Best Base-Building Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated base-building games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Base-Building games on Steam.

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Embark Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Price 24.50€
Rating 6.0
Release 18 Apr 2019
Forager The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Price -73% 5.52€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Apr 2019
MarZ: Tactical Base Defense Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.

Price -54% 9.35€
Rating 7.5
Release 04 Apr 2019
WAR PARTY War Party is a strategy game where you enter a prehistoric world of Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Magic! Build up your chosen faction, gather resources, explore the land and command them against enemy tribes and wildlife! Will your story be about Life, Death or Balance? Can you survive?

Price -71% 2.97€
Rating 6.6
Release 28 Mar 2019
Generation Zero® Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.

Price -70% 7.49€
Rating 7.1
Release 26 Mar 2019
Production Line : Car factory simulation Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

Price -67% 8.11€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Mar 2019
Road to Eden Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 28 Feb 2019
Evospace Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Feb 2019
ASTRONEER Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Price -73% 8.26€
Rating 9.1
Release 05 Feb 2019
Volcanoids A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Price -60% 6.76€
Rating 8.1
Release 29 Jan 2019
Medieval Kingdom Wars Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…

Price -97% 0.55€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Jan 2019
Kingdom Two Crowns Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Price -86% 2.91€
Rating 8.6
Release 11 Dec 2018
Kenshi A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Price -77% 6.43€
Rating 9.4
Release 06 Dec 2018
X4: Foundations Thrilling space battles meet deep strategy. X4 invites you to explore, fight, trade, and build an empire in a dynamic, fully simulated space sandbox, where every decision shapes your journey.

Price -83% 8.94€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 Nov 2018
The Wall [Servers Temporarily Shut Down!] Build. Gather. Breach. The Wall is a never-before seen mix of genres, where dynamic maps, slick combat, base building, and economy management all come together.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Nov 2018
Zombie Builder Defense Top down, action packed, multiplayer, zombie shooter. Build your base with friends and see how long you can survive the endless horde of zombies. Level up with friends, or alone, how you die is up to you.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 02 Nov 2018
The Colonists Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Price -91% 2.08€
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Oct 2018
Star Shelter Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Oct 2018
RimWorld A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Price -40% 19.34€
Rating 9.7
Release 17 Oct 2018
Terraforming Mars The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.

Price -96% 0.84€
Rating 7.0
Release 17 Oct 2018
Grim Nights Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Oct 2018
Niffelheim Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla

Price -97% 0.67€
Rating 6.9
Release 26 Sep 2018
Mist Survival MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Price 8.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Aug 2018
Dig or Die Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Price 11.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 10 Jul 2018