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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LEGO® Worlds Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.

Price 29.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Mar 2017
Impulse of War Stop! You haven't captured the train yet? Didn't build a base and haven't mastered the planet? I won't jump from a springboard to take the flag! I'll be waiting for you!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 24 Feb 2017
Midas Gold Plus Discover Midas Gold Plus, an engaging idle clicker set in a mythical world! Harness King Midas' golden touch, build a legendary city, and unlock powerful champions. Master unique gameplay styles, explore pet battles, and conquer rival cities. Delve into this ancient tycoon adventure today!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Feb 2017
Guild Quest You’ve just bought yourself a new island and it’s time to fill it up with QUESTS! Collect guildians, upgrade their guildhalls, and unleash them onto your own custom quest lines.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 26 Jan 2017
Alien Shooter TD Innovative Tower Defense inspired by legendary Alien Shooter series! The game was created in keeping with the best traditions of Sigma`s games, no concessions of any kind - everything is just like in real life!

Price -93% 0.72€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Jan 2017
Glittermitten Grove Just like the faeries in your garden, we love collecting berries for our prickleberry loaves and finding treasure with our special fribblesham fireworks. Come join us in our faerieland, full of strange adventure!

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Dec 2016
Force of Nature Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Price 7.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 13 Dec 2016
Disney Infinity 3.0: Gold Edition Enjoy Disney Infinity with a Full Toy Box! Disney Infinity 3.0: Gold Edition includes Star Wars with the existing collection of Marvel and Disney characters and worlds, and NOW with all Characters and Playsets Unlocked. Embark on adventures as big as your imagination in the 3.0 Toy Box!

Price -40% 17.59€
Rating 8.3
Release 09 Dec 2016
Junk Jack Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Nov 2016
Planet Coaster Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Price -89% 4.31€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Nov 2016
SHENZHEN I/O BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Price -56% 6.63€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Nov 2016
Screeps: World Screeps: World is an open source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript which operates 24/7 in the single persistent open world filled by other players on par with you.

Price 14.99€
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 -98% 0.55€
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 -95% 1.68€
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 -20% 11.03€
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 59.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 20 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 -93% 0.73€
Rating 9.2
Release 18 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 -92% 1.65€
Rating 7.5
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 9.75€
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 -95% 1.00€
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 -83% 3.26€
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 14.99€
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 -86% 2.22€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Sep 2016