- #1 Easy Red 2
97% matchVery Positive90% of 12,979 reviews2022
Dev: Marco AmadeiPub: Corvostudio di Amadei Marco
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience massive battles with infantry, tanks, artillery, and aircraft on large destructible open-world maps. Equip yourself, coordinate with your squad, and fight through World War II in singleplayer, co-op, or multiplayer!
Why similar: War 25.1%, FPS 19.8%, Sandbox 13.2%, Shooter 10.4%, Team-Based 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Like a more grounded Ravenfield, it delivers large bot-filled combined-arms battles where you can swap between infantry, tanks, and aircraft in singleplayer.
- #2 Brass Brigade
96% matchVery Positive92% of 553 reviews2019
Dev: Henry Kucab
Windows
Brass Brigade combines the aesthetic of Battlefield Heroes/Battlefield 1942 with highly customizable bot matches. Fight WWII's most iconic battles with as many bots as your PC can handle!
Why similar: War 30.3%, FPS 29.4%, Sandbox 17.5%, Action 14.9%, Indie 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is essentially a low-poly offline Battlefield-style shooter with AI bots, vehicles, and the same easy-to-jump-into solo sandbox feel.
- #3 Ancient Warfare 3
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,756 reviews2024
Dev: JNI Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 29.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into a sandbox full of action and customization! Choose from different game modes like deathmatch, conquest, king of the hill, zombie survival and many more. Create your own scenarios and content in the easy to use in-game editors or use one of the 50k+ workshop items from other players...
Why similar: War 18.9%, Sandbox 17.3%, Moddable 13.9% ★, FPS 10.3%, Military 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its mix of large battle sandboxing, direct unit possession, vehicles, and chaotic experimentation hits the same toy-soldier war itch.
- #4 Operation: Harsh Doorstop
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,147 reviews2023
Dev: Drakeling Labs
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Operation: Harsh Doorstop is the ultimate, free to play, tactical shooter sandbox. Play singleplayer, multiplayer, or co-op modes and explore thousands of community-created maps, weapons, and vehicles via the Steam Workshop. Created by ex-developers of Squad, Red Orchestra, and Insurgency.
Why similar: Military 25.7%, FPS 17.6%, War 16.8%, Shooter 9.6%, Tactical 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This Battlefield-inspired shooter emphasizes moddable combined-arms combat and bot support, making it one of the closest modern alternatives.
- #5 Rising Front
93% matchVery Positive88% of 4,015 reviews2026
Dev: Sandstorm Studios Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
A FPS WW1 & Revolutionary War battle simulator with a focus on Workshop Content, rag-doll physics, intelligent AI, massive battles, procedural AI cover system, real-time building system and FPS combat!
Why similar: War 30.6%, Sandbox 17.7%, FPS 17.4%, Shooter 10.9%, First-Person 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: For Ravenfield's offline bot battles in a World War we setting, it offers large maps, vehicles, and straightforward singleplayer action.
- #6 RUNNING WITH RIFLES
94% matchVery Positive88% of 16,599 reviews2015
Dev: Osumia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down tactical shooter with open world RPG elements. In RWR, you join the ranks of an army as a common soldier, just like the thousands around you.
Why similar: Military 29.9%, Moddable 22.2% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Shooter 12%, Tactical 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It trades first-person for a top-down view, but the core appeal is strikingly similar: huge AI wars, capture points, vehicles, and emergent offline battles.
- #7 Arma 3
94% matchVery Positive90% of 292,979 reviews2013
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.4 hrsMean: 256.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
Why similar: Military 24.2%, War 14.9%, FPS 11.2%, Shooter 10.3%, Sandbox 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: If you want Ravenfield's sandbox war fantasy expanded into a deeper sim, Arma 3 offers massive AI battles, vehicles, mission freedom, and endless modding.
- #8 BattleBit Remastered
91% matchVery Positive82% of 146,149 reviews2023
Dev: SgtOkiDoki
Windows
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 35.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
BattleBit Remastered is a low-poly, massive multiplayer FPS, supporting 254 players per server. Battle on a near-fully destructible map with various vehicles!
Why similar: Military 22.3%, War 20.6%, FPS 20.1%, Shooter 12.2%, Team-Based 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Even without singleplayer, its low-poly look, huge match sizes, vehicles, and arcadey battlefield chaos feel very familiar.
- #9 Call to Arms
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 23,955 reviews2018
Dev: Digitalmindsoft
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Call to Arms offers an innovative mix of real-time strategy and 3rd, as well as 1st person controls. Set in the time of modern warfare, the game offers realistically modeled vehicles and heavy weaponry. Command your troops to victory or fight by yourself in the 3rd or 1st person action mode.
Why similar: Military 28.1%, War 20.9%, FPS 10.1%, Shooter 8.9%, Tactical 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Switching between top-down command and direct soldier or vehicle control gives you Ravenfield-style sandbox skirmishes with more tactical depth.
- #10 Enlisted
90% matchVery Positive80% of 43,674 reviews2024
Dev: Darkflow SoftwarePub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In Enlisted, you are not only commanding a single soldier, but an entire squad! This MMO squad based shooter recreates the key battles of the bloodiest war of the 20th century, with hundreds of soldiers, tanks and aircraft taking part in each battle.
Why similar: FPS 26.7%, War 25.4%, Shooter 14.3%, Team-Based 14.1%, First-Person 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: The squad-based structure still delivers the same thrill of pushing objectives in big battles backed by AI soldiers and vehicles.
- #11 STAR WARS™ Battlefront II (Classic, 2005)
91% matchVery Positive95% of 54,064 reviews2009
Dev: Pandemic StudiosPub: Lucasfilm
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Join the rise of Darth Vader’s elite 501st Legion of Stormtroopers as you fight through an all new story-based saga where every action you take impacts the battlefront and, ultimately, the fate of the Star Wars galaxy.
Why similar: FPS 24%, Shooter 18.3%, Military 18.3%, Moddable 16.1% ★, First-Person 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Bot-filled conquest matches, drivable vehicles, and map-control gameplay make it feel like a sci-fi cousin to Ravenfield.
- #12 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 149,906 reviews2021
Dev: Landfall
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Why similar: War 33.7%, Sandbox 24.8%, Funny 9.8%, Physics 8.7%, Simulation 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It drops the FPS layer, yet its silly warfare, ragdoll energy, and toybox experimentation line up with Ravenfield's funniest moments.
- #13 Total Tank Simulator
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,653 reviews2020
Dev: Noobz from PolandPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Commander in the ranks. Soldier at heart. Choose a faction and deploy and command your army into massive physics-driven WWII battles to the last man standing. Destroy everything on sight with an insane amount of units that will behave tactically.
Why similar: War 32.4%, Sandbox 21.9%, FPS 8.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses more on directing battles, but the ability to jump into units mid-fight captures a similar playful sandbox combat flow.
- #14 Clownfield 2042
87% matchVery Positive84% of 4,595 reviews2021
Dev: RIVERSIDE SPORTS
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Clownfield 2042 is an FPS where you take the role of a no-clown, equipped with arsenal to fight anyone ahead and win the front. After the 2022 crypto-crash caused by NFT's, the majority of nations collapsed and a union of "No-Clowns" was formed. You are one of them, arm up and get ready for war.
Why similar: Military 29%, War 24.5%, FPS 24.5%, Action 7.4%, Physics 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: As a tongue-in-cheek Battlefield parody, it matches Ravenfield's goofy solo military shooting better than its low-budget presentation suggests.
- #15 Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare
88% matchMixed65% of 12,409 reviews2019
Dev: KK Game Studio
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
In the anarchic world of Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare, only the mightiest warlord rules. Start with a pistol and a few militias, you will set yourself on a wild and ambitious journey towards world domination. Enjoy the immersive combination of intense FPS and sandbox strategy.
Why similar: FPS 19.8%, Shooter 15.5%, War 14.3%, Military 12.7%, Sandbox 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its blend of open-ended warfare, squad commanding, and first-person firefights appeals if you like Ravenfield's strategic sandbox side.
- #16 Battlefield 4™
86% matchVery Positive85% of 79,762 reviews2020
Dev: DICEPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 45.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Embrace unrivaled destruction in Battlefield 4™. Revel in the glorious chaos of all-out war packed with rewarding, tactical challenges in an interactive environment.
Why similar: Military 25.9%, War 24.5%, FPS 22.4%, Shooter 12.8%, First-Person 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is the big-budget version of Ravenfield's modern combined-arms fantasy, built around infantry, tanks, helicopters, and map-scale chaos.
- #17 GROUND BRANCH
86% matchVery Positive89% of 23,351 reviews2018
Dev: BlackFoot StudiosPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
From one of the developers behind the original Rainbow Six® and Ghost Recon® games, comes a thinking-man's first-person shooter featuring in-depth character and weapon customization. Take your time. Think ahead. Get the job done.
Why similar: Military 28.2%, FPS 18.6%, Tactical 13.4%, Shooter 9.7%, War 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is much more realistic and tactical, but solo military gunplay with AI and careful loadouts can appeal to Ravenfield players wanting a harder-edged version.
- #18 Battlefield™ 1
84% matchVery Positive86% of 219,910 reviews2020
Dev: DICEPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Battlefield™ 1 takes you back to The Great War, WW1, where new technology and worldwide conflict changed the face of warfare forever.
Why similar: War 35.4%, FPS 30.7%, Shooter 15.4%, First-Person 7%, Singleplayer 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its large objective-driven battles, varied vehicles, and cinematic but accessible gunplay echo Ravenfield's war-sandbox appeal.
- #19 Angels Fall First
85% matchVery Positive82% of 2,800 reviews2015
Dev: Strangely Interactive Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
From commanding the battle standing on the bridge of your flagship all the way down to tactical infantry firefights - AFF brings together all the combat you ever wanted in a rich science fiction setting. Boarding, pilotable capital ships, deep weapon customization and full AI support included!
Why similar: FPS 47.3%, Action 10.8%, First-Person 10.2%, Tactical 9.6%, Shooter 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It brings Ravenfield-style bots, vehicles, and large-scale battles into a sci-fi setting with a similar indie sandbox spirit.
- #20 Battlefield™ V
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 266,061 reviews2020
Dev: DICEPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 56.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
This is the ultimate Battlefield V experience. Enter mankind’s greatest conflict with the complete arsenal of weapons, vehicles, and gadgets plus the best customization content of Year 1 and 2.
Why similar: War 26.9%, FPS 25.7%, Military 22.3%, Shooter 13.5%, First-Person 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: If you want the same class-and-vehicles battlefield loop in WWII form, this is a strong fit despite its multiplayer focus.
- #21 Silica
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,788 reviews2023
Dev: Martin 'Dram' MelichárekPub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Silica blends FPS and RTS in epic, photorealistic battles. Choose to fight on the ground or command from above as humans or aliens. Dive into thrilling multiplayer combat or master strategic command. Are you ready to survive and conquer?
Why similar: FPS 37.4%, Shooter 22.9%, Physics 10.8%, First-Person 9.8%, Strategy 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This RTS/FPS hybrid offers large-scale battles and vehicle play for players who enjoy Ravenfield's command-and-combat crossover potential.
- #22 Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 12,228 reviews2017
Dev: Brilliant Game Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Here is a sandbox like no other. Create massive battles with absolutely no limits. Want to see 10,000 chickens fight an army of Romans?? Sure, why not. Want to see a company of WW2 U.S soldiers fight 11,000 Medieval soldiers?? There are simply no limits to the carnage you can achieve in UEBS.
Why similar: War 44.3%, Sandbox 28.5%, Simulation 7.4%, Funny 6.4%, Strategy 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is more of a battle sandbox than a shooter, but it scratches the same giant-armies-colliding spectacle that Ravenfield makes so approachable.
- #23 Battle Cry of Freedom
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,506 reviews2022
Dev: Flying Squirrel Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Battle Cry of Freedom brings brutal real-time first and third-person combat set in the 19th Century America, presenting players with the opportunity to re-fight the American Civil War as either the Union or the Confederates.
Why similar: Military 17.6%, War 16.7%, FPS 13.9%, Shooter 12.7%, Moddable 11.9% ★
Why You'll Like It: Massive historical battles with artillery, cavalry, and chaotic objectives echo Ravenfield's large-war spectacle from a more grounded angle.
- #24 Squad
81% matchVery Positive81% of 237,268 reviews2020
Dev: Offworld
Windows
Median: 14.3 hrsMean: 112.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Squad is a tactical FPS that provides authentic combat experiences through teamwork, communication, and realistic combat. It bridges the gap between arcade shooter and military realism with 100-player battles, combined-arms warfare, and base building.
Why similar: Military 26.4%, FPS 16.1%, War 16%, Team-Based 10.8%, Shooter 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is far more hardcore, but the teamwork, vehicles, and map-scale battles can satisfy the same big-war craving.
- #25 Tannenberg
81% matchVery Positive86% of 9,754 reviews2017
Dev: Blackmill Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Experience authentic First World War action with 64 player battles of maneuver on the Eastern Front. Grab your rifle, ready your sabre and keep your gas mask close as you prepare to play a part in one of the most significant conflicts in history!
Why similar: War 22%, FPS 16.6%, Military 16.2%, Team-Based 14.4%, Shooter 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its large frontline matches and World War we combined-arms emphasis are a good fit if you enjoy Ravenfield's objective-based war flavor.
- #26 Verdun
80% matchVery Positive86% of 37,637 reviews2015
Dev: BlackMill Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Merciless trench warfare immerses you and your squad in intense battles of attack and defense. Verdun is the first multiplayer FPS set in an authentic World War One setting offering a rarely seen battlefield experience.
Why similar: War 20.7%, Military 19.4%, Shooter 16.8%, FPS 15.6%, Tactical 7%
Why You'll Like It: Though more focused and tactical, it delivers bot-supported World War we firefights that preserve the offline military-shooter appeal.
- #27 Eximius: Seize the Frontline
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 739 reviews2021
Dev: Ammobox Studios
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
EXIMIUS is a FPS/RTS hybrid that focuses on squad-based combat. The game features an intense 5v5 multiplayer experience with each team comprising of 4 Squad Officers and one Commander.
Why similar: War 22%, Military 21.5%, FPS 17.4%, Team-Based 15.2%, Shooter 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: The blend of RTS macro-control and direct FPS combat taps into the same 'commander inside the battlefield' fantasy.
- #28 Battlefield™ 2042
78% matchMixed47% of 324,561 reviews2021
Dev: DICEPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 64.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Battlefield™ 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise.
Why similar: Military 23.2%, War 22.1%, FPS 19.4%, Shooter 11.6%, Team-Based 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Despite lacking Ravenfield's offline focus, it still offers the same broad sandbox mix of infantry, armor, and aircraft in modern combat.
- #29 STAR WARS™ Battlefront (Classic, 2004)
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,635 reviews2019
Dev: Pandemic StudiosPub: Lucasfilm
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Fight the greatest battles in the STAR WARS universe any way you want to. The choice is yours.
Why similar: FPS 40.2%, Shooter 18.3%, Action 12.8%, First-Person 9.4%, War 8%
Why You'll Like It: Its bot-friendly conquest battles and vehicle-driven map control feel like an earlier blueprint for Ravenfield's formula.
- #30 PlanetSide 2
79% matchVery Positive81% of 74,576 reviews2012
Dev: Rogue Planet GamesPub: Daybreak Game Company
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 53.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Why similar: FPS 32.6%, War 19.1%, Shooter 16.7%, Team-Based 13.7%, Tactical 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: If what you love most is nonstop large-scale infantry-and-vehicle warfare, this delivers it on a persistent MMO scale.
- #31 Animal Revolt Battle Simulator
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,681 reviews2022
Dev: VDimension
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The ultimate physics-based, sandbox battle simulator where you can create funny battles between all sorts of ragdoll creatures! You can also make your own monsters with the unit creator or even join the battles yourself in the first-person mode!
Why similar: War 25.7%, Moddable 19.6% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Tactical 8.6%, Physics 7%
- #32 Nuclear Option
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,859 reviews2023
Dev: Shockfront Studios
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics across dynamic battlefields, facing land, air, and sea threats. Wage war against AI or rival pilots using an array of advanced weaponry, including tactical and strategic nuclear weapons capable of annihilating anything in your path.
Why similar: War 29%, Military 27.7%, Sandbox 16%, First-Person 8%, Physics 7.6%
- #33 Rise of Liberty
77% matchVery Positive84% of 1,869 reviews2019
Dev: Sandstorm Studios Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Rise of Liberty is a FPS single-player massive Revolutionary War battle simulator. Fire deafening cannons into the thick of the battle, stand in line formation and fire devastating volleys into the enemy. Gather your men for these monumental battles and defeat the enemy!
Why similar: War 19.5%, Military 16.6%, FPS 13.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Shooter 8.5%
- #34 Paint the Town Red
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 31,956 reviews2021
Dev: South East Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn't nailed down.
Why similar: FPS 26.6%, Sandbox 17.5%, First-Person 15.2%, Physics 13.7%, Funny 10.9%
- #35 Plastic Battlegrounds
73% matchVery Positive90% of 272 reviews2025
Dev: Simulated Minds
Windows
Set up the battlefield with an ever growing list of units, vehicles, and emplacements! Then either join the battle as a plastic soldier or be life sized and tower over the chaos.
Why similar: War 26.8%, Military 24.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Shooter 12.1%, FPS 9.9%
- #36 Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
76% matchVery Positive88% of 87,666 reviews2018
Dev: Landfall
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
Why similar: FPS 20.4%, Physics 17.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Shooter 13%, Team-Based 12.8%
- #37 People Playground
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 311,986 reviews2019
Dev: mestiezPub: Studio Minus
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 54.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Why similar: Sandbox 38.4%, Moddable 31.7% ★, Physics 12.9%, Funny 6.4%, Simulation 4%
- #38 Warbox
77% matchMixed57% of 3,587 reviews2021
Dev: Mantaliss
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A sandbox game that enables players to watch or take part in a warzone. Players will have access to a variety of tools and features that give them access to customize and change the battlefield however they like.
Why similar: War 36%, Sandbox 29.7%, Military 11.5%, Physics 9%, Tactical 4.6%
- #39 Shieldwall
74% matchVery Positive87% of 7,133 reviews2023
Dev: Nezon Production
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Shieldwall is a funny third-person tactical battle simulator with strategy elements. It allows you to feel like a squad leader right on the battlefield.
Why similar: War 49%, Funny 10.9%, Sandbox 8.1%, Action 7.1%, Strategy 6.9%
- #40 Besiege
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,398 reviews2020
Dev: Spiderling Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 39.9% ★, Sandbox 31.6%, Physics 14.4%, Simulation 7.4%, Strategy 6.7%
- #41 Brick Rigs
71% matchVery Positive95% of 57,227 reviews2023
Dev: Fluppisoft GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 77.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Sandbox 41.6%, FPS 15.8%, Physics 14.7%, Funny 9%, First-Person 7.5%
- #42 Teardown
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 130,525 reviews2022
Dev: Tuxedo Labs
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Sandbox 39.9%, Physics 18.6%, First-Person 14.4%, Action 6.5%, Realistic 6.4%
- #43 STANDBOX
72% matchVery Positive91% of 2,911 reviews2023
Dev: RealityBeholder
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
STANDBOX is a single-player physics sandbox about bullying a ragdoll. Shoot him, push him, watch him get back up until he doesn't.
Why similar: Sandbox 44.8%, Physics 18%, Moddable 15.8% ★, Action 6.6%, Funny 4.8%
- #44 Vietnam War
70% matchVery Positive85% of 1,562 reviews2025
Dev: Thorium Game Lab
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Open world single-player FPS. Command your squad in battle across jungles, hills and villages of Vietnam. Fight as U.S or Vietcong. Vast arsenal of weapons and 50+ vehicles
Why similar: FPS 24.6%, War 24.6%, Military 21.9%, Shooter 13.7%, First-Person 7.7%
- #45 Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 23,380 reviews2016
Dev: RUST LTD.
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 54.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Do you like hot dogs? How about horseshoes? Hand grenades? (everyone likes hand grenades) Anyway, we've got all that, and guns. SO MANY GUNS. So if you like ordnance, meat, and far too many groan-worthy puns, this is the VR sandbox game for you.
Why similar: FPS 21.3%, Sandbox 19.2%, Shooter 14.5%, Moddable 14.1% ★, Physics 8.1%
- #46 Sprocket
70% matchVery Positive93% of 12,331 reviews2021
Dev: Hamish Dunn
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Carefully balance mobility, firepower and armour in a dedicated tank designer. Then uncarefully put them to the test in a series of combat scenarios progressing through the ages of the tank. Here, your limit is what you can fit inside your hull and turret while still being able to move forwards.
Why similar: Military 34%, War 33.5%, Sandbox 23.9%, Physics 6.6%, Action 2%
- #47 Dagger Directive
69% matchVery Positive84% of 625 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Alpacas LLCPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Dagger Directive is a tactical FPS that allows you to approach each mission in your own way. Select equipment, decide the time of day, then move methodically to complete your mission. Enjoy the modern mechanics and old school graphics as you fight across a variety of missions and environments.
Why similar: Military 24%, FPS 20.9%, War 17.9%, Shooter 13.8%, First-Person 7.5%
- #48 Gunner, HEAT, PC!
70% matchVery Positive92% of 7,615 reviews2022
Dev: Radian Simulations LLC
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Gunner, HEAT, PC! (GHPC) is a simulation game about modern mounted combat, with special attention to authenticity and fun.
Why similar: Military 41.3%, FPS 20.1%, Shooter 14.8%, First-Person 7.1%, Simulation 6.2%
- #49 Wooden Battles
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 528 reviews2017
Dev: SP Digital Arts Inc.
Windows
Build a wooden fort, place your units, watch the mayhem!
Why similar: War 26.4%, Military 19.7%, Sandbox 17.8%, Tactical 8.5%, Physics 7.8%
- #50 Intruder
71% matchVery Positive90% of 6,959 reviews2019
Dev: Superboss Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The ultimate spy-vs-guards simulator. Carefully sneak your way to the objective as Intruders or use the wide variety of tactical gadgets to trap your opponents as Guards. Intruder allows for stealth, teamwork, and environmental interactions never before seen in a multiplayer game.
Why similar: Military 24.5%, FPS 19.2%, Team-Based 13.1%, Shooter 11%, Tactical 7.2%
- #51 Tiny Combat Arena
69% matchVery Positive84% of 1,540 reviews2022
Dev: Why485Pub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Tiny Combat Arena is an approachable combat flight simulator sporting a stylized look and various game modes. Dogfight your way in the Arena and in Quick Action or craft your own scenarios and take part in a vast war with objectives and friendly armies to support.
Why similar: Military 43.8%, War 41.1%, Simulation 9.7%, First-Person 3%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #52 Project Gunship
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 851 reviews2022
Dev: Sklorite Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Rain hell on the enemy from 12,000 feet in an AC-130 Gunship. Project Gunship provides an authentic and historical simulation of combat in all gunship variants from Vietnam to present day.
Why similar: Military 33.4%, War 30.3%, Shooter 10%, Tactical 9.3%, Simulation 5.4%
- #53 Attack on Toys
68% matchVery Positive93% of 1,173 reviews2021
Dev: N7T-GAMES
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!
Why similar: Military 25.9%, War 22.4%, FPS 22.2%, Shooter 14.5%, First-Person 8.7%
- #54 Landfall Archives
66% matchVery Positive95% of 3,582 reviews2023
Dev: landfall
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Why similar: War 36.7%, Sandbox 18.4%, Physics 14.9%, Simulation 6.8%, Strategy 6.5%
- #55 POLYGON
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 36,799 reviews2020
Dev: Redaster Studio
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
POLYGON is a tactical multiplayer team 1st person shooter. Using various weapons, you will battle with up to 32 players on large-scale maps. Properly managing your arsenal and skills, you will lead your team to victory!
Why similar: War 24.6%, Military 22.5%, FPS 17.8%, Shooter 13.2%, Team-Based 8.9%
- #56 Scrap Mechanic
67% matchVery Positive92% of 117,481 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 35.1%, Moddable 16.3% ★, Physics 15.2%, First-Person 9.9%, Funny 8.3%
- #57 Realistic Ragdoll Sandbox
65% matchVery Positive89% of 464 reviews2024
Dev: RelvasDev
Windows
Realistic Ragdoll Sandbox is an immersive game that stands out for its realistic ragdoll physics, which together with various creation and damage tools, provides the player with a mix of realism and fun.
Why similar: Sandbox 57.8%, Physics 21.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Action 5.2%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #58 Isonzo
66% matchVery Positive83% of 16,855 reviews2022
Dev: BlackMill Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ferocious Alpine warfare will test your tactical skills in this authentic WW1 FPS. Battle among the scenic peaks, rugged valleys and idyllic towns of northern Italy. The Great War on the Italian Front is brought to life and elevated to unexpected heights!
Why similar: Military 23.7%, War 17.9%, Team-Based 15.1%, FPS 11.9%, Shooter 7.5%
- #59 Easy Red
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,005 reviews2017
Dev: Marco AmadeiPub: Corvostudio di Amadei Marco
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 42%
The invasion has begun. Land by sea, launch from gliders, fight in the fields, in the beaches and in the skies. it is time to free France.[/b]
Why similar: FPS 40%, War 16.7%, Action 11.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 9.3%
- #60 Mech Havoc
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 657 reviews2025
Dev: Mid DevelopmentPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Sandbox of destruction. Billion different ways to build your mech. Feel the weight and impact of obliteration in this modern old school mech combat sim.
Why similar: Shooter 27%, Tactical 20.2%, Physics 18.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.9%