The Best Construction simulation Games

Update, : Poly Bridge 3 added at rank #1.
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Poly Bridge 3 (2023)

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The best just got better! Rediscover your engineering creativity in this genre-defining bridge engineering and puzzle solving masterpiece.


  • bridge-building
  • physics
  • building
  • bridge
  • simulation
  • puzzle
  • sandbox
  • colourful
  • construction
  • drafting
  • editor
  • vehicle
  • cartoony
  • level
  • guitar

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Railway Empire 2 (2023)

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

Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors. Choose from 60 detailed, historic locomotives that you can customize with your preferred colors and company initials. Huge and detailed game world covering the whole of the USA and Europe in one single map each. More detailed regional maps with more than 300 towns spread all over the US and Europe.

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  • trains
  • simulation
  • economy
  • transportation
  • america
  • historical
  • empire
  • tutorial
  • building
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • construction
  • western
  • immersive
  • strategy

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Dwarf Fortress (2022)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Dwarf Fortress is an incredibly detailed, complex game where you help a colony of dwarves build a settlement by carving out bedrooms, dining halls and other necessary structures from the side of a mountain. You don't control individual dwarves but instead provide instructions for them to follow, with each dwarf having their own needs and wants that you become familiar with as you play.


Pros:
  • Robust mouse support
  • New tutorial to help new players understand menus
  • Complex web of characters and relationships
  • Simulated world is full of surprises both big and small
  • Ability to create artifacts and engravings that tell stories
Cons:
  • Inscrutability can be off-putting for those expecting a more streamlined experience
  • Convoluted user interface can make it difficult to figure out what is even possible in the game or how to access the different menus

  • simulation
  • colony
  • management
  • city-building
  • procedural
  • moddable
  • base-building
  • pixel
  • survival
  • economy
  • fantasy
  • construction
  • sandbox
  • text
  • resource-management

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Captain of Industry (2022)

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early access PC Windows

Land your crew of survivors on an abandoned island and survive! Mine raw materials, grow food, build factories, manufacture products, research new tech, and trade with others. Become an industrial superpower! But this is no easy task, you will be put to the test to keep your settlement alive.

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  • simulation
  • automation
  • colony
  • base-building
  • management
  • economy
  • city-building
  • agriculture
  • building
  • resource-management
  • construction
  • immersive
  • political
  • sims
  • crafting

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Rich Inc. Idle Life Simulator (2022)

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IOS iPhone

Play Rich Inc. to experience what it’s like to go from rags to riches. Earn money, become richer and buy more fancy virtual stuff such as supercars, designer clothes and mansions.


  • construction
  • simulation
  • skill
  • strategy

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Shelter Manager (2021)

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PC Windows

We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.

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  • simulation
  • strategy
  • manager
  • america
  • post-apocalyptic
  • turn-based
  • war
  • resource-management
  • management
  • dark
  • construction
  • sandbox
  • violent
  • military

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The Architect: Paris (2021)

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PC Windows

THE ARCHITECT: Paris is a City Building game unlike any ever seen before. Closer to reality, it will confront you with the challenges of city management and development as the head of a team of experts. How will you face the challenges of an always growing population, of climate change and all the environmental issues? How will you make Paris evolve? Will you renovate, transform or destroy and rebuild the existing buildings with towers, individual housing or parks? You have the power!


  • city-building
  • building
  • sandbox
  • lego
  • casual
  • medieval
  • construction
  • simulation
  • futuristic
  • historical
  • 3d
  • procedural
  • real-time
  • relaxing
  • realistic

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Mad Tower Tycoon (2020)

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Mac OS Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.


  • construction
  • building
  • zoo
  • simulation
  • management
  • city-building
  • complex
  • strategy
  • classic
  • economy

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Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Android IOS iPhone Mac OS Linux Playstation 5 vita wii u Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile

Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead combines the legendary and challenging puzzle gameplay of Bridge Constructor™ with the post-apocalyptic zombie universe of AMC’s The Walking Dead.


  • physics
  • simulation
  • puzzle
  • construction
  • zombies
  • building
  • post-apocalyptic

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Factorio (2020)

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Linux Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Factorio is an absorbing factory management game. You play the role of a handy person who needs to build a rocket and craft almost anything with little more than spit and elbow grease. Automation is the key to success as you establish production chains and assembly lines to make sure all the hard work is done for you.


Pros:
  • Complex puzzle-solving
  • Open-ended gameplay
  • Automation mechanics
  • Creative assembly lines
  • Captivating story
Cons:
  • Tedious combat
  • Limited environmental resources
  • Environmental consequences of mass manufacturing

  • management
  • automation
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • construction
  • robots
  • trains
  • resource-management
  • factory
  • crafting
  • aliens
  • sandbox
  • open-world
  • empire
  • multiplayer

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