Games like SimplePlanes
If SimplePlanes is your kind of game, the closest matches are SimplePlanes VR, SimplePlanes 2 and ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its community shares incredible creations, freedom to build anything and challenging. 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 →SimplePlanes is an indie simulation released in 2015 by Jundroo, LLC, currently priced at $12.99 and verified to run on Steam Deck. The core experience centres on designing aircraft from scratch using a snapping-part system, with real-time testing through physics-based flight simulation. The game features aerodynamics modelling, destructible environments, and a modding workshop for community content. Players describe the physics-based flight as satisfying and highlight the challenging yet lighthearted tone. Some reviewers have noted nostalgic and retro qualities. With 94 percent positive from nearly 6,900 Steam reviews, the sandbox offers massive scope, supports short burst play sessions, and provides freedom to build anything imaginable within its physics framework.
About SimplePlanes: Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.
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SimplePlanes VR
WHY THIS
Top pick for SimplePlanes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
SimplePlanes VR is a flight sim with an ever-expanding collection of hand-crafted aircraft to download and fly for free. Airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats, and more are available and new crafts are added every day.
SimplePlanes 2
WHY THIS
Shares physics simulation and a lighthearted mood with SimplePlanes.
Second-strongest match for SimplePlanes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
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.
ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SimplePlanes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
A professional-grade road design sim built on real-world maps. Recreate complex interchanges and iconic highways 1:1, engineer custom solutions with real workflows, and drive what you design.
Destructor2D
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for SimplePlanes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with SimplePlanes.
2D racing sim with soft-body physics, car deformations, highway driving, demolition derby, professional racing, crash racing, drifting, truck racing, open wheel racing, advanced AI with up to 50 cars on track, and more.
Dieselpunk Wars
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SimplePlanes.
Ranked #5 for SimplePlanes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
Dieselpunk Wars is a vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 300 elements to build a war machine of your dreams. Construct vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat and test your skills!
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SimplePlanes.
Ranked #6 for SimplePlanes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with SimplePlanes.
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.
CrashMetal - Cyberpunk
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with SimplePlanes.
Ranked #7 for SimplePlanes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
CrashMetal - Cyberpunk The Hokuta City streets await your engine rev. Can you beat everyone in this race for first place? Upgrade your car, take care of its appearance and defeat everyone on the streets of the Hokuta City.
Crash Time 2
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with SimplePlanes.
Ranked #8 for SimplePlanes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with SimplePlanes.
Crash Time 2 is an open-world arcade racing game where you play as an Autobahn police officer, engaging in high-speed chases, escort missions, and criminal investigations across a large free-roaming map.
Reviewers mention these as similar to SimplePlanes
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SimpleRockets
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with SimplePlanes.
Reviewers of SimplePlanes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
I am excited to release my first game on Steam! SimpleRockets was released in 2013 for mobile and I've put a ton of work into it to get it ready for PC and Mac. It was inspired by KSP, and it offers a simpler 2D experience for building rockets and exploring space with realistic orbital mechanics.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares physics simulation and a challenging mood with SimplePlanes.
Reviewers of SimplePlanes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
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.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SimplePlanes cross-mention this title as a similar play.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
X-Plane 10 Global - 64 Bit
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with SimplePlanes.
Reviewers of SimplePlanes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with SimplePlanes.
X-Plane 10 brings numerous improvements and enhancements for PC, Mac and Linux virtual pilots, unleashing the power of modern systems with its 64 bit processing and multi-core support.
Juno: New Origins
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SimplePlanes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
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.
Teardown
WHY THIS
Shares physics simulation with SimplePlanes.
Reviewers of SimplePlanes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
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.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SimplePlanes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with SimplePlanes.
From gliders and helicopters to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.
War Thunder
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SimplePlanes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with SimplePlanes.
War Thunder is the most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game dedicated to aviation, armoured vehicles, and naval craft, from the early 20th century to the most advanced modern combat units. Join now and take part in major battles on land, in the air, and at sea.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SimplePlanes at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under SimplePlanes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under SimplePlanes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SimplePlanes.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under SimplePlanes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SimplePlanes.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under SimplePlanes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under SimplePlanes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SimplePlanes.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under SimplePlanes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SimplePlanes.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under SimplePlanes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under SimplePlanes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SimplePlanes.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SimplePlanes.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SimplePlanes.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SimplePlanes.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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 SimplePlanes.
『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. Shares Indie with SimplePlanes.
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 SimplePlanes.
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!
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SimplePlanes.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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More from Jundroo, LLC
Other recommendable Steam games by Jundroo, LLC, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Juno: New Origins
WHY THIS
Another title from Jundroo, LLC, the studio behind SimplePlanes. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
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.
SimplePlanes 2
WHY THIS
Shares physics simulation and a lighthearted mood with SimplePlanes.
Another title from Jundroo, LLC, the studio behind SimplePlanes. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
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.
SimpleRockets
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with SimplePlanes.
Another title from Jundroo, LLC, the studio behind SimplePlanes. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
I am excited to release my first game on Steam! SimpleRockets was released in 2013 for mobile and I've put a ton of work into it to get it ready for PC and Mac. It was inspired by KSP, and it offers a simpler 2D experience for building rockets and exploring space with realistic orbital mechanics.
SimplePlanes VR
WHY THIS
Another title from Jundroo, LLC, the studio behind SimplePlanes. Shares Indie and Simulation with SimplePlanes.
SimplePlanes VR is a flight sim with an ever-expanding collection of hand-crafted aircraft to download and fly for free. Airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats, and more are available and new crafts are added every day.
Frequently asked about SimplePlanes
- Is SimplePlanes verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — SimplePlanes is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does SimplePlanes cost?
- SimplePlanes is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SimplePlanes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SimplePlanes are SimplePlanes VR, SimplePlanes 2, ALIGNMENT : An Engineering Odyssey.
- Who developed SimplePlanes?
- SimplePlanes was developed by Jundroo, LLC.
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