- #1 Infinite Gravity
97% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Gravity Wave Interactive
Windows
This is a build sandbox game We have hundreds of elements for your choice We offer a variety of materials in building their ideal architectural works for you We will also open survival mode in the future
Why similar: Sandbox 40.6%, Simulation 24.3%, Building 20.5%, Adventure 10.9%, Indie 3.7%
- #2 DearCraft
96% matchMostly Negative38% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: Fairy Studio
Windows
DearCraft is a game that allows players to create a world with imagination and creativity unboundedly and play their own 3D sandbox game spontaneously.
Why similar: Simulation 51.5%, Sandbox 26.7%, Building 14%, Indie 7.8%
- #3 Text Factory: Automation
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hy_studio
Windows
Text Factory: Automation is an offline, text-based factory simulation game. Build production lines, set up transportation between maps, upgrade technologies, craft weapons and armor, and defeat enemies to gather more resources and expand your factory.
Why similar: Simulation 35.2%, Sandbox 30.8%, Automation 16.8%, Building 10%, 2D 6.4%
- #4 Buildanauts
95% matchMostly Negative21% of 61 reviews2017
Dev: TouchTilt GamesPub: Octopus Tree
Windows
In BUILDANAUTS, you’re the foreman, the city planner, and the mayor of the town of your dreams. Build a town that your townsfolk, the Buildanites, will be proud to call home!
Why similar: Simulation 43.9%, Sandbox 33%, Building 18.4%, Indie 4.6%
- #5 Purplis Sandbox
94% matchMixed66% of 211 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGOLITEPub: DRAGOLITE STUDIO
Windows
Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.
Why similar: Sandbox 38.3%, Simulation 36.8%, Building 14.5%, 2D 7.3%, Indie 1.9%
- #6 Theme Park Studio
94% matchMixed40% of 465 reviews2016
Dev: Pantera Entertainment
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Theme Park Studio is a powerful suite of tools that allows players to design, build, and experience stunning amusement parks of their own design. Players can build whatever they can imagine, and then share it online for others to experience. Theme Park Studio includes Steam Workshop integration.
Why similar: Simulation 53%, Sandbox 29.7%, Building 11.5%, Indie 4.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #7 Slimy Harvest
93% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: plyoung
Windows
Harvest Slime Monster eggs for the Alchemists. Buy equipment to automate the process and combine Slimes into new types for more profit and to explore deeper into the dungeon.
Why similar: Automation 38.7%, Sandbox 36.4%, Simulation 23.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #8 Let Them Fall
92% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Marcin Kubala
Windows
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: Simulation 30%, Sandbox 27.7%, Automation 23.8%, Building 11.7%, Colorful 4.9%
- #9 LostData
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LostData Game
Windows
LostData is an action game set in space. To defend themselves, the player must: gather resources and information to customize their equipment, mechanics, and environment, and develop their skills as an interstellar farmer, if they want to survive and understand!
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.9%, Simulation 29.9%, Sandbox 27.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #10 MoldLab
91% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Qsters
Windows · Mac
With just a few sliders you can make beautiful structures from millions of little creatures following each other.
Why similar: Simulation 34.6%, Sandbox 28.3%, Automation 25.1%, 2D 5.8%, Colorful 5.4%
- #11 Junkman101
89% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: MaryIsHere
Windows · Mac
在一个程序化生成的 2D 像素沙盒世界中探索、挖掘和建造。收集矿物并熔炼,合成物品,升级标签。挑战怪物、发现遗迹,体验自由的冒险与创造之旅。
Why similar: Simulation 36.7%, Sandbox 32.3%, Adventure 11.7%, Building 10.7%, 2D 5.9%
- #12 Float Night
90% matchMixed70% of 60 reviews2018
Dev: Meng Games
Windows
Float Night is a small sandbox game that is easy to collect resources, simple to build, no craft, and sustainable.
Why similar: Sandbox 57.7%, Simulation 20.1%, Building 9.5%, Adventure 9%, Indie 3.1%
- #13 YASG
89% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: IW
Windows
You begin as a beaten Dark Lord in castle debris. Good news: you still have cute loyal servants to obey your orders and one superpower - you can teleport the whole castle with all your belongings when you want. Explore maps, mine resources, use your ingenuity to invent tricky traps.
Why similar: Simulation 52.9%, Sandbox 32.4%, Indie 8%, 2D 6.7%
- #14 3d Bridges
88% matchMostly Negative36% of 28 reviews2015
Dev: Robert DahlenburgPub: Dahlenburg
Windows
Build your very unique bridges and other constructions in a physics based 3d environment
Why similar: Simulation 44.4%, Sandbox 32.4%, Building 19.9%, Indie 3.3%
- #15 Galactic Shipwright
87% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: NanoidGames
Windows
Build the best or the funniest ships to transfer passengers, destroy enemies or navigate minefields. Beat every level and compete with your friends on the game's leaderboard, and share your best creations on the workshop.
Why similar: Simulation 41.7%, Sandbox 31.9%, Building 19.8%, Indie 6.6%
- #16 Simulo
86% matchPositive89% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Carroted
Windows · Linux
A multiplayer 2D physics sandbox game where you can build and share creations. Features include electricity, temperature, and destructible ragdolls.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.4%, Simulation 28.1%, Automation 18.1%, Building 12.6%, 2D 7.7%
- #17 Machine World 2
86% matchMixed49% of 200 reviews2017
Dev: Trino GamesPub: Trino AB
Windows · Mac
Take control of a range of different machines and operate them in a unique environment. Each new game generates a new world, and it is yours to develop: Dig and build anything, anywhere! All machines have been carefully modelled down to small details.
Why similar: Simulation 43.7%, Sandbox 41.4%, Building 10%, Indie 5%
- #18 Iron Inc.
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Segment Games
Windows · Mac
Iron Inc is an interplanetary factory automation game where you colonize, build, and fight on planets across the galaxy while developing inter-planetary logistics systems. Create massive bases and engage in combat on the ground and in space.
Why similar: Simulation 37.4%, Automation 27.2%, Sandbox 18.8%, Adventure 11.6%, Indie 3.9%
- #19 KAIWorld
85% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: kjkjkAIStudio
Windows
KAIWorld is a simple world that you can place or remove object to build your own world. You can scavenge some stuff and craft with machine in order to reach higher tier.
Why similar: Simulation 40.4%, Sandbox 37.6%, Building 12.3%, 2D 8.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #20 The Unfolding Engine: Paint a Game
84% matchMostly Positive81% of 31 reviews2018
Dev: 64k
Windows
The Unfolding Engine: Paint a Game is a new paradigm of Metroidvania 2.5D game making software. That allows you to make the content of your game while you are playing it! The entire software is designed around allowing you to make and share worlds, share tools, and levels. All in real time.
Why similar: Metroidvania 58.8%, Sandbox 36%, Indie 5.2%
- #21 Doterra Industries
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DelayNetwork
Windows · Mac · Linux
Doterra Industries is a 2D factory-building sandbox about exploring a strange mineral world, building production lines, and slowly turning a rough outpost into an automated industrial network.
Why similar: Simulation 63%, Automation 29.6%, 2D 7.5%
- #22 Glitchy Apocalypse Simulator
82% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2020
Dev: NegativeGenius LLC
Windows
DISCLAIMER: Made by one dev and his kid. Uses lots of assets. Glitchy Apocalypse Simulator is a comical physics-based game. The game is a light-hearted, comical sandbox and makes no attempts at realism or strategy.
Why similar: Simulation 56.4%, Sandbox 32.9%, Indie 8.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #23 Last Wood
82% matchMixed67% of 587 reviews2022
Dev: JustUsGameLab
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
In Last Wood, it is an oceanic world after the Fall. You will guide several survivors in the ocean from pieces of rafts, survive, build rafts, defense the threats, explore the unknown world, even have their offsprings, and find the truth of the world.
Why similar: Simulation 46.9%, Adventure 19.9%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 11.1%, Indie 6.4%
- #24 middenmoon
80% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Dorfl
Windows · Linux
That's no moon. It's a giant ball of garbage. Build a factory to excavate, wash, sort, classify and disassemble the detritus of ages past.
Why similar: Sandbox 42.7%, Simulation 24.5%, Automation 19%, 2D 9.6%, Indie 2.6%
- #25 CellSar
81% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: DrSamatha
Windows
A sandbox game about collecting cells, building machines and organs out of cells and keeping them alive.
Why similar: Sandbox 43.7%, Simulation 35.3%, Adventure 17.7%, Indie 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #26 The Confidential Disclosure
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: isontheedgePub: Lambisgoia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pilot a UFO over an infinite voxel world that curves like a tiny planet. Abduct, destroy and uncover what humanity hid — while the army, the police and the men in black hunt you across a living, fully destructible sandbox.
Why similar: Simulation 28.8%, Sandbox 28%, Adventure 14.1%, Aliens 13.6%, Stylized 7.9%
- #27 Pixel Rain
78% matchNo user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: HuddyGames
Windows · Mac
A chill falling-sand pixel physics sandbox. Paint with hundreds of interactive materials — water, lava, acid, crystals, plants and more — discover recipes, build your own elements in the Workshop, and watch it all react in real time. No goals. No pressure. Just pixels.
Why similar: Simulation 41.2%, Sandbox 37%, Colorful 10.4%, 2D 8.3%, Indie 2.1%
- #28 Metaverse Construction Kit
79% matchMixed67% of 227 reviews2015
Dev: Metaware
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 32%
The Metaverse Construction Kit is a virtual environment to construct your own 3D creations. Use the twenty-four structural elements to define your structures and then style your creations with sixty-four material types like organics, metals, minerals, and composites. Then Publish!
Why similar: Sandbox 47.4%, Simulation 24.5%, Building 24%, Indie 3.1%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #29 Physics Cake
79% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: Merriman Games
Windows
Physics Cake is a 2-D physics simulation game where you can draw containers, objects, or anything you want really and put whatever chosen physical object you want inside of it.
Why similar: Simulation 38%, Sandbox 33.1%, Building 18.3%, 2D 7.4%, Indie 2%
- #30 Metal Detect: Hidden Treasure
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 52 Weeks
Windows
Grab your metal detector and hunt for buried treasure across a quiet countryside village. Drive your pickup between locations. Take jobs from neighbors and get permission to search their land. Sell what you uncover and upgrade your gear as you get closer to an ancient treasure buried beneath.
Why similar: Simulation 33.1%, Sandbox 31.7%, Adventure 16.2%, Stylized 9.3%, Colorful 7.7%
- #31 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
77% 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: Sandbox 31%, Automation 26.5%, Simulation 25%, Building 11.9%, Colorful 2.2%
- #32 Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
77% matchVery Positive87% of 905 reviews2012
Dev: Shadow Planet ProductionsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%
In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.
Why similar: Metroidvania 76.1%, Adventure 12.2%, 2D 6.7%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 1%
- #33 Xenomycology
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Peccary Games
Windows
Xenomycology is a metroidvania tower defense game. You control a colony of extra-terrestrial fungus spreading across a planet, and fighting off invading creatures. Xenomycology also offers a peaceful mode if you only want to grow mushrooms and explore the world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 45.3%, Simulation 23.6%, Aliens 15.7%, Building 8.2%, 2D 4.4%
- #34 Being John Gogh
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Procrast Games
Windows
"Being John Gogh" is a life simulation game where you play as John, navigating through a world rendered in the style of Van Gogh's paintings, focusing on improving relationships, managing health, and enhancing charisma to find happiness on Bozca Island.
Why similar: Simulation 35.4%, Sandbox 28.9%, Adventure 18.4%, Stylized 7.9%, Colorful 6.7%
- #35 DesktopVivarium
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: If Game
Windows
Your computer desktop will no longer be just a static background, but a living, breathing ecosphere. You’ll watch plants and animals thrive as fish swim freely across your screen. In your downtime, you can feed the creatures, clean up their waste.
Why similar: Simulation 36%, Sandbox 28.9%, Automation 18.3%, Building 13.8%, Indie 1.9%
- #36 Domino Chillbox
73% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: SOLOFORGE WORKS
Windows
Welcome to my first game! Enjoy total freedom in this sandbox domino builder. Play with physics, test out unique special dominoes to spice things up, or use the image-to-domino generator for instant fun. Build, experiment, and have fun knocking them down!
Why similar: Simulation 44.6%, Sandbox 38.7%, Building 15.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #37 Adventure Apes and the Mayan Mystery
75% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2016
Dev: ScaryPotatoPub: Groupees Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Go Ape-bit with this fast-paced retro platformer, in which you work to recover a stolen magical artifact in the labyrinth of an ancient temple!
Why similar: Metroidvania 69.2%, Adventure 22.1%, Indie 8.7%
- #38 Firefly Forge: Autumn Bastion
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alchemist
Windows
"Firefly Forge: Autumn Bastion" is a survival adventure game that allows for free exploration, construction, and interaction. Witnessing the transformation of the Shangri La by hand gradually forming a unique ecological cycle, allowing players to find their own rhythm of life in this breathing land.
Why similar: Simulation 34.7%, Sandbox 31.3%, Adventure 16.4%, Stylized 8%, Building 7.1%
- #39 Скуф на даче
72% matchVery Positive89% of 680 reviews2025
Dev: KickedMesh
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 37%
A cottage is not just about garden beds! Dacha is primarily a solitude with oneself. Flood the sauna, go mushroom picking, and ride an old bucket over the village potholes in an immersive country simulator.
Why similar: Simulation 39.8%, Sandbox 37.1%, Adventure 19.6%, Indie 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #40 Fireworks Show Simulator
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Simplay Studio
Windows · Mac
Design and run professional fireworks displays. Place racks, load shells, connect fuses, and watch your show from any viewpoint.
Why similar: Simulation 38.4%, Sandbox 35.2%, Stylized 10%, Colorful 7.2%, Building 6.3%
- #41 Fractala Sandbox
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ludofractal
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Simulation 31.9%, Automation 24.8%, Stylized 12%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #42 House Sitter
72% matchVery Positive97% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Eric SteinbergPub: N/A
Windows
Explore the wacky world of House Sitter, and discover what secrets lie in wait. Meet new friends! Choose their fate!... Uncover who you truly are. But most importantly, get those chores done before Mom comes home.
Why similar: Simulation 50.7%, Adventure 23.2%, Sandbox 17.2%, Indie 7.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #43 Empire Game:Pixel Hero
70% matchMixed57% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Empire Game Team
Windows
A troop-clash strategy game. Choose your hero, command minions, crush enemy formations! Inspired by Heroes of Might & Magic and Hero's Hour. Multiple races with national styles like Huaxia and France. Random maps = unique fun every game! Endless development & combat!
Why similar: Simulation 43.4%, Sandbox 38.2%, Adventure 14.8%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #44 The Waste Land
73% matchMixed51% of 103 reviews2014
Dev: FledermausPub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The Waste Land, a "metroidvania" style side-scroller inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem of the same name, puts players in the role of a fallen king who must find his way to right the wrongs caused by his own failings.
Why similar: Metroidvania 71.5%, Adventure 21.4%, Indie 7.2%
- #45 Yuma Nest
69% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Piokou
Windows
Destroy massive swarms of monsters to grind and grow stronger in this Open-World Sandbox RPG. Build automated systems that farm monster drops for you, defeat bosses, and descend deeper into an interconnected underworld.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.4%, Sandbox 21.4%, Automation 20.5%, Building 11.2%, Adventure 7%
- #46 Steel Guardian
71% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Virtual Loop
Windows
Steel guardian is an open world sandbox with primary focus on combat mixed with some exploration. Earn coin for new weapons and spells by discovering ancient artifacts or trinkets to sell while exploring the world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 41.1%, Sandbox 28.1%, Adventure 10.2%, Stylized 9.8%, Colorful 8%
- #47 Stunt Corgi VR
71% matchMixed63% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: Studio Roqovan, Inc.
Windows
You are the parent of one daring corgi that dreams of being the most famous stunt pet in the world! Place your props, build the course and direct your corgi's routine. Call “Action!” to watch the stunt unfold. It won't always go the way you plan, but that's the fun!
Why similar: Simulation 51%, Sandbox 42.5%, Indie 4%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #48 Nakiti Generations
71% matchMixed52% of 30 reviews2017
Dev: Diablohead
Windows
2D action adventure game set in the far future on a mysterious abandoned planet with yourself as the only survivor.
Why similar: Metroidvania 81.9%, Adventure 13.4%, Indie 4.7%
- #49 Autotelic
68% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Jettson GobervillePub: doctor ohio studios
Windows
mess about with a unique array of tools, items and characters in a stylized homemade game engine.
Why similar: Sandbox 39.7%, Simulation 36.7%, Stylized 15.8%, Indie 6.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #50 Non-Euclidean Design
70% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Dennis Gaming
Windows
Design your home in the non-Euclidean world.
Why similar: Sandbox 35.1%, Simulation 25.4%, Building 14.3%, Adventure 12.3%, Colorful 9.7%
- #51 Fakutori
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Antoine LatourPub: Mythwright
Windows
Fakutori is a laid-back automation game with a lot more going on beneath the surface. Combine elements, build sprawling production lines, and chase down the Legendary Blocks that only the most dedicated builders ever find. All at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 27.2%, Sandbox 26.9%, Simulation 20.3%, Building 13.8%, 2D 5.3%
- #52 Mito
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nehemek Amador
Windows · Mac
Enter Mito, a physics-based sandbox adventure! Transform your surroundings, gather the eight keys, and craft your way to victory against an ancient evil!
Why similar: Metroidvania 43%, Sandbox 24.8%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 6.5%, 2D 4.9%
- #53 Duckles: the Jigsaw Witch
69% matchMostly Negative32% of 25 reviews2016
Dev: Turbulon Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Lured by a vengeful spirit of a defeated witch, our 16-bit hero, and his friends, find themselves trapped on a mysterious island full of deadly sorceresses! What heinous plans does this gruesome Witch have for him? And what is the true origin of the island?
Why similar: Metroidvania 57.2%, Adventure 23.7%, 2D 11.1%, Indie 7.9%
- #54 Auto Factory
68% match8 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: Architect Studios
Windows
Build and run your own automated factory to turn materials into a range of products!
Why similar: Simulation 47.2%, Automation 31.7%, Building 19%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #55 You Can't Scare Me
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LunaBeat
Windows
Scare or be scared in You Can't Scare Me - the VR haunted house where you can frighten your friends! Set scary traps or transform into terrible monsters to try and scare the living daylights out of your friends. If they scream, you win!
Why similar: Sandbox 45.2%, Simulation 36%, Stylized 16.3%, Indie 2.5%
- #56 Ultrawings FLAT
68% matchMixed43% of 21 reviews2019
Dev: Bit Planet Games, LLC
Windows
Ultrawings is an aerial-themed, open-world flight game where you fly multiple aircraft to complete a variety of missions across a beautiful, island-themed world!
Why similar: Simulation 70.9%, Adventure 29.1%
- #57 Astronaut Simulator
67% matchMixed63% of 59 reviews2015
Dev: Astrosimer
Windows
Experience zero gravity flight from the astronaut helmet perspective in this unique flight simulator. Ever wanted to know what it would be like to be an astronaut? Now you can find out.
Why similar: Simulation 67.2%, Adventure 24.8%, Indie 8%
- #58 Moonlaw
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 130 reviews2021
Dev: Scumhead
Windows
Moonlaw is a mini-micro-metroidvania about a heroic knight's adventure to destroy a horrible monster on the moon!
Why similar: Metroidvania 70%, Aliens 16.7%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #59 Bottle Journey
66% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: waqrePub: wVw_cat
Windows
it's a bottle, it can be very difficult! this game is very difficult, it is divided into several levels and each level will be more difficult and more difficult, but you can help overcome these difficulties!
Why similar: Simulation 68%, Adventure 30.6%, Indie 1.5%