60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Singleplayer, Sandbox, Indie.
Design. Simulate. Detonate. As a junior engineer at the Kurchatov Institute, you design atomic devices to satisfy the demands of the State. A hardcore physics game simulating hydrodynamics, neutron transport, and thermonuclear fusion.
Nucleares
Nuclear Reactor Simulator: Take Control. Prevent Disaster. Power the World.
Universe Sandbox
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.
Nuclear Reactor Simulator: Take Control. Prevent Disaster. Power the World.
Why similar: Science 69.2%, Simulation 16.8%, Strategy 14%
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 25.2%, God Game 24.7% ★, Destruction 19.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Physics 10.6%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 71.9% ★, Difficult 10.8%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 5.4%, Sandbox 3.6%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Programming 53.6% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 10.2%, Difficult 10%, Puzzle 7.4%
Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics across dynamic battlefields, facing land, air, and sea threats. Wage war against AI or rival pilots using an array of advanced weaponry, including tactical and strategic nuclear weapons capable of annihilating anything in your path.
Why similar: Sandbox 39.8%, Physics 39.7%, Simulation 20.5%
Nuclear war simulator is a detailed realistic simulation and visualization of large-scale nuclear conflicts with a focus on humanitarian consequences. It lets you design conflict scenarios and estimate the consequences using a population density map and realistic weapons effects.
Why similar: Sandbox 36.3%, Simulation 33.5%, Difficult 21.2%, Strategy 9%
Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.
Why similar: Programming 36.1% ★, Science 27.7%, Difficult 13.8%, Simulation 6.9%, Puzzle 6.9%
Chernobyl Simulator puts you in the control room of the most infamous nuclear power plant in history. Step into the shoes of a reactor operator, where every switch, gauge, and decision matters. Experience the pressure, responsibility, and unforgiving complexity of Soviet-era nuclear operations.
Why similar: Science 36.9%, Historical 22.9%, Difficult 15.7%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 9%
A tactical immersive sim. You are underground with nothing but missiles. Design ballistic weapons, hunt billion-dollar radars with 20,000-dollar drones, flood the enemy with cruise missiles, or reach hypersonic technology. Welcome to asymmetric war.
Why similar: Cold War 44.6% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Physics 13%, Difficult 9%, Strategy 7.8%
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: Programming 33.4% ★, Science 25.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Physics 9.4%, Puzzle 6.3%
ICBM is a real-time strategy game of nuclear destruction. Research new technologies, build up your nuclear stockpile and use a combination of ships, planes and missiles to strike at the heart of your opponents’ cities while keeping your population safe from harm.
Why similar: Cold War 57.4% ★, Destruction 29%, Strategy 7.5%, Minimalist 6.1%
The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances
Why similar: Science 23.1%, Destruction 22.3%, Sandbox 20.4%, Physics 12%, Simulation 10.5%
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
Why similar: Programming 49.5% ★, Difficult 19.9%, Puzzle 16.3%, Science 11.4%, Simulation 1.3%
The most scientifically accurate space warfare simulator ever made. Now with Steam Workshop!
Why similar: Science 47.4%, Simulation 18.5%, Strategy 17.2%, Sandbox 8.7%, Difficult 8.2%
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: Programming 37.3% ★, Science 24.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Minimalist 9.4%, Simulation 6.6%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Physics 36%, Sandbox 31.4%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 16%
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: Science 36.5%, Physics 18.6%, Difficult 15.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 7.2%
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
Why similar: Programming 53.1% ★, Science 14.6%, Simulation 10.2%, Puzzle 10%, Difficult 8.5%
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: Programming 32% ★, Destruction 17.2%, Sandbox 16.8%, Physics 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: God Game 25.5% ★, Destruction 19.1%, Science 18.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Physics 9.5%
A co-op RBMK reactor simulator, with a detailed control room, realistic physics and authentic sound design
Why similar: Sandbox 56.8%, Simulation 43.2%
An armour penetration sandbox. Build the target from plates, thicknesses and angles, pick a penetrator from American, Soviet and German service rounds, fire. The hit is not animated — it is solved from real terminal-ballistics models.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.5%, Science 26.8%, Simulation 23%, Minimalist 12%, 2D 5.7%
MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.
Why similar: Programming 65.1% ★, Simulation 16%, Difficult 9.7%, Puzzle 9.2%
ABRISS is an atmospheric physics-destruction building game.Build structures from parts to let them crash into your targets. Unlock new parts, destroy more, witness entropy at its worst in digital-brutalist cityscapes. Build to destroy.
Why similar: Destruction 28.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Physics 15%, Minimalist 13.8%, Puzzle 8.1%
CEFORE is a physics-based puzzler in an abstract simplistic art style in which you get contracted to bring down different structures in the most creative ways possible. Try not to cause too much destruction, of course.
Why similar: Destruction 33.3%, Sandbox 24.7%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 14%, Puzzle 13.8%
IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?
Why similar: Historical 38.6%, Physics 25.9%, Simulation 24%, Atmospheric 11.4%
Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks is a unique combination of tank design and tycoon game. It puts you in charge of an arms trading company specialized in tanks from WWI to the modern era. Research, design, sell and follow your tanks in battle to make your own history!
Why similar: Cold War 34.6% ★, Historical 23.4%, Sandbox 18.8%, Physics 12.7%, Simulation 10.5%
A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.
Why similar: Simulation 32%, Strategy 31.7%, Pixel Graphics 29.7%, 2D 6.6%
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 44.9%, Sandbox 21.1%, Physics 16.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%
A physics sandbox simulation game about constructing and demolishing structures. If you like destroying stuff or just mess around, then this game is for you!
Why similar: God Game 33.3% ★, Destruction 26.4%, Sandbox 15.2%, Physics 13.6%, Simulation 6.8%
You are a scientist and engineer of the North Korean army and you need to grow your little nuclear bomb.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
A sardonic take on nationalism and the Cold War though a minimalist and fast paced RTS. Scheme your way through a highly replayable campaign, or conduct some "diplomacy" on your "friends" in multiplayer.
Why similar: Cold War 55.8% ★, Dark 16%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 8%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
Play with lasers and solve puzzles in Laser Attraction. Use reflection, refraction, dispersion and filtration to direct the laser beams, mix and separate colours, open doors, hit targets and complete puzzles.
Why similar: Science 33.5%, Physics 17.6%, Difficult 16%, Puzzle 10.1%, Minimalist 8.9%
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Why similar: Historical 47.8%, Sandbox 32.9%, Simulation 19.3%
OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares.
Why similar: Programming 34.7% ★, Science 26%, Difficult 11.2%, Simulation 10.3%, Minimalist 8.6%
An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.
Why similar: Strategy 42.2%, Simulation 29.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, 2D 13.9%
An absurd backyard bomb-building simulator. Raise funds, plan your approach, hunt down rare parts, and assemble your atomic masterpiece while staying calm and avoiding suspicion from nosy neighbors and federal agents.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
See the logic all of us obey. Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ visual puzzles and hack other players’ creations. No coding or physics background required.
Why similar: Programming 33.5% ★, Science 28.7%, Difficult 13%, Sandbox 12.2%, Puzzle 6.5%
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
Why similar: Programming 52.3% ★, Physics 20.6%, Puzzle 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%, Simulation 4.9%
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
Why similar: Programming 57.6% ★, Simulation 17.2%, Difficult 15.3%, Puzzle 9.9%
From the lead designer of Cold Waters, Sea Power lets you control NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in modern naval conflict campaigns. Use your advanced naval weaponry and sensors to respect rules of engagement and defeat the enemy forces in a tense fight for initiative and air/naval supremacy.
Why similar: Cold War 72.8% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 12.2%, Sandbox 2.3%
The Qubit Factory is an open-ended puzzle game incorporating real-life concepts from the cutting-edge field of quantum computing. Design and build logic circuits that manipulate bits and qubits (quantum bits) to solve devious computational challenges!
Why similar: Programming 47.7% ★, Science 19.6%, Simulation 11.2%, Puzzle 10.9%, Physics 10.6%
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 29.8%, Destruction 26.3%, Sandbox 16.6%, Physics 14.1%, Simulation 7%
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Why similar: Physics 44.4%, Simulation 28.1%, 2D 10.5%, Science 10.3%, Difficult 6.6%
Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.
Why similar: Science 42%, God Game 20% ★, Sandbox 13%, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 6.8%
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: Sandbox 44.9%, Simulation 32.3%, Strategy 22.8%
Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.
Why similar: Sandbox 36.6%, Physics 34.2%, Simulation 22.9%, 2D 6.3%
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Why similar: Destruction 35.8%, Physics 21.3%, Sandbox 17.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Puzzle 7.7%
Become the main power engineer of the world - the builder of the most powerful power plant that feeds the whole world! You have to build your own power plant, research new technologies and make the most successful power company in 100 gaming years.
Why similar: Science 56.2%, Sandbox 21.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 10%
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Why similar: Strategy 26.2%, Minimalist 24.6%, Simulation 24.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, 2D 12%
What if you happened to be in a control room of a nuclear reactor and something went wrong? Save the Reactor gives you the opportunity to fully experience these emotions! This simulator is great for those who like to challenge themselves and aren't afraid of difficulties!
Why similar: Difficult 32.3%, Score Attack 23.2%, Simulation 16%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Atmospheric 6.9%
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Why similar: Programming 36.8% ★, Science 30.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Physics 12.1%, Simulation 6%
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 43.8%, Sandbox 20.3%, Physics 19.2%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 7.7%
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: Destruction 43%, Physics 25.7%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 12.4%, 2D 6.2%
Fight against brain-rot in this story-driven educational physics puzzle game. You will need to learn and apply high school physics concepts to solve increasingly challenging problems and uncover a galaxy spanning plot. When you have finished, you will be able to take a college level physics course.
Why similar: Science 38%, Physics 19.4%, Difficult 19.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Simulation 9.2%
A short incremental game about splitting atoms and triggering exponentially growing chain reactions.
Why similar: Physics 30%, Minimalist 25.5%, Strategy 19.7%, 2D 10.5%, Atmospheric 8.2%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Sandbox 46.8%, Simulation 20.2%, Strategy 20%, Atmospheric 13%
As a moustached soviet nuclear missile operator, you’re the last frontier of your motherland’s defense. Survive a freezing Siberian winter, untangle nasty bear intrigues and adapt to always changing environment in this cold war simulator.
Why similar: Cold War 67.1% ★, Score Attack 14.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Puzzle 8.2%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 46.7% ★, Sandbox 19.5%, Puzzle 12.8%, Simulation 11.4%, 2D 7.2%
Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.
Why similar: Programming 59% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 9.7%, Puzzle 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
