Games Like Dieselpunk Wars

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 15.8% ★, Naval 15.7% ★, Vehicular Combat 14.4% ★, Voxel 13.3% ★, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers the most complex and robust vehicle building system, allowing for intricate naval, aerial, and land-based combat designs.

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 22% ★, Tanks 15% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 14%, War 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated tank design simulator that focuses on the engineering and performance of armored vehicles with high attention to detail.

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 30.5%, Sandbox 25.6%, Vehicular Combat 19.2% ★, Open World 14.9%, Physics 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features modular combat vehicle building where you scavenge parts to upgrade your machine for survival and combat against other designs.

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: Naval Combat 18.1% ★, Destruction 17.7%, Vehicular Combat 17.2% ★, Flight 13.8%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based construction game where you build medieval siege engines to destroy structures and complete tactical objectives.

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 29.4% ★, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 15.5%, Racing 13.4%, Physics 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly accessible yet deep physics-based building system for creating land, sea, and air vehicles in a sandbox environment.

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: Naval 29.1% ★, Flight 20%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 14.9%, Physics 11%

Why You'll Like It: An advanced engineering simulator that requires you to build functional vehicles with complex logic and physics systems to perform rescue missions.

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 26.3%, Vehicular Combat 23.8% ★, Tanks 22.5% ★, Physics 12.3%, Racing 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features advanced physics-based destruction where you build custom vehicles to demolish complex structures.

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: Combat Racing 17% ★, Flight 15.9%, Vehicular Combat 15.2% ★, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the aerospace side of vehicle building, offering a powerful editor to design and fly custom aircraft with realistic flight physics.

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 27.6%, Building 22%, Sandbox 18.3%, Physics 16.3%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game focused on complex mechanical building and physics, allowing for the creation of intricate machines and vehicles.

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: Destruction 28%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 15.8%, Physics 11.3%, Open World 9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that uses a brick-based building system to create vehicles that interact with a highly dynamic physics world.

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 31.3%, Sandbox 25.5%, Physics 20.5%, Open World 15.4%, Simulation 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox game that emphasizes mechanical engineering and automation through its robust building and physics engine.

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Building 69.2%, Simulation 20.6%, Singleplayer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for modular starship design where the placement of every component affects the ship's combat performance and structural integrity.

Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!

Why similar: Naval Combat 15.9% ★, Voxel 14.2% ★, Submarine 13.1% ★, Tanks 13.1% ★, Naval 12.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Specializes in the construction of complex naval vessels with a focus on physics and realistic combat simulation.

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 34.7%, Voxel 27.7% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Physics 14.7%, Simulation 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly destructible voxel environment that rewards creative use of physics and tools to complete objectives.

Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 19.4% ★, Tanks 18.9% ★, Naval Combat 17% ★, Steampunk 13.5% ★, War 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-themed game where you design airships block-by-block and engage in tactical combat against other fleets.

Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 49.4% ★, Building 25.7%, Sandbox 24.9%

Why You'll Like It: A vehicular combat game where building your custom war machine from scrap parts is the core mechanic for multiplayer battles.

If you like warships but wish they could kickflip, Waves of Steel is for you! Build your own custom warship and embark on a sprawling campaign filled with enemy ships, planes, submarines, and bizarre superweapons. Fast-paced arcade naval action is here!

Why similar: Naval Combat 23.2% ★, Naval 20.5% ★, Vehicular Combat 19.5% ★, Building 11.4%, War 11%

Why You'll Like It: A naval combat game that features a deep ship-building editor to customize your vessel for various maritime missions.

Renovate & build II World War tanks. Experience highly detailed & realistic simulation game. Take tanks fully apart by using different tools. Transform them from rusty and ruined to fully working. Check them on the training ground, sell or put into your own museum.

Why similar: Tanks 63.2% ★, Building 23.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the restoration and testing of historical tanks, providing a deep look at the mechanical components of armored vehicles.

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: Building 26.1%, Sandbox 24.8%, Physics 21.1%, Open World 15.3%, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game about engineering and construction where you build ships, stations, and planetary outposts with realistic physics.

Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?

Why similar: Military 33%, Building 29%, Physics 22.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the dieselpunk aesthetic perfectly while focusing on tactical vehicular combat and fleet management.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Steampunk 40.8% ★, Building 18.4%, Sandbox 17.7%, Open World 14%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk survival game where you build and upgrade a massive drill ship to traverse and conquer a hostile volcanic island.

Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!

Why similar: Naval 25.7% ★, Naval Combat 21.4% ★, Submarine 14.6% ★, Military 10.1%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A naval strategy game that features a highly detailed ship design system for creating warships from the age of dreadnoughts.

Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks is a unique combination of tank design and tycoon game. It puts you in charge of an arms trading company specialized in tanks from WWI to the modern era. Research, design, sell and follow your tanks in battle to make your own history!

Why similar: Tanks 31.7% ★, Vehicular Combat 16.6% ★, War 14.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Military 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tank design and engineering with the business management of an arms manufacturer during the 20th century.

Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!

Why similar: War 39.6%, Military 28.8%, Futuristic 17.7%, Simulation 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused game where you manage a carrier and deploy various autonomous vehicles to control the battlefield.

Design your car from scratch: from the frame to the suspension and race it!

Why similar: Destruction 24.8%, Building 22.9%, Sandbox 20.7%, Racing 16.6%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build custom cars from scratch and test their performance on various tracks using a realistic physics engine.

Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.8%, Building 28%, Physics 21.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Open World 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that emphasizes building vehicles and machines to solve puzzles and navigate challenging terrain.

Own the skies in steam-powered airships! Guns of Icarus Alliance is a team-based online game that pits co-op crews against both rival teams and an AI that learns your tactics. Players become part of the story as each battle shapes history in an ever-changing steampunk world.

Why similar: Steampunk 77.7% ★, Simulation 14.7%, Flight 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A team-based game focused on the operation and combat of steampunk airships, emphasizing crew coordination and ship design.

Welcome to the Sandbox World! Here, you bring your ideas to life: create tanks, airplanes, ships, and anything else – with over 120 unique blocks at your disposal. Engage, defend, and showcase your masterpieces in tense multiplayer battles that await you!

Why similar: Tanks 33.4% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Naval 15.6% ★, Physics 14.5%, War 10.6%

Sink player-made battleships, aircraft carriers and submarines in this physics-based game. Use pre-built ships and sink the enemy by deploying aircraft, torpedoes, depth charges or shells. Or built your own ships in the extensive ship-editor.

Why similar: Naval 22.8% ★, Submarine 20.8% ★, Naval Combat 20.1% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Physics 8.8%

Dieselpunk Wars: Prologue is a free version of an epic vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 140 elements to build an awesome war machine. Build vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat!

Why similar: Tanks 15.4% ★, Destruction 15.4%, Naval 13.2% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.1%

ShipCrafter is a naval sandbox simulation game. Build your ship, unlock new components and defeat increasingly powerful foes in the campaign !

Why similar: Naval 31.1% ★, Voxel 18.1% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Naval Combat 17.3% ★, Simulation 10.5%

Become a Mech Mechanic to deconstruct, rebuild, paint and fix gigantic iron machines. You live in an age of enormous machines and you better get ready to get your hands dirty!

Why similar: Sandbox 19.7%, Military 18.9%, Building 17%, War 16.9%, Physics 11%

Sandbox of destruction. Billion different ways to build your mech. Feel the weight and impact of obliteration in this modern old school mech combat sim.

Why similar: Tanks 31.3% ★, Destruction 26.1%, Vehicular Combat 20.9% ★, Physics 14%, Simulation 6.3%

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

Why similar: Naval 21.7% ★, Tanks 21.2% ★, War 14.6%, Military 12.8%, Building 12.1%

Become a master model maker in the Complete Edition of this beloved crafting simulator, featuring all DLCs. Assemble, customize and display your creations, whether you’re a veteran or a novice. Get building, and get creative!

Why similar: Tanks 29.7% ★, Submarine 17.9% ★, Military 13.2%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 11.7%

Disassembly and destruction physics sandbox simulator. Detailed models of objects and vehicles and their internal parts. Disassemble objects successfully to unlock weapons mode and destruction. Fight evil mannequins with everything you got in physical combat!

Why similar: Destruction 24.8%, Flight 17.1%, Vehicular Combat 15.3% ★, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.5%

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: Steampunk 30.9% ★, Vehicular Combat 21.8% ★, Building 17.4%, Sandbox 15.8%, Physics 8.4%

Our civilization has fallen. From the ashes, four new powers emerge. Immerse yourself in a combat-heavy twist on a classic turn-based 4X strategy where steam, steel, atom and diesel-punk corporations clash to spread their technology and the way of life.

Why similar: Steampunk 65.1% ★, Building 22.2%, Simulation 9.9%, Singleplayer 2.9%

When the harshness of the sea meets the cruelties of war, a challenge for perseverance makes itself known. Welcome to Aircraft Carrier Survival, a strategy game set in the Pacific Theater of World War II, where your prowess as a commander decides the fate of a naval behemoth.

Why similar: Naval Combat 32% ★, Naval 30.4% ★, War 14.7%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 6.8%

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 28.1%, Building 18.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Destruction 14%, Physics 13.2%

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 28.6%, Sandbox 27.1%, Physics 22.6%, Open World 16.2%, Singleplayer 5.5%

VTOL VR is a near-futuristic combat flight game built for Virtual Reality. Pilot advanced multi-role jets, using your hands to flip switches, press buttons, and manipulate the virtual flight controls.

Why similar: Flight 22.4%, Vehicular Combat 17% ★, Naval Combat 14.6% ★, Military 12%, War 11.7%

A sandbox game that enables players to watch or take part in a warzone. Players will have access to a variety of tools and features that give them access to customize and change the battlefield however they like.

Why similar: Sandbox 28.7%, War 24.6%, Physics 16.2%, Destruction 11.1%, Vehicular Combat 10.4% ★

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: Destruction 31.4%, Sandbox 22.7%, Physics 17.7%, Building 16.4%, Simulation 10.8%

Airmen is a first person ship building and battling game featuring airships, landships and watercraft. Crew your ship solo or alongside friends on dangerous expeditions into the archipelago to complete contracts, collect resources, and upgrade your ships.

Why similar: Steampunk 26.8% ★, Vehicular Combat 24.3% ★, Flight 18.2%, Building 15%, Sandbox 11.2%

Build and fly realistic aircraft. Use free-form fuselage and wing editor tools and tune your engines to recreate aircraft from any era or design your own.

Why similar: Flight 28.2%, Sandbox 19%, Building 16.1%, Military 13.4%, Physics 12.5%

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: Tanks 39.9% ★, War 20.7%, Sandbox 19.8%, Simulation 10.9%, Physics 7.5%

Multiplayer sandbox with destructible environment. Destroy different maps, build your own, and play with your friends and other people online

Why similar: Voxel 28.8% ★, Destruction 24.2%, Sandbox 20%, Building 19.6%, Simulation 6.3%

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: Sandbox 28.6%, Building 23.6%, Physics 23.3%, Futuristic 13.4%, Simulation 11%

Voxel Turf is a block based urban sandbox. Build cities, blow up buildings, complete missions or fight for territory. Build a real estate empire, or perhaps just drive around and blow stuff up. Its your choice!

Why similar: Voxel 42.5% ★, Sandbox 24.5%, Open World 12.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 10.2%

Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics on intense battlefields, facing land, air and sea threats. Wage war against AI or other players with an array of potent weapons. Wield tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, capable of annihilating anything in their path.

Why similar: Flight 24.4%, Destruction 20.2%, War 16%, Military 15.7%, Physics 9.4%

Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Destruction 31.7%, Building 22.9%, Racing 18.3%, Physics 18%, Simulation 7.5%

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 31.1% ★, Sandbox 24%, Building 23%, Physics 20.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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 25.3%, Building 21.8%, Sandbox 18%, Physics 13.4%, Open World 9.5%

Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!

Why similar: Naval 39.2% ★, Destruction 25.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Physics 11.9%, Simulation 6.8%

Slowmotion, gravitation control, destructible terrain, blackhole and much more! Destroy a small (huuge) building, using different types of weapons (even custom). When you get tired of exploding prepared structures, you can always visit the map editor to build whatever you want.

Why similar: Destruction 32%, Sandbox 17.5%, Physics 14%, Building 11.5%, Military 9.4%