Games Like Mod and Play

Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

Why similar: Moddable 26.5%, Sandbox 21%, Physics 8.2%, Building 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive physics sandbox that pioneered the moddable, multiplayer building experience found in Mod and Play.

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: Sandbox 39.8%, Building 17.2%, Multiplayer 16%, Physics 15.5%, Open World 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep vehicle-building system with a robust physics engine that excels in multiplayer destruction.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Building 14.7%, Moddable 14.7%, Physics 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features complex mechanical building and physics-based engineering that perfectly complements the sandbox nature of the seed game.

Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

Why similar: Moddable 37.7%, Sandbox 36.8%, Physics 13.5%, Building 7%, Indie 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is an experimental physics sandbox that allows for unlimited creative manipulation of objects and ragdolls.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Moddable 34.5%, Sandbox 21.5%, Physics 10.8%, Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a sophisticated building and physics simulation set in space, allowing for massive, complex constructions with friends.

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: Sandbox 32.5%, Physics 16.4%, Building 14.6%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Online Co-Op 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused building sandbox that emphasizes creative freedom and community-driven content.

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: Sandbox 29.5%, Online Co-Op 22.3%, Physics 14.9%, Building 14.5%, Multiplayer 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on creative vehicle building where physics and aerodynamics play a crucial role in how your creations perform.

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 39.5%, Sandbox 25.2%, Physics 12.7%, Building 12.2%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This physics-based building game challenges you to construct siege engines to destroy targets, mirroring the creative destruction found in Mod and Play.

Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.

Why similar: Mod 44.7% ★, Sandbox 19.2%, Physics 9.8%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Online Co-Op 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a fully destructible voxel environment that provides a satisfying, high-fidelity physics experience.

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 36.8%, Sandbox 28.9%, Physics 13.6%, Building 11.9%, FPS 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a pure physics-based sandbox experience focused on ragdoll manipulation and destruction.

Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Why similar: Sandbox 49.5%, Building 21%, Physics 19.6%, Open World 6.4%, First-Person 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an advanced building and physics simulation where you can create complex vehicles for various rescue scenarios.

Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox for Desktop+VR

Why similar: Moddable 34.3%, Sandbox 20.4%, Physics 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based sandbox designed for VR that allows players to create and play in custom environments with others.

Just Cause 3 Multiplayer mod is a free fan-created project bringing an explosive and highly-customizable multiplayer.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 56.4%, Mod 24.9% ★, Multiplayer 6.8%, Sandbox 5.5%, Shooter 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It adds a massive multiplayer layer to a physics-heavy open world, perfect for players who enjoy chaotic sandbox interactions.

Become a ragdoll and create your own environments in Sandbox Mode, explore worlds created by others, or just flop around your destructible sets! Fun with Ragdolls®: The Game lets you enjoy everything you love about ragdolls!

Why similar: Sandbox 39.8%, Physics 19.5%, Building 11.9%, Moddable 10.2%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on physics-based ragdoll interactions in a sandbox environment designed for chaotic fun.

GoreBox is a chaotic physics-driven sandbox where creativity meets destruction. Use the Reality Crusher to spawn, manipulate, and obliterate anything. Customize, roleplay, or face devious creatures. In this world, your imagination rules, and chaos is your playground!

Why similar: Sandbox 51.7%, Physics 21.9%, FPS 13.3%, Shooter 9.6%, First-Person 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game combines physics-based destruction with combat elements for a chaotic and violent experience.

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: Sandbox 29.9%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Building 14.6%, Physics 14.5%, Multiplayer 13%

Why You'll Like It: It provides advanced robot-building tools with a physics engine that rewards creative engineering and experimentation.

Blockland is a non-linear sandbox game with no set goals, giving players the freedom to design and construct elaborate structures. Styled as a tiny minifigure, players build inside of the virtual world using bricks reminiscent of toy blocks.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.1%, Moddable 24.8%, Building 11.9%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic multiplayer building sandbox that focuses on creative freedom and community-made game modes.

A highly customizable virtual stressball and physics sandbox about mutilating ragdolls in various ways using an overwhelming amount of weapons and tools.

Why similar: Sandbox 46.7%, Physics 19.4%, Moddable 11%, Indie 10.8%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a 2D physics-based sandbox focused on testing various items and scenarios on ragdolls.

Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!

Why similar: Moddable 29.7%, Sandbox 24.7%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Physics 9%, Online Co-Op 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It acts as a physics-based sandbox for tabletop games, allowing players to manipulate objects and create their own rules.

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: Moddable 37.6%, Sandbox 29.6%, Physics 14.7%, Building 14.3%, Open World 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title allows for detailed vehicle design where physics and flight dynamics are central to the building process.

Playcraft is a multiplayer game-creation sandbox accessible to anyone!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 48.3%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Online Co-Op 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox allows players to create their own multiplayer games without needing to write code.

"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!

Why similar: Sandbox 49.1%, Physics 20%, Building 15.2%, Indie 14.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D physics simulation that allows for complex interactions between different materials and elements.

Multiplayer sandbox with destructible environment. Destroy different maps, build your own, and play with your friends and other people online

Why similar: Sandbox 39.1%, Building 18%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Shooter 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the satisfying physics of destroying structures in a sandbox environment.

A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.

Why similar: Sandbox 51.4%, Physics 24.8%, Building 22.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward physics-based sandbox experience for building and destruction.

Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 58.8%, Physics 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Sandbox 6.9%, Indie 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It uses a unique physics engine to create hilarious, chaotic multiplayer combat scenarios.

S&box is a game creation platform built on the Source 2 engine. Play, create, and share games, explore community creations, and experience endless sandbox fun with powerful modern tools.

Why similar: Sandbox 50.8%, Building 23.5%, FPS 12.7%, Shooter 9.7%, First-Person 3.4%

ADVENTURE. ANYWHERE! Explore endless magical worlds and battle fearsome creatures alongside millions of friends. Ride your own horse, bear or moa and discover the many game world wonders. Unleash your imagination by crafting beautiful buildings.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 68.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Indie 6.4%, Multiplayer 4.7%, Building 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines building and exploration in a massively multiplayer environment with a focus on creative freedom.

Gunscape provides easy-to-use tools based on a block-placement interface everybody's already familiar with to create all types of maps. Don't like building stuff? Then just blast your way through hordes of monsters or duel with other players!

Why similar: Sandbox 23.6%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Indie 14.1%, FPS 12.1%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox approach to level design, allowing players to build and share their own multiplayer shooter maps.

Blockstorm is a FPS game set in a world made of destructible blocks. All maps and characters included in the game are made with the same tools that are available to the public. You can build everything in Blockstorm, and you can destroy it.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.6%, Multiplayer 15.6%, FPS 13.5%, Building 12.5%, Massively Multiplayer 11.3%

BLOCKADE 3D! First Person Shooter in an editable procedural cubic world. A large arsenal of weapons, 4 teams at the same time and up to 32 players on one map. A large number of game modes!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 29.8%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 11.2%, FPS 9.7%

Pyroworks is a free-to-play online multiplayer game containing fireworks from real-life companies from all over the globe. You can choose to make your own show, cause destruction and chaos or simulate new years. Don't miss out on playing with your friends - the most fun part.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.5%, Moddable 31.4%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Indie 5.7%, Open World 3.6%

An open multiplayer sandbox game; includes tools, props, levels, NPCs, character models, game-modes and much more! Make your own using our mod kit!

Why similar: Building 33.9%, Physics 30.7%, FPS 28.3%, First-Person 7.1%

Flash Point aims for a special online FPS games. Play today and unlock skins, challenge others and win. With a real-time level editor, go crazy and build your own mad creations.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 77.5%, Indie 8.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, FPS 6.5%

A fully moddable city sandbox with jobs, NPCs, apartments, garages, gangs, and more. Broke Protocol is an open-world action game focused on roleplaying and custom content. Define your goals and identity in a persistent, reactive world where you write your own story.

Why similar: Moddable 37.3%, Sandbox 24.6%, Multiplayer 11%, FPS 8.3%, Indie 7.4%

Park Bound is a massively multiplayer playground featuring player crafted parks. Parks contain a variety of open worlds with different goals, obstacles, and collectible treasures.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 86.6%, Indie 9%, Online Co-Op 4.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Dude Simulator is an open world sandbox game. This is a life simulator. The main objective is to enjoy what you are doing.

Why similar: Sandbox 40.8%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Indie 15.1%, Physics 9.3%, Shooter 8.3%

Mini Golf Arena is an exciting multiplayer mini golf game for up to 24 players online. Build & play custom maps together with your friends.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 49.6%, Mod 24.2% ★, Moddable 10.9%, Indie 7.5%, Multiplayer 4.6%

A truly free and open source multiplayer shooter, no strings attached. Have casual deathmatch matches on various scenarios. Build your own levels with the ingame editor and assets that come with the game, or just play around and use it as a sandbox.

Why similar: Multiplayer 33%, Indie 22.3%, FPS 19.5%, Shooter 13.2%, Open World 8.3%

STANDBOX is a single-player physics sandbox about bullying a ragdoll. Shoot him, push him, watch him get back up until he doesn't.

Why similar: Sandbox 49.2%, Physics 21.7%, Moddable 21.3%, Indie 6%, First-Person 1.1%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Sandbox 28.9%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Building 14.2%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Co-op 11.4%

A creative building-like game, where the objective is to throw physics enabled objects to create structures to allow the objective of the level to be completed. Can be a very challenging puzzler or an easy, sit back and relax game. Includes built in Level Editor and extensive Multiplayer functionality.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 58.7%, Sandbox 23.6%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Indie 7.3%

Sanbox multiplayer building game with additional game mods

Why similar: Sandbox 32.7%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Building 13.9%, Co-op 11.4%, Shooter 10.3%

Use your godly powers to craft amazing pixel worlds or destroy the universe! Play with physics, over 200 elements and controllable heroes. Make your own games or levels, and then share your creations online. There are no limits to your creativity and imagination!

Why similar: Sandbox 63.2%, Physics 13.5%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Indie 11.6%

Voxel Project offers an immersive sandbox experience set in a fully destructible voxel environment. Explore a dynamic world teeming with vehicles, dynamic fire mechanics, enemy NPCs, voxel gore, weapon customization, and a bunch of additional features to discover.

Why similar: Moddable 36.2%, Sandbox 24.8%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Physics 10.3%, Co-op 8%

Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.

Why similar: Sandbox 64.8%, Building 23.1%, Indie 11.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Pixel Worlds is a free-to-play sandbox MMO where players build worlds, craft items, explore dungeons, farm resources, and trade in a player-driven economy, all within a shared online universe rebuilt as a fresh start for a fair and stable long-term experience.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 63.7%, Sandbox 19.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Indie 4.3%, Co-op 2%

Turn your entire digital life into a game. AArcade is a 3D desktop that launches shortcuts to absolutely anything you like. Join the anarchy of the persistent online metaverse, or remain in your own private reality. Casual in-game building features, plus hundreds of thousands of addons.

Why similar: Sandbox 49.9%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Indie 15.7%, Co-op 6%, Building 4.9%

FIREWORKS MANIA is a small casual explosive simulator game where you play around with fireworks, create beautiful firework shows or just blow stuff up.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.3%, Moddable 17.8%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Building 13.2%, Physics 13%

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 35.9%, Sandbox 25%, Building 14.2%, Physics 13.4%, Indie 3.9%

Wobbly Life is a vibrant open-world physics sandbox. Play with your friends online or in local co-op, with exciting jobs, mini games and wacky story missions. Earn cash to spend in the world on clothes, vehicles and houses. There is a whole Wobbly World out there to explore!

Why similar: Sandbox 33.8%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Co-op 12.8%, Physics 11.6%, Indie 10%

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: Mod 33.1% ★, Moddable 24.5%, Sandbox 18.9%, Physics 9.1%, Building 7.7%

The main purpose of this game is showing and watching machines made out of blocks. Some of the game-modes allow you to battle or race against other players. (testing phase) You can create your original machine with ease by reassembling those machines that are distributed, or by using the automatic control block.

Why similar: Sandbox 45.6%, Building 23.9%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Indie 10.2%, Open World 1%

Online shooter with a variety of game modes and a huge arsenal of weapons. Fight with other players, or team up with them to defeat hordes of zombies and mutants!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 71.5%, Indie 8.7%, Multiplayer 6.2%, Building 5.7%, FPS 3.7%

Slowmotion, gravitation control, destructible terrain, blackhole and much more! Destroy a small (huuge) building, using different types of weapons (even custom). When you get tired of exploding prepared structures, you can always visit the map editor to build whatever you want.

Why similar: Sandbox 48%, Physics 22.7%, Building 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 5.1%

Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!

Why similar: Sandbox 31.4%, Co-op 19.9%, Physics 15.7%, Building 15.6%, Multiplayer 12.2%