The Best Building Games

Update : Camping Simulator: The Squad added at rank #1.
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Camping Simulator: The Squad (2025)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.

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  • nature
  • resource-management
  • survival
  • cooperative
  • sandbox
  • building
  • crafting
  • relaxing
  • simulation
  • management
  • exploration
  • base-building
  • atmospheric
  • 3d
  • multiplayer

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Learning Factory (2025)

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Linux Android PC Windows Mac OS

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.


  • automation
  • base-building
  • science
  • cats
  • building
  • resource-management
  • fishing
  • economy
  • management
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • crafting
  • cute
  • family-friendly
  • education

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Summer Islands (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Summer Islands is a holiday real-time strategy business simulator. Be the right businessman, build your holiday paradise and grab the money from your tourists. Play alone, with your friends and with computer enemies and survive natural disasters without going insolvent.

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  • capitalism
  • building
  • procedural
  • economy
  • retro
  • pixel
  • real-time
  • management
  • cooperative
  • editor
  • sandbox
  • level
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • casual

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Aloft (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

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  • crafting
  • open-world
  • survival
  • building
  • sailing
  • sandbox
  • cooperative
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • naval
  • agriculture
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • farming

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Annihilate The Spance (2025)

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early access PC Windows

RTS base builder with constant production and minimal micromanagement. Direct fleets of autonomous ships in huge battles. Features a singleplayer story campaign with 3 distinct playable factions and many subfactions, and full level editor. Test your abilities in the shifting tides of the Spance.

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  • base-building
  • destruction
  • strategy
  • space
  • real-time
  • building
  • resource-management
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • military
  • war
  • robots
  • sci-fi
  • single-player
  • tactical

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Terrarium (2025)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Cozy fires, books, and tiny glass bottles filled with endless possibilities. In Terrarium, make your vision a reality and craft the cozy dioramas you've always dreamed of. The only question is, what will you build first?


  • cozy
  • illustration
  • design
  • idler
  • city-building
  • building
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • medieval
  • cute
  • dark
  • cartoony
  • stylized
  • grid

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Border Town (2024)

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PC Windows

Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.

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  • building
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • action-adventure
  • shooter
  • survival
  • top-down
  • old-school
  • first-person
  • cartoony
  • simulation
  • adventure
  • magic

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Coffee Shop Simulator (2024)

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Wake up and smell the coffee in Coffee Shop Simulator. Manage, and personalize your very own coffee shop. Craft the perfect coffee, serve up delicious pastries, and create a cozy place for coffee lovers from all walks of life.


  • capitalism
  • building
  • economy
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • america
  • exploration
  • management
  • 3d
  • cozy
  • simulation
  • realistic
  • family-friendly
  • shop
  • relaxing

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Overthrown (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Lift and throw anything as you build and manage your kingdom in this chaotic city builder for 1-6 players. Harness the power of your soul-stealing crown to defend your citizens from bandits and mutants, farm the land, and gather resources. Keep citizens happy or see them desert you!


  • city-building
  • building
  • sandbox
  • management
  • resource-management
  • action-adventure
  • cooperative
  • simulation
  • colourful
  • combat
  • exploration
  • multiplayer
  • fantasy
  • single-player

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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.

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

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