- #1 Fantastic Contraption
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 272 reviews2016
Dev: Northway Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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: VR 38.8%, Physics 16.2%, Simulation 15.8%, Building 13.9%, Puzzle 10.7%
- #2 TrainerVR
96% matchVery Positive92% of 60 reviews2017
Dev: Sumalab
Windows
TrainerVR is a unique physics-based VR train construction game. In TrainerVR you can create from simple tracks to an elaborate rail network, just like the wooden piece game, but to the infinity and beyond, and drive trains inside your creations!
Why similar: VR 34.5%, Simulation 30.3%, Indie 12.6%, Physics 9.2%, Building 8.1%
- #3 4D Toys
96% matchVery Positive88% of 273 reviews2017
Dev: mtb design works, inc.
Windows
4D Toys: A box of toys from the fourth dimension.
Why similar: VR 41.4%, Simulation 36.6%, Indie 14.5%, Physics 7.5%
- #4 Short Circuit VR
95% matchVery Positive82% of 133 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 44.3%, VR 38.4%, Indie 17.3%
- #5 Realistic Tower Destruction
94% matchMixed65% of 52 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 51.2%, Indie 21.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Physics 9.6%, Building 7.7%
- #6 Chroma Lab
94% 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: VR 35.2%, Simulation 25.1%, Physics 14.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Indie 9.2%
- #7 Bridge It +
93% matchMixed70% of 146 reviews2013
Dev: Chronic LogicPub: Libredia Entertainment
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 31%
A stunning, beautiful world awaits as you take on the challenge of bridging the chasm. Can you solve the puzzles and avert disaster?
Why similar: Simulation 52.6%, Building 22.6%, Physics 17.4%, Puzzle 7.4%
- #8 World of Contraptions
91% 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 24%, Physics 22.1%, Sandbox 21.6%, Building 19.9%, Puzzle 12.5%
- #9 House Flipper VR
91% matchMixed50% of 384 reviews2020
Dev: Frozen Way
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Virtual makeovers were never more real! Thanks to VR technology, you will be able to single-handedly take care of ruined properties, gaining your clients' appreciation and satisfaction from a job well done! Put on your goggles, take a firm grip on the controllers and become a master of renovation!
Why similar: Simulation 38.3%, VR 28.6%, Indie 15.2%, Casual 6.7%, Building 5.7%
- #10 Primitier
89% matchVery Positive94% of 319 reviews2025
Dev: Ota Mato
Windows
Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.
Why similar: VR 45%, Sandbox 18.4%, Physics 17.8%, Simulation 13.9%, Indie 4.9%
- #11 RoboCo
87% matchVery Positive88% of 211 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 17.8%, VR 17.6%, Sandbox 17.5%, Physics 16.9%, Building 16%
- #12 Disassembly VR
90% matchMixed58% of 176 reviews2019
Dev: Khor Chin Heong
Windows
Disassembly and destruction physics sandbox simulator. Detailed models of objects and vehicles and their internal parts. Disassemble objects successfully to unlock new tools and weapons to use in sandbox mode. Fight evil mannequins with everything you got in physical combat!
Why similar: VR 33.4%, Simulation 17.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Physics 12.7%, Puzzle 8.6%
- #13 The Last Clockwinder
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 795 reviews2022
Dev: PontocoPub: Cyan Ventures
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: VR 55.4%, Simulation 26.5%, Puzzle 18.1%
- #14 Bridge Constructor
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,747 reviews2013
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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: Simulation 37.5%, Physics 19%, Building 14.6%, Puzzle 11.9%, Indie 10.6%
- #15 Pierhead Arcade 2
86% matchVery Positive84% of 151 reviews2021
Dev: Mechabit
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Pierhead Arcade is back with all new VR physics based arcade games to play!
Why similar: Simulation 35%, VR 29%, Indie 14.2%, Physics 7.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #16 Carpe Lucem - Seize The Light VR
86% matchVery Positive88% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Hammer LabsPub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows
Carpe Lucem challenges and entertains players by transferring classical 2D puzzles into the virtual space. It creates a whole new way of interacting and playing mind teasing puzzle games and it made nobody sick in hundreds of demos at trade shows. VR equipment such as HTC Vive or Oculus required.
Why similar: VR 59.3%, Indie 11.6%, Puzzle 8.8%, Simulation 8%, Physics 7.1%
- #17 Retro Gadgets
84% matchVery Positive90% of 512 reviews2022
Dev: Licorice ehf
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 62.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Simulation 31%, Building 25.2%, Sandbox 22.2%, Puzzle 18.9%, Indie 2.6%
- #18 VR Furballs - Demolition
85% matchVery Positive95% of 157 reviews2018
Dev: Gamily Studios
Windows
Grab your slingshot, grab a Furball... AND DEMOLISH THEM ALL!!! In this challenging VR physics-based demolition puzzle game, you will have to toss, sling, smash, slam, shoot, and even headbutt adorable Furballs into their evil foes and their crazy constructions to demolish them all!
Why similar: VR 49.4%, Physics 20.9%, Puzzle 13.4%, Indie 8.4%, Simulation 4.1%
- #19 Tiny Town VR
84% matchVery Positive92% of 1,254 reviews2017
Dev: Lumbernauts
Windows
Create an original world and fill it with buildings, roads, vehicles and more. Give it life with posable characters. Tell a story with custom speech bubbles and in-game photo captures. Then, share with friends!
Why similar: VR 39.2%, Simulation 23.1%, Sandbox 18.9%, Indie 8.9%, Building 6.3%
- #20 GearBlocks
82% matchVery Positive91% of 754 reviews2023
Dev: SmashHammer Games
Windows · Linux
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: Simulation 25.8%, Physics 24.1%, Building 23%, Sandbox 22.6%, Indie 4.6%
- #21 Medieval Machines Builder
81% matchVery Positive82% of 130 reviews2026
Dev: FreeMind S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
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: Simulation 25.9%, Physics 21.8%, Sandbox 20.5%, Building 18.9%, Indie 9.4%
- #22 Poly Bridge
81% matchVery Positive91% of 18,588 reviews2016
Dev: Dry Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Simulation 23.7%, Building 23.7%, Physics 21.3%, Puzzle 13.1%, Sandbox 12.8%
- #23 Inside The Gear
83% matchMixed40% of 140 reviews2014
Dev: Mykhail Konokh
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Physics 29.8%, Indie 29.7%, Puzzle 26.7%, Casual 13.8%
- #24 Crazy Machines
82% matchVery Positive82% of 200 reviews2008
Dev: Fakt SoftwarePub: Viva Media
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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: Puzzle 46.2%, Physics 41.2%, Casual 12.6%
- #25 Townsmen VR
79% matchVery Positive84% of 570 reviews2022
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Townsmen VR uses the exciting possibilities of virtual reality to further enhance the classic city building game with entirely new gameplay experiences and interactive mechanics. It combines elements of a God-game simulation and a classic building game with the interactive possibilities of VR.
Why similar: VR 43.6%, Simulation 23.7%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Indie 7.9%
- #26 The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
77% matchVery Positive92% of 703 reviews2023
Dev: PeatyTurf
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game! Enjoy the freedom of completely gridless 3D sandbox building combined with hilarious ragdoll third person controls, offering a truly unique and hilarious "Enjeniring" experience!
Why similar: Sandbox 24.4%, Physics 21.3%, Simulation 20.7%, Building 16%, Puzzle 10.8%
- #27 Crazy Machines 3
78% matchVery Positive94% of 10,080 reviews2016
Dev: Fakt SoftwarePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Simulation 32.6%, Physics 27.2%, Puzzle 18.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 6.3%
- #28 Cefore
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Pixelz Games
Windows
CEFORE is a physics-based puzzler in an abstract simplistic art style in which you get contracted to bring down different structures in the most creative ways possible. Try not to cause too much destruction, of course.
Why similar: Simulation 35.5%, Sandbox 25.9%, Puzzle 18.5%, Indie 16.1%, Casual 3.9%
- #29 Rover Builder
78% matchMixed68% of 81 reviews2022
Dev: Hatfuls GamesPub: PQube
Windows
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: Simulation 25.5%, Sandbox 24.2%, Physics 23%, Building 21.1%, Indie 6.1%
- #30 Puzzling Places - 3D Jigsaw Sim
73% matchVery Positive98% of 137 reviews2026
Dev: Realities.io Inc
Windows
A relaxed 3D jigsaw puzzle game about building detailed miniature dioramas of places from around the world.
Why similar: VR 47.2%, Simulation 16.3%, Puzzle 14.6%, Building 9.7%, Indie 8.5%
- #31 ABRISS - build to destroy
76% matchVery Positive82% of 557 reviews2023
Dev: RandwerkPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
ABRISS is an atmospheric physics-destruction building game.Build structures from parts to let them crash into your targets. Unlock new parts, destroy more, witness entropy at its worst in digital-brutalist cityscapes. Build to destroy.
Why similar: Simulation 22.3%, Physics 21.1%, Sandbox 20.3%, Building 17.9%, Puzzle 14%
- #32 Kumoon : Ballistic Physics Puzzle
79% matchMixed70% of 82 reviews2015
Dev: Lucky You Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A unique puzzle game : a nonviolent trickshooting challenge with gamepad VR option.
Why similar: VR 31.3%, Simulation 30.9%, Indie 12.8%, Physics 11.3%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #33 Blockworks
76% matchVery Positive93% of 60 reviews2023
Dev: Elastic Sea
Windows
Blockworks is a creative VR block-building sandbox game. Follow instructions or express your creativity and build anything you can imagine with hundreds of blocks and materials. Decorate your room environment. Share your creations on steam workshop.
Why similar: VR 42.8%, Sandbox 20.1%, Building 15.1%, Physics 15.1%, Casual 7%
- #34 Electronics Puzzle Lab
75% matchVery Positive86% of 74 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 51.7%, Puzzle 26%, Physics 12.6%, Casual 9.7%
- #35 Besiege
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,877 reviews2020
Dev: Spiderling Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Simulation 24.9%, Physics 21.8%, Sandbox 21.7%, Building 18.9%, Puzzle 12.6%
- #36 PolyCube
77% matchVery Positive87% of 61 reviews2018
Dev: {COMPANY_NAME_GOES_HERE}
Windows
PolyCube is a block-stacking puzzle game in full 3D, with optional VR support. Move and spin your block pieces in all directions to place them in the puzzle before time is up and the piece drops.
Why similar: VR 62%, Puzzle 15.8%, Indie 15.4%, Casual 6.8%
- #37 Opus Magnum
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,034 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 35.1%, Simulation 33%, Indie 16.7%, Sandbox 7.6%, Building 7.5%
- #38 Disassembly 3D
75% matchVery Positive80% of 332 reviews2017
Dev: Khor Chin Heong
Windows
Disassembly and destruction physics sandbox simulator. Detailed models of objects and vehicles and their internal parts. Disassemble objects successfully to unlock weapons mode and destruction. Fight evil mannequins with everything you got in physical combat!
Why similar: Simulation 24.7%, Physics 19.7%, Sandbox 18%, Building 15.4%, Puzzle 12.2%
- #39 Silicon Zeroes
74% matchVery Positive87% of 282 reviews2017
Dev: PleasingFungus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
Why similar: Simulation 59.4%, Indie 22.1%, Puzzle 18.5%
- #40 Milling machine simulator
72% matchVery Positive88% of 186 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 46.4%, Sandbox 38.7%, Indie 10.3%, Casual 4.7%
- #41 Toy Trains
71% matchVery Positive96% of 107 reviews2024
Dev: Something Random
Windows
Let’s play Toy Trains! A playful track-building VR game where you create your own small world and engage in a captivating storyline. It’s all about imagination, creative thinking, having fun and… trains!
Why similar: VR 55.9%, Simulation 14.1%, Puzzle 12.5%, Indie 6.8%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #42 Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2
72% matchVery Positive98% of 96 reviews2020
Dev: Northway Games
Windows
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: Simulation 30.1%, Physics 24.5%, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Puzzle 13%
- #43 Bridge Constructor Medieval
73% matchVery Positive82% of 606 reviews2014
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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: Simulation 42.7%, Building 18.5%, Indie 14.6%, Physics 9.3%, Puzzle 7.7%
- #44 The Qubit Factory
68% matchVery Positive98% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Logical Basis
Windows · Mac
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 47.6%, Puzzle 25%, Physics 19.9%, Indie 7.5%
- #45 Virtual Circuit Board
68% matchVery Positive93% of 312 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie Foundry
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 34.9%, Sandbox 26.7%, Building 22%, Puzzle 12.6%, Indie 3.8%
- #46 Domino Simulator
70% matchVery Positive85% of 81 reviews2022
Dev: Terapoly
Windows
Domino Simulator is a physics-based sandbox game in which you place various domino tiles and pieces to construct domino chains. Enjoy the odd satisfaction of watching your creation fall one after the other. Ultimately, the floor is yours to fill and the how and the what is completely up to you.
Why similar: Simulation 68.7%, Physics 16.8%, Sandbox 14.5%
- #47 PC Building Simulator
67% matchVery Positive94% of 52,639 reviews2019
Dev: Claudiu KissPub: The Irregular Corporation
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 38.5 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 43.1%, Building 20.4%, Sandbox 17.9%, Puzzle 9.2%, Indie 6%
- #48 LIT: Bend the Light
69% matchVery Positive93% of 323 reviews2020
Dev: Copperglass
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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: Indie 35.3%, Casual 15.9%, Simulation 14.5%, Physics 13.6%, Puzzle 10.9%
- #49 Linkito
67% matchVery Positive87% of 165 reviews2024
Dev: KalinarmPub: Playdigious Originals
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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: Simulation 30.8%, Sandbox 28.6%, Physics 21.2%, Puzzle 19.5%
- #50 Blast the Past
70% matchVery Positive86% of 150 reviews2018
Dev: The Work Club
Windows
Operate a wrecking crane in VR to destroy the last remaining old building in a city of new skyscrapers, push buttons, turn wheels and make sure the ball hits its target!
Why similar: VR 49.4%, Simulation 22.6%, Physics 10.3%, Indie 9.4%, Puzzle 4.2%
- #51 The Puzzle Room VR ( Escape The Room )
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 53 reviews2017
Dev: Bellcat Game
Windows
It is a VR Experience where you need to find clues to solve puzzles and find your way out of the Room. There are some items that can be grabbed and carried around. With some items you can interact (such as switches,piano and numpads).
Why similar: VR 44.7%, Simulation 30.3%, Indie 12.6%, Puzzle 10.1%, Casual 2.4%
- #52 House Builder
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,571 reviews2024
Dev: FreeMind S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Become a one-man construction crew! Travel around the world and through the ages to build iconic designs! Beware of unpleasant temperatures and dangerous fauna!
Why similar: Simulation 23%, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 17.6%, Physics 17%, Puzzle 12.4%
- #53 Slinger VR
70% matchMixed69% of 84 reviews2020
Dev: Empyrean
Windows
Slinger VR is an action adventure game, where you climb, fly and leap through vast spaces and abstract twisted structures formed inside your mind. Defeat enemies and activate transmitters to unlock portals that lead on and on.
Why similar: Simulation 40.9%, VR 29.6%, Indie 17.2%, Casual 7.7%, Sandbox 4.7%
- #54 Domino Sky
69% matchVery Positive80% of 373 reviews2016
Dev: russpuppy
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Domino Sky is a physics based game where you place and topple domino pieces to solve puzzles. Free build mode also available.
Why similar: Physics 30.2%, Simulation 25.5%, Puzzle 20.6%, Indie 16.8%, Casual 7%
- #55 Crazy Machines 2
71% matchMixed48% of 260 reviews2008
Dev: Fakt SoftwarePub: Viva Media
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Puzzle 43.9%, Physics 38.8%, Casual 17.3%
- #56 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
64% matchMostly Positive74% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
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: Simulation 34.1%, Sandbox 25.3%, Building 16.5%, Puzzle 14.9%, Indie 4.9%
- #57 ShotForge
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 82 reviews2016
Dev: Alix
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A sandbox to build the coolest guns in.
Why similar: Simulation 70.7%, Indie 29.3%
- #58 Tiny Bridge: Ratventure
68% matchMixed68% of 1,094 reviews2015
Dev: EstelionPub: Senpai Industrial Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Puzzle 22%, Physics 21%, Indie 18.8%, Building 17.7%, Simulation 15.4%
- #59 Rainbow Reactor
67% matchVery Positive93% of 106 reviews2019
Dev: Tunermaxx Media GmbH
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Welcome to the future! In this fun-packed VR game which is easy to understand but hard to master, you'll throw, mix and match colorful energy balls to power the entire city - at the RAINBOW REACTOR!
Why similar: VR 67.7%, Physics 14.9%, Puzzle 12.2%, Casual 5.2%