Games Like Gimbal

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 32.6%, Sandbox 21.8%, Space 16.6%, Top-Down 6.3%, 2D 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D space sandbox that focuses on modular ship construction and physics-based movement in a persistent universe.

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 33.6%, Space 18.2%, Sci-fi 17%, Multiplayer 17%, 2D 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an intricate top-down ship-building system where component placement directly impacts combat performance and physics.

Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 36.7% ★, Building 18.6%, Sandbox 15%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Shooter 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust modular vehicle construction system for intense, physics-driven multiplayer vehicular combat.

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 29.5%, Sandbox 20.6%, Vehicular Combat 19.2% ★, Multiplayer 12.9%, Physics 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Allows players to build complex vehicles from modular blocks to engage in combat and exploration across diverse environments.

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 33.1%, Multiplayer 26.2%, Shooter 18.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Action 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused vehicular combat game that emphasizes customization and physics-based movement.

Airmen is a first person ship building and battling game featuring airships, landships and watercraft. Crew your ship solo or alongside friends on dangerous expeditions into the archipelago to complete contracts, collect resources, and upgrade your ships.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 36.9% ★, Building 22.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Multiplayer 12%, Shooter 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features multiplayer ship-to-ship combat where players must build and maintain their own modular airships.

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: Building 23.2%, Sandbox 18.2%, Physics 17.4%, Space 15.7%, Sci-fi 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on physics-based drone construction and testing in a variety of challenging space environments.

Retrograde Arena is a multiplayer twin stick shooter where bullets don’t kill. Use weapons, physics, and your Drone to push, pull, and blast your foes into deadly surroundings in this skill-based shooter action title that redefines physics-based action.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 29.5% ★, Top-Down Shooter 24.2%, Physics 10.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.6%, Shooter 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based top-down shooter where movement and positioning are as critical as weapon choice.

Action roguelike where you build and command your own spaceships. Battle enemies, explore planets and customize your ship on the fly. Make the best use of the quirky ship modules you find, ranging from slingshots to ion cannons, to try and avoid certain death.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27%, Building 19.9%, Physics 11.4%, Space 9.5%, Shooter 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down shooter that integrates modular ship building with roguelike progression elements.

With your uniquely crafted mech, dominate both the track and the battlefield. Fight your way through countless battles and aim for ever greater heights! This installment of BREAK ARTS is the ultimate Comprehensive Mech-Customizing Competitive Sport.

Why similar: Shooter 26.4%, Vehicular Combat 23.6% ★, Sci-fi 15.3%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Crafting 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: The successor to the modular mech combat series, refining the customization and action-oriented gameplay.

Scavenge modules, combine them in the deadliest and most efficient ways imaginable, and fly your very own spaceship through alien space with BossConstructor. Thousands of procedurally generated galaxies await you and your space-faring collection of assembled modules to explore them.

Why similar: Building 27.7%, Space 19.1%, Physics 11.7%, Top-Down 8.5%, Shooter 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building modular space ships to survive and conquer in a procedurally generated galaxy.

Faster than anyone. Stronger than anyone. And more stunning. Customize your robot for “cyber battle racing” in a game that offers all the thrills of racing, battle, and customization. Online, Offline, Time-Attack... which mode will you dominate?!

Why similar: Multiplayer 21.4%, Sandbox 21.2%, Shooter 20.5%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Action 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers highly detailed modular mech customization paired with fast-paced combat and racing mechanics.

Deuterium Wars is a rapid 2D shooter. Create your own aircraft and plunge into heated battle with other players. What awaits you: an extensive role-playing system, craft, trading, and much more on a single server for all platforms.

Why similar: Multiplayer 28.8%, Building 15.3%, Shooter 15%, Sandbox 14.5%, Action 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down multiplayer shooter that features extensive vehicle customization and fast-paced combat.

Fast-paced mecha themed third person shooter.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 57.1% ★, Shooter 17.5%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Action 9.9%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features modular mech combat with a focus on character customization and tactical engagement.

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

Why similar: Building 27.6%, Sandbox 26.8%, Physics 19.8%, Space 11.5%, Multiplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox simulation that emphasizes physics-based vehicle construction and testing.

“Build and Fight” multiplayer for mature players. Build your own Machine, join combat and win the battle using tactics and strategy.

Why similar: Building 27.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Shooter 12.4%, Physics 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused game centered on building and battling with custom-designed vehicles.

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: Vehicular Combat 37.8% ★, Building 20.6%, Physics 18.2%, Sandbox 15.2%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic physics-based combat simulator focused on building and battling custom robots.

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: Vehicular Combat 31.8% ★, Building 25.5%, Sandbox 20.7%, Space 13.6%, Sci-fi 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A space sandbox that allows for the creation of massive, modular ships used for combat and trade.

Warspace 2 is a 1-4 player CO-OP space shooter with RPG elements, open-world and procedurally-generated galaxy. You can trade, craft, and fight your way through a universe, either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 32.6%, Sandbox 19.9%, Space 11.9%, Shooter 10.3%, Beat 'em up 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down space sandbox that allows for exploration and combat with customizable ships.

Top-down 2.5D action that combines old-school shooters like Star Control, action-RPGs like Diablo, with a system that evolves unique weapons to player preferences. Single-player and 32-player online coop and PVP.

Why similar: Space 43.6%, Action 29.3%, Indie 27.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on procedural weapon generation and modular progression in a space-based combat setting.

Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 32.3% ★, Building 18.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Physics 13.2%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: An extremely deep vehicle construction game where every component and physics interaction matters in combat.

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: Vehicular Combat 35.2% ★, Building 20.7%, Sandbox 16.7%, Physics 16.1%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based building game that challenges players to construct machines for combat and destruction.

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: Vehicular Combat 28.5% ★, Building 15.4%, Space 13.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Physics 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on creative vehicle building using modular parts in a physics-driven sandbox world.

Equip your battleship's guns, install faster engines, and increase the power of your reactor. Throw a barrage of rockets on hordes of enemy ships, burning everything in your path!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.6%, Space 25%, Shooter 22.3%, Sci-fi 12.6%, 2D 8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down space shooter that incorporates modular ship customization and bullet-hell combat.

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 36.1% ★, Building 23.6%, Sandbox 19.1%, Physics 18.3%, Action 3%

Why You'll Like It: A flight simulator that emphasizes the construction of custom aircraft using modular parts and physics.

Sandbox of destruction. Billion different ways to build your mech. Feel the weight and impact of obliteration in this modern old school mech combat sim.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.8%, Vehicular Combat 23.1% ★, Physics 14.3%, Shooter 8.5%, Top-Down 8.3%

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: Building 29.1%, Sandbox 23.2%, Physics 21.7%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A highly flexible building game that uses a visual programming system to create complex, physics-based robots.

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 38.3%, Space 17.1%, Multiplayer 16.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Sci-fi 6.2%

A Sandbox Multiplayer Airship Shooting Game.Design battleships with weapons in a "rock paper scissors" mechanic.Shoot or Collide enemy ships into pieces.Challenge players all over the world with ships designed by yourself!

Why similar: Sandbox 38%, Multiplayer 28.9%, Building 15.6%, Indie 6.5%, Action 6.2%

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: Vehicular Combat 23.8% ★, Building 19.1%, Physics 16.6%, Sandbox 15.7%, Shooter 9.9%

A fast-paced multiplayer shooter where you customize your robot, zoom around with a jetpack, and battle with various weapons. Master the arenas, surprise your enemies, and enjoy the nonstop action!

Why similar: Multiplayer 38.6%, Shooter 30.7%, 2D 10.6%, Indie 10.4%, Action 9.6%

Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Building 35.8%, Physics 26.7%, Multiplayer 20.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Indie 3.4%

Competitive multiplayer match with vehicles and arcade elements that makes the gameplay unpredictable. Select and customize your operators and your weapons. Choose a strategy to win in a open map. Became a master of all game modes. Create your clan and level up until the BLACK ACE level!

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 48.4% ★, Multiplayer 18.7%, Shooter 16.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.6%, Action 4.5%

Nimbus INFINITY is a high-speed mech action game, set in the future of a war-torn Earth that has just begun to heal. Equip mechanical Battle Frames with weapons to customize your battle style, and soar through variant battlefields while discovering the story of a new generation.

Why similar: Shooter 29.1%, Sci-fi 22.6%, Space 17.3%, Anime 13.4%, Action 10.7%

Shoot, destroy, collect, craft and destroy even more! "Dark Gravity" is a fast-paced, low poly vertical shoot'em up game that features non-linear campaign mode with lots of enemies and bosses. Craft new weapons, upgrade your fighter and build an ultimate aerial war machine!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 40.7%, Shooter 17%, Top-Down 13.8%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Crafting 7.1%

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: Sandbox 21%, Physics 18.1%, Building 16.5%, Space 11%, Indie 8.9%

ASTROLANCER combines top-down shooter and shoot 'em up gameplay into one action-packed experience! Devise your own playstyle with a huge variety of weapons. Hardcore and casual players alike are welcome!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 47.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.1%, Shooter 8%, Top-Down 6.5%, Action 5.1%

High-octane 2D shooter. Put your shooting skills to the test with over 200 weapons and attachments. Play game modes solo or co-op online!

Why similar: Sandbox 28.7%, Shooter 18.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.6%, Physics 15.7%, Action 7.1%

A free to play 2D online shooter game! The game features " building". There are three different modes: Ranked Match, Bot Match, and Custom Match, for 1-4 players! Characters can be customized by changing their skin or painting.

Why similar: Multiplayer 31.9%, Shooter 26.1%, Building 22.3%, Action 10%, 2D 5.7%

Utopos is a MOSA - Multiplayer Online Space Arena! Gameplay is from a top-down angle, dual-stick shooter and you can play against your friends online, or against AI-controlled opponents.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 40.2%, Shooter 17.9%, Top-Down 9.7%, Space 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Assault Bots is a fast-paced multiplayer robot shooter game. Create your robot, let it drive, walk, or fly, and battle other players online in this intense shooter. Game features multiple maps and game modes.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 56.5% ★, Multiplayer 17.4%, Shooter 10.8%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Action 4.6%

Two teams of players control their capital ship in an epic battle. Customize your ship, control its movement, weapons, and energy distribution or go to one of the hangars to join the battle in a smaller fighter!

Why similar: Multiplayer 27.7%, Space 22.8%, Shooter 18%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Action 7.3%

Brickadia is a next-generation brick building sandbox that gives you the tools to create and play, your way. Build massive worlds, invent cool contraptions, and play in them however you like - all with your friends!

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 29.4% ★, Building 21.2%, Sandbox 18.4%, Physics 17.9%, Multiplayer 12.6%

Operate an advanced mining ship in a fully destructible and open-world environment!

Why similar: Space 32.8%, Shooter 20.1%, Action 19.8%, Indie 14.6%, Sci-fi 12.7%

Pilot a mech to hunt down and destroy the oppressive government of a cyberpunk autocracy. In this fast-paced, top-down shooter, use overwhelming firepower to destroy columns of tanks and level buildings. Unlock up to 56 unique vehicles and 40 weapons.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 32.7% ★, Top-Down Shooter 28%, Shooter 9.2%, Cyberpunk 8.8%, Top-Down 8.6%

PACER is high-octane anti-gravity racing at its most destructive. Customise your craft and weapons then engage in the campaign, a single-player race or compete against your rivals in explosive online multiplayer for the ultimate combat racing experience.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 49.3% ★, Multiplayer 14.8%, Shooter 12.1%, Sci-fi 10%, Cyberpunk 10%

Granvir is a 3rd person action roguelite mech-builder with co-op multiplayer. Scavenge the battlefield for parts to replace and upgrade your Granvir and weaponry. PIlot your Granvir and manage your campaign between battles to find the best equipment and stay supplied while fighting a guerilla war.

Why similar: Multiplayer 45.7%, Shooter 28.9%, Sci-fi 21.3%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Operation Valor is a tactical top-down multiplayer shooter that provides large scale combined-arms combat through base building and teamwork.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 35.2%, Vehicular Combat 20.1% ★, Multiplayer 14.9%, Shooter 12.3%, Top-Down 10.9%

Engage in multiplayer gunfights that you are free to fly in the sky play like no FPS you've played before. you can choose 4 guns with a totally level playing field and 18 beautiful maps with different strategies. Equip your jetpack and Fight in the sky!

Why similar: Multiplayer 39%, Sci-fi 23.7%, Crafting 17.3%, Action 10.4%, Indie 9.5%

DEADSWITCH COMBAT is a fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter. Experience action-packed combat with hundreds of weapons, vehicle combat, and plenty of team-based game modes.

Why similar: Multiplayer 28.8%, Shooter 28.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.4%, 2D 8.3%, Action 8.2%

A fast paced multiplayer dogfighting game that focuses on creative weapons and game mechanics that reward skillful flying.

Why similar: Multiplayer 55.9%, Action 26.2%, Indie 17.9%

You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and Pick your battles carefully to overcome your hunters in this Fast-Paced Top-Down Action Roguelite Shooter.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 34.1%, Building 15.4%, Space 13.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.8%, Shooter 11.6%

A bullet hell of your own making! Play the game where strategy and creativity meet - duel rival wizards in real time battle arenas with custom shot crafting to win the League of Crafters!

Why similar: Action 37.9%, Indie 34.5%, Multiplayer 27.7%

Sky of Destruction is a top-down shooter created by a team of two people. Combine aircrafts in your combat fleet, which will help you during the mission. Your goal is to destroy the enemy aircraft carrier or buildings, breaking through the enemy air armada. Explosions and total destruction!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 34.9%, Physics 16.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.5%, Space 12.4%, Shooter 11.7%