60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Sandbox, Simulation, Singleplayer, Puzzle.
Build machines, contraptions and playgrounds out of everyday objects in a physics sandbox driven by visual programming. Overcome obstacles, save the city, create worlds. Every goal has a dozen answers. Every crash, collapse and explosion is just the next idea.
marblebuilds
A creative marble physics sandbox. Place blocks on an infinite grid to build anything you can imagine: marble runs, functional calculators, precision platformer courses, playable minigames, pinball machines, automated music tracks, and more.
Juno: New Origins
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.
A creative marble physics sandbox. Place blocks on an infinite grid to build anything you can imagine: marble runs, functional calculators, precision platformer courses, playable minigames, pinball machines, automated music tracks, and more.
Why similar: Programming 21.9% ★, Level Editor 21.7%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 13.8%, Physics 13.4%
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: Programming 25.9% ★, Level Editor 12.7%, Building 11.2%, Flight 10.9%, Education 10.4%
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 56.5% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Level Editor 13.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 7.5%
You're a programmer. Your cat is a better one. Solve visual puzzles built from real machine learning ideas, from decision trees to neural networks, to create a cat-to-human translator. Take freelance jobs, upgrade your rig, gamble on startups, dress up the cat. No coding required, curiosity is.
Why similar: Programming 53.2% ★, Education 17.9%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 8%, Puzzle 6.3%
Plan crane lifts like the pros. Pick your crane, configure the boom, rig the load, and judge every pick against real manufacturer load charts. A 3D rigging simulation sandbox from a rigger with 18 years in the field. Build it, rig it, lift it, land it.
Why similar: Sandbox 20%, Level Editor 19.5%, Physics 18%, Building 18%, Simulation 12.6%
ProBelt is a game in which you calculate results by using mathematical operators. Conveyor belts are used to transport numbers between operators.
Why similar: Programming 38.1% ★, Level Editor 16.8%, Education 11%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.3%
Mine resources, build your spaceship, and soar through the skies in this immersive space sandbox. Wire complex machinery to survive the elements, and craft the StellarDrive: a powerful engine that lets you travel faster than light.
Why similar: Programming 19.9% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Flight 14.8%, Building 14.8%, Physics 12.3%
Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!
Why similar: Building 23.2%, Physics 17.1%, Level Editor 13.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Education 10.1%
Bridge2Code is a bridge-building game where you can code a bridge using a simple programming language. Your goal is to create a bridge that can support a car going from the start to the end.
Why similar: Programming 37.8% ★, Building 16.6%, Education 15.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Puzzle 8.6%
Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.
Why similar: Programming 46.2% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Education 9.9%
Step into a time portal to 1993. While your friends are battling it out in the latest FPS adventures, you got the opportunity to learn the newest trend, programming. Turn on your CRT monitor and learn to write code, compete with others in challenges or write minigames.
Why similar: Programming 44% ★, Education 21%, Sandbox 17.1%, Puzzle 9.5%, Simulation 7.7%
OCTOPTICOM 3D is a major upgrade to your favorite open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Featuring 3D graphics and gameplay, refined ui, rewritten simulation, all original levels and components plus new additions, histograms and more.
Why similar: Programming 45.5% ★, Level Editor 13%, Education 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Simulation 9.4%
Roller coaster design puzzle meets physics sandbox. In a series of increasingly challenging levels your task is to get creative and build all kinds of crazy coasters. Don't get too crazy, though, or physics will turn your coaster into a rocket.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.3%, Level Editor 19.5%, Building 19.4%, Physics 15.9%, Simulation 11.4%
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: Physics 21.2%, Building 20%, Education 13.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Level Editor 9.6%
The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!
Why similar: Building 21.6%, Level Editor 16%, Physics 15.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Education 11.2%
Ket's Quantum Oracle is a programming puzzle game built around quantum computation. Help engineer Ket, stranded in the ruins of a distant future, repair the quantum gateway, solve its challenges, and uncover the secrets of a broken future.
Why similar: Programming 40% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Education 13.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 8.1%
Learn programming in a fun way! An educational game that teaches the basics of programming and algorithmic logic. No prior knowledge of programming is required to play.
Why similar: Programming 34.1% ★, Level Editor 16.3%, Education 14.9%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 8.7%
Crapht Box is a Fantasy Physics Sandbox, inspired by the Fantasy Console genre. It brings a simulated world with a number of disks and tools, and leaves you to play, program, create and share disks.
Why similar: Programming 23% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Physics 13.6%, Education 12.7%, Level Editor 11%
TurtleCAD 3D is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to pilot a sea turtle to create 3D polygonal graphics. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.
Why similar: Programming 49.3% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Education 12.1%, Simulation 8.1%, Puzzle 7.4%
An easy to start programming puzzle game where you design Artificial Intelligence with symbols, to control robot cubes and build space pyramids. Inspired by SpaceChem, Lightbot, Human Resource Machine and the Redstone from Minecraft. A game 99% made by one guy.
Why similar: Programming 45.5% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.3%, Education 10.2%, Simulation 10.2%
An open-ended programming puzzle game with a minimalist, abstract, Assembly-like programming language.
Why similar: Programming 53.9% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Level Editor 13.5%, Puzzle 8%, Simulation 7.4%
Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.
Why similar: Building 20.6%, Physics 20.6%, Level Editor 14.7%, Puzzle 12.5%, Simulation 9.7%
Build contraptions with various tools to end all roasted chickens rightly in this physics puzzle game, or create and share your own challenges!
Why similar: Level Editor 23.4%, Building 17.2%, Physics 16.8%, Sandbox 16%, Education 13.9%
Place instructions on a grid, plan the path, and let the machine follow your logic. CodeGrid is a programming puzzle game with no traditional coding required—use simple commands to build loops, conditions, and data processing, then create increasingly complex programs within a limited space.
Why similar: Programming 44.5% ★, Education 15.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Level Editor 12%, Puzzle 8.4%
Craft any magical spell you can imagine using the most powerful tool there is: code. CodeSpells is currently an unguided, sandbox experience for the bravest wizards who want to help the developers steer the game's development.
Why similar: Programming 64.4% ★, Sandbox 15%, Simulation 8.2%, Education 6.3%, Multiplayer 3.2%
Code your vehicle with a series of commands to complete various courses, tasks, stunts, and races in this physics-based brain teasing racing puzzle game!
Why similar: Programming 37.3% ★, Education 14.7%, Physics 13.4%, Racing 13%, Puzzle 6.7%
Place the blocks, press Play, and watch as one collision triggers the next. You build the solution, and physics reveals whether it works.
Why similar: Programming 31.7% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Physics 13.3%, Building 13%, Puzzle 8%
Build working digital computers in a 3D voxel sandbox. Design logic circuits, CPUs, memory, and programmable machines using switches, wires, gates, LEDs, and reusable components, limited only by your imagination.
Why similar: Programming 44.9% ★, Education 18.5%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Simulation 7.2%
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: Programming 32.1% ★, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Education 13.4%, Physics 12%
Stack, twist, and balance your way to record-breaking heights in this physics-based building puzzle platformer. Create the tallest, most daring structures imaginable, compete for high scores, design your own levels, and help Bob reach for the sky!
Why similar: Level Editor 22.3%, Building 21.5%, Physics 18.8%, Sandbox 17.2%, Puzzle 8.4%
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: Level Editor 21.8%, Physics 16.2%, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 13.1%, Education 10.7%
Help Billy get to the checkpoint by creating a suitable vehicle using a variety of different parts. Billy must survive, so drive safe!
Why similar: Building 19.3%, Sandbox 19.1%, Racing 16.3%, Flight 15.6%, Physics 9.3%
Open Sourcerer is a 2D platformer where players create and customize their spells in JavaScript.
Why similar: Programming 37.7% ★, Education 23.1%, Level Editor 17.7%, Physics 10.4%, Platformer 8.2%
Welcome to Zeepkist! You race soapboxes down hills!
Why similar: Level Editor 22%, Racing 16.6%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 15%, Physics 12.9%
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Why similar: Programming 43.6% ★, Building 18.7%, Sandbox 15.8%, Puzzle 11.3%, Simulation 5.7%
Solve logic puzzles and obstacle courses in this robot simulation game! Immerse yourself in the exciting world of robotics and programming! Create your own robot, connect logic blocks and teach it to solve challenging tasks!
Why similar: Programming 44.1% ★, Education 16.2%, Building 12.5%, Physics 10.8%, Puzzle 9%
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: Programming 25.8% ★, Level Editor 13.8%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.6%, Physics 12.4%
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: Programming 43.6% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Education 13.4%, Building 12.1%, Simulation 5.3%
Import and play your LDraw models in an open-world, car-focused sandbox environment.
Why similar: Racing 18.8%, Sandbox 17.3%, Building 14.8%, Physics 13%, Level Editor 10.5%
A logic puzzle game where you redirect and split laser beams to create digital circuits. Through the campaign, you will explore basic logic gates, oscillators, latches, counters, adders, memory, and more.
Why similar: Programming 56.1% ★, Sandbox 20.5%, Puzzle 10.1%, Simulation 6.6%, Strategy 5.5%
Design your own tracks and create breathtaking races of marble balls using this physics based sandbox.
Why similar: Level Editor 23.9%, Racing 17.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 15.7%, Physics 15.6%
I love ragdolls and I love physics, so I thought I would mush the two together with a level editor and make a cool sandbox game for people to play around in. Currently, there is a very basic JSON-based level editor and 20 pre-built levels.
Why similar: Level Editor 30.8%, Physics 20.4%, Sandbox 18.7%, Simulation 8.7%, Building 7.2%
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
Why similar: Programming 69.5% ★, Education 14%, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 4.3%, Sandbox 2.4%
The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.
Why similar: Programming 26.3% ★, Level Editor 19.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Physics 10.9%, Building 10.9%
Close the loop and the lamp lights. Build the relay, the gate, the adder, the latch, the counter, and a machine that reads Morse. Every circuit runs on a real simulator, and the parts you build become parts you build with. 238 levels about electricity and the machines people made from it.
Why similar: Programming 38.4% ★, Education 20.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Puzzle 9%, Building 8%
Every chip is a PNG image. Draw circuits where wire length and timing actually matter.
Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Education 14.4%, Building 11.7%, Simulation 7%
Do you enjoy playing around with the physics in games? Then this is the game for you. Stack Masters is built around exploring that concept in a competitive way. Including a built in level editor and Steam Workshop support, the game offers a never ending supply of physics sandbox gameplay to explore.
Why similar: Level Editor 28%, Physics 21.6%, Family Friendly 9.5%, Puzzle 8.6%, Simulation 7.8%
Crayon Computer is a 2D physics-based open-ended programming puzzle game. (if you call that programming)
Why similar: Programming 54.6% ★, Building 11.7%, Physics 10.4%, Education 8.9%, Puzzle 7%
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 38.2% ★, Education 16.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Physics 12.4%, Building 12%
Crazy Machines 3 is the latest, greatest, most amazing and craziest part of the series and fascinates once more with physic-based puzzles. Build your own crazy machines and share your awesomeness across the world thanks to the Steam® Workshop.
Why similar: Physics 31.3%, Sandbox 17.1%, Puzzle 14.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Building 9%
Program robots in Python to collect the resources scattered across each planet. You never control them directly. You write the code, hit run, and watch it work. No programming experience needed, just learn as you play.
Why similar: Programming 43.3% ★, Education 17.1%, Level Editor 14.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Puzzle 6.4%
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Why similar: Programming 43.8% ★, Education 13.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 6.4%
Program potato workers to process numbers with simple punch-in instructions at a factory that mimics a processor. Optimize solutions to solve challenging open-ended puzzles. Punch, observe, learn, repeat.
Why similar: Programming 55.4% ★, Education 18.8%, Level Editor 10.2%, Puzzle 8.7%, Simulation 5.8%
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 27.4%, Physics 26%, Building 17.4%, Simulation 8.6%, Family Friendly 6.6%
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 36.8% ★, Building 14.2%, Education 14%, Sandbox 13.1%, Physics 10.4%
Experience the hacker's side of cyberpunk in Cyber Sentinel! This design-based puzzle game features a complete visual programming kit for designing your own viruses.
Why similar: Programming 59.5% ★, Education 20.7%, Puzzle 10.6%, Simulation 7.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.
Why similar: Programming 43.1% ★, Education 18.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 13%, Puzzle 6.5%
A casual 2.5D physics oriented game about building unorthodox contraptions to solve puzzles with a variety of items at disposal
Why similar: Education 19.1%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 17.8%, Physics 14.7%, Level Editor 9.2%
Crosstalk is a hardware architecture design sandbox with a built-in, fully inspectable simulator and emulator. Players build designs ranging from LED controllers to complex computers using SystemVerilog, then program them. It has a gate-level simulator, introspection tools, a compiler, and more.
Why similar: Programming 31.4% ★, Level Editor 14.7%, Education 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 9.4%
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
Why similar: Programming 73.4% ★, Education 11.2%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 5.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%
