- #1 GoreBox
97% matchVery Positive85% of 22,878 reviews2023
Dev: F2Games
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
GoreBox is a chaotic physics-driven sandbox where creativity meets destruction. Use the Reality Crusher to spawn, manipulate, and obliterate anything. Customize, roleplay, or face devious creatures. In this world, your imagination rules, and chaos is your playground!
Why similar: Sandbox 31.1%, Gore 30.1%, Physics 15.6%, Violent 11.5%, PvE 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar focus on physics-based destruction and visceral gore within an open-ended sandbox environment.
- #2 Ravenfield
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 78,757 reviews2017
Dev: SteelRaven7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 62.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!
Why similar: War 36%, Sandbox 29.7%, Military 11.5%, Physics 9%, Tactical 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the essence of large-scale, AI-driven warfare with a focus on sandbox-style combat and vehicle usage.
- #3 People Playground
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 311,986 reviews2019
Dev: mestiezPub: Studio Minus
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 54.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Why similar: Sandbox 36%, Gore 29.5%, Physics 15.6%, Violent 9%, Destruction 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an unparalleled physics-based sandbox for experimenting with destruction, gore, and complex contraptions.
- #4 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 149,906 reviews2021
Dev: Landfall
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Why similar: Sandbox 36.8%, War 28.9%, Physics 16.7%, Realistic 12.6%, Action 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: It uses humorous, physics-driven combat to create unpredictable and entertaining war scenarios.
- #5 Endorphin Vice
95% matchMixed55% of 3,151 reviews2022
Dev: Endorphin Studios
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Endorphin Vice is a physics-based sandbox game for exploring realistic gore and wound reactions. Customize your environment with tactically designed objects and gear. Play as a vigilante, using military tactics and tools to create and test various scenarios and effects.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.3%, Gore 25.4%, Physics 17.3%, Realistic 12.9%, Military 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses heavily on realistic ragdoll physics and visceral combat interactions in a sandbox setting.
- #6 Ancient Warfare 3
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,756 reviews2024
Dev: JNI Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 29.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dive into a sandbox full of action and customization! Choose from different game modes like deathmatch, conquest, king of the hill, zombie survival and many more. Create your own scenarios and content in the easy to use in-game editors or use one of the 50k+ workshop items from other players...
Why similar: Sandbox 46%, War 29.1%, Physics 14.5%, Military 4.7%, Action 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: It allows players to create and simulate custom battles across various historical eras with a high degree of control.
- #7 Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2
93% matchVery Positive84% of 7,244 reviews2023
Dev: Brilliant Game Studios
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Welcome to Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2, the most ridiculous and insane battle simulator in existence! Create eye watering battles with hundreds of thousands, even millions of characters on screen! Jump into multiple campaigns in game or player made, or play in sandbox mode and FPS invasion
Why similar: Sandbox 54.6%, Artificial Intelligence 20.1%, Realistic 16.7%, Action 5.6%, 3D 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is the premier choice for players who want to simulate massive-scale battles between thousands of AI units.
- #8 Animal Revolt Battle Simulator
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,681 reviews2022
Dev: VDimension
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The ultimate physics-based, sandbox battle simulator where you can create funny battles between all sorts of ragdoll creatures! You can also make your own monsters with the unit creator or even join the battles yourself in the first-person mode!
Why similar: Sandbox 27.5%, War 23%, Gore 18.9%, Physics 14.1%, Tactical 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a creative sandbox where players can pit various creatures and units against each other in physics-based combat.
- #9 Teardown
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 130,525 reviews2022
Dev: Tuxedo Labs
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 38.8%, Physics 23.3%, Destruction 18.9%, Realistic 12.3%, Action 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features advanced physics and fully destructible environments that provide a satisfying sandbox experience.
- #10 Half Sword
91% matchMixed67% of 23,994 reviews2026
Dev: Half Sword GamesPub: Game Seer Publishing
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Half Sword is a physics-based medieval combat simulator featuring historically accurate XV-century arms and armor. We are not afraid to show the brutal nature of medieval combat with in-depth blood and gore features.
Why similar: Gore 35.2%, Sandbox 20.2%, Physics 20.1%, Realistic 12.3%, Combat 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly realistic, physics-driven medieval combat experience that emphasizes brutal, emergent outcomes.
- #11 Garry's Mod
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,237,980 reviews2006
Dev: Facepunch StudiosPub: Valve
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.5 hrsMean: 286.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 55.7%, Physics 25.4%, Realistic 12.5%, Action 4.1%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive sandbox game that allows for infinite customization and physics-based experimentation using various tools.
- #12 Easy Red 2
89% matchVery Positive90% of 12,979 reviews2022
Dev: Marco AmadeiPub: Corvostudio di Amadei Marco
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience massive battles with infantry, tanks, artillery, and aircraft on large destructible open-world maps. Equip yourself, coordinate with your squad, and fight through World War II in singleplayer, co-op, or multiplayer!
Why similar: War 27%, Sandbox 24.5%, Gore 21.5%, Realistic 10.6%, Violent 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a realistic, large-scale World War II simulation that feels like a more structured version of a war sandbox.
- #13 Ultimate Ragdoll Game
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 704 reviews2024
Dev: Sunday's Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Ultimate Ragdoll Game is a Sandbox game without any limits. Have fun with ragdolls available in Steam Workshop and build your very own constructions using wide variety of blocks.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.3%, Gore 23%, Physics 16.8%, Artificial Intelligence 14.6%, Destruction 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses entirely on the joy of physics-based destruction and ragdoll manipulation in a sandbox world.
- #14 Rising Front
86% matchVery Positive88% of 4,015 reviews2026
Dev: Sandstorm Studios Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
A FPS WW1 & Revolutionary War battle simulator with a focus on Workshop Content, rag-doll physics, intelligent AI, massive battles, procedural AI cover system, real-time building system and FPS combat!
Why similar: Sandbox 40.3%, War 40.2%, Realistic 9%, Action 3.4%, Tactical 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a large-scale, singleplayer war sandbox experience set in the trenches of World War we.
- #15 Besiege
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,398 reviews2020
Dev: Spiderling Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Sandbox 37.9%, Physics 22.4%, Destruction 15.8%, Vehicular Combat 13.5%, PvE 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game challenges players to build physics-based war machines to destroy targets in a sandbox environment.
- #16 Mutilate-a-Doll 2
88% matchVery Positive93% of 1,733 reviews2019
Dev: Rava Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 40.5%, Gore 29.3%, Physics 19.9%, Violent 9.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic physics sandbox game that allows for extreme experimentation with ragdolls and various weapons.
- #17 Sprocket
86% matchVery Positive93% of 12,331 reviews2021
Dev: Hamish Dunn
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 31.2%, War 25.3%, Physics 11.1%, Vehicular Combat 10.2%, Military 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It allows players to design and test their own tanks in a physics-based sandbox environment.
- #18 Nuclear Option
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,859 reviews2023
Dev: Shockfront Studios
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: War 22.9%, Sandbox 21.9%, Artificial Intelligence 13.8%, Physics 13.5%, Realistic 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a high-fidelity military flight simulation that allows for large-scale combat sandbox scenarios.
- #19 Blood Trail
85% matchVery Positive81% of 7,303 reviews2019
Dev: Electrovore
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
You are Wendigo. A hard-hearted contract killer tasked with annihilating a fanatical cult. With your trusted arsenal at the ready, experience what has been called "The most violent game in VR". EARLY ACCESS includes RAID, ARENA and SANDBOX modes with a story campaign and much more on the way.
Why similar: Gore 51.9%, Sandbox 20.9%, Violent 15.1%, Realistic 8.9%, Action 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an extremely realistic and violent VR combat sandbox for those looking for high-fidelity gore.
- #20 Paint the Town Red
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 31,956 reviews2021
Dev: South East Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn't nailed down.
Why similar: Gore 47.6%, Physics 16.5%, Sandbox 16.3%, Violent 14.3%, Action 4%
Why You'll Like It: It features intense, physics-based melee combat with a high level of gore and destructible environments.
- #21 HARD BULLET
84% matchVery Positive84% of 6,381 reviews2020
Dev: GexagonVR
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
HARD BULLET is a physics-based action game, where enemies flood the neon-lit city bringing destruction to its streets. Use slow-motion, a huge arsenal, and brutal combat to survive and unlock new weapons. Prepare for the next RIDE by mastering your skills in Sandbox and Arena modes.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.8%, Gore 19.2%, Physics 18.9%, Violent 13.5%, Destruction 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A visceral VR shooter that emphasizes realistic physics, destruction, and intense combat scenarios.
- #22 WorldBox - God Simulator
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 54,299 reviews2021
Dev: Maxim Karpenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 29.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
Why similar: Sandbox 64.7%, Artificial Intelligence 20.3%, Destruction 15.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a top-down god-game sandbox where you can influence the rise and fall of civilizations and wars.
- #23 BONEWORKS
82% matchVery Positive92% of 36,335 reviews2019
Dev: Stress Level Zero
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
BONEWORKS is an Experimental Physics VR Adventure. Use found physics weapons, tools, and objects to fight across dangerous playscapes and mysterious architecture.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.9%, Physics 27%, Realistic 12.3%, Gore 12.3%, Violent 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It sets the standard for physics-based interaction and combat in a virtual reality sandbox environment.
- #24 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
79% matchVery Positive88% of 290,096 reviews2022
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 62.3 hrsMean: 154.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
Why similar: War 41.9%, Sandbox 36.1%, Character Customization 9%, Realistic 8.6%, Action 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a massive-scale medieval war sandbox where players can lead armies and influence the battlefield.
- #25 ACTION SANDBOX
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,004 reviews2022
Dev: Vona Soft
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Why similar: Sandbox 38.5%, Physics 21.8%, Destruction 14.7%, Character Customization 11.2%, Artificial Intelligence 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward sandbox experience focused on destruction, building, and physics-based interaction.
- #26 Black One Blood Brothers
80% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,396 reviews2022
Dev: Helios Studio
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Black One Blood Brothers is a tactical military shooter game where strategy and coordination are key. Command a squad of top operators, with unique skills, through high-risk missions around the globe. Customize your crew, plan your missions, and adjust on the fly for a vast replayability.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.2%, War 21.5%, Military 14.1%, Realistic 13.7%, Tactical 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on tactical military simulation with a high degree of control over squad-based combat.
- #27 Invasion Machine
81% matchMixed66% of 624 reviews2020
Dev: Pixel Machine
Windows
Modern-warfare RTS/sandbox game inspired by the real conflicts in the Middle East. Fight a counter-insurgency war, protect the civilian population, casevac your wounded and decide how the world sees your struggle. And remember - no one gets left behind.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.5%, War 20.8%, Gore 19%, Military 13.9%, Realistic 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical war simulation that gives players control over military units in a challenging, sandbox-style campaign.
- #28 STANDBOX
78% matchVery Positive91% of 2,911 reviews2023
Dev: RealityBeholder
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
STANDBOX is a single-player physics sandbox about bullying a ragdoll. Shoot him, push him, watch him get back up until he doesn't.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.5%, Gore 26%, Physics 17.9%, Violent 13.6%, Combat 3.2%
- #29 SimplePlanes
79% matchVery Positive93% of 10,848 reviews2015
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Sandbox 34.9%, Physics 20.3%, Artificial Intelligence 17.1%, Military 11.2%, Vehicular Combat 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It allows for the creation and testing of custom aircraft in a physics-based sandbox environment.
- #30 Holdfast: Nations At War
78% matchVery Positive90% of 28,378 reviews2020
Dev: Anvil Game Studios
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Fight on multiple fronts in Holdfast: Nations At War - A multiplayer first and third-person shooter set during the great Napoleonic Era and WW1. Charge into battle with over 150 players per server!
Why similar: War 54.5%, Military 19.3%, Tactical 10.7%, Combat 9.8%, Action 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, large-scale multiplayer war experience that feels like a living sandbox of historical combat.
- #31 BRUTALISTICK VR
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,206 reviews2024
Dev: Kubunautilus
Windows
The golden age of violent flash games now in your VR headset. Fully physics based combat with melee and firearms featuring copious amounts of blood, gore and destruction.
Why similar: Gore 30.7%, Sandbox 29.5%, Physics 18.8%, Tactical 5.4%, Violent 4.7%
- #32 Plastic Battlegrounds
76% matchVery Positive90% of 272 reviews2025
Dev: Simulated Minds
Windows
Set up the battlefield with an ever growing list of units, vehicles, and emplacements! Then either join the battle as a plastic soldier or be life sized and tower over the chaos.
Why similar: War 31.8%, Sandbox 29.3%, Physics 12.6%, Military 11.1%, PvE 6.5%
- #33 Realistic Ragdoll Sandbox
76% matchVery Positive89% of 464 reviews2024
Dev: RelvasDev
Windows
Realistic Ragdoll Sandbox is an immersive game that stands out for its realistic ragdoll physics, which together with various creation and damage tools, provides the player with a mix of realism and fun.
Why similar: Sandbox 46.8%, Physics 22.5%, Gore 14.3%, Violent 8.5%, Combat 3.3%
- #34 RAGDORE
75% matchVery Positive80% of 194 reviews2025
Dev: GreenGO
Windows
RAGDORE is a physics-driven sandbox where limbs fly, bones snap, and movement changes with every injury. Experiment with traps, crushers, trampolines, and more in colorful maps designed for creative destruction and dynamic ragdoll mayhem.
Why similar: Gore 32.4%, Sandbox 24.6%, Physics 13.4%, Violent 10.4%, Realistic 9.2%
- #35 Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 12,228 reviews2017
Dev: Brilliant Game Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Here is a sandbox like no other. Create massive battles with absolutely no limits. Want to see 10,000 chickens fight an army of Romans?? Sure, why not. Want to see a company of WW2 U.S soldiers fight 11,000 Medieval soldiers?? There are simply no limits to the carnage you can achieve in UEBS.
Why similar: Sandbox 38.6%, War 34.5%, Gore 15.7%, Violent 7.4%, Action 2.7%
- #36 Arma Reforger
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 50,709 reviews2023
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 20.6 hrsMean: 89.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Engage in massive combined arms battles, create and curate combat missions in real time, and shape your experience with endless community mods. Deploy into the Cold War and experience the most authentic and immersive military sandbox ever created.
Why similar: Sandbox 26.8%, War 25.9%, Realistic 16.8%, Military 15.3%, Tactical 6.4%
- #37 OPERATOR
74% matchVery Positive85% of 6,018 reviews2023
Dev: VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
In OPERATOR, you will play as an elite Tier 1 operator undergoing dangerous clandestine operations all over the globe. With a strategic, measured, and unforgiving style of gameplay. You are the tactical advantage, Good luck.
Why similar: War 27%, Gore 23.3%, Realistic 14.8%, Character Customization 9.6%, Tactical 7.9%
- #38 Warbox Sandbox
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 290 reviews2022
Dev: Madar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Create intense battles across time periods, join the battle, rewrite history, and become a legend.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 53.3%, Immersive Sim 24%, Action 14.1%, 3D 8.6%
- #39 VTOL VR
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 21,400 reviews2017
Dev: Boundless Dynamics, LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
VTOL VR is a near-futuristic combat flight game built for Virtual Reality. Pilot advanced multi-role jets, using your hands to flip switches, press buttons, and manipulate the virtual flight controls.
Why similar: War 23.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Physics 12.5%, Realistic 11.3%, Artificial Intelligence 10.7%
- #40 Remote Reaper: FPV Combat Drone Simulator
72% matchVery Positive92% of 218 reviews2025
Dev: Vladyslav Fomenko
Windows
Ukrainian FPV drone simulator. Destroy enemy vehicles with high-precision strikes. Simulation of electronic warfare and realistic armor model.
Why similar: Sandbox 30.7%, War 17.4%, Gore 11.7%, Realistic 10.7%, Military 7.1%
- #41 Tactical Assault VR
71% matchVery Positive82% of 3,361 reviews2023
Dev: HammerFire InteractivePub: 2080 Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Tactical Assault VR is an intense tactical shooter where you use real-world CQB (Close Quarters Battles) tactics to stack up, breach doors and eliminate threats. Play solo or join an online co-op special forces unit in missions around the world.
Why similar: Sandbox 38.7%, War 33.7%, Tactical 14.7%, PvE 7.3%, Action 3.2%
- #42 Beast Battle Simulator
73% matchVery Positive88% of 1,285 reviews2018
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Beast Battle Simulator is a physics based battle-simulation sandbox game featuring dinosaurs, animals, and humans. Kamikaze Zebras VS. T-Rex with laser guns, Lions VS. medieval knights; anything is possible! Watch as the beasts dismember and rip each other apart in gory detail!
Why similar: Sandbox 35.1%, Gore 27.7%, Violent 13.1%, War 12.8%, Physics 6.9%
- #43 Total Tank Simulator
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,653 reviews2020
Dev: Noobz from PolandPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Commander in the ranks. Soldier at heart. Choose a faction and deploy and command your army into massive physics-driven WWII battles to the last man standing. Destroy everything on sight with an insane amount of units that will behave tactically.
Why similar: Sandbox 40.6%, War 34.6%, Physics 10.7%, Realistic 7.8%, Action 5%
- #44 NightClub Simulator
70% matchVery Positive92% of 829 reviews2024
Dev: mandegames
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Step into the wild world of Nightclub Simulator VR! Experience an exclusive party where you can dance, mingle, fight, or flirt your way through a chaotic nightclub scene. Interact with lifelike NPCs, build relationships, cause a little mayhem, or just enjoy the music. Your night, your rules.
Why similar: Sandbox 34%, Gore 22.9%, Physics 20.8%, Violent 11.6%, Combat 5.4%
- #45 Brickadia
69% matchVery Positive81% of 1,302 reviews2025
Dev: Brickadia, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 31.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 42.2%, Physics 25%, Vehicular Combat 11.4%, Character Customization 9.6%, Combat 8.1%
- #46 Operation: Harsh Doorstop
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,147 reviews2023
Dev: Drakeling Labs
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Operation: Harsh Doorstop is the ultimate, free to play, tactical shooter sandbox. Play singleplayer, multiplayer, or co-op modes and explore thousands of community-created maps, weapons, and vehicles via the Steam Workshop. Created by ex-developers of Squad, Red Orchestra, and Insurgency.
Why similar: War 35.7%, Realistic 25%, Military 21%, Tactical 11.6%, Action 4.4%
- #47 Project Gunship
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 851 reviews2022
Dev: Sklorite Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Rain hell on the enemy from 12,000 feet in an AC-130 Gunship. Project Gunship provides an authentic and historical simulation of combat in all gunship variants from Vietnam to present day.
Why similar: War 32.2%, Realistic 16.2%, Military 13.7%, Tactical 7.3%, Immersive Sim 7.1%
- #48 Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator
71% matchMixed54% of 362 reviews2022
Dev: Screambox Studio
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Extremely Realistic Siege Warfare Simulator is a physics-based tactical strategy game where you must lead a military force in a fantasy medieval world. Build an army. Construct siege equipment. Experience epic battles. Lead your people to victory!!
Why similar: War 32.5%, Sandbox 28.6%, Physics 15.9%, Realistic 11.4%, Tactical 6%
- #49 Zero Caliber VR
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,923 reviews2023
Dev: XREAL Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Zero Caliber is the ultimate VR FPS: single player/Co-op campaign, PvP and mod support with 40+ realistic firearms & melee weapons, 100+ unlockable skins, 50+ attachments, realistic physics, progression & more! Immerse yourself in the action, customize your gear and unleash your inner hero!
Why similar: War 24.8%, Gore 18.1%, Military 14.4%, Character Customization 10.6%, Violent 10.2%
- #50 Voxel Project VR
67% matchVery Positive85% of 312 reviews2025
Dev: 180°
Windows
Voxel Project offers an immersive sandbox experience set in a fully destructible voxel environment. Explore a dynamic world teeming with vehicles, dynamic fire mechanics, enemy NPCs, voxel gore, weapon customization, and a bunch of additional features to discover.
Why similar: Sandbox 41.2%, Physics 20.1%, Destruction 16.6%, Realistic 12.7%, Combat 6%
- #51 Arma 3
68% matchVery Positive90% of 292,979 reviews2013
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.4 hrsMean: 256.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
Why similar: War 27.5%, Sandbox 21.2%, Military 17.2%, Realistic 16.5%, Tactical 7.9%
- #52 GW: Legacy
69% matchMixed60% of 143 reviews2023
Dev: Alto Interactive
Windows
A Realistic, Physics Based, Multiplayer shooter game in VR. Experience Physical hands, and Guns that are calibrated to real life.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.6%, War 21.9%, Physics 16.2%, Realistic 11%, Military 9.2%
- #53 Garbage Day
73% matchMostly Negative33% of 1,131 reviews2016
Dev: Svajūnas Žemaitis
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Garbage Day is an open world sandbox game, in which you are stuck in a time loop (meaning you live the same day over and over). In this game you have to explore and interact to find out how to get out of the time loop. You are open to do anything you want, kill innocent people, go to work, watch tv, go to the park, etc.
Why similar: Sandbox 64.5%, Gore 25.8%, Action 7.7%, Singleplayer 2%
- #54 GROUND BRANCH
68% matchVery Positive89% of 23,351 reviews2018
Dev: BlackFoot StudiosPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
From one of the developers behind the original Rainbow Six® and Ghost Recon® games, comes a thinking-man's first-person shooter featuring in-depth character and weapon customization. Take your time. Think ahead. Get the job done.
Why similar: Realistic 30.4%, Military 20.6%, Tactical 18.8%, War 16.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #55 Armored Front: Tiger Command
70% matchMixed49% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: AutoRotate180
Windows
Immerse yourself in a fully interactive VR Tiger Tank game and lead your way across the treacherous deserts of North Africa in a Legendary Tank of World War 2.
Why similar: War 23.4%, Sandbox 21.7%, Physics 14.2%, Realistic 11.2%, Vehicular Combat 10.6%
- #56 Blade and Sorcery
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 61,213 reviews2024
Dev: WarpFrog
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Blade & Sorcery is a built-for-VR medieval fantasy with full physics driven melee, ranged and magic combat. Become a powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer and devastate your enemies.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.6%, Gore 31.7%, Physics 16.6%, Violent 12.2%, Action 3.7%
- #57 The Bloodline
66% matchVery Positive83% of 3,828 reviews2023
Dev: Shieldbearer StudiosPub: 505 Pulse
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…
Why similar: Sandbox 30.3%, War 27.8%, Physics 18.4%, Character Customization 10.5%, Combat 7.8%
- #58 War of Rights
67% matchVery Positive88% of 14,641 reviews2018
Dev: Campfire Games
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 90.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
War of Rights is a first person multiplayer game featuring massive 400 player battles with a focus on historical authenticity, teamplay and immersion. It is set during the perilous days of the American Civil War, in the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862.
Why similar: War 46.3%, Realistic 16.8%, Military 12.3%, Gore 10.9%, Violent 6.3%
- #59 FPV Kamikaze Drone
65% matchVery Positive88% of 12,201 reviews2023
Dev: HFM Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
FPV Kamikaze Drone is a tactical game focused on FPV drones in modern warfare. Control drones in first-person in single-player and co-op, and in multiplayer play as a third-person soldier who finds and uses FPV drones during combat.
Why similar: War 72.7%, Combat 11.1%, Action 8.9%, Military 4.8%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #60 BONELAB
65% matchVery Positive81% of 19,256 reviews2022
Dev: Stress Level Zero
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
BONELAB is an experimental physics action game. Explore a mysterious lab filled with weapons, enemies, challenges and secrets. Escape your reality, or wreak havoc. No wrong answers.
Why similar: Sandbox 44%, Physics 27.3%, Violent 14.5%, Combat 8.2%, Action 4.4%