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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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 -26% 14.99€
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% 0.79€
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% 0.42€
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 -97% 0.40€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Apr 2019
Staxel Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.

Price -90% 2.07€
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Apr 2019
ISLANDERS ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Price -79% 1.06€
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 -81% 3.82€
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 -87% 5.50€
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 -35% 16.05€
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% 5.89€
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 -96% 0.96€
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 -84% 5.03€
Rating 9.1
Release 05 Feb 2019

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