- #1 Short Circuit VR
97% matchVery Positive82% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: Stefan BauwensPub: N/A
Windows
Short Circuit VR is an electronics lab simulator in Virtual Reality. You can build your own electronic circuits with the components provided, learn basic electronics by completing challenges and just have fun while experimenting and making awesome projects!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #2 Electronics Puzzle Lab
96% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Sagitta Studios
Windows
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: Simulation 54.8%, Education 45.2%
- #3 Virtual Circuit Board
95% matchVery Positive93% of 302 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie Foundry
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.
Why similar: Simulation 55.4%, Education 44.6%
- #4 PC Virtual LAB
96% matchMostly Negative37% of 120 reviews2022
Dev: XRAI LABPub: Universidad de Burgos
Windows
PC Virtual Lab is a video game to improve learning in basic computer concepts.
Why similar: Simulation 56.1%, Education 43.9%
- #5 CRUMB Circuit Simulator
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 716 reviews2022
Dev: Mike Bushell
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator
Why similar: Simulation 64.7%, Education 35.3%
- #6 Electrician Simulator
93% matchVery Positive80% of 3,976 reviews2022
Dev: Take IT Studio!Pub: Gaming Factory
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Take on the electrician role and learn the profession's basics! Install sockets, repair worn-out equipment, assemble broken appliances, replace light bulbs, and lay wires at your customers' homes. Be sure to check everything twice, with electricity there are no jokes!
Why similar: Simulation 54.1%, Education 45.9%
- #7 Logic World
92% matchVery Positive94% of 349 reviews2021
Dev: Mouse Hat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
Why similar: Education 54.8%, Simulation 45.2%
- #8 Electrician Simulator - First Shock
91% matchVery Positive80% of 1,884 reviews2022
Dev: Take IT Studio!Pub: Gaming Factory
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Learn the ropes from your Dad to become an electrician. Repair and assemble sockets, panels, strips, plugs, chandeliers and even change light bulbs. Oh... and don't mix up the wires! Results might be shocking.
Why similar: Simulation 54.4%, Education 45.6%
- #9 Retro Gadgets
90% matchVery Positive90% of 505 reviews2022
Dev: Licorice ehf
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 60.7 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Education 50.8%, Simulation 49.2%
- #10 Sand:box
89% matchVery Positive94% of 1,486 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Simulation 58.1%, Education 41.9%
- #11 Ludwig
91% matchMixed47% of 68 reviews2014
Dev: ovos
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Join Ludwig on an exciting journey through the world of physics. Find out how energy is created from fire, water, wind and sun and use them cleverly to protect the Robotronics on Unitron against the impending energy collapse! Ludwig is a new type of learning game, which not only conveys knowledge, but is also really fun to play!
Why similar: Simulation 66.8%, Education 33.2%
- #12 Electronics Store Simulator
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Digital MelodyPub: Games Incubator
Windows
Open your own electronics store and grow it from a small shop into a modern technology hub. Manage deliveries, prices, and store equipment, take care of customers, expand the product range, and become a master in the world of electronics retail!
Why similar: Simulation 64.9%, Education 35.1%
- #13 Hard Chip
87% matchVery Positive92% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Elorth
Windows
Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.
Why similar: Simulation 55.3%, Education 44.7%
- #14 PC Building Simulator
86% matchVery Positive94% of 52,392 reviews2019
Dev: Claudiu KissPub: The Irregular Corporation
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.
Why similar: Simulation 55%, Education 45%
- #15 Vehicle Simulator
88% matchVery Positive88% of 277 reviews2015
Dev: Ilan Papini
Windows
Vehicle Simulator is an open world flying/sailing simulator with accurate physics and dynamics, simulating well the various boats, planes and land vehicles included. The game allows the user to modify and experiment with scenery making and vehicle design by way of extreme modability, with a large library of existing mods and add-ons.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #16 The Powder Toy
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,488 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 75.3%, Education 24.7%
- #17 Wired
86% matchVery Positive93% of 110 reviews2018
Dev: University of Cambridge Engineering Department
Windows · Mac
Wire up electrical circuits and make your way through a derelict building to keep your appointment with a mysterious professor who lives at the top.
Why similar: Education 100%
- #18 ServiceIT: You can do IT
83% matchMixed60% of 582 reviews2025
Dev: picture4uPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
⚡️Fix electronics 📈manage firm 💻challenge the hacker... ServiceIT is a simulation game where you run a full-service IT company to engage in tasks like diagnosing, repairing equipment, network infiltration, programming, server management while an Anonymous hacker keeps sabotaging it all.
Why similar: Simulation 53.6%, Education 46.4%
- #19 Project Chemistry
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 212 reviews2021
Dev: Ata TürkoğluPub: Espale Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 26.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.
Why similar: Education 51.8%, Simulation 48.2%
- #20 World of Guns: VR
85% matchMostly Negative38% of 87 reviews2019
Dev: Noble Empire Corp.
Windows
World of Guns: VR lets you delve into the inner workings of guns from the largest gears to the smallest screws now in VR
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #21 SHENZHEN I/O
82% matchVery Positive95% of 4,421 reviews2016
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Simulation 61.1%, Education 38.9%
- #22 Plasma
80% matchVery Positive90% of 1,062 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #23 IL DIVINO: Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling in VR
81% matchVery Positive95% of 192 reviews2019
Dev: Christopher Evans
Windows
Step onto Michelangelo’s scaffold to learn about how he painted the ceiling, or enter a Vatican conservator’s mobile aerial platform to see the ceiling up close and learn about the controversial cleaning. Over 100 clickable elements about Michelangelo’s work.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #24 Data Center
78% matchVery Positive89% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Waseku
Windows
Build, cable, and automate. Assemble racks, servers, and switches, connect enough capacity for each app, earn money from processed data, and unlock gear and bigger customers with XP and reputation. Follow colored data packets as your center comes to life.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #25 Chroma Lab
81% matchVery Positive96% of 327 reviews2017
Dev: Sean Tann
Windows
Chroma Lab is a VR particle physics sandbox. Surround yourself with hundreds of thousands of colorful particles that stick together like a fluid which you can interact with using a variety of tools.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #26 Beat.School: DJ Simulator
82% matchMixed54% of 90 reviews2019
Dev: NonLinear Educating Inc.
Windows · Mac
Beat.School is an interactive DJ simulator that lets you gain the skills you need to succeed as a performing artist. Featuring photo-realistic versions of popular DJ gear, Beat.School let's you practice DJing right from the comfort of your own computer.
Why similar: Simulation 86.6%, Education 13.4%
- #27 Milling machine simulator
79% matchVery Positive87% of 168 reviews2022
Dev: Igor FrankPub: UI-Games
Windows
Milling machine simulator will inspire novices and experts alike. Realistic physics and movements allow you to familiarize yourself with the machine in a 3D workshop setting. Enjoy playing around, learning and prototyping in Free milling mode. Or challenge yourself in Career mode.
Why similar: Simulation 54.2%, Education 45.8%
- #28 EmuDevz
77% matchVery Positive89% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: [r]labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in real time, learn 6502 assembly, debug test ROMs, and have fun with the included homebrew games!
Why similar: Simulation 55.2%, Education 44.8%
- #29 Puzzletronics Analog Eletronics
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 68 reviews2021
Dev: Naoka Games
Windows
Puzzletronics Analog Eletronics is a minimalist puzzle-style game. In this game you will have the experience of moving pieces to form an electronic circuit, while listening to a calm and relaxing soundtrack.
Why similar: Education 100%
- #30 IT Specialist Simulator
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 322 reviews2025
Dev: Pixel Team RED
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!
Why similar: Simulation 52.8%, Education 47.2%
- #31 JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 349 reviews2025
Dev: Prof. SchererPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Why similar: Education 51.9%, Simulation 48.1%
- #32 Realistic Tower Destruction
78% matchMixed65% of 51 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 100%
- #33 Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: Dim Bulb Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to the Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking. We're happy to have you! Explore an interactive exhibition of meticulously recreated lockpicking minigames from throughout video game history.
Why similar: Education 50.3%, Simulation 49.7%
- #34 Device Doctor Simulator 2024
75% matchMixed64% of 177 reviews2025
Dev: Tenacity GamesPub: First Break Labs
Windows
Device Doctor Simulator 2024 offers an interactive and detailed simulation experience of becoming a technology repair expert. In this unique simulation, dive into the complex world of various digital devices, including smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches.
Why similar: Education 59%, Simulation 41%
- #35 Turn on the light - Jigsaw
74% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2023
Dev: Thedox Games
Windows · Linux
A minimalist game about connecting circuits, solving jigsaw puzzles and mind-bending recursive circuits.
Why similar: Education 100%
- #36 SirKwitz
74% matchVery Positive94% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: Predict Edumedia
Windows
Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!
Why similar: Simulation 51.2%, Education 48.8%
- #37 Gadgeteer
75% matchVery Positive97% of 121 reviews2020
Dev: Metanaut
Windows
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: Simulation 100%
- #38 ACTION SANDBOX
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,004 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%
- #39 CipherCraft: Cyber Guardian Introduction
71% matchMixed68% of 94 reviews2024
Dev: picture4u
Windows
Immerse yourself in the strange world of CipherCraft: CGI, where you'll perform repairs, network infiltration, programming, server management, active server administration, and meticulous assembly and cleaning of computer components. Win against an Anonymous hacker who keeps sabotaging the company.
Why similar: Simulation 56.8%, Education 43.2%
- #40 The Body VR: Journey Inside a Cell
73% matchVery Positive92% of 271 reviews2016
Dev: The Body VR LLC
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
The Body VR: Journey Inside a Cell is an educational virtual reality experience that takes the user inside the human body.
Why similar: Simulation 66%, Education 34%
- #41 Turing Complete
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,092 reviews2021
Dev: LevelHead
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Education 51%, Simulation 49%
- #42 Go Outside Simulator
69% matchVery Positive96% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: Aaron DeVriesPub: SimRed
Windows
For when you can't or won't go outside, go outside from the comfort of inside. Explore different environments, look for hidden Easter eggs, chill and relax in virtual worlds. Go Outside Simulator is a for fun game used to help in the future development of real games and useful programs.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #43 Prime Mover
71% matchVery Positive89% of 214 reviews2018
Dev: 4Bit Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
Why similar: Simulation 75.1%, Education 24.9%
- #44 Sophie's Safecracking Simulator
70% matchVery Positive97% of 68 reviews2021
Dev: Sophie Houlden
Windows · Mac · Linux
Crack simulated safe locks using real techniques!
Why similar: Simulation 65.5%, Education 34.5%
- #45 Marble Run
72% matchMixed66% of 56 reviews2017
Dev: PS Games
Windows · Mac
Marble Run - is a fantastic educational toy that provides hours of fun while combining basic learning skills with coordination and organizational skill.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #46 Excavator Simulator VR
71% matchMixed57% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: MrJohnWeez
Windows
Ready for work? Excavator Simulator VR gives a short immersive experience of how to operate a 90 tonne excavator from the comfort of your couch. Drive and dig anywhere or complete the tutorials. It is all up to you.
Why similar: Simulation 82.5%, Education 17.5%
- #47 4D Toys
70% matchVery Positive87% of 270 reviews2017
Dev: mtb design works, inc.
Windows
4D Toys: A box of toys from the fourth dimension.
Why similar: Simulation 75.8%, Education 24.2%
- #48 My Lil' Donut
70% matchVery Positive88% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Isaac CohenPub: Tool of North America
Windows
Before you lies your Donut. You can pull and twist it, snap and swish it. You have a whole arsenal of settings, presets and tools to play with. You can freeze it, relax it, save any contortion to be viewed later. You can even rip it apart so it returns to the void from which it came.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #49 FWsim - Fireworks Display Simulator
66% matchVery Positive98% of 127 reviews2023
Dev: Lukas Trötzmüller
Windows
Light the sky and express your creativity with the sandbox simulator FWsim – Fireworks Display Simulator! Enjoy an easy-to-master professional software used by fireworks experts all over the world, and use your favorite music and 3D iconic landmarks to create unique, unforgettable moments.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #50 MHRD
68% matchVery Positive89% of 433 reviews2017
Dev: Funghisoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.
Why similar: Simulation 69.6%, Education 30.4%
- #51 Powerful Courses
66% matchVery Positive100% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: Serhii KhramovPub: General Script Studio
Windows
A good game for learning and self-development. Here you will find a lot of interesting and useful things.
Why similar: Simulation 68.4%, Education 31.6%
- #52 Space Simulation Toolkit
67% matchVery Positive81% of 475 reviews2020
Dev: Pavel Kudinov
Windows
Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.
Why similar: Simulation 72.4%, Education 27.6%
- #53 Universe Sandbox
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,587 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Why similar: Simulation 66.3%, Education 33.7%
- #54 Aviassembly
60% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,303 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 6.9 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: Simulation 100%
- #55 RoboCo
62% matchVery Positive88% of 204 reviews2026
Dev: Filament Games
Windows
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
Why similar: Simulation 54%, Education 46%
- #56 Virtual Villagers Origins 2
69% matchMixed48% of 356 reviews2018
Dev: Last Day Of Work
Windows · Mac
Craft, build, farm, breed and solve puzzles in a village right on your computer!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #57 ComPressure
67% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Charlie Brej
Windows · Mac · Linux
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Education 61.8%, Simulation 38.2%