The Best Base-building Games for Xbox Series X - Page 2

Update : Cubic Odyssey added at rank #14.
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Survivalist: Invisible Strain (2025)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.


  • open-world
  • survival
  • crafting
  • colony
  • conversation
  • hunting
  • post-apocalyptic
  • base-building
  • stealth
  • simulation
  • character
  • procedural
  • choices
  • zombies
  • customization

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Zombie Cure Lab (2022)

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early access Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

Create the perfect lab in this challenging sandbox base builder and defend it from zombie attacks. Lead a team of scientists in curing the zombies and transform them into Human-Zombie hybrids. Gather resources, research new technologies and optimize your defense to overcome the apocalypse.


  • colony
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • building
  • zombies
  • sandbox
  • science
  • time-management
  • survival
  • management
  • moddable
  • city-building
  • zombification
  • tower-defense

13

Techtonica (2024)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows j

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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Cubic Odyssey (2025)

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Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!


  • crafting
  • cooperative
  • survival
  • base-building
  • open-world
  • building
  • sandbox
  • action-adventure
  • sci-fi
  • rpg
  • pirates
  • exploration
  • rich

15

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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Deck of Haunts (2025)

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Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.


  • card
  • rogue-like
  • deckbuilder
  • battler
  • god-game
  • base-building
  • horror
  • city-building
  • tower-defense
  • gothic
  • building
  • editor
  • 2.5d
  • level
  • isometric

18

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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Tactical Warfare (2023)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One

The enemy attack on your base is imminent; secure your defenses, mobilize your troops, reinforce key positions, and get ready for the next battle. RTS Tactical Warfare will test your resilience and strategic prowess.


  • real-time
  • cooperative
  • strategy
  • campaign
  • base-building
  • war
  • fmv
  • economy
  • tactical
  • single-player
  • atmospheric

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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?


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

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