The Best Crafting base-building multiplayer Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Ice World added at rank #8.
Here are our 10 Best Crafting base-building multiplayer Games for Nintendo Switch:
1

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.

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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
  • trains
  • robots
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • factory-building
  • crafting
  • empire
  • resource-management
  • multiplayer
  • cooperative
  • resource

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Astroneer (2019)

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Xbox One IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4

Embark on a cosmic journey in Astroneer, where you can shape worlds to your heart's content. Dig, build, and survive in a sandbox universe, creating bases and vehicles with friends. Uncover mysteries and enjoy a crafting odyssey across vibrant planets—your space adventure awaits!

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What we like:
  • Engaging crafting and building mechanics
  • Vibrant, immersive worlds
  • Relaxing, open-ended gameplay
  • Satisfying cooperative multiplayer
  • Regular updates with new content
What could be improved:
  • Occasional control and camera issues

  • survival
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • cooperative
  • open-world
  • exploration
  • space
  • drop-in
  • drop-out
  • resource
  • base-building
  • adventure

3

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.


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

4

Scrapnaut (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

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  • survival
  • cooperative
  • crafting
  • building
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • base-building
  • top-down
  • exploration
  • online
  • post-apocalyptic
  • steampunk
  • farming
  • multiplayer
  • robots

5

Remnants (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Remnants is an open world survival game that challenges you to face different obstacles while building your strategies and skills to survive. There are various modes to choose from, and the gameplay is immersive with crafting, vehicle construction, dynamic base building, and weather changes. With constant content updates and an active developer who addresses issues, it's an experience you wouldn't want to miss.


What we like:
  • Active developer that listens to feedback
  • Customizable game settings
  • Extensive building system
  • Plenty of loot
  • Great potential and constant content updates
What could be improved:
  • Steep learning curve: combat & navigation can be difficult
  • Early game can be challenging
  • Some bugs and UI issues

  • mmo
  • survival
  • multiplayer
  • gore
  • crafting
  • rpg
  • violent
  • action
  • sandbox
  • adventure
  • tps
  • robots
  • base-building
  • head-to-head

6

Survive on Raft (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

Survive on Raft is a survival sandbox simulator on the raft which throw you into an epic adventure in the middle of the ocean!

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  • survival
  • crafting
  • farming
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • inventory
  • resource-management
  • management
  • sandbox
  • building
  • underwater
  • cooperative
  • online
  • multiplayer

7

PixARK (2018)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4

In addition, the player must ensure their survival by mining resources, making objects, building structures and defending himself against enemy animals and other players. The world has several areas such as jungle, desert and caves and is generated procedurally, so it is not prefabricated. Likewise, the quest system is procedural and always creates new challenges.

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  • dinosaurs
  • survival
  • multiplayer
  • mmo
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • adventure
  • voxel
  • building
  • endless

8

Ice World (2024)

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early access PC Windows Nintendo Switch

A blizzard brought a long winter, Humanity on the brink of extinction. you had to face ferocious beasts, mine ice and snow to build a base, and survive in the cold apocalypse.


  • skiing
  • agriculture
  • fishing
  • base-building
  • dog
  • hunting
  • mining
  • post-apocalyptic
  • building
  • tps
  • mmo
  • multiplayer
  • survival
  • crafting
  • survival-horror

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