The Best Base-building colony Games for Xbox Series X

Update : Farworld Pioneers added at rank #5.
Here are our 10 Best Base-building colony Games for Xbox Series X:
1

Imagine Earth (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

Imagine Earth is a thrilling real-time planet simulation and strategy game that lets you explore and colonize distant planets. In this game, you play a space colony manager tasked with building profitable colonies while preserving living conditions for your people amidst corporate greed and environmental concerns. Dig for resources, build power plants, farms, and factories while fending off threats like asteroids, wild fires, and hostile colonies. You can trade resources and technologies to enrich your colonies, build towers, and research for advanced technologies. Now, it's time to expand your colony and dominate the universe!


What we like:
  • Well-polished game with unique art design and relaxing gameplay
  • Heavy emphasis on competitiveness with multiple ways to hinder AI competition
  • Great fun in multiplayer games
  • Continual and meaningful updates from the developers
  • Unique approach to a tile-based system
What could be improved:
  • Lack of micromanagement may disappoint city-building enthusiasts
  • Voice acting could be better
  • Limited countermeasures against weather effects
  • Unintuitive resource gathering and pollution mitigation

  • simulation
  • diplomacy
  • colony
  • lore
  • nature
  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • science
  • management
  • base-building
  • economy
  • procedural
  • sandbox
  • space
  • resource

2

Cartel Tycoon (2021)

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Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

Build an empire of drug production and smuggling chains while managing rogue lieutenants, state authorities, and public opinion. Rival gangs, the DEA, the army, and even the CIA all threaten your growing business. When Capo dies, crown your successor, and build your empire from the ruins all over again.


  • empire
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • business
  • management
  • strategy
  • survival
  • agriculture
  • soundtrack
  • narrative
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • building
  • base-building
  • economy

3

Flooded (2023)

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Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.


  • city-building
  • real-time
  • time-management
  • colony
  • simulation
  • god-game
  • resource-management
  • immersive
  • management
  • building
  • isometric
  • pixel
  • strategy
  • base-building
  • clicker

4

Common'hood (2022)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!


  • colony
  • base-building
  • building
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • automation
  • economy
  • management
  • minimalist
  • sandbox
  • stylized
  • in-game
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • resource-management

5

Farworld Pioneers (2023)

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

Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • colony
  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • scroller
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • pvp
  • space
  • management
  • colourful
  • open-world
  • galactic
  • rimworld

6

Ruinarch (2020)

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Ruinarch is an evil overlord simulator with a focus on story generation. Take control of the narrative by spreading rumors, unleashing monsters, and creating chaos on an epic scale!


  • protagonist
  • god-game
  • colony
  • villain
  • base-building
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • politics
  • sandbox
  • city-building
  • humor
  • simulation
  • building
  • dark
  • medieval

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