The Best Base-building Games

Update, : Bum Simulator added at rank #43.
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The Riftbreaker (2021)

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Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Android

The Riftbreaker is a base building, survival game with action RPG elements that borrows from a lot of other games. Play as Ashley S. Nowak and enter the hostile planet Galatea 37 in your powerful Mecha-suit to build a base and defend yourself against thousands of creatures trying to eliminate you. The Riftbreaker offers high-quality graphics, great sound and music, flexible custom difficulty settings, varied biomes, and hours of gameplay that provides endless replayability.


Pros:
  • Good storyline and rewarding gaming experience
  • Customizable gameplay options
  • Hours of gameplay with almost endless replayability
  • Exciting and balanced base building, resource gathering, and combat
  • High-quality graphics, great sound and music
Cons:
  • Fairly demanding on PC
  • Lacks gameplay depth in research and weaponry
  • Cumbersome weapon and armor upgrades

  • survival
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • resource-management
  • mech
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • bullet-hell
  • aliens
  • top-down
  • action
  • resource
  • shooter
  • arpg

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Factorio (2020)

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Linux Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Factorio is an absorbing factory management game. You play the role of a handy person who needs to build a rocket and craft almost anything with little more than spit and elbow grease. Automation is the key to success as you establish production chains and assembly lines to make sure all the hard work is done for you.


Pros:
  • Complex puzzle-solving
  • Open-ended gameplay
  • Automation mechanics
  • Creative assembly lines
  • Captivating story
Cons:
  • Tedious combat
  • Limited environmental resources
  • Environmental consequences of mass manufacturing

  • management
  • automation
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • trains
  • sandbox
  • factory
  • open-world
  • building
  • aliens
  • robots
  • factory-building
  • construction
  • prague

3

Dome Keeper (2022)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Dome Keeper is a 2D mining rogue-lite game where you must excavate for resources and upgrades in order to survive the alien hordes. You'll have to make strategic decisions on how to use your limited resources and unlock defensive systems in order to escape the planet alive.

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Pros:
  • Strategic resource management
  • Smooth gameplay
  • Intense experience with plenty of tension
  • Variety of difficulty settings and ways to customize runs
  • Rewards careful strategies
Cons:
  • Some reliance on luck when it comes to resource placement
  • Minor issues with certain mechanics

  • time-management
  • aliens
  • mining
  • survival
  • rogue-like
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • management
  • wave
  • tower-defense
  • pixel
  • underground
  • resource
  • dark
  • perma-death

4

Satisfactory (2019)

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early access PC Windows Android

Satisfactory is an engaging first-person factory-building game on an alien planet, allowing players to explore a pre-generated world and harvest natural resources to create automated factories. With great power systems and conveyor belts to help automate resource collection and transportation, the game offers a fun and addictive experience for control freaks and automation enthusiasts. The added survival element provides extra depth, making it a must-play for exploration and building game fans.


Pros:
  • Engaging first-person factory-building experience
  • Pre-generated world for unique gameplay experience
  • Fun power systems and conveyor belts for resource automation
  • Survival element adds extra depth
  • Great for building and automation enthusiasts
Cons:
  • May require significant time investment to unlock useful devices and modes of transportation
  • Demands patience, structure and adaptability

  • base-building
  • automation
  • open-world
  • first-person
  • crafting
  • robo-said
  • factory-builder
  • building
  • rps
  • cookie
  • whale
  • factory
  • survival
  • energy
  • resource-management

5

Space Haven (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Space Haven is an early access game where you can design your own ship and manage your crew as you embark on a journey to save humanity. Build your spaceship tile by tile, explore the vast universe, engage in tactical ship-to-ship combat and witness the drama and emotions of your crew. The game allows for complete freedom to customize and design your ship symmetrically or asymmetrically.


Pros:
  • Great sprites and sublime music
  • Game is approachable with a balanced feel
  • Unlimited freedom to build your own ship
  • Core game loop is engaging and not monotonous
  • Developers fully commited
Cons:
  • Lacks crew leveling up
  • Lacks variety in gameplay beyond building bigger ship and fending off pirates.

  • colony
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • space
  • management
  • tile
  • resource-management
  • sandbox
  • pirates
  • building
  • sci-fi
  • city-building
  • resource
  • survival-strategy

6

Stranded: Alien Dawn (2022)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Lead a group of survivors in Stranded: Alien Dawn, as you explore an expansive living world and build a base to protect against hostile creatures on an unforgiving alien planet. Manage your survivors' needs and make difficult choices to shape their fate. Are you ready for the unpredictable journey ahead?

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Pros:
  • Rimworld vibes
  • Easy to learn
  • Nice graphics
  • Well-thought-out characters
  • Good building and storage system
Cons:
  • Currently lacking in content
  • Crude combat system
  • Healing skill not important

  • survival
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • management
  • crafting
  • hunting
  • colony
  • cooking
  • destruction
  • tower-defense

7

Mr. Prepper (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4

In Mr. Prepper, you must build an underground shelter, craft machines, and explore atmospheric locations to survive in a world controlled by an authoritarian government. Will you help Mr. Prepper defy the government and stay alive? This thrilling survival game offers an interesting prepper/survival concept, with a decent variety of items to build and explore. The game will keep you on edge with the slight stress of coming under inspection, all while providing a relaxing experience. Craft, trade, explore, and scavenge your way to success!


Pros:
  • Interesting prepper/survival concept
  • Decent variety of stuff to build
  • Slight stress of coming under inspection
  • Fun exploring the map
  • Relaxing game.
Cons:
  • Building/crafting loop is low-impact
  • Short replay value
  • UI improvements needed
  • Lots of grinding

  • survival
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • base-building
  • underground
  • life
  • 2.5d
  • atmospheric
  • management
  • point-and-click
  • economy
  • exploration

8

Paragon Pioneers (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android IOS iPhone

Paragon Pioneers is a casual island management game where you build and manage a series of island nations. It offers over 100+ buildings to advance through and has an abstract look and mechanics that make it easy to manage on small screens. It's a stress-free game for casual players.


Pros:
  • Detailed explanations and tutorials
  • No ads or premium currencies
  • Easy to pick up and put down
  • Reminiscent of the Anno series with idle gameplay
  • No inherent time limit
  • Over 100+ buildings to advance through
Cons:
  • Long waiting times
  • Lack of a thrilling narrative
  • Game mechanics become increasingly complex
  • Colonization aspect may be troublesome for some players
  • Combat has a limited army size and isn't very interesting

  • idler
  • city-building
  • colony
  • tutorial
  • management
  • base-building
  • building
  • simulation
  • medieval
  • crafting
  • economy
  • top-down
  • relaxing
  • 2d
  • resource-management

9

Meet Your Maker (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X/s

Meet your Maker is a post-apocalyptic first-person building-and-raiding game where every level is designed by players. Play solo or with a friend as you mastermind devious maze-like Outposts full of traps and guards, then gear up for methodical fast-paced combat raiding other players’ creations.

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  • first-person
  • post-apocalyptic
  • base-building
  • shooter
  • asynchronous
  • fps
  • cooperative
  • maze
  • editor
  • level
  • multiplayer
  • building
  • asymmetric
  • resource
  • tactical

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Dyson Sphere Program (2021)

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early access Android Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

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  • automation
  • space
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • management
  • simulation
  • mech
  • city-building
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • space-exploration
  • sci-fi
  • 3d

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