The 15 Best Games Like Trailmakers, Ranked

TerraTech puts you as a prospector on a procedurally generated exo-planet. You build an empire from scratch. Design unique vehicle fleets. Take them to battle. Shape your journey. Research technologies. Ally with corporations. Build a fleet in space's lawless frontier.

Main Assembly lets you act as a drone. Design and build robots for daily needs. Create unique ways to beat challenges in single-player. Jump into the Sandbox to craft and play solo or with others. Challenge friends to build the most exciting robot using freeform crafting and modular parts. Control them with powerful visual programming. Customize robots with color palettes and drone cosmetic accessories.

Scrap Mechanic offers a creative paradise. Build machines, explore with friends, and fight Farmbots in this multiplayer survival sandbox. Scrap Mechanic’s tools let you engineer your own adventures.

Build airplanes by snapping parts. Design wing sections and attach engines. Strap into the cockpit to see realistic physics in action. If you skip building, over 100,000 airplanes are free to download.

Planet Nomads is a sandbox game of creation and survival. Crash land on an unexplored planet. You have tools and imagination. Make a shelter. Secure food and water. Build toward a spaceship for interplanetary travel. Planet Nomads uses procedurally generated planets. You have total creative freedom to build anything. There are over 100 building blocks already. Planets range from wastelands to forest environments and rocky plains. Try the building demo now.

Keen Software House developed and published Space Engineers, a voxel-based sandbox game set in space. Players build various functional structures in the open-world environment. The pre-release alpha build hit Steam on October 23, 2013, offering a single-player "creative" mode.

Design and pilot a sea-rescue service in a physics playground. Steer or fly your block-based, programmable vehicles through fierce oceanic storms. Plan and execute rescues in tough crisis scenarios.

Build your own vehicles or download one of over 10,000 vehicles from the workshop. Enjoy the driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs.

Interact with strange new worlds uniquely. Mold the environment like clay. Build your base. Master resource management. Automate production lines. Unravel the universe's mysteries alone or with friends.

Instruments of Destruction is a vehicle-building sandbox. It features advanced physics-based destruction. Create wild construction vehicles. Use them to demolish buildings. Complete various objectives.

Take charge of the Kerbal space program for the alien race, the Kerbals. You assemble fully-functional spacecraft using an array of parts, testing realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics to see if they fly. Launch your Kerbal crew into orbit and further. Keep them alive while exploring moons and planets in the Kerbol solar system. Build bases and space stations to grow your expedition's reach.

Besiege is a physics building game. Construct mechanical machines to destroy armies and castles. Obliterate obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!

Earthlings joined the interstellar club. The galaxy changes. The year is 2086. Earth detects an alien distress call from Triton's surface. Star Control forms. You become the Captain of Earth's first prototype starship.

Robocraft is a sandbox game. Players create robots or vehicles and fight others. The many components allow for diverse creations, including ground vehicles, planes, and hover-tanks.

Minecraft is a sandbox game. Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson created it. Mojang developed and published it. Players build constructions from textured cubes in a 3D world. Other actions include exploration, gathering resources, crafting, and combat. Survival modes force players to get resources to build and keep health. Creative mode lets players build freely.