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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Screeps: World Screeps: World is an open source MMO strategy sandbox game for programming enthusiasts. You control your colony by writing JavaScript code that operates 24/7 in the huge persistent online open world.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 16 Nov 2016
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.

Price -99% 0.56€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Nov 2016
Transport Fever Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!

Price -98% 0.75€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Nov 2016
Planet Explorers Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.1
Release 08 Nov 2016
Subsistence Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Price -25% 10.34€
Rating 7.1
Release 25 Oct 2016
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?

Price -94% 3.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 20 Oct 2016
Demolish & Build 2017 Become a boss of Demolition & Build company. Destroy small wooden huts and huge concrete buildings. Manage your workers. Invest earned cash in your own land properties and rent them for profit in open sandbox world. Use various hand tools, buy new machines and customize their parts.

Price -99% 0.39€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Oct 2016
Crazy Machines 3 Crazy Machines 3 is the latest, greatest, most amazing and craziest part of the series and fascinates once more with physic-based puzzles. Build your own crazy machines and share your awesomeness across the world thanks to the Steam® Workshop.

Price -90% 1.00€
Rating 9.2
Release 18 Oct 2016
Predynastic Egypt Do you know how did Ancient Egypt looked like before the Great Pyramids? Lead the future Egyptian citizens all the way through the historical hardships to the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt, and you will find out!

Price -75% 2.43€
Rating 8.7
Release 10 Oct 2016
Giant Machines 2017 Take control over seven of the biggest industrial machines in the world. During the 14 mission campaign you will punch through the snows of Greenland, plow the steppes of Wyoming and travel all the way to sunny Florida. Your hard work will be completed by launching a space shuttle into space.

Price -93% 1.44€
Rating 6.9
Release 29 Sep 2016
Sorcerer King: Rivals Explore a rich fantasy world, go on quests for powerful weapons, and forge a new civilization in Sorcerer King: Rivals. Can you build a civilization to topple the malevolent Sorcerer King and become a god yourself?

Price -57% 8.98€
Rating 6.1
Release 22 Sep 2016
Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition Catapult werewolves over castle walls, incinerate troops with dragon fire and command the Knights of the Round Table! This remaster of the mythical ‘castle sim’ features Steam multiplayer, Workshop support, new maps, achievements and DLC campaigns.

Price -84% 2.53€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Sep 2016
Mad Games Tycoon Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Price -85% 2.33€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Sep 2016
Project Highrise Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Price -97% 0.71€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Sep 2016
The Hive The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?

Price -99% 0.27€
Rating 6.8
Release 25 Aug 2016
8-Bit Hordes From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of orcs or humans and ultimately crush your opponents!

Price -61% 5.89€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Aug 2016
Kingdom: New Lands Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Price -90% 1.58€
Rating 8.4
Release 09 Aug 2016
Street Legal Racing: Redline v2.3.1 The most popular vehicle mechanic simulator in the world got a second life in the new Steam version! Build cars, tune them, crash, repair and race against other racers!

Price 7.19€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Aug 2016
Voodoo Garden Welcome to the Voodoo Garden! You're owner of a little hut in a bustling swamp. With the help of little spirits you can earn powers and gold by producing various voodoo supplies.

Price -2% 2.95€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Aug 2016
Tricky Towers With your brilliant robe and magic powers, it’s time to build some Tricky Towers! Stack your bricks in this land of fable, whose marvelous tower will be the most stable? Battle your friends and rise to fame, in this frantic physics game.

Price -75% 3.86€
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Aug 2016
Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense Command your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!

Price -13% 8.78€
Rating 9.4
Release 25 Jul 2016
Starbound You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Price -95% 0.76€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Jul 2016
Poly Bridge Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Price -33% 5.49€
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Jul 2016
Polandball: Can into Space! Crazy fun rocket simulator game with countryballs theme. Can Polandball into Space? Try to find out!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Jun 2016
Crea Progress with every slain monster, learn over 80 skills through talents, craft hundreds of items, and explore vast procedurally-generated worlds in this ever-expanding sandbox RPG!

Price -68% 4.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 09 Jun 2016
Captain Forever Remix Can you create the raddest spaceship? Captain Forever Remix is the spaceship builder roguelike. Voyage across the Solar System and blast apart randomly-generated enemies for spare parts. This is an officially-licensed re-imagining of the indie classic Captain Forever.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 03 Jun 2016
Home Behind In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

Price -66% 2.09€
Rating 8.2
Release 02 Jun 2016
Simutrans Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 24 May 2016
Blueprint Tycoon Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Price -65% 1.05€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 May 2016
Madness Cubed Online shooter with a variety of game modes and a huge arsenal of weapons. Fight with other players, or team up with them to defeat hordes of zombies and mutants!

Price 1.59€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 May 2016
Istrolid In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and speedy destroyers.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 06 May 2016
Worlds Adrift Island Creator Worlds Adrift is a Community-Crafted MMO: each and every island has been crafted by our playerbase. With the free Island Creator tool, this is your chance to create your own adventure for the community to experience. A crumbling ruin, or a teeming jungle, help expand the edges of Foundation ever further!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 28 Apr 2016
Bloons TD Battles Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 6, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Apr 2016
CHKN Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Apr 2016
MachineCraft The main purpose of this game is showing and watching machines made out of blocks. Some of the game-modes allow you to battle or race against other players. (testing phase) You can create your original machine with ease by reassembling those machines that are distributed, or by using the automatic control block.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Mar 2016
Sheltered Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Price -90% 1.34€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Mar 2016

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