Games like Powdertron
If Powdertron is your kind of game, the closest matches are Alembic, Jank Yard and Liquid Havoc — 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 Powdertron: 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Powdertron 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.
Alembic
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Top pick for Powdertron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Powdertron.
A falling-sand sandbox built on the **real periodic table**. Every element has genuine physical properties, and reactions emerge from real chemistry — rust iron, ignite thermite, run a galvanic cell, split a uranium pile to criticality. Discover it all in an encyclopedia that fills as you play.
Jank Yard
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Second-strongest match for Powdertron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Powdertron.
Jank Yard is a chaotic online party game about building ridiculous brick vehicles. Race, jump, joust and fall to pieces across silly obstacle courses. Build it. Jank it. Send it.
Liquid Havoc
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Third-strongest match for Powdertron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Powdertron.
Craft custom liquids with mind-bending properties and create immersive scenes using the Scene Editor! Enjoy 60+ simulations that bring realism to destruction with shatter physics, soft body dynamics, real-time fluid simulation, structural integrity, and other exciting features!
Universe Sandbox
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Ranked #4 for Powdertron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Powdertron.
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.
Hold My Thing
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Ranked #5 for Powdertron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Powdertron.
Hold My Thing is a co-op physics-based building simulator. Team up with your friends as a crew of clumsy workers to renovate, demolish, and restore famous parody buildings. Master double-purpose tools, survive hilarious construction accidents, and fund your dream rocket to the Moon!
Geareo
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Ranked #6 for Powdertron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Powdertron.
Real gears that don't slip in a mechanical invention sandbox. Build freely with resizable parts and shapes, overcome physics challenges, and follow kit instructions. Unleash your engineering creativity with intricate clockwork contraptions, steam-powered systems, and fully functional circuits.
SimulationSteam ↗House Flipper 2
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Ranked #8 for Powdertron fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Powdertron.
Clean your worries away with this relaxing renovation simulator! Buy, fix, sell, and become a local legend. Or grab your power tools and build anything from scratch! With the online 2-4 players co-op mode, you can play both in sandbox and story mode together.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Powdertron.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Powdertron.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Powdertron.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Powdertron.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Powdertron.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Powdertron.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Powdertron.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Powdertron.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Frequently asked about Powdertron
- Does Powdertron have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Powdertron supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Powdertron?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Powdertron are Alembic, Jank Yard, Liquid Havoc.
- Who developed Powdertron?
- Powdertron was developed by SalE.
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 Powdertron.
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