Games Like Scrap Mechanic

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: Building 16.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Physics 11.3%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Scrap Mechanic's toybox engineering feel almost perfectly, letting you build modular vehicles and aircraft in a colorful physics sandbox with co-op adventure modes.

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: Building 15.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 10.6%, Survival 10.5%, Physics 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: If you want deeper survival, base-building, and multiplayer around fully custom vehicles and machines, this is one of the closest fits on Steam.

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: Building 24.2%, Sandbox 17%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its block-by-block vehicle construction, open-world exploration, and scavenging loop make it a natural match for Scrap Mechanic's creative building focus.

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: Building 20.5%, Sandbox 19%, Open World 14%, Base Building 13.2%, Physics 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers incredibly detailed physics-driven construction of land, sea, and air vehicles for players who love functional engineering in a sandbox world.

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Open World 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This pushes TerraTech closer to Scrap Mechanic's survival-crafting side with co-op, base-building, and open-world machine construction.

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: Building 24.1%, Sandbox 21.9%, Open World 16%, Physics 14.3%, Multiplayer 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like Scrap Mechanic's creative mode turned into a vehicle playground, it excels at building, driving, crashing, and sharing physics-based creations with friends.

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: Building 20.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Crafting 16.6%, Physics 13.7%, Multiplayer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: The game is all about building custom robots and vehicles from scratch, with a similarly playful emphasis on physics and experimentation.

Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore!

Why similar: Building 24.1%, Sandbox 16.7%, Physics 12.4%, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This keeps the physics-heavy building and open-world sandbox structure of Space Engineers, just in a grounded medieval setting.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World 14.7%, Survival 14.2%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Multiplayer 11%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Scrap Mechanic's bright co-op sandbox feel, mixing exploration, crafting, and creative base-building in a relaxed open world.

Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!

Why similar: Building 25.6%, Sandbox 17.7%, Physics 15.8%, Moddable 12.3% ★, Open World 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on mechanical assembly, gears, motors, and physically simulated machines appeals directly to the engineering side of Scrap Mechanic.

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: Base Building 16.3%, Building 16.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more automation-focused, it delivers a similarly satisfying loop of co-op building, resource gathering, and creating increasingly elaborate systems.

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: Building 26.4%, Sandbox 21.5%, Physics 18.1%, Moddable 16.3% ★, Multiplayer 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Although mission-based rather than survival-focused, it scratches the same itch of designing weird contraptions and iterating until they finally work.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Survival 19.3%, Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Co-op 10%

Why You'll Like It: It trades cars for a floating base, but the co-op survival crafting and gradual transformation of a simple build into a complex machine-like home is very comparable.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Building 15%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its mobile drill-base, crafting, and co-op survival structure echo the same blend of engineering and defending your creations against enemy attacks.

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: Building 23.9%, Sandbox 18%, Crafting 16.7%, Physics 14.6%, Survival 13%

Why You'll Like It: It is a more hardcore take on building functional machines, letting you create complex vehicles and weapons systems in a fully simulated sandbox.

Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?

Why similar: Crafting 28.8%, Base Building 22.6%, Survival 21.1%, Online Co-Op 11%, Third Person 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: The moving-base premise feels very Scrap Mechanic-adjacent, combining co-op survival with building around a giant vehicle you constantly upgrade.

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Building 17.2%, Sandbox 15.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Open World 12.4%, Co-op 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its hands-on building, crafting, and machinery tinkering hit a similar creative sandbox groove even though it is more about mining and automation.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Building 12.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 12%, Open World 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Building up a traveling train-base in co-op survival gives it a similar feeling of turning a vehicle into the center of your sandbox adventure.

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: Building 16%, Crafting 13.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love the technical side of Scrap Mechanic, it offers intricate construction, wiring, automation, and survival systems with strong engineering depth.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Building 17.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes open-world survival, base expansion, and crafting in a way that will appeal if you enjoy Scrap Mechanic's calmer building-and-exploration side.

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Building 19.9%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Despite being 2D, it combines survival, crafting, building, and defending your setup in a way that echoes the seed game's progression loop.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Survival 20.7%, Crafting 14.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Co-op 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks vehicle engineering, but its co-op survival, crafting, and imaginative base-building deliver a very similar shared sandbox adventure feel.

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Building 16.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 11%

Why You'll Like It: It is a lighter, more exploration-driven sandbox builder, but the multiplayer crafting and open-ended creativity make it a decent alternative.

Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

Why similar: Sandbox 19.1%, Building 18.3%, Physics 12.4%, Moddable 11.6% ★, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: For pure physics sandbox experimentation and contraption play, few games rival it even if it lacks Scrap Mechanic's survival progression.

Crash through walls and tear down buildings in Instruments of Destruction, a vehicle-action game featuring advanced physics-based demolition. Pilot 130+ unique vehicles across scores of challenge-packed missions or design your own contraptions and wreck highly-interactive sandbox worlds.

Why similar: Physics 67.9%, Simulation 17.6%, Action 9.6%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building and piloting physics-driven demolition machines, making it a strong match for players who love Scrap Mechanic's mechanical chaos.

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: Building 19.3%, Crafting 18.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great pick if your favorite part of Scrap Mechanic is designing and refining custom machines rather than survival itself.

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: Building 23%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its underground co-op factory building and system design are less physics-driven but still appeal to players who enjoy constructing efficient, interconnected creations.

Crazy physics and high-speed races! Craft vehicles cleverly by combining building blocks and mechanical parts to create powerful drivetrains. Unlock new parts, race for the gold, and challenge your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Building 31.3%, Crafting 22.6%, Physics 20.4%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Simulation 5.2%

Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.

Why similar: Building 25.4%, Sandbox 20.7%, Physics 17.3%, Open World 15.4%, Moddable 12.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is a good fit if your favorite part of Scrap Mechanic is engineering vehicles and testing whether your designs actually fly or explode.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Building 20.5%, Crafting 17.8%, Sandbox 17.7%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: This blends block building, survival, automation, and defense into a sandbox loop that overlaps well with Scrap Mechanic's creative survival mode.

Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.

Why similar: Building 26.6%, Sandbox 21%, Open World 19.3%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Co-op 4.8%

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: Building 19.5%, Sandbox 15.9%, Survival 13%, Physics 12%, Open World 11.9%

Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Why similar: Building 17.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.8%

Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Why similar: Building 17.3%, Crafting 17.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Wobbly Life is a vibrant open-world physics sandbox. Play with your friends online or in local co-op, with exciting jobs, mini games and wacky story missions. Earn cash to spend in the world on clothes, vehicles and houses. There is a whole Wobbly World out there to explore!

Why similar: Sandbox 20.6%, Open World 18.4%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Physics 11.8%, Co-op 11.5%

The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!

Why similar: Building 21.3%, Sandbox 20%, Crafting 17%, Survival 13.4%, Multiplayer 13%

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 27%, Physics 23.2%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Co-op 12%, Online Co-Op 7%

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: Building 30.9%, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 19.9%, Sandbox 18.3%, Multiplayer 5.7%

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Building 18.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 13%, Survival 12.6%

Become a ragdoll and create your own environments in Sandbox Mode, explore worlds created by others, or just flop around your destructible sets! Fun with Ragdolls®: The Game lets you enjoy everything you love about ragdolls!

Why similar: Sandbox 25.2%, Physics 20.7%, Building 19.1%, Funny 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.5%

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: Crafting 16.7%, Building 15%, Open World 14.9%, Survival 14.3%, Multiplayer 11.2%

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Crafting 19.8%, Open World 19.1%, Survival 15.1%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12%

Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.

Why similar: Building 29.6%, Sandbox 19.5%, Physics 17.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 12.2%

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: Building 40.1%, Sandbox 30.1%, Multiplayer 17.8%, Simulation 5.7%, Open World 3.8%

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Survival 20.8%, Building 17.1%, Crafting 15.6%, Open World 15.3%, Multiplayer 10.9%

A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

Why similar: Physics 19.9%, Sandbox 19.8%, Open World 17.1%, Moddable 13.1% ★, Multiplayer 10.9%

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: Building 25.3%, Sandbox 22.2%, Physics 18.8%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Co-op 6.7%

Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game! Enjoy the freedom of completely gridless 3D sandbox building combined with hilarious ragdoll third person controls, offering a truly unique and hilarious "Enjeniring" experience!

Why similar: Sandbox 23%, Building 21.2%, Physics 16.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Third Person 7.5%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Crafting 14.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 13.3%

My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.

Why similar: Open World 22.3%, Building 20%, Survival 17.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Multiplayer 7.3%

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: Building 22.7%, Sandbox 18.2%, Crafting 16.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Build incredible machines with scrap parts, navigate the wildest Amusement park rides and challenge iconic creepy Neighbor and his evil bots! Become a true Engineer, solo or with friends!

Why similar: Building 21.2%, Crafting 18.2%, Sandbox 16.6%, Physics 13.5%, Multiplayer 9.6%

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Building 15.9%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 9.5%

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Survival 18.7%, Open World 16.6%, Sandbox 15.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.5%

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Survival 22.2%, Crafting 17.2%, Building 14.8%, Open World 13.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Survival 17.9%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 14.2%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.7%

SimplePlanes is back! Build planes, cars, or anything else using powerful procedural parts! Explore detailed environments with friends in multiplayer, cause chaos, or download 1,000,000 community crafts for free.

Why similar: Building 26.9%, Sandbox 21.7%, Open World 18.5%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Co-op 12.3%

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Building 14.5%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 10.4%