The Best Base-building Games for Xbox Series X

Update : Techtonica added at rank #13.
1

Galacticare (2024)

View Similar Games
85
Review score
Logo of Galacticare Screenshot of Galacticare Screenshot of Galacticare Screenshot of Galacticare

PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Build, manage and optimise intergalactic hospitals! Recruit staff to satisfy the whims of various alien species, and cure their bizarre illnesses - for money! Save the (literal) Galaxy in story mode, or head into sandbox to design the hospital of your dreams.


  • medical
  • humor
  • management
  • god-game
  • base-building
  • building
  • economy
  • dark
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • funny
  • cartoony
  • sci-fi
  • narration
  • space

2

The Riftbreaker (2021)

View Similar Games
86
Review score
Logo of The Riftbreaker Screenshot of The Riftbreaker Screenshot of The Riftbreaker Screenshot of The Riftbreaker

Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows

The Riftbreaker is a base building, survival game with action RPG elements that borrows from a lot of other games. Play as Ashley S. Nowak and enter the hostile planet Galatea 37 in your powerful Mecha-suit to build a base and defend yourself against thousands of creatures trying to eliminate you. The Riftbreaker offers high-quality graphics, great sound and music, flexible custom difficulty settings, varied biomes, and hours of gameplay that provides endless replayability.


What we like:
  • Good storyline and rewarding gaming experience
  • Customizable gameplay options
  • Hours of gameplay with almost endless replayability
  • Exciting and balanced base building, resource gathering, and combat
  • High-quality graphics, great sound and music
What could be improved:
  • Fairly demanding on PC
  • Lacks gameplay depth in research and weaponry
  • Cumbersome weapon and armor upgrades

  • survival
  • tower-defense
  • mech
  • base-building
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • resource-management
  • resource
  • aliens
  • rpg
  • action
  • shooter
  • top-down
  • construction
  • local

3

Meet Your Maker (2023)

View Similar Games
74
Review score
Logo of Meet Your Maker Screenshot of Meet Your Maker Screenshot of Meet Your Maker Screenshot of Meet Your Maker

PC Windows Xbox Series X/s Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X

Meet your Maker is a post-apocalyptic first-person building-and-raiding game where every level is designed by players. Play solo or with a friend as you mastermind devious maze-like Outposts full of traps and guards, then gear up for methodical fast-paced combat raiding other players’ creations.


  • first-person
  • post-apocalyptic
  • base-building
  • shooter
  • asynchronous
  • fps
  • cooperative
  • maze
  • editor
  • level
  • multiplayer
  • building
  • asymmetric
  • resource
  • tactical

4

Garden Simulator (2023)

View Similar Games
72
Review score
Logo of Garden Simulator Screenshot of Garden Simulator Screenshot of Garden Simulator Screenshot of Garden Simulator

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

PLANT - DESIGN - HARVEST - With Garden Simulator you’ll get your own allotment, place deco elements and cultivate plants to harvest and sell them. Get ready for a beautiful time in nature. Always remember: A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.


  • simulation
  • base-building
  • relaxing
  • building
  • city-building
  • time-management
  • farming
  • agriculture
  • management
  • casual
  • 3d
  • family-friendly
  • first-person

5

SimAirport (2020)

View Similar Games
81
Review score
Logo of SimAirport Screenshot of SimAirport Screenshot of SimAirport Screenshot of SimAirport

Xbox Series X Xbox One Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!


  • base-building
  • city-building
  • flight
  • management
  • building
  • economy
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • resource-management
  • casual
  • large-scale
  • strategy

6

Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders (2024)

View Similar Games
76
Review score
Logo of Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders Screenshot of Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders Screenshot of Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders Screenshot of Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders

Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

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

7

Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master (2023)

View Similar Games
79
Review score
Logo of Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master Screenshot of Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master Screenshot of Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master Screenshot of Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master

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

A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage, and defend your tower in the satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair!


  • management
  • dungeon
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • building
  • medieval
  • simulation
  • replay-value
  • narration
  • comedy
  • fantasy
  • cartoony
  • resource-management
  • funny
  • family-friendly

8

WW2 Rebuilder (2023)

View Similar Games
82
Review score
Logo of WW2 Rebuilder Screenshot of WW2 Rebuilder Screenshot of WW2 Rebuilder Screenshot of WW2 Rebuilder

Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.


  • illustration
  • design
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • world-war-2
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • building
  • resource-management
  • education
  • relaxing
  • crafting
  • management
  • realistic
  • god-game

9

Starsand (2021)

View Similar Games
73
Review score
Logo of Starsand Screenshot of Starsand Screenshot of Starsand Screenshot of Starsand

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

In Starsand, you'll explore a vast and unforgiving desert, scavenging for resources, building a shelter, and hunting to survive. With dynamic weather and day/night changes, you'll have to plan and act wisely to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization and make it back home. Can you survive in this harsh environment and make it out alive?


What we like:
  • Good survival elements
  • Interesting premise
  • Nice desert atmosphere
  • Nice exploration aspects
  • Unique navigation system
What could be improved:
  • Limited content
  • Clunky gameplay
  • Unforgiving resource allocation
  • Bugs and glitches
  • Lack of save points

  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • inventory
  • 3d
  • management
  • sandbox
  • aliens
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • realistic
  • first-person

10

Hobo: Tough Life (2017)

View Similar Games
86
Review score
Logo of Hobo: Tough Life Screenshot of Hobo: Tough Life Screenshot of Hobo: Tough Life Screenshot of Hobo: Tough Life

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

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.


  • survival
  • base-building
  • cooperative
  • conversation
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • heist
  • sandbox
  • socio-economy
  • fiction
  • story
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • realistic
  • atmospheric

Not seeing your game?