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Homebrew - Patent Unknown

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2014

Should you play it?

Unleash your creativity and craft anything from flying cars to jet-powered toilets.Fair warning: there's a learning curve. But once you've got it, the sky's the limit for your creations!While active development is paused, we focus preserving the game and keeping it accessible.

What works

  • Extensive creative freedom
  • Active and helpful community
  • Complex and rewarding building system
  • Large maps and exploration
  • Frequent developer updates and communication

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve
  • Some bugs and performance issues
  • Limited combat and multiplayer features
  • Ui and controls can be clunky
  • Small player base

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Mash Box

  • Motor Town: Behind The Wheel

  • KitHack Model Club

  • Zeepkist

  • MachineCraft

  • Dream Car Builder

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Homebrew - Patent Unknown but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Space Engineers

  • TerraTech

  • Stormworks: Build and Rescue

  • Scrap Mechanic

  • The Long Drive

  • Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue

More story-driven

Games that feels like Homebrew - Patent Unknown but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer

  • Satisfactory

  • StarRupture

  • Mars First Logistics

  • RoadCraft

  • Trailmakers

Less social

Games that feels like Homebrew - Patent Unknown but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Offroad Mania

  • The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator

  • GearBlocks

  • Turbo Dismount® 2

  • Screw Drivers

  • ReCharge RC: High Voltage

Less intimate

Games that feels like Homebrew - Patent Unknown but with less focus on close relationships

  • Main Assembly

  • Starship EVO

  • My Garage

  • Pure Rock Crawling

  • Eden Crafters

  • Crash Drive 3

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Homebrew - Patent Unknown: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Survival, Violence.

Last update: 03/08/2026