- #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 Positive86% of 72 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 54.5%, Education 45.5%
- #3 Virtual Circuit Board
95% matchVery Positive93% of 305 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie Foundry
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 20.7 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 55.2%, Education 44.8%
- #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 55.8%, Education 44.2%
- #5 CRUMB Circuit Simulator
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 742 reviews2022
Dev: Mike Bushell
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator
Why similar: Simulation 64.5%, Education 35.5%
- #6 Electrician Simulator
93% matchVery Positive80% of 4,186 reviews2022
Dev: Take IT Studio!Pub: Gaming Factory
Windows
Median: 3.4 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 53.9%, Education 46.1%
- #7 Logic World
92% matchVery Positive94% of 353 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: Simulation 51%, Education 49%
- #8 Electrician Simulator - First Shock
91% matchVery Positive80% of 1,888 reviews2022
Dev: Take IT Studio!Pub: Gaming Factory
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.5 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 54.1%, Education 45.9%
- #9 PC Building Simulator
90% matchVery Positive94% of 52,512 reviews2019
Dev: Claudiu KissPub: The Irregular Corporation
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 38.2 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 54.8%, Education 45.2%
- #10 Retro Gadgets
89% matchVery Positive90% of 509 reviews2022
Dev: Licorice ehf
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 61.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Education 51%, Simulation 49%
- #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 66.5%, Education 33.5%
- #12 Electronics Store Simulator
89% matchMixed69% of 70 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 64.6%, Education 35.4%
- #13 Hard Chip
87% matchVery Positive93% of 57 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%, Education 45%
- #14 Vehicle Simulator
88% matchVery Positive88% of 280 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%
- #15 The Powder Toy
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,628 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 75.1%, Education 24.9%
- #16 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%
- #17 Sand:box
83% matchVery Positive94% of 1,594 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Simulation 57.2%, Education 42.8%
- #18 Project Chemistry
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 215 reviews2021
Dev: Ata TürkoğluPub: Espale Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 26.1 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 52.1%, Simulation 47.9%
- #19 SHENZHEN I/O
84% matchVery Positive95% of 4,452 reviews2016
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Simulation 60.8%, Education 39.2%
- #20 World of Guns: VR
86% matchMostly Negative38% of 88 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 Plasma
81% matchVery Positive90% of 1,093 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #22 IL DIVINO: Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling in VR
82% 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%
- #23 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 86.4%, Education 13.6%
- #24 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%
- #25 EmuDevz
78% matchVery Positive89% of 61 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 54.9%, Education 45.1%
- #26 Data Center
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 705 reviews2026
Dev: Waseku
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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%
- #27 Milling machine simulator
79% matchVery Positive88% of 181 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 53.9%, Education 46.1%
- #28 JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 375 reviews2025
Dev: Prof. SchererPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 52.2%, Simulation 47.8%
- #29 Puzzletronics Analog Eletronics
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 69 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 ServiceIT: You can do IT
76% matchMixed59% of 641 reviews2025
Dev: picture4uPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
⚡️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 53.9%, Education 46.1%
- #31 Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking
78% 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 50.6%, Simulation 49.4%
- #32 Realistic Tower Destruction
79% 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 Turn on the light - Jigsaw
75% matchVery Positive95% of 132 reviews2023
Dev: Thedox Games
Windows · Linux
A minimalist game about connecting circuits, solving jigsaw puzzles and mind-bending recursive circuits.
Why similar: Education 100%
- #34 SirKwitz
75% 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 50.9%, Education 49.1%
- #35 Gadgeteer
76% 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%
- #36 Turing Complete
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,204 reviews2021
Dev: LevelHead
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Education 51.8%, Simulation 48.2%
- #37 ACTION SANDBOX
74% 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%
- #38 IT Specialist Simulator
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2025
Dev: Pixel Team RED
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 52.4%, Education 47.6%
- #39 Device Doctor Simulator 2024
71% matchMixed65% of 180 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 59.3%, Simulation 40.7%
- #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 65.7%, Education 34.3%
- #41 MHRD
72% matchVery Positive89% of 439 reviews2017
Dev: Funghisoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 68.8%, Education 31.2%
- #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 Marble Run
73% 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%
- #44 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 82.3%, Education 17.7%
- #45 Home Design 3D
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,719 reviews2015
Dev: Anuman Interactive / Microids
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Home Design 3D is the reference interior design and home decor application, allowing you to draw, create and visualize your floor plans and home ideas.Design your dream projects simply and easily, in 2D and/or 3D. Get a good idea of your next home or simply have fun!
Why similar: Education 55.4%, Simulation 44.6%
- #46 4D Toys
70% matchVery Positive88% of 273 reviews2017
Dev: mtb design works, inc.
Windows
4D Toys: A box of toys from the fourth dimension.
Why similar: Simulation 75.5%, Education 24.5%
- #47 Sophie's Safecracking Simulator
69% matchVery Positive97% of 68 reviews2021
Dev: Sophie Houlden
Windows · Mac · Linux
Crack simulated safe locks using real techniques!
Why similar: Simulation 65.3%, Education 34.7%
- #48 Infinite Turtles
68% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Charlie Brej
Windows · Mac · Linux
Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle. Your completed creations become components to solve future challenges. As you design a circuit and can place your design within it, where there is a smaller you doing the same, and so on to infinity.
Why similar: Education 66.3%, Simulation 33.7%
- #49 World of Contraptions
68% matchVery Positive87% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: JCP Games Studio
Windows
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: Simulation 57.9%, Education 42.1%
- #50 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%
- #51 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%
- #52 Aviassembly
61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,776 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: Simulation 100%
- #53 Space Simulation Toolkit
67% matchVery Positive81% of 484 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 72.1%, Education 27.9%
- #54 RoboCo
62% matchVery Positive88% of 206 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 53.8%, Education 46.2%
- #55 Universe Sandbox
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 31,223 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 23.8 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 56.4%, Education 43.6%
- #56 Fireworks Simulator
69% matchMixed58% of 271 reviews2014
Dev: Reality Twist GmbHPub: rondomedia GmbH
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 21%
Fireworks fascination - All eyes are on the sky, the music starts, the first spectacular effects explode high in the air, open mouths, loud "Ooohs" and "Aaahs" from the crowd. Anyone who's ever witnessed live fireworks knows just how spellbinding a well put-together display can be. Attention, all firework fans!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #57 Powerful Courses
65% 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 68.2%, Education 31.8%