The Best Base-building Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 2

Update : Deck of Haunts added at rank #24.
Here are our 10 Best Base-building Games for Nintendo Switch, position 11 to 20:
11

Winter Games Challenge (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Faster, farther, higher! Fly like an eagle, perform spectacular dramatic half-pipe stunts and race down the ice track or across the slopes. Take on sporting challenges in eight action-packed winter sports disciplines.


  • cooperative
  • colony
  • sport
  • base-building
  • skating
  • scroller
  • tower-defense
  • skiing
  • simulation
  • medieval
  • pixel
  • snowboarding
  • local
  • 2d
  • survival

12

Starsand (2021)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

In Starsand, you'll explore a vast and unforgiving desert, scavenging for resources, building a shelter, and hunting to survive. With dynamic weather and day/night changes, you'll have to plan and act wisely to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization and make it back home. Can you survive in this harsh environment and make it out alive?

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What we like:
  • Good survival elements
  • Interesting premise
  • Nice desert atmosphere
  • Nice exploration aspects
  • Unique navigation system
What could be improved:
  • Limited content
  • Clunky gameplay
  • Unforgiving resource allocation
  • Bugs and glitches
  • Lack of save points

  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • inventory
  • 3d
  • management
  • sandbox
  • aliens
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • realistic
  • first-person

13

Landnama (2023)

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Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.


  • colony
  • rogue-like
  • hex
  • vikings
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • survival
  • strategy
  • grid
  • build-em-up
  • economy
  • management
  • resource-management
  • historical
  • building

14

Taur (2020)

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Android Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?

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  • tower-defense
  • top-down
  • strategy
  • base-building
  • action-strategy
  • sci-fi
  • real-time
  • maze
  • tactical
  • destruction
  • replay-ability
  • automation
  • defense
  • futuristic
  • wave

15

Hobo: Tough Life (2017)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Linux Nintendo Switch

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.


  • survival
  • base-building
  • cooperative
  • conversation
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • heist
  • sandbox
  • socio-economy
  • fiction
  • story
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • realistic
  • atmospheric

16

Full Metal Sergeant (2023)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Be the drill instructor! Insult recruits with no remorse! Can you transform flabby recruits into lean war machines within 12 weeks?

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  • auto-battler
  • base-building
  • management
  • rogue-like
  • 1980s
  • military
  • movie
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • war
  • strategy
  • close-combat
  • historical

17

Pixel Punk (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox Series X/s Playstation 4

Pixel Punk is a strategy tower defence. In pixel Punk you build different turrets that will protect you against the never ending waves.


  • real-time
  • steampunk
  • cyberpunk
  • tactical
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • strategy
  • logic
  • 2d
  • wargame
  • pixel
  • top-down
  • simulation
  • management
  • metroidvania

18

Black Forest (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS Xbox 360 Playstation 3

Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?


  • god-game
  • colony
  • base-building
  • fantasy
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • choices
  • building
  • medieval
  • dark
  • survival
  • strategy
  • top-down
  • management
  • 3d

19

Gym Manager (2024)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch j Android Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

Gym Manager is a simulation game where you can build, expand and manage your own gym. To attract more customers, invest in new equipment and sabotage your competition. But beware: the town's shady streets provide opportunities for illegal business ventures.


  • simulation
  • capitalism
  • illustration
  • design
  • immersive
  • economy
  • base-building
  • management
  • destruction
  • life
  • resource-management
  • building
  • fitness
  • sandbox
  • sport

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Diluvian Winds (2023)

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early access Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch j Xbox Series X PC Windows

Diluvian Winds is a management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and help each other to try and survive the unpredictable weather. Grow your hamlet on land, under the sea or among the clouds.

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  • city-building
  • colony
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • nature
  • simulation
  • hand-drawn
  • underwater
  • sandbox
  • economy
  • colourful
  • relaxing
  • management
  • atmospheric

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