Games like Nuclear Design Bureau
If Nuclear Design Bureau is your kind of game, the closest matches are Typhon: Bot vs Bot, GizmoLab VR 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 Nuclear Design Bureau: Design. Simulate. Detonate. As a junior engineer at the Kurchatov Institute, you design atomic devices to satisfy the demands of the State. A hardcore physics game simulating hydrodynamics, neutron transport, and thermonuclear fusion.
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Typhon: Bot vs Bot
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Top pick for Nuclear Design Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
Command modular mechs in Typhon, a sci-fi tactical strategy game where you outthink rivals by scripting your bots with Python. Customize, adapt, and evolve your forces in real time in the hostile alien world of AEGIS IVb to dominate the battlefield.
GizmoLab VR
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Nuclear Design Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
A VR sci-fi sandbox game where you can put your skills to the test to build crazy inventions, with mechanics analogous to real-life electrical engineering.
Universe Sandbox
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Nuclear Design Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nuclear Design Bureau.
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.
Multiply Factory
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Ranked #4 for Nuclear Design Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
Multiply Factory is a factory building game. Build your own multiple-layer factory within a 3-D space with belts, inserters, factories and stairs. Enjoy the fantasy of manufacturing.
Problem Space
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Ranked #5 for Nuclear Design Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nuclear Design Bureau.
Venture forth through this puzzle game across space. Use your command terminal to guide the Onlooker interstellar probe through treacherous galaxies to explore the farthest reaches of the universe. Avoid asteroids, perform research tasks, and weave through the stars!
Powdertron
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Ranked #6 for Nuclear Design Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nuclear Design Bureau.
A physics sandbox built on real chemistry. Drop 674 materials into a falling-sand world and watch them react, burn, freeze and explode. Then wire circuits, test wings in a wind tunnel, or split light through lenses — alone or with friends online.
Alchemy Laboratory: Simulator
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Ranked #7 for Nuclear Design Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nuclear Design Bureau.
Dive into a world of creation and discovery, where each element combines to form new ones. Experiment freely in this interactive sandbox. But be careful: every combination has its consequences..
World of Contraptions
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Ranked #8 for Nuclear Design Bureau fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nuclear Design Bureau at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Nuclear Design Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nuclear Design Bureau.
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
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Priced ~50% under Nuclear Design Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
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!
How to Fish
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Priced ~50% under Nuclear Design Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nuclear Design Bureau.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Nuclear Design Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
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
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Priced ~50% under Nuclear Design Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Nuclear Design Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Nuclear Design Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nuclear Design Bureau.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Nuclear Design Bureau on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Nuclear Design Bureau.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Nuclear Design Bureau.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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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!
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nuclear Design Bureau.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Nuclear Design Bureau
- Does Nuclear Design Bureau work on Steam Deck?
- Nuclear Design Bureau is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Nuclear Design Bureau cost?
- Nuclear Design Bureau is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nuclear Design Bureau?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nuclear Design Bureau are Typhon: Bot vs Bot, GizmoLab VR, Universe Sandbox.
- Who developed Nuclear Design Bureau?
- Nuclear Design Bureau was developed by Design Bureau KB-11.
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