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Games like Magnetron

2015PC

Magnetron is a sandbox game where you design and build your own creations in a motionless world and then bring them to life. The focus is on creativity and experimentation rather than story or combat.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Building and crafting

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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Magnetron special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Goliath

65 %Match

2016PCXbox61 % positive11.79 €

Brings what grabs you about Magnetron: building and crafting, a relaxed difficulty as well as a bright tone.

In a strange world full of monsters, you gather resources and blueprints to build giant robots and punch creatures in melee. The focus is on crafting and exploration in a small indie package.

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SimplePlanes

Calm and deliberate

A sandbox aircraft-building game where you assemble planes from individual parts and immediately test them in the cockpit with believable physics. A huge community library lets you simply download and fly other people's creations.

Dungeon Village

Accessible and relaxed

You grow a humble village into a magnet for adventurers who hunt monsters and bring in gold. By building shops, training facilities and homes, you manage their growth in a relaxed blend of town management and RPG.

Rec Room

Accessible and relaxed

Rec Room was a social VR platform where you hung out with friends, played minigames across millions of player-made rooms, or built your own creations. It centered on community and creativity, and its servers were shut down in mid-2026.

The Infected

Vast, open spaces

An open-world survival crafting game in which a parent searches the forest for missing campers. You build a base and fend off wildlife and infected Vambies, a vampire-zombie hybrid.

Above Snakes

Focus on a single character

A Wild West survival game where you gather, craft, hunt, farm and build your own base in an open world. Combat and resource management keep you alive.

SculptrVR

Accessible and relaxed

A VR sandbox creation tool where you sculpt voxel worlds, explore them online with friends via hang-gliding or climbing, and share or remix creations in a community gallery.

Universe Sandbox

Calm and deliberate

A space sandbox where you create, alter and destroy planets, stars and entire galaxies with realistic gravity, collisions and climate simulation. It is about free experimentation and wonder rather than goals or story.

Simple Rockets

Calm and deliberate

A simplified 2D rocket-building sandbox in the spirit of Kerbal Space Program, where you design your own rockets and explore space using realistic orbital mechanics.

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