SimplePlanes 2 similar games & best alternatives

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SimplePlanes 2

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2026

Should you play it?

SimplePlanes is back! Build planes, cars, or anything else using powerful procedural parts! Explore detailed environments with friends in multiplayer, cause chaos, or download 1,000,000 community crafts for free.

What works

  • Highly customizable and intuitive building system
  • Improved graphics and physics realism
  • Engaging multiplayer with dogfights and cooperative play
  • Large, detailed maps for exploration
  • Active and supportive development team

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access bugs and optimization issues
  • Lack of some advanced features like in-game xml editing
  • Limited character customization currently
  • Multiplayer can be laggy with many players
  • No narrative or structured missions yet

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • KitHack Model Club

  • Stormworks: Build and Rescue

  • MachineCraft

  • Elite Dangerous

  • Attack on Toys

  • Creature Crafter

More story-driven

Games that feels like SimplePlanes 2 but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Project Wingman

  • IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946

  • Evochron Legacy SE

  • No Man's Sky

  • Avorion

  • Trailmakers

Less violent

Games that feels like SimplePlanes 2 but with less combat and destruction

  • Uncrashed : FPV Drone Simulator

  • Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition

  • Mars First Logistics

  • The Drone Racing League Simulator

  • Mash Box

  • Dream Car Builder

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with SimplePlanes 2. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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).

Swipe to compare nearby games with SimplePlanes 2. These titles are not in What to play next.

SimplePlanes 2: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Story, Domination.

Last update: 21/08/2026