Games like Virtual Chemistry Lab
If Virtual Chemistry Lab is your kind of game, the closest matches are AnyCircuit, GENIUS AT WORK! and Universe Sandbox — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Virtual Chemistry Lab: This is a serious game. Made for educational purposes. It was made in order to enable students to understand the high school chemistry curriculum and to provide equality of opportunity.
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AnyCircuit
WHY THIS
Top pick for Virtual Chemistry Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
Build the digital machines you've always dreamed of! With some patience, love for digital electronics, and a good amount of problem-solving skills, you can create any combinational or sequential circuit in no time, thanks to the user-friendly interface and integrated voxel-editing tools.
GENIUS AT WORK!
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Virtual Chemistry Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
Test your intelligence and creativity! With Genius At Work you will have your construction area where you can let your imagination fly and carry out your technical projects.
Universe Sandbox
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Virtual Chemistry Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Bartender VR Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Virtual Chemistry Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
Step behind the virtual bar and flair your way to the stars! Enter the exciting world of bartending and master the art of dazzling mixology in VR.
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Virtual Chemistry Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?
Project Chemistry
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Virtual Chemistry Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.
Thrive
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Virtual Chemistry Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
An evolution simulation game. Take control of your species in the environment and edit your species as a whole. Compete with other evolving species for resources on an alien planet.
Archean
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Virtual Chemistry Lab fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Virtual Chemistry Lab at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Virtual Chemistry Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Virtual Chemistry Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Virtual Chemistry Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Virtual Chemistry Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Virtual Chemistry Lab on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Virtual Chemistry Lab on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
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. Shares Indie with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
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 Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
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?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
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!
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
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 Indie and Simulation with Virtual Chemistry Lab.
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!
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Frequently asked about Virtual Chemistry Lab
- How much does Virtual Chemistry Lab cost?
- Virtual Chemistry Lab is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Virtual Chemistry Lab?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Virtual Chemistry Lab are AnyCircuit, GENIUS AT WORK!, Universe Sandbox.
- Who developed Virtual Chemistry Lab?
- Virtual Chemistry Lab was developed by Alpay Akay.
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 Virtual Chemistry Lab.
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