
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.
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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.

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.

RoboCo
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
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 17.8%, Automation 16.9%, Robots 15.6%, Building 12.6%, Education 11.9%
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: Robots 22.4%, Education 20%, Building 19.3%, Sandbox 16.6%, Physics 11.6%
Industrial Robotics Training : handle a 6-axis industrial robot and share my job
Why similar: Robots 31.5%, Automation 30.5%, Education 24.6%, Simulation 9.2%, 3D 3.1%
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 23.6%, Education 15%, Automation 14.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 12.7%
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 17.7%, Automation 17%, Robots 14.6%, Education 12.3%, Building 11.8%
Gas reaction simulator. Build the ultimate jet engine, solve puzzles, or just make everything explode!
Why similar: Science 26.6%, Education 24.3%, Sandbox 18%, Automation 11.5%, Building 9.5%
A casual 2.5D physics oriented game about building unorthodox contraptions to solve puzzles with a variety of items at disposal
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A physics sandbox of our Solar System. Fly the planets, change orbits, and watch Earth freeze, boil, or take a hit. Spawn worlds, cross Roche limits, and inspect atmospheres, magnetospheres, rings, and stellar heatmaps.
Why similar: Science 28.3%, Education 26.2%, Sandbox 19.5%, Physics 12.2%, Simulation 10.5%
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 19.9%, Robots 18.4%, Education 16.9%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 13.5%
PLC Ladder Logic programming simulator.
Why similar: Automation 41.3%, Education 32.4%, Physics 12.6%, Simulation 6%, Colorful 3%
With just a few sliders you can make beautiful structures from millions of little creatures following each other.
Why similar: Automation 34.7%, Education 30.1%, Sandbox 19.2%, Simulation 11.2%, Colorful 3.9%
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 precision machines and intricate clockwork contraptions.
Why similar: Science 19.5%, Automation 17%, Education 14.4%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.7%
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 26.3%, Science 21%, Education 16.7%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.2%
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: Education 30.7%, Science 30.6%, Sandbox 17.3%, Physics 10.8%, Simulation 8.8%
This program simulates astrophysics, allowing the creation of stellar systems in the void and the experience of being one of the celestial bodies.
Why similar: Science 32.4%, Education 26.4%, Physics 14.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 8%
Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
Why similar: Automation 33.8%, Science 28%, Building 19%, Sandbox 14.5%, Colorful 3.1%
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 33.3%, Building 21.5%, Sandbox 21.5%, Physics 12.2%, Simulation 6.3%
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 35.1%, Building 24.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Physics 14.4%, Simulation 6.5%
Join Aggi and dive into a world that lies just out of sight. Customize your own cell and see it thrive in a vibrant ecosystem. Discover a wide variety of organisms like you've never seen before. And learn real science in a playful and relaxed environment.
Why similar: Science 42.4%, Education 28.7%, Sandbox 15.5%, Simulation 7.2%, Colorful 4.1%
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: Automation 24.9%, Education 21.8%, Sandbox 18.6%, Building 13.4%, Robots 12.9%
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 35.8%, Sandbox 20.5%, Building 18.5%, Simulation 10.5%, Physics 7.3%
This is a metalworking workshop simulator. He enters the industry and works as a skilled worker. Manage robotic islands. Drive the forklift and procure the raw material. Make a difference with your muscle strength and experience.
Why similar: Automation 37.6%, Robots 35.1%, Physics 12.1%, Simulation 9.2%, 3D 3.7%
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: Automation 29.9%, Education 27.4%, Science 23.8%, Physics 8.7%, Simulation 8.4%
Command modular mechs in Typhon, a sci-fi tactical strategy game where you outthink rivals by scripting your bots with Python. Customize, adapt, and evolve your forces in real time in the hostile alien world of AEGIS IVb to dominate the battlefield.
Why similar: Automation 21.4%, Science 19.2%, Education 16.3%, Robots 15.3%, Sandbox 11.1%
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: Automation 30.3%, Education 24.3%, Building 19.6%, Physics 11.7%, Science 8.4%
Build and run your own automated factory to turn materials into a range of products!
Why similar: Automation 41.6%, Building 26.3%, Physics 15.5%, Simulation 14.5%, Singleplayer 2.1%
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 59.2%, Sandbox 27.3%, Simulation 8.4%, 3D 3.5%, Singleplayer 1.5%
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 29.6%, Education 17.7%, Science 17.1%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 11.5%
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: Automation 25.9%, Science 20.9%, Education 15.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 13.6%
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 31%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 14.6%, Education 14.3%, Physics 12.7%
Logic Arrows is a sandbox game where you design your own mechanisms: from logic gates to an entire computer. Use simple elements to build complex systems, solve engineering challenges and master computer logic.
Why similar: Automation 26%, Science 19.8%, Education 17.6%, Sandbox 15%, Building 13.3%
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: Automation 27.5%, Science 21.1%, Education 18.8%, Robots 18.3%, Physics 8%
Billion Egg Farm is a first-person automation game where you put chickens to work laying eggs and build production lines for eggs, meat, and processed goods.
Why similar: Automation 40.4%, Building 20.8%, Sandbox 17.3%, Physics 14%, Simulation 4%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Science 19.3%, Education 17.7%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 11%
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Science 20.5%, Education 19%, Building 15%, Sandbox 12%
Build your own robot. Program your robots AI in the Visual Scripting logic editor. Compete against other people's robots in the ranked arena. Build the strongest and smartest robot and win.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Robots 17.8%, Education 16.7%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.8%
A VR sci-fi sandbox game where you can put your skills to the test to build crazy inventions, with mechanics analogous to real-life electrical engineering.
Why similar: Science 25.7%, Education 18.4%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Robots 12.4%
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 24.7%, Education 19.1%, Physics 18.3%, Automation 14.3%, Sandbox 14.1%
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: Building 20%, Automation 18.4%, Science 16.8%, Sandbox 15.2%, Education 14%
An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.
Why similar: Automation 41.1%, Robots 18.2%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 4.8%
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: Automation 25.6%, Education 20.6%, Science 20.2%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12%
Decay is an incremental game in which you are tasked with using your trusty particle launcher to create ever-larger and more unstable atomic nuclei, witnessing longer and more complex atomic decay chains and aiming to discover all the isotopes!
Why similar: Science 39.6%, Automation 38.4%, Physics 13.1%, Simulation 7.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Build the digital machines you've always dreamed of! With some patience, love for digital electronics, and a good amount of problem-solving skills, you can create any combinational or sequential circuit in no time, thanks to the user-friendly interface and integrated voxel-editing tools.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Science 20.3%, Education 19.9%, Building 14%, Sandbox 13.3%
Build and manage your industrial sawmill in Timberline Factory. Experience a tycoon game where logistics meet physics: logs aren't just icons, they are physical objects that roll, collide, and react to your machines. Design efficient lines, manage equipment, and turn wood waste into green energy.
Why similar: Automation 42.5%, Building 20.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Physics 10%, Simulation 8.7%
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: Automation 32.7%, Science 26.6%, Building 18.1%, Sandbox 16.9%, Simulation 3.1%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
Why similar: Automation 32%, Education 24.9%, Robots 21.2%, Sandbox 16.1%, Simulation 3.5%
A professional-grade road design sim built on real-world maps. Recreate complex interchanges and iconic highways 1:1, engineer custom solutions with real workflows, and drive what you design.
Why similar: Science 21.2%, Automation 20.8%, Education 19.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 11.8%
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 23.9%, Automation 20%, Education 16.7%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 10.8%
Factory Life is a factory simulation from a worker’s perspective, where you start alone in a small garage and grow into a modern manufacturing operation inspired by real-world production hubs. Build products, manage your team, and scale up through smart automation.
Why similar: Automation 35.4%, Education 22%, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 15.6%, Simulation 6.2%
You input any function to guide the red ball on the xy-plane to the goal.
Why similar: Education 30.6%, Science 23.4%, Building 18%, Physics 18%, Simulation 7.4%
A circuit simulator where you draw everything. Wires are pixels, gates are triangles. Design chips, watch signals glow as they propagate, and debug by rewinding time.
Why similar: Automation 25.4%, Education 19.7%, Science 18.8%, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 13.6%
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: Automation 22.1%, Building 21%, Robots 19.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Physics 12.2%
Discover the world of electronics by fixing your hamster’s RC plane. Build real circuits, solve increasingly challenging engineering puzzles, and learn how electronic devices actually work. This wholesome circuitry sim lets you electrocute your hamster without authorities getting involved.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Science 22.7%, Education 19.3%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.8%
Control gravity, orbit around black holes, and have fun mastering physics with your car in space! With this educational puzzle game, only your genius and your analytical skills can get you out of trouble after a painful car crash on the Moon!
Why similar: Science 39.9%, Education 32.1%, Physics 15%, Sandbox 7.4%, 3D 2.1%
A programmer's career sim. Acquire actual coding skills while playing! Learn programming from zero, earn skill points, change your office, create devices and games with visual programming. Our code learning game is a perfect introduction to Python, C++, C#, Java, or JavaScript.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Science 21.4%, Education 17.7%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 11.6%
Nuclear fission simulator. Control A nuclear reactor, balancing Uranium fissile material. The game features a oversimplified reactor and the R.B.M.K Reactor in Chernobyl.
Why similar: Education 41.4%, Sandbox 25.6%, Physics 16.1%, Simulation 15.2%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Design real rocket engines with real physics, no black boxes. You're an underpaid engineer at Mecodyne, building engines that fire only if they'd work for real, without regard for your safety. A serious engineering sim that teaches by doing. Built solo.
Why similar: Science 25.7%, Education 22.6%, Sandbox 17.9%, Physics 12.9%, Building 8.2%
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 29.7%, Sandbox 19.4%, Building 14.6%, Education 14.5%, Physics 13%
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: Science 25.5%, Robots 20.3%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Physics 10.7%