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. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Building games on Steam.

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FISHERY Fishery is a stylized aquarium simulation game. Harness your creativity to build and maintain beautiful aquatic habitats. Then relax and watch your beautiful fish enjoy their home.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 Sep 2019
Flotsam The floating garbage town strategy game! Scavenge what precious garbage you can from the ocean's surface and grow your city while doing your best to survive in this colorful post-apocalyptic world.

Price -1% 22.97€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Sep 2019
Trailmakers Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.

Price -64% 9.16€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 Sep 2019
Aeon's End Deck building with a twist! Lead a team of mages against the Nameless in this magic-based card battle game and save the city of Gravehold!

Price -87% 1.92€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Sep 2019
Fun with Ragdolls: The Game Become a ragdoll™ and create your own environments in Sandbox Mode, explore worlds created by others, or just flop around your destructible sets! Fun with Ragdolls®: The Game lets you enjoy everything you love about ragdolls!

Price -98% 0.35€
Rating 8.5
Release 17 Sep 2019
Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 06 Sep 2019
Green Hell Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Price -82% 3.97€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Sep 2019
Battle Royale Tycoon Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!

Price -91% 0.97€
Rating 6.7
Release 02 Sep 2019
TrenchesWIP Multiplayer combined-arms first-person shooter set in an alternate history. Build and upgrade bases, harvest resources, construct defenses, purchase weapons and vehicles to overcome the enemy!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 17 Aug 2019
Project 5: Sightseer Open world multiplayer sandbox/RPG game. Explore, gather, build, research, and fight to protect what's yours -- by yourself or together with your friends.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 16 Aug 2019
FlowScape In FlowScape you can create your own nature scene simply by painting. Choose from 20 landscapes and more than 300 models to create your own little paradise by painting trees, changing the sky, rotating the sun, adding sound effects and adjusting your camera for that perfect photo.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Aug 2019
Cliff Empire After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Aug 2019
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
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 -96% 0.69€
Rating 6.9
Release 23 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
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 -85% 1.49€
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 14.79€
Rating 6.1
Release 05 Jul 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 29.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Jun 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% 13.21€
Rating 8.5
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 -89% 1.57€
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 8.79€
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