60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Building, Sandbox, Singleplayer.
World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks.
LogicBots
Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.
Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2
The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!
Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.
Why similar: Programming 32.1% ★, Robots 21.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 9.3%
The original physics building game is now on PC! Use minimal tools to build an infinite variety of puzzle-solving machines. Featuring over 70 THOUSAND user-generated levels, and includes the sequel Fantastic Contraption Classic 2!
Why similar: Building 17%, Physics 15.8%, Education 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 7.9%
A surreal building game for VR. Create life-sized contraptions as tall as you can reach, then send them whirling, flinging, and trundling off to solve puzzles on the other side of a floating island. There are no right or wrong solutions, so bring your creativity.
Why similar: Level Editor 16.4%, Automation 14.1%, Building 13.9%, Physics 11.6%, Logic 10.4%
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: Robots 21.6%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Education 14.3%, Physics 13%
Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?
Why similar: Programming 27.7% ★, Robots 18.5%, Automation 18.4%, Logic 12.8%, Puzzle 6.2%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Programming 17.1% ★, Science 14.6%, Robots 12.2%, Automation 9.4%, Building 9.1%
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: Destruction 22.5%, Building 19.7%, Driving 17.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Physics 14.7%
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 25.9%, Physics 16.7%, Level Editor 13.3%, Sandbox 11%, Education 10.6%
Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!
Why similar: Destruction 27.7%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 17%, Driving 16.2%, Physics 12.2%
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.
Why similar: Programming 19.3% ★, Science 14.9%, Automation 13.1%, Robots 13%, Education 10%
Rover Builder is a 3D engineering sim tasking you to create the right rover to complete the job. Unleash your creativity in the garage, building vehicles using an impressive array of parts, materials and machinery. Or try your hand at level editor - creating entire missions and levels from scratch!
Why similar: Science 21.5%, Robots 17.3%, Level Editor 15.7%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 12.3%
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: Destruction 25.3%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 15.8%, Physics 14.4%, Level Editor 14%
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
Why similar: Programming 22.2% ★, Science 15.8%, Automation 12.1%, Education 11%, Building 10.9%
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
Why similar: Programming 22.2% ★, Science 17%, Automation 14.4%, Building 10.9%, Education 10.2%
ABRISS is an atmospheric physics-destruction building game.Build structures from parts to let them crash into your targets. Unlock new parts, destroy more, witness entropy at its worst in digital-brutalist cityscapes. Build to destroy.
Why similar: Destruction 22.9%, Logic 13.9%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12.4%, Physics 11.7%
SOKOBOT is an open-ended puzzle game where you place down cute robots, give them commands, and create infinitely-looping assembly lines that combine shapes together!
Why similar: Programming 29% ★, Automation 17.3%, Building 12.5%, Logic 12.3%, Sandbox 10.9%
The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from its original designer and programmer. Play 100s of puzzles. Build and share elaborate contraptions with an huge variety of parts and critters.
Why similar: Programming 25.7% ★, Level Editor 21.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 13.5%, Physics 11.9%
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Sandbox 21%, Building 17.3%, Logic 12.4%, Simulation 10.4%
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.
Why similar: Programming 21.9% ★, Science 14.7%, Automation 12.5%, Education 11.2%, Logic 8.8%
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 31.9%, Building 21.8%, Sandbox 19.7%, Physics 17%, Simulation 7.5%
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: Science 20.4%, Robots 16.5%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Logic 10%
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
Why similar: Programming 21.1% ★, Level Editor 14.5%, Automation 13.1%, Logic 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%
The Qubit Factory is an open-ended puzzle game incorporating real-life concepts from the cutting-edge field of quantum computing. Design and build logic circuits that manipulate bits and qubits (quantum bits) to solve devious computational challenges!
Why similar: Programming 28.7% ★, Automation 16.9%, Science 11.9%, Logic 11.3%, Education 9.7%
Great Permutator is a puzzle. Hard and tricky. One in which you will have to build a complex system of conveyors and various devices so that the colored boxes can travel across the factory and arrive at right places and in right order. If you are into clever engineering puzzles, this game is for you.
Why similar: Programming 30.2% ★, Automation 19.5%, Building 14.8%, Level Editor 11.8%, Logic 10.2%
A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!
Why similar: Programming 26% ★, Automation 21.5%, Building 15.4%, Physics 11.5%, Logic 9.7%
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: Destruction 24.9%, Driving 22.1%, Building 20.5%, Physics 16%, Simulation 6.3%
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Why similar: Destruction 24%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Physics 13.1%, Robots 11.2%
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 24.6%, Level Editor 17.6%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 14.2%, Physics 12.9%
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: Programming 24.4% ★, Robots 18.9%, Level Editor 15.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 11.1%
Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?
Why similar: Science 18.6%, Destruction 15.1%, Simulation 11.3%, Sandbox 11%, Programming 9.8% ★
OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares.
Why similar: Programming 29.3% ★, Science 22.2%, Education 12.3%, Logic 11.9%, Simulation 8.9%
Design, optimize, and reverse-engineer real quantum algorithms in an open-ended Zachlike puzzle game. Solve 500+ optimization challenges, hack player creations, and master quantum logic without coding.
Why similar: Programming 18.7% ★, Science 16.2%, Automation 11.3%, Level Editor 11%, Education 9.4%
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: Programming 23.8% ★, Robots 18.4%, Automation 12.6%, Logic 10.8%, Building 10.2%
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 34.6%, Sandbox 26.3%, Physics 22.6%, Funny 8.4%, Simulation 6.1%
Become an appraised bridge engineer and architect in Bridge Constructor. Create and design your own constructions and watch the cars and trucks pass over them - or see them fall and crash while your inferior creations collapse due to weight and the laws of physics!
Why similar: Building 31.5%, Physics 29.2%, Simulation 23.4%, Puzzle 13.9%, Singleplayer 2%
Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.9%, Destruction 26.3%, Building 24.3%, Simulation 17.5%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.
Why similar: Building 23.2%, Physics 20.3%, Level Editor 14.4%, Puzzle 13.3%, Simulation 11%
Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game! Enjoy the freedom of completely gridless 3D sandbox building combined with hilarious ragdoll third person controls, offering a truly unique and hilarious "Enjeniring" experience!
Why similar: Science 19.1%, Sandbox 18.6%, Building 15.4%, Physics 14.7%, Puzzle Platformer 10.6%
Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.
Why similar: Programming 29.6% ★, Automation 20.1%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Puzzle 9.2%
Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.
Why similar: Programming 20% ★, Science 18.6%, Building 11.1%, Level Editor 10.9%, Automation 10.5%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Programming 20.2% ★, Automation 19.2%, Education 16.1%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10.1%
Step into the boots of a medieval engineer and master the art of siege warfare. In Medieval Machines Builder, you design, build, and operate powerful war machines capable of bringing down even the strongest fortress walls.
Why similar: Destruction 25.3%, Building 15.7%, Education 14.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Physics 13%
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Why similar: Programming 40.3% ★, Automation 23.8%, Logic 11.2%, Puzzle 10.7%, Simulation 5.4%
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: Programming 17.2% ★, Destruction 15.6%, Robots 14.7%, Level Editor 11.2%, Driving 11%
A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here.
Why similar: Programming 30.6% ★, Automation 18.9%, Building 14.3%, Level Editor 12.5%, Puzzle Platformer 7.6%
Game allows you to build many kinds of towers from a variety of bricks and experience their dynamic destruction physics in a sandbox environment.
Why similar: Destruction 29%, Simulation 28.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 14.6%, Physics 12.9%
Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters! Build contraptions to help every passenger reach their destination. Enjoy the sports by controlling your riders away from (or towards if you feel like it) peril!
Why similar: Building 23.3%, Level Editor 18.4%, Physics 16.8%, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 10.5%
The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!
Why similar: Building 23.7%, Physics 15.3%, Level Editor 15.2%, Sandbox 14%, Education 11.7%
A creative building-like game, where the objective is to throw physics enabled objects to create structures to allow the objective of the level to be completed. Can be a very challenging puzzler or an easy, sit back and relax game. Includes built in Level Editor and extensive Multiplayer functionality.
Why similar: Level Editor 41.3%, Sandbox 31.7%, Puzzle 10.6%, Simulation 10.5%, 3D 6%
Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.
Why similar: Programming 27.9% ★, Automation 16.5%, Education 14.6%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.3%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: Science 33.7%, Education 18.4%, Sandbox 18.2%, Building 16%, Simulation 4.6%
A brick-building puzzle game. Assemble sets of increasing complexity, design your own, share with the community.
Why similar: Building 26.9%, Sandbox 25.6%, Physics 22.6%, Puzzle 12.1%, Simulation 6.2%
Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.
Why similar: Programming 22.9% ★, Science 17.7%, Automation 11.5%, Education 11%, Logic 10.6%
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Why similar: Programming 29.9% ★, Automation 17.4%, Education 11.4%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%
Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.
Why similar: Programming 52.3% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Level Editor 13.9%, Simulation 8.9%, Puzzle 8.9%
Gadgeteer is a physics-based VR puzzle game where you build chain reaction machines to solve fun, intricate puzzles. Your machines will use gadgets to launch, bump, twist, and turn—creating chain reactions that may even end up tearing apart the fabric of space-time.
Why similar: Simulation 23.9%, Physics 22%, Sandbox 21.5%, Building 20%, Puzzle 12.6%
Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle. Your completed creations become components to solve future challenges. As you design a circuit and can place your design within it, where there is a smaller you doing the same, and so on to infinity.
Why similar: Programming 27.1% ★, Science 17.4%, Logic 12%, Education 11.7%, Sandbox 11.2%
The best just got better! Rediscover your engineering creativity in this genre-defining bridge engineering and puzzle solving masterpiece.
Why similar: Building 23.6%, Level Editor 19.6%, Physics 17.6%, Simulation 14.4%, Puzzle 12%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Destruction 18.1%, Science 15.7%, Sandbox 12%, Education 10.8%, Automation 10.8%
A physics sandbox simulation game about constructing and demolishing structures. If you like destroying stuff or just mess around, then this game is for you!
Why similar: Destruction 27%, Level Editor 18%, Sandbox 16.1%, Physics 13.7%, Building 12.2%
