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 24.4% ★, Automation 14.9%, Sandbox 12%, Robots 11.8%, 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 25.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 8.1%, Open World 6.8%

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 27.6% ★, Automation 18%, Sandbox 17.6%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 7%

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: Programming 28.6% ★, Game Development 20.9% ★, Automation 18%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.2%

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 34.5% ★, Automation 16.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 11.8%, Logic 10.7%

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 33.8% ★, Automation 17.6%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Base Building 7%

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

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 28.1%, Simulation 15.2%, 3D 9.2%, Physics 8.9%

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

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 32.3% ★, Automation 21.5%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 13.9%, 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.

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 29.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 8.6%

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

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: Automation 24.2%, Sandbox 18.9%, Building 16.7%, Logic 11.4%, First-Person 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.

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 21.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 11.5%, Exploration 9.7%

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

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 26.5%, Building 24.7%, Robots 22.2%, Crafting 8.8%, 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.

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 30.7% ★, Automation 19.4%, Sandbox 14.3%, 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.

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 32.2% ★, Automation 20.1%, Sandbox 15.2%, Robots 13.7%, 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.

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: Programming 27.1% ★, Automation 17.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 10.7%, Logic 9.9%

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

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%, Crafting 13.9%, Simulation 11.8%, Physics 8.2%

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.

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 37.4% ★, Automation 23.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 7.7%, 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.

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 46.8% ★, Automation 27.6%, Logic 10.4%, Simulation 7%, 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 40.8%, Sandbox 19.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%

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 40.9% ★, Robots 18.9%, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Building 10.8%

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

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 56.6% ★, Automation 21.6%, Logic 10.3%, Simulation 4.9%, 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 79.2% ★, Logic 7.8%, Automation 6.7%, Simulation 6.1%, 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 33.3%, Sandbox 20.7%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8.9%

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 47.2% ★, Robots 16.5%, Logic 10.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Automation 7.5%

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.

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

Why similar: Building 31.6%, Simulation 27.6%, Stylized 10.8%, 3D 10.5%, Crafting 10.1%

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 71.2% ★, Automation 13.4%, Simulation 6.5%, Logic 5.5%, Sandbox 3.2%

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

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

Why similar: Automation 42.5%, Sandbox 20.5%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 16.7%, Multiplayer 2.6%

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

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 39.8%, Programming 32.2% ★, Simulation 27.8%, 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 73.2% ★, Logic 9.2%, Automation 8.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%

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

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 20.3%, Robots 15%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 7.3%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Automation 23.2%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 12.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.3%

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 25.1% ★, Robots 13.3%, Automation 13.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Logic 9%

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 35.6% ★, Building 13.1%, Automation 12.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Robots 10.3%

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 34.8% ★, Automation 31.8%, Simulation 12.1%, Logic 10.1%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 25.6% ★, Automation 16.6%, Sandbox 12%, Building 9.5%, Robots 9.3%

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% ★, Automation 16.8%, Sandbox 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Building 10.8%

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 25.6%, Game Development 20% ★, Building 19.2%, Logic 14.1%, Physics 6.6%

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 62.2% ★, Sandbox 24%, Simulation 13.8%

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 35.9%, Building 31.4%, Robots 14.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Multiplayer 4.2%

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

Why similar: Sandbox 20.8%, Game Development 18.9% ★, Building 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Robots 9.9%

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 21.1%, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 14.2%, 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 36.4% ★, Sandbox 17.9%, Building 14.4%, Crafting 7.8%, Simulation 6.8%

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 25.2%, Building 22.9%, Simulation 10.4%, Physics 6.6%

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 22.8%, Sandbox 21.1%, Building 16.1%, Crafting 8.5%, First-Person 8.2%

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 33.1% ★, Sandbox 18.2%, Robots 17.5%, Building 11.8%, Simulation 7.7%

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 27.9%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 15.7%, Base Building 9%, Simulation 8.7%

Powerful Realtime 3D Electronic Circuit Simulator

Why similar: Programming 40.8% ★, Sandbox 21.7%, Simulation 14.6%, Logic 12.2%, Crafting 5.4%

Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, explore an open-ended puzzle world where you craft real quantum algorithms, solve 500+ challenges, hack other players asynchronously, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.

Why similar: Programming 32% ★, Automation 18.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Logic 11.5%, Building 10%

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 37.5% ★, Automation 21.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 10.7%, Logic 8.4%

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 29.9% ★, Game Development 21% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 6.7%

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 35.3%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 15.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Simulation 7.5%

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 29.6% ★, Game Development 22.1% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Robots 10.3%, Building 9.3%

Modbox is a multiplayer game creation sandbox for Desktop+VR

Why similar: Programming 37.9% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 7.7%, First-Person 6%

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 22.3% ★, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 17%, Robots 10.4%, Simulation 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 20.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, Robots 15.1%, Building 10%, Crafting 6.8%

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 34% ★, Automation 27.8%, Building 15.7%, Logic 10.1%, Physics 4.5%

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Sandbox 18.7%, Building 15.1%, Base Building 7.5%, Crafting 7.5%

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 30.1%, Building 24.9%, Crafting 13.6%, Exploration 10.8%, Open World 7.9%