The Best Building Games

Update : Learning Factory added at rank #29.
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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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Island Cities - Jigsaw Puzzle (2022)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Arrange the town islands and see them come to life. Just swap the blocks of a 3D jigsaw puzzle.


  • cozy
  • lego
  • solitaire
  • wholesome
  • city-building
  • relaxing
  • building
  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • tabletop
  • board-game
  • trains
  • puzzle
  • minimalist
  • colourful

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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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Kasi (2020)

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ps1 PC Windows

Girls battle with sweets falling block puzzle! With Single play, 1P versus &2P versus mode. 3 sweets which are same and connected will disappear. And sweet in bottle be broke by other bottle fell on it. It is also for beginner to lightly enjoy the puzzle combo. Total of 8 character appear.


  • weapon
  • simulation
  • building
  • minimalist
  • life
  • mid-combat
  • casual
  • fight
  • sandbox
  • fight-game
  • management
  • combo
  • colourful
  • family-friendly
  • 2d

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House (2020)

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

Explore the HOUSE, remember it & spot the changes !


  • horror
  • building
  • investigation
  • walking-simulator
  • simulation
  • gore
  • illustration
  • design
  • single-player
  • first-person
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • detective
  • pixel
  • relaxing

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The Genesis Project (2022)

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early access PC Windows Linux Mac OS

The Genesis Project is an attempt to replicate Sburb from the popular webcomic Homestuck, made by Andrew Hussie.

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  • rpg
  • party
  • memes
  • base-building
  • building
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action-adventure
  • character
  • 3d
  • tag
  • exploration
  • customization
  • crafting
  • management
  • fantasy

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Scrap Mechanic (2016)

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early access Android PC Windows

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!


  • building
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • physics
  • simulation
  • cooperative
  • moddable
  • third-person
  • multiplayer

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Occupy White Walls (2022)

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PC Windows

A game about building art galleries may sound boring until you realise that just about anything can be an art gallery... Add in cutting edge AI, extremely creative community, Unreal graphics, and did we mention it's free?

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  • immersive
  • building
  • multiplayer
  • sandbox
  • education
  • relaxing
  • mmo
  • simulation
  • atmospheric
  • walking-simulator
  • experimental
  • colourful
  • open-world
  • first-person

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Planet S (2023)

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PC Windows Android

Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.


  • real-time
  • city-building
  • strategy
  • space
  • building
  • procedural
  • futuristic
  • 3d
  • hex
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • resource-management
  • management
  • multiplayer
  • grid

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Besiege (2020)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch j Playstation 4 Mac OS Linux Xbox One Xbox Series X Android

Besiege is a physics based building game in which you construct medieval siege engines. Battle your way through a 54 level singleplayer campaign, unleash chaos with your friends in multiplayer, create your own worlds with the level editor, customize your game with mods through the workshop.


  • sandbox
  • building
  • physics
  • medieval
  • destruction
  • lego
  • science
  • vehicle
  • funny
  • humor
  • editor
  • level
  • gilliam
  • relaxing
  • strategy

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