The Science Zone
Games involving scientific ideas, research, experiments, discovery, or education.
Latest Standouts
Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.
STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT - STEINS;GATE returns! Rebooted for the modern era! Featuring fully updated visuals, UI, and an all-new story that breathes new life into the streets of Akihabara.
Aug 19, 2026
Atomcraft - A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Jul 22, 2026
The Dream Of A Cockspur - Stranded on a desolate island with Earth's remaining researchers, you investigate a strange celestial body. The day before departure, your only means of transportation gets mysteriously damaged, leaving you stranded. Is someone sabotaging the team, or is there something more sinister going on…
Jul 22, 2026
Snacktorio - Snacktorio is a level-based cooking automation game where you build & scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what's stirring their growing appetites...
Jun 4, 2026
MegaFactory Titan - A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Jun 2, 2026
Life Below - Life Below is a refreshing twist on the city-building genre, set beneath the waves. Shape thriving coral reefs, revive collapsing ecosystems, and grow a living seascape in a heartfelt narrative by Rhianna Pratchett. You are the ocean's final hope.
May 26, 2026
Data Center - Build, cable, and automate. Assemble racks, servers, and switches, connect enough capacity for each app, earn money from processed data, and unlock gear and bigger customers with XP and reputation. Follow colored data packets as your center comes to life.
Mar 31, 2026
On Sale Now
Discounted 25% or more right now, limited to well-reviewed games, steepest cuts first.
Gravity Field - Gravity Field is a spatial-logic puzzle game with time inverted objects, with no top or bottom.
Feb 22, 2023
DEPLOYMENT - An intense competitive top-down shooter: choose your class, capture turrets, progress, and dominate in the arena. top-down shooter, multiplayer shooter, arena shooter, class-based shooter, sci-fi shooter
Apr 10, 2018
Tested on Humans: Escape Room - You are the test subject. In this dark environment escape room, you have to solve various puzzles to escape from the research center where you are trapped. Can you find out how you got there and escape???
Feb 24, 2021
Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 2 - The renowned Mega Man Battle Network series, which has expanded into anime and comics, is back. Volume 2 includes six action packed games from both versions of Mega Man Battle Network 4 to both versions of Mega Man Battle Network 6, plus additional features like a gallery and online play!
Apr 13, 2023
Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 1 - The renowned Mega Man Battle Network series is back! Vol. 1 contains Mega Man Battle Network 1-3, including both versions of Mega Man Battle Network 3 for a total of four titles, plus additional features like a gallery of illustrations and music! In addition, online play is supported!
Apr 13, 2023
Nexus 5X - eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, EXPRESS. All of the depth, diplomacy, conflict and conquest of a turn-based 4X epic but played in fast-paced 60-minute competitive sessions. Play Solo or Multiplayer for 2-8 players.
Apr 18, 2024
Universe Sandbox - Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Aug 24, 2015
Top Rated
Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.
Steam Engine Simulator - The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Jun 7, 2023
South Scrimshaw, Part One - South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
Jun 9, 2023
The Powder Toy - The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances
Jun 14, 2024
STEINS;GATE - Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
Sep 8, 2016
Spaceflight Simulator - In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
Feb 17, 2022
Aviassembly - Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Apr 11, 2025
STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram - A story for every lab member. Discover a new side of each STEINS;GATE character and get a glimpse of their inner thoughts through 10 new stories.
Feb 19, 2019
Kerbal Space Program - In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Apr 27, 2015
SpaceEngine - The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
Jun 11, 2019
STEINS;GATE 0 - If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE.
May 8, 2018
