games similar to Apparatus/Principia

i was thinking of a thread where people can share games similar to Apparatus or Principia, so here is one! by similar i mean other physics-oriented platformers with a level editor that can be used as a game engine of sorts.

ill go first with littlebigplanet: i got the third game in 2018, but i still feel nostalgic about it. one thing that makes it different than principia is that it has a full-fledged story mode! sadly you can only play it on playstation..

(i wish i knew forum formatting but umm... i have a fan project related to it, you can find it pretty easily on gamejolt.)

(The formatting this forum uses is called Markdown, and links are done like this: [Link title](https://URL), but also works to just dump them raw like this: https://voxelmanip.se/)

That's interesting, I've always heard of LittleBigPlanet as a game similar to Principia/Apparatus, but I've been too much of a Nintendo guy to have had the ability to test it, so don't know much about it.

Back when Windows 8 was really new, there was this Metro app called Physamajig. It was like a physics-based sandbox thing where you would draw shapes, texture them and then could give them different physical properties and program them using triggers and events. I quite liked it, mostly playing minigames or rube goldberg machines others had created for it, but unfortunately it's long gone from the Microsoft Store and is essentially lost media at this point.

Pinball Construction Set for the Apple II was probably one of the first physics sandbox games for the home computer. I played this as a kid. I loved the Little Big Planet series and had fun making a pinball game for that too! I almost forgot to mention Rigs of Rods as another complex FOSS physics sandbox.

Algodoo and Incredibots sparked my interest in physics games. Sadly Incredibots 2 and 3 are no longer playable because they require Flash to work, and Flash is no longer continued. Flash emulator Ruffle doesn't work either. I was very happy to find out last year that Principia had become open source as this is also one of the games I spent many hours playing back in the day.

THere are MANY games similiar to principia, but none are actually THE principia!! principia is a very unique game and none has matched it. so i am glad principia is still around!

GREETINGS ^_^