The Best Building Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 2

Update : Black Forest added at rank #26.
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Scrapnaut (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

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  • survival
  • cooperative
  • crafting
  • building
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • base-building
  • top-down
  • exploration
  • online
  • post-apocalyptic
  • steampunk
  • farming
  • multiplayer
  • robots

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When Ski Lifts Go Wrong (2019)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters! Build contraptions to help every passenger reach their destination. Enjoy the sports by controlling your riders away from (or towards if you feel like it) peril!

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  • building
  • construction
  • physics
  • skiing
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • editor
  • level
  • sport
  • management
  • puzzle
  • funny

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Project Highrise: Architect's Edition (2018)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 Mac OS PC Windows

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...


  • building
  • simulation
  • management
  • open
  • sandbox
  • tower
  • construction
  • economy
  • real

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Drill Deal - Oil Tycoon (2022)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Drill Deal is a fun oil business simulator. Start from a single tiny rig and expand it to a large complex of connected platforms. Optimize & grow your business. Look out for threats like weather, terrorists, fire, and others. Take care of your working crews.

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  • voxel
  • modern
  • economy
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • building
  • management
  • pirates
  • platform
  • drilling
  • family-friendly
  • tower-defense
  • business

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Tracks - The Train Set Game (2019)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows

Jump into the ultimate toy sandbox and build the train set of your dreams! Create colourful railway systems, decorate beautiful towns, transport commuting passengers, and even ride your train in first-person.


  • trains
  • building
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • city-building
  • open-world
  • family-friendly
  • crafting
  • third-person
  • racing

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Ancient Islands (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Old-school, hard tower-defense mixed with economy elements. It features complex skill trees, resource trading, building your own village, and setting individual tactics for each tower. Can you defend what you've built from hordes of enemies? Visit Ancient Islands and test your tactical sense!

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  • tower-defense
  • real-time
  • tactical
  • clicker
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • magic
  • isometric
  • building
  • economy
  • cartoony
  • tutorial
  • strategy
  • management
  • resource

17

My Universe - Interior Designer (2021)

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Xbox One Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Set up your own agency and become the best in town. Listen to your clients' needs and begin to renovate and refurbish their homes by selecting the style most suited to their personalities. Gradually, your reputation will grow and you'll be able to land more and more prestigious projects!

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  • building
  • simulation
  • family-friendly
  • life
  • sandbox
  • colourful
  • 3d

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Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 (2023)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Dust off your torch and hammer - it's time to get back to work, you have a new job to do. Visit the new beach coast with the largest, biggest ship graveyard in the world, dismantle huge ship parts and collect tons of precious steel. Roll up your sleeves, it's time to get back to the business.

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  • destruction
  • management
  • building
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • realistic
  • relaxing
  • inventory
  • exploration
  • family-friendly
  • first-person
  • atmospheric
  • casual
  • crafting
  • education

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As Far As The Eye (2022)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?

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  • hex
  • city-building
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • rogue-like
  • strategy
  • turn-based
  • tabletop
  • building
  • grid
  • management
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • 4x
  • resource

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Project Highrise (2016)

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IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Android

Project Highrise is a management sim game that allows you to build and manage your own tower. You must manage basic needs, desires of tenants, take on contracts and loans while making sure to turn a profit. The game offers two modes - Sandbox Mode, where you are given total freedom; and Scenario Mode, where you are given specific tasks with certain constraints.

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What we like:
  • Attention-to-detail in managing the building
  • Creative workarounds to keep businesses running
  • Real challenges that require smart solutions
  • Clean presentation
  • Satisfying depth
What could be improved:
  • Menus can be overburdening
  • May need to bumble your way through some problems

  • simulation
  • management
  • building
  • construction
  • tower
  • sandbox
  • sims
  • economy
  • strategy

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