Atomcraft
Mine, smelt and automate your way across a simulated world, chasing every element to fix your ship.
95% of 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99
Games like The Tool
If The Tool scratched a relaxing and surreal itch for you, keep reading. Give these games a try when the craving hits.
Space Simulation Toolkit
A physics sandbox that borrows your graphics card as a supercomputer. Build worlds atom by atom, rewrite the laws that govern them, and watch gases, liquids, soft bodies and maybe even living things emerge. It is early, rough and demanding, but nothing else plays god at this scale.
Relaxing, Chaotic
80% of 519 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$17.77The Powder Toy
Build a nuclear reactor, wire a working computer, or just drop a bomb on your own city and watch the fallout drift. Runs on nearly anything, and one more experiment is always five minutes away.
Relaxing, Chaotic, Funny
98% of 3,128 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155FreeDoodle God
Start with earth, wind, fire and air, then combine your way to locomotives, dragons, skyscrapers and aliens. Doodle God is a relaxed element-mixing puzzle where every discovery fills out a little world on a globe, and every success comes with a quip from a philosopher or comedian. Easy to pick up, hard to stop poking at.
Relaxing, Surreal, Chaotic
77% of 1,047 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99ACTION SANDBOX
A physics sandbox game for people who like to play with digital toys. Create, control toys and define your goals.
Relaxing, Chaotic, Funny
73% of 788 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Contraption Maker
The spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine, from its original designer. Chain together bowling balls, lasers, mice and balloons to pop, feed and launch your way through hundreds of puzzles, then build your own contraptions and share them. Physics that always behave, puzzles that gently ramp up, and a workshop full of machines other people dreamed up.
Relaxing, Chaotic, Funny
92% of 923 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$12.99Gadgeteer
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, Chaotic, Funny
97% of 94 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Doodle God Blitz
Doodle God is an addicting puzzle & world building game where players use logic and ingenuity to create the entire universe. Starting with the basic elements of earth, wind, fire and air players can build a world filled with locomotives, Dragons, skyscrapers, Aliens and more.
Relaxing, Funny
68% of 861 Steam reviews are positiveFreeRegular Human Workshop
A 2D physics sandbox with no goals and no rules except gravity. Spawn ragdolls that walk, feel pain and bleed like the real thing, wire buttons to guns, and slow time to watch a bullet do its work. Grim, funny and endlessly fiddly: you decide what this workshop is for.
Relaxing, Surreal, Chaotic
89% of 1,211 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$9.99PixPhys
PixPhys is a 2D engineering sandbox with huge technical possibilities and scope for imagination: design equipment from a jet-powered cart to space stations.
Relaxing, Chaotic
73% of 193 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$3.99Everything
Everything is a reality simulation where every object is a playable character, from animals and rocks to planets and galaxies. Shrink from outer space down to atoms, gather herds of fellow things, and let Alan Watts' narration and a rich score wash over you. No goals, no scores, no way to lose. Just a universe to roll around in.
Relaxing, Surreal, Chaotic
83% of 3,207 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99Idea Fix
Incremental physics based game about pushing levers, clicking buttons and coming to terms with obsession.
Relaxing, Surreal
92% of 133 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Infinite Turtles
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.
Relaxing
98% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Hidden gems like The Tool
Sandboxels
A pixel sandbox where every powder, liquid and gas reacts, and the only goal is the one you set yourself.
94% of 1,182 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$0.99
Sandustry
Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.
97% of 5,720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,297$19.99
Primitier
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…
93% of 311 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Idea Fix
Incremental physics based game about pushing levers, clicking buttons and coming to terms with obsession.
92% of 133 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Simultree
Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations.
86% of 148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
The Powder Toy
Mix elements, build contraptions and watch your experiments blow up in pixel-perfect fashion.
98% of 3,128 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155Free
Project P.I.T.T.
A first-person physics job where you automate rubber duck production for a pit that never stops eating.
78% of 1,187 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 69$9.99
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: 24$1.99
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 1,179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11Free
Upload Labs
Route files through a growing network of nodes, then tune every bottleneck until the whole machine hums.
91% of 8,987 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 826Free
Regular Human Workshop
A 2D physics sandbox with no goals and no rules except gravity.
89% of 1,211 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$9.99
Newest games like The Tool
Project P.I.T.T.
A first-person physics job where you automate rubber duck production for a pit that never stops eating.
78% of 1,187 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 69$9.99
Sandustry
Sift gold from sand, build factories that grow with you, and uncover what an ancient civilization left behind.
97% of 5,720 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,297$19.99
Atomcraft
Mine, smelt and automate your way across a simulated world, chasing every element to fix your ship.
95% of 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$14.99
Destructive Contraptions
Destructive Contraptions is a physics sandbox where you build crazy machines out of dominoes, cannons, and pivots to trigger massive chain reactions.
83% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Simultree
Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations.
86% of 148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
Simulo
A multiplayer 2D physics sandbox game where you can build and share creations. Features include electricity, temperature, and destructible ragdolls.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Idea Fix
Incremental physics based game about pushing levers, clicking buttons and coming to terms with obsession.
92% of 133 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Upload Labs
Route files through a growing network of nodes, then tune every bottleneck until the whole machine hums.
91% of 8,987 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 826Free
Primitier
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…
93% of 311 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Sandboxels
A pixel sandbox where every powder, liquid and gas reacts, and the only goal is the one you set yourself.
94% of 1,182 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$0.99
Merge It
This puzzle game is about creating new objects by colliding other ones. Also you can change instructions that say how exactly this process works.
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Powder Toy
Mix elements, build contraptions and watch your experiments blow up in pixel-perfect fashion.
98% of 3,128 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155Free