Games Like Plasma

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 26.2%, Building 25.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 8.1%, Open World 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A direct competitor that excels in creative engineering, allowing for complex mechanical systems and vehicle building.

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: Programming 24.9% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Automation 12.2%, Robots 12.2%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features an extremely similar visual programming and robot-building system that emphasizes creative freedom.

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: Sandbox 34.7%, Building 28.3%, Simulation 14.9%, 3D 9%, Physics 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for physics-based machine building where you construct siege engines to solve complex puzzles.

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: Programming 27.8% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Automation 16.3%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep logic and engineering challenges for building functional vehicles in a harsh environment.

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 33% ★, Automation 15.4%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, Base Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on advanced aerospace engineering and programming for those who enjoy technical simulation.

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: Sandbox 29.9%, Building 28.8%, Simulation 12.8%, First-Person 8.4%, Physics 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on complex mechanical engineering and physics, perfect for those who enjoy the technical side of Plasma.

Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!

Why similar: Programming 29.3% ★, Automation 15.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 11.2%, Logic 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses entirely on digital logic and circuit building, stripping away the vehicle aspect to focus on pure engineering.

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: Sandbox 26.6%, Building 22.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Exploration 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust sandbox for complex construction and physics-based engineering in a space setting.

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 26.2%, Building 24.8%, Robots 22.6%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features modular vehicle building with physics-based combat and exploration mechanics.

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Why similar: Game Development 24.2% ★, Programming 22.1% ★, Automation 18.2%, Building 12%, Sandbox 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for hands-on electronics and device building with a focus on tactile, functional hardware.

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 35.9% ★, Automation 18.3%, Sandbox 14%, Logic 11.3%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A pure logic and circuit design sandbox that mirrors the programming depth found in Plasma.

Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.

Why similar: Programming 36.7% ★, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Automation 11.1%, Robots 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Base building with a strong focus on logic and automation within a survival sandbox.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Automation 28.4%, Sandbox 15%, Building 14%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive experience for large-scale automation and factory building in a 3D environment.

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 30.4%, Building 25.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Exploration 10.9%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based vehicle builder that emphasizes modular design and creative experimentation.

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 25.7% ★, Robots 13.7%, Automation 12.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Logic 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Procedural drone building that relies on logic and physics to survive hostile environments.

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 33.3%, Building 29.3%, Crafting 13.7%, Simulation 11.5%, Physics 8%

Why You'll Like It: An incredibly deep vehicle construction game with complex logic systems for weapons and movement.

Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.

Why similar: Programming 33.2% ★, Automation 18.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Robots 14.3%, Crafting 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Uses visual programming to automate tasks, mirroring the logic-node style of Plasma.

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Robots 15.6%, Sandbox 15%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: First-person factory building and automation that rewards careful planning and system design.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Automation 38.9%, Sandbox 20.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational game for automation and logic, perfect for players who enjoy optimizing complex systems.

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 24.7% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Automation 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based sandbox simulation that allows for creative experimentation with various mechanical components.

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: Automation 22.5%, Sandbox 18%, Building 15%, Logic 14%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Hardcore engineering simulation that requires managing complex atmospheric and electrical systems.

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 44.3% ★, Automation 23.3%, Logic 13.8%, Simulation 11.4%, Crafting 4%

Why You'll Like It: A logic and automation-focused puzzle game that challenges your ability to design efficient systems.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Programming 38.6% ★, Automation 22.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 7.6%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on programming robots to automate tasks, emphasizing the logic-flow aspect of engineering.

Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.

Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Sandbox 17.3%, Building 15.8%, Logic 9.5%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building complex factory systems with a heavy emphasis on automation and management.

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 41.2% ★, Robots 19.2%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Building 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Robot building that centers on logic-based puzzles and mechanical design.

The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!

Why similar: Building 33.8%, Sandbox 27%, Simulation 13.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Physics 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based structural engineering game that tests your understanding of load-bearing and material properties.

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

Why similar: Sandbox 20.6%, Game Development 19.5% ★, Building 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Robots 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on physics-based destruction and building, providing a playground for mechanical experimentation.

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% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox building game that incorporates programming elements into its immersive simulation.

A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect

Why similar: Programming 36.6% ★, Automation 30.3%, Simulation 12%, Logic 9.9%, Sandbox 8.3%

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Sandbox 21.1%, Building 12%, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist automation and logic puzzle game that focuses on the flow of production.

Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.

Why similar: Programming 26.6% ★, Automation 15.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 9.6%, Robots 9.6%

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 66.6% ★, Sandbox 21.4%, Simulation 12%

Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 13%, Base Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.6%

A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.

Why similar: Programming 33.4% ★, Automation 18.8%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 11.3%, Simulation 6.5%

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 25.5%, Game Development 20.5% ★, Building 19.2%, Logic 14.2%, Physics 6.4%

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 35.6%, Building 31.4%, Robots 15.1%, Simulation 11.9%, Multiplayer 4.6%

Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Sandbox 19%, Building 14.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Simulation 9.4%

A sandbox battle simulator game where you can build your own shape-shifting warbots, program their AI, and watch them smash each other up on the battlefield! Join the battles yourself by taking control of the warbots! Use Steam Workshop to check out warbots created by players from around the world!

Why similar: Programming 33.4% ★, Sandbox 18%, Robots 17.8%, Building 11.8%, Simulation 7.4%

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Programming 28.8% ★, Automation 17.8%, Logic 11.7%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.7%

Free Prologue to Technicity, a first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, use vehicles to travel in cities that you or your friends create in solo or co-op.

Why similar: Sandbox 21.5%, Automation 21.3%, Building 16.5%, Crafting 8.7%, First-Person 8.4%

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 33.2% ★, Automation 20%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 14.1%, Simulation 5.9%

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: Sandbox 39.1%, Crafting 17%, Simulation 15%, Logic 10.7%, Physics 8.2%

Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.

Why similar: Programming 31.7% ★, Automation 18.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 11%, Base Building 7%

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 38.8% ★, Automation 20.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 10.9%, Logic 8.7%

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 30% ★, Game Development 21.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Building 11%, Base Building 6.6%

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: Automation 24.4%, Sandbox 20.7%, Building 16.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8.7%

Unleash your creativity and craft anything from flying cars to jet-powered toilets.Fair warning: there's a learning curve. But once you've got it, the sky's the limit for your creations!While active development is paused, we focus preserving the game and keeping it accessible.

Why similar: Programming 29.7% ★, Game Development 22.6% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Robots 10.4%, Building 9.3%

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 26.9%, Robots 25.8%, Building 23.1%, Simulation 10.3%, Physics 6.5%

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

Why similar: Sandbox 25.1%, Automation 19.3%, Logic 14.5%, Building 13.1%, Simulation 10.4%

Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator

Why similar: Programming 41.8% ★, Sandbox 21.4%, Simulation 14.2%, Logic 12.3%, Crafting 5.5%

Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.

Why similar: Programming 22.6% ★, Building 16.9%, Sandbox 16.9%, Robots 10.6%, Simulation 7.5%

Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox for Desktop+VR

Why similar: Programming 38.5% ★, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 7.5%, First-Person 6%

A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.

Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 14.6%, Logic 12.8%, Base Building 8.5%

MoSimulator is a robotics simulation game with an arcade feel that lets players mod in their own robots. Experience the excitement of competitive student robotics in a fun, accessible format where you can bring your own robot designs to life and compete in simulated matches.

Why similar: Robots 29.7%, Programming 24.6% ★, Simulation 15.3%, Automation 15.1%, First-Person 6.6%

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 58.2% ★, Automation 20%, Logic 10.6%, Simulation 4.8%, Sandbox 3.6%

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 67.6% ★, Sandbox 19.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Multiplayer 1.1%

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 33.4% ★, Automation 15.7%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 10.4%, Simulation 7.1%

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Why similar: Programming 30.9% ★, Automation 21.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.5%, Crafting 7.8%

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 23.2% ★, Robots 14.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Automation 13.5%, Building 12.2%