Trailmakers similar games & best alternatives

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Trailmakers

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One • 2019

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Extensive creative building and vehicle customization
  • Engaging physics and engineering challenges
  • Multiplayer and community sharing
  • Long playtime and habitual engagement
  • Accessible for beginners yet deep for advanced players

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and physics glitches
  • Grindy progression in newer updates
  • Limited map variety
  • Dlc pricing and content fragmentation
  • Ui changes unpopular with some longtime players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Space Engineers

  • From the Depths

  • Airmen

  • KitHack Model Club

  • SimplePlanes 2

  • Carmageddon TDR 2000

Less competitive

Games that feels like Trailmakers but with less competition against others

  • ASTRONEER

  • No Man's Sky

  • Scrap Mechanic

  • Craftopia

  • Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer

  • Mycopunk

Less story-driven

Games that feels like Trailmakers but with less narrative immersion

  • Homebrew - Patent Unknown

  • Brick Rigs

  • Dream Car Builder

  • Zeepkist

  • Make Way

  • MachineCraft

Less intimate

Games that feels like Trailmakers but with less focus on close relationships

  • TerraTech

  • Sea of Craft

  • Main Assembly

  • Besiege

  • Crossout

  • Palworld

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Trailmakers. 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 Trailmakers. These titles are not in What to play next.

Trailmakers: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Creativity, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026