Games like Scrap Mechanic
If Scrap Mechanic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Raft, Satisfactory and ASTRONEER — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep car building mechanics, endless creative possibilities and robust modding community. 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 →Scrap Mechanic is a physics-driven sandbox adventure developed and published by Axolot Games. Players build and drive vehicles using the game's deep car-building mechanics, with a creative mode for unrestricted building and a survival mode featuring waves of enemy Farmbots. The game features mod support and tutorial systems to guide new players. Reviewers highlight the endless creative possibilities and immersive experience, while the robust modding community keeps the gameplay fresh. Released in 2016, it is available for $19.99 USD and is marked as playable on Steam Deck. It holds a 91% positive rating from 45,733 Steam reviews.
About Scrap Mechanic: 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!
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Raft
WHY THIS
Top pick for Scrap Mechanic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scrap Mechanic.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Second-strongest match for Scrap Mechanic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scrap Mechanic.
Satisfactory is a first-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!
ASTRONEER
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Third-strongest match for Scrap Mechanic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scrap Mechanic.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Ranked #4 for Scrap Mechanic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Ranked #5 for Scrap Mechanic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Ranked #6 for Scrap Mechanic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Ranked #7 for Scrap Mechanic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Sons Of The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Ranked #8 for Scrap Mechanic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Scrap Mechanic
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Trailmakers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Reviewers of Scrap Mechanic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
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 Scrap Mechanic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Scrap Mechanic.
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.
Raft
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Scrap Mechanic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scrap Mechanic.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Scrap Mechanic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scrap Mechanic.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Canon - Legend of the New Gods
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Reviewers of Scrap Mechanic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Scrap Mechanic.
Originally called Feng Shen Ying Jie Chuan, Canon - Legends of the New Gods is a strategy RPG originally for the Sega Genesis and Mega Drive consoles.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Reviewers of Scrap Mechanic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.
Robocraft
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Reviewers of Scrap Mechanic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
Build insane, fully customisable robot battle vehicles that drive, hover, walk and fly in the free-to-play action game Robocraft. Add weapons from the future and jump in the driving seat as you take your creation into battle against other players online!
Teardown
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Scrap Mechanic.
Reviewers of Scrap Mechanic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Scrap Mechanic at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Priced ~50% under Scrap Mechanic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Scrap Mechanic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scrap Mechanic.
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
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Priced ~50% under Scrap Mechanic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Scrap Mechanic on Steam right now. Shares Action with Scrap Mechanic.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Scrap Mechanic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Scrap Mechanic on Steam right now. Shares Action with Scrap Mechanic.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Scrap Mechanic.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
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 Scrap Mechanic.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scrap Mechanic.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Scrap Mechanic.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scrap Mechanic.
Satisfactory is a first-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!
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Scrap Mechanic.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Scrap Mechanic.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Frequently asked about Scrap Mechanic
- Does Scrap Mechanic run on Steam Deck?
- Scrap Mechanic 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 Scrap Mechanic cost?
- Scrap Mechanic is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Scrap Mechanic have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Scrap Mechanic supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Scrap Mechanic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scrap Mechanic are Raft, Satisfactory, ASTRONEER.
- Who developed Scrap Mechanic?
- Scrap Mechanic was developed by Axolot Games.
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