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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Kubifaktorium Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Dec 2021
Pirates (Sandbox Game) You play as a pirate on a remote island, surviving alone or with other players as you battle hostile skeletons. Construct a shelter and gather resources to fortify your survival.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 11 Dec 2021
Pet idle Pet Idle is a simulation game where you can take care of various virtual animals! Build and manage your home to be a cozy home for many pets!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 09 Dec 2021
Breakwaters: Crystal Tides Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 09 Dec 2021
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice Aiko's Choice is the anticipated standalone expansion to the acclaimed stealth strategy game Shadow Tactics. Set in Edo Japan, you take control of the skillful kunoichi adept Aiko and her deadly assassin friends to hunt down the ghosts of her past.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 06 Dec 2021
ICARUS ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Price 33.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Dec 2021
WorldBox - God Simulator WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Dec 2021
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 01 Dec 2021
Global City Become the mayor and build the city of your dreams! In this game, anything is possible. Whatever you can imagine in a city-building and development simulator, you can do. Start from the very beginning and unlock new possibilities for developing your city in Global City!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 30 Nov 2021
Alien Marauder “Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 17 Nov 2021
Next Space Rebels SPACE IS FOR EVERYONE. In Next Space Rebels, you will develop from a naive rocket hobbyist into an experienced space activist by designing, building, and launching rockets of increasing complexity.

Price -70% 5.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Nov 2021
Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 Become a motorbike mechanic and build your empire. Buy, repair, renovate, and create your own dreamed custom motorcycle.

Price -79% 4.10€
Rating 6.6
Release 17 Nov 2021
Factory Town Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Price -73% 5.35€
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Nov 2021
Tavern Master Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Price -74% 3.90€
Rating 9.0
Release 16 Nov 2021
SimCasino Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!

Price -44% 13.89€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 Nov 2021
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 -97% 1.10€
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% 6.37€
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 -60% 6.71€
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 -98% 0.40€
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 -83% 5.21€
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 -69% 6.04€
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 -62% 4.77€
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 -65% 10.74€
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 -98% 1.19€
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 -97% 0.41€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Sep 2021

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