Best Building Games on Steam

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Surviving the Aftermath Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Price -93% 2.11€
Rating 6.9
Release 16 Nov 2021
Urge Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Nov 2021
JUNKPUNK JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 12 Nov 2021
Among Trees Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 10 Nov 2021
Jurassic World Evolution 2 Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.

Price -90% 6.45€
Rating 8.8
Release 09 Nov 2021
Let's Build a Zoo It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Nov 2021
To The Rescue! To The Rescue! is a charming dog shelter simulator. Take care of unique dogs and find the right homes for as many of them as you can. Upgrade your shelter, control disease outbreaks, learn each dog's preferences, and make tough decisions, all while helping support real-world animal shelters!

Price -97% 0.68€
Rating 6.5
Release 02 Nov 2021
Logic World Invent a new computer! Logic World is a first-person sandbox simulation game that's all about digital logic. Play alone or with friends, design unique machines, build up layers of complexity, and experience the joy of circuits!

Price 24.00€
Rating 8.6
Release 22 Oct 2021
Aquarium Designer Aquarium Designer gives you an opportunity to create the aquarium of your dreams! Become a professional whose job is to design it, build it, and fill it with the various underwater wildlife! All types, all sizes - your creativity is your only limit!

Price -95% 0.46€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Oct 2021
Bunhouse Bunhouse is a cute, simple, bunny-filled game focused on growing plants and managing a greenhouse with fellow buns. Take care of your leafy plant buddies by balancing the amount of water and light they get. Play with friends and upgrade your greenhouse for wholesome, relaxing fun.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 19 Oct 2021
The Riftbreaker The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Price -76% 7.24€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Oct 2021
Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.

Price 12.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Oct 2021
Junkyard Simulator Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.3
Release 13 Oct 2021
Turing Complete Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Oct 2021
Variables 2 After two years of precipitation, we re-made this variable sequel after thinking about it! Variable 2 is a unique stand-alone tower defense game. We have enriched the building and elements of tower defense, and the experience in the game can be changed according to your ideas!

Price -80% 2.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Oct 2021
XERA: Survival Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 26 Sep 2021
Attack on Toys Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Sep 2021
Citystate II Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

Price 24.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 Sep 2021
Medieval Dynasty Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Price -57% 13.17€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Sep 2021
STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town Welcome to Olive Town, a peaceful community established by your trailblazing grandfather and his friends. Now that you've taken over his farm, it's your job to carry on his legacy. Plant crops, raise animals, build relationships, and get to know the residents of your new home!

Price -97% 1.29€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Sep 2021
Scrapnaut Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Price -96% 0.55€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Sep 2021
Gas Station Simulator Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Price -62% 7.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Sep 2021
Dice Legacy Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.

Price -67% 4.98€
Rating 6.7
Release 09 Sep 2021
Cookie Clicker An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 01 Sep 2021
Cloud Gardens A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas

Price -65% 5.35€
Rating 9.1
Release 01 Sep 2021
Reactor Tech² Become the main power engineer of the world - the builder of the most powerful power plant that feeds the whole world! You have to build your own power plant, research new technologies and make the most successful power company in 100 gaming years.

Price 12.49€
Rating 6.7
Release 31 Aug 2021
Seed of the Dead: Sweet Home Slaughter the ghouls to save the girls! Build up your love nest and woo four heroines as you fight to survive a ruined zombie hellscape! A one-of-a-kind Post apocalyptic FPS dating sim game filled with intense zombie killing action and lusty romance!

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 27 Aug 2021
Sprocket Carefully balance mobility, firepower and armour in a dedicated tank designer. Then uncarefully put them to the test in a series of combat scenarios progressing through the ages of the tank. Here, your limit is what you can fit inside your hull and turret while still being able to move forwards.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 26 Aug 2021
Townscaper Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Price -86% 0.87€
Rating 9.3
Release 26 Aug 2021
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

Price -53% 8.69€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Aug 2021
MakerKing Become a King (or Queen) at making levels! Join a community designed around level creation and online play. The level editor is simple to use and lets you create anything, even living creatures!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Aug 2021
Hell Architect Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.

Price -88% 2.53€
Rating 6.7
Release 18 Aug 2021
Sunshine Heavy Industries Welcome to Sunshine Heavy Industries! As the new spaceship engineer, solve increasingly tricky design puzzles with your own personal style. Manage customer demands, juggle budget and ship performance, and survive the questionable decision making skills of your business partner.

Price 12.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Aug 2021
HUMANKIND™ Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.

Price -75% 12.49€
Rating 6.7
Release 17 Aug 2021
My Garage MY GARAGE is a car simulation game with main focus being simulating real car repair, maintenance and physics.

Price 19.90€
Rating 8.8
Release 10 Aug 2021
Patron Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Price -98% 0.45€
Rating 7.1
Release 10 Aug 2021

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