Games Like Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time

Bob has crashed on a strange planet, lost a bunch of parts for his ship and above all, is late for work! Find the lost parts and rebuild your ship along the way to solve challenging, physics-based puzzles. You can build your ship any way you like in the ship builder – try to find the coolest ship-design for the puzzle at hand!

Why similar: Adventure 43.7%, Indie 35.9%, Puzzle 20.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares a very similar focus on physics-based construction and vehicle building to solve platforming puzzles.

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 39.8%, Casual 34.3%, Indie 25.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same steampunk aesthetic while challenging players with intricate, logic-based mechanical puzzles.

Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!

Why similar: Indie 36.7%, Puzzle 32.2%, Adventure 31.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title is a perfect match for the time-manipulation mechanics and puzzle-platforming style found in Doc Clock.

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: Puzzle 100%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at physics-based construction, allowing you to build complex machines to complete varied objectives.

A carefully created world with unique environments and an engrossing atmosphere, Unmechanical offers over 30 unique puzzles of exploration and adventure!

Why similar: Adventure 27.3%, Casual 27.2%, Indie 22.8%, Puzzle 22.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines physics-based puzzles with a unique, atmospheric platforming experience.

Crazy Machines 2 is packed with all new features to help you create your wackiest "Rube Goldberg-style" contraptions yet! All new elements, plus an amazing 3D physics engine lets you craft even more complex gadgets and effects.

Why similar: Casual 64.2%, Puzzle 35.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep physics-based puzzle construction that mirrors the invention-heavy gameplay of the seed title.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 42.5%, Indie 32.2%, Casual 25.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic physics-based puzzle game that emphasizes structural integrity and creative problem solving.

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: Puzzle 64.3%, Indie 35.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the core mechanic of building bizarre, physics-driven machines to overcome obstacles.

Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Why similar: Casual 30.9%, Puzzle 28.3%, Adventure 26.3%, Indie 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a rich, hand-drawn steampunk world filled with clever mechanical puzzles.

This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Why similar: Puzzle 46.3%, Indie 37.8%, Casual 11.8%, Adventure 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a seminal puzzle-platformer that masterfully integrates time-manipulation as its primary gameplay mechanic.

Explore a fantastic vision of the Victorian era in The Clockwork Man, an epic hidden-object game.

Why similar: Casual 63.4%, Indie 36.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title leans into the steampunk aesthetic with a focus on hidden-object and mechanical puzzle-solving.

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: Puzzle 65%, Indie 35%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a satisfying physics-based building experience that requires logical planning and structural engineering.

Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Why similar: Adventure 35.9%, Puzzle 28.7%, Indie 23.1%, Casual 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features physics-based puzzle-platforming where players must use environmental objects to progress.

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: Adventure 59.5%, Indie 40.5%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game allows for extensive machine building and creative engineering in a physics-driven world.

Have you ever been cloned? Ever wonder what it would be like to be half chicken? Half monkey? Half frog? Well, wonder no more when you play Cloning Clyde. As Clyde, or one of his clones, work your way through the levels of the nefarious Dupliclone, Inc. building.

Why similar: Casual 61.2%, Indie 38.8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses unique character-based mechanics to solve environmental challenges.

Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

Why similar: Puzzle 83.4%, Adventure 16.6%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential physics-based puzzle game that rewards creative thinking and spatial awareness.

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: Casual 41.3%, Puzzle 31.4%, Indie 27.3%

Why You'll Like It: It allows players to draw objects into existence to solve physics-based puzzles, similar to Doc Clock's invention system.

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 You'll Like It: It provides a robust construction toolkit for building custom robots to navigate complex environments.

Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.

Why similar: Adventure 42%, Puzzle 35.2%, Indie 11.4%, Casual 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: The game relies on quirky, physics-based character movement and environmental interaction to solve puzzles.

Discover the world of light physics: play with lasers, prisms, mirrors, magnets and dozens of other optical devices. Explore the world of Optika with Prof. Opticus and his assistant, Sofia! Research and complete more than one hundred challenging puzzles!

Why similar: Casual 42.4%, Adventure 27.2%, Indie 23.9%, Puzzle 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses physics-based light manipulation to solve puzzles in a casual, indie-friendly format.

Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...

Why similar: Puzzle 85.9%, Casual 6.4%, Adventure 4.9%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful, steampunk-inspired puzzle game that emphasizes exploration and mechanical repair.

A relaxing puzzle game in which you explore 3D dioramas, solve puzzles and save cats lost in time! Crazy, right?!

Why similar: Casual 35%, Puzzle 28%, Adventure 23%, Indie 14%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing puzzle game that involves manipulating 3D dioramas, sharing the casual charm of the seed game.

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: Indie 52%, Adventure 48%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines crafting and building with physics-based exploration in a 2D environment.

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: Indie 48.6%, Puzzle 25.9%, Casual 25.5%

Why You'll Like It: This physics-based puzzle game is all about building elaborate chain-reaction machines.

Bridge Constructor Medieval turns back the clock a few centuries to the time of knights and castles. Build sturdy bridges to supply your city with provisions - or cunningly constructed bridges that collapse under the weight of attacking troops, sending the horde of enemies into the abyss below.

Why similar: Casual 55.5%, Indie 31.7%, Puzzle 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a fun, physics-based building challenge with a distinct historical theme.

The Watchmaker is an action adventure set in a strange steampunk world of giant clock mechanisms, where time has gone mad. Join Alexander, a clock tower keeper, on his quest to restore time to its natural rhythm!

Why similar: Adventure 42.8%, Indie 33.6%, Puzzle 23.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D platformer set in a clockwork world that emphasizes time-based mechanics and environmental puzzles.

Flibbius McDoogle and the Mysterious Flying Machine is a short adventure puzzle game. Use your wits, creativity and puzzle solving ability to help Flibbius take to the skies!

Why similar: Casual 34.9%, Adventure 31.4%, Puzzle 23.5%, Indie 10.1%

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 61.7%, Indie 38.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building automated assembly lines, appealing to the engineering-minded player.

Strike is inadvertently transported into the past while attempting to repair a mysterious, abandoned clock tower. Endeavoring to return to the future, Strike must fix both the time machine and the island’s dysfunctional family who are responsible for much of the clock’s disrepair.

Why similar: Casual 38.6%, Adventure 34.7%, Indie 26.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a lighthearted adventure with time-travel elements that mirror the whimsical tone of the seed game.

Patch me if you can is a puzzle adventure where you dive into a game world and manipulate objects however you want. Equip blocks to shrink boulders, move the sun, and thwart Lord's conspiracy. This broken world needs your 'patch'!

Why similar: Casual 37%, Puzzle 28.4%, Adventure 20.9%, Indie 13.6%

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: Casual 55.9%, Indie 44.1%

January 21, 1793, Revolutionaries are about to guillotine King Louis XVI of France. Can you save him and change history?

Why similar: Casual 39.9%, Adventure 24.8%, Indie 24.8%, Puzzle 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that requires timing and environmental interaction to succeed.

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: Casual 55.4%, Puzzle 44.6%

A game where you play as a slightly confused bear trying to assemble the ultimate meal no matter who tries to get in your way. Relax and fish, visit the grocery store, escape bureaucracy, and more on your way to achieve enlightenment via sandwich.

Why similar: Casual 55.5%, Adventure 44.5%

Create futuristic designs in the fantastic world of Steampunk.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Create crazy, yet functional, custom vehicles to solve missions with your own unique style!

Why similar: Adventure 60%, Puzzle 40%

Cranium Conundrum is a physics-based puzzle platformer taking place in the dream worlds that you create!

Why similar: Casual 42.2%, Adventure 32.7%, Indie 25.1%

A VR puzzle-automation game. Create intricate clockwork contraptions out of your own clones and restore life to an ancient tree using automation, a collection of rare plants from across the galaxy and a team of clockwork gardeners.

Why similar: Adventure 61.9%, Puzzle 38.1%

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: Puzzle 100%

Experience the wonder of discovery as you rebuild a crumbling kingdom!

Why similar: Casual 76.3%, Adventure 13.4%, Indie 10.3%

Gather crystals, repair/run crafting facilities, upgrade your spaceship, build machines, explore the open world, find your way back to mother earth.

Why similar: Puzzle 53.3%, Adventure 46.7%

Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.

Why similar: Adventure 61%, Indie 39%

Clockwork is a time-bending puzzle-platformer that tells the story of Atto, a lonely mechanical boy in the great city of Watchtower. Explore the city, discover its mysterious past, control time and fight terrifying boss battles. Clockwork features over 60+ hand-drawn, steampunk-inspired levels.

Why similar: Casual 41.6%, Adventure 33.7%, Indie 24.7%

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: Casual 45.3%, Indie 27.7%, Puzzle 27%

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: Casual 52.9%, Indie 25.3%, Puzzle 21.7%

Launch into a chaotic spaceship adventure: bend the rules of physics, experiment with unusual gadgets and toss everything around. With each journey, you will have limited time to reveal the mysteries aboard your solar punk spaceship - how much will you discover before you arrive home?

Why similar: Adventure 38.3%, Puzzle 35.8%, Indie 25.9%

Grow arms and legs to transform into a snake, spider, butterfly, or fifty-legged horror - anything you can imagine. Control your creations in a fumblecore dash to solve each puzzle. Learn to swing through the trees, climb sheer cliffs, or even fly.

Why similar: Puzzle 61.5%, Indie 38.5%

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: Indie 27.9%, Casual 26.4%, Puzzle 25%, Adventure 20.7%

Waddle and fly as a duck in space! Explore every corner of the galaxy and find curious creatures and materials along the way. Craft gadgets, upgrade your spaceship, and get cozy in this relaxing adventure.

Why similar: Casual 40.3%, Adventure 34.7%, Indie 25.1%

A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.

Why similar: Casual 43.3%, Puzzle 38.3%, Indie 18.5%

Step into the role of the Wunderdoktor, a traveling doctor whose daily work is to cure rare and exotic diseases. Explore a world full of quackery, ghosts and addictive potions.

Why similar: Casual 46.3%, Puzzle 23.5%, Indie 16.1%, Adventure 14.2%

unWorded is an innovative Narrative Puzzle Game where everything is built from letters. Use your imagination to create objects by assembling letters together and discover the story of a writer hospitalized after a serious accident...

Why similar: Adventure 55.5%, Indie 44.5%

Travel the world amassing power in order to create the ultimate yogurt commercial of all time in this sandbox puzzle adventure game.

Why similar: Adventure 40.6%, Puzzle 30.5%, Indie 28.9%

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: Casual 49.1%, Indie 30.1%, Puzzle 20.8%

Race against the clock to defeat the angry mobs that want to burn you out. Grab virtually anything -- sand dunes, animals, buildings, mountaintops. Then throw everything in your cauldron and turn it into unstoppable engines of pixellated 16-bit terror!

Why similar: Casual 60.6%, Indie 39.4%

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: Puzzle 100%

Bridge Constructor Playground offers people of all ages an introduction to the topic of “bridge building”. This game gives you the freedom to let your creative side run riot – nothing is impossible. Across 30 innovative levels you have to build bridges over deep valleys, canals or rivers.

Why similar: Casual 57.6%, Indie 32.2%, Puzzle 10.2%

This is a build sandbox game We have hundreds of elements for your choice We offer a variety of materials in building their ideal architectural works for you We will also open survival mode in the future

Why similar: Adventure 56.6%, Indie 43.4%

Take Storm on a wonderful adventure in his magical teacup. Storm's brother Cloud has created an amazing dream-like world for you to explore!

Why similar: Casual 60.6%, Indie 39.4%

Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.

Why similar: Casual 43.3%, Indie 26.5%, Puzzle 19.1%, Adventure 11.1%