The Best Multiplayer base-building Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Grim added at rank #5.
Here are our 10 Best Multiplayer base-building 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
  • simulation
  • automation
  • robots
  • base-building
  • trains
  • crafting
  • empire
  • sandbox
  • resource-management
  • aliens
  • multiplayer
  • cooperative
  • resource

2

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

3

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

4

Monarchy (2024)

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j PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Xbox One

A 2D side-scrolling strategy game of resource management, base defense and conquest.


  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • scroller
  • tower-defense
  • rogue-like
  • building
  • cooperative
  • procedural
  • local
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • medieval
  • strategy
  • exploration
  • multiplayer

5

Grim (2025)

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

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
  • exploration
  • cinematic
  • dark
  • first-person
  • multiplayer
  • pvp

6

Scrapnaut (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

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

7

Ice World (2024)

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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
  • dog
  • base-building
  • hunting
  • mining
  • post-apocalyptic
  • building
  • tps
  • mmo
  • multiplayer
  • snow
  • survival
  • survival-horror

8

Warparty (2019)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS

War Party is a strategy game where you enter a prehistoric world of Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Magic! Build up your chosen faction, gather resources, explore the land and command them against enemy tribes and wildlife! Will your story be about Life, Death or Balance? Can you survive?


  • base-building
  • real-time
  • resource-management
  • dinosaurs
  • strategy
  • competitive
  • multiplayer
  • historical
  • stop
  • mmo

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KnightOut (2018)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

KnightOut is a local party brawler for 1-4 players! Play with or against your friends in a frantic battle. Half the battle is won by building an epic castle with deadly weapons and traps. Charge into sword duels or keep your distance with long range weapons.

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  • local
  • 4-player
  • cartoony
  • swordplay
  • 2.5d
  • base-building
  • family-friendly
  • pvp
  • multiplayer
  • medieval
  • colourful
  • cute
  • cooperative
  • arcade
  • funny

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