Games like Trailmakers
If Trailmakers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Carbrix, From the Depths and Need for Speed™ Payback — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its immersive, relaxing and campaign missions. 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 →Trailmakers is a sandbox building game where players construct vehicles using modular blocks to tackle campaign missions or freely experiment in creative mode. Developed and published by Flashbulb, the game blends Action, Adventure, Simulation, and Racing elements with a vehicle-construction focus and multiplayer cooperation. Players describe it as immersive and relaxing, drawn to the ability to build anything they can imagine alongside consistent updates and responsive development. The experience offers a massive length suited to extended sit-down sessions with a chill difficulty level. Released in 2019 at $24.99 USD, it supports both solo and online co-op play, runs Playable on Steam Deck, and holds a 93% positive rating from 20,710 Steam reviews.
About Trailmakers: 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.
Players who liked Trailmakers also play
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Carbrix
WHY THIS
Top pick for Trailmakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
Carbrix is a sci-fi inspired multiplayer vehicle-building sandbox game where creativity meets action. Design and construct anything you can imagine—from sleek cars and powerful trucks to futuristic planes, bikes, and rockets.
From the Depths
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Trailmakers.
Second-strongest match for Trailmakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Need for Speed™ Payback
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Trailmakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Trailmakers.
Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, you and your crew were divided by betrayal and reunited by revenge to take down The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city’s casinos, criminals and cops. In this corrupt gambler’s paradise, the stakes are high and The House always wins.
Star Rangers™ XE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Trailmakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
Explore space and build on other worlds in Star Rangers! Star Rangers is a space exploration and construction game that allows players to build habitats and spacecraft, acquire gear and explore the solar system.
Frozen Flame
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Trailmakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Trailmakers.
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Wreckreation
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Trailmakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Trailmakers.
Wreckreation is an evolving open-world driving playground built around choice. Play solo, explore on- and off road, create your own races and challenges, hang out online with friends using full cross-play. With fast updates shaped by players, this world keeps evolving.
Hello Engineer: Scrap Machines Constructor
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle construction with Trailmakers.
Ranked #7 for Trailmakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
Build incredible machines with scrap parts, navigate the wildest Amusement park rides and challenge iconic creepy Neighbor and his evil bots! Become a true Engineer, solo or with friends!
Steamcraft
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Trailmakers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with Trailmakers.
Steamcraft is a multiplayer shooter in a steampunk setting. Build a one-of-a-kind vehicle for land and air battles, equip it with weapons, and crush your foes!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Trailmakers
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Scrap Mechanic
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Trailmakers.
Reviewers of Trailmakers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
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!
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Trailmakers.
Reviewers of Trailmakers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Trailmakers.
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.
TerraTech
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Trailmakers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Space Engineers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Trailmakers.
Reviewers of Trailmakers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Trailmakers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Trailmakers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Trailmakers.
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.
GearBlocks
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Trailmakers.
Reviewers of Trailmakers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Trailmakers.
Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!
Mechanical Lab
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Trailmakers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
Mechanical Lab is a 2D action game focused on the physical interaction of machines with the environment. Explore, build and experiment to survive in the city of robots long after the end of human civilization.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Trailmakers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Trailmakers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Trailmakers.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Trailmakers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Trailmakers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Trailmakers.
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 ~60% under Trailmakers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Trailmakers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Trailmakers.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Trailmakers.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trailmakers.
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 Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
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 Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trailmakers.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Trailmakers.
『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 Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
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!
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More from Flashbulb
Other recommendable Steam games by Flashbulb, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Rubber Bandits
WHY THIS
Another title from Flashbulb, the studio behind Trailmakers. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
Rubber Bandits is a criminally fun multiplayer party game for up to 4 players. With 8 action-packed game modes, players steal, brawl, and dash to the finish line with the most loot to win!
Rubber Bandits: Christmas Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from Flashbulb, the studio behind Trailmakers. Shares Action with Trailmakers.
Rubber Bandits: Christmas Prologue is a sneak peek at the upcoming heist brawler, Rubber Bandits! Steal from Santa, beat up the other bandits and keep their presents for yourself. See you on the naughty list!
Rubber Bandits: Summer Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from Flashbulb, the studio behind Trailmakers. Shares Action and Indie with Trailmakers.
Rubber Bandits: Summer Prologue is a wacky multiplayer party brawler for up to 4 players.
Rubber Royale
WHY THIS
Another title from Flashbulb, the studio behind Trailmakers. Shares Action with Trailmakers.
Rubber Royale is a silly, high-energy 3rd person ragdoll shooter/brawler with destructible arenas and various game modes. 16 players contest to become the top player! Join now for non-stop action and let the madness begin!
Rubber Royale: Holiday Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from Flashbulb, the studio behind Trailmakers. Shares Action with Trailmakers.
Get ready for a frantic experience in this 8-player mayhem of a game. Run, hit, jump and throw your opponents in the wackiest way possible. The only Xmas game that rewards you for being naughty instead of nice.
Frequently asked about Trailmakers
- Does Trailmakers run on Steam Deck?
- Trailmakers 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 Trailmakers cost?
- Trailmakers is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Trailmakers have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Trailmakers supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Trailmakers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Trailmakers are Carbrix, From the Depths, Need for Speed™ Payback.
- Who developed Trailmakers?
- Trailmakers was developed by Flashbulb.
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