Best Building Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated building games.

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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
Cult of the Lamb Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Price -73% 6.23€
Rating 9.4
Release 11 Aug 2022
Stranded Deep Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Price -60% 6.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 10 Aug 2022
Two Point Campus Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Price -90% 3.04€
Rating 8.5
Release 09 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
Real estate tycoon "Illusory life: urban real estate tycoon" is a simulated business role-playing game with urban theme. We try to restore the game world like a novel of urban face slapping, and give the players a "capitalist" identity.(We are a very poor studio, so English translation will be launched in the future)

Price 8.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 05 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 -75% 3.69€
Rating 6.8
Release 05 Aug 2022
PlateUp! Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

Price -95% 1.00€
Rating 9.3
Release 04 Aug 2022
Last Call BBS Boot up your Z5 Powerlance and dial into Last Call BBS, the last game from Zachtronics! The Barkeep’s loaded up his retro computer with a full set of puzzle games for you to download and play. No need to worry about copy protection, they’re all fully cracked and ready to enjoy!

Price -98% 0.47€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Aug 2022
Retreat To Enen Base building simulator 1500 years in the future. Journey to the Island of Enen to forage, craft, build, hunt, meditate, and explore across three vast biomes. Discover secrets and create the retreat of your dreams. With over 160 unique items to gather, craft, and build, every home will be unique.

Price -98% 0.57€
Rating 6.0
Release 01 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
Kiwi Clicker - Juiced Up Deliver more and more kiwis to satiate the kings' hunger - sacrifice their pulp and transcend beyond your fruital form!

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 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% 0.34€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Jul 2022
Everdell Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!

Price -29% 11.96€
Rating 8.4
Release 28 Jul 2022
Bear and Breakfast Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.

Price -81% 3.80€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Jul 2022
Cartel Tycoon Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Price -98% 0.78€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Jul 2022
Sapiens Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Price -7% 22.88€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 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 -60% 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Jul 2022
Clanfolk Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Price -78% 6.88€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Jul 2022
Urbek City Builder Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Price -95% 0.94€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Jul 2022
Occupy White Walls A game about building art galleries may sound boring until you realise that just about anything can be an art gallery... Add in cutting edge AI, extremely creative community, Unreal graphics, and did we mention it's free?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 08 Jul 2022
Good Company Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Price -91% 2.20€
Rating 7.1
Release 21 Jun 2022
Raft Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Price 20.49€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 Jun 2022
The Guild 3 The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!

Price -87% 4.11€
Rating 6.1
Release 14 Jun 2022
Freshly Frosted Place conveyor belts to solve puzzles in the world's most adorable donut factory!

Price -60% 3.27€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Jun 2022
Builder Simulator Builder Simulator is the perfect game for those who want to build a house, from the ground up, one brick at a time. On easy, the game will guide and teach you by showing you full instruction, but on hard you will get no help - instead rely on your builder skills and make everything yourself.

Price -95% 1.04€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 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
Captain of Industry Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Price -30% 23.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 May 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 38.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 30 May 2022
Hardspace: Shipbreaker Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Price -99% 0.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 May 2022
Keplerth Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Price -80% 2.56€
Rating 8.2
Release 23 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
Ninja Village Lead a ninja clan in the war to unify feudal Japan!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 May 2022
APICO APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees! Set in a series of lush environments, APICO uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames, taking ideas from a mix of real-life and fantasy apiculture & floriculture.

Price -98% 0.41€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 May 2022

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