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awesome-engineering-games

A curated list of engineering-related video games rated Very Positive or higher on Steam
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  • City Builders & Civil Engineering

    • Modern & Near-Future

      • Captain of Industry
      • Tropico 4 - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges. |
      • Terra Nil
      • Captain of Industry
      • Urbek City Builder
      • Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic - time soviet-themed city builder tycoon game. Construct your own republic and transform a poor country into a rich industrial superpower! |
      • Tropico 6 - loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras. |
      • Cities: Skylines - depth city builder available today, even compared to its sequel (Cities Skylines 2). A great simulation of zoning, routing, economy management, hydrology, and more. If you play only one game on this entire list, make it this one! | Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience. |
      • Tropico 4 - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges. |
      • Tropico 6 - loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras. |

    • Rail & Sails

    • Medieval & Fantasy

      • Timberborn - building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, river control, and deadly droughts. Contains high amounts of wood. |
      • Timberborn - building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, river control, and deadly droughts. Contains high amounts of wood. |
      • Kingdoms Reborn - generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode. |
      • Anno 1404: History Edition - building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition. |
      • Foundation - less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management. |

    • Sci-Fi & Far-Future

      • Infraspace - fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain. |
      • Surviving Mars

    • Theme Parks & Dungeons

      • Jurassic World Evolution 2 - modified supercarnivores, hyperloops, zip lines, and hotels. | Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation. |
      • RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition - defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs. |
      • Jurassic World Evolution
      • Parkitect - op with up to 8 players! |

  • Factory Management & Automation

    • Factory Building

      • Techtonica - person factory automation game set beneath the surface of an alien planet. Work alone or in co-op to build factories, gather resources, research new technologies, mold the destructible terrain, establish a base of operations, and uncover long-forgotten secrets. |
      • Desynced: Autonomous Colony Simulator - fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration. |
      • Learning Factory - layered generated maps, thoughtful complex gameplay, and a relaxing atmosphere are included. |
      • Factory Town
      • Dyson Sphere Program - wide industrial empire. |
      • Satisfactory - person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven! |
      • Space Engineers
      • Mindustry - ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements. |

    • Puzzle & Casual

      • shapez - browser demo available at https://shapez.io/ | shapez is a game about building factories to automate the creation and processing of increasingly complex shapes across an infinitely expanding map. |
      • MOLEK-SYNTEZ - SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment. |
      • Opus Magnum - ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine! |
      • Infinifactory
      • SpaceChem - based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products! |

  • Vehicle Building

    • Puzzle & Casual

      • The Last Starship - support, sensors and railguns and start your galactic adventure. Expect free updates every 6 weeks as we flesh out our vision for the game. |
      • Mars First Logistics - op! |
      • Juno: New Origins
      • Brick Rigs
      • NEBULOUS: Fleet Command - tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other. |
      • RoboCo - h): It has one of the best mechanism simulators I've seen in a game with all sorts of gears, differentials, slider joints, springs etc. I've found it handy for virtually prototyping, you can mock up and test machine concepts much faster than CAD software. | RoboCo is a sandbox game about designing and building robots to serve the needs of squishy, hapless humans in the world of tomorrow! |
      • HighFleet - strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you? |
      • Sprocket
      • Main Assembly - legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions. |
      • Stormworks: Build and Rescue
      • From the Depths - defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG. |
      • Besiege
      • Avorion - op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy. |
      • Trailmakers
      • TerraTech - world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector. |
      • Airships: Conquer the Skies
      • Scrap Mechanic
      • SimplePlanes

  • Transportation & Route Management

    • Realistic Route-building

      • NIMBY Rails
      • Rail Route - life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow! |
      • Train Valley 2
      • Transport Fever - focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire! |
      • Railway Empire - building and route management simulator, with detailed terrain-track interactions and different kinds of locomotives. | In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition. |
      • Mashinky - like rules. |
      • Train Valley - free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley! |
      • OpenTTD - source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. |
      • Train Valley 2
      • Transport Fever 2
      • Mashinky - like rules. |
      • OpenTTD - source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. |

    • Metro/Train Station Management

    • Puzzle & Casual

  • Survival & Settlement Builders, Colony Sims

    • Puzzle & Casual

      • Stranded: Alien Dawn
      • Going Medieval - storey fortress in a land reclaimed by wilderness, defend against raids, and keep your villagers happy as their lives are shaped by the world around them. |
      • Space Haven - faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation. |
      • They Are Billions - apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse? |
      • Frostpunk - minded. | Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process? |
      • Kingdoms and Castles - building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated. |
      • rymdkapsel
      • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more. |
      • Farthest Frontier
      • Against the Storm
      • Going Medieval - storey fortress in a land reclaimed by wilderness, defend against raids, and keep your villagers happy as their lives are shaped by the world around them. |
      • They Are Billions - apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse? |
      • Frostpunk - minded. | Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process? |
      • Dwarf Fortress
      • Frostpunk - minded. | Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process? |

  • Bridge-Building

    • Puzzle & Casual

      • Bridge Constructor Portal
      • Poly Bridge - building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles! |
      • Bridge Constructor Medieval - or cunningly constructed bridges that collapse under the weight of attacking troops, sending the horde of enemies into the abyss below. |
      • World of Goo
      • Poly Bridge 3 - defining bridge engineering and puzzle solving masterpiece. |
      • Poly Bridge 2 - building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun! |
      • World of Goo

  • Open-World Survival Sandboxes

    • Puzzle & Casual

      • Subnautica: Below Zero - up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica. |
      • Breathedge
      • Hydroneer
      • Empyrion - Galactic Survival - Galactic Survival is a 3D open world space sandbox survival adventure. Build powerful ships, mighty space stations and vast planetary settlements to explore, conquer or exploit a variety of different planets and discover the mysteries of Empyrion! |
      • Subnautica - smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive. |
      • Stationeers
      • Astroneer
      • Project Zomboid
      • 7 Days to Die - world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits! |

  • Rube Goldberg Machines

    • Puzzle & Casual

      • World of Contraptions - based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks. |
      • Contraption Maker
      • Crazy Machines 3 - based puzzles. Build your own crazy machines and share your awesomeness across the world thanks to the Steam® Workshop. |

  • Hacking, Computer Science, Logic & Automation

    • Puzzle & Casual

      • ComPressure
      • NITE Team 4 - Military Hacking Division
      • 7 Billion Humans
      • Silicon Zeroes - ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup. |
      • Mu Complex
      • Uplink (Hacker Elite)
      • Baba Is You - regarded logic puzzler that forms the basis of how programming languages function. | Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions! |
      • EXAPUNKS
      • Grey Hack
      • The Witness
      • Screeps: World - source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript which operates 24/7 in the single persistent open world filled by other players on par with you. | Screeps: World is an open source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript which operates 24/7 in the single persistent open world filled by other players on par with you. |
      • Hacknet - based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports. |
      • Human Resource Machine
      • Lambda Spellcrafting Academy - based puzzle game where you build spells (programs) to solve puzzles. Fun for complete beginners or professional wizards. |

    • Automation with Coding

      • Autonauts - style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment. |
      • Bitburner - official.github.io/) also available. | Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG. |
      • The Farmer Was Replaced

    • Electrical Engineering

      • Virtual Circuit Board - 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. |
      • Electrician Simulator - out equipment, assemble broken appliances, replace light bulbs, and lay wires at your customers' homes. Be sure to check everything twice, with electricity there are no jokes! |
      • Virtual Circuit Board - 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. |

  • Job Simulators & Unique Themes

      • Void Crew - 4 player co-op First Person Space Adventure: Rally your crew, power your spaceship, and get ready for epic space battles, facing chaotic dangers you and your crew never trained for! |
      • Barotrauma - op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself! |
      • Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
      • PULSAR: Lost Colony
      • Carrier Command 2 - time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands! |
      • Star Trek: Bridge Crew - VR, will immerse you in the Star Trek universe. In co-op, form a crew of four players to serve in the roles of Captain, Helm, Tactical or Engineer. Make strategic decisions and coordinate actions with your crew. |
      • Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator - player! |
      • FTL: Faster Than Light - like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat. |
      • FTL: Faster Than Light - like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat. |

    • Construction & Demolition

    • Vehicle Operations & Physics

      • Garry's Mod
      • SnowRunner - generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends! |
      • MudRunner - road experience putting the players in the driver seat and dares them to take charge of incredible all-terrain vehicles, venturing across extreme Siberian landscapes with only a map and compass as guides! |
      • SimRail - The Railway Simulator - speed long-distance EMU, heavy freight hauls and suburban trains. Travel 500 km of geodetic-data based real routes. Become train dispatcher and control the traffic according to the schedule or cooperate with other players on multiplayer mode. |
      • SnowRunner - generation off-road experience! Drive powerful vehicles and overcome extreme open environments to complete dozens of challenging missions solo or with up to 3 friends! |

    • Space Operations & Orbital Mechanics

      • ΔV: Rings of Saturn - based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich. |
      • Children of a Dead Earth
      • Kerbal Space Program - functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics. |

  • Narrative Storytelling Games

    • Vehicle Operations & Physics

      • Citizen Sleeper - capitalism space station/junkyard. Some story paths feature more engineering than others. | Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future. |
      • Citizen Sleeper - capitalism space station/junkyard. Some story paths feature more engineering than others. | Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future. |
      • Else Heart.Break()
      • Else Heart.Break()

  • Everything else

  • Contributors & Credits

    • Vehicle Operations & Physics

      • @Sch1nken - net](https://github.com/pmarks-net), [@abeyer](https://github.com/abeyer), [@uwu64](https://github.com/uwu64), [@maxwofford](https://github.com/maxwofford), [@twiclo](https://github.com/twiclo), [@ritog](https://github.com/ritog),
      • @jweather - h](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gene-h), [disintegore](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=disintegore), [idoubtit](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idoubtit), [naet](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=naet), [derrikcurran](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=derrikcurran), [RA2lover](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RA2lover), [@arctenis](https://github.com/arctenis), [@mathieubruguier](https://github.com/mathieubruguier), [@cardinal23](https://github.com/cardinal23),
      • @bhamiltoncx - whisperer](https://github.com/neuron-whisperer), [@sirpalee](https://github.com/sirpalee), [@zaeith](https://github.com/zaeith), [@BitTwiddleGames](https://github.com/BitTwiddleGames), [@allen13](https://github.com/allen13), [namrog84](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=namrog84), [Kiro](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Kiro), [@Kowh](https://github.com/Kowh)
      • Hackernews
      • Zachtronics

  • Table of Contents

Programming Languages
TypeScript 1 JavaScript 1
Categories
Job Simulators & Unique Themes 24 Transportation & Route Management 23 City Builders & Civil Engineering 22 Hacking, Computer Science, Logic & Automation 20 Vehicle Building 18 Survival & Settlement Builders, Colony Sims 15 Factory Management & Automation 13 Open-World Survival Sandboxes 9 Bridge-Building 7 Contributors & Credits 5 Narrative Storytelling Games 4 Everything else 4 Rube Goldberg Machines 3 Table of Contents 2
Sub Categories
Puzzle & Casual 80 Vehicle Operations & Physics 18 Realistic Route-building 12 Modern & Near-Future 10 Ship Crews (Space or Naval) 9 Factory Building 8 Construction & Demolition 7 Medieval & Fantasy 5 Theme Parks & Dungeons 4 Electrical Engineering 3 Automation with Coding 3 Space Operations & Orbital Mechanics 3 Metro/Train Station Management 2 Sci-Fi & Far-Future 2 Rail & Sails 1
Keywords
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