Games Like Trailmakers

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 16.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Physics 11.4%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the closest mix of creative vehicle construction, goofy physics, open-ended experimentation, and multiplayer sandbox fun.

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 16.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Vehicular Combat 11% ★, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Trailmakers, it revolves around building modular vehicles and taking them out into a colorful open world for exploration and combat.

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: Sandbox 23.1%, Building 21.5%, Open World 17.2%, Physics 16.5%, Survival 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep custom vehicle building and the joy of testing your creations in a large world, just with a more simulation-heavy tone.

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: Sandbox 17.9%, Building 16.8%, Family Friendly 16.3%, Open World 13.1%, Physics 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same fun of constructing vehicles block by block and immediately messing around with them in a physics sandbox.

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: Building 24.5%, Sandbox 22.6%, Physics 20.4%, Open World 18.2%, Exploration 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its playful physics-based rover building and traversal-focused co-op problem solving feel especially close to Trailmakers' adventure side.

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: Co-op Campaign 13.1% ★, Racing 11.5%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10%

Why You'll Like It: This is another accessible physics builder about assembling bizarre vehicles and solving environmental challenges with them.

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: Crafting 12.6%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Vehicular Combat 11.7% ★, Space 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the TerraTech formula with more cooperative open-world building and exploration, which overlaps well with Trailmakers' sandbox adventure feel.

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: Vehicular Combat 34.5% ★, Building 19.5%, Sandbox 18.5%, Physics 16.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its core appeal is designing machines to overcome obstacles and watching physics-driven creations succeed or spectacularly fail.

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: Vehicular Combat 22.9% ★, Racing 16%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, Physics 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Trailmakers is engineering and flying custom craft, this is one of the best dedicated vehicle design sandboxes on Steam.

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: Space 21.9%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Physics 11.1%, Open World 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the build-test-explore loop in a larger sandbox, especially if you want Trailmakers with more space engineering depth.

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: Co-op Campaign 27.5% ★, Vehicular Combat 16.9% ★, Space 11.5%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more complex but very rewarding vehicle constructor where you design ships, aircraft, and machines for physics-heavy combat.

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: Vehicular Combat 37.6% ★, Physics 18.9%, Racing 18%, Action-Adventure 14.6%, Action 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes building purpose-made physics machines and then using them in satisfying sandbox destruction scenarios.

Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Why similar: Space 22%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Physics 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on building custom drones and sending them into physics-driven missions, echoing Trailmakers' invention-first gameplay.

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: Space 41.7%, Sandbox 17.8%, Physics 14.9%, Building 12.7%, Open World 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a superb fit if you enjoy Trailmakers mainly for iterative engineering, physics experimentation, and the thrill of finally making a craft work.

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: Space 25.3%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Although less focused on vehicle construction, it shares the same colorful co-op exploration and relaxed sandbox sense of discovery.

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: Space 32%, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 14.9%, Action 8.5%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a space-focused sandbox about building and piloting your own creations, with a strong sense of experimentation and exploration.

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 28.2% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers approachable build-and-fly sandbox creativity with a similarly playful spirit of designing and immediately testing your ideas.

RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!

Why similar: Building 33.5%, Sandbox 30.2%, Physics 26.4%, Singleplayer 5%, Action 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its toy-like building system, whimsical physics, and family-friendly creativity make it one of the closest matches in tone to Trailmakers.

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: Jet 36.5% ★, Space 17.3%, Building 13%, Sandbox 9.7%, Physics 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This gives you another robust sandbox for designing and piloting vehicles, with a strong emphasis on realistic physics and experimentation.

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 28.3% ★, Online Co-Op 24.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The emphasis on cooperative exploration and player-built flying machines makes it a natural pick for Trailmakers fans.

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

Why similar: Racing 22.2%, Physics 21%, Sandbox 19.3%, Open World 16.8%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy Trailmakers for vehicle physics and testing, BeamNG.drive offers some of the best driving and crash simulation on Steam.

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: Online Co-Op 20.6%, Crafting 13.4%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.7%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its mobile drill-ship base and co-op exploration give it a similar feeling of upgrading a vehicle to tackle a hostile world together.

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: Vehicular Combat 38.7% ★, Building 23%, Sandbox 22.6%, Physics 12.5%, Action 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more specialized, it scratches the same custom-vehicle itch by letting you design functional machines and refine them through testing.

A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Why similar: Space 37.2%, Building 23.8%, Sandbox 18.7%, Open World 6.5%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the modular building fantasy into a sleek space sandbox where crafting and piloting your own ship is the main attraction.

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: Online Co-Op 33%, Building 23.6%, Physics 18.2%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Exploration 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It channels the co-op heavy-machinery side of Trailmakers by letting you operate and manage vehicles in a physics-driven sandbox.

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: Space 27.5%, Online Co-Op 21.7%, Building 16.6%, Survival 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers satisfying modular ship design and iterative improvement, even if its perspective and combat focus are less like Trailmakers.

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

Why similar: Jet 28.9% ★, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Physics 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%

The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!

Why similar: Space 34.2%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 12.5%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is another build-your-own-spacecraft sandbox for players who want the construction freedom of Trailmakers in a larger sci-fi setting.

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: Racing 20%, Building 17.6%, Crafting 15.7%, Physics 14.5%, Family Friendly 12.8%

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: Co-op Campaign 40.8% ★, Online Co-Op 16.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Physics 13.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%

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: Online Co-Op 19.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 12.6%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Open World 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful sandbox world, crafting, and exploration make it a decent match for Trailmakers players who value creativity and relaxed multiplayer adventure.

Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 45.2%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Family Friendly 17.9%, Survival 10.6%, Action 7.6%

Wobbly Life is a vibrant open-world physics sandbox. Play with your friends online or in local co-op, with exciting jobs, mini games and wacky story missions. Earn cash to spend in the world on clothes, vehicles and houses. There is a whole Wobbly World out there to explore!

Why similar: Sandbox 17.3%, Online Co-Op 16.7%, Open World 15.4%, Family Friendly 14.9%, Multiplayer 11.9%

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: Crafting 20.4%, Building 17.9%, Open World 17.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Multiplayer 12.1%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.1%, Family Friendly 11.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%

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: Space 22.7%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Physics 11.1%, Survival 10.9%

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 24.2% ★, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 16.8%, Physics 15.6%, Online Co-Op 14.4%

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: Space 26.8%, Vehicular Combat 21.2% ★, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 12.7%

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 28.8%, Sandbox 23.4%, Physics 22.3%, Open World 12.6%, Action 5.2%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.3%, Space 13.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%

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 21.7%, Sandbox 17.6%, Physics 14%, Open World 13%, Crafting 11.5%

Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.

Why similar: Building 20.6%, Sandbox 19%, Open World 17.5%, Family Friendly 15%, Multiplayer 11%

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: Racing 23.2%, Space 22.4%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 13.6%

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

Why similar: Space 24.4%, Sandbox 21.8%, Building 19.1%, Physics 15.1%, Crafting 10.3%

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: Racing 28%, Open World 16.5%, Online Co-Op 16.2%, Building 11.6%, Multiplayer 11.6%

Rev up your engines and venture into the unknown with Drive Beyond Horizons! Conquer dynamic landscapes, customize your ride, and unearth hidden treasures. Get ready for heart-pounding challenges and endless excitement. Your adventure starts now !

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.4%, Racing 16.6%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Open World 13.5%, Survival 13.3%

Collect the best vehicles in the Hot Wheels™ universe, build spectacular tracks and dive into breathtaking races.

Why similar: Racing 51.6%, Family Friendly 28.7%, Multiplayer 16%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Space 16.9%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 14.4%, Action-Adventure 11%, Open World 10%

Jump into the ultimate toy sandbox and build the train set of your dreams! Create colourful railway systems, decorate beautiful towns, transport commuting passengers, and even ride your train in first-person.

Why similar: Building 19.9%, Sandbox 19.4%, Family Friendly 12.5%, Racing 12.3%, Open World 12.1%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Survival 11.8%, Building 11%, Open World 10.6%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.3%, Space 15.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 11%

Get ready for the next-generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends!

Why similar: Sandbox 18.7%, Racing 18.4%, Open World 16.9%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Physics 13.1%

MudRunner is the ultimate off-road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.2%, Multiplayer 18.9%, Physics 16.7%, Open World 16.3%, Racing 9.8%

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: Space 22%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 10.3%

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.9%

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

Why similar: Space 34.5%, Sandbox 20.7%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.9%, Exploration 7.9%

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: Online Co-Op 25.8%, Building 16.5%, Crafting 16%, Sandbox 15.4%, Physics 13.6%

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.8%, Space 18.5%, Building 12%, Crafting 11.7%, Survival 10.1%