Games Like Crazy Machines 2

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: Puzzle 45.1%, Physics 38.8%, Casual 13.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the original creators of The Incredible Machine, this is the spiritual successor to the genre that inspired Crazy Machines.

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 33.6%, Puzzle 33.6%, Strategy 26.9%, Casual 4.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel in the series, offering updated graphics and a more robust sandbox for creating complex physics puzzles.

The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!

Why similar: Physics 39.8%, Puzzle 38.3%, Strategy 19.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Refines the bridge-building genre with a sophisticated physics engine that requires precise engineering to handle structural stress.

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: Physics 38.8%, Puzzle 33.5%, Strategy 27.7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based building game that tasks you with constructing mechanical siege engines to destroy structures and complete objectives.

The best just got better! Rediscover your engineering creativity in this genre-defining bridge engineering and puzzle solving masterpiece.

Why similar: Puzzle 56.3%, Physics 41.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: The latest entry in the series, featuring improved tools and challenging physics-based puzzles that test your structural design skills.

A surreal building game for VR. Create life-sized contraptions as tall as you can reach, then send them whirling, flinging, and trundling off to solve puzzles on the other side of a floating island. There are no right or wrong solutions, so bring your creativity.

Why similar: Physics 35.2%, Puzzle 34.5%, Strategy 28.5%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-focused physics builder that captures the tactile joy of assembling strange machines to transport objects across difficult terrain.

Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.

Why similar: Puzzle 36.9%, Physics 28.4%, Strategy 27.3%, Casual 5.3%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines the classic bridge-building formula with the iconic physics and mechanics of the Portal universe.

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: Physics 42.8%, Puzzle 39.4%, Strategy 15.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game that popularized modern bridge-building, focusing on balancing budget constraints with physics-defying structural integrity.

Build bridges, grow towers, terraform terrain, and fuel flying machines in the stunning followup to the multi-award winning World of Goo. The world is beautiful, dangerous, and evolving.

Why similar: Physics 40.8%, Puzzle 38%, Casual 20.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game where you build structures using living, sticky creatures that react to gravity and tension.

Gadgeteer is a physics-based VR puzzle game where you build chain reaction machines to solve fun, intricate puzzles. Your machines will use gadgets to launch, bump, twist, and turn—creating chain reactions that may even end up tearing apart the fabric of space-time.

Why similar: Puzzle 43.7%, Physics 39%, Casual 17.3%

Why You'll Like It: A VR puzzle game specifically designed around building massive, elaborate Rube Goldberg machines in a virtual workshop.

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

Why similar: Puzzle 41.7%, Physics 34.6%, Casual 22%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a unique drawing mechanic to let you create physical objects that interact with the world to solve puzzles.

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: Physics 34.7%, Puzzle 32.4%, Casual 31.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational physics-based building game that challenges you to construct bridges that can withstand various vehicle loads.

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: Physics 52.2%, Puzzle 43.8%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox building game centered on creating robots and machines to navigate physics-based obstacle courses.

The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!

Why similar: Physics 37.9%, Strategy 31.3%, Puzzle 30%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: The original browser-based physics building games that set the standard for the genre.

Toxtronyx have now realised their game “Bridge2!” on the powerful Unity engine. Very realistic visuals and lots of new features as well as the possibility to create one’s own levels helped create a completely new game.

Why similar: Physics 38.5%, Strategy 35.6%, Casual 23.6%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A bridge-building simulator that emphasizes realistic physics and structural analysis for your custom designs.

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: Physics 92.3%, Singleplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A highly creative robotics building game that allows for complex mechanical design and custom logic programming.

Deliver a payload from point A to point B with only a few simple tools and the laws of physics. Create ramps and catapults, watch objects tumble and fall, and someway... somehow reach the destination. Each project is a hand-drawn puzzle for you to interact with -- Devise a plan, experiment, and make it happen!

Why similar: Puzzle 41%, Physics 22.7%, Strategy 18.4%, Casual 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist physics-based puzzle game where you must place objects to guide a ball to a goal.

Cogs is a puzzle game where players build machines from sliding tiles. Players can choose from 50 levels and 3 gameplay modes. New puzzles are unlocked by building contraptions quickly and efficiently. Inventor Mode: Starting with simple puzzles, players are introduced to the widgets that are used to build machines — gears, pipes,...

Why similar: Puzzle 48.1%, Physics 33.6%, Casual 16.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D puzzle game that involves sliding tiles and connecting gears to complete intricate mechanical machines.

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: Physics 89.1%, Singleplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building vehicles from modular parts, utilizing a deep physics engine to test your creations in various environments.

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: Physics 58.9%, Strategy 41.1%

Why You'll Like It: An engineering-focused building game where you design aircraft and test them against realistic aerodynamic physics.

ReThink | Evolved 2 is a Puzzle Game in a futuristic setting. Solve a variety of Puzzles that utilize Lasers and the behavior of light in two and three-dimensional space. Created with the Feedback from its predecessor in mind, ReThink | Evolved 2 features: 40 new Puzzles, enhanced Gameplay...

Why similar: Puzzle 54.2%, Strategy 24.3%, Casual 17.5%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle game that relies on lasers, light, and physics-based logic to progress through levels.

A physics puzzle game like no other! You are inside the big old machine. There are rusty gears and shafts all around you, along with interactive objects such as planks and cubes. Use each object and place the wheel on the platform – easy!

Why similar: Puzzle 36.5%, Casual 34.6%, Physics 27.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that utilizes physics and atmospheric mechanics to challenge your logical thinking.

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Why similar: Puzzle 55.5%, Physics 39.6%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: While a first-person game, its core mechanics are entirely based on momentum and physics-based spatial puzzles.

Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

Why similar: Puzzle 88.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A Zachtronics puzzle game that requires you to build automated assembly lines using physics and logic to manufacture products.

From the twisted puzzle minds behind the award winning Toki Tori comes a new game, simply called RUSH. Fortunately for fans of high quality puzzle games, RUSH is anything but simple. In the game's fully three dimensional levels, players need to guide cubes to color coded exit points using Conveyor belts, Warps, Stops Signs, Splits and...

Why similar: Puzzle 57.2%, Casual 22.2%, Strategy 18.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that tasks you with guiding cubes to their destination using conveyor belts and physics-based elements.

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: Physics 95.1%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox game that allows you to build complex machines, vehicles, and automated systems using a robust physics engine.

Art Of Gravity is a voxel/physics based puzzle game, revolving around the theme of destroying abstract figures, which results in mesmerizing displays of dance of gravity.

Why similar: Puzzle 30%, Casual 24.1%, Strategy 23.2%, Physics 22.7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that focuses on destroying structures by manipulating gravity and object interactions.

The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

Why similar: Puzzle 96.2%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A philosophical puzzle game that uses lasers, blocks, and physics-based interactions to solve increasingly complex logic challenges.

Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.

Why similar: Physics 88.9%, Singleplayer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A building game that lets you construct mechanical contraptions to survive and explore in a physics-based world.

Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!

Why similar: Puzzle 40.2%, Strategy 33.6%, Casual 22.9%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.

Why similar: Puzzle 100%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that combines building mechanical robots with a logic-based programming system to solve challenges.

Moving Out is back and wackier than ever, and now with ONLINE PLAY! Return to Packmore and use your moving skills across brand new dimensions and some old favourites. Help rebuild Smooth Moves and become an all-star F.A.R.T. (Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician)!

Why similar: Physics 38.2%, Puzzle 32.7%, Casual 26.3%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Enter the most advanced challenge laboratory of today's games, where electronics and logic merge into challenges that will captivate your mind and awaken the engineer within you!

Why similar: Puzzle 49.6%, Casual 33.8%, Physics 16.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Turn the crank, rotate the gears, push the levers, Use the catapult, explode it, or fly it...From grilling sausages with a pulley, gears, rubberbands and a candle to firing a cannon with a basketball, these wacky brain-teasers will light up your imagination with creative and addictive fun.

Why similar: Puzzle 36.7%, Strategy 22.9%, Physics 22%, Casual 18.3%

The highly anticipated sequel to last year’s PC hit, Puzzler World 2 brings more puzzles, new games, fun rewards and an all new Master Mode.

Why similar: Strategy 36.9%, Casual 34.6%, Puzzle 28.5%

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: Physics 67%, Casual 28.5%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Casual colorful physical puzzle with sweets, jumpers, teleports and explosions

Why similar: Puzzle 31.5%, Physics 29%, Strategy 23.2%, Casual 14.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Builder. Designer. Renovator. Unleash your creativity in over a dozen unique places, get the right equipment, prepare the space, use what you find. Wanna make a crazy party?

Why similar: Physics 42.4%, Puzzle 30.2%, Casual 27.4%

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

Why similar: Puzzle 40.6%, Strategy 36%, Casual 20.5%, Singleplayer 2.9%

City-building experience reimagined as a simple relaxing puzzle game bringing the original Tile Cities to a new level

Why similar: Strategy 40.7%, Casual 30.9%, Puzzle 27.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Guide your puddle of fluid through a vast range of environments and puzzles!

Why similar: Physics 48.8%, Puzzle 43.5%, Casual 7.7%

A physics-based puzzle game where you combine colorful balls to achieve the ultimate form -- Goober! Combine two of a kind until, like I said, Goober… What more to do you freakin’ want?

Why similar: Puzzle 29.1%, Strategy 25.8%, Physics 25.4%, Casual 17.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Pierhead Arcade is back with all new VR physics based arcade games to play!

Why similar: Casual 68.7%, Physics 31.3%

This mind-bending game will challenge you to create complex structures to get your woodland creatures over vast chasms. In a bridge-builder first, you'll guide your creatures and construct your bridges in real time. Use the weight of various creatures to balance your structures as you build them.

Why similar: Puzzle 37.3%, Physics 23.9%, Strategy 21.1%, Casual 15.8%, Singleplayer 2%

"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!

Why similar: Physics 61.4%, Casual 33.3%, Singleplayer 5.3%

Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

Why similar: Puzzle 89.7%, Casual 4.2%, Strategy 3.5%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Why similar: Puzzle 97.6%, Singleplayer 2.4%

SiNKR 3 is the culmination of the award winning minimalist puzzler series. SiNKR 3 offers a new slant on the familiar contraptions with new diagonal layouts and billiards-style physics. BY PLAYER DEMAND: multi-step undo.

Why similar: Puzzle 45.9%, Strategy 42.9%, Casual 11.2%

World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.

Why similar: Puzzle 47.3%, Physics 35.7%, Casual 11.3%, Strategy 3.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.

Why similar: Strategy 97.3%, Singleplayer 2.7%

It’s link-matching madness with Chainz 2: Relinked. Rotate the colored links to make matches of three or more in Classic Mode. Pit your link-matching skills against the clock in Arcade Mode. Ponder every precious move in Strategy Mode. Twist your brain and clear all the links in Puzzle Mode.

Why similar: Casual 100%

This is a continuation of the fascinating game aMAZE. Now in 3D!

Why similar: Puzzle 39.8%, Physics 38%, Casual 18.9%, Singleplayer 3.3%

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: Physics 57%, Casual 40.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%

In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.

Why similar: Strategy 97%, Singleplayer 3%

Invent almost anything out of everything you find, from catapults to incredible flying machines.

Why similar: Casual 64.2%, Puzzle 35.8%

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: Physics 55.1%, Strategy 41%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Casual colorful physical puzzle with sweets, jumpers, teleports, accelerators and explosions

Why similar: Physics 35.2%, Puzzle 35%, Strategy 26.9%, Singleplayer 2.9%