SHENZHEN I/O
Design electronics on a budget, write the assembly to run them, and unwind with a round of solitaire when the specs bite back.
95% of 3,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$14.99
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Plasma
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox: build robots, factories, arcade machines or a giant rampaging spider from hundreds of parts, then wire up its brain with visual programming. No goals, no timers, just you, a blank world and whatever device you can imagine. If making things work is its own reward, this is your playground.
Relaxing, Replayable
90% of 1,180 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11FreeSHENZHEN I/O
Build circuits from microcontrollers, memory and logic gates, then program them in a tiny assembly language to meet real spec sheets. A demanding puzzle game about doing more with less, set at an electronics company in Shenzhen. When the code fights back, there is always solitaire.
Retro, Relaxing, Replayable
95% of 3,765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$14.99Logic World
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!
Relaxing, Replayable
94% of 345 Steam reviews are positive$25Code: Terraform
A frozen planet, a silent ship, and one tool: real code. Write scripts in a Python-like language to run rovers, power grids and drone fleets, then watch them work while you plan the next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet answers back. No drag and drop, no hand holding, just engineering.
Relaxing, Replayable
84% of 388 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58$14.99Virtual Circuit Board
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.
Retro, Relaxing, Replayable
91% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99Sand:box
A relaxing falling-sand sandbox with pixel particles, digital circuits and playable stickmen. Build contraptions, automate things, or just flood a tunnel with sand and watch it pour. It runs at your pace, and there is always one more element to try.
Retro, Relaxing, Colorful
93% of 1,730 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$1.99GearBlocks
A sandbox for mechanically minded builders: snap together motors, gears, springs and joints to make cars, cranes, walking machines or a fully working engine, then drive them and smash them to bits. Physics keeps everything honest, and the workshop is full of machines other builders made.
Relaxing, Replayable
90% of 771 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 34$14.99Replicube
Replicube hands you a blank editor and a voxel sculpture to copy, and asks you to write the code that builds it. Any program that matches the shape counts, so you can solve puzzles cleanly, weirdly, or just mess around making voxel art and coded GIFs.
Retro, Relaxing, Replayable
96% of 721 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99ACTION SANDBOX
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Retro, Relaxing, Colorful
73% of 787 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Gadgeteer
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.
Relaxing, Colorful, Replayable
97% of 94 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Turing Complete
Start with a single logic gate and puzzle your way up to a working CPU. Turing Complete walks you from NAND gates through arithmetic, memory and assembly until a computer you built from scratch runs code you wrote for it. Then the sandbox opens and you can build whatever you like, screens, sound and all.
Relaxing, Replayable
95% of 5,777 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 118$19.99Alan's Automaton Workshop
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.
Relaxing
82% of 197 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Cheaper than Retro Gadgets
Code: Terraform
Write scripts that run rovers, power grids and drone fleets on a frozen planet, and watch your colony grow as the world starts answering back.
84% of 388 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58$14.99
Virtual Circuit Board
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple…
91% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99
Sand:box
Mix pixel particles into contraptions, from simple circuits to floods of sand, all at your own unhurried pace.
93% of 1,730 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$1.99
GearBlocks
Snap motors, gears and springs into cars, cranes or walking contraptions, then take them for a spin and watch physics do its worst.
90% of 771 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 34$14.99
Replicube
Replicube hands you a blank editor and a voxel sculpture to copy, and asks you to write the code that builds it.
96% of 721 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
ACTION SANDBOX
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
73% of 787 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Gadgeteer
Gadgeteer is a physics-based VR puzzle game where you build chain reaction machines to solve fun, intricate puzzles.
97% of 94 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Alan's Automaton Workshop
Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game.
82% of 197 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Silicon Zeroes
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
88% of 249 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
PixPhys
PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space…
73% of 193 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Human Resource Machine
Guide a small office worker through inbox and outbox by building little programs, one level at a time.
94% of 3,297 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
Hidden gems like Retro Gadgets
MakeRoom
Decorate little worlds at your own pace, from snug campers to whole gardens, with a huge toy box of furniture to arrange or build yourself.
94% of 1,072 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$9.99
Replicube
Replicube hands you a blank editor and a voxel sculpture to copy, and asks you to write the code that builds it.
96% of 721 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Program a crew of cute robots to thaw a frozen planet, one working routine at a time.
83% of 701 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.24
Code: Terraform
Write scripts that run rovers, power grids and drone fleets on a frozen planet, and watch your colony grow as the world starts answering back.
84% of 388 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58$14.99
RoboCo
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
87% of 190 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
The Powder Toy
Mix elements, build contraptions and watch your experiments blow up in pixel-perfect fashion.
98% of 3,131 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 133Free
Sand:box
Mix pixel particles into contraptions, from simple circuits to floods of sand, all at your own unhurried pace.
93% of 1,730 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$1.99
Brickadia
Stack bricks into whatever you imagine, then hand your friends a weapon and see what survives.
81% of 1,289 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 64$19.99
GearBlocks
Snap motors, gears and springs into cars, cranes or walking contraptions, then take them for a spin and watch physics do its worst.
90% of 771 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 34$14.99
Plasma
Snap together hundreds of parts into robots, factories or arcade machines, then teach them what to do with visual programming, alone or with friends.
90% of 1,180 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11Free
Virtual Circuit Board
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple…
91% of 307 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99
Archean
Archean is a first-person engineering sandbox where physics does the judging.
87% of 247 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Newest games like Retro Gadgets
Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
Program a crew of cute robots to thaw a frozen planet, one working routine at a time.
83% of 701 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.24
Code: Terraform
Write scripts that run rovers, power grids and drone fleets on a frozen planet, and watch your colony grow as the world starts answering back.
84% of 388 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58$14.99
Blackdoor
You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts: time to rewrite them.
86% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
RoboCo
RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow!
87% of 190 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
EmuDevz
A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in…
90% of 80 Steam reviews are positiveFree
You Are The Code
A programming puzzle game, but YOU CAN'T TYPE. Navigate and run pre-existing lines of code! Watch out for bugs eating away your program!
100% of 42 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.39
MakeRoom
Decorate little worlds at your own pace, from snug campers to whole gardens, with a huge toy box of furniture to arrange or build yourself.
94% of 1,072 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$9.99
Brickadia
Stack bricks into whatever you imagine, then hand your friends a weapon and see what survives.
81% of 1,289 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 64$19.99
Replicube
Replicube hands you a blank editor and a voxel sculpture to copy, and asks you to write the code that builds it.
96% of 721 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator
Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate…
76% of 385 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$17.99
Programming Simulator
you are a game developer who writes game code according to the tasks assigned by the company.
75% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
The Powder Toy
Mix elements, build contraptions and watch your experiments blow up in pixel-perfect fashion.
98% of 3,131 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 133Free