Games Like SimplePlanes 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: Combat Racing 15.3% ★, Automobile Sim 14%, Automation 12.3%, Vehicular Combat 12.1%, Military 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor, it offers the core building and flight mechanics that define the series.

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

Why similar: Destruction 21.1%, Automobile Sim 20.2%, Driving 17.6%, Racing 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features the industry-leading soft-body physics engine, making it the ultimate choice for realistic vehicle destruction.

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: Programming 29.6% ★, Automation 19.9%, Sandbox 17%, Building 15.5%, Open World 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides an incredibly deep engineering sandbox where you must build functional vehicles to survive complex rescue missions.

Build and fly realistic aircraft. Use free-form fuselage and wing editor tools and tune your engines to recreate aircraft from any era or design your own.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.5%, Military 26.7%, Building 25.3%, Simulation 16.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers highly advanced procedural flight design tools that allow for extreme precision in aircraft engineering.

Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!

Why similar: Destruction 25.1%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 13.8%, Driving 13.6%, Open World 11%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on physics-based vehicle construction with a heavy emphasis on multiplayer destruction and chaos.

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: Vehicular Combat 25.4%, Racing 15.6%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at accessible, modular vehicle building with a focus on exploration and physics-based challenges.

Kerbal Space Program 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed space-flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program. Enter the next generation of space adventure with exciting new parts, stunning visuals, fully revamped UI and Map View, and rich new environments to explore.

Why similar: Building 26.7%, Sandbox 25.5%, Open World 18.3%, Exploration 10.5%, Simulation 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive aerospace engineering simulator for those who enjoy complex orbital mechanics and vehicle design.

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 26.9%, Sandbox 21.7%, Open World 18.6%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Co-op 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is a creative engineering sandbox that allows for the construction of complex moving machines and automated systems.

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: Automobile Sim 23.1%, Destruction 19.2%, Driving 15.6%, Building 13.9%, Racing 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: This physics-based building game focuses on creating custom vehicles to compete in multiplayer racing and challenges.

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 19.5%, Sandbox 18.4%, Co-op 16.3%, Open World 16.1%, Multiplayer 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a vast sandbox for building complex space-faring vessels and bases with realistic structural integrity.

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: Destruction 20.4%, Automobile Sim 19.4%, Building 16.1%, Driving 14.5%, Sandbox 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on mechanical building and physics, allowing you to create complex machines with gears, motors, and sensors.

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 27.9%, Vehicular Combat 24.8%, Building 16%, Sandbox 15.4%, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based building game that challenges you to construct siege engines to destroy targets in a destructible environment.

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: Vehicular Combat 29%, Military 20.1%, Building 18.6%, Sandbox 16.6%, Multiplayer 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an unparalleled level of depth for military vehicle construction, including custom weapon systems and logic blocks.

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 28%, Sandbox 21.9%, Destruction 21.1%, Open World 13.7%, Exploration 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed flight vehicle construction experience with a focus on realistic physics and transportation.

Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

Why similar: Programming 32.6% ★, Automation 17.4%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This simulator combines aerospace engineering with programming, allowing for sophisticated flight and rocket control systems.

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 24.5%, Vehicular Combat 20%, Automobile Sim 17.7%, Driving 15.1%, Racing 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game is centered on physics-based demolition, requiring you to build creative vehicles to tear down structures.

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: Programming 29.3% ★, Automation 18.3%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Co-op 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers advanced robotics and custom vehicle creation tools that allow for highly complex mechanical designs.

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 26.4%, Sandbox 22%, Open World 18.1%, Vehicular Combat 15.5%, Multiplayer 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features modular vehicle building with a focus on combat and scavenging parts in an open-world environment.

Design your car from scratch: from the frame to the suspension and race it!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.5%, Destruction 15.6%, Building 14.1%, Racing 12.9%, Sandbox 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation focuses on the technical aspects of automotive design, including suspension tuning and engine performance.

As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!

Why similar: Automobile Sim 17.9%, Driving 16.3%, Destruction 15.6%, Automation 14.2%, Building 13%

Why You'll Like It: It combines heavy vehicle simulation with construction tasks, requiring careful planning and physics-based driving.

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 28.5%, Building 19.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Automation 14.3%, Racing 11%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the deepest automotive engineering simulation available, allowing you to design engines and chassis from the ground up.

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: Destruction 25.6%, Automobile Sim 24.2%, Racing 21.7%, Driving 13%, Multiplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a realistic racing experience with a focus on high-impact vehicular combat and deformation.

Developed by the creator of the original Kerbal Space Program, KitHack Model Club is a physics-based model building sandbox that offers limitless freedom for you and your friends. Design, build, battle, fly (and crash!) your very own RC vehicles, or experiment with over 2,400 ready-made vehicles!

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 22.1%, Automation 16.5%, Driving 15.6%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This physics-based sandbox allows you to build and fly model vehicles in a highly moddable environment.

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: Automation 31%, Building 21%, Sandbox 19.6%, Co-op 16.3%, Multiplayer 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers complex mechanical and electrical engineering challenges in a space-based survival setting.

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 25.4%, Building 20.6%, Co-op 15.4%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Shooter 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational physics sandbox that allows for infinite creativity and machine building through its extensive modding community.

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: Combat Racing 18.9% ★, Racing 17.7%, Destruction 17.1%, Automobile Sim 16.5%, Driving 9.6%

Dieselpunk Wars is a vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 300 elements to build a war machine of your dreams. Construct vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat and test your skills!

Why similar: Combat Racing 17% ★, Destruction 16.9%, Vehicular Combat 16.4%, Military 10.6%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building combat vehicles in a dieselpunk setting with a heavy emphasis on physics and destruction.

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 17.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Co-op 15.2%, Open World 14%, Shooter 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game features unique steampunk vehicle building where you must maintain and upgrade a mobile drill ship.

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: Destruction 30.9%, Building 19.7%, Sandbox 19.1%, Open World 14.4%, Simulation 7.6%

SimplePlanes VR is a flight sim with an ever-expanding collection of hand-crafted aircraft to download and fly for free. Airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats, and more are available and new crafts are added every day.

Why similar: Combat Racing 20.4% ★, Automobile Sim 14.8%, Military 12.7%, Racing 10.9%, Vehicular Combat 10.8%

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 17.4%, Racing 15.7%, Open World 10.7%, Destruction 9%, Combat Racing 8.3% ★

In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.

Why similar: Sandbox 39.3%, Building 16.9%, Simulation 15.5%, Exploration 13.1%, Open World 11.7%

Build your robot. Battle your robot. Robot Rumble 2 is the premier robot combat building simulator, where you create your robot from real-world inspired parts, then drive it in the arena to defeat other robots.

Why similar: Programming 22.3% ★, Destruction 20%, Vehicular Combat 16.4%, Driving 12.9%, Building 9.9%

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: Vehicular Combat 28.5%, Sandbox 23.4%, Building 22.6%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Co-op 10.4%

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 31.3%, Driving 19.5%, Open World 12.3%, Racing 9.3%, Building 9.2%

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 34.1%, Racing 19.3%, Driving 15.9%, Building 10.2%, Simulation 6.4%

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: Programming 25.7% ★, Automobile Sim 22.5%, Driving 16.8%, Racing 13.1%, Building 9.3%

The sequel to the unfinished Sinking Simulator, now with a lot more POWER!!!! Witness your witty love of chaos and destruction sinking 2D ships and everything else on board!

Why similar: Destruction 46.5%, Sandbox 32.3%, Simulation 17.5%, Multiplayer 2.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%

The ultimate top-down racing game is back! Ultimate Racing 2D 2 includes new cars, new tracks, car/track editor, time-trial mode, improved online multiplayer and career mode, new settings and more.

Why similar: Combat Racing 21.4% ★, Automobile Sim 20.8%, Racing 16.2%, Driving 14.4%, Vehicular Combat 13.7%

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%, Driving 16%, Building 11.8%, Racing 10%, Simulation 9.1%

Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.

Why similar: Programming 30.1% ★, Automation 18.2%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 14%, Simulation 7.7%

Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.

Why similar: Sandbox 37.1%, Building 32%, Simulation 16.3%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Open World 6.2%

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: Destruction 26.4%, Building 22.2%, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Car Service Together is a 1-4 co-op & single player simulation game where you and/or with your friends start from scratch and build your way up. Work together to successfully run your own service center. Team up, manage your business, and create the ultimate car service !

Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.8%, Driving 17.1%, Sandbox 13.4%, Co-op 12.2%, Building 11.1%

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 37.5%, Sandbox 17.8%, Driving 17%, Co-op 11.5%, Multiplayer 9.3%

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 35.1%, Sandbox 31.2%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Simulation 11%, Open World 4%

Drive all kinds of RC Cars, Boats, Rock Crawlers, Planes or Quadcopters on any of the 250+ Workshop Tracks. The game includes an in-game Track Editor and Vehicle Painter to create tons of scenarios and Paint schemes. RC Sim is made by a solo developer and still is in development.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 41.1%, Racing 22.4%, Driving 16.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 9.7%

PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.

Why similar: Programming 24.9% ★, Automation 17.9%, Destruction 15.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 12.8%

Car racing game with soft-body damage, race track builder, track database and multiplayer

Why similar: Automobile Sim 19%, Destruction 17.8%, Driving 13.6%, Racing 12.8%, Building 9.1%

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: Destruction 31.7%, Sandbox 28.8%, Open World 21.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Exploration 5.1%

Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!

Why similar: Driving 22.8%, Sandbox 21.9%, Military 20.5%, Building 19.3%, Shooter 10%

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 15.3%, Automation 15.3%, Sandbox 15%, Co-op 13.4%, Vehicular Combat 13%

MY GARAGE is a car simulation game with main focus being simulating real car repair, maintenance and physics.

Why similar: Automobile Sim 26.1%, Driving 13%, Racing 12.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.6%

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Building 42.9%, Multiplayer 22.2%, Exploration 14.5%, Simulation 14.2%, Singleplayer 6.3%

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: Sandbox 35.7%, Building 25.3%, Simulation 17.7%, Open World 13.4%, Exploration 6.2%

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

Why similar: Building 43.1%, Sandbox 38.4%, Simulation 16.1%, Singleplayer 2.4%

The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!

Why similar: Building 49.7%, Sandbox 31.1%, Simulation 16.3%, Singleplayer 2.9%