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Games like Aviassembly

If Aviassembly is your kind of game, the closest matches are Flyout, Juno: New Origins and Nimbatus - Drone Creator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its achieving 100 completion, creative freedom with upgrades and chill. 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.

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Aviassembly is a sandbox aviation simulation released in 2025 by Jelle Booij, currently available in Early Access for $9.99. Players build and customize their own aircraft, completing missions to earn money and unlock new upgrades across multiple islands. The game combines crafting mechanics with mission-based progression, featuring cargo management and island navigation alongside achievement systems. Reviewers and players describe the experience as both chill and immersive, highlighting the intuitive plane-building system and the creative freedom afforded by extensive upgrade options. Players pursuing full completion will find motivation in discovering every location across the open world. The game is marked as playable on Steam Deck and holds a 97% positive rating from 5,915 Steam reviews.

About Aviassembly: Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.

2025SimulationEarly Access9.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Jelle Booij
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Achieving 100 completionCreative freedom in building planesCreative freedom with upgradesChillImmersiveRelaxing

Players who liked Aviassembly also play

Steam players who put hours into Aviassembly 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.

  1. Flyout

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Aviassembly.

    Top pick for Aviassembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Aviassembly.

    Build and fly realistic aircraft. Use free-form fuselage and wing editor tools and tune your engines to recreate aircraft from any era or design your own.

    2023IndieSimulationEarly Access19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Juno: New Origins

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Aviassembly.

    Second-strongest match for Aviassembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode.

    2023IndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Nimbatus - Drone Creator

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Aviassembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?

    2020ActionIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WaggaSim

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Aviassembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Aviassembly.

    Take to the skies in the ultimate paragliding and speed-flying simulator. Experience lifelike physics, design or modify your own gear, and perfect your style: soaring, thermaling, acro, freestyle, and more. With soft-body wings that move like real fabric, the sky is no longer the limit!

    2024SportsIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Nuclear Option

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Aviassembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Aviassembly.

    Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics on intense battlefields, facing land, air and sea threats. Wage war against AI or other players with an array of potent weapons. Wield tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, capable of annihilating anything in their path.

    2023ActionIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Rocket Science

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Aviassembly.

    Ranked #6 for Aviassembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Aviassembly.

    Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.

    2020StrategySimulationEarly Access19.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. InfraSpace

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Aviassembly.

    Ranked #7 for Aviassembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Robocraft 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Aviassembly fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    The sequel to the genre-defining game, played by over 16 million people! Experience vehicle-based online PvP destruction with limitless options, absolutely free.

    2023ActionIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Aviassembly

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Trailmakers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Aviassembly.

    Reviewers of Aviassembly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    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.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Main Assembly

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Aviassembly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    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.

    2021Simulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Mars First Logistics

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Aviassembly.

    Reviewers of Aviassembly cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!

    2025IndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Aviassembly at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Aviassembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Aviassembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Aviassembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Aviassembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Aviassembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Aviassembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Nodebuster

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Aviassembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Aviassembly on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    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.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Aviassembly.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Aviassembly

Does Aviassembly run on Steam Deck?
Aviassembly 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 Aviassembly cost?
Aviassembly is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Aviassembly?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Aviassembly are Flyout, Juno: New Origins, Nimbatus - Drone Creator.
Who developed Aviassembly?
Aviassembly was developed by Jelle Booij.

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 Aviassembly.

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