60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Physics, Simulation, Puzzle.
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!
World of Contraptions
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.
Poly Bridge 2
The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!
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: Building 17%, Physics 15.8%, Education 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 7.9%
The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!
Why similar: Building 26%, Physics 19.7%, Education 10.5%, Sandbox 10.3%, Simulation 10%
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: Building 16.4%, Physics 16%, Education 9.9%, Level Editor 9.2%, Puzzle Platformer 9%
Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.
Why similar: Physics 21.8%, Building 21.2%, Puzzle 13.5%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 12.9%
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: Building 28.3%, Physics 21.4%, Simulation 10.9%, Education 9.5%, Puzzle 9.5%
The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.
Why similar: Physics 21.6%, Building 20.9%, Level Editor 15.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Puzzle 12.1%
Crazy Machines 3 is the latest, greatest, most amazing and craziest part of the series and fascinates once more with physic-based puzzles. Build your own crazy machines and share your awesomeness across the world thanks to the Steam® Workshop.
Why similar: Physics 31.7%, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 15.8%, Puzzle 15.2%, Sandbox 10.5%
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: Physics 37.7%, Strategy 31.1%, Puzzle 30.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Physics 18.3%, Education 15.7%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Simulation 11.4%
Toxtronyx have now realised their game “Bridge2!” on the powerful Unity engine. Very realistic visuals and lots of new features as well as the possibility to create one’s own levels helped create a completely new game.
Why similar: Building 26.8%, Physics 24.4%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 14.1%, Sandbox 13.6%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Building 22.7%, Education 20.6%, Automation 12.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%
Bridge! lets you be a structural engineer and a construction manager in one. Master the mystery to bridge with a limited budget and limited numbers of parts to divide and to ensure a smooth operation.
Why similar: Building 28.1%, Simulation 20.6%, Strategy 19.2%, Physics 15.2%, Sandbox 12.4%
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: Physics 30.4%, Building 27.9%, Simulation 27.6%, Puzzle 13.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
Why similar: Physics 13%, Sandbox 11.1%, Level Editor 10.9%, Puzzle Platformer 9.7%, Automation 8.9%
Build A Bridge... and Get Over It!The Bridge Project is the successor to the original and award-winning Bridge Builder simulation, all amateur designers and structural engineers finally have a new challenge on their PC.
Why similar: Building 39.2%, Simulation 31.8%, Physics 21.8%, Puzzle 6.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Why similar: Building 17.6%, Education 15.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Automation 12.1%, Sandbox 11%
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.
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: Building 20%, Education 15.3%, Physics 15.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Automation 11.4%
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
Why similar: Building 26.7%, Physics 23.4%, Automation 16.1%, Puzzle 10.7%, Logic 8.4%
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: Physics 48.8%, Puzzle 28.3%, Sandbox 6.4%, Level Editor 5.1%, 2D 3.8%
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 30%, Physics 24.4%, Building 18.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Puzzle 13.1%
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: Education 20%, Physics 19.8%, Building 18.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 12.2%
Build amazing marble contraptions with IncrediMarble! Enjoy idle incremental tycoon sandbox simulation gameplay with the best physics Unity can offer. It's like that old toy you had as a kid!
Why similar: Building 30.1%, Physics 25.1%, Sandbox 20%, Simulation 13.5%, Relaxing 7.6%
Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!
Why similar: Building 23%, Level Editor 13.7%, Puzzle Platformer 13.5%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 11.4%
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: Building 20.8%, Education 18.4%, Sandbox 14.5%, Logic 11.5%, Puzzle 11.1%
The best just got better! Rediscover your engineering creativity in this genre-defining bridge engineering and puzzle solving masterpiece.
Why similar: Building 27.3%, Physics 23.8%, Simulation 22.2%, Puzzle 15.4%, Level Editor 10.8%
Marble Run - is a fantastic educational toy that provides hours of fun while combining basic learning skills with coordination and organizational skill.
Why similar: Building 22.8%, Physics 20.5%, Puzzle Platformer 14.5%, Sandbox 14.2%, Level Editor 10%
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: Physics 27.9%, Building 22.1%, Simulation 19.2%, Sandbox 19.2%, Minimalist 5.4%
A creative building-like game, where the objective is to throw physics enabled objects to create structures to allow the objective of the level to be completed. Can be a very challenging puzzler or an easy, sit back and relax game. Includes built in Level Editor and extensive Multiplayer functionality.
Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Level Editor 23.6%, Strategy 20%, Simulation 16.7%, Puzzle 14.1%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Building 20.2%, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 15%, Automation 13.1%
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: Physics 41.6%, Puzzle 28.6%, Logic 18.9%, Building 10%, Singleplayer 1%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Building 26.6%, Education 25.1%, Sandbox 20.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Minimalist 4.6%
Sit back, relax and build puzzles to your heart's content. Assemble one of the many included puzzles, or add your own images. Customize size and shape of the pieces for any puzzle. Enjoy Classic mode or try out Zen mode for a new type of puzzle experience.
Why similar: Building 16.9%, Education 15.4%, Puzzle 14.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%
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: Sandbox 22.3%, Physics 22%, Simulation 20%, Building 18.3%, Education 12.2%
Start with an empty Chinese map, create, build a rail network with your own imagination and sophisticated design, help millions of people to reach where they want to go. Ready yourself as a lead rail engineer to make some challenging decisions along the way.
Why similar: Building 26.4%, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 15.1%, Puzzle 14.4%, Strategy 10.8%
Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Puzzle 22%, Logic 20.5%, Simulation 18.6%, Building 12.4%
Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.
Why similar: Building 33.6%, Simulation 32.3%, Sandbox 27.7%, 2D 5.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.
Why similar: Building 24.1%, Automation 13.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Puzzle 11.9%, Strategy 11.2%
Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.
Why similar: Education 22.3%, Building 19.9%, Automation 13.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Puzzle 10.4%
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: Building 24.8%, Physics 21.9%, Education 16.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Simulation 10.6%
Play with lasers and solve puzzles in Laser Attraction. Use reflection, refraction, dispersion and filtration to direct the laser beams, mix and separate colours, open doors, hit targets and complete puzzles.
Why similar: Physics 29.6%, Simulation 15%, Puzzle 14.8%, Education 12.6%, Minimalist 8.8%
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Why similar: Puzzle 27.9%, Automation 24.3%, Simulation 16.9%, Logic 13.3%, Building 10%
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: Building 22.5%, Physics 21.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Level Editor 12%, Simulation 11.4%
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: Education 30.1%, Simulation 19.7%, Puzzle 15.4%, Automation 11.9%, Physics 10.4%
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: Education 19.5%, Building 18.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Automation 11.4%, Simulation 11.3%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Building 27.7%, Automation 15.5%, Sandbox 15%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 13.3%
A cozy, nostalgic puzzle game where you build tracks to guide adorable miniature trains through bite-sized challenges. Solve clever brain teasers and rediscover the joy of your very first toy train set.
Why similar: Building 19.5%, Level Editor 12.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Automation 9.3%, Strategy 9.2%
A brick-building puzzle game. Assemble sets of increasing complexity, design your own, share with the community.
Why similar: Building 27.8%, Physics 27.4%, Sandbox 17.7%, Puzzle 13.8%, Simulation 8.5%
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 48.3%, Physics 19.6%, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 13.2%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Building 24.4%, Education 15.6%, Automation 14.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Logic 12.1%
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 21%, Physics 20.1%, Automation 14.5%, Logic 11.7%, Puzzle 11%
Build bridges, grow towers, terraform terrain, and fuel flying machines in the stunning followup to the multi-award winning World of Goo. The world is beautiful, dangerous, and evolving.
Why similar: Physics 38.9%, Building 38%, Puzzle 17.3%, 2D 5.6%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Rover Builder is a 3D engineering sim tasking you to create the right rover to complete the job. Unleash your creativity in the garage, building vehicles using an impressive array of parts, materials and machinery. Or try your hand at level editor - creating entire missions and levels from scratch!
Why similar: Building 25.1%, Physics 22.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Level Editor 13.7%, Simulation 11.7%
City-building experience reimagined as a simple relaxing puzzle game bringing the original Tile Cities to a new level
Why similar: Strategy 25.6%, Simulation 24.5%, Building 18.8%, Puzzle 13.3%, Minimalist 9.6%
The Qubit Factory is an open-ended puzzle game incorporating real-life concepts from the cutting-edge field of quantum computing. Design and build logic circuits that manipulate bits and qubits (quantum bits) to solve devious computational challenges!
Why similar: Simulation 19.9%, Physics 18.2%, Education 17.2%, Puzzle 16.3%, Automation 15.8%
Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.
Why similar: Physics 23%, Building 19.8%, Education 15.5%, Puzzle 13.2%, Simulation 11.2%
Try yourself as a PC builder and build your dream PC from 200+ real components!Complete different PC building and PC repair orders to upgrade your business: build a PC from zero, install popular OS', upgrade computers, install different programs and games, fix PC parts, and much more.
Why similar: Building 21.7%, Education 17.2%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 15.1%, Puzzle 11.2%
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: Building 24.6%, Physics 23.8%, Education 18.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Simulation 13%
Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters! Build contraptions to help every passenger reach their destination. Enjoy the sports by controlling your riders away from (or towards if you feel like it) peril!
Why similar: Building 27.5%, Physics 23.3%, Simulation 16.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Level Editor 10.3%
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: Simulation 79.8%, Puzzle 20.2%
