
A 2D multiplayer sandbox game revolving around industry, innovation, factions, combat and emergent gameplay. Design factories, customize tools and weapons, fight or trade with other players or get viciously murdered by an angry badger.
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A 2D multiplayer sandbox game revolving around industry, innovation, factions, combat and emergent gameplay. Design factories, customize tools and weapons, fight or trade with other players or get viciously murdered by an angry badger.

Factorio
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Besiege
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!
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 26.9%, Base Building 22.4%, Resource Management 15.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Moddable 9.4% ★
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 18.2%, Moddable 18.1% ★, Vehicular Combat 14.4% ★, Dark Humor 12.7%, Sandbox 10.4%
Take control of your very own firearms factory. Start with a workshop and a gun shop, and evolve it into a factory of mass destruction. Craft bullets to rockets, handguns to shotguns, hire workers & managers, and become a merchant of death. Get use to the smell of gunpowder and cash.
Why similar: Gun Customization 21.2% ★, Automation 18.2%, Resource Management 15.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.3%
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Base Building 26.1%, Automation 25.3%, Resource Management 18.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.2%
Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.
Why similar: Destruction 26.4%, Moddable 26.4% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 13.6%, Physics 11.2%
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: Destruction 22%, Moddable 20.3% ★, Vehicular Combat 16% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Physics 9%
Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!
Why similar: Destruction 21.1%, Moddable 18.7% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.9%
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Why similar: Steampunk 27.5% ★, Vehicular Combat 16.8% ★, Sandbox 15%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
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: Sandbox 28.7%, Building 27.4%, Vehicular Combat 17.6% ★, Multiplayer 14.8%, Physics 8.2%
Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!
Why similar: Moddable 36.7% ★, Sandbox 25.2%, Physics 20.8%, 2D 8%, Action 5.2%
DEADSWITCH COMBAT is a fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter. Experience action-packed combat with hundreds of weapons, vehicle combat, and plenty of team-based game modes.
Why similar: Gun Customization 47.4% ★, Multiplayer 16.5%, Team-Based 12.8%, Combat 11.9%, 2D 6.2%
Build. Automate. Defend.
Why similar: Automation 25.2%, Base Building 23.9%, Resource Management 17.4%, Sandbox 16.2%, Multiplayer 10.8%
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
Why similar: Moddable 31.5% ★, Sandbox 22.9%, Base Building 21.2%, Combat 8.7%, RPG 8.2%
Take control of a range of different machines and operate them in a unique environment. Each new game generates a new world, and it is yours to develop: Dig and build anything, anywhere! All machines have been carefully modelled down to small details.
Why similar: Sandbox 50.2%, Simulation 30.4%, Building 19.4%
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Why similar: Automation 31.5%, Base Building 28.8%, Destruction 11.8%, Resource Management 7.4%, Sandbox 6.6%
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Why similar: Destruction 34.2%, Sandbox 21.2%, Building 15.9%, Physics 15.2%, Simulation 8.2%
BadLads is a neo-noir multiplayer roleplay game centered around each player having their own job. Cities are ruled by President. Civilians are assaulted by Gangs and protected by Police. Adventure, collect, craft, base build, gamble, socialize, overthrow, customize yourself and your belongings.
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Sandbox 21%, Building 18%, Multiplayer 14.3%, RPG 10%
A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory with Mana-powered machines, progress through an expansive tech tree, explore a vast and wonderful world, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from invasions.
Why similar: Automation 23.9%, Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 16.9%, Sandbox 16%, Building 13%
Sandbox of destruction. Billion different ways to build your mech. Feel the weight and impact of obliteration in this modern old school mech combat sim.
Why similar: Destruction 38.3%, Vehicular Combat 25% ★, Physics 18.1%, Simulation 9.1%, 2D 5.7%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 25.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Building 13.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Sandbox 12.8%
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, Automation 21%, Sandbox 15.7%, Resource Management 15.2%, Building 11.5%
Soldat 2 is a 2D deathmatch shooter with real guns, ragdoll violence and physics-based movement. Based on classic Soldat with team game modes, ranked multiplayer, bots and built-in customization and level editing. Made by MM - creator of the original.
Why similar: Team-Based 40.7%, Moddable 37.1% ★, Multiplayer 17.6%, Action 4.6%
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: Destruction 21.7%, Steampunk 21.2% ★, Vehicular Combat 18.8% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 10.9%
A sandbox battle simulator game where you can build your own shape-shifting warbots, program their AI, and watch them smash each other up on the battlefield! Join the battles yourself by taking control of the warbots! Use Steam Workshop to check out warbots created by players from around the world!
Why similar: Moddable 31.1% ★, Sandbox 21%, Physics 15%, Building 13.8%, Combat 8.7%
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: Moddable 24.1% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 11.4%, Physics 10.1%
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: Sandbox 19.6%, Building 19.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Physics 13.8%, Moddable 12.5% ★
Countrified is an online Survival simulator focused on player interaction. Hunt, build, control regions, survive, kill, die and more in our world!
Why similar: Multiplayer 39.8%, Simulation 27.1%, RPG 22.1%, Action 11%
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: Moddable 19.5% ★, Automation 17%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 11.3%
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 23.1% ★, Sandbox 21.9%, Building 16.8%, Physics 16.4%, Multiplayer 12.4%
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: Base Building 25.9%, Sandbox 18%, Automation 17.5%, Building 14.6%, Vehicular Combat 13.5% ★
Take over a disfunctional Waste Management Facility on a distant planet. Build incinerators, recyclers, robots, turrets, and more. Battle vicious creatures on the planet's surface with powerful weapons!
Why similar: Gun Customization 23.3% ★, Automation 18.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 16.5%, Action 13%
“Build and Fight” multiplayer for mature players. Build your own Machine, join combat and win the battle using tactics and strategy.
Why similar: Team-Based 30.5%, Building 20.6%, Sandbox 17.4%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Physics 10.7%
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
Why similar: Automation 27.5%, Base Building 24.4%, Resource Management 17.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 10.6%
Comrade, craft our glorious country's natural resources into advanced materials. Discover crafting recipes to create powerful weapons and then sell them. Automate your weapons factory and create many capitalist profits!
Why similar: Moddable 31.7% ★, Automation 29.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 4.7%
Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles. You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.
Why similar: Simulation 54%, Multiplayer 46%
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
Why similar: Automation 29.5%, Base Building 21.5%, Resource Management 18.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 8.9%
Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.
Why similar: Base Building 26.1%, Resource Management 19.1%, Automation 16.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.4%
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Base Building 34%, Automation 30.8%, Sandbox 15.8%, Simulation 14.6%, 2D 4.9%
A highly customizable virtual stressball and physics sandbox about mutilating ragdolls in various ways using an overwhelming amount of weapons and tools.
Why similar: Sandbox 38.3%, Physics 23.7%, Simulation 11.9%, Building 11.1%, Moddable 10% ★
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: Base Building 33%, Automation 20.8%, Building 20.6%, Sandbox 18.2%, Multiplayer 5.5%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 32.6%, Base Building 27%, Resource Management 22.9%, Building 9.2%, Simulation 6.1%
A sandbox game that enables players to watch or take part in a warzone. Players will have access to a variety of tools and features that give them access to customize and change the battlefield however they like.
Why similar: Sandbox 40.5%, Physics 20%, Destruction 15.7%, Vehicular Combat 12% ★, Combat 8.6%
A dystopian simulator where your choices shape a decaying city. Join other players to protect the metropolis from ruin, hasten its downfall, or simply work in the factories. With no set goals or rules, every action has consequences in a world teetering on the brink.
Why similar: Dark Humor 27.9%, Sandbox 25.2%, Physics 14.6%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Simulation 9.3%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 28.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 13.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
This is a 2D crafting survival sandbox game. You will be able to explore a huge 2D side-view world, building houses, crafting tools, weapons and armour from the resources you collect. There is a day/night cycle and each night many dangerous monsters can be found and defeated.
Why similar: Sandbox 45.8%, RPG 19.7%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Action 11.1%, 2D 9.6%
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: Moddable 21.5% ★, Automation 17.6%, Destruction 15.1%, Sandbox 15%, Physics 10.7%
Badland Bandits is a universe of steampunk, where pilots of deadly machines put resources before human lives. Get behind the wheel of most diverse machines, install unique modules and destroy enemies on earth and in the air improving your skills in each battle. * Mac-players - please read in full description below.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 66.5% ★, Simulation 14.1%, RPG 12.4%, Action 7%
Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.
Why similar: Base Building 31.9%, Team-Based 26.3%, Sandbox 22.9%, Multiplayer 12.8%, RPG 3.8%
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Base Building 25.4%, Resource Management 20.9%, Building 17.9%, Simulation 6.1%
SYNTHETIK 2 is a unrelenting tactical-shooter rogue-lite. Play alone or with friends. Loot powerful tech. Experience the next level in gun-play. Upgrade your androids to rival the machine gods!
Why similar: Moddable 49.6% ★, Gun Customization 46.5% ★, Action 4%
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
Why similar: Dark Humor 68%, RPG 18.2%, 2D 13.8%
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 26.1%, Base Building 26%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 11%
Multiplayer combined-arms first-person shooter set in an alternate history. Build and upgrade bases, harvest resources, construct defenses, purchase weapons and vehicles to overcome the enemy!
Why similar: Multiplayer 34.2%, Base Building 31.1%, Sandbox 23.7%, Action 11%
2D side-scrolling shooting, 5-player local cooperative combat, base defense, zombie survival, firearms, melee weapons, vehicles, and mechs.
Why similar: Vehicular Combat 42.9% ★, Building 19.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Combat 10.3%, 2D 8.8%