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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ISLANDERS ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Price -77% 1.18€
Rating 9.2
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 -85% 6.28€
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 24.50€
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
Space Engineers Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Players build space ships, space stations, planetary outposts of various sizes and uses, pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive.

Price -65% 6.10€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Feb 2019
CardLife: Creative Survival Hand draw any weapon, tool, building piece and your own character in this innovative science-fantasy creative survival game. Mine for resources, construct unique buildings and battle fantastical beasts with friends or play alone. Explore a world made entirely out of cardboard!

Price 196.49€
Rating 6.2
Release 28 Feb 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
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% 1.01€
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 12.49€
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
ASTRONEER Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Price -79% 6.44€
Rating 9.1
Release 05 Feb 2019
Volcanoids A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Price -60% 6.73€
Rating 8.1
Release 29 Jan 2019
PC Building Simulator Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.

Price -79% 4.35€
Rating 9.2
Release 29 Jan 2019
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters! Build contraptions to help every passenger reach their destination. Enjoy the sports by controlling your riders away from (or towards if you feel like it) peril!

Price -97% 0.59€
Rating 8.2
Release 23 Jan 2019
while True: learn() You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!

Price -65% 3.85€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Jan 2019
My Time at Portia Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Price -87% 4.00€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Jan 2019
Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019 Much more than just a train driving simulator. Build, drive and operate the railroad of your dreams with Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019.

Price -70% 11.69€
Rating 7.4
Release 07 Jan 2019
Wrench Wrench is a mechanic simulator where players prepare and maintain race cars. The parts in Wrench are the most detailed of any game in the genre. Extreme attention has been paid to even the smallest components, including fasteners which are accurate to the thread pitch and install torque.

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 19 Dec 2018
Garden Paws You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Dec 2018
Kingdom Two Crowns Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Price -85% 3.04€
Rating 8.6
Release 11 Dec 2018
Obenseuer Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.

Price -37% 12.28€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Dec 2018
Kenshi A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Price -63% 10.00€
Rating 9.4
Release 06 Dec 2018