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

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Far Cry® 4 Hidden in the towering Himalayas lies Kyrat, a country steeped in tradition and violence. You are Ajay Ghale. Traveling to Kyrat to fulfill your mother’s dying wish, you find yourself caught up in a civil war to overthrow the oppressive regime of dictator Pagan Min.

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Nov 2014
This War of Mine In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Price -96% 0.94€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Nov 2014
Homebrew - Patent Unknown Unleash your creativity and craft anything from flying cars to jet-powered toilets.Fair warning: there's a learning curve. But once you've got it, the sky's the limit for your creations!While active development is paused, we focus preserving the game and keeping it accessible.

Price -96% 0.62€
Rating 7.0
Release 14 Nov 2014
Eldevin Eldevin is the award winning indie story-driven Free to Play MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) from Hunted Cow Studios. Join thousands of other players and explore the mystical lands of Eldevin.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 05 Nov 2014
Magicmaker Ever wanted to shoot poisonous lightning lasers? Freezing fireballs? Turrets that fire waves of miniature suns? How about lasers that shoot exploding black holes that suck out your enemies' life force? You can do that all in Magicmaker, the spellcrafting-focused platformer dungeon-crawler!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Sep 2014
Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition Explore the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, and find a way to escape before a military strike wipes the entire city, and everyone in it, off the map.

Price -88% 3.89€
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Sep 2014
How to Survive “A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

Price -95% 0.87€
Rating 8.1
Release 29 Aug 2014
Cubic Castles Your blocks, your castle, your world! Build anything you can dream up and explore with other players! Cubic Castles is a mini-MMO that combines the best of block-building and 3D platform action! Create fantastic parkour challenges, explore worlds made by other players, or even make friend!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 13 Aug 2014
Farm for your Life Your community was taken down by a heavy storm which caused an apocalypse and unleashed the living dead. Together with the other survivors, it is your task to rebuild and to allow that sustainable life can still be assured. Cultivate your farm and manage your restaurant to provide food and deal with all the zombies.

Price -74% 2.63€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Jun 2014
Magicite Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.3
Release 09 Jun 2014
Villagers and Heroes Enter a magical, 3D fantasy world filled with hundreds of unique locales, immersive lore, and exciting quests -- and it's all free to play. Join thousands of players from around the world, and be part of a one of a kind community.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.0
Release 17 Apr 2014
Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition Craft your arsenal to avenge your fallen comrades and save the world from the fearsome forces of CLAW!

Price -76% 4.80€
Rating 6.8
Release 25 Mar 2014
Windforge WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 11 Mar 2014
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Join over 30 million adventurers worldwide and take part in an epic and ever-changing FINAL FANTASY. Experience an unforgettable story, exhilarating battles, and a myriad of captivating environments to explore.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 Feb 2014
CastleMiner Z CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Feb 2014
Signs of Life Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.3
Release 27 Jan 2014
Small World CONTROL FANTASY RACES, SET OFF TO CONQUER NEW LANDS, OVERTHROW YOUR ENEMIES AND CLAIM THE VICTORY! In this digital adaptation of the legendary board game, dive into a world inhabited by whimsical fantasy races.

Price -75% 2.49€
Rating 6.7
Release 11 Dec 2013
Panzar PANZAR is a fantasy multiplayer third-person shooter. You get to choose from eight unique character classes, team-based PvP battles, exciting PvE adventures and regular tournaments with real prizes. Advanced RPG elements, the non-target combat system and the most modern graphics by CryEngine 3 will make your combat experience...

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 25 Nov 2013
Project Zomboid Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Price -33% 13.06€
Rating 9.3
Release 08 Nov 2013
Teleglitch: Die More Edition In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

Price -92% 1.06€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Jul 2013
Mars: War Logs An Intense Cyberpunk Rpg On the Red Planet! Mars War Logs takes you to Mars, nearly a century after the cataclysm that threw the planet and its colonists into chaos. Water has become the most precious resource on the arid red planet, with a few companies fighting a perpetual war for its control.

Price -87% 0.69€
Rating 7.3
Release 26 Apr 2013
Don't Starve Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Price -75% 2.04€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Apr 2013
Star Conflict Star Conflict is an action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game that puts players in the role of elite pilots engaging in a widespread interplanetary skirmish. The whole world for PVP and PVE!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Feb 2013
Sword of the Stars: The Pit A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 21 Feb 2013