Best Building Games on Steam

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Oxygen Not Included Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Price 22.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 30 Jul 2019
People Playground Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.8
Release 23 Jul 2019
Automachef Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Price -95% 0.84€
Rating 6.9
Release 23 Jul 2019
Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.

Price -86% 1.37€
Rating 6.4
Release 09 Jul 2019
Survive on Raft Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.

Price -50% 7.39€
Rating 6.1
Release 05 Jul 2019
ZUSI 3 - Aerosoft Edition Zusi 3 Aerosoft Edition is a train simulation for PCs, the professional version of which is also being used in railway companies for engine driver training purposes.

Price -78% 13.24€
Rating 8.5
Release 18 Jun 2019
They Are Billions They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Price -16% 25.29€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Jun 2019
Seeds of Resilience Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Price -96% 0.56€
Rating 6.6
Release 13 Jun 2019
Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存 You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.

Price 7.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Jun 2019
TheoTown Build and manage your dream city in this captivating simulation game. Create unique urban landscapes and enjoy compatibility with the mobile versions. Unleash your creativity and shape the metropolis of your dreams.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Jun 2019
Alchemist's Awakening Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.

Price -56% 4.25€
Rating 7.0
Release 03 Jun 2019
PixARK Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.2
Release 31 May 2019
Conan Unconquered From the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph comes the first ever survival RTS set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian. Play solo or team up in multiplayer in Conan Unconquered’s action-packed co-op Mode where you build a shared stronghold and fend off the hordes together.

Price -80% 4.14€
Rating 6.6
Release 29 May 2019
Rescue HQ - The Tycoon Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?

Price -27% 14.68€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 May 2019
Constructor Plus Constructor Plus is the definitive building simulation for the modern day tycoon. Build your dream town full of crackpot undesirables, businesses, and quirky tenants whilst fending off your rivals in the eagerly awaited sequel to Constructor HD. With almost 3 times more content, building just got bigger!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 27 May 2019
BLOCKADE BLOCKADE Classic! First Person Shooter in an editable procedural cubic world. A large arsenal of weapons, 4 teams at the same time and up to 32 players on one map. A large number of game modes!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 21 May 2019
Rise of Industry Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Price -98% 0.76€
Rating 7.1
Release 02 May 2019
BLOCKPOST LEGACY Procedural cubic 3D-shooter in the best traditions of the genre. The game is a rich cocktail consisting of the most popular and functional gaming solutions. Customization of characters, opening cases and improving the existing arsenal — all this is available in the game now!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Apr 2019
Embark Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Price 24.50€
Rating 6.0
Release 18 Apr 2019
Forager The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Price -97% 0.78€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Apr 2019
Driftland: The Magic Revival After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!

Price -98% 0.47€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2019
Anno 1800 Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Price 59.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 16 Apr 2019
Train Valley 2 Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!

Price -96% 0.54€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Apr 2019
Staxel Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.

Price -95% 1.12€
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Apr 2019
ISLANDERS ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Price -58% 2.10€
Rating 9.2
Release 04 Apr 2019
MarZ: Tactical Base Defense Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.

Price -85% 3.18€
Rating 7.5
Release 04 Apr 2019
Tropico 6 El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Price -88% 5.02€
Rating 8.6
Release 29 Mar 2019
Ymir Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 16 Mar 2019
Tavern Tycoon - Dragon's Hangover Run your fantasy RPG tavern - let travellers take shelter for the night and serve 'em the best mead of their life with a good dose of humor.

Price 10.79€
Rating 6.5
Release 11 Mar 2019
Production Line : Car factory simulation Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

Price -39% 15.10€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Mar 2019
Mutilate-a-Doll 2 A highly customizable virtual stressball and physics sandbox about mutilating ragdolls in various ways using an overwhelming amount of weapons and tools.

Price 8.00€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 Mar 2019
Road to Eden Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.2
Release 28 Feb 2019
Space Engineers Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Price -66% 5.90€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Feb 2019
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Price -95% 1.17€
Rating 6.7
Release 26 Feb 2019
Evospace Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

Price -60% 5.05€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Feb 2019
Islet Online Islet Online is a sandbox-style MMORPG. It is all about digging and placing bricks to build your own land. And with various materials from wildlife, bricks can be combined to make useful items, too. Whenever you act, your character gets experience.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 11 Feb 2019

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