Games like Main Assembly
If Main Assembly is your kind of game, the closest matches are Clank-Robotics, Archean and Axon Hero — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dynamic building system, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Main Assembly: You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Players who liked Main Assembly also play
Steam players who put hours into Main Assembly also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Clank-Robotics
WHY THIS
Top pick for Main Assembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Build your own robot. Program your robots AI in the Visual Scripting logic editor. Compete against other people's robots in the ranked arena. Build the strongest and smartest robot and win.
Archean
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Main Assembly.
Second-strongest match for Main Assembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Axon Hero
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Main Assembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Axon Hero is more than just a puzzle game - it's a creative playground where logic meets imagination. Build, code, and conquer your way through many hand-crafted challenges, each one more mind-bending than the last.
World of Contraptions
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Main Assembly.
Ranked #4 for Main Assembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
World of Contraptions is a physics-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.
Logic World
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Main Assembly.
Ranked #5 for Main Assembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!
GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Main Assembly.
Ranked #6 for Main Assembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.
ComPressure
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Main Assembly.
Ranked #7 for Main Assembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science.
MythBusters: The Game - Crazy Experiments Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Main Assembly.
Ranked #8 for Main Assembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Be a MythBuster in front and behind the camera! The game is a first-person sim that adapts the famous Discovery show. Run crazy experiments and manage the production of episodes.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Main Assembly
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Scrap Mechanic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Main Assembly.
Reviewers of Main Assembly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Trailmakers
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Main Assembly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Main Assembly cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Stormworm+
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Main Assembly.
Reviewers of Main Assembly cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Stormworm+ is a Fast-Paced Reflex-Driven Arcade Game backed with colorful visuals and an original soundtrack! Inspired by the arcade games of old, collect, grow and aim for the top spot on the leaderboards!
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
WHY THIS
Shares sandbox creation and a challenging mood with Main Assembly.
Reviewers of Main Assembly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
SimplePlanes 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Main Assembly.
Reviewers of Main Assembly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
SimplePlanes is back! Build planes, cars, or anything else using powerful procedural parts! Explore detailed environments with friends in multiplayer, cause chaos, or download 1,000,000 community crafts for free.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Main Assembly at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Main Assembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Main Assembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Main Assembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Main Assembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Main Assembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Main Assembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~85% under Main Assembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Don't Starve
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Main Assembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Main Assembly.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
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Frequently asked about Main Assembly
- Does Main Assembly run on Steam Deck?
- Main Assembly is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Main Assembly cost?
- Main Assembly is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Main Assembly have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Main Assembly supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Main Assembly?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Main Assembly are Clank-Robotics, Archean, Axon Hero.
- Who developed Main Assembly?
- Main Assembly was developed by Bad Yolk Games and published by Team17.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Main Assembly.
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