- #1 Wuli Sandbox
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Happy百万
Windows
In this physics-based particle sandbox, everything is in flux: water, steam, ice, magma, acid... Blast it. Wreck it. Build it!
Why similar: Science 25.3%, God Game 19.1% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Physics 11.8%, Moddable 9.7%
- #2 Powdertron
96% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: SalE
Windows
A physics sandbox built on real chemistry. Drop 674 materials into a falling-sand world and watch them react, burn, freeze and explode. Then wire circuits, test wings in a wind tunnel, or split light through lenses — alone or with friends online.
Why similar: Science 28.6%, Sandbox 18.3%, Physics 11.4%, Moddable 9.5%, Building 8.5%
- #3 Alchemy Laboratory: Simulator
96% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Afk Pixel Studio
Windows
Dive into a world of creation and discovery, where each element combines to form new ones. Experiment freely in this interactive sandbox. But be careful: every combination has its consequences..
Why similar: Science 26.1%, God Game 24.2% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Physics 11.6%, Destruction 11.6%
- #4 Terra Firma 2
95% matchVery Positive93% of 213 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.
Why similar: God Game 29.9% ★, Science 18.3%, Sandbox 16.1%, Physics 11.5%, Simulation 6.9%
- #5 Sand:box
94% matchVery Positive94% of 1,758 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 78.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: God Game 25.3% ★, Science 17.3%, Sandbox 14%, Destruction 10.4%, Physics 9%
- #6 Project Biosphere
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nine Hostages GamesPub: Factory30
Windows
Project Biosphere is a real-time ecosystem sandbox built on a falling-sand simulation. Water flows, heat spreads, fire consumes, plants take root. Ecosystems rise and fall.
Why similar: God Game 33.2% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Physics 14.3%, Science 13%, Simulation 11.5%
- #7 Terra Firma
93% matchVery Positive94% of 605 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
Play god and create your own world in this complex simulation. Plate tectonics, wind and water erosion and plant life all develop and interact to produce a world that is viewable from a single tree to kilometres across.
Why similar: God Game 36.5% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Life Sim 14.7%, Simulation 11.3%, Destruction 8.8%
- #8 Biosphere Simulator
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ioStudios
Windows
Biosphere Simulator is a planetary god game sandbox where you guide a dead volcanic world through billions of years of evolution. Seed life, shape ecosystems, unleash cataclysms, and watch civilizations rise from primordial microbes to spacefaring societies.
Why similar: God Game 31.5% ★, Science 23.6%, Life Sim 12.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Physics 8.2%
- #9 Water Physics Simulation
91% matchVery Positive82% of 98 reviews2021
Dev: Gaming-Apps.com
Windows
Water Physics Simulation & Sandbox! Build ships and let them sink! Build cars and let them sink! Use bombs and destroy ragdolls. Play with natural disasters or create towns.
Why similar: Sandbox 22%, God Game 21.9% ★, Physics 16%, Destruction 14.9%, Simulation 10.7%
- #10 Worldwright
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SeaFort LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Worldwright is a god game at the planetary scale. Split continents, prune lineages, topple empires, and discover unique worlds across 5 billion years of geology, evolution, and history.
Why similar: Science 34.2%, God Game 33.1% ★, Sandbox 22.9%, Simulation 8.6%, Indie 0.7%
- #11 Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,004 reviews2018
Dev: Quasar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.
Why similar: God Game 32.7% ★, Science 29.8%, Sandbox 22.4%, Simulation 10.7%, Relaxing 3.3%
- #12 Terra Logic
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Cyborg V
Windows
Sculpt planets and landscapes, watch water and climate respond, and compare two versions of the same world. Import heightmaps, draw mountain ranges, and export flat terrain to Minecraft Java. Explore Earth, ancient continents and distant worlds at your own pace.
Why similar: Science 29.2%, God Game 28.3% ★, Sandbox 19%, Physics 13%, Simulation 7.1%
- #13 Jingjie: Signals
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: JK Studio
Windows
Jingjie is a strategy-simulation sandbox where you write laws, shape probability clouds, and guide a living world with embedded local AI. Observe, experiment, and watch complex life emerge from logic, tension, and chaos.
Why similar: God Game 33.6% ★, Science 17.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Physics 10.3%, Logic 9.4%
- #14 Sand in a Box
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Tiliasoft.com
Windows · Linux
Sand in a Box is a 'falling sand' game that simulates thermal flow, electricity, radioactive decay, and gravity. Create art, experiment with physics, and craft your own simulation rules with user-friendly mod support!
Why similar: Science 26.1%, God Game 25.2% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Physics 10.9%, Logic 7.1%
- #15 The Powder Toy
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,022 reviews2024
Dev: The Powder Toy Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances
Why similar: Sandbox 22.6%, Science 20.8%, Moddable 15.2%, Destruction 11.9%, Physics 11.1%
- #16 Spike's Particle Sandbox
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SpikeViper (Kobe Albright)Pub: Vooper Media
Windows
Build machines, trigger chain reactions, and throw planets at each other. SPS combines flowing particles with rigidbody physics at scales from centimeters to thousands of kilometers. Run that experiment you've always wanted without burning down your house.
Why similar: God Game 36.4% ★, Science 17.5%, Sandbox 17.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Moddable 8.6%
- #17 Water Box: Sandbox Playground
86% matchMostly Positive67% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Gaming-Apps.com
Windows
This water physics sandbox lets you experiment with realistic fluid behavior, sink ships by using bomb explosions, and enjoy a ragdoll people playground built to simulate destruction.
Why similar: God Game 33% ★, Sandbox 20.4%, Physics 15.3%, Simulation 12.7%, Destruction 9.2%
- #18 Solar Smash: Annihilation
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paradyme
Windows · Linux
Solar Smash: Annihilation is the ULTIMATE sandbox simulation game. Unleash galactic chaos with lasers, meteors, black holes, and many more crazy weapons. With stunning graphics, smooth gameplay and an exciting arsenal of destructive tools – the universe is your playground!
Why similar: God Game 35.8% ★, Sandbox 21.4%, Destruction 14.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Physics 11%
- #19 Ultimate Destruction Simulator
84% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: KreizLand Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Slow down time, spawn tornadoes, change gravity, create your own maps, play maps created by others! All kinds of missiles, grenades and charges, different sized tornadoes, black holes, earth shatters. Different material types to build from with their own properties. All that and more in this Sim
Why similar: God Game 36.6% ★, Destruction 18.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Physics 12%, Simulation 10.5%
- #20 pan·gaia
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Laing
Windows · Linux
pan·gaia is a whole-Earth sandbox fresh outta 1999. Sculpt your planet's climate, balance its ecology, design the perfect species for a niche, and maybe, lead them to sapience. Or... hurl meteors at them.
Why similar: God Game 30.7% ★, Sandbox 28%, Science 26.6%, Simulation 9.8%, Relaxing 4.4%
- #21 Falling Cubes
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: noanim
Windows
3D falling sand simulation. Experiment to unlock new materials. Reactions, Temperature, Pressure are your tools to discover over 200 unique cube types.
Why similar: Science 28.5%, God Game 24.1% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Physics 11.7%, Destruction 8.1%
- #22 ANLIFE: Motion-Learning Life Evolution
81% matchVery Positive85% of 166 reviews2026
Dev: Attructure Inc.
Windows
A relaxing evolution simulation where AI-driven block creatures move in unexpected ways. There are no complex ecosystems—just pure movement learning through a physics engine. Watch as these creatures scurry, stumble, and evolve in their own unique, unpredictable ways.
Why similar: God Game 31.5% ★, Science 22.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Physics 10.1%, Life Sim 9.3%
- #23 Block Destruction
83% match3 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: CrazySimPub: CrazyDistributive
Windows
Want some destructions? Have fun destroying this cubic world. Different maps and weapons for you to have fun with. Slow down time, pause time to enjoy it more. Editor is available for you to play around!
Why similar: God Game 27.5% ★, Sandbox 23%, Destruction 19%, Simulation 15.1%, Building 7.2%
- #24 GardenGrow
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ADIRINK
Windows
A cozy houseplant simulation where every plant is alive. Grow, water, prune, and train unique species. Apply buff cards to push plants beyond their natural limits and create your own species with a capable plant editor.
Why similar: God Game 46% ★, Sandbox 21.3%, Simulation 15.4%, Physics 8.8%, Relaxing 5.8%
- #25 Mini Eco
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OHyatsu
Windows
MiniEco is a cozy top-down nature sim that combines laid-back idle gameplay, hands-on ecosystem management, and a hint of god-like power. Nurture or disrupt evolving species, shape their habitats, and watch as thousands of organisms adapt—or clash—in real time.
Why similar: Science 32.1%, God Game 31.6% ★, Sandbox 19.6%, Simulation 7.3%, Relaxing 4.2%
- #26 Sandboxels
78% matchVery Positive95% of 1,172 reviews2025
Dev: R74n
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: God Game 31.8% ★, Science 31.5%, Sandbox 18.1%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 4.4%
- #27 Woodland Empire
80% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Nicholas OrlowskiPub: Obvlong Games
Windows · Linux
Woodland Empire is an anti-citybuilder; a natural take on the typical city building game. Instead of building roads and power lines, you'll control the wind, rain and sunlight to help your forest grow. Employ the help of woodland creatures to manage, upgrade and grow your empire.
Why similar: God Game 32% ★, Science 23.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Life Sim 9.7%, Physics 8.5%
- #28 The Sapling
79% matchVery Positive89% of 2,006 reviews2019
Dev: Wessel Stoop
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The Sapling is a simulation game where you design your own plants, animals, algae and fungi, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
Why similar: God Game 30% ★, Science 27.9%, Life Sim 16.6%, Sandbox 15.8%, Simulation 5.2%
- #29 Stardust Sandbox
77% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Starciad
Windows · Linux
A creative sandbox simulation where you experiment with physical interactions, build structures, and observe emergent behaviors in a world fully under your control.
Why similar: God Game 23.6% ★, Science 23.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Destruction 10.8%, Physics 10.4%
- #30 Universe Sandbox
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 32,344 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Why similar: God Game 26.5% ★, Science 25.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Destruction 11.3%, Physics 10.9%
- #31 ClassBoom
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Alkibit
Windows · Mac
This is a physics-based casual sandbox game, where there are no limits to your creativity. Mess around with liquids, explore the space, build machines, or just explode everything you can see.
Why similar: God Game 33.2% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Physics 12.5%, Destruction 11.7%, Simulation 7.5%
- #32 The Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe!
78% matchMixed42% of 1,516 reviews2016
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Use your godly powers to craft amazing pixel worlds or destroy the universe! Play with physics, over 200 elements and controllable heroes. Make your own games or levels, and then share your creations online. There are no limits to your creativity and imagination!
Why similar: Sandbox 31.4%, God Game 31.3% ★, Physics 10.9%, Destruction 10.8%, Simulation 7.9%
- #33 PLANETOON
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TOBON GAME
Windows · Mac
A space puzzle game where you create galaxies. Discover cosmic surprises and over 60 endings. Complete the ending collection to unlock Endless Mode, and see how far your own galaxy can grow.
Why similar: God Game 35.8% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Physics 16%, Science 12.8%, Simulation 7.8%
- #34 WorldBox - God Simulator
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 56,966 reviews2021
Dev: Maxim Karpenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 29.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
Why similar: God Game 39.5% ★, Sandbox 21%, Life Sim 10.9%, Destruction 10.1%, Simulation 6.6%
- #35 Eureka! Superconductor Lab
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GomulGames
Windows
Eureka! Superconductor Lab is a crafting+simulation game where you synthesize materials and witness the astonishing scientific phenomena. Work alongside scholars, science geeks, and your girlfriend to synthesize the Holy Grail of modern physics: a room-temperature superconductor!
Why similar: Science 33.7%, God Game 28.9% ★, Sandbox 10.1%, Physics 10%, Logic 8%
- #36 Lifecraft
73% matchVery Positive81% of 148 reviews2024
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: Science 28.1%, God Game 26.4% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Life Sim 11.8%, Building 8.8%
- #37 Fluid Simulator
75% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: CrazySimPub: CrazyDistributive
Windows
Deploy ships, build hauses and destroy it useing bombs or water
Why similar: Sandbox 24.9%, God Game 21.4% ★, Physics 15.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Destruction 12.3%
- #38 Marble World
73% matchVery Positive90% of 1,343 reviews2022
Dev: Vector Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Marble World is a physics sandbox simulator with marbles. Create your own marble races, runs and machines. Customize a variety of tracks, decorations and marbles to create a beautiful world.
Why similar: God Game 35.3% ★, Sandbox 20.1%, Physics 15.9%, Logic 9%, Building 7.7%
- #39 EvoLife
74% matchPositive83% of 30 reviews2022
Dev: Mihaly Sisak
Windows
Create and evolve your own digital lifeforms! Watch or interact as your creations adapt and thrive in a world governed by the laws of physics. Download now and start your own evolutionary journey!
Why similar: God Game 30.8% ★, Science 26.9%, Sandbox 15.9%, Life Sim 12.8%, Simulation 6.6%
- #40 Creaturing - Sea Wonders
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: A Little Smarter
Windows
Create physics-based sea creatures and discover evolution through surprising challenges! Control, test, and share your creatures made with our flexible building system! Evolution is full of quirky surprises, can you be more creative than nature it self?
Why similar: Science 29.9%, God Game 17.7% ★, Sandbox 17%, Physics 13.2%, Building 7.4%
- #41 Gaia Maker
71% matchPositive94% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: Garkimasera Games
Windows · Linux
Gaia Maker is a planet-wide simulation game of terraforming, based on real physics and geology. As the planet's overseer, wield advanced technologies to reshape barren planets into life-filled worlds. Foster animal life, cultivate civilizations, or destroy them. Their fate is in your hands.
Why similar: God Game 40.5% ★, Sandbox 22.9%, Physics 14.2%, Simulation 11.2%, Science 9.7%
- #42 The Story Of
72% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Mårten JonssonPub: JMJ Interactive
Windows
A collection of 3 relaxing simulators, never before released on PC. Grow the worlds, find all the endings.
Why similar: God Game 45.4% ★, Sandbox 19.8%, Simulation 14.5%, Logic 7.7%, Building 7.4%
- #43 POWDR
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: SUBLIMINAL SOFTWARE
Windows
POWDR is a high performance interactive particle sandbox featuring realistic fluids, sands, solids, interactions, and more! Every pixel is simulated. Every material interacts. Every experiment can become a catastrophe.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.1%, God Game 23.9% ★, Physics 18.4%, Destruction 13.2%, Simulation 12.3%
- #44 Geareo
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WITWELD
Windows
Real gears that don't slip in a mechanical invention sandbox. Build freely with resizable parts and shapes, overcome physics challenges, and follow kit instructions. Unleash your engineering creativity with intricate clockwork contraptions, steam-powered systems, and fully functional circuits.
Why similar: Science 23.8%, Moddable 16.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Physics 11.9%, Destruction 10.8%
- #45 Destructive Contraptions
70% match5 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Gamergetik
Windows
Destructive Contraptions is a physics sandbox where you build crazy machines out of dominoes, cannons, and pivots to trigger massive chain reactions. Design chaotic inventions and demolish giant cities, all without worrying about real world laws or life threatening liabilities.
Why similar: God Game 33.4% ★, Sandbox 19%, Physics 14.2%, Building 9.5%, Destruction 6.9%
- #46 PHYSARUM: Slime Mold Simulator
72% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2021
Dev: Ka Hin Yuen
Windows
PHYSARUM is a sandbox simulation game. Simulate the real world slime mold Physarum polycephalum by generating millions of living particles. Create and mutate slime species in real time to discover countless mesmerizing and emergent patterns.
Why similar: Science 35.9%, God Game 27.2% ★, Sandbox 23.7%, Simulation 12.2%, Indie 0.6%
- #47 Planetary Life
69% matchVery Positive94% of 948 reviews2025
Dev: Sotenbox
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!
Why similar: God Game 31.9% ★, Science 28.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Life Sim 12.9%, Simulation 6.1%
- #48 Tank of the Fittest
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wuhan Wind Tunnel Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Windows
Tank of the Fittest is a dark aquarium roguelite. Twist heat, pH, oxygen, and pollution to cull the weak, trigger new traits and evolutions, set off chains of devouring, and forge one apex specimen powerful enough to turn the tank against itself.
Why similar: God Game 37.4% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Science 16.4%, Life Sim 13.9%, Simulation 12.2%
- #49 SunaBox - The Particle Sandbox That Remembers
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Darien Bathalter
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paint 27 kinds of matter. Set it on fire. Then press rewind. SunaBox is a physics sandbox in the spirit of the legendary OE-CAKE, on a bit-exact engine: every session can be replayed, rewound, saved, and shared to reproduce your world perfectly.
Why similar: Science 27.8%, God Game 26% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Physics 11.4%, Building 8.3%
- #50 GodWright
68% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: JaceDevPub: IronStack LLC
Windows · Linux
Build a pixel world and play god. Shape the land, seed civilizations, and watch kingdoms grow, trade, and wage war. Protect a favorite village or unleash dragons, meteors, and black holes. A single-player god-game sandbox with free play and optional objectives.
Why similar: God Game 33.9% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Life Sim 13.9%, Moddable 10.2%, Destruction 6.8%
- #51 The Neeblarium
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: GhostRZZRPub: coldboot.studio
Windows · Linux
A calm artificial-life sandbox where you seed tiny Neeblies into biomes, watch families and traits emerge, and preserve rare discoveries in your Lab. Shape the environment, run parallel ecosystems, and decide when to intervene or let evolution unfold.
Why similar: Science 29.2%, God Game 28.8% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Life Sim 13.3%, Relaxing 4.8%
- #52 Sediment
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Antique Box Studio
Windows
A pixel-physics sandbox. Fifty materials, and every one of them is physics: sand finds its angle, water freezes, lava crusts into stone, gunpowder blows. Build your own materials and worlds, and share them in the Workshop.
Why similar: Science 22.1%, Sandbox 22%, God Game 22% ★, Physics 10.1%, Building 9.8%
- #53 Tidal Tribe
69% matchVery Positive87% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: PowPit
Windows
Tidal Tribe is a relaxing god game that gives you the power to shape the terrain. Raise and lower the land to protect your villages from waves and floods, all while using that very same water to build lakes and rivers, turning the desert land into a lively forest of trees and bushes.
Why similar: God Game 41% ★, Sandbox 20.6%, Simulation 17.1%, Physics 11.6%, Relaxing 6.3%
- #54 The Sandbox
70% matchMixed55% of 575 reviews2015
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
READY FOR CRAFTING VIRTUAL WORLDS ON YOUR PC?The acclaimed world-building game featuring a unique mission-based approach is coming onto PC via Steam Early Access. With over 16 million players on mobile & tablets versions and 1,500,000 pixel blocks creations shared in the Online Gallery to date, this PC version is taking world...
Why similar: Sandbox 46.5%, God Game 34.7% ★, Simulation 10.5%, Physics 4.5%, Pixel Graphics 2.4%
- #55 Demolition Master - Destruction Simulator
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: KreizLand Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Demolition sandbox with different guns including nature powers. Slow down time, change gravity and much more to play around! With compaign and sandbox mods.
Why similar: God Game 30.3% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Destruction 15.7%, Physics 13.6%, Simulation 7.7%
- #56 Anything Simulator
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: FunHeartDreamMaker
Windows · Mac
A powerful 2D sandbox simulator — physics and magic, characters and animation. Create anything you can imagine!
Why similar: God Game 36.8% ★, Sandbox 23.4%, Physics 16.1%, Building 11.4%, Simulation 9.7%
- #57 Nuclear Design Bureau
64% matchMostly Positive73% of 328 reviews2026
Dev: Design Bureau KB-11
Windows
Design. Simulate. Detonate. As a junior engineer at the Kurchatov Institute, you design atomic devices to satisfy the demands of the State. A hardcore physics game simulating hydrodynamics, neutron transport, and thermonuclear fusion.
Why similar: Science 27.3%, God Game 25.2% ★, Sandbox 14%, Physics 12%, Destruction 11.4%
- #58 Kerbal Space Program
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 147,368 reviews2015
Dev: SquadPub: Private Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 66.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Why similar: Science 31.9%, Sandbox 20.6%, Physics 15.2%, Moddable 14.8%, Simulation 9.2%
- #59 Space Engineers 2
64% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,654 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Science 24.3%, Moddable 18.3%, Sandbox 16.7%, Destruction 12.7%, Physics 11.8%