
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.
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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.
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: God Game 15.6% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Automation 13.3%, Education 11.9%, Science 10.7%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: God Game 16.7% ★, Science 16.5%, Sandbox 14.9%, Education 14.7%, Building 10.6%
Build a robot from real parts — solenoids, gears, connecting rods — wire it up, and figure out why it won't turn yet. Nothing here is faked: the current is really computed, and every breakdown has a cause you can find.
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Education 19.8%, Sandbox 16.2%, Science 14.9%, Building 13.7%
A 2D sandbox game with pixel physics. Freely place sand, water, lava, creatures, and physical entities. Watch them interact via gravity, fluids, and explosions. Chop trees, build structures, design circuits, trigger massive chain reactions, or simply create your own ecosystem!
Why similar: Sandbox 20.3%, Automation 16%, Building 13.6%, God Game 12.4% ★, Crafting 10.7%
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 15.9%, Sandbox 14.3%, Education 12.4%, Automation 11.9%, Building 10.9%
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: Automation 23.7%, Science 15.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, God Game 14.9% ★, Building 13.7%
Gas reaction simulator. Build the ultimate jet engine, solve puzzles, or just make everything explode!
Why similar: Education 20.9%, Sandbox 19.9%, Science 18.8%, Automation 9.9%, Simulation 9.2%
Factory Life is a factory simulation from a worker’s perspective, where you start alone in a small garage and grow into a modern manufacturing operation inspired by real-world production hubs. Build products, manage your team, and scale up through smart automation.
Why similar: Automation 25.7%, Sandbox 16.3%, Education 16%, Building 11.8%, Economy 11.7%
A physics based sawmill simulation - tycoon where logs aren't just rigid icons, but physical objects that roll, collide, and jam. Automate complex production lines, master a dynamic market index, and turn waste into green energy.
Why similar: Automation 31.6%, Economy 17.2%, Building 16%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 7.4%
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 16.4%, God Game 15.9% ★, Education 14.4%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 10.1%
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: Automation 21.5%, God Game 21.3% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Science 11.1%, Nature 8.5%
Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, Science 18.9%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 11.5%
Billion Egg Farm is a first-person automation game where you put chickens to work laying eggs and build production lines for eggs, meat, and processed goods.
Why similar: Automation 32.2%, Sandbox 17.7%, Building 17.3%, Economy 13.8%, Physics 10%
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 23% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Science 14%, Nature 11.2%, Building 10.5%
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 20.6%, Sandbox 20.3%, God Game 19.1% ★, Education 16.4%, Physics 9.2%
An idle game of growth and strategy. Build, upgrade, and prestige your way to limitless power.
Why similar: Automation 29.9%, Science 19.5%, Economy 18.3%, Building 16.9%, Simulation 5.5%
With just a few sliders you can make beautiful structures from millions of little creatures following each other.
Why similar: Automation 31%, Education 27%, Sandbox 22.1%, Simulation 11.3%, Relaxing 4.3%
Build a factory for the galaxy's pickiest customers: cats. Automate production, route goods and cats to your stores, and grow across surface and underground layers. Experiment with machine learning to improve your business, with no enemies to interrupt your plans.
Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Science 15.3%, Education 14.5%, Economy 13.7%, Sandbox 12.6%
Explore and create parametric creatures
Why similar: Sandbox 17.8%, Automation 16.8%, Science 14.9%, Education 10.9%, Physics 8.8%
Hands On Builder is a cozy first-person building simulation where you gather materials, prepare them yourself, and construct your home piece by piece. Cut logs into panels and studs, plan your worksite, and build at your own pace in a relaxed sandbox world.
Why similar: Building 21.1%, Sandbox 17.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Education 13.2%, Economy 13.2%
🌲 Treeplanter helps plant trees! For every copy sold, we plant a real tree! 🌲 Create and enjoy a peaceful, interactive woodland throughout the changing seasons.
Why similar: Education 24%, Sandbox 22.9%, Nature 18.1%, Building 14.6%, Simulation 7.2%
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: Building 16.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, Automation 14.8%, Education 11.3%, Science 11.2%
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Science 15.4%, Education 14.9%, Sandbox 14%, Building 13.3%
This is a serious game. Made for educational purposes. It was made in order to enable students to understand the high school chemistry curriculum and to provide equality of opportunity.
Why similar: Education 27.4%, Science 22.5%, Sandbox 19.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Simulation 8.9%
You are the last chance for humanity, Terraform, Build, Save Humanity one pixel at a time.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.4%, Automation 25.6%, Building 14.2%, Simulation 12.4%, Crafting 9.6%
Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what's stirring their growing appetites...
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Education 15.4%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 12.8%, Science 12.2%
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: Sandbox 29.4%, Nature 20.6%, God Game 20.5% ★, Science 17.8%, Simulation 7.3%
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 24.9% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Education 13.8%, Automation 12.7%, Science 12%
Place items freely in a virtual space, harness the laws of physics, and build your own Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. Design your contraption, press the Action Button, and enjoy the thrill of watching it come to life. A built-in Stage Editor lets you create your own original stages.
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Sandbox 18.6%, Building 13.3%, Education 12.5%, Physics 10%
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: Sandbox 25.3%, Science 25.1%, Building 20.6%, Physics 10%, Simulation 6.6%
Let Them Fall is a dynamic puzzle-strategy game. Transport objects using conveyor belts to the target zone. With each level, the game gets tougher with diverse shapes, colors, and limited space on procedurally generated maps. Will you take up the challenge?
Why similar: Automation 32.1%, Sandbox 23.6%, Building 17.3%, Simulation 10.7%, Physics 5.9%
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: Sandbox 26%, Science 24.8%, God Game 24% ★, Nature 17.2%, Simulation 7%
Beltmatic is a casual factory game where you combine numbers using mathematical operations.
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Sandbox 17.6%, Education 16%, Building 11%, Crafting 10.2%
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: Sandbox 21.4%, Science 21%, God Game 20.3% ★, Education 17.5%, Physics 9.4%
A casual 2.5D physics oriented game about building unorthodox contraptions to solve puzzles with a variety of items at disposal
Why similar: Science 21.9%, Education 21.5%, Sandbox 20.1%, Building 18%, Physics 8.8%
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 22.3%, God Game 19.1% ★, Education 15.2%, Crafting 11.3%, Sandbox 10.5%
A physics sandbox with one noble goal: get more logs into the core than physically reasonable. Chop the trees, build the contraption, then unleash a wave of logs for combo-fueled cash. Kick back and let it flow, or engineer the perfect cascade. Your sandbox, your rules.
Why similar: Automation 32.9%, Sandbox 20.2%, Building 17.3%, Physics 12.3%, Simulation 6.6%
Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!
Why similar: Automation 30.3%, Sandbox 18.6%, Education 18.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 9.4%
Build your own processor empire! Design custom chips, compete with rivals, and dominate the tech industry!
Why similar: Education 15.6%, Economy 15.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 14.5%, Automation 13.5%
Shape an entire grid-based world with your mouse. Gather, craft, farm, cook, tame animals, automate production, and battle powerful bosses. Every item, machine, and creature is yours to pick up, place, and combine.
Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Sandbox 21.7%, Crafting 16.3%, Building 16.1%, Simulation 8.5%
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: Sandbox 24.2%, Science 23.4%, Education 20.5%, God Game 17.7% ★, Simulation 8.8%
Design laptops from the PCB up and build a global tech empire! Balance complex heat and power mechanics, manage your corporate budget, and conquer international markets. Do you have what it takes to become the ultimate Laptop Architect?
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Economy 18.7%, Building 18.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 12.3%
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Automation 23.1%, Economy 22.5%, Sandbox 18.3%, Building 15.8%, Crafting 9.2%
Grow real plants in your own microgravity cube-sat terrarium. Build, prune, water, harvest, and learn botany through a simulation based on real behavior.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.7%, Science 18.1%, Education 15%, Building 13%, Simulation 9.6%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 33.2%, Sandbox 24.5%, Building 16.4%, Crafting 9.2%, Simulation 8.3%
Terraform Inc is a game to build a reliable physics-based delivery network. You will get new planets, add enhancements in transit, then deliver to buyers. Construct elaborate designs to prove your ingenuity. Choose your friends wisely, working to earn respect and unlock even further opportunities.
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Building 24%, Sandbox 18.3%, Physics 12%, Simulation 6.9%
Edd-E is a pixel-art game maker with custom visual scripting and publishing platform. Create games and Publish them with just one click. Play games from other creators or edit them. Learn programming and game development!
Why similar: Automation 23%, Sandbox 22.1%, Education 20.2%, Building 13%, Simulation 7.2%
You are an electrician, moving back to your hometown in the Austrian Alps, which you find lacks a certain... spark. Promptly tasked with wiring up the village, you solve electrical puzzles, blow fuses and master real-world circuitry techniques. Electrify the Alps, one circuit at a time.
Why similar: Automation 27.4%, Education 25.2%, Science 18%, Simulation 8.8%, Physics 7.2%
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 24.3% ★, Science 18.2%, Nature 13.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 12.6%
Industrial Garbage is a game where combination is the key and money is your limit. You will have to manage yourself carefully and ensure that you complete orders in time, or else...
Why similar: Automation 38.8%, Sandbox 20.8%, Building 14.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Crafting 6.7%
Build and automate your own factory in Pixel Factory. Paint cubes in different colors and create unique patterns, design efficient production lines and upgrade your buildings to optimize production.
Why similar: Automation 40.9%, Building 19.6%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 7.5%
God Crafter is a casual and satisfying 3D clicker game where you, as a god, get to recreate Earth for the humans you create. Shape and design the world with your divine powers. Immerse yourself in a relaxing and rewarding gameplay experience as you build a beautiful and thriving world from scratch.
Why similar: Automation 27.7%, God Game 22% ★, Economy 14.3%, Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.6%
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Automation 28.1%, Sandbox 18%, Building 12.9%, Economy 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%
A 2D creative sandbox where every tile is a tiny machine. Inspired by Redstone, LEGO, and Tabletop Simulator. One ruleset - Infinite possibilities. Create, experiment, and play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Science 15.7%, Education 14.6%, Building 13%
Fakutori is a laid-back automation game with a lot more going on beneath the surface. Combine elements, build sprawling production lines, and chase down the Legendary Blocks that only the most dedicated builders ever find. All at your own pace.
Why similar: Automation 33.6%, Sandbox 20.9%, Building 18.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Simulation 6.6%
Create a confectionery empire in Sweets Inc, the business management simulation game where you take the helm of your very own sweets manufacturing company. Design delectable treats, build and manage your factories, and market your products across the continent to become an industry tycoon!
Why similar: Automation 27.1%, Sandbox 21%, Building 20.1%, Economy 18.1%, Simulation 7.1%
Step into the grit of the early 20th-century oil boom. Build your drilling empire from the dirt up chop timber, maintain rusty machinery, and manage a rugged crew. Strike black gold, overcome ruthless crises, and turn raw earth into an unimaginable fortune. The rush begins now.
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Building 18.2%, Economy 14.6%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.3%
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 27% ★, Sandbox 19.7%, Physics 11.7%, Building 11%, Science 10.5%
The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!
Why similar: Building 23%, Education 17.1%, Sandbox 16.1%, Physics 14.6%, Automation 12.7%
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 18.6%, Education 18.2%, God Game 17.3% ★, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 14.4%