The Best Crafting management exploration base-building Games

Update : Ascent of Ashes added at rank #1.
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Ascent of Ashes (2025)

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PC Windows

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs


  • simulation
  • colony
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • immersive
  • humor
  • survival
  • building
  • crafting
  • management
  • exploration
  • party
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • character

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Surviving Ceres (2025)

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Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

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  • simulation
  • colony
  • survival
  • management
  • crafting
  • base-building
  • building
  • farming
  • colonisation
  • open-world
  • base
  • immersive
  • sci-fi

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Valhalla Path: Survival (2025)

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PC Windows

Valhalla Path casts you as a Viking warrior stranded in a hostile land. Build a village, defend against the fallen warriors, lead your people to glory and secure your place in Valhalla's legends.

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  • base-building
  • medieval
  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • resource-management
  • rpg
  • inventory
  • management
  • first-person
  • 3d

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Pathogen: Code Omega (2024)

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PC Windows

Survive on an island overrun by zombies, destroy infected nests with molotovs to collect samples, and signal for rescue before it’s too late.

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  • survival
  • post-apocalyptic
  • base-building
  • zombies
  • exploration
  • shooter
  • survival-horror
  • crafting
  • fps
  • first-person
  • horror
  • violent
  • open-world

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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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Tavern Manager Simulator o (2024)

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PC Windows

Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Cook delicious food and keep an eye on the mood of the visitors. Create a unique atmosphere for unforgettable adventures!

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  • job
  • cooking
  • simulation
  • wholesome
  • base-building
  • building
  • management
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • crafting
  • 3d
  • tavern
  • exploration
  • medieval-fantasy

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Crossedland (2024)

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early access PC Windows

Crossedland = Take a box made of blended sci-fi and fantasy with souls-lite combat and base-building. Throw in some villagers to recruit, extraction arenas, gameshows, and an audience judging each action and move you make. Then you wrap it in some nice action RPG paper and top it with a goofy bow.

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  • mining
  • automation
  • base-building
  • building
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action-adventure
  • survival
  • stylized
  • crafting
  • third-person
  • inventory
  • management
  • exploration
  • colourful
  • open-world

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Chocolate Factory (2024)

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xbox PC Windows ps2 gamecube Game Boy Advanced (GBA)

Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!


  • automation
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • survival
  • resource-management
  • building
  • city-building
  • management
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • sandbox

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Chocolate Factory: Prologue (2024)

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PC Windows

Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits! The free prologue for the full game!

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  • automation
  • crafting
  • base-building
  • open-world
  • survival
  • resource-management
  • building
  • city-building
  • management
  • exploration
  • sandbox

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Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders (2024)

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Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.


  • base-building
  • medieval
  • archery
  • nonlinear
  • open-world
  • rpg
  • action-adventure
  • nature
  • building
  • management
  • exploration
  • crafting
  • third-person
  • 3d
  • survival

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