The Best Building Games

Update : Learning Factory added at rank #1.
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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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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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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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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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Tiny Glade (2024)

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PC Windows Linux

Tiny Glade is a small diorama builder where you doodle whimsical castles, cozy cottages & romantic ruins. Explore gridless building chemistry as the game adorns your glades with procedural detail. No management, combat or goals: just kick back and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.

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  • sandbox
  • illustration
  • design
  • cozy
  • building
  • relaxing
  • nature
  • experimental
  • medieval
  • family-friendly
  • cute
  • procedural
  • cosy
  • stylized
  • colourful

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Mad Smartphone Tycoon (2024)

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PC Windows

Build Your smartphone Empire in Mad Smartphone Tycoon, your main goal in this game is to create the ultimate smartphone that combines both performance and aesthetics. Expand your company, dominate the global market, become a tycoon in the world of mobile phones!

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  • management
  • building
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • capitalism
  • modern
  • sandbox
  • city-building
  • 3d
  • crafting
  • base-building
  • economy
  • strategy
  • casual
  • rogue-like

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DinoTribe (2024)

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PC Windows

Create your dino chief, lead your tribe. Survive waves of enemies, explore and settle on foreign islands. Find a way to avoid extinction!

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  • base-building
  • dinosaurs
  • strategy
  • building
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • turn-based
  • colony
  • single-player
  • simulation
  • war
  • combat
  • exploration
  • funny
  • casual

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Eden Island (2024)

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PC Windows Android

Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.


  • crafting
  • hunting
  • mining
  • archery
  • agriculture
  • open-world
  • survival
  • base-building
  • building
  • life
  • sandbox
  • walking-simulator
  • exploration
  • tps
  • fps

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