Mechanic Miner
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival.
53% of 174 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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Mechanic Miner
Put your mechanical skills to the test in a physics-based sandbox where ingenuity and creativity are the ultimate key to survival. Construct fantastical machines, gather resources, acquire new technologies to battle dangerous enemies and use your imagination to shape your world.
Also in Survival crafting · Chaotic, Replayable
53% of 174 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Scrapnaut
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable
69% of 735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$1.39The Front
A post-apocalyptic survival sandbox with a twist: you are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop a tyrannical empire. Gather, craft, build fortified bases with trap-filled defenses, assemble your own combat vehicles, and raid enemy territory alone or with friends.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Chaotic, Replayable, Competitive
66% of 9,526 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99Mechanica
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming. Create your own bases, defenses, manufacturing systems and more. Explore the map and expand the scope and complexity of your creations.
Also in Survival crafting
62% of 607 Steam reviews are positive$0.99TerraTech
Build cars, tanks and planes from a huge library of blocks, then take them out into an infinite open world to mine, fight rival prospectors and grow your empire. Salvage parts from wrecks, craft your own, and build machines only you could have imagined.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Chaotic, Replayable, Competitive
92% of 20,680 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 241$24.99Trailmakers
Build a car, boat, plane or whatever should not work, then take it across deserts, oceans and space. Trailmakers is a bright physics sandbox with a frog-rescuing campaign, rough multiplayer battles and races, made for tinkerers who like rebuilding until it finally flies.
Also in Co-op · Chaotic, Replayable, Competitive
92% of 34,625 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,721$24.99Lightyear Frontier
Farm an alien planet from the seat of a big friendly mech. Plant and water vast fields of strange crops, build a homestead worth photographing, explore a bright open world, and send your harvest off to help distant colonies. Play solo or with up to three friends, at whatever pace the day allows.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op
82% of 4,601 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,137$29.99Anymaker
Build vehicles from the ground up and drive them across a hostile open world. Scavenge parts, tools and supplies, engineer your chassis, engine, wiring and controls by hand, and fight off wildlife, the undead and rival survivors. Play Survival solo or in 6-player co-op, or build freely in Sandbox.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Chaotic, Replayable
55% of 384 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 56$24.99Plains of Pain
A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you. Fight heat, thirst and hordes of madmen, build a settlement from nothing, craft hover vehicles to cross the desert, and pick a side in a faction war over the last outposts. Solo or with friends, every procedurally generated wasteland plays out differently.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable, Competitive
84% of 1,041 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Design your own rescue boats, helicopters, subs and trains block by block, wire them up with logic and Lua, then take them out across 15,000 square kilometres of ocean to tow ships, fight fires and pull survivors from stormy seas.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Chaotic, Replayable
90% of 55,199 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,414$24.99Space Trash Scavenger
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
82% of 516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99Space Engineers
Build working ships, stations and planetary bases block by block, then fly them, crash them, mine with them and blow pieces off them. Real mass, power, oxygen and gravity keep every design honest. Best with friends and a tolerance for learning things the hard way.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Chaotic, Replayable
89% of 102,848 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,176$19.99
Cheaper than Scrap Mechanic
Scrapnaut
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.
69% of 735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$1.39
The Front
Gather, craft and fortify a base, then push back against the empire in first person, alone or with friends.
66% of 9,526 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99
Mechanica
Mechanica is a multiplayer open-world survival game involving building and programming.
62% of 607 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
TerraTech
Design vehicles from blocks, prospect an infinite open world, and battle rival miners for territory and profit.
92% of 20,680 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 241$24.99
Trailmakers
Snap parts together into whatever vehicle you fancy, then race, battle and explore across a bright open world with friends.
92% of 34,625 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,721$24.99
Anymaker
Build vehicles from the ground up and drive them across a hostile open world.
55% of 384 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 56$24.99
Plains of Pain
A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.
84% of 1,041 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Engineer your own boats, aircraft and trains, then take them out on open-ocean missions where physics and weather rarely go to plan.
90% of 55,199 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,414$24.99
Space Trash Scavenger
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts.
82% of 516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Space Engineers
Design spacecraft and stations from raw blocks, then watch real physics decide whether your engineering holds up.
89% of 102,848 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,176$19.99
Dig or Die
Dig for resources, craft laser weapons and turrets, and engineer a base that survives the monsters it made angry.
90% of 3,863 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$5.39
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Human Host
Gather and build by day, survive the night horde, or put your whole base on wheels and move on before the zombies catch up.
82% of 1,068 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 101$16.88
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: 37$14.99
Outbreak Island
Search a fog-bound island for your missing father while the dead rise after dark and a ruined farm slowly becomes your stronghold.
78% of 1,005 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$14.99
Space Trash Scavenger
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts.
82% of 516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Lightyear Frontier
Pilot a mech across a bright alien world, growing strange crops and building a homestead with friends or on your own.
82% of 4,601 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,137$29.99
I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
Turn a flooded city's rooftops into a cozy home, farm strange crops, tinker with robots and take each day at your own pace.
83% of 4,046 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$7.99
Plains of Pain
A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.
84% of 1,041 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
Survival Machine
Build up a colossal moving base, keep it fueled, and defend its deck from zombie hordes by night, alone or with friends.
69% of 697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
Machine Mind
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.
70% of 588 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Atrio: The Dark Wild
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything.
78% of 559 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
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
Green Project
Wake from cryosleep to a fungus-choked Earth, then farm, craft and plant trees at your own pace until the world around you visibly turns green again.
80% of 1,434 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$5.99
Newest games like Scrap Mechanic
Lightyear Frontier
Pilot a mech across a bright alien world, growing strange crops and building a homestead with friends or on your own.
82% of 4,601 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,137$29.99
Survival Machine
Build up a colossal moving base, keep it fueled, and defend its deck from zombie hordes by night, alone or with friends.
69% of 697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
Solarpunk™
Gather, farm and build a sun-powered home among floating islands, then take your airship out to see what else is up there.
80% of 3,795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 252$22.99
Project: Mist
Scavenge a monster-haunted island, build a moving base on rails, and uncover its secrets alone or with friends.
72% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$17.99
Human Host
Gather and build by day, survive the night horde, or put your whole base on wheels and move on before the zombies catch up.
82% of 1,068 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 101$16.88
LIFE EFFECT Survival
A harsh open world after an alien invasion, seen from first or third person.
85% of 560 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$14.99
Machine Mind
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.
70% of 588 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
HumanitZ
Scavenge ruined cities, build a shelter worth defending, and see how long you last in a grim open world.
74% of 11,630 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,090$19.99
No One Survived
Scavenge, craft and build a real home in a grim zombie world, then hold it when the dead close in, alone or with friends.
64% of 7,023 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 100$16.99
The Front
Gather, craft and fortify a base, then push back against the empire in first person, alone or with friends.
66% of 9,526 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99
Outbreak Island
Search a fog-bound island for your missing father while the dead rise after dark and a ruined farm slowly becomes your stronghold.
78% of 1,005 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$14.99
VEIN
Scavenge, build and fight your way through a grim open world, alone or with friends at your side.
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