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.

Filter Games
Loading Loading...
Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game Chef is a Restaurant Management game in which you create your own character, acquire supreme cooking skills, customize restaurants, design unique menus, and devise innovative recipes with a realistic editor.

Price -94% 1.24€
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Aug 2020
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.

Price -91% 2.89€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Aug 2020
Factorio Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Price -26% 23.80€
Rating 9.6
Release 14 Aug 2020
Parkasaurus Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?

Price -97% 0.64€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Aug 2020
Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha) Drill Deal is a unique simulator in a fun style that will draw you for hours. It's a building simulator like never before. Feel the thrill of a drill hitting underwater oil fields. Sell the precious substance and make your oil rig more efficient.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Aug 2020
The Infected The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Price -82% 2.98€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 Aug 2020
Empyrion - Galactic Survival Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Price -88% 2.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Aug 2020
Littlewood The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Price -28% 10.70€
Rating 9.0
Release 04 Aug 2020
The Battle of Polytopia Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.

Price -80% 2.59€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Aug 2020
Imperiums: Greek Wars Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!

Price -75% 7.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 30 Jul 2020
Travellers Rest Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Price -50% 9.00€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Jul 2020
Toilet Management Simulator Improve your toilet and make money. You want to go on a holiday but the bus company tells that there is not enough passengers. So you have to stop by dance school and maybe you can make new friends there.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 27 Jul 2020
Wurm Online A sandbox MMORPG that has pushed the boundaries on what it means to be open world and stood the test of time. Dig, mine, shape the world around you and make your lasting mark!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 24 Jul 2020
Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break Competitive tower defense meets arcade action and gets rolled up with ACE Team's quirky, Monty Python-esque humor into one giant, creative game for the ages. This time around, you can even make your own levels!

Price -95% 0.77€
Rating 7.2
Release 21 Jul 2020
RPG World - Action RPG Maker RPG World – THE Action RPG Maker! Unleash your imagination with RPG World and create, share and play amazing 3D games with our growing community. Claim glory and treasure as you conquer magical worlds, alone or as a team. No coding required!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 17 Jul 2020
Hashiriya Drifter-Online Drift Racing Multiplayer (DRIFT/DRAG/RACING) Drift Online Multiplayer Game - The game inspired by oldschool street drifting in early japan with deep custiomization and ability to build a car from scratch! Dismountable chassis and suspension! Realistic car damage! Get together with friends, tune your car and burn some tires!

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 10 Jul 2020
Anno 1404 - History Edition Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 25 Jun 2020
Starship EVO Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.

Price -20% 19.60€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Jun 2020
The Sims™ 4 Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Jun 2020
shapez shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Price -96% 0.49€
Rating 9.4
Release 07 Jun 2020
Space Simulation Toolkit Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Jun 2020
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is co-op Tower Defense combined with epic Action RPG combat. You’re able to join forces with up to four players to take on a never-ending army of orcs, demons, and dragons! Are your defenses strong enough to save the world of Etheria?

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 6.5
Release 28 May 2020
Poly Bridge 2 The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!

Price -88% 1.55€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 May 2020
Blackthorn Arena Blackthorn Arena is a strategy/management sim with a real-time/turn based combat system, set in a world of mythical monsters and classic fantasy races. Play as the master of Blackthorn Arena, train your slaves into gladiators, forge them into your champions, and send them to fight for your glory!

Price -75% 6.25€
Rating 6.7
Release 19 May 2020
LIT: Bend the Light Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 May 2020
Cepheus Protocol Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.

Price -75% 5.13€
Rating 7.6
Release 15 May 2020
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 May 2020
Hydroneer Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 May 2020
Outpost Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 01 May 2020
Another Brick in The Mall Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 30 Apr 2020
Train Station Renovation - First Job Welcome to the prologue to Train Station Renovation. This is where you will learn and teach how to renovate these small and the largest train stations in the world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2020
Merchant of the Skies Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!

Price -96% 0.74€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Apr 2020
Aground As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

Price -70% 4.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Apr 2020
STATIONflow STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Apr 2020
Startup Company Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!

Price -52% 6.28€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Apr 2020
Last Oasis Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Price -72% 7.24€
Rating 6.2
Release 26 Mar 2020

Most played building games


34,813 players

9,337
1,064
Rating 8.7

27,603 players

149,064
21,663
Rating 8.6

25,312 players

1,122,546
37,161
Rating 9.6

22,619 players

84,575
22,890
Rating 7.8

6,641 players

256,362
19,408
Rating 9.2

6,616 players

124,220
4,170
Rating 9.5

5,590 players

11,633
2,058
Rating 8.3

4,935 players

117,204
15,143
Rating 8.8

4,763 players

47,065
4,456
Rating 9.0

4,133 players

89,596
5,548
Rating 9.3