- #1 Kerbal Space Program
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 147,368 reviews2015
Dev: SquadPub: Private Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 66.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 18.7%, Space Sim 16.7%, Simulation 13.7%, Space 13.6%, Sandbox 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for physics-based aerospace engineering and orbital mechanics in a sandbox setting.
- #2 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
96% matchVery Positive91% of 60,190 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 113.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Flight 27.1%, Sandbox 23.6%, Programming 20.1% ★, Physics 15.1%, Building 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep engineering mechanics where you must design vehicles using logic gates, sensors, and complex physical systems.
- #3 Space Engineers
96% matchVery Positive89% of 134,498 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Space Sim 25.9%, Simulation 15.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Space 12.9%, Physics 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: This title allows for extensive modular ship and station building with realistic physics and functional internal systems.
- #4 Besiege
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 53,310 reviews2020
Dev: Spiderling Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Destruction 23.7%, Flight 20.5%, Simulation 16.6%, Sandbox 15.8%, Physics 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core focus on modular construction and physics-based destruction, challenging you to build machines to complete specific objectives.
- #5 Juno: New Origins
94% matchVery Positive89% of 3,554 reviews2023
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 17%, Space Sim 15.9%, Flight 12.6%, Programming 9.8% ★, Sandbox 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers advanced aerospace engineering tools that allow for precise control over rocket and aircraft design.
- #6 Scrap Mechanic
92% matchVery Positive92% of 123,030 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 65.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Crafting 21.3%, Sandbox 20.6%, Building 16.8%, Physics 15.7%, Simulation 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a robust building system with interactive parts and logic gates that allow for the creation of complex automated machines.
- #7 SimplePlanes
94% matchVery Positive93% of 10,914 reviews2015
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Flight 38.6%, Sandbox 20.1%, Physics 16%, Building 13.7%, Action 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly accessible yet powerful flight model and building system for designing custom aircraft.
- #8 TerraTech
93% matchVery Positive91% of 25,032 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Sandbox 24.9%, Crafting 19.9%, Building 19.7%, Robots 13.5%, Action 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: You build modular vehicles from scavenged parts to explore and battle in a vibrant, physics-driven open world.
- #9 Plasma
91% matchVery Positive90% of 1,160 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Simulation 21.7%, Sandbox 20.7%, Programming 17.8% ★, Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on robotics and complex logic, allowing players to build intricate machines with a powerful visual programming interface.
- #10 Flyout
91% matchVery Positive83% of 2,296 reviews2023
Dev: Stonext Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build and fly realistic aircraft. Use free-form fuselage and wing editor tools and tune your engines to recreate aircraft from any era or design your own.
Why similar: Flight 22.2%, Simulation 21.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Science 15.1%, Physics 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides an unparalleled level of detail for aerospace design, focusing on realistic flight dynamics and modular assembly.
- #11 Spaceflight Simulator
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,809 reviews2022
Dev: Team Curiosity ✦
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.9%, Science 18%, Sandbox 14%, Simulation 12.8%, Space 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A streamlined but rewarding experience focused on the core challenges of rocket design and space exploration.
- #12 Main Assembly
90% matchVery Positive83% of 1,355 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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 19.9%, Programming 12.5% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Crafting 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes robotics and creative problem-solving through a versatile building system and visual programming tools.
- #13 From the Depths
89% matchVery Positive89% of 12,853 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Sandbox 19.9%, Crafting 19.8%, Simulation 16.9%, Physics 15.4%, Building 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is an incredibly deep vehicle-building game where you design everything from the hull to the AI-controlled weapon systems.
- #14 Trailmakers
88% matchVery Positive92% of 39,576 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Flight 23.2%, Space 18.1%, Crafting 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Action 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a fun, intuitive way to build modular vehicles that can be tested in various physics-based environments.
- #15 Universe Sandbox
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 32,344 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Why similar: Science 17.3%, Space Sim 16.3%, Destruction 13.3%, Simulation 9.7%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: While less focused on building vehicles, it provides the same scientific curiosity and physics-based experimentation found in Nimbatus.
- #16 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
86% matchVery Positive94% of 12,916 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Space Sim 29.6%, Space 16.5%, Simulation 15.4%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Building 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: You design modular starships from the ground up, managing crew, weapon placement, and structural integrity in tactical space combat.
- #17 Starship EVO
86% matchVery Positive83% of 1,546 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Simulation 18.5%, Space Sim 14.7%, Space 14.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: It allows for highly detailed modular ship construction with a focus on functional interiors and realistic space flight.
- #18 RoboCo
83% matchVery Positive88% of 220 reviews2026
Dev: Filament Games
Windows
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: Sandbox 17.3%, Simulation 16.2%, Physics 13.4%, Education 12.5%, Building 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game challenges you to design robots to solve puzzles, emphasizing physics, sensors, and modular components.
- #19 GearBlocks
84% matchVery Positive91% of 802 reviews2023
Dev: SmashHammer Games
Windows · Linux
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: Destruction 23.1%, Simulation 18.9%, Sandbox 18%, Physics 15.5%, Building 14.5%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game features a sophisticated physics engine that allows for the creation of complex mechanical contraptions.
- #20 Rover Builder
85% matchMixed68% of 82 reviews2022
Dev: Hatfuls GamesPub: PQube
Windows
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 24.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 14.3%, Space 11.3%, Physics 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses specifically on the engineering challenges of building rovers to traverse difficult terrain using physics-based components.
- #21 Autocraft
84% matchMixed56% of 298 reviews2017
Dev: Alientrap
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
Why similar: Simulation 20.1%, Sandbox 19.5%, Physics 12%, Building 11.1%, Space 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game allows you to build vehicles and machines using a wide variety of parts and logic components.
- #22 Avorion
81% matchVery Positive90% of 14,588 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 99.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Space Sim 25.3%, Flight 19.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, Simulation 12.6%, Space 12%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines modular ship building with space exploration and fleet management in a procedurally generated galaxy.
- #23 Stationeers
81% matchVery Positive88% of 9,306 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 85.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Science 26.9%, Crafting 16%, Sandbox 14.4%, Space 12.5%, Physics 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a hardcore engineering experience where you must manage complex atmospheric, electrical, and logic systems in space.
- #24 Dieselpunk Wars
82% matchMixed62% of 157 reviews2021
Dev: Image Power S.A.Pub: CreativeForge Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Dieselpunk Wars is a vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 300 elements to build a war machine of your dreams. Construct vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat and test your skills!
Why similar: Destruction 22.9%, Flight 20.5%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 15.5%, Physics 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: You build custom war machines from modular blocks and engage in combat within a stylized, physics-heavy world.
- #25 Poly Bridge 3
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,176 reviews2023
Dev: Dry Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
The best just got better! Rediscover your engineering creativity in this genre-defining bridge engineering and puzzle solving masterpiece.
Why similar: Simulation 43.8%, Physics 18.9%, Building 17.8%, Crafting 15.4%, Funny 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the structural engineering aspect of physics-based building, requiring precise design to overcome environmental challenges.
- #26 Celestial Command
82% matchMixed62% of 705 reviews2014
Dev: Science Interactive
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.
Why similar: Simulation 22.8%, Space 20.1%, Space Sim 15.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, Action 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features modular space ship construction where you must manage energy, thrusters, and weapon systems in a realistic space environment.
- #27 Aviassembly
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,569 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Why similar: Flight 18.9%, Science 14.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Physics 11%, Crafting 10.9%
- #28 Volcanoids
79% matchVery Positive83% of 9,358 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Crafting 26.7%, Sandbox 22.9%, Simulation 21.7%, Building 15.6%, Action 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: You build and upgrade a steampunk drill ship to survive and explore a volcanic island, blending base-building with vehicle management.
- #29 Carrier Command 2
78% matchVery Positive82% of 3,781 reviews2021
Dev: GeometaPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the strategic control of multiple vehicles and drones, requiring you to manage complex systems in a high-stakes environment.
- #30 Tiny Space Academy
80% matchMixed64% of 55 reviews2021
Dev: Full Orbit Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Tiny Space Academy is a 2D space sim where you can grow your own space agency and explore our solar system with rockets you design! Learn basic orbital mechanics, run science experiments, and get your astronauts back to Earth safely.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.2%, Simulation 17.7%, Space 13.7%, Physics 12%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A charming, physics-based space program simulator that captures the essence of rocket design in a simplified format.
- #31 Space Engineers 2
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,654 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Science 15.1%, Destruction 13.5%, Space Sim 12.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Simulation 9.4%
- #32 Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,173 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Space Sim 21.6%, Programming 12.3% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Space 9.9%, Sandbox 9%
- #33 FortressCraft Evolved!
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,066 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Crafting 26.9%, Sandbox 24.9%, Simulation 17.1%, Building 16.1%, Indie 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends voxel-based building with complex automation and logistics, appealing to players who enjoy the technical side of Nimbatus.
- #34 Atomcraft
71% matchVery Positive95% of 434 reviews2026
Dev: Triplejump
Windows
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Science 26%, Crafting 15.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 13.9%, Physics 9.9%
- #35 Archean
73% matchVery Positive88% of 252 reviews2024
Dev: batcholi
Windows · Linux
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Why similar: Science 17.6%, Space Sim 16%, Programming 11.2% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10%
- #36 Rocket Science
76% matchVery Positive81% of 176 reviews2020
Dev: unbeGames
Windows
Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.
Why similar: Science 17.3%, Space Sim 15.6%, Flight 12.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 9.4%
- #37 Screw Drivers
70% matchVery Positive85% of 6,786 reviews2026
Dev: CreactstudiosPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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: Destruction 23.2%, Crafting 18.6%, Simulation 16.9%, Physics 15.3%, Building 13.7%
- #38 Brick Rigs
71% matchVery Positive95% of 59,870 reviews2023
Dev: Fluppisoft GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Destruction 28%, Sandbox 20.1%, Physics 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 11.3%
- #39 Medieval Machines Builder
72% matchVery Positive81% of 138 reviews2026
Dev: FreeMind S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Step into the boots of a medieval engineer and master the art of siege warfare. In Medieval Machines Builder, you design, build, and operate powerful war machines capable of bringing down even the strongest fortress walls 🏰
Why similar: Destruction 19.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Physics 10.2%
- #40 World of Contraptions
73% matchVery Positive87% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: JCP Games Studio
Windows
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 18.7%, Destruction 15.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Sandbox 11%, Programming 9.8% ★
- #41 ΔV: Rings of Saturn
70% matchVery Positive92% of 3,475 reviews2023
Dev: Kodera Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.
Why similar: Space Sim 19.9%, Science 19.4%, Space 12.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Physics 10.1%
- #42 PixPhys
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 218 reviews2021
Dev: Red Starship
Windows · Linux
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: Sandbox 13.6%, Simulation 12.7%, Destruction 11.8%, Programming 11.4% ★, Space 10.9%
- #43 Realistic Tower Destruction
74% matchMixed66% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita Markin
Windows
Game allows you to build many kinds of towers from a variety of bricks and experience their dynamic destruction physics in a sandbox environment.
Why similar: Simulation 43.9%, Indie 17.9%, Destruction 15.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Physics 7.2%
- #44 Learn to Fly 3
71% matchVery Positive95% of 11,333 reviews2017
Dev: Light Bringer Games inc.
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
Why similar: Flight 22.5%, Simulation 19.7%, Sandbox 17.5%, Physics 15.3%, Space 12.6%
- #45 eXoSpace Combat Engineer
68% matchVery Positive87% of 125 reviews2026
Dev: Fantastimaker
Windows
Snap, rotate and launch your own warship in minutes, then pilot it into bullet-hell boss fights to hunt the galaxy's supervillains. Master intuitive engineering, evolve from drone to dreadnought, and use the fully gridless designer to build anything you can imagine!
Why similar: Space Sim 22.9%, Simulation 12.7%, Space 11.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.2%
- #46 FPV Labs - Drone Simulator
69% matchMixed68% of 105 reviews2026
Dev: FPVLabsPub: FPV Labs
Windows
Fly with true-to-life physics, next-gen visuals, and the most detailed drone configurator in any FPV sim. Build your setup, share community presets, and fly handcrafted real-world locations. Made by real FPV pilots.
Why similar: Flight 38.7%, Simulation 34.2%, Physics 16.7%, Action 8.1%, Relaxing 1.8%
- #47 Habitat
74% matchMostly Negative40% of 261 reviews2016
Dev: 4gencyPub: Versus Evil
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Habitat is a physics-based space game where you build, fly, and fight with whatever you can find out in space. Upgrade and arm your creations with weapons and structures you find in orbit, fly and explore using rocket physics.Battle deadly enemies in Campaign Mode to save humanity or explore Sandbox Mode for true creative control.
Why similar: Simulation 26.9%, Space 24.2%, Sandbox 17.3%, Action 12.6%, Indie 11.2%
- #48 BossConstructor
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 221 reviews2016
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Simulation 24.6%, Space 16.5%, Action 13.1%, Destruction 12.3%, Indie 10.9%
- #49 Mars First Logistics
65% matchVery Positive95% of 3,795 reviews2025
Dev: Shape Shop
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Science 21.8%, Space Sim 20%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 11.4%, Physics 9.6%
- #50 AI Drone Simulator
70% matchVery Positive84% of 222 reviews2021
Dev: Diophante Studio
Windows · Mac
AI Drone Simulator is an FPV drone simulator. Huge, dynamic environments. Virtual copy of your own drone. Total customization for maximum pilot power. Community sharing of drones, maps and tracks !
Why similar: Simulation 32.1%, Flight 31%, Science 13.6%, Physics 10.6%, Crafting 7%
- #51 SPLIT FPV: Drone Racing
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Лаборатория Наносемантика
Windows · Linux
SPLIT FPV is a detailed FPV drone control simulator with realistic flight physics and a drone customization system. Here you can learn to fly in a wide variety of flight modes and conditions. Explore the drone's design, experiment with the detailed customization system, and build your own drone.
Why similar: Science 40.5%, Flight 28.9%, Simulation 20.6%, Action 10.1%
- #52 CurryKitten FPV Simulator
69% matchVery Positive82% of 60 reviews2020
Dev: Wayne AndrewsPub: CurryKitten
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take charge of a powerful and acrobatic quadcopter and learn to fly it around the mountainous landscape. Rip through the partly-constructed building site, bash into the beach ball, chase cars, or fly up close and personal with an AI plane. Play it solo, or online with friends.
Why similar: Simulation 45.5%, Flight 24.9%, Action 23%, Indie 6.6%
- #53 Space Mechanic Simulator
68% matchMixed63% of 122 reviews2023
Dev: Atomic JellyPub: Wildlands Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Become a Space Mechanic! Get your hands dirty, explore the depths of space and repair broken machinery. Diagnose problems using diagrams and tools, perform repairs, manage your resources and watch the simulated machinery come alive. Or just gaze upon the beauty of the Solar System.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.3%, Science 21.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Space 11.8%, Physics 7.6%
- #54 Sand:box
65% matchVery Positive94% of 1,758 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 78.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Destruction 17.5%, Science 16.8%, Simulation 13.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Education 9%
- #55 Purplis Sandbox
68% 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: Simulation 36.8%, Sandbox 25%, Destruction 19.2%, Building 12.6%, Indie 5.1%
- #56 The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
65% matchVery Positive92% of 717 reviews2023
Dev: PeatyTurf
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game! Enjoy the freedom of completely gridless 3D sandbox building combined with hilarious ragdoll third person controls, offering a truly unique and hilarious "Enjeniring" experience!
Why similar: Science 20.7%, Sandbox 20.6%, Simulation 16%, Physics 14.4%, Building 10.6%
- #57 Milling machine simulator
66% matchVery Positive88% of 199 reviews2022
Dev: Igor FrankPub: U&I NEXT
Windows
Milling machine simulator will inspire novices and experts alike. Realistic physics and movements allow you to familiarize yourself with the machine in a 3D workshop setting. Enjoy playing around, learning and prototyping in Free milling mode. Or challenge yourself in Career mode.
Why similar: Programming 16.9% ★, Simulation 16.2%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Education 12.9%