The Best Science Games

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Main Assembly (2020)

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PC Windows

You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.


  • programming
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • automation
  • cooperative
  • science
  • building
  • immersive
  • 3d
  • logic
  • robots
  • crafting
  • character
  • simulation
  • sandbox

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The Multi-Medium (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.

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  • platform
  • science
  • 2d
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • stylized
  • linear
  • colourful
  • puzzle
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • fantasy
  • funny

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MOLEK-SYNTEZ (2019)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.


  • science
  • programming
  • automation
  • simulation
  • puzzle
  • single-player

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Machinika Museum (2021)

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Android PC Windows IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch

Come discover beautiful mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins and use your logic and sense of observation to fix them; and uncover a galaxy-spanning story. Machinika Museum is a puzzle game for people who like to have their brain teased and love a nice story to go along.


  • science
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • hidden-object
  • mystery
  • logic
  • point-and-click
  • short
  • sci-fi
  • narration
  • atmospheric
  • futuristic
  • aliens
  • pattern-matching
  • first-person

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Newton's Fourth Law (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Fight against brain-rot in this story-driven physics puzzle game inspired by Portal and The Stanley Parable. You will need to learn and apply physics concepts to solve increasingly challenging problems. By the time you have finished, you will be able to take a college level physics course.

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  • education
  • physics
  • science
  • philosophical
  • logic
  • walking-simulator
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • puzzle
  • difficult
  • simulation
  • atmospheric
  • aliens
  • 3d
  • lore

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Nature And Life - Drunk On Nectar (2025)

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Linux PC Windows

Animal Life Simulator! Grow from a super-tiny egg to a winged bug, surviving predators and hunting prey. Find a mate, reproduce and start a new generation! Featuring Monarch Butterfly, Praying Mantis, Jumping Spider and more! Birds, Mammals & Reptiles also planned for the near future!

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  • simulation
  • science
  • god-game
  • nature
  • life
  • immersive
  • family-friendly
  • survival
  • experimental
  • sandbox
  • colourful
  • open-world
  • realistic
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing

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Size Matters (2019)

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PC Windows Xbox One

You play as a scientist who is shrinking every second in a race against time! Find all the ingredients and formulas scattered around the laboratory, which are necessary for producing the life-saving antidote.

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  • science
  • education
  • time-management
  • sandbox
  • choices
  • management
  • replay-value
  • funny
  • simulation
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • first-person
  • casual
  • rpg

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Terraformers (2022)

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Transform Mars into a habitable planet in Terraformers. With challenging strategizing and resource management, explore the planet and expand population, all while watching the stunning new natural wonders build up before your eyes. Take on different scenarios and bonuses and create a thriving utopia. Get lost in the addictive puzzle-like game with unique replayability and rewarding graphics and UI.


What we like:
  • Focus on strategy
  • Various difficulty levels
  • Unique victory conditions
  • Nice graphics and UI
  • Rich soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Only one way to lose the game
  • Some bugs present
  • Game can become repetitive

  • turn-based
  • mars
  • space
  • resource-management
  • science
  • rogue-like
  • nonlinear
  • card
  • procedural
  • board-game
  • colony
  • sci-fi
  • choices
  • simulation
  • management

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Learning Factory (2025)

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Linux Android PC Windows Mac OS

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.


  • automation
  • base-building
  • science
  • cats
  • building
  • resource-management
  • fishing
  • economy
  • management
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • crafting
  • cute
  • family-friendly
  • education

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Ecosystem (2021)

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early access PC Windows

Grow and modify an ecosystem, with simulated evolution by natural selection creating the lifeforms that inhabit it. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game. None were hand-edited!

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  • simulation
  • life
  • god-game
  • science
  • fishing
  • automation
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • nature
  • colony
  • procedural
  • immersive
  • underwater
  • resource-management
  • sandbox

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