The Best Crafting base-building multiplayer Games for Linux

Update : Grim added at rank #5.
Here are our 10 Best Crafting base-building multiplayer Games for Linux:
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Factorio (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux

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.


What we like:
  • Complex puzzle-solving
  • Open-ended gameplay
  • Automation mechanics
  • Creative assembly lines
  • Captivating story
What could be improved:
  • Tedious combat
  • Limited environmental resources
  • Environmental consequences of mass manufacturing

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

2

Valheim (2022)

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early access Xbox One Android Mac OS Linux PC Windows Xbox Series X

Valheim is an epic, Viking-tinged survival-creation game with blocky graphics and a modern twist. You are dropped in a wild forest with runes to guide you on your mission to conjure and defeat supernatural beasts. Players must craft weapons and armor, puzzle out how to summon the beasts, and build structures for shelter along the way.

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What we like:
  • Simple default building system
  • Instant rebuilding/repairing
  • Randomly generated 3D universe
  • Easy-to-read color highlights for structural integrity
  • Level up abilities by repeating actions
  • Robust physics engine underlies all actions
What could be improved:
  • Wonky battling system
  • Limited traversal over rivers and oceans at this point

  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • boss
  • exploration

3

Renown (2023)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Renown is a fast paced multiplayer survival experience set in a vast and ever changing medieval world. Players begin with nothing, gather resources, build a kingdom and fight to survive in the hopes of becoming renowned across the land.


  • crafting
  • open-world
  • survival
  • turn-based
  • multiplayer
  • base-building
  • pvp
  • building
  • tactical
  • medieval
  • sandbox
  • mmo
  • hack-and-slash
  • adventure
  • board-game

4

Monster Outbreak (2022)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch

It's a Monster Outbreak! The King's dimensional orb malfunctioned, bringing hordes of dimensional monsters into the Kingdom. As Yulia, the last survivor of the Royal Guard, defend your staging ground against the monsters, upgrade your arsenal, and survive long enough to find the orb and destroy it.

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  • base-building
  • hack-and-slash
  • tower-defense
  • cooperative
  • split-screen
  • crafting
  • local
  • survival
  • multiplayer
  • building
  • controller-support
  • 2d
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • arcade

5

Grim (2025)

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early access Xbox One Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Android vita Playstation 4 Mac OS Linux PC Windows

GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself in its red wasteland, where survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other desperate players. You must gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.


  • survival
  • narration
  • dynamic
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • vr
  • rpg
  • base-building
  • multiple-endings
  • cinematic
  • exploration
  • dark
  • first-person
  • multiplayer
  • pvp

6

Volcanoids (2019)

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early access Linux PC Windows

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces the typical base with a modular drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and battle robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

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  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • steampunk
  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • building
  • sandbox
  • atmospheric
  • shooter
  • exploration
  • first-person

7

Beyond Hope (2023)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Beyond Hope gives you and your friends one epic space journey! Your mission alone or with friends is to save yourself from getting pulled into the hot Sun. Gather debris, scavenge asteroids and build your own space station. Reach for the stars and survive when all odds are against you!

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  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • action-adventure
  • fps
  • sci-fi
  • first-person
  • 3d
  • shooter
  • casual
  • crafting
  • tanks
  • multiplayer
  • military
  • root
  • cooperative-player

8

Wurm Unlimited (2015)

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Linux PC Windows

Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.


  • crafting
  • open-world
  • mmo
  • multiplayer
  • sandbox
  • survival
  • game 
  • building
  • rpg
  • base-building

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Skullborn (2022)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Skullborn is an infinite massively multiplayer sandbox game! Begin as a skeleton, fight, gather resources, and craft armor/weapon to upgrade your bones! Explore and team up with other players around the world.

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  • mmo
  • voxel
  • multiplayer
  • base-building
  • procedural
  • first-person
  • sandbox
  • tps
  • rpg
  • crafting
  • character
  • pve
  • third-person
  • fps
  • colourful

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Haven & Hearth (2024)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Haven & Hearth is a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) set in a fictional world loosely inspired by Slavic and Germanic myth and legend. The game sets itself apart from other games in the genre in its aim to provide players with an interactive, affectable and mutable game world, which can be permanently and fundamentally changed and affected through actions undertaken by the players. Our fundamental goal with Haven & Hearth is to create a game in which player choices have permanent and/or lasting effects and, thus, providing said players with a meaningful and fun gaming experience

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  • mmo
  • multiplayer
  • hunting
  • perma-death
  • cooking
  • agriculture
  • walking-simulator
  • base-building
  • rpg
  • isometric
  • pvp
  • sandbox
  • top-down
  • survival
  • crafting

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