The Best Building Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 3

Update : Black Forest added at rank #26.
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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

22

Hamster Playground (2022)

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early access Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Prepare for cuteness overload, relentless training, and fierce rivalry as you and your hamsters take on challenges while traversing the maze and riding a skateboard, with more modes coming soon! Be the first to cross the finish line to earn rewards and yummy treats!


  • simulation
  • immersive
  • character
  • life
  • time-management
  • family-friendly
  • building
  • isometric
  • customization
  • comedy
  • platform
  • third-person
  • relaxing
  • colourful
  • racing

23

Prison Tycoon: Under New Management (2021)

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

Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff and manage your penitentiary to create the perfect rehabilitation facility while you turn it into a profitable business in this reboot of the Prison Tycoon franchise.


  • simulation
  • management
  • resource-management
  • medical
  • building
  • life
  • sandbox
  • base-building
  • economy
  • cartoony
  • god-game
  • time-management
  • inventory
  • strategy
  • top-down

24

HammerHelm (2017)

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 m PC Windows Xbox One Nintendo Switch

HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!

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  • crafting
  • open-world
  • building
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • third-person
  • action-adventure
  • relaxing
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • fantasy
  • survival
  • casual
  • strategy

25

The Unexpected Quest (2020)

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Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

"The Unexpected Quest" is a strategy and management simulation game that takes place in a fantasy world where you play as a group of dwarves trying to rebuild their lives after a shipwreck. The game features fun gameplay mechanics with puzzles and the ability to strategize.

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What we like:
  • Fun gameplay mechanics
  • Engaging puzzles
  • Strategy element
What could be improved:
  • Combat can be unsatisfying
  • Limited replay value

  • real-time
  • time-management
  • strategy
  • clicker
  • management
  • fantasy
  • building
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • medieval
  • sims
  • point-and-click
  • exploration
  • action-adventure
  • resource-management

26

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

27

orbit.industries (2022)

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

Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. ️ Explore, Build and Prosper!


  • space
  • resource-management
  • management
  • building
  • economy
  • automation
  • simulation
  • science
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • cinematic
  • immersive
  • politics
  • abstract
  • procedural

28

Jigsaw Puzzle: Belgium Through The Lens (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Enjoy a personal zen moment filled with casual gaming by solving easy, intermediate and more challenging digital jigsaw puzzles with an ever increasing number of pieces to puzzle together.

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  • historical
  • casual
  • puzzle
  • cooking
  • nature
  • modern
  • cartoony
  • family-friendly
  • 2d
  • arcade
  • building
  • realistic
  • single-player
  • challenging
  • relaxing

29

Ship Graveyard Simulator (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!


  • naval
  • destruction
  • management
  • building
  • inventory
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • single-player
  • casual
  • realistic
  • truck
  • physics

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Road Builder (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Android

Road Builder is a logic puzzle game based on the system of creating roads and managing traffic flow. The player's task is to connect selected entry and exit roads by creating complex structures of intersections and junctions so that traffic collides with each other as little as possible.

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  • grand-strategy
  • editor
  • level
  • building
  • 2d
  • minimalist
  • platform
  • puzzle
  • simulation
  • relaxing
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • transportation
  • strategy
  • isometric

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