60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Singleplayer, Building, Puzzle.
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.
Automation
PLC Ladder Logic programming simulator.
Alan's Automaton Workshop
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.
PLC Ladder Logic programming simulator.
Why similar: Education 31.1%, Automation 30.2%, Physics 13.5%, Puzzle 9.9%, Strategy 6.9%
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 25.8% ★, Education 21.5%, Automation 20.6%, Building 11.9%, Logic 7.8%
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: Building 21.1%, Physics 18.5%, Education 17.3%, Puzzle 10.1%, Automation 9.8%
You are an electrician, moving back to your hometown in the Austrian Alps, which you find lacks a certain... spark. Promptly tasked with wiring up the village, you solve electrical puzzles, blow fuses and master real-world circuitry techniques. Electrify the Alps, one circuit at a time.
Why similar: Education 26.2%, Automation 21.7%, Logic 10.4%, Physics 9.3%, Science 7%
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: Steampunk 34.9% ★, Physics 16.5%, Puzzle 16.3%, Logic 12.8%, Family Friendly 8.8%
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.
Why similar: Steampunk 21.8% ★, Education 15.8%, Automation 14.3%, Building 13.3%, Physics 11%
Block shop is an automation puzzle game in which basic blocks are transformed and combined to create increasingly complex blocks.
Why similar: Automation 40.6%, Puzzle 14.1%, Building 13.6%, Strategy 13.3%, Logic 10.1%
You input any function to guide the red ball on the xy-plane to the goal.
Why similar: Education 29.6%, Physics 19.4%, Building 16.5%, Puzzle 14.7%, Science 7%
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: Education 29.4%, Automation 26.9%, Building 18.4%, Physics 11.4%, Science 8.3%
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: Education 27.7%, Steampunk 18.3% ★, Logic 11.8%, Puzzle 11.7%, Building 8.7%
Terraform Inc is a game to build a reliable physics-based delivery network. You will get new planets, add enhancements in transit, then deliver to buyers. Construct elaborate designs to prove your ingenuity. Choose your friends wisely, working to earn respect and unlock even further opportunities.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Building 25.8%, Physics 17.7%, Logic 12.1%, Strategy 7.2%
Let Them Fall is a dynamic puzzle-strategy game. Transport objects using conveyor belts to the target zone. With each level, the game gets tougher with diverse shapes, colors, and limited space on procedurally generated maps. Will you take up the challenge?
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Building 19.1%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Physics 8.9%
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: Automation 25.8%, Education 15.6%, Physics 15.5%, Building 15.1%, Puzzle 11.2%
Build and run your own automated factory to turn materials into a range of products!
Why similar: Automation 34.8%, Building 27.3%, Physics 19%, Simulation 13.2%, Casual 4%
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: Education 21%, Building 20.7%, Physics 16.7%, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 9.3%
Project Matter is a 2D factory automation game about turning raw inputs into an ever-expanding production web. Place buildings on an infinite grid, draw connections between them, and research new processing chains, waste recovery loops, and advanced materials.
Why similar: Automation 40.4%, Building 23.9%, Puzzle 12.9%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 6%
Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.
Why similar: Building 25.1%, Physics 20.7%, Puzzle 18.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 8.1%
Minimalist automation puzzle game where you build physics-based machines to manipulate the flow of numbers.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Physics 14.3%, Building 13.6%, Puzzle 10.5%, Logic 9.9%
Bridge Constructor Studio is the latest in the best-selling series. Test your engineering skills in this physics-based puzzle game, combining the best of previous titles with a modern, charming visual style—the ultimate experience for creative builders!
Why similar: Building 24.7%, Physics 17.7%, Education 16.5%, Puzzle 11.4%, Strategy 7.9%
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 28.7%, Education 23%, Building 19.3%, Physics 9.9%, Science 6.6%
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 29.8%, Building 19.4%, Physics 14.4%, Logic 11.3%, Puzzle 10.2%
SteamTopia is a casual, steampunk factory-building game, set in a world where money and factory expansion are the only things that matters. But even in this harsh world friends are important and playing co-op makes everything even better.
Why similar: Steampunk 39.9% ★, Automation 36.4%, Building 17.7%, Casual 3.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Charge is a level-based puzzle game where you control the flow of charge around a circuit board. Arrange pre-built components into wondrous machines that take advantage of available resources and design your own modules from scratch.
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Puzzle 12.7%, Building 12%, Logic 10.8%, Education 7.4%
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: Building 23.4%, Puzzle 20.1%, Physics 18.7%, Family Friendly 10%, Strategy 8.7%
The ultimate farm children's game with lots of animal puzzles and farm motifs. The perfect learning game for all children, toddlers, babies, jigsaw puzzle and animal lovers. Familyfriendly!
Why similar: Education 39.2%, Puzzle 16.7%, Logic 7.7%, Simulation 7.4%, Old School 6.7%
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: Automation 20.3%, Building 17.9%, Education 17.4%, Physics 14%, Puzzle 9.4%
We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!
Why similar: Automation 35.6%, Building 20.2%, Strategy 13.2%, Logic 8.9%, Puzzle 7.9%
A logic puzzles 3D first person game. Move things around, toggle switches, open doors, blend colors - train your brain solving challenge after challenge. Includes classic puzzles and new puzzles, physics and logic, light and electricity, twists and surprises.
Why similar: Education 32.7%, Logic 17.3%, Puzzle 16.2%, Family Friendly 11.7%, Strategy 9.3%
A Sudoku trainer that shows its working. Every hint walks through the argument step by step across 25+ techniques, with SE-compatible difficulty ratings and real Snyder notation built in — a first on Steam. Thousands of hand-tested puzzles from Novice to Master.
Why similar: Education 43.9%, Logic 21%, Puzzle 18.9%, Family Friendly 6.8%, Casual 4.2%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Education 25.8%, Building 17.7%, Puzzle 9.1%, Logic 6.4%
Build working robots by wiring visual signal graphs, then watch, diagnose, and tune them in deterministic simulations. Grow a repair shop from its first piston to PID control, autonomous navigation, robot arms, and a walking humanoid.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Education 21.4%, Building 13.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Physics 9.4%
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: Automation 29.9%, Building 18.5%, Physics 12.6%, Logic 12.5%, Puzzle 11.3%
Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Education 17.7%, Building 14.3%, Puzzle 12.4%, Strategy 7.1%
Gas reaction simulator. Build the ultimate jet engine, solve puzzles, or just make everything explode!
Why similar: Education 31.5%, Logic 13.3%, Building 11.6%, Automation 11.3%, Science 10.6%
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 31.3%, Physics 19%, Education 17.1%, Puzzle 12%, Simulation 6.2%
Math Attack is a puzzle game about reducing expressions to zero with a hand of mathematical cards. Forty levels of integers, radicals, complex numbers and calculus, each a clever riddle behind deceptively simple notation.
Why similar: Education 33.6%, Logic 19.9%, Puzzle 18.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Casual 6.7%
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: Automation 35.1%, Building 22.4%, Physics 15.8%, Puzzle 10.3%, Logic 9.7%
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: Automation 29.5%, Education 20%, Puzzle 13.4%, Logic 12.1%, Physics 10.5%
In Factorization, you must plan and build a factory capable of producing ever more complex resources. You focus on designing optimal production lines while carefully balancing your budget. In the meantime your workers build your designs and carry out the day-to-day tasks in your factory.
Why similar: Automation 45.5%, Building 27.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8.5%, 2D 5%
Rocket Automashapes is a minimalistic automation game where shapes are produced, combined, and rocketed across the grid! Manage increasingly complex scenarios as you progress from one level to the next.
Why similar: Automation 24.6%, Education 17.6%, Building 16.2%, Logic 9.3%, Puzzle 8.1%
The next chapter in brain-teasing mathematical fun. Pythagoria: The Finals challenges your problem-solving skills with unique math puzzles
Why similar: Education 41.9%, Logic 18.3%, Puzzle 17%, Family Friendly 10.9%, 2D 4.4%
A silly physics-based puzzle game about sorting fruit with industrial machines!
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Building 18.3%, Physics 13.5%, Puzzle 9.5%, Logic 8.3%
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: Education 20.1%, Building 16.1%, Automation 14.7%, Physics 14.2%, Science 9.7%
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: Automation 26.7%, Education 21%, Building 17.6%, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 8.6%
A Lemmings-inspired puzzle game where you guide pioneers through treacherous underground caverns by strategically assigning abilities like digging, building, and blocking to overcome obstacles.
Why similar: Puzzle 16.4%, Logic 15.3%, Automation 15.1%, Lemmings 12.2% ★, Family Friendly 11.5%
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: Automation 25.1%, Education 21.1%, Building 17%, Physics 10.3%, Puzzle 8.6%
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: Steampunk 19.4% ★, Education 13.9%, Building 11.1%, Casual 11%, Physics 10.3%
Is this a puzzle or a simulation? I can't define the genre of the game. Clear the stage in various ways. Use different special dominoes and play the game with objects.
Why similar: Physics 24.1%, Education 17.9%, Puzzle 16.9%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 9.5%
Control a fleet of tiny, colorful lunar landers, piloting through puzzling moon caves. Scrape by with scrappy first flights, then re-engineer a perfect solution to earn bonus stars. 130+ unique goals to achieve in over 50 levels in this physics-based retro puzzle game!
Why similar: Building 23.8%, Physics 22.2%, Old School 15.6%, Puzzle 13.7%, Automation 12.2%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Education 20.7%, Automation 17.5%, Building 12.2%, Physics 12%, Logic 9.1%
Force and Motion is a physics puzzle game where you apply your knowledge of real physics to solve puzzles in the game.
Why similar: Education 30.2%, Physics 17.6%, Science 11.5%, Logic 10.2%, Puzzle 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: Education 29.1%, Building 22.1%, Physics 14.7%, Puzzle 11.9%, Science 11.1%
Manage your number factory: extract values, chain multipliers, and optimize to watch them grow. Upgrade buildings permanently, balance resources for leveling up, and enjoy idle progression. Relaxed, infinite automation!
Why similar: Automation 34.9%, Education 13.2%, Puzzle 12.4%, Logic 11.1%, Building 7%
Do you belong to the only 2% of the world population that is able to solve Einstein's Puzzle? Discover here!
Why similar: Education 39.4%, Puzzle 16.1%, Strategy 15.6%, Logic 14.8%, Casual 8%
Shape your garden. Shape your luck. Use flowers and filters to guide ladybugs and change their colors and numbers, then hit the slots in the black moon. Cash out before your ecosystem collapses, or risk it all for a bigger payout. Unlock permanent upgrades and grow a greater garden.
Why similar: Automation 39.9%, Building 21.5%, Physics 17.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.7%
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: Automation 33.7%, Building 19.9%, Puzzle 12.3%, Strategy 10%, Logic 9.7%
A puzzle game in which you have to assemble a single image from individual pieces.
Why similar: Education 25.3%, Puzzle 16.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Logic 12.5%, Family Friendly 11.8%
A refreshing little game with blue-green as the main color. A game with the core gameplay of drawing with a ruler, involving conventional drawing, single ruler drawing, and single ruler drawing. The difficulty increases (slightly difficult), with tests of foundation, thinking, and even endurance.
Why similar: Education 37.3%, Logic 15.9%, Puzzle 11.3%, Building 10.9%, Old School 5.9%
A relaxing automation game where building a factory stays simple. Create production lines, connect your buildings, and unlock new technologies without worrying about ratios. Just ask yourself one question: What does this item need?
Why similar: Automation 41.1%, Building 25.8%, Logic 9.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Puzzle 7.3%
