- #1 From the Depths
97% 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: Naval Combat 15.7% ★, Naval 15.7% ★, Vehicular Combat 14.5%, Voxel 13.4% ★, Building 8.7%
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.
- #2 Sprocket
96% 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: Vehicular Combat 21.6%, Tanks 15.5% ★, Building 14%, War 14%, Sandbox 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.
- #3 Besiege
96% 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: Naval Combat 17.9% ★, Destruction 17.8%, Vehicular Combat 17.3%, Flight 14%, Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based construction game where you build medieval siege engines to destroy structures and complete tactical objectives.
- #4 TerraTech
95% 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 30.5%, Sandbox 25.4%, Vehicular Combat 19.4%, Open World 15.1%, Physics 8.1%
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.
- #5 Trailmakers
94% 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: Flight 23.1%, Vehicular Combat 22.5%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Racing 10.5%
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.
- #6 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
94% 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: Naval 29% ★, Flight 20.2%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 14.8%, Physics 10.9%
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.
- #7 Scrap Mechanic
91% 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 31.5%, Sandbox 25.4%, Physics 20.2%, Open World 15.7%, Simulation 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox game that emphasizes mechanical engineering and automation through its robust building and physics engine.
- #8 Instruments of Destruction
92% 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 26.6%, Vehicular Combat 23.6%, Tanks 22.6% ★, Physics 12.2%, Racing 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features advanced physics-based destruction where you build custom vehicles to demolish complex structures.
- #9 SimplePlanes
93% 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: Flight 19.4%, Combat Racing 16.4% ★, Vehicular Combat 14.5%, Building 9.8%, Military 9.6%
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.
- #10 GearBlocks
91% 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 27.5%, Building 22.2%, Sandbox 18.2%, Physics 16.3%, Simulation 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game focused on complex mechanical building and physics, allowing for the creation of intricate machines and vehicles.
- #11 Brick Rigs
90% matchVery Positive95% of 59,219 reviews2023
Dev: Fluppisoft GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 77.8 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: Destruction 28.1%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 15.9%, Physics 11.2%, Open World 9.1%
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.
- #12 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
89% matchVery Positive94% of 12,820 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 69.9%, Simulation 20.2%, Singleplayer 9.9%
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.
- #13 Teardown
88% 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 34.9%, Voxel 27.8% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Physics 14.5%, Simulation 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly destructible voxel environment that rewards creative use of physics and tools to complete objectives.
- #14 NavalArt
89% matchVery Positive91% of 2,419 reviews2018
Dev: RigidbodyPub: RZ Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 50.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 13.9% ★, Naval 13.2% ★, Tanks 13% ★, Submarine 12.8% ★
Why You'll Like It: Specializes in the construction of complex naval vessels with a focus on physics and realistic combat simulation.
- #15 Airships: Conquer the Skies
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,597 reviews2018
Dev: David Stark
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 19.4%, Tanks 19% ★, Naval Combat 16.8% ★, Steampunk 13.6% ★, 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.
- #16 Crossout
85% 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: Vehicular Combat 56.4%, Building 22.2%, Sandbox 21.4%
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.
- #17 Tank Mechanic Simulator
84% matchVery Positive88% of 9,374 reviews2020
Dev: DeGenerals S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 63.8% ★, Building 23.7%, Simulation 9.8%, 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.
- #18 Waves of Steel
84% matchVery Positive91% of 426 reviews2023
Dev: TMA Games LLC
Windows · Linux
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 23.1% ★, Naval 20.5% ★, Vehicular Combat 19.6%, Building 11.5%, War 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A naval combat game that features a deep ship-building editor to customize your vessel for various maritime missions.
- #19 Space Engineers
83% 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: Building 26.3%, Sandbox 24.8%, Physics 20.9%, Open World 15.7%, Simulation 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game about engineering and construction where you build ships, stations, and planetary outposts with realistic physics.
- #20 HighFleet
82% matchVery Positive88% of 7,394 reviews2021
Dev: Konstantin KoshutinPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 33.5%, Building 29.1%, Physics 22.2%, Simulation 11%, Singleplayer 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the dieselpunk aesthetic perfectly while focusing on tactical vehicular combat and fleet management.
- #21 Volcanoids
81% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 41.7% ★, Building 19.6%, Sandbox 19%, Open World 11.2%, Simulation 6.7%
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.
- #22 Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks
81% matchMixed68% of 1,070 reviews2024
Dev: FunGiPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 32% ★, Vehicular Combat 16.6%, War 14.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Military 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines tank design and engineering with the business management of an arms manufacturer during the 20th century.
- #23 Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
80% matchMixed61% of 7,964 reviews2023
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 16.0 hrsMean: 81.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Why similar: Naval 25.9% ★, Naval Combat 21.5% ★, Submarine 14.3% ★, Military 10.1%, Building 9.7%
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.
- #24 Carrier Command 2
78% matchVery Positive82% of 3,750 reviews2021
Dev: GeometaPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 39.7%, Military 29%, Futuristic 17.8%, Simulation 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused game where you manage a carrier and deploy various autonomous vehicles to control the battlefield.
- #25 Dream Car Builder
79% 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 24.5%, Building 22.9%, Sandbox 20.9%, Racing 17.1%, Simulation 8.4%
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.
- #26 SimplePlanes 2
74% 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: Combat Racing 17% ★, Destruction 16.8%, Vehicular Combat 16.3%, Military 10.6%, Building 10.4%
- #27 Sandbox World
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 141 reviews2024
Dev: XMAKE
Windows
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 29% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Flight 14.5%, Naval 13.4% ★, Physics 12.1%
- #28 Autocraft
79% matchMixed56% of 298 reviews2017
Dev: Alientrap
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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 28.3%, Physics 21%, Simulation 12.6%, Open World 4%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that emphasizes building vehicles and machines to solve puzzles and navigate challenging terrain.
- #29 Guns of Icarus Alliance
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,439 reviews2017
Dev: Muse Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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%, Flight 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A team-based game focused on the operation and combat of steampunk airships, emphasizing crew coordination and ship design.
- #30 Dieselpunk Wars Prologue
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 176 reviews2020
Dev: Image Power S.A.
Windows
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 15.6% ★, Destruction 15.4%, Naval 13.2% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.1%
- #31 SHIPS AT WAR
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 389 reviews2021
Dev: Golddorf Spieleentwicklung
Windows
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% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Physics 8.7%
- #32 ShipCrafter
73% matchVery Positive92% of 208 reviews2025
Dev: MyrmecomanPub: MoreButterGames
Windows · Linux
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 18.2% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Naval Combat 17.2% ★, Simulation 10.4%
- #33 KAISERPUNK
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 921 reviews2025
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 21.6% ★, Tanks 21.5% ★, War 14.6%, Military 12.9%, Building 12.1%
- #34 Mech Mechanic Simulator
76% matchMixed61% of 698 reviews2021
Dev: PolyslashPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 19.5%, Military 19.1%, War 17.1%, Building 17%, Physics 10.9%
- #35 Punk Wars
75% matchMixed59% of 123 reviews2021
Dev: Strategy Forge S.A.Pub: Salient Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 65.5% ★, Building 22.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #36 Aviassembly
69% 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: Flight 24.6%, Building 19.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Destruction 14.4%, Physics 14%
- #37 Model Builder: Complete Edition
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,280 reviews2022
Dev: Moonlit S.A.Pub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 23.8% ★, Flight 20.8%, Submarine 14.1% ★, Military 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #38 Disassembly 3D
74% matchVery Positive80% of 334 reviews2017
Dev: Khor Chin Heong
Windows
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 17.3%, Vehicular Combat 15.4%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.4%
- #39 Mechanic Miner
75% matchMixed58% of 210 reviews2020
Dev: Hello John
Windows
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 31.3% ★, Vehicular Combat 21.8%, Building 17.4%, Sandbox 15.7%, Physics 8.3%
- #40 VTOL VR
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 21,746 reviews2017
Dev: Boundless Dynamics, LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 25.7%, Vehicular Combat 16.4%, Naval Combat 13.8% ★, Military 11.6%, War 11.3%
- #41 Aircraft Carrier Survival
72% matchMixed60% of 1,229 reviews2022
Dev: Gambit Games StudioPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 31.8% ★, Naval 30.5% ★, War 14.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 6.9%
- #42 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
72% 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: Building 28.8%, Sandbox 27%, Physics 22.3%, Open World 16.5%, Singleplayer 5.3%
- #43 Age Of Warbots
68% matchVery Positive84% of 165 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: Sandbox 24.6%, Building 20.5%, Physics 19.8%, War 14.2%, Futuristic 11.7%
- #44 Mech Havoc
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 788 reviews2025
Dev: Mid DevelopmentPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 31.9% ★, Destruction 25.9%, Vehicular Combat 20.9%, Physics 13.8%, Simulation 6.2%
- #45 Medieval Machines Builder
67% matchVery Positive81% of 135 reviews2026
Dev: FreeMind S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
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: Destruction 35.3%, Building 20.2%, Sandbox 18.4%, Physics 16.4%, Simulation 8%
- #46 Gear Up
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 8,352 reviews2015
Dev: Doctor Entertainment AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Feel the adrenaline as you control your unique tank in multiplayer arcade action! Build your ultimate war machine from over a million different combinations. Now, will you go for the rumbling caterpillar tracks or the crawling spider legs?
Why similar: Tanks 48.1% ★, Building 20.7%, War 13.9%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 4.2%
- #47 Screw Drivers
64% 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 31%, Building 23.4%, Racing 18.8%, Physics 18%, Simulation 7.2%
- #48 Water Physics Simulation
70% matchVery Positive82% of 98 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: Destruction 31.7%, Sandbox 22.7%, Physics 17.5%, Building 16.5%, Simulation 10.7%
- #49 Airmen
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 362 reviews2017
Dev: Airborne Games
Windows
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 26.9% ★, Vehicular Combat 24.4%, Flight 18.3%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 11%
- #50 Building Destruction
68% 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: Voxel 28.9% ★, Destruction 24.3%, Sandbox 19.9%, Building 19.7%, Simulation 6.2%
- #51 Offroad Mechanic Simulator
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 294 reviews2023
Dev: Image Power S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Service off-road vehicles and take them for a drive! Offroad Mechanic Simulator lets you modify many classic off-road vehicles and prepare them for daunting tasks that no normal car could ever hope to complete. Test your work and climb steep cliffs or drive through rivers and deep layers of mud.
Why similar: Building 44.3%, Physics 31.7%, Simulation 19.5%, Singleplayer 4.4%
- #52 Total Tank Simulator
67% 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: Tanks 40.6% ★, War 20.7%, Sandbox 19.5%, Simulation 10.6%, Physics 7.3%
- #53 IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 12,453 reviews2026
Dev: Nick Nieuwoudt
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?
Why similar: Steampunk 31% ★, Military 26.5%, War 23.3%, Physics 10.5%, Simulation 8.7%
- #54 Voxel Turf
69% matchVery Positive88% of 577 reviews2017
Dev: L Twigger
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 42.7% ★, Sandbox 24.3%, Open World 12.7%, Building 10.2%, Simulation 10.1%
- #55 Medieval Engineers
70% matchMixed52% of 7,324 reviews2015
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!
Why similar: Destruction 25.4%, Building 21.8%, Sandbox 17.9%, Physics 13.2%, Open World 9.7%
- #56 Brickadia
63% 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: Vehicular Combat 31.2%, Sandbox 24.1%, Building 23.2%, Physics 20.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%