Games Like Planetoid Pioneers

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: Physics 39%, Moddable 32.7% ★, Adventure 11.7%, Action 9.4%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep physics-based sandbox where you can build complex machines and vehicles, much like the crafting systems in Planetoid Pioneers.

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: Racing 43.5%, Physics 23.9%, Adventure 16.5%, Action 16.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building vehicles from blocks and testing them in physics-driven environments, capturing the same 'ridiculous physics fails' energy.

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

Why similar: Moddable 33.8% ★, Gore 27.3%, Physics 17.5%, Violent 17.2%, Action 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a pure physics sandbox experience focused on experimentation and gore, perfect for those who enjoy the violent physics interactions of the seed game.

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 68.4% ★, Physics 31.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for physics-based construction and destruction, mirroring the experimental building nature of the seed game.

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Why similar: Physics 65%, Action 17.9%, Indie 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: Every pixel in this game is physically simulated, offering a level of emergent gameplay and environmental interaction that matches the seed game's complexity.

Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!

Why similar: Moddable 40.7% ★, Physics 25.1%, Action 11.1%, Indie 10%, Gore 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This classic 2D physics-based combat game features destructible terrain and heavy moddability, making it a spiritual predecessor to the seed game.

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: Physics 100%

Why You'll Like It: A highly moddable sandbox building game that emphasizes multiplayer physics and creative freedom.

Crash through walls and tear down buildings in Instruments of Destruction, a vehicle-action game featuring advanced physics-based demolition. Pilot 130+ unique vehicles across scores of challenge-packed missions or design your own contraptions and wreck highly-interactive sandbox worlds.

Why similar: Racing 47.6%, Physics 37.7%, Action 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game features advanced physics-based destruction and vehicle building, allowing for the same creative chaos found in Planetoid Pioneers.

Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.

Why You'll Like It: It combines 2D survival crafting with colony management and physics-based exploration in a way that feels like a more structured take on the seed game's world.

Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Why similar: Adventure 55.2%, Action 22.5%, Indie 22.3%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox that allows for extensive voxel-based building and crafting, similar to the exploration aspects of the seed game.

Dive into an epic adventure alone or with friends! Explore hidden dungeons, capture and tame fearsome monsters, build and defend your village. Craft powerful weapons, master magical spells, and transform an planet into the cradle of a new civilization!

Why similar: Adventure 56.9%, Indie 43.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game with deep exploration and creature collection, offering a more structured progression system within a similar visual style.

Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.

Why similar: Physics 36.2%, Action 21.5%, Adventure 21.3%, Indie 21%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game focused on building mechanical contraptions to solve puzzles and survive, sharing the core 'Physicsvania' DNA.

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: Gore 38.6%, Violent 30.5%, Physics 24.4%, Action 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game combines physics-based combat with extreme gore and moddability, aligning with the violent and experimental tags of the seed game.

Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

Why similar: Moddable 54.8% ★, Physics 29.4%, Action 9.4%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based RTS where you build and destroy structures using realistic projectile physics and structural integrity mechanics.

Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.

Why similar: Physics 62.6%, Adventure 14.8%, Indie 12.3%, Action 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A VR sandbox that allows you to physically craft tools and structures from raw materials, emphasizing the tactile nature of physics-based crafting.

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: Adventure 36.7%, Action 34.4%, Indie 28.8%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based physics simulator where you build ships block-by-block and manage their structural integrity in a realistic environment.

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: Moddable 42.2% ★, Programming 26.1% ★, Physics 22.7%, Indie 5.4%, Action 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that focuses on pixel-based physics simulations, directly appealing to the 2D physics-heavy gameplay of the seed game.

Improvise fuel efficient trajectories to keep your rusty ship running. Break into a space station with an asteroid. Tow a sofa into a black hole. Experience the perils and intrigue of space exploration with 1-4 players.

Why similar: Physics 54.2%, Action 25%, Indie 20.8%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based space exploration game that emphasizes the fun of navigating circular worlds and managing gravity.

Superfighters Deluxe is a unique action game that combines brawling, shooting and platforming in dynamic sandboxy 2D levels. Lots of weapons and fun gameplay systems interlock to create absurd action-movie chaos.

Why similar: Gore 30.8%, Violent 30.7%, Physics 15.3%, Action 14.1%, Indie 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic 2D action game that relies on physics-based combat and environmental interaction, capturing the frenetic energy of the seed game.

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

Why similar: Gore 33.2%, Physics 27.3%, Violent 21.6%, Moddable 10.7% ★, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A pure physics sandbox focused on testing various items and weapons on ragdolls, mirroring the violent physics experimentation of the seed game.

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 36.4% ★, Racing 35.9%, Physics 20.6%, Action 7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep vehicle construction suite that relies on real-world physics, appealing to the engineering side of the seed game.

Design, build, or pirate spaceships. Build bases on planets. Explore endless randomly generated universes, travel through black holes, command your crew, survive cosmic events, collect and trade materials, battle epic bosses, and much more. The sky is the limit, literally!

Why similar: Gore 32.1%, Violent 29.7%, Indie 13.3%, Adventure 12.7%, Action 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused indie game that emphasizes resource management and exploration in a hostile space environment.

Pixel Privateers is a Squad Based Tactical RPG “Loot ‘Em Up” that will send your team of mercenaries through a mysterious wormhole on a quest to gather technology for your employer. An entire galaxy awaits - full of worlds to explore, factions to encounter, and epic gear to collect!

Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 32.4%, Indie 30.4%

Why You'll Like It: A squad-based tactical RPG that features 2D exploration and crafting, sharing the sci-fi adventure themes of the seed game.

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Action 100%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on base building and exploration in a sci-fi setting, similar to the core loop of the seed game.

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: Physics 53.7%, Action 24.5%, Indie 21.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sandbox game that lets you manipulate elements and physics to create your own levels and worlds.

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: Programming 64.3% ★, Physics 35.7%

Why You'll Like It: A game centered on user-generated content and moddability, which is a core pillar of the Planetoid Pioneers experience.

Asteria is a fast paced indie platformer, wrapped up in a sandbox sci-fi world where everything is destructible, mineable, collectable, craftable and creatable.

Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Indie 34.7%, Action 28.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D action-platformer with sandbox elements that focuses on mining, crafting, and combat in a sci-fi setting.

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: Physics 74.9%, Action 25.1%

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: Programming 43.7% ★, Physics 24%, Adventure 20%, Action 12.3%

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: Physics 35.4%, Adventure 25.8%, Action 25.4%, Indie 13.4%

Take control of the hoverboarding robots, explore the desolate world, defy gravity, dive into the oceans and ride with the sandworms on the dunes! Stylish graphics and groovy soundtrack will take you to an epic adventure in this action/racing game.

Why similar: Racing 65.4%, Adventure 14.3%, Action 11.5%, Indie 8.8%

PhysDrive is a great physic simulated racing game with a giant map! Go through a big loops, falling blocks, destructible walls, fans, rails, stairs, spikes, traps and more!

Why similar: Racing 69%, Action 12.5%, Physics 11.5%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based racing game that highlights the chaotic, meme-worthy potential of simple physics engines.

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 60.9% ★, Physics 27.6%, Action 11.4%

Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

Why similar: Action 45.5%, Indie 33%, Gore 15.8%, Adventure 5.7%

Race through hundreds of silly levels as a shapeshifting car in strange worlds populated by …bears? Run, roll, jump, fly and sneeze your way to victory! Join the community and make your own chaotic levels!

Why similar: Racing 51.5%, Physics 27.8%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 8.1%

Extreme 2D physics action with detailed destruction of vehicles, robots, creatures, and your own Pioneer - now over ONLINE multiplayer! Quickly jump into a dozen different game modes hosted on free servers worldwide to battle, cooperate, race, and survive with/against other Pioneers all over the globe!

Why similar: Racing 40.8%, Gore 17.4%, Violent 16.2%, Action 9.3%, Physics 8.6%

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Adventure 72.5%, Indie 27.5%

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: Moddable 41.6% ★, Programming 32.9% ★, Physics 19.3%, Indie 6.2%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Physics 42.2%, Action 23%, Indie 18.8%, Adventure 16%

Take Your Creature From Zero To Galactic HeroGet out of your starship and turn your Spore creatures into legendary Space Captains. For the first time, beam down with your allies to take on action-packed, planetside adventures. Complete quests, collect rewards, and even create your own missions.

Why similar: Adventure 50.6%, Action 49.4%

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: Adventure 52.4%, Action 47.6%

Planetoid is a physics based building game in which you construct facilities and protect humanoids on the planetoid. Build a facilities which can defeat the enemies on your way.

Why similar: Indie 31.9%, Physics 26.2%, Adventure 22.4%, Action 19.5%

A quirky, absolutely content-packed, destructible open-world sandbox adventure with combat, platforming, character customization, and collect-a-thon scavenger hunt experience. Play solo, 2-player split screen, or online co-op for up to 4 players. No paid cosmetic DLC nonsense.

Why similar: Physics 50.9%, Adventure 26.5%, Action 22.5%

Revenge of the Savage Planet is an upbeat, satirical action adventure Sci-Fi. Jump, shoot and collect your way across vibrant alien worlds, uncovering new gear and upgrades, while discovering various hidden secrets.

Why similar: Adventure 55%, Action 45%

A cooperative (maybe sabotaging) platformer that blends action-jumping and physics simulation. You can challenge solo or team up with a friend locally or remotely in two-player mode to unlock even more unexpected ways to play. Healing balloons and time-race to unlock more subsequent levels.

Why similar: Racing 41.7%, Physics 28.4%, Action 17.9%, Adventure 7.2%, Indie 4.8%

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.

Crumble is a dynamic physics platformer. Move like a Slime, jump like a ball, swing like Spiderman!

Why similar: Physics 42.8%, Adventure 21.6%, Action 19.2%, Indie 16.3%

GARBANZO QUEST! The crazy bullet-heck platformer where your main weapon is your own spit! Bring a friend! Hand-crafted challenges, secrets, and branching paths galore!

Why similar: Moddable 61.5% ★, Indie 21.3%, Action 17.2%

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: Physics 35.8%, Adventure 29.7%, Action 19.9%, Indie 14.6%

Build incredible machines with scrap parts, navigate the wildest Amusement park rides and challenge iconic creepy Neighbor and his evil bots! Become a true Engineer, solo or with friends!

Why similar: Racing 51.3%, Physics 27.8%, Adventure 11.1%, Action 9.8%

Enter a world of speed, inspired by platform fighters. Explore the hub and wavedash your way to the top of the leaderboards! New Dark Levels!

Why similar: Racing 60.6%, Adventure 14.4%, Action 13.9%, Indie 11.1%

Create crazy, yet functional, custom vehicles to solve missions with your own unique style!

Why similar: Physics 54.4%, Adventure 27.1%, Action 18.5%

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Physics 68.8%, Action 12.8%, Indie 9.7%, Adventure 8.7%

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: Physics 65.3%, Action 18.5%, Indie 16.2%

The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits

Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Action 41.8%

Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

Why similar: Adventure 57.4%, Action 42.6%

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: Action 56.4%, Indie 43.6%

Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!

Why similar: Physics 45.9%, Racing 44.4%, Action 9.7%