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SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

SteamWorld Build is a city builder, relaxing and casual game developed by The Station and published by Thunderful Publishing.
Released on December 01st 2023 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Polish, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 1,616 reviews of which 1,352 were positive and 264 were negative resulting in a rating of 8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.39€ on Eneba.

The Steam community has classified SteamWorld Build into these genres:

City Builder Relaxing Casual Economy Singleplayer Resource Management Cartoony Colorful Controller Cute Management Family Friendly Western Atmospheric Strategy Building Steampunk Sandbox Capitalism Base-Building

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 8400
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

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12 hours played
Feb. 2026
The steamworld series is an interesting one for gaming because it more or less lacks a main character and stranger yet refuses to tie itself to one genre. The philosophy seems to be approach a popular genre, strip it down to its simplest parts, apply their style to those refined core parts and maybe do a little branching out from there. Steamworld build is no different despite being from a new developer. Critically speaking this means that just about all of their games only really scratch the surface whenever it comes to their respective genres. Build is a city builder but there are only a handful of resources to manage and about three tiers of advancement before you're done. It's not very hard to beat a scenario and on normal I don’t even think there is a formal lose state. However this simplicity is often great for approaching new genres. If Steamworld has covered a genre of games you are unfamiliar with but interested in, I would say there are few better starting points. That simplicity also allows them to focus on what to add to the genre they are tackling and build wanted to not only cover city building but also dungeoneering. There is a second half to this game that is this dungeon builder with light tower defense mechanics. In these cavers you construct units that can help you expand and descend to lower levels and harvest different materials for your city above. The steamworld games I’ve played have all had this incredible loop of doing one task until it became tedious or too difficult then switching over to something secondary to break that flow up. Build essentially lets you play 2 different games at once. You can spend time building out your city growing your various populations and making your productions more efficient, then when you are getting strained on resources or upgrade parts you can check in on the mines. It's a wonderful back and forth that will never leave you waiting for something to get done when you're playing well. Even if you want to take it slower, nothing too bad is going to happen as a result of poor play. I also appreciate that this is a city builder where you can finish a scenario in under 10 hours, which to some will be more than enough to get their fill. To the rest there are a full 5 maps and different difficulties to try out. At the end of the day its a steamworld game, of course its quality.
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12 hours played
Feb. 2026
Extremely friendly City Managment and building game. Casual and fun, with... some ? Replayability If you are new into this type of games, you are searching for a fast construction and organization, without too many consequences (since you can move your buildings for free), this is a friendly game for you. I cannot recommend it to people who search for a regular Anno experience, but for those type of games, you have a whole franchise. Here, you will find the more casual experience that SteamWorld tends to offer
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216 hours played
Jan. 2026
When I have the day off, the weather's not so good, and I have nowhere to be, this game is my go-to way to spend a relaxing few hours. Just build a western town of steam-bots, dig through the mines, fight off marshy monsters and deadly droids to find rocket parts and make your escape. I've played through it at least a dozen times and it's still refreshingly challenging.
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20 hours played
Dec. 2025
SteamWorld Build is a good game — kind of a mix between ANNO and Dungeon Keeper 2/War for the Overworld, but much easier and shorter. It took me about 10 hours to finish the game on the highest difficulty, and I didn’t really struggle while fully exploring all three levels of the mine. As for the drawbacks, I’d mention the small number of turrets and traps, the production chains could have been more complex, and also the fact that there’s no real point in building rooms — you can just dig out all the available tiles. The game is suitable for casual players who have never played the aforementioned titles.
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16 hours played
Nov. 2025
It's fine. It's not great. It's definitely casual. If you can get it with the Mechanized DLC on a heavy discount then do that and play a "Mechanized" run. The DLC adds some extra mechanics, but not enough to make it worth doing a whole new run, and it's definitely not quite worth the full price.
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Frequently Asked Questions

SteamWorld Build is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.

No, SteamWorld Build is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.

Yes, SteamWorld Build received 1,352 positive votes out of a total of 1,616 achieving a rating of 8.00.
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SteamWorld Build was developed by The Station and published by Thunderful Publishing.

Yes, SteamWorld Build is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, SteamWorld Build is not playable on MacOS.

No, SteamWorld Build is not playable on Linux.

SteamWorld Build is a single-player game.

Yes, there are 2 DLCs available for SteamWorld Build. Explore additional content available for SteamWorld Build on Steam.

No, SteamWorld Build does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, SteamWorld Build does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, SteamWorld Build is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for SteamWorld Build.

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