60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Building, Sandbox, Singleplayer.
Real gears that don't slip in a mechanical invention sandbox. Build freely with resizable parts and shapes, overcome physics challenges, and follow kit instructions. Unleash your engineering creativity with intricate clockwork contraptions, steam-powered systems, and fully functional circuits.
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.
Mech It Happen
Build physically simulated machines in a campaign full of traversal, mechanical, and destruction challenges. Explore to unlock new parts, map out an alien planet, and create your own challenges in the level editor!
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: Science 13.6%, Destruction 11.7%, Building 8.3%, Level Editor 8%, Automation 7.7%
Build physically simulated machines in a campaign full of traversal, mechanical, and destruction challenges. Explore to unlock new parts, map out an alien planet, and create your own challenges in the level editor!
Why similar: Science 16.9%, Destruction 15.2%, Level Editor 11.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Physics 8.8%
Dumbino is a funny chaotic physics-based puzzle game where you topple dominoes with explosions, wild chain reactions, and pure madness. Embrace the epic goofy mayhem as you create and solve unhinged levels. Build and share your craziest designs and custom levels with the community!
Why similar: Moddable 15.5%, Level Editor 15.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.6%, Destruction 11.4%
Build a robot from real parts — solenoids, gears, connecting rods — wire it up, and figure out why it won't turn yet. Nothing here is faked: the current is really computed, and every breakdown has a cause you can find.
Why similar: Science 19.2%, Education 17.3%, Automation 15.1%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 12%
An automation puzzle game in the spirit of The Incredible Machine to stretch your brain without the stress. Build chocolate-making contraptions out of conveyors, cannons and simple parts, then optimise them until they run themselves.
Why similar: Automation 15.7%, Moddable 14.9%, Level Editor 13.4%, Building 11.9%, Physics 10.3%
A physics sandbox built on real chemistry. Drop 674 materials into a falling-sand world and watch them react, burn, freeze and explode. Then wire circuits, test wings in a wind tunnel, or split light through lenses — alone or with friends online.
Why similar: Science 26%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 14.5%, Moddable 13.9%, Physics 11.4%
Enjoy playing with gears? Gearplexed is a constructive problem-solving game with a variety of gear-based puzzles ranging from opening gates to building factories. Build gears to get the right amount of speed or torque to the target gears and be careful not to lock up your gear train.
Why similar: Steampunk 21.8% ★, Education 15.8%, Automation 14.3%, Building 13.3%, Physics 11%
Gas reaction simulator. Build the ultimate jet engine, solve puzzles, or just make everything explode!
Why similar: Science 23.3%, Education 17.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Logic 11.3%, Simulation 9.9%
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: Moddable 18.3%, Destruction 16.4%, Sandbox 16%, Science 15.6%, Physics 9.2%
Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.
Why similar: Science 17.5%, Moddable 15.3%, Level Editor 10.4%, Flight 10.4%, Education 10.1%
Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what's stirring their growing appetites...
Why similar: Moddable 16.5%, Automation 14.2%, Science 13.7%, Education 11.7%, Building 10.9%
In this physics-based particle sandbox, everything is in flux: water, steam, ice, magma, acid... Blast it. Wreck it. Build it!
Why similar: Science 24.7%, Moddable 15.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Destruction 14.2%, Physics 12.7%
Design a structure, choose your materials, and put it through earthquakes, heavy loads, and brutal impacts. Protect the objective, find the weak points, and rebuild after every spectacular collapse. The only question is: Will It Stand?
Why similar: Destruction 20.5%, Level Editor 15.9%, Building 13.8%, Physics 13.1%, Science 13.1%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Destruction 17.1%, Science 15.4%, Sandbox 11.7%, Education 11.7%, Automation 9.4%
Build your robot. Battle your robot. Robot Rumble 2 is the premier robot combat building simulator, where you create your robot from real-world inspired parts, then drive it in the arena to defeat other robots.
Why similar: Moddable 18.9%, Destruction 16.6%, Level Editor 12.5%, Robots 10.3%, Driving 9%
Developed by the creator of the original Kerbal Space Program, KitHack Model Club is a physics-based model building sandbox that offers limitless freedom for you and your friends. Design, build, battle, fly (and crash!) your very own RC vehicles, or experiment with over 2,400 ready-made vehicles!
Why similar: Moddable 21%, Level Editor 12.1%, Education 10.9%, Automation 10.3%, Driving 9%
Edd-E is a pixel-art game maker with custom visual scripting and publishing platform. Create games and Publish them with just one click. Play games from other creators or edit them. Learn programming and game development!
Why similar: Education 15.3%, Sandbox 14.8%, Automation 12.7%, Moddable 12.1%, Building 9.9%
Reactonix is a flexible and enjoyable simulation sandbox where every force is at your command. Create ecosystems alone or with friends, experiment with physics and watch life evolve—or start an apocalypse for the sake of science. Complete freedom to create and destroy is in your hands.
Why similar: Science 23.8%, Moddable 16.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Physics 11.9%, Destruction 10.8%
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: Science 17.3%, Moddable 15.2%, Automation 13.5%, Education 12.8%, Robots 9.7%
Design the perfect automated defense system for the city in this physics-based game. Destroy the falling celestial objects with turrets, fire, lightning, portals, and more! Each level will challenge your ingenuity and creativity.
Why similar: Moddable 20.3%, Level Editor 14.1%, Destruction 13%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.6%
Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?
Why similar: Science 17.9%, Destruction 14%, Simulation 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Flight 10.2%
A 2D creative sandbox where every tile is a tiny machine. Inspired by Redstone, LEGO, and Tabletop Simulator. One ruleset - Infinite possibilities. Create, experiment, and play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Moddable 19.5%, Science 17.5%, Automation 13%, Sandbox 11.4%, Education 11%
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: Moddable 23.6%, Destruction 18%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Physics 12.5%
Place items freely in a virtual space, harness the laws of physics, and build your own Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. Design your contraption, press the Action Button, and enjoy the thrill of watching it come to life. A built-in Stage Editor lets you create your own original stages.
Why similar: Level Editor 17.1%, Automation 15.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Physics 12.8%, Building 10.7%
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: Steampunk 28.6% ★, Education 16.5%, Automation 15.1%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 10.1%
A casual 2.5D physics oriented game about building unorthodox contraptions to solve puzzles with a variety of items at disposal
Why similar: Science 25.5%, Education 17%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 14%, Physics 11.2%
Close the loop and the lamp lights. Build the relay, the gate, the adder, the latch, the counter, and a machine that reads Morse. Every circuit runs on a real simulator, and the parts you build become parts you build with. 238 levels about electricity and the machines people made from it.
Why similar: Science 19.6%, Education 18.5%, Steampunk 17.6% ★, Logic 12.1%, Simulation 7.9%
Physics-based sandbox game where you build wacky machines to solve environmental puzzles. Create alloys from a mix of metals to reinforce your builds, recruit koalas to operate your weapons, solve puzzles to get rewarded with parts and weapons, and save the island from the erupting volcano!
Why similar: Science 19.7%, Destruction 17.3%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 13.9%, Physics 12.5%
Dive into a world of creation and discovery, where each element combines to form new ones. Experiment freely in this interactive sandbox. But be careful: every combination has its consequences..
Why similar: Science 26.1%, Destruction 21.3%, Sandbox 15.5%, Education 14.1%, Physics 12.7%
A pixel-physics sandbox. Fifty materials, and every one of them is physics: sand finds its angle, water freezes, lava crusts into stone, gunpowder blows. Build your own materials and worlds, and share them in the Workshop.
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, Science 16.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Education 14.6%, Building 13.6%
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: Physics 18.4%, Building 17.9%, Education 13.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Simulation 9%
Snap together pneumatic parts, connect them with hoses, and build machines that actually work. Pressure is both muscle and wiring: drive cylinders, gear down a crank engine, and build logic circuits out of valves. Then take a seat and drive what you built.
Why similar: Steampunk 24.9% ★, Sandbox 20.4%, Building 17.2%, Simulation 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Why similar: Building 16.7%, Flight 16.7%, Science 15.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Physics 13.3%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Moddable 21.4%, Science 17.7%, Destruction 17%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.5%
Craft and trigger contraptions to perfection or glorious chaos! Smash cars, rescue heroes, and create hilarious scenes with your own interactive systems! From giant hammers to epic chain reactions, anything is possible!
Why similar: Destruction 21.3%, Level Editor 17.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Physics 12.3%, Driving 11.6%
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: Moddable 20%, Destruction 16.4%, Level Editor 12.3%, Flight 10.6%, Building 10%
3d Engineers is a sandbox game/tool in engineering and construction.
Why similar: Moddable 25.9%, Building 20%, Physics 15.1%, Simulation 14.9%, Sandbox 13.1%
Crosstalk is a hardware architecture design sandbox with a built-in, fully inspectable simulator and emulator. Players build designs ranging from LED controllers to complex computers using SystemVerilog, then program them. It has a gate-level simulator, introspection tools, a compiler, and more.
Why similar: Science 15.6%, Automation 11.8%, Moddable 11.6%, Level Editor 11.4%, Education 10.9%
PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.
Why similar: Moddable 21.2%, Automation 12.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Destruction 12.1%, Physics 11.1%
Ultimate Ragdoll Game is a Sandbox game without any limits. Have fun with ragdolls available in Steam Workshop and build your very own constructions using wide variety of blocks.
Why similar: Moddable 23.5%, Destruction 20.4%, Sandbox 14.2%, Physics 12.3%, Building 12.2%
Tinker with circuits or program a robot in your dream workshop. Open up the door of your workshop and meet your community in Wijita: City of Makers.
Why similar: Science 19.7%, Education 13.9%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Robots 11.8%
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: Science 17.9%, Building 10.3%, Education 10.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Automation 10.3%
Explore the elements of Fractala Sandbox and its large-scale physics-based simulation. A pure sandbox experience featuring everything from wavy water and sticky slime to viscous lava, coiling honey, squishy jelly, compressible snow, piling sand, aerodynamics, solids, rope, fire, and explosives!
Why similar: Moddable 18.3%, Automation 18.1%, Destruction 17.9%, Building 12.6%, Simulation 11%
Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.
Why similar: Science 22.6%, Flight 13.3%, Education 12.7%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 12.1%
Create physics-based sea creatures and discover evolution through surprising challenges! Control, test, and share your creatures made with our flexible building system! Evolution is full of quirky surprises, can you be more creative than nature it self?
Why similar: Science 23.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Education 12.6%, Physics 11.6%, Building 11.2%
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: Moddable 16.8%, Building 14.9%, Science 14.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, Education 10%
Danglebox is about creating physics based structures to hunt for resources or just for fun. Build with various materials, lift with balloons, pull with ropes and push with thrusters to enable your designs to withstand the weight of trains, buildings, containers, weapons fire and more.
Why similar: Destruction 20.9%, Level Editor 16.1%, Automation 12.7%, Sandbox 12.7%, Physics 12.4%
Build ships from scrap and fly them in a gritty space sim. Venture solo or team up. Hunt for parts, haul vital resources, and keep your space agency afloat.
Why similar: Moddable 21.4%, Science 18.4%, Flight 12.9%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.7%
This is a serious game. Made for educational purposes. It was made in order to enable students to understand the high school chemistry curriculum and to provide equality of opportunity.
Why similar: Science 29.1%, Education 24.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Physics 12.2%, Simulation 10.2%
An abstract neon puzzle-factory sim where you route photons, solve intricate puzzles, and grow profits. Enjoy creating a rhythmic factory and an evolving soundscape as you build and optimize your setups.
Why similar: Science 20.8%, Level Editor 15.8%, Automation 15.6%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12.5%
A rocket engine design sim with real physics. Wire pumps, injectors and nozzles on a node graph, set the numbers, and test fire. Live graphs and 3D hardware answer every change. Fourteen guided missions with a senior engineer, or free build. Recreate the Merlin 1D, or build one that shouldn't work.
Why similar: Science 22.1%, Moddable 17.2%, Education 14%, Sandbox 12.2%, Physics 11.6%
Build, Connect, Simulate! LogiCircuit is the next generation of circuit building! Use logic gates and integrated circuits to simulate real life computers, games, programs, and more!
Why similar: Moddable 27.3%, Education 14.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Logic 12.9%, Level Editor 11.9%
Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!
Why similar: Destruction 26.4%, Sandbox 17%, Building 15.5%, Physics 12.3%, Driving 11.9%
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Why similar: Science 24.9%, Moddable 18.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Physics 13%, Building 10.5%
Oscilloscopia is a puzzle game built around an authentically simulated oscilloscope. Build signals, patch modules and tune the instrument until the phosphor trace matches the target. Experiment with signal processing and find your own solutions.
Why similar: Level Editor 22.2%, Logic 17.3%, Sandbox 16.7%, Science 14.9%, Simulation 11.2%
The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!
Why similar: Building 20.6%, Physics 14.7%, Level Editor 14.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Education 12.2%
Ludicrum is a crazy physics sandbox. Drop a nuke in a remote village. Make giant sentient trash cans. Build a flying bathtub. If you want a game with no rules or limits, Ludicrum is for you.
Why similar: Destruction 26.3%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 15.5%, Physics 15%, Driving 11.1%
Build contraptions with various tools to end all roasted chickens rightly in this physics puzzle game, or create and share your own challenges!
Why similar: Level Editor 20.6%, Building 15.8%, Physics 15%, Sandbox 14.7%, Education 14.5%
puzzlez - a shapez game is an easy to learn, hard to master puzzle game about building shapes in compact 3D spaces. Solve handcrafted puzzles with multiple solutions, from simple production chains to complex logistical problems. Design, share, and play custom puzzles with an ever-growing community.
Why similar: Level Editor 20%, Automation 18.9%, Building 13.5%, Logic 12.7%, Physics 10.9%
