The Best Base-building Games for Xbox One - Page 2

Update : Streets of Rogue 2 added at rank #29.
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Bum Simulator (2023)

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

Bum Simulator is a crazy and hilarious sandbox game with memorable characters. You can throw pigeons at people and upgrade them with explosives for chaos. Mix drinks from things found on the ground and drink or throw them at your enemies. Customize your cardboard shelter and build defenses to fend off rival bums. Every character is fully voiced with unique personalities. Get ready to embrace your inner bum and conquer the streets of Bumsville in this engrossing game.


What we like:
  • Interesting and unique concept
  • Fully voiced characters
  • Outrageous and fun gameplay
  • Good soundtrack
  • Easy achievements
What could be improved:
  • Few bugs and glitches
  • Inventory system can be annoying
  • Some mechanics are grindy
  • Invisible walls limit exploration
  • Sign for begging can be finicky

  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • funny
  • base-building
  • memes
  • comedy
  • open-world
  • building
  • inventory
  • adventure
  • realistic
  • first-person
  • crafting
  • single-player

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SimAirport (2020)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!


  • base-building
  • city-building
  • flight
  • management
  • building
  • economy
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • resource-management
  • casual
  • large-scale
  • strategy

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WW2 Rebuilder (2023)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.


  • illustration
  • design
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • world-war-2
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • building
  • resource-management
  • education
  • relaxing
  • crafting
  • management
  • realistic
  • god-game

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The Riftbreaker: Prologue (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox One

The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.


  • base-building
  • hack-and-slash
  • resource
  • crafting
  • tower-defense
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • exploration
  • construction
  • loot
  • resource-management
  • rpg

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Merchant of the Skies (2020)

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Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!


  • trading
  • base-building
  • experimental
  • sandbox
  • steampunk
  • economy
  • building
  • exploration
  • procedural
  • management
  • resource-management
  • relaxing
  • 2d

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Monarchy (2024)

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j PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Xbox One

A 2D side-scrolling strategy game of resource management, base defense and conquest.


  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • scroller
  • tower-defense
  • rogue-like
  • building
  • cooperative
  • procedural
  • local
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • medieval
  • strategy
  • exploration
  • multiplayer

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Aground (2018)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

Aground is a Mining/Crafting RPG with a goal, story, and reason to craft and build. The gameplay is simple, but engaging with tons of features. In Aground, you can raise dragons and launch into space, fight enemies, discover magic, and explore secrets. If you're into crafting games with a lot of exploration, Aground is a thoroughly addictive game with plenty to discover.


What we like:
  • Story is interesting and allows for a lot of exploration
  • Crafting is solid and varied
  • Mod support and community are helpful
  • Gameplay is engaging and controls are good
  • Freedom to choose which islands to visit and play at your own pace.
What could be improved:
  • Item storage can be tedious and requiring a lot of trips
  • Low-resolution graphics may take some getting used to
  • Lack of personal relationships with NPCs
  • Basic tutorial and sometimes requires use of outside resources for guidance.

  • survival
  • crafting
  • dragon
  • mining
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • exploration
  • sandbox
  • 2d
  • choices
  • management
  • story

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Techtonica (2024)

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Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.


  • automation
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • building
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • cooperative
  • immersive
  • sandbox
  • management
  • exploration
  • sci-fi
  • colourful

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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

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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

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