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Main Assembly

Simulation

Developer Bad Yolk Games

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. From the Steam store page

153 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 5, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works

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67
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,124 of 1,356 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

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Reactions

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  • Steam user Steam user …3802Steam reviews · Jun 1, 2026 · 23 h played

    DO NOT BUY, GAME UNFINISHED AND ABANDONED. This all happened right after I bought it, I am really mad since this game had potential.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2881Steam reviews · Feb 3, 2026 · 10 h played

    if a game is published by team17, you can bet itll be forgotten and abandoned shortly after release. this game is no different. abandoned for years, was hoping for a sign of life, but nope. abandoned.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4624Steam reviews · Mar 15, 2024 · 12 h played

    Why someone just don't buy the rights of this game and develop a Battlebot like game inside of it? I mean, if we have a strong community manager and marketing team working on this game, it could become really HUGE.

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  • Ross Burton @rossburton.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    Today we're celebrating Main Assembly - a sandbox game where you get to create fantastical robots and flying contraptions! 🏗️🤖🚀 New to this series? Well, we're highlighting creative & wacky #games from the #gamedev #solodev & #indiegamedev community using our outlier lists

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  • Steam user Steam user …5184Steam reviews · Jan 30, 2025 · 28 h played

    Devs disappeared from the face of the earth

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  • Steam user Steam user …8059Steam reviews · Dec 22, 2024 · 6 h played

    need a network connection just to play alone got halfway through an unsaved build just to be kicked out by laggy wifi also ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ controls

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  • Steam user Steam user …0949Steam reviews · Dec 14, 2025 · 75 h played

    no updates for years...

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  • Steam user Steam user …4085Steam reviews · Jul 23, 2024 · 19 h played

    Was a good game when it was still being developed but has been abandoned since 2021 and the last well worked on thing uploaded to the workshop is from 2021. I hope Bad Yolk Games returns one day to finish the development.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5463Steam reviews · Aug 25, 2025 · 35 h played

    this game is great, i just wish the devs would update it. plssssss devs the community begs for updates

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  • Steam user Steam user …5414Steam reviews · Mar 30, 2025 · 39 h played

    It is fun. Unfortunately, the devs brought it out of early access out of laziness. They didn't want to improve it anymore and considered it finished, leaving lots to be desired.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4870Steam reviews · Jun 23, 2024 · 6 h played

    sh*t. doesn't get updated in 3 years. abandoned

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  • Steam user Steam user …1143Steam reviews · Jan 31, 2024 · 10 h played

    im too dumb for this game

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  • Steam user Steam user …2964Steam reviews · Nov 3, 2023 · 2 h played

    Great game and you may be confused why I made this a bad review. Well first off this game has not gotten an new update in forever! On top of that the community is dead with the average players online a day being 20 people. This game has so much potential but its such a dead game. That is why I cannot recommend it. And also them charging $20 for a dead game is ridiculous!

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  • Steam user Steam user …1604Steam reviews · May 9, 2026 · 35 h played

    Such potential but it's sad it died early.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6981Steam reviews · Jul 31, 2024 · 8 h played

    idk why people are saying it was abandoned its a fully fleshed out game i love it

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  • Steam user Steam user …2644Steam reviews · Jul 4, 2024 · 10 h played

    Abandoned since 2021

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  • Steam user Steam user …3536Steam reviews · Jun 23, 2024 · 4 h played

    DO NOT BUY the game has been abandoned due to its devs going bankrupt (rip) in its current state the game is generally very glitchy. Great game ruined by money

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  • Steam user Steam user …2049Steam reviews · Apr 1, 2025 · 6 h played

    It is pretty fun, but the game is totally dead. no more updates. I wouldn't pick it up unless it was on sale.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2699Steam reviews · Aug 28, 2024 · 5 h played

    In a world of Creative sandbox games, Main assembly often stands out of the limelight unlike other infamous titles like Scrap mechanic or Trailmakers. Despite being not known by many , MA holds great value. Its a fairly polished game with huge amounts of freedom given to the player. The graphics are cute and bright. the physics are on point and controls really well too. you have campaign mode with narration to keep you going as well as open world with a huge map that has seasons too. Many and…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2276Steam reviews · Jan 12, 2025 · 14 h played

    so far my 2nd fav game. this game is kinda hard at first and complex but u can figure it out by either yourself or ingame tutorials and if you do not care about how hard the game is like me then this is a perfect game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3926Steam reviews · Jan 4, 2025 · 3 h played

    I wrote a review earlier because it literally kept asking me to do one. I've finally had time to "play" and came to the conclusion I regret spending money on this. The body building is super neat, and it has some pretty good deformation physics and all that... But the physics? /The physics.../ Physics are bad. Building is bad. The scripting/coding is bad. Everything beside the literal body building is just awful. I can't even compliment the graphics because every so often there was this filter…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1991Steam reviews · Nov 25, 2023 · 4 h played

    fun game if you like planes and/or you're smart

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  • Steam user Steam user …1570Steam reviews · Jun 8, 2024 · 32 h played

    dead game warning. unfortunatly the game hasnt had an update for a while. good game though

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  • Steam user Steam user …2603Steam reviews · Nov 25, 2023 · 6 h played

    mainly assembled

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  • Steam user Steam user …2091Steam reviews · Aug 31, 2025 · 9 h played

    Good game but very very very rare updates with new content, also it is hard to even find others playing the game at the same time as you, i have never found another person online except for one time when i tried to join their server and then the game crashed. Otherwise, good game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7416Steam reviews · Aug 8, 2025 · 74 h played

    Was a very good game. But no one plays it anymore, and it has yet to be updated in over 4 years. Safe to say it has been abandoned.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2837Steam reviews · Aug 6, 2025 · 17 h played

    This is a good sandbox game, albeit very limited in terms of the events and in-world NPCs. But for the amount I got it, this was definitely a freaking steal! Play this if you want to flex your creativity and want to build some sort of vehicle. The aerodynamics work and is clunky for a reason (I'd like to believe the devs purposely made it hard to make aircraft because it's hard in real life). But if you're looking for some sort of story or events, I suggest otherwise. Overall, good game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2434Steam reviews · Aug 5, 2025 · 11 h played

    Absolutely amazing freaking game! I've had this game in my steam library for about 9 months just waiting until I could get a better computer to play it, I definitely would say the wait was worth it, and I regret not paying full sticker price because I feel guilty for buying it 80 percent off. I've only been playing his game since Friday, and yes, this game takes a bit to understand the controls, and the bits and bobs of this game. I personally do not have all of them down, but it is pretty…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2999Steam reviews · Jul 30, 2025 · 17 h played

    Unfortunately, game keeps crashing again and again when playing multiplayer, such a potential on this game but abandonated, last update was in 2020, me and my friend really liked when we could play it, but it kept crashing when trying to use Hinges online, to the point were the game started crashing as we hit play on steam, if you play solo then the game might be fun, but other than that is just constant crashing on multiplayer edit: looks like this crash exists since forever, you can avoid…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5037Steam reviews · Mar 4, 2025 · 3 h played

    Pretty fun, although I will say I was pretty bummed when I found out how bad the aerodynamics system was. You can build rudimentary rockets but if you wanna build a plane you're basically just hiding a rocket under a fake chassis. I will say I like the paneling system, I just wish it was more fluent and less buggy. BTW This game is NOT worth full price. Wait until a sale. I was gifted this for ~$4

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  • Steam user Steam user …8724Steam reviews · Jan 8, 2025

    I really want to recommend this because it seems great, but this is yet another game that has screwed up the ability to change keybinds. I play on a razer tartarus so I move with the arrow keys in every game I play and rebinding the movement of the vehicles doesn't work. They are hard bound to wasd, so I can't even get through the second room of the tutorial. I could do some work around magic if I could reset the keybinds to default, but there's no button to do that. Hopefully they fix this,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9505Steam reviews · Jun 25, 2024 · 3 h played

    The game in many ways is more enjoyable than Trailmakers. For whatever reason, the other game took off and this one is seemingly abandoned. There are still a lot of bugs in the game, and crashes Hopefully they come back to this project eventually

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  • Steam user Steam user …2335Steam reviews · Jun 16, 2024 · 13 h played

    Haven't play this for a period This sandbox game equipped a rare way to craft vessels, I call it Build-By-Skin. Build-By-Skin means you can manipulate mesh of blocks, transform it, twist it. The only 2 games I know using this way to build is Main Assembly and Homebrew. Build-By-Skin is more complicate and more flexible than Build-By-Blocks, it allows player spend more time to craft vessels with curvier appearance. As a changing player, I enjoy this a long time ago, but now I prefer some fast…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8084Steam reviews · Jan 18, 2024 · 68 h played

    This game. I've spent way too long on this game. I know it's only 70 hours, but that's at least 60 hours of my life I will never get back. And you know what? If I could go back, I'd do it again. Because I hate myself. --LONG REVIEW ALERT-- Main Assembly looks more difficult than it is. And don't get me wrong: it can be *super* difficult--but only if you make it that way. It's not like other games where you need a degree in engineering to get your car to go straight--building a functional…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3662Steam reviews · Nov 3, 2023 · 1 h played

    Cash grab! This game is boring to say the least and the Devs have not touched it since release. Spend your money on something fun like Trailmakers or Terratech.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1345Steam reviews · Sep 15, 2026 · 4 h played

    Interesting, but fairly bare-bones. Abandoned right after release. Might be worth a few hours on a heavy discount, but don't expect much more than that.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1778Steam reviews · Sep 13, 2026 · 27 h played

    it is abandoned, need i say more?

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  • Steam user Steam user …6294Steam reviews · Dec 15, 2025 · 48 h played

    Main Assembly gives creative players a robust set of tools to build and experiment with robots, provided they have the patience to learn its systems through trial and error due to a very limited tutorial.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5810Steam reviews · Dec 4, 2025 · 30 h played

    great engineering game, more complex side though provides alot more freedom with what you can do. If your intrested in engineering, design, or anything related to this i highly suggest you consider getting this game. The controls/UI are a bit odd to use, but not hard to get used to. Some of the rigid 3D parts (like suspension and wheels) feel somewhat lacking in their ability to visually or physically change which can cause things like suspension to stick out of surfaces so they work or…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9100Steam reviews · Sep 25, 2025 · 34 h played

    Insanely fun game for a while, tons of cool mechanics and such, but sadly was just abandoned without proper mod support, or any new, meaningful additions, I truly hope the devs somehow start updating the game again, or maybe some other team takes inspiration of this game

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  • Steam user Steam user …1553Steam reviews · Jul 10, 2025

    I personally did not enjoy much of this at all. The building was VERY clunky and just was not enjoyable.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4760Steam reviews · Mar 4, 2025 · 3 h played

    bad game after an hr and no recent updates. DO NOT BUY.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8762Steam reviews · Jan 26, 2025 · 21 h played

    Great physics and sandbox game but aircrafts are all restricted to a realtively low flight speed. Might just be because the maps are kind of small and not super condusive to fast-moving flying vehicles

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  • Steam user Steam user …6768Steam reviews · Oct 1, 2024 · 3 h played

    Yeah I would say that this is a pretty amazing sandbox game for anyone who likes making things, and I would definitely recommend this game to people who like planes, cars and other vehicles

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  • Steam user Steam user …8507Steam reviews · Jun 22, 2024 · 2 h played

    Trailmakers is a much better version of this game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1376Steam reviews · Dec 9, 2023 · 2 h played

    Great potential, but WAYYYYYYYY too hard to build ANYTHING.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0524Steam reviews · Nov 5, 2023 · 20 h played

    it is a very good game for people who want to learn about coding and build vehicles at the same time. would recommend.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9646Steam reviews · Sep 11, 2026 · 1 h played

    I liked the game but I guess they ran out of money. Abandoned! What a shame. Refunded and unwish listed.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3917Steam reviews · Jul 20, 2026 · 191 h played

    This game is one of a kind. I enjoy making all kinds of flying machines and designing flight controls. There is no other game where I can imagine an idea, make it into a concrete zany whirlibird of some sort, design controllers and nav systems for it, and then have my creations navigate and fly themselves, or have their own automatic dogfights in a real physics-based robot free for all. The combining of programmable control systems, physics modelling, and damage models is really incredible. I…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2512Steam reviews · Oct 5, 2025 · 10 h played

    Its like scrap mechanic but you NEED to know rocket sience

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  • Steam user Steam user …0720Steam reviews · Aug 8, 2025 · 14 h played

    very dynamic building system

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  • Steam user Steam user …9690Steam reviews · May 30, 2025 · 35 h played

    Ima start with the good things, it has a fun art style, and some people may like the coding. Now for the bad things, it crashes A LOT, the coding can be tedious, the textures are super low quality even with super high gfx, and finally; this game is not getting ANY more updates.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7557Steam reviews · Dec 27, 2024 · 6 h played

    most fun ive had playing a sandbox/machine building game definitely recommend to anyone who's looking to get into these kinds of games and wants a smooth introduction to them

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  • Steam user Steam user …1187Steam reviews · Oct 31, 2024 · 4 h played

    I purchased this game because I was looking for games like Trailmakers... This game has a nice base to be a Trailmaker like game but there's not enough content or updates even... The game is i.m.o not worth it since there is like 1 good normal level. Character customization is mediocre, can't change the color of the player model or shape. Overal not enough content to keep me playing.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3231Steam reviews · Sep 24, 2024 · 6 h played

    Things I really like about the game consist of driving vehicles since they feel super nice and enjoyable, I wish a lot of car games handled as well as the vehicles in this because it is really really good! I also love the customization and vehicle creation though a lot of the tools aren't obvious unless you go through or look up the tutorials. The multiplayer aspect with a variety of shenanigans to get up to is always enjoyable as well! Although... Aircraft and spacecraft are pretty bad since…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2934Steam reviews · Jul 31, 2024 · 19 h played

    very cool game you mainly assemble things

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  • Steam user Steam user …2305Steam reviews · Jul 5, 2024 · 18 h played

    I love this game. I'm an engineering undergraduate and this game scratches the itches that I have to build cool things. The physics engine is quite advanced, with lift, CM, and center of thrust all being relevant to all your creations. There's no magical downforce spoiler or something. You have to make the airfoil yourself. Love it!

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  • Steam user Steam user …4715Steam reviews · Jun 3, 2024 · 9 h played

    I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3449Steam reviews · Jan 2, 2024 · 66 h played

    The game is dead. There aren't any update and the existing bugs won't be fixed. Not worth it

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  • Steam user Steam user …1623Steam reviews · Jul 26, 2026 · 20 h played

    its very easy to use and so much fun to play with friends

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