Hidden 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 building games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Building games on Steam.

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Final Upgrade Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Price -94% 1.08€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Dec 2022
Another Farm Roguelike Another Farm Roguelike is a 2D farming & crafting game with rougelike elements where your job is to earn as much money as possible to pay the rent. Start from scratch and build the most profitable farm you can make as soon as possible. Work hard to be able to afford the rent.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Nov 2022
Retro Gadgets Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Nov 2022
Lords and Villeins Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Price -99% 0.31€
Rating 7.0
Release 10 Nov 2022
Espresso Tycoon Prologue: Underwater A completely FREE underwater mission from the Espresso Tycoon - a coffee shop simulator. Build your own cafe from scratch, hire staff, create the most delicious recipes in the whole Pacific Ocean and make customers happy! Decorate, manage, and build a successful coffee business in Sydney!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Nov 2022
Bone's Cafe Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Oct 2022
Craft Hero Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 09 Oct 2022
Garden Simulator PLANT - DESIGN - HARVEST - With Garden Simulator you’ll get your own allotment, place deco elements and cultivate plants to harvest and sell them. Get ready for a beautiful time in nature. Always remember: A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.

Price -37% 9.50€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Sep 2022
LEGO® Brawls Dream up the ultimate Minifigure brawlers and bash your way through all of your favorite LEGO® themes in the first team action brawler set in the LEGO universe. Play with friends at home or around the world and see how you stack up against the competition.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Sep 2022
Deisim Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

Price -70% 4.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 01 Sep 2022
ORX A new take on tower-defence and deckbuilding roguelike genres. ORX is like playing Carcassonne with your table on fire. Build your perfect deck, use powerful artefacts, master 3 unique factions. Prove that you are the King of your castle!

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 30 Aug 2022
Crustacean Nations 🦀Crustacean Nations🦀 is a real-time strategy game about total crab warfare. Build a sprawling sand castle and amass huge armies to dominate the beach and become the one true crustacean nation!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Aug 2022
Recipe for Disaster Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!

Price -67% 4.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 05 Aug 2022
Tiny Tactics Tiny Tactics is a Tower Defense game with a heavy focus on mazing, with mechanics inspired by the Auto Chess genre.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Aug 2022
Solace Crafting Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.0
Release 01 Aug 2022
Everdell Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!

Price -95% 0.87€
Rating 8.4
Release 28 Jul 2022
Autonauts vs Piratebots Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

Price -99% 0.32€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Jul 2022
Half-Earth Socialism Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 19 Jul 2022
The Final Earth 2 The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Price -35% 6.33€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Jul 2022
Freshly Frosted Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Jun 2022
Run Build Pew! You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and Pick your battles carefully to overcome your hunters in this Fast-Paced Top-Down Action Roguelite Shooter.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 06 Jun 2022
Trainz Railroad Simulator 2022 Drive, Explore, Operate and Create the railroad of your dreams - and now you can collaborate in real time with Multiplayer Surveyor! TRS22 showcases a range of high quality routes, sessions and trains to drive, plus all the scenery you need to make your own masterpiece.

Price -80% 7.79€
Rating 7.0
Release 30 May 2022
Ninja Village Lead a ninja clan in the war to unify feudal Japan!

Price -64% 2.87€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 May 2022
The Sushi Spinnery Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 May 2022