Games Like Plasma

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 25% ★, Automation 14.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Robots 11.9%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest experience to Plasma, focusing heavily on modular robotics and visual programming in a sandbox environment.

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 25.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 8%, Open World 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a robust physics engine and logic gate system that allows for the creation of complex, moving machines.

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 28.2% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Automation 17.3%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides deep engineering challenges where you must design functional vehicles and logic-based systems to survive in an open world.

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

Why similar: Game Development 23.5% ★, Programming 21.6% ★, Automation 19.1%, Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to build and program your own interactive electronic devices using a visual interface similar to Plasma.

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 35.3% ★, Automation 15.8%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 11.7%, Logic 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox simulation focused entirely on building complex logic circuits and electronic systems without the constraints of traditional games.

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 32.7% ★, Automation 16%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This aerospace simulator features a powerful visual programming language for controlling rockets and complex mechanical parts.

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 28.9% ★, Automation 14.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 10.9%, Logic 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep dive into digital logic and circuit building, allowing you to create anything from simple gates to complex processors.

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 34.8%, Building 28.2%, Simulation 15%, 3D 9.1%, Physics 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based building game where you construct intricate siege engines and machines to solve environmental puzzles.

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 29.2%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale factory automation and efficient logistics in a beautiful 3D open world.

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 33.1% ★, Automation 20.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 13.7%, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic engineering puzzle game that requires you to build automated assembly lines to solve spatial and logical challenges.

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%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Exploration 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive sandbox that combines physics-based construction with programmable blocks and automation systems.

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 31.5% ★, Automation 18.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that uses a unique visual programming system to automate units and manage complex production chains.

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 26.4%, Building 24.7%, Robots 22.4%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for modular vehicle construction and combat, emphasizing the assembly of functional machines from various components.

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 38.4% ★, Automation 22.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Simulation 7.6%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a charming visual programming language that you use to teach robots how to automate tasks and build a civilization.

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 33.4%, Building 29.2%, Crafting 13.7%, Simulation 11.7%, Physics 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features an incredibly deep engineering system where you design ships and robots down to the individual AI and logic components.

You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

Why similar: Programming 33% ★, Automation 19.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Robots 13.9%, Crafting 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that uses visual programming to automate survival and crafting tasks on a frozen planet.

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Why similar: Programming 48% ★, Automation 26.5%, Logic 10.4%, Simulation 6.9%, Sandbox 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: An engineering puzzle game where you design intricate machines to assemble chemical compounds through automation.

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 40%, Sandbox 20.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game that challenges you to design and optimize massive, interconnected factory systems.

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 41.4% ★, Robots 18.8%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 12.8%, Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game centered on building robots and programming their logic to navigate through various challenges.

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 23.5%, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 14.9%, Logic 13.8%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A complex survival game that requires extensive knowledge of logic, atmospheric systems, and electrical engineering to maintain your base.

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 57.6% ★, Automation 20.7%, Logic 10.3%, Simulation 4.8%, Sandbox 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on designing hardware circuits and writing code to solve complex engineering tasks.

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Why similar: Programming 79.6% ★, Logic 7.8%, Automation 6.5%, Simulation 5.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore programming game that forces you to write assembly code to repair corrupted computer systems.

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 32.6%, Sandbox 20.8%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist automation game that focuses on the logic of processing and combining geometric shapes.

Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Why similar: Programming 48.1% ★, Robots 16.3%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Logic 10.1%, Automation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to program the AI of your robot squad before sending them into battle to execute your logic in real-time.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 42.7%, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 16.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Sci-fi 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tower defense with complex resource automation and logic-based supply chains.

The best just got better! Rediscover your engineering creativity in this genre-defining bridge engineering and puzzle solving masterpiece.

Why similar: Building 32.3%, Simulation 27.6%, 3D 10.3%, Stylized 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based engineering game that challenges you to build bridges that can withstand the forces of nature.

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 72.5% ★, Automation 12.5%, Simulation 6.2%, Logic 5.4%, Sandbox 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that teaches the fundamentals of programming logic through simple office-themed tasks.

Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Why similar: Automation 38.2%, Programming 34.1% ★, Simulation 27.5%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Why You'll Like It: Requires you to design and program automated kitchen layouts to fulfill complex food orders efficiently.

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 74.3% ★, Logic 9.3%, Automation 8.1%, Simulation 8%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on logic-based programming puzzles by allowing you to control multiple workers simultaneously to solve tasks.

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 22.7%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.3%

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 26.5% ★, Automation 15.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 9.4%, Robots 9.3%

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 25.6% ★, Robots 13.3%, Automation 12.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Logic 9.1%

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 30.7%, Simulation 12%, Logic 10%, Sandbox 7.7%

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 24.6% ★, Automation 16.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Building 10.8%

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 12.9%, Sandbox 11.6%, Automation 11.6%, Robots 10.3%

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 65.8% ★, Sandbox 21.8%, Simulation 12.4%

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 19.6%, Robots 15.2%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 7.4%

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

Why similar: Sandbox 20.7%, Game Development 19.1% ★, Building 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Robots 10%

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 20.3% ★, Building 19.2%, Logic 14.2%, Physics 6.5%

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 35.8%, Building 31.4%, Robots 14.9%, Simulation 12.1%, Multiplayer 4.3%

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 43.8% ★, Automation 24.1%, Logic 13.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Crafting 4%

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 20.7%, Sandbox 18.8%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Simulation 9.4%

Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.

Why similar: Programming 36.9% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Simulation 6.6%

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 25.3%, Building 22.9%, Simulation 10.4%, Physics 6.6%

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 33.6% ★, Sandbox 18%, Robots 17.5%, Building 11.7%, Simulation 7.5%

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 24.4%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 15.5%, Logic 9.2%, Simulation 8.3%

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: Automation 22.2%, Sandbox 21.3%, Building 16.3%, Crafting 8.6%, First-Person 8.3%

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 38.4% ★, Automation 20.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 10.7%, Logic 8.5%

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 30.3% ★, Game Development 21.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 6.6%

S&box is a game creation platform built on the Source 2 engine. Play, create, and share games, explore community creations, and experience endless sandbox fun with powerful modern tools.

Why similar: Game Development 34.8% ★, Sandbox 22.2%, Building 17.2%, Stylized 6.3%, First-Person 6%

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

Why similar: Sandbox 24.7%, Automation 19.9%, Logic 14.3%, Building 12.7%, Simulation 10.3%

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 28.5%, Programming 25.2% ★, Automation 16.2%, Simulation 15.1%, First-Person 6.5%

Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator

Why similar: Programming 41.8% ★, Sandbox 21.3%, Simulation 14.3%, Logic 12.1%, Crafting 5.5%

Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox for Desktop+VR

Why similar: Programming 38.5% ★, Sandbox 18.6%, Building 13.5%, Simulation 7.5%, First-Person 6%

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 30% ★, Game Development 22.2% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Robots 10.3%, Building 9.3%

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 23.1% ★, Robots 14.2%, Automation 14.1%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 12%

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 30.4% ★, Automation 22.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 7.7%

Rebots is a first-person automation game with an expansive universe to explore. Using intelligent(ish) rebots, you can gather resources, terraform planets, and scan all of the things. Traverse the galaxy in the name of space capitalism!

Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Robots 15.4%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 6.9%