Games Like From the Depths

Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!

Why similar: Naval Combat 24.1% ★, Voxel 15% ★, Naval 12% ★, Gun Customization 8.5% ★, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest experience to From the Depths, focusing specifically on highly detailed naval vessel construction and physics-based combat.

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 30.3%, Space 22.5%, Survival 16.6%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Strategy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features deep ship-building mechanics where internal layout and system placement directly impact your combat performance.

Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!

Why similar: Naval Combat 26.8% ★, Vehicular Combat 21.1% ★, War 11.7%, Military 11.6%, RTS 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines modular airship construction with real-time tactical combat, mirroring the strategic depth found in From the Depths.

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 22.7% ★, Military 15.2%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, War 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers an incredibly deep tank-design experience with realistic armor geometry and internal component management.

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 34.6% ★, Sandbox 20.6%, Building 20.1%, Physics 14%, Survival 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on complex logic, microcontrollers, and physics-based vehicle systems makes it a perfect match for fans of technical engineering.

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: Vehicular Combat 22.9% ★, Military 16%, Building 15.6%, Artificial Intelligence 14.6%, Sandbox 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a robust aerodynamic simulation engine that rewards precise design and testing of custom aircraft.

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 24.3%, Sandbox 19%, Vehicular Combat 15.2% ★, Crafting 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A modular vehicle-building game that emphasizes scavenging parts and upgrading your combat machines to survive in an open world.

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 31.4% ★, Vehicular Combat 20.7% ★, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Physics 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based sandbox that challenges you to build intricate machines of war to destroy targets in a destructible environment.

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

Why similar: Voxel 25.7% ★, Vehicular Combat 21.7% ★, Building 18.1%, Sandbox 16.4%, Space 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: It allows for procedural ship building with a focus on tactical space combat and large-scale fleet management.

Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

Why similar: Building 22.5%, Military 20.6%, Physics 18.2%, Sandbox 17.7%, Multiplayer 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends physics-based base building with intense artillery combat, requiring careful structural planning and tactical weapon use.

Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.

Why similar: RTS 21.5%, Military 21.4%, War 20.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a realistic approach to naval combat in space, emphasizing sensor management, weapon ballistics, and tactical positioning.

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 19.2%, Sandbox 17%, Physics 14.7%, Space 14.3%, Survival 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A staple of the engineering genre, it offers voxel-based construction and complex mechanical systems in a space-faring environment.

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: RTS 31.7%, War 27.1%, Military 22.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the strategic management of a high-tech carrier and its fleet of autonomous vehicles in a persistent war zone.

A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Why similar: Building 35.4%, Sandbox 26.5%, Space 24.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Physics 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique modular ship-building system and emergent fleet combat in a 2D space environment.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Voxel 22.4% ★, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Space 10.5%, Crafting 10%

Why You'll Like It: It combines complex ship and base construction with survival elements, allowing for extensive exploration and combat.

In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.

Why similar: Building 28.6%, RTS 19.5%, Space 17.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A fleet-building RTS that lets you design your own ships from scratch, focusing on balancing cost and combat effectiveness.

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: Crafting 17.6%, Building 17%, Space 15.8%, Sandbox 14.9%, Physics 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the automated design of drones, requiring players to balance power, weight, and weapon systems for specific mission profiles.

Dieselpunk Wars is a vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 300 elements to build a war machine of your dreams. Construct vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat and test your skills!

Why similar: Naval Combat 15.8% ★, Naval 15.7% ★, Vehicular Combat 14.4% ★, Voxel 13.3% ★, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox environment for building vehicles with a focus on physics, destruction, and combat against massive enemies.

Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!

Why similar: Naval Combat 31% ★, Naval 22.9% ★, Military 10.8%, Building 9.6%, RTS 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated naval design game that focuses on the historical evolution of warships and their tactical application in combat.

Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.

Why similar: Voxel 24.9% ★, Building 22%, Sandbox 16.2%, Space 13.5%, Crafting 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features incredibly detailed ship building with a focus on internal wiring, piping, and structural integrity in a massive space setting.

Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

Why similar: RTS 32.8%, War 18.1%, Building 16.8%, Space 11.5%, Multiplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on RTS, it features large-scale combat and orbital mechanics that appeal to the strategic side of From the Depths.

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Why similar: Building 22.9%, Voxel 22.4% ★, Space 17.4%, Sandbox 17.3%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes advanced ship building with a focus on logic systems and functional components that bring your creations to life.

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: Co-op Campaign 27.5% ★, Vehicular Combat 16.9% ★, Space 11.5%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a creative sandbox for building vehicles with a focus on physics and logic blocks to solve complex challenges.

With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.

Why similar: RTS 56.6%, Strategy 18.2%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Simulation 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A highly tactical RTS with physics-based projectiles and terrain manipulation that rewards creative strategic thinking.

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 23.7%, Sandbox 18%, Crafting 16.8%, Physics 14.7%, Survival 13%

Why You'll Like It: A creative engineering sandbox that allows for the construction of complex moving machines using a robust logic and physics engine.

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 32.7%, Building 27.1%, Physics 19.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique strategic game that combines ship design with intense, physics-based naval combat in a harsh, atmospheric world.

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: Building 34.8%, Sandbox 27%, Physics 24.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Multiplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on mechanical engineering and physics-based building, allowing for the creation of intricate machines with moving parts.

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 similar: Artificial Intelligence 21.2%, Building 18.4%, Sandbox 16.4%, Crafting 15.6%, Physics 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep robotics customization, allowing you to build and program complex machines to navigate challenging environments.

Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.

Why similar: Building 19.4%, Sandbox 17.6%, Space 13.9%, Physics 13.7%, Survival 12.5%

The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!

Why similar: Voxel 24.3% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Space 18.8%, Building 15.4%, Crafting 8.2%

ShipCrafter is a naval sandbox simulation game. Build your ship, unlock new components and defeat increasingly powerful foes in the campaign !

Why similar: Naval 25.3% ★, Naval Combat 22.8% ★, Voxel 16.8% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 8%

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Voxel 20.6% ★, Building 18.7%, Sandbox 17.9%, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 10.7%

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: Building 24.4%, Sandbox 18.8%, Physics 14.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%

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 31.7% ★, Vehicular Combat 18.4% ★, Naval 17.2% ★, Building 10.9%, War 9.7%

Interstellar Rift is an open world starship simulator with an emphasis on ship construction and multi-player interaction. Survive in a hostile galaxy with your own custom designed and constructed starship. Invite other players to join your crew or fight them across the galaxy!

Why similar: Building 24.3%, Crafting 20.8%, Sandbox 20.2%, Space 15.1%, Survival 13.8%

The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.

Why similar: RTS 32.3%, Building 22.4%, War 14.8%, Space 13.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%

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 Combat 31.3% ★, Naval 21.7% ★, Sandbox 11%, Physics 9%, Building 7.8%

Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.

Why similar: Space 33%, Sandbox 25.3%, Building 17.7%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 10.6%

Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.

Why similar: RTS 38.1%, Space 24.8%, Strategy 22.1%, Simulation 15%

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Building 18.4%, Sandbox 16.2%, Crafting 16.2%, Physics 14.5%, Space 13.3%

Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics on intense battlefields, facing land, air and sea threats. Wage war against AI or other players with an array of potent weapons. Wield tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, capable of annihilating anything in their path.

Why similar: Military 31.3%, War 27.8%, Physics 16.8%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Simulation 9.2%

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: War 28.4%, Sandbox 27.4%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Physics 10.5%

Uncrewed is a real-time strategy game with the ability to design units from scratch. Unlike in more traditional RTS, units obey the laws of physics, making design choices especially important.

Why similar: RTS 24.5%, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 15.6%, Strategy 11%, Crafting 9%

Unleash your creativity, design your dreadnought with a variety of modules, and have complete control over the function and style of each module. Command your battleship with wisdom and decisiveness. Gallop in the vast galaxy and destroy all enemies.

Why similar: Building 29.6%, Sandbox 24%, Physics 20%, Space 14.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Building 18.8%, Sandbox 17.4%, Crafting 17.3%, Vehicular Combat 16.9% ★, Survival 12.6%

Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.7%, Building 22.7%, Physics 16.2%, Space 13%, Crafting 10.8%

Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!

Why similar: Sandbox 25.3%, Building 25%, Physics 16.8%, Gun Customization 15% ★, Multiplayer 13%

Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.

Why similar: Military 27.2%, War 22.5%, Sandbox 18.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.

Why similar: RTS 51.2%, War 19.1%, Strategy 16.5%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Sandbox 3.6%

Silica blends FPS and RTS in epic, photorealistic battles. Choose to fight on the ground or command from above as humans or aliens. Dive into thrilling multiplayer combat or master strategic command. Are you ready to survive and conquer?

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 36.7% ★, RTS 29.8%, Physics 13.6%, Multiplayer 12%, Strategy 8%

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: Building 33.5%, Multiplayer 22.9%, War 20.8%, Sandbox 15.8%, Strategy 4%

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Space 27%, Physics 23.1%, Sandbox 21.8%, Building 12.1%, Simulation 10.1%

The perfect blend of Action, Adventure and RTS. Begin your journey as the lowly captain of a small vessel. End as the commander of a threatening fleet. Rise to glory how you see fit. Trade, fight, recruit, grow, pillage, ally, destroy & conquer.

Why similar: Naval Combat 28.2% ★, Naval 22.2% ★, RTS 12.3%, Military 10.7%, War 10.6%

Command ships, submarines and aircraft in the South Pacific during WWII.

Why similar: Naval Combat 37.1% ★, Naval 34.8% ★, War 7.1%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 5.2%

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: Naval 22.4% ★, Building 19.4%, Sandbox 19.2%, Simulation 14.5%, Physics 13.1%

Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?

Why similar: Building 29.9%, Sandbox 23%, Crafting 17.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Physics 11.3%