Best Building Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy 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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Three Kingdoms The Last Warlord The Last Warlord is a Turn-based strategy game. The game is based on the famous Chinese historical novel. The Three Kingdoms (A.D. 190 – 280) was the tripartite division of China between the states of Wei, Shu, and Wu.

Price -44% 1.86€
Rating 6.9
Release 04 Feb 2021
Valheim A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Price -50% 9.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 02 Feb 2021
Garbage: Hobo Prophecy Experience the struggle which a homeless man goes through in a humorous manner. Primitive elements of contemporary life that we take for granted, such as staying warm, well-nourished, and hygienic, will become an issue.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 28 Jan 2021
Zeepkist Welcome to Zeepkist! You race soapboxes down hills!

Price -22% 15.78€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 Jan 2021
Academia : School Simulator Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 28 Jan 2021
NIMBY Rails Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.

Price 18.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 Jan 2021
Main Assembly You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.

Price -96% 0.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 Jan 2021
Dyson Sphere Program Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.6
Release 20 Jan 2021
Undead Development How long would you survive in this unrealistic representation of the zombie apocalypse? Scavenge for supplies, find a base, and construct your defenses. Break down furniture and board up your home. Set bear traps, nail your axe to a gun, or find your own ways to fight off the undead. VR required.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 13 Jan 2021
Founders' Fortune A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Price -99% 0.25€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 Dec 2020
Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator FIREWORKS MANIA is a small casual explosive simulator game where you play around with fireworks, create beautiful firework shows or just blow stuff up.

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 17 Dec 2020
Calico Calico is a day-in-the-life community sim game where you are given an important and adorable task: rebuild the town’s cat café and fill it with cute and cuddly creatures! Build up your café by filling it with cute furniture, fun decorations, yummy pastries, and get it bustling with animals again!

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Dec 2020
Diggles: The Myth of Fenris It`s impossible to refuse to help Odin when he asks to find his pet, Fenris, the hound of Hell. A mix of cinematic adventure and a colony building strategy that will take you deep down to the underground world of dwarfs.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 14 Dec 2020
Puzzle Together Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzles Multiplayer jigsaw puzzles with voice chat! Play on your own or with friends, and feel like you're all sitting around the same table. Millions of puzzle images, upload your own, or create any puzzle you can imagine just by describing it!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 09 Dec 2020
Creeper World 4 The unstoppable fluid enemy has returned and destroyed every world in its path! Defend against Creeper as it floods across the 3D terrain in this real time strategy game where the enemy is a fluid.

Price -56% 10.90€
Rating 9.2
Release 03 Dec 2020
Per Aspera Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Price -86% 4.26€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Dec 2020
AOD: Art Of Defense AOD is a new gameplay in the traditional tower defence genre. You must protect your base from waves of approaching enemies. Build and improve your towers and units and destroy your enemies in any way you can. Don't be weak, destroy them all, show who's in charge!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Dec 2020
Winter Resort Simulator 2 Winter Resort Simulator 2 is the extensive simulation of a ski area with all its exciting technical facilities and vehicles.

Price -40% 14.97€
Rating 7.9
Release 26 Nov 2020
Amazing Cultivation Simulator Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Price -60% 8.45€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Nov 2020
Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead combines the legendary and challenging puzzle gameplay of Bridge Constructor™ with the post-apocalyptic zombie universe of AMC’s The Walking Dead.

Price -96% 0.43€
Rating 7.0
Release 19 Nov 2020
Mars Horizon Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

Price -49% 9.30€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Nov 2020
Rover Mechanic Simulator As an Engineer - crew member of one of the first Mars colonies - you are responsible for repairing and maintaining Mars Rovers. In this advanced simulator you will learn the internal details of various Mars Rovers and their components.

Price -97% 0.40€
Rating 7.3
Release 12 Nov 2020
Andarilho You are a guy with a backpack, just try to stay alive!

Price 4.90€
Rating 6.4
Release 12 Nov 2020
From the Depths Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

Price -88% 3.03€
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Nov 2020

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