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 16.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Physics 11.3%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the closest mix of creative vehicle construction, playful physics, open-ended exploration, and multiplayer tinkering that makes Trailmakers so compelling.

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 22%, Sandbox 20.3%, Physics 18.1%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op-friendly physics rover building and mission-based traversal on a colorful alien world feel remarkably close to Trailmakers' build-and-explore appeal.

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 16.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 11%, Vehicular Combat 11%, Crafting 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Trailmakers, it revolves around assembling vehicles block by block and taking them into an open world for combat, scavenging, and exploration.

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 26.9%, Vehicular Combat 25.2%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Physics 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It nails the same satisfying loop of building physics-driven machines and refining them to overcome specific environmental and gameplay challenges.

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 11.6%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another accessible, whimsical vehicle-building sandbox where you assemble contraptions to solve obstacles solo or with friends.

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 12.3%, Physics 11.1%, Open World 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: If you want Trailmakers with a stronger space-sandbox angle, it delivers deep vehicle construction, exploration, and co-op problem-solving.

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: Flight 29%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 15.3%, Open World 12.2%, Physics 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses more on simulation, but the core joy of designing functional vehicles and using them in a large world is a great match.

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 16%, Building 15.1%, Family Friendly 14.4%, Open World 11.7%, Physics 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its brick-based vehicle creation and instant sandbox testing capture Trailmakers' playful spirit even if it is less adventure-focused.

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: This expands TerraTech's formula into a co-op survival sandbox, making it a natural pick for players who like building vehicles with friends.

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 25.6%, Building 16.7%, Crafting 16%, Sandbox 15.6%, Physics 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its modular robot building, testing, and physics experimentation scratch a very similar creative engineering itch to Trailmakers.

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 28.6%, Vehicular Combat 16.3%, Racing 11.4%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a great fit if your favorite part of Trailmakers is engineering aircraft and then flying your creations through physics-based challenges.

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 41.4%, Sandbox 17.8%, Physics 14.8%, Building 12.8%, Open World 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Though more simulation-heavy, it delivers the same thrill of designing vehicles from parts and learning through spectacular trial and error.

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 37.5%, Physics 19.1%, Racing 18.1%, Action-Adventure 14.5%, Action 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes custom machine building and physics-driven destruction, giving you that same iterative design-and-test satisfaction.

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 21.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Physics 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Building custom drones and sending them into space missions echoes Trailmakers' creative engineering loop in a more focused sci-fi format.

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 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a deeper and more complex vehicle builder for players who want Trailmakers-style creation pushed toward combat ships, tanks, and aircraft.

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 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Trailmakers' colorful co-op exploration vibe, even if its construction is more base- and rover-oriented than fully modular vehicle design.

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: Flight 28.2%, Space 19.6%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Physics 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its flexible craft builder and physics sandbox make it a strong next step for players who enjoy Trailmakers' experimentation and flight design.

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%, Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its approachable build-and-fly sandbox captures a similarly playful, family-friendly spirit centered on making vehicles that actually work.

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 29%, Sandbox 23.5%, Physics 22.3%, Open World 12.5%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its part-based mechanical construction and physics simulation appeal to the same players who enjoy making functional machines in Trailmakers.

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 27.6%, Online Co-Op 21.5%, Building 16.7%, Survival 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Designing ships block by block and taking them into a living space sandbox makes it a good fit for Trailmakers fans who enjoy practical engineering.

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 32.5%, Building 20%, Sandbox 15.2%, Action 7.8%, Open World 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers freeform spacecraft building and exploration with a similar creative sandbox mindset, just with more emphasis on sci-fi ships.

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 24.6%, Space 20.2%, Vehicular Combat 15.9%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This leans more toward action-RPG space sandboxing, but the custom ship-building and exploration loop still overlaps nicely with Trailmakers.

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 37.1%, Building 23.9%, Sandbox 18.8%, Open World 6.5%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It channels the joy of building custom craft and immediately using them in a dynamic space sandbox with a strong experimentation focus.

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

Why similar: Racing 22.2%, Physics 20.8%, Sandbox 19.4%, Open World 16.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks modular crafting by default, but its vehicle physics sandbox strongly appeals to players who love testing how machines behave under stress.

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 44.6%, Sandbox 20.8%, Building 18.1%, Physics 14.5%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: If you love Trailmakers for aircraft construction and flight testing, this offers a more aviation-focused sandbox with plenty of iteration.

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 28.7%, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Physics 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%

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 23.3%, Space 22.4%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its homemade vehicle construction and test-drive sandbox feel like a rougher but mechanically relevant cousin to Trailmakers.

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 20.1%, Building 17.8%, Crafting 15.6%, Physics 14.4%, Family Friendly 12.6%

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 34.1%, Sandbox 16.7%, Building 12.6%, Open World 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is an older but still relevant option for players who want block-based ship construction, exploration, and multiplayer sandbox freedom.

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 20.4%, Sandbox 18.8%, Open World 17.2%, Family Friendly 14.7%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: While broader and less vehicle-centric, it shares Trailmakers' family-friendly sandbox creativity and playful sense of discovery.

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 20.2%, Building 18%, Open World 17.2%, Sandbox 14.9%, Multiplayer 12%

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: Vehicular Combat 30.3%, Online Co-Op 17.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its combat focus changes the tone, but assembling custom vehicles from parts and taking them into action remains a recognizable Trailmakers-style hook.

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 16.5%, Sandbox 14.9%, Physics 13.7%, Multiplayer 7.7%

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 25%, Online Co-Op 21.4%, Flight 12%, Sandbox 10.5%, Crafting 7.8%

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 17.4%, Online Co-Op 16.5%, Open World 15.5%, Family Friendly 15%, Multiplayer 11.9%

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: Vehicular Combat 25.5%, Racing 15.6%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 12.2%

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: Space 22.8%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Physics 10.9%, Survival 10.9%

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%, Multiplayer 18.8%, Family Friendly 17.9%, Survival 10.6%, Action 7.7%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.9%, Family Friendly 11.9%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 9.9%

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 21.8%, Sandbox 17.6%, Physics 13.9%, Open World 13%, Crafting 11.4%

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 26.6%, Racing 15.2%, Open World 14.6%, Survival 14.4%, Multiplayer 10.2%

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 18.8%, Racing 18.4%, Open World 17%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Physics 13%

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 17.2%, Building 16.9%, Physics 15.6%, Online Co-Op 14.3%

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: Online Co-Op 19.5%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 12.7%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Open World 11.1%

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 20.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.2%, Exploration 7.8%

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 21.1%, Multiplayer 19%, Physics 16.8%, Open World 16.3%, Racing 9.7%

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

Why similar: Space 24.3%, Sandbox 21.9%, Building 19.2%, Physics 15%, Crafting 10.2%

Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.1%, Space 13%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%

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 17.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 13%, Sandbox 12.4%, Survival 10.1%

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: Building 18.4%, Sandbox 17.4%, Action-Adventure 16.4%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Space 9.9%

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 28.1%, Open World 16.5%, Online Co-Op 16%, Building 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.5%

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 19.5%, Space 18.9%, Building 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.1%

Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Why similar: Building 30.8%, Physics 20.5%, Family Friendly 14.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 11.7%

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.4%, Space 15%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.6%

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 20.2%, Crafting 13%, Survival 11.9%, Building 11.1%, Open World 10.7%

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 22.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11%, Open World 10.9%

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 13%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 10.3%