Games Like Stormworks: Build and Rescue

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: Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 14.4%, Open World 12.1%, Physics 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Design and operate ships, rovers, stations, and automated machinery in a physics-driven sandbox with survival and multiplayer options.

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 19.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Open World 13.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Physics 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its creative mode lets you engineer vehicles and contraptions from modular parts, including programmable logic and mechanical systems.

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: Flight 27.3%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 14.3%, Open World 11.6%, Physics 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Stormworks' build-and-pilot loop with modular physics vehicles that can fly, sail, drive, and traverse varied sandbox environments.

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: Naval 32% ★, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 18.9%, Physics 12.9%, Survival 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Build deeply customizable naval vessels, aircraft, submarines, and land vehicles with intricate propulsion, weapons, AI, and automation systems.

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: Sandbox 25.3%, Building 20.5%, Open World 16.5%, Physics 13.8%, Flight 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Create block-built vehicles and test-drive them in a destructible physics sandbox with strong multiplayer experimentation potential.

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 23.2% ★, Flight 16%, Automation 12%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This aerospace sandbox emphasizes designing rockets, planes, and spacecraft, then piloting them through a simulation with optional scripting and career systems.

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: Flight 27.9%, Automation 18.7%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 13.4%, Physics 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Build detailed aircraft from parts, tune their flight behavior, and pilot them through an accessible but flexible flight-physics sandbox.

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: Flight 26.4%, Sandbox 20.7%, Building 18.8%, Physics 14.5%, PvP 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Build physics-based siege machines, aircraft, boats, and bizarre vehicles, then iterate on their engineering to solve destructive sandbox challenges.

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 23.3%, Sandbox 21.8%, Physics 16.3%, Immersive Sim 13%, Open World 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Construct machines from mechanical components such as gears, motors, hydraulics, and wheels before testing them in a physics sandbox.

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

Why similar: Flight 28.2%, Building 21.5%, Sandbox 19.3%, Physics 14.4%, Open World 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Build and manage an aircraft production operation while designing planes that must meet practical flying and transport demands.

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: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Building 17.9%, Sandbox 17%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Assemble modular land and air vehicles, equip them for combat and harvesting, and explore a large open world full of upgrade opportunities.

Hello! Captain! “Sea Of Craft” is a sandbox ocean-building game with realistic physics simulation. In “Sea of Craft”, you can build your exclusive ship with hundreds of materials, and explore intriguing stages on planet Beella as well as adventures of wonders in the great ocean!

Why similar: Naval 22.5% ★, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses specifically on designing seaworthy vessels from modular components and seeing whether they can survive dynamic ocean physics.

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: Flight 33.2%, Sandbox 23.9%, Building 17.9%, Physics 13%, Immersive Sim 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This highly technical aircraft builder lets you design jets in detail and immediately test their aerodynamics through hands-on flight.

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: Sandbox 24.5%, Building 22.3%, Open World 16.6%, Physics 15.2%, Survival 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the core appeal of engineering modular vehicles and structures in a detailed physics sandbox built around experimentation.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: Design and pilot detailed spaceships, hover vessels, capital ships, and bases while exploring and surviving across planets and space.

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 100%

Why You'll Like It: Build custom demolition machines with functional moving parts and use them directly in satisfying physics-heavy destruction scenarios.

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: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 10.9%, Automation 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world vehicle-building survival game emphasizes creating versatile machines for exploration, combat, resource gathering, and cooperation.

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 36.4%, Physics 23.5%, Building 22.5%, Open World 12.2%, Exploration 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its vehicle assembly and simulated flight systems make every rocket, plane, rover, and mission feel like an engineering problem to solve.

Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Why similar: Building 36.6%, Sandbox 32.3%, Open World 15.3%, Physics 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Build large, freely shaped spacecraft and vehicles, then fly them through a procedural sandbox with exploration and construction at its center.

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 44.4%, Survival 24.1%, Multiplayer 17%, Exploration 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: Design a fully functional spaceship room by room, including its power, crew flow, engines, and defenses, before commanding it in space.

Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.

Why similar: Programming 22.1% ★, Building 18.7%, Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 16%, Open World Survival Craft 15.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its voxel-and-device construction system supports elaborate spaceships, stations, wiring, automation, and multiplayer space operations.

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 22.2%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 16.2%, Building 15.1%, Physics 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Stormworks' love of engineering detail through programmable automation, wiring, atmospherics, power management, and survival construction.

Sailing simulator featuring realistic sailing physics and a vast open world to explore. Embark on cargo delivery missions, customize your boat, try fishing and cooking. A relaxing day sail, or an epic ocean voyage? Your sailing adventure starts here!

Why similar: Sailing 46.6% ★, Open World 15.2%, Immersive Sim 15.2%, Survival 11.3%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the quieter maritime side of Stormworks through immersive sailing, navigation, weather, long voyages, and ship provisioning.

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

Why similar: Naval 30.2% ★, Sailing 27.1% ★, Sandbox 24.1%, Building 18.5%

Why You'll Like It: Design highly detailed custom warships and test their layouts, weapons, and naval performance in a ship-focused sandbox.

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

Why similar: Flight 28.1%, Sandbox 21%, Building 19.1%, Open World 15.3%, Third Person 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Build block-based spaceships, customize their systems and roles, and pilot or command them through a large procedurally generated galaxy.

Carefully balance mobility, firepower and armour in a dedicated tank designer. Then uncarefully put them to the test in a series of combat scenarios progressing through the ages of the tank. Here, your limit is what you can fit inside your hull and turret while still being able to move forwards.

Why similar: Sandbox 39.6%, Building 35%, Physics 16.8%, Third Person 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Build tanks from the ground up by shaping hulls, configuring armor, designing drivetrains, and testing the finished vehicle in combat.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Naval 38.6% ★, Survival 35.4%, Multiplayer 26%

Why You'll Like It: Although it lacks freeform vehicle construction, its co-op submarine operation, repairs, wiring, and crisis management strongly echo Stormworks' rescue tension.

Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!

Why similar: Building 48.6%, PvP 32.1%, Multiplayer 19.3%

Why You'll Like It: Design custom airships from hull sections and functional modules, balancing lift, propulsion, crew needs, and combat capability.

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: Programming 27.5% ★, Automation 17.5%, Sandbox 16.1%, Building 14.7%, Open World 12.4%

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: Sandbox 26.3%, Building 23.9%, Third Person 17.8%, PvP 16.9%, Multiplayer 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: Assemble armored combat vehicles from modular parts and put their handling, weapon placement, and durability to the test in online battles.

Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!

Why similar: Trains 31.3% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 12.2%, Open World 10.5%, Immersive Sim 10.2%

Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!

Why similar: Naval 58.7% ★, Building 23.3%, Sandbox 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: Design naval warships with detailed hull, armor, propulsion, and armament choices, then see how those engineering decisions perform at sea.

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 Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 11.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 9%

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 45.2%, Building 17.1%, Physics 13%, Exploration 12.8%, Open World 11.8%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Sailing 21.4% ★, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 9.1%

Take flight in a seaplane flight simulator through a rugged world where you are responsible for the care and maintenance of your plane. Deliver cargo between far-flung communities in a flooded landscape that challenges your piloting skills! Fix your plane and keep flying!

Why similar: Flight 39.1%, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 10.4%, Physics 10.3%

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: Sailing 26.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Building 9.6%, Open World 8.8%

Build your maritime career and grow your fleet in a next‑generation ship simulator set in an expansive open world of Norway’s Lofoten region. Command service, cargo, and fishing vessels in singleplayer or online co‑op, mastering realistic ship handling, dynamic weather, and professional jobs at sea!

Why similar: Sailing 31.4% ★, Naval 26.6% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Third Person 6.6%

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

Why similar: Sandbox 28.8%, Physics 24%, Open World 22.6%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Third Person 6.5%

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: Programming 29.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Building 11.8%, Automation 9.9%

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: Automation 24.5%, Building 22.8%, Physics 15.4%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Base Building 11.1%

Build your maritime career solo or with up to 4 players. Take on contracts across diverse harbors, command different ships, and tackle cargo runs, patrols, rescues, firefighting, and unexpected events in a vast Northern European open world.

Why similar: Naval 42.2% ★, Sailing 20% ★, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Open World 12%, Exploration 6.4%

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Building 8.2%

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 29.6% ★, Automation 16.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 13.8%, Immersive Sim 10.1%

Storm Chasing Simulator

Why similar: Open World 32.1%, Immersive Sim 29.9%, Multiplayer 17.6%, First-Person 10.3%, Exploration 10%

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 26.6%, Sandbox 25%, Open World 16.7%, Physics 15.3%, Survival 8.7%

Play solo or in up to 10-player multiplayer co-op! Flashing Lights is an open world police, firefighting and EMS simulator game with plenty of opportunity for role-play or more relaxed fun with friends. Become the law or save lives! Discover leagues of player-created mods!

Why similar: Sandbox 25.8%, Open World 21.6%, Physics 19.5%, Third Person 12.9%, Multiplayer 11.2%

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: Sandbox 26.3%, Building 22.1%, Physics 18.3%, PvP 11.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%

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: Sandbox 43.2%, Physics 30.7%, Multiplayer 14.6%, First-Person 11.5%

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: Sandbox 55.5%, Physics 25.3%, Naval 16.2% ★, Multiplayer 3%

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: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Survival 15%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.5%, Open World 9.4%

Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.

Why similar: Sailing 26.9% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 15.8%, Open World 13%, Survival 10.7%

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: Base Building 20%, Sandbox 18.6%, Building 16.8%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 11.1%

Build your own base and take command of firefighting, police, EMS, and SWAT operations. Thanks to real map data, you can play right in your hometown - or anywhere in the world! Manage your fleet, hire staff, and take on a variety of authentic operations. In which city are you taking command?

Why similar: Sandbox 28.8%, Base Building 26.8%, Building 25.7%, Open World 18.7%

Make boats and sail them. Survive an ocean of storms and beasts to find better pieces to make your ship bigger, faster, stronger, prettier, stranger, wilder: more yours.

Why similar: Sailing 30.1% ★, Naval 22.4% ★, Building 17.3%, Physics 14.8%, Sandbox 10.7%

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Automation 17.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 11.8%

Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!

Why similar: Sandbox 24.7%, Building 23.1%, Open World 17.9%, Physics 17.2%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?

Why similar: Flight 27.1%, Sandbox 23.6%, Programming 20.1% ★, Physics 15.1%, Building 14.1%

Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics across dynamic battlefields, facing land, air, and sea threats. Wage war against AI or rival pilots using an array of advanced weaponry, including tactical and strategic nuclear weapons capable of annihilating anything in your path.

Why similar: Flight 36.5%, Sandbox 22.9%, Physics 16.8%, PvP 15.2%, First-Person 8.6%

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: Automation 21.9%, Base Building 19.2%, Open World Survival Craft 11.6% ★, Open World 11.1%, Building 11%