- #1 Trailmakers
97% matchVery Positive92% of 35,682 reviews2019
Dev: Flashbulb
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Racing 20.1%, Building 17.8%, Crafting 15.6%, Physics 14.4%, Family Friendly 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar block-based vehicle construction system with a heavy focus on exploration, racing, and physics-based challenges.
- #2 Scrap Mechanic
96% 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: Building 31.3%, Crafting 22.6%, Physics 20.4%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Simulation 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at complex mechanical engineering and logic systems, allowing for incredibly creative vehicle and machine building.
- #3 Brick Rigs
96% 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: Destruction 24.6%, Building 16.2%, Driving 15.8%, Physics 11.5%, Multiplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a sandbox environment where you can build vehicles from bricks and test their durability through intense, physics-driven destruction.
- #4 GearBlocks
95% matchVery Positive91% of 735 reviews2023
Dev: SmashHammer Games
Windows · Linux
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: Automobile Sim 21.8%, Destruction 18.8%, Building 17.7%, Driving 15.7%, Physics 13%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on realistic mechanical simulation and building, offering a deep experience for players who enjoy tinkering with drivetrains and suspension.
- #5 BeamNG.drive
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 395,129 reviews2015
Dev: BeamNG
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 94.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 22.4%, Destruction 19.2%, Driving 18.9%, Racing 11.8%, Physics 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features the most advanced soft-body physics engine available, making it the gold standard for realistic vehicle handling and crash simulation.
- #6 Besiege
94% 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: Destruction 31.3%, Building 21.3%, Physics 17.5%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Simulation 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: While medieval-themed, its core gameplay revolves around building physics-based machines to solve puzzles and destroy targets.
- #7 Instruments of Destruction
93% matchVery Positive91% of 1,541 reviews2024
Dev: RadiangamesPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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: Destruction 24.1%, Automobile Sim 21.4%, Driving 17.7%, Physics 13%, Racing 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the destructive potential of custom-built vehicles, tasking you with demolishing structures using creative engineering.
- #8 Crossout
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 68,841 reviews2017
Dev: Targem GamesPub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 56.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.
Why similar: Building 30.6%, Crafting 28.4%, Multiplayer 25.5%, PvP 10%, Action 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic vehicular combat game that features deep customization for building unique, weaponized war machines.
- #9 Hello Engineer: Scrap Machines Constructor
91% matchMixed61% of 196 reviews2023
Dev: tinyBuild RigaPub: tinyBuild
Windows
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: Racing 19.8%, Building 18.3%, Crafting 17.3%, Physics 14%, Multiplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Set in the Hello Neighbor universe, it focuses on crafting complex machines from scrap parts to overcome physics-based obstacles.
- #10 Dream Car Builder
90% matchVery Positive93% of 1,068 reviews2018
Dev: RoKo0 (Roman Konyukhov)
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Design your car from scratch: from the frame to the suspension and race it!
Why similar: Automobile Sim 28.9%, Racing 15.6%, Building 15.6%, Destruction 14.5%, Driving 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It allows you to design your own car from the ground up, including suspension and engine tuning, and test it on various tracks.
- #11 Wreckfest
89% matchVery Positive88% of 39,928 reviews2018
Dev: BugbearPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 23.9%, Racing 23%, Destruction 20.7%, Driving 12.4%, Physics 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines high-octane racing with realistic damage modeling, perfect for players who enjoy the destruction aspect of Screw Drivers.
- #12 Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
89% matchVery Positive94% of 17,301 reviews2015
Dev: Camshaft Software Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 53.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?
Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.8%, Building 20.3%, Racing 12.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Simulation 9%
Why You'll Like It: This provides an incredibly detailed engine and car design suite, perfect for those who want to focus on the engineering side of automotive simulation.
- #13 TerraTech
88% matchVery Positive91% of 24,617 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 39.4%, Crafting 22.7%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Physics 10.6%, PvP 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: You build modular vehicles and bases to explore and fight across alien landscapes, focusing on collecting parts to upgrade your creations.
- #14 Aviassembly
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,776 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 30.2%, Physics 21.5%, Destruction 19%, Crafting 17.4%, Simulation 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the assembly of physics-based flying machines, offering a similar building experience but with a focus on aerial navigation.
- #15 Brickadia
84% matchVery Positive81% of 1,302 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 31.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 31.4%, Physics 27.8%, Multiplayer 18.8%, Logic 7.6%, PvP 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer sandbox game that emphasizes creative building and physics, allowing players to construct and drive complex vehicles together.
- #16 MachineCraft
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 889 reviews2016
Dev: G2CREW
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 32.2 hrs≥1hr: 34%
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 53.5%, Multiplayer 28%, Simulation 13.7%, Indie 3.5%, Action 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play sandbox builder that lets you create vehicles and machines to compete in multiplayer races and combat.
- #17 My Summer Car
82% matchVery Positive95% of 113,843 reviews2025
Dev: Amistech Games
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 47.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Automobile Sim 37.4%, Driving 22.6%, Racing 12%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore simulation that requires you to build a car bolt-by-bolt, offering a very realistic and challenging mechanical experience.
- #18 Homebrew - Patent Unknown
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 974 reviews2014
Dev: Copybugpaste
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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: Automobile Sim 27.2%, Driving 19.6%, Racing 16.9%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly detailed vehicle construction suite with a focus on realistic physics and experimental engineering.
- #19 Autocraft
85% matchMixed56% of 297 reviews2017
Dev: Alientrap
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
Why similar: Building 33.2%, Physics 24.9%, Crafting 16.1%, Simulation 13.9%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that lets you build anything from cars to planes using a flexible physics-based construction system.
- #20 SimplePlanes
83% matchVery Positive93% of 10,848 reviews2015
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Automobile Sim 33.9%, Racing 22.4%, Building 20.6%, Physics 16.7%, 3D 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: While focused on aircraft, the building mechanics are highly intuitive and allow for the creation of complex, physics-accurate flying machines.
- #21 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
82% matchVery Positive90% of 58,404 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 112.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 49.9%, Physics 36.7%, PvP 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: A complex engineering game where you build vehicles and vessels to perform rescue missions in a challenging, physics-simulated world.
- #22 From the Depths
80% matchVery Positive89% of 12,623 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 30.6%, Crafting 23.4%, Physics 22.3%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Simulation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled depth in vehicle construction, allowing you to build massive ships, planes, and tanks with functional internal components.
- #23 Main Assembly
81% matchVery Positive83% of 1,338 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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 24.1%, Crafting 20.9%, Physics 18.8%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Simulation 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A creative building game that uses a visual programming language to give you total control over your custom robots and vehicles.
- #24 Space Engineers
79% matchVery Positive89% of 133,721 reviews2019
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 96.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 27.6%, Physics 22.1%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Realistic 9.8%, Simulation 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game about engineering and construction in space, where you must manage resources and physics to build functional ships and stations.
- #25 Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 36,542 reviews2021
Dev: Red Dot GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 45.6%, Driving 19.3%, Racing 15.4%, Simulation 9.3%, Realistic 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed look at the inner workings of vehicles, allowing you to build and repair cars with a high degree of mechanical accuracy.
- #26 Garry's Mod
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,237,980 reviews2006
Dev: Facepunch StudiosPub: Valve
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.5 hrsMean: 286.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Building 29%, Physics 23.5%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Simulation 8.9%, Realistic 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: The classic physics sandbox that allows for unlimited experimentation with props, vehicles, and mechanical contraptions.
- #27 SimplePlanes 2
76% matchVery Positive91% of 835 reviews2026
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
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: Automobile Sim 23.1%, Destruction 19.3%, Driving 15.6%, Racing 13.8%, Building 13.8%
- #28 Torque Drift
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 12,661 reviews2021
Dev: Grease Monkey Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Build your car, earn sponsors, and compete in online multiplayer drift battles!
Why similar: Racing 24.9%, Automobile Sim 22.2%, Driving 20%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Physics 6.6%
- #29 Grapples Galore
74% matchVery Positive91% of 10,462 reviews2025
Dev: Zoteling
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Grapples Galore is a fast-paced online multiplayer arena shooter with physics-based grappling hook movement, active ragdolls, and thrilling gunplay.
Why similar: Physics 37.8%, Multiplayer 37%, PvP 12.2%, 3D 6.3%, Action 4.2%
- #30 Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
77% matchVery Positive91% of 54,004 reviews2017
Dev: Red Dot GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and expand your repair service empire in this incredibly detailed and highly realistic simulation game, where attention to car detail is astonishing. Find classic, unique cars in the new Barn Find module and Junkyard module. You can even add your self-made car in the Car Editor.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 35.7%, Driving 15.8%, Building 11.7%, Racing 11%, Simulation 7.4%
- #31 DRIFT CE
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,427 reviews2021
Dev: ECC GAMESPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Tune your dream drift car, change parts, boost performance and challenge other players on Japan's legendary EBISU circuits!
Why similar: Racing 33.8%, Automobile Sim 22.1%, Driving 12.3%, Simulation 8.5%, Building 7.1%
- #32 CarX Street
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 18,621 reviews2024
Dev: CarX Technologies, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Conquer mountain roads, highways, and city streets. Build your dream car with detailed tuning that unleashes the potential of “CarX Technology”© physics. Take part in thrilling races, enjoying realistic gameplay and dynamic driving.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 27.5%, Racing 21.8%, Driving 20%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Physics 8%
- #33 Wreckfest 2
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 5,234 reviews2025
Dev: BugbearPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Ready for mayhem? Wreckfest is back, offering the best in full-contact racing with unrivaled destruction! Witness head-to-head battles as you tear apart rival vehicles bit by bit. Powered by the enhanced physics engine, developed by the creators of Wreckfest & FlatOut!
Why similar: Racing 23.9%, Automobile Sim 20.8%, Destruction 17.7%, Driving 11.7%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #34 Street Legal Racing: Redline v2.3.1
75% matchVery Positive89% of 4,118 reviews2016
Dev: Invictus Games Ltd.Pub: Activision Value Publishing Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The most popular vehicle mechanic simulator in the world got a second life in the new Steam version! Build cars, tune them, crash, repair and race against other racers!
Why similar: Automobile Sim 36.8%, Racing 22.3%, Driving 16.6%, Building 10.7%, Destruction 5.6%
- #35 My Garage
73% matchVery Positive91% of 3,988 reviews2021
Dev: Viking Game Studio
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 68.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
MY GARAGE is a car simulation game with main focus being simulating real car repair, maintenance and physics.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 29.7%, Racing 15.6%, Driving 14.4%, Building 9.9%, Physics 9%
- #36 Cube Racer
73% matchVery Positive90% of 2,353 reviews2017
Dev: Simon Blasen
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Cube Racer is a round based multiplayer racing game with cubes. Every round, all players race against each other to the finish line. Before every round, the players get to build one or more obstacles on the map. In the next round, all players have to pass all the obstacles, which have been built yet.
Why similar: Racing 68.5%, Multiplayer 17%, Action 7.6%, Indie 6.8%
- #37 DRIFT ISLAND
71% matchMixed62% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: ECC GAMES
Windows
Rise as a drift master and missile car mechanic! DRIFT ISLAND is an open-world drift build-and-drive game. Create unique 'missile cars,' tune them, shred sideways, and test your skills! Earn cash, upgrade parts, and become a true drifting legend!
Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.9%, Racing 19.6%, Driving 18.8%, Physics 10.6%, Multiplayer 5.8%
- #38 Tricky Machines
73% matchVery Positive91% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: Peter SolteszPub: Gravitysensation
Windows · Mac · Linux
drift,jump,crash,shortcut,park, map editor
Why similar: Racing 28.2%, Automobile Sim 26.9%, Driving 17.2%, Physics 15.7%, Simulation 6.4%
- #39 Teardown
69% 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: Destruction 35.3%, Driving 18.9%, Physics 17.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Realistic 5.2%
- #40 Mon Bazou
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,000 reviews2025
Dev: Santa Goat
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?
Why similar: Automobile Sim 27.5%, Driving 19.8%, Racing 16.1%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 10%
- #41 Wreckreation
70% matchMixed66% of 458 reviews2025
Dev: Three Fields EntertainmentPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Wreckreation is an evolving open-world driving playground built around choice. Play solo, explore on- and off road, create your own races and challenges, hang out online with friends using full cross-play. With fast updates shaped by players, this world keeps evolving.
Why similar: Driving 24.8%, Racing 24.8%, Automobile Sim 11.5%, Destruction 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.5%
- #42 Wrench
71% matchVery Positive85% of 1,985 reviews2018
Dev: Missing Digit
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Wrench is a mechanic simulator where players prepare and maintain race cars. The parts in Wrench are the most detailed of any game in the genre. Extreme attention has been paid to even the smallest components, including fasteners which are accurate to the thread pitch and install torque.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.6%, Building 20.1%, Racing 15.9%, Driving 9.9%, Physics 6.4%
- #43 Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue
68% matchVery Positive91% of 7,431 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.
Why similar: Crafting 31.6%, Building 28.5%, Multiplayer 27%, Simulation 8.1%, 3D 4.9%
- #44 Revhead
72% matchVery Positive82% of 704 reviews2017
Dev: Creative Pudding Hungary Llc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Revhead is a car racing simulation game, where you have to build your own race car. You start your journey somewhere in a small village in Australia. You have to think as a real Revhead! You can buy or sell cars and components, fix and tweak your car to make it the fastest around.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 21.5%, Driving 15%, Racing 13.4%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.5%
- #45 Make Way
68% matchVery Positive91% of 2,069 reviews2023
Dev: Ice BEAMPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Speed around loops, dart through train crossings, drift around helter skelters, and unleash wacky weaponry in this modern take on classic top-down multiplayer racing games such as Micro Machines and Mashed. The twist? You build the track.
Why similar: Racing 26%, Building 19.6%, Physics 18.3%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Family Friendly 9.6%
- #46 RaceLeague
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 295 reviews2022
Dev: Oversteer Studios
Windows
Car racing game with soft-body damage, race track builder, track database and multiplayer
Why similar: Automobile Sim 20.2%, Destruction 15.5%, Racing 14.6%, Driving 14%, Building 9.5%
- #47 RXC - Rally Cross Challenge
69% matchVery Positive89% of 79 reviews2022
Dev: Gigabit Games
Windows
Battle the world in reckless races as you bash, slide, and jump your way to the checkered flag. This isn't just another top-down arcade racing game. Made by two brothers, RXC is a physics heavy racing game with a traction and handling model that challenges sim racers and is still fun for newcomers.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 22.3%, Destruction 18.6%, Racing 16.9%, Driving 14.6%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #48 Speed Crew
68% matchVery Positive99% of 85 reviews2024
Dev: Wild Fields
Windows
Arrange a pit crew of 1-4 members and, amidst total chaos, secure the gold in 4 decades of racing championships against the mighty Dominion Torrento. Retro vibes and buckets of stress blend in this friendship-testing party game, where you fix stylish sports cars in both local and online co-op.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 30.4%, Racing 19.9%, Physics 13.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Simulation 9.6%
- #49 Apex Rush
66% matchVery Positive84% of 255 reviews2026
Dev: Thunderboom Studios
Windows
A physics-driven arcade racer where racing, drifting, and stunting come together. Compete on global leaderboards, build and share your own tracks, customize your cars & more!
Why similar: Racing 47%, Driving 22.7%, Physics 18.6%, Simulation 4.1%, 3D 3.3%
- #50 Zeepkist
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,708 reviews2021
Dev: Steelpan Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Welcome to Zeepkist! You race soapboxes down hills!
Why similar: Driving 26.3%, Racing 25.7%, Physics 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Building 6.7%
- #51 Gear Up
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 8,351 reviews2015
Dev: Doctor Entertainment AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Feel the adrenaline as you control your unique tank in multiplayer arcade action! Build your ultimate war machine from over a million different combinations. Now, will you go for the rumbling caterpillar tracks or the crawling spider legs?
Why similar: Building 42.9%, Multiplayer 34.1%, PvP 9.8%, Action 6.1%, Simulation 4.3%
- #52 CAR TUNE: Project
69% matchVery Positive84% of 609 reviews2020
Dev: Vertices Software
Windows
CAR TUNE: Project is a detailed car tuning simulator where every bolt, screw, and gear matters. Build your dream machine, fine-tune every parameter, and test it on the track.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 26.1%, Driving 19.9%, Racing 15%, Destruction 14%, Physics 9.9%
- #53 Rally Mechanic Simulator: Light Edition
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 508 reviews2024
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Step into the world of rally car mechanics with Rally Mechanic Simulator: Prologue, a free introduction to the full game. Take your first steps as a rally mechanic, facing the challenges of fixing and tuning a rally car.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 43.2%, Racing 25%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Simulation 9.6%, Realistic 5.7%
- #54 TRAIL OUT
67% matchVery Positive80% of 3,774 reviews2022
Dev: GOOD BOYSPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to the festival of explosive races, TRAIL OUT! Reckless racing around the world! Crashes, explosions, destruction, and screaming drivers!
Why similar: Automobile Sim 23.8%, Destruction 22.5%, Racing 16.5%, Driving 16%, Physics 10.2%