- #1 Cybermotion
97% matchVery Positive81% of 90 reviews2017
Dev: Lukayson
Windows
Cybermotion is physics based platformer. You play as a student project robot that's constantly beeing tested by its creators. Combine physics animations and poses to move through the levels full of obstacles. Upgrade the robot, build new levels.
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- #2 LogicBots
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 184 reviews2017
Dev: Incandescent Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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.
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- #3 Rover Builder
96% matchMixed68% of 81 reviews2022
Dev: Hatfuls GamesPub: PQube
Windows
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!
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- #4 Marching Simulator
95% matchVery Positive80% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: Marching Simulator
Windows
This is a 2D, sprite based marching simulator. It is intended to give the user what it would feel like to march a military formation, as well as see how well they can do!
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- #5 RoboCo
94% matchVery Positive88% of 204 reviews2026
Dev: Filament Games
Windows
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
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- #6 Ultimate Coaster X
94% matchVery Positive87% of 263 reviews2019
Dev: Phony Game Studios
Windows
Ultimate Coaster X is a free roller coaster simulator built with simplicity and utility in mind. The in-game roller coaster and world editors allow you to create and experience rides of many types.
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- #7 PixPhys
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 214 reviews2021
Dev: Red Starship
Windows · Linux
PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.
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- #8 Age Of Warbots
91% matchVery Positive86% of 123 reviews2025
Dev: VDimension
Windows
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!
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- #9 Robo Instructus
92% matchVery Positive86% of 73 reviews2019
Dev: Big AB Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.
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- #10 Main Assembly
91% matchVery Positive84% of 1,337 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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.
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- #11 Plasma
89% matchVery Positive90% of 1,062 reviews2023
Dev: Dry CactusPub: Dry Licorice
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
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- #12 Space Simulation Toolkit
90% matchVery Positive81% of 475 reviews2020
Dev: Pavel Kudinov
Windows
Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.
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- #13 Virtual Circuit Board
88% matchVery Positive93% of 302 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie Foundry
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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.
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- #14 Ragdoll: Fall Simulator
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 96 reviews2021
Dev: Andreev Worlds
Windows
In this game, you can launch your character anywhere, watching as his limbs dangle and hit all the obstacles.
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- #15 MyRobot
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: sgthale
Windows
MyRobot is a robot sandbox game with optional AI features!
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- #16 Pure Rock Crawling
85% matchVery Positive84% of 1,299 reviews2024
Dev: Maciej Kuzianik
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Pure Rock Crawling is a physics based off-road simulator. Featuring soft body tires, suspension customization that affects your handling, true to life drivetrain simulation and visual addons. Explore a variety of trails in free roam with multiple challenges.
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- #17 ACTION SANDBOX
86% 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.
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- #18 MachineCraft
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 889 reviews2016
Dev: G2CREW
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 34%
The main purpose of this game is showing and watching machines made out of blocks. Some of the game-modes allow you to battle or race against other players. (testing phase) You can create your original machine with ease by reassembling those machines that are distributed, or by using the automatic control block.
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- #19 Mech Havoc
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 562 reviews2025
Dev: Mid DevelopmentPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Sandbox of destruction. Billion different ways to build your mech. Feel the weight and impact of obliteration in this modern old school mech combat sim.
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- #20 JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 349 reviews2025
Dev: Prof. SchererPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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.
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- #21 SOKOBOT
84% matchVery Positive92% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Alexander Taylor
Windows
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!
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- #22 Robot Rumble 2
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Nerd Island Studios, LLC
Windows · Mac
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.
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- #23 Machine World 2
84% matchMixed49% of 200 reviews2017
Dev: Trino GamesPub: Trino AB
Windows · Mac
Take control of a range of different machines and operate them in a unique environment. Each new game generates a new world, and it is yours to develop: Dig and build anything, anywhere! All machines have been carefully modelled down to small details.
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- #24 Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
79% matchVery Positive85% of 620 reviews2024
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.
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- #25 Manufactoria 2022
81% matchVery Positive96% of 71 reviews2022
Dev: PleasingFungus Games
Windows · Mac
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?
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- #26 PlayForm: Human Dynamics
80% matchVery Positive90% of 181 reviews2022
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
PlayForm is an experimental physics sandbox. Physically simulated humans run, jump, climb, push, pull and smash their way through diverse worlds. Have fun with various tools and obstacles to create thrilling situations and experience next-gen physics.
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- #27 Bot Colony
81% matchMixed66% of 97 reviews2014
Dev: North Side Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Bot Colony is the only game controlled by speaking or typing. You command robots to move and manipulate objects. The right questions unlock videos of the events they witnessed. No dialogue trees - the game unfolds 100% based on what you say, taking interactivity and immersion to a new level.
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- #28 GearBlocks
77% matchVery Positive91% of 717 reviews2023
Dev: SmashHammer Games
Windows · Linux
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!
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- #29 MX Bikes
76% matchVery Positive94% of 34,067 reviews2019
Dev: PiBoSo
Windows
Median: 28.0 hrsMean: 130.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
MX Bikes is a realistic motocross simulator, based on a scratch built physics engine that accurately simulates motorcycle dynamics and setup options.
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- #30 AccrO
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
AccrO is a Full Acrobatic Quadcopter Simulator, with realistic flight behavior and complex physics simulation. A training tool for freestyle drone enthusiasts.
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- #31 Kselebox
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2021
Dev: KseLeroNPub: ONRI Studio
Windows
Kselebox is a sandbox game, which means you can do whatever you want in it! You can build a rocket and go to explore the vastness of space. Or maybe you want to build a huge car? No problem! Players can save their buildings and then publish them to the Steam Workshop.
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- #32 subROV : Underwater Discoveries
77% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: sqr3lab
Windows
Pilot a remotely operated submarine and explore the oceans! Defy the darkness and crushing pressure of the deeps as you chart unknown regions and study new species of ocean life.
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- #33 Retro Gadgets
76% matchVery Positive90% of 505 reviews2022
Dev: Licorice ehf
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 60.7 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
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- #34 Vehicle Simulator
78% matchVery Positive88% of 277 reviews2015
Dev: Ilan Papini
Windows
Vehicle Simulator is an open world flying/sailing simulator with accurate physics and dynamics, simulating well the various boats, planes and land vehicles included. The game allows the user to modify and experiment with scenery making and vehicle design by way of extreme modability, with a large library of existing mods and add-ons.
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- #35 Tricking 0
75% matchVery Positive81% of 950 reviews2022
Dev: Full-in Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Tricking 0 is a physics-based flipping game that lets you perform tricking combos, parkour lines, and cliff jumps with full control. With an intuitive Flick-It system, seamless transitions, and active ragdoll physics, it delivers the thrill of extreme movement sports, but without risking your neck
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- #36 The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
73% matchVery Positive91% of 691 reviews2023
Dev: PeatyTurf
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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!
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- #37 Nimbatus - Drone Creator
74% matchVery Positive90% of 270 reviews2020
Dev: Stray Fawn Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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?
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- #38 StarbaseSim
71% matchVery Positive97% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: AshtorakSimGames
Windows · Linux
Operate the Starship space launch system and learn how to catch a rocket to understand what it takes to colonize Mars in this ever-evolving simulation of SpaceX Starbase Texas.
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- #39 Graffism VR - Graffiti Simulator
70% matchVery Positive88% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: VRiteLabs
Windows
Advanced Graffiti simulator where you can paint everywhere in the map with different tools as cans, markers and fire extinguisher.
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- #40 Short Circuit VR
73% matchVery Positive82% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: Stefan BauwensPub: N/A
Windows
Short Circuit VR is an electronics lab simulator in Virtual Reality. You can build your own electronic circuits with the components provided, learn basic electronics by completing challenges and just have fun while experimenting and making awesome projects!
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- #41 Primitier
69% matchVery Positive94% of 304 reviews2025
Dev: Ota Mato
Windows
Primitier is a highly flexible VR sandbox game, where you can create tools and machinery by freely cutting and connecting objects in a vast world based on physics simulation.
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- #42 Freedom Locomotion VR
73% matchVery Positive87% of 223 reviews2017
Dev: Huge Robot
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Walk, jog, run, climb and crawl across a range of locations and terrains in the Freedom Locomotion VR demo. This game showcases the revolutionary Freedom Locomotion System that provides you with a wide range of options, which will allow you to find the most immersive fit regardless of how motion sickness sensitive you might be.
- #43 OVRLRD
71% matchVery Positive81% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: OVRLRD
Windows
OVRLRD is a mech combat simulator built from the ground up for Virtual Reality. Take the real, physical controls of a 50-foot bipedal weapons platform as you carry out complex operations across a challenging single-player campaign.
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- #44 Mars First Logistics
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,474 reviews2025
Dev: Shape Shop
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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!
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- #45 Quantum Odyssey
68% matchVery Positive94% of 108 reviews2025
Dev: Quarks Interactive
Windows
Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, explore an open-ended puzzle world where you craft real quantum algorithms, solve 500+ challenges, hack other players asynchronously, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.
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- #46 Project Chemistry
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 212 reviews2021
Dev: Ata TürkoğluPub: Espale Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 26.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.
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- #47 Sand:box
68% matchVery Positive94% of 1,486 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
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- #48 Phantom
74% matchMostly Negative34% of 173 reviews2017
Dev: Phantomisreal Ltd.
Windows
Phantom is a hard sci-fi survival game. It is very different from other survival games; the player is a robot rather than human. At the same time the game has a pure physics-based construction system, which makes survival and fighting become very fun and different.
- #49 Realistic Tower Destruction
72% matchMixed65% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita Markin
Windows
Game allows you to build many kinds of towers from a variety of bricks and experience their dynamic destruction physics in a sandbox environment.
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- #50 World of Contraptions
69% matchVery Positive87% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: JCP Games Studio
Windows
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.
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- #51 Robot Squad Simulator 2017
72% matchMixed64% of 161 reviews2016
Dev: Bit GolemPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Become an elite pilot of special Robot Squad. Use specialized, remotely controlled robots, which you will control yourself. Deal with the hardest missions which can't be performed directly by people due to the conditions. Human life and safety is in your hands!
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- #52 Universe Sandbox
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,587 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
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- #53 Juno: New Origins
66% matchVery Positive89% of 3,369 reviews2023
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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.
- #54 Blocksworld
70% matchMixed65% of 764 reviews2017
Dev: Fortell Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Build anything from characters that run around to mighty machines that drive, blast, crawl, and fly! Then play with your creations in action-packed games, share what you’ve built with your friends, and explore creations made by people all over the world!
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- #55 ExoCross
67% matchMixed68% of 447 reviews2024
Dev: iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
ExoCross is an offroad racing game introducing 4CPT vehicle physics (4-way contact patch traction technology). A soft-body tire model allows for competitive time attack and multiplayer wheel to wheel racing.
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- #56 Virtual-O
70% matchVery Positive88% of 137 reviews2016
Dev: Contours
Windows
Virtual-O is a new game that brings you the adventures of Orienteering without the need of going to faraway places. Nature will be your only enemy as you will try to navigate the Unknown using map and compass.
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- #57 SkateLab
67% matchVery Positive90% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: TheVan
Windows
A 100% physics-driven skateboarding sandbox. Experiment in a world with unconstrained physics, create spots, record clips, and skate with your friends!
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- #58 IRON REBELLION
65% matchVery Positive85% of 792 reviews2024
Dev: Black Beach Studio
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Climb inside a colossal war machine, where every switch is at your command. Iron Rebellion is a VR multiplayer sci-fi mech shooter SIM that puts you in the pilot’s seat. Customize your mech, control every system from inside the cockpit, and face other players in fast-paced, tactical PvP battles.
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- #59 Mech Mechanic Simulator: Prologue
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 141 reviews2021
Dev: PolyslashPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows
Become a Mech Mechanic to deconstruct, rebuild, paint and fix gigantic iron machines. You live in an age of enormous machines and you better get ready to get your hands dirty!
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