38.4%, Indie 15.3%
- #18 Cefore
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Pixelz Games
Windows
CEFORE is a physics-based puzzler in an abstract simplistic art style in which you get contracted to bring down different structures in the most creative ways possible. Try not to cause too much destruction, of course.
Why similar: Strategy 36%, Simulation 35.3%, Indie 17.2%, Casual 11.5%
- #19 Wooden Battles
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 532 reviews2017
Dev: SP Digital Arts Inc.
Windows
Build a wooden fort, place your units, watch the mayhem!
Why similar: Simulation 44.4%, Strategy 42.4%, Casual 13.2%
- #20 Potion Commotion
83% matchVery Positive82% of 141 reviews2020
Dev: NerdyBird Studios
Windows
Live the CRAZY life of a Wizard’s assistant in this hilarious Clicker game! You’ll be in charge of making wacky and wonderful Potions, using ingredients produced in your garden. With plenty of twists and turns along the way, the fun never stops! Do you have what it takes?
Why similar: Strategy 33.9%, Simulation 31.4%, Casual 18.8%, Indie 15.9%
- #21 ACTION SANDBOX
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,008 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: Simulation 100%
- #22 Animal Revolt Battle Simulator
78% 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: Simulation 35.2%, Strategy 33.2%, Indie 16.2%, Casual 15.3%
- #23 Wizards
80% matchVery Positive88% of 439 reviews2021
Dev: Tyler
Windows · Mac · Linux
Artillery tactics games are back! Grab some friends and get ready for an all out Wizard war! Create your own way of play with tons of unique spells to choose from. With randomly generated terrain and unlimited combinations, you'll never know what will happen next. Completely free to play.
Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, Casual 27.7%, Indie 18.1%
- #24 Art of Destruction
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: ZHANG FAN
Windows · Mac · Linux
A physics sandbox simulation game about constructing and demolishing structures. If you like destroying stuff or just mess around, then this game is for you!
Why similar: Simulation 63.9%, Casual 36.1%
- #25 Chaos Starter
81% matchMixed57% of 51 reviews2019
Dev: Kiddy
Windows
Chaos Starter is a fight simulator with realistic physics. You are going to find yourself in different life situations, and every time you will have to start a chaos. No matter where are you and what you are doing, your only task is to spoil the event and initiate a brawl.
Why similar: Simulation 50.7%, Casual 27.8%, Indie 21.5%
- #26 Choppy Cuts
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 280 reviews2026
Dev: Moco Studios I
Windows
Welcome to Choppy Cuts, a 1-4 player party game where chaos runs the show! Play solo or jump into local or online co-op with friends. In this wild salon, toss your tools and send customers flying! The goal is the only thing that matters here, so do whatever it takes!
Why similar: Simulation 42.6%, Strategy 31.4%, Casual 26%
- #27 Fun with Ragdolls: The Game
77% matchVery Positive88% of 5,171 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: Simulation 74.9%, Indie 25.1%
- #28 Forts
76% 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: Strategy 78.1%, Indie 21.9%
- #29 Raise the Colours
74% matchVery Positive93% of 301 reviews2025
Dev: Mr PastyPub: Corny Pastiche
Windows
Raise the Colours is a satirical 4-player co-op physics game where you race to plant flags before the timer runs out. Work together (or trip each other up) while dodging pesky council workers who’ll do anything to shut down your fun. Not allowed!
Why similar: Casual 74.3%, Indie 25.7%
- #30 Kirchhoff's Revenge
78% matchVery Positive82% of 124 reviews2019
Dev: Gerd Kortemeyer et al.Pub: Michigan State University
Windows · Mac
Kirchhoff is annoyed because nobody appreciates his circuit laws! You get transported to his secret lair and won't be able to get out until you show mastery!
Why similar: Simulation 34.8%, Strategy 31.8%, Casual 18.5%, Indie 15%
- #31 Realistic Tower Destruction
77% matchMixed65% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita Markin
Windows
Game allows you to build many kinds of towers from a variety of bricks and experience their dynamic destruction physics in a sandbox environment.
Why similar: Simulation 69.3%, Indie 30.7%
- #32 World of Contraptions
75% 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: Simulation 100%
- #33 PyramidValley: Reborn
72% matchVery Positive88% of 85 reviews2025
Dev: AuthenTiiq
Windows · Mac · Linux
Immerse yourself in ancient Egypt with PyramidValley, a management game where you develop your pharaonic city by constructing iconic monuments and gathering various resources to ensure prosperity.
Why similar: Simulation 59.9%, Strategy 20.5%, Casual 19.5%
- #34 Blob
73% matchMixed62% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: Avidar
Windows
Embark on a chemistry-packed adventure! Collect elements, combine them into compounds, and generate Atoms (clicks per second). Use Atoms to level up compounds, unlocking noble gases and new rows as you build the ultimate periodic table collection!
Why similar: Casual 66.7%, Simulation 33.3%
- #35 Domino Simulator
74% matchVery Positive85% of 81 reviews2022
Dev: Terapoly
Windows
Domino Simulator is a physics-based sandbox game in which you place various domino tiles and pieces to construct domino chains. Enjoy the odd satisfaction of watching your creation fall one after the other. Ultimately, the floor is yours to fill and the how and the what is completely up to you.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #36 Lost Skies: Island Creator
72% matchVery Positive84% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Bossa StudiosPub: Humble Games
Windows
Sculpt your island, design places for other players to explore, and even set traps or create puzzles in the Lost Skies: Island Creator! Each island tells its own story; are you ready to craft yours?
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #37 Demolition Inc.
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 294 reviews2011
Dev: Zeroscale
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Assume the role of the daring demolition worker Mike and start a devastating chain reaction on earth!
Why similar: Strategy 36.9%, Simulation 30.1%, Casual 18.2%, Indie 14.8%
- #38 Sitting Ducks
70% matchVery Positive83% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: The Gang StudioPub: The Gang Studio
Windows
A chaotic co-op armageddon game where you build ridiculous structures to survive world-ending disasters with sticky hands, physics chaos & friends who probably won’t save you. Don´t be a Sitting Duck!
Why similar: Strategy 72.4%, Casual 27.6%
- #39 Brick Rigs
68% 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: Simulation 100%
- #40 The Powder Toy
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,756 reviews2024
Dev: The Powder Toy Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #41 Lab Rags
71% matchVery Positive92% of 441 reviews2021
Dev: Salt Mine Studios
Windows
Enjoy failure as it fuels your success in Lab Rags, where you get to use your ragdoll bodies to solve puzzles!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #42 Crafting Idle Clicker
73% matchMixed49% of 919 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 42.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Strategy 36.4%, Simulation 29.2%, Casual 19.9%, Indie 14.4%
- #43 Sandbox Anything
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 77 reviews2019
Dev: Fizzostia
Windows
A creative building-like game, where the objective is to throw physics enabled objects to create structures to allow the objective of the level to be completed. Can be a very challenging puzzler or an easy, sit back and relax game. Includes built in Level Editor and extensive Multiplayer functionality.
Why similar: Strategy 38.5%, Simulation 30.1%, Casual 16.8%, Indie 14.5%
- #44 Catto Pew Pew! CLASSIC
69% matchVery Positive90% of 939 reviews2022
Dev: Oakley Blade Games
Windows
Catto Pew Pew! CLASSIC is a chaotic physics-based arena shooter where your shots cause your opponent to fly backward. Join the chaos for free!
Why similar: Casual 79.6%, Indie 20.4%
- #45 Party Maker Farm Fest
71% matchMixed65% of 207 reviews2021
Dev: Forestlight Games
Windows
Builder. Designer. Renovator. Unleash your creativity in over a dozen unique places, get the right equipment, prepare the space, use what you find. Have a crazy farm party, here we go!
Why similar: Simulation 40.9%, Strategy 39.3%, Casual 19.9%
- #46 Tinytopia
70% matchVery Positive83% of 326 reviews2021
Dev: MeNic GamesPub: Mastiff
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Construct charming toy towns and cities atop tiny terrain. Combine building blocks to create new megastructures. Test your skills in the physics-based Challenge stages or simply unwind and obliterate everything with an array of cute catastrophes!
Why similar: Simulation 36.2%, Strategy 26.7%, Casual 22.3%, Indie 14.8%
- #47 Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
67% matchVery Positive88% of 87,721 reviews2018
Dev: Landfall
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 8.9 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: Strategy 41.4%, Simulation 40.2%, Indie 18.4%
- #48 Soccer Player Simulator
70% matchVery Positive82% of 242 reviews2019
Dev: Kiddy
Windows
Soccer Player Simulator – a physics-based soccer simulator. The main feature of the game is the unpredictable behavior of the players on the pitch.
Why similar: Simulation 73%, Indie 27%
- #49 Trash Bomber
68% matchVery Positive94% of 216 reviews2022
Dev: Kiepska Spółka
Windows
Inspect randomly generated piles of trash, poured into the incinerator. Find all the objects that aren't allowed to be burned down, and... BLOW THEM UP!
Why similar: Casual 74.1%, Indie 25.9%
- #50 Ragdoll: Fall Simulator
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 97 reviews2021
Dev: Andreev Worlds
Windows
In this game, you can launch your character anywhere, watching as his limbs dangle and hit all the obstacles.
Why similar: Simulation 86%, Indie 14%
- #51 Dropkick Navvy: First Step
67% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: Ocean Drive Studio, Inc.
Windows
Dropkick Navvy: First Step is a physics-based crafting/survival sim. Help the World Tree rebuild the broken cosmos as the responsibility falls upon you. Scurry through diverse landscapes, gather essential resources, and build your way towards finding the eternal source of water for the World Tree.
Why similar: Simulation 62%, Casual 38%
- #52 Age Of Warbots
64% matchVery Positive85% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: VDimension
Windows
A sandbox battle simulator game where you can build your own shape-shifting warbots, program their AI, and watch them smash each other up on the battlefield! Join the battles yourself by taking control of the warbots! Use Steam Workshop to check out warbots created by players from around the world!
Why similar: Simulation 77.1%, Casual 22.9%
- #53 Deconstruction Simulator
64% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,479 reviews2025
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Deconstruction Simulator is the ultimate demolition simulator, offering you complete freedom of action and a wide array of contracts to complete. Get ready for spectacular destruction.
Why similar: Simulation 63.8%, Casual 30%, Indie 6.1%
- #54 Colormeleons
68% matchVery Positive86% of 76 reviews2020
Dev: Meleons
Windows
A painting meleon without any talent - and a talent without money. Help your meleon-artist to satisfy his need for recognition in this ultimate Idle-Painting-game where everything is about being part of a great community to reach your goals together with other players to become a famous painter!
Why similar: Strategy 34.3%, Simulation 32.1%, Casual 18.8%, Indie 14.8%
- #55 Bloop
71% matchMixed47% of 367 reviews2015
Dev: 2SDPub: KISS ltd
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Ignite your imagination with a whimsical 2D liquid physics-based puzzle game by Studio 2SD!
Why similar: Simulation 42.2%, Indie 30.2%, Casual 27.6%
- #56 Learn to Fly 3
65% matchVery Positive95% of 11,174 reviews2017
Dev: Light Bringer Games inc.
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
Why similar: Simulation 33.6%, Strategy 32.7%, Casual 19.1%, Indie 14.6%