The Best Multiplayer base-building Games

Update : Wilderness: Survival added at rank #41.
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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
  • trains
  • robots
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • factory-building
  • crafting
  • empire
  • resource-management
  • multiplayer
  • cooperative
  • resource

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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

3

Mindustry (2017)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux IOS iPhone Android

- Minor bugfixes. - Minor fixes to bug fixes. - Major bugfixes to bugfix the bugfix for bug fixing. - Bug fixes for bugfixing the bug fixing bug.


  • tower-defense
  • base-building
  • automation
  • cooperative
  • factory-building
  • resource-management
  • cross-platform
  • sandbox
  • multiplayer
  • strategy
  • building
  • real-time
  • management
  • team
  • mech

4

Retro Commander (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android

Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).


  • real-time
  • strategy
  • cross-platform
  • wargame
  • base-building
  • 2.5d
  • multiplayer
  • naval
  • thrilling
  • isometric
  • submarine
  • mech
  • team
  • tutorial
  • tanks

5

CONFLICT OF NATIONS: WORLD WAR 3 (2018)

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Mac OS PC Windows

This Long Term Strategy Game lets you take control of the armed forces of your nation. Become responsible for its military expansion, technological research and economic development. Form alliances and wage total war for global dominance on the battlefields of World War 3.

Buy

  • grand-strategy
  • diplomacy
  • mmo
  • wargame
  • politics
  • multiplayer
  • real-time
  • base-building
  • strategy
  • movement
  • asynchronous
  • historical
  • alternate
  • grid

6

Mad Games Tycoon 2 (2021)

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Mac OS Xbox One PC Windows

Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.


  • development
  • capitalism
  • programming
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • management
  • economy
  • cartoony
  • trading
  • building
  • sandbox
  • character
  • pvp
  • multiplayer
  • simulation

7

Foxhole (2022)

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PC Windows Android

Foxhole is a massively multiplayer game where thousands of players shape the outcome of a persistent online war. Every individual soldier is a player that contributes to the war effort through logistics, base building, reconnaissance, combat, and more.


  • multiplayer
  • mmo
  • top-down
  • war
  • wargame
  • world-war-2
  • military
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • pvp
  • team
  • tactical
  • open-world
  • shooter
  • crafting

8

Sky (2023)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

SKY is a new way of looking at urban planning strategies. Change voxel landscapes at your discretion, develop technologies, build environmentally friendly cities of the future, and withstand any blows from the elements.


  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • voxel
  • city-building
  • automation
  • open-world
  • multiplayer
  • survival
  • sky
  • procedural
  • pve
  • pvp
  • action-adventure
  • immersive
  • management

9

SAS (2017)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS IOS iPhone Playstation 3 Xbox 360 wii

SAS is an Open World Multiplayer PVP and CO-OP Survival Game. Set in a vast environment that features Building, Crafting, Taming, Riding, Flying and Exploring Wildlife, Dinos and Dragons as well as Horrific Creatures and Instances with the ability to Morph into Spirit Animals.


  • fishing
  • survival
  • first-person
  • zombies
  • pvp
  • base-building
  • multiplayer
  • dragon
  • shooter
  • sandbox
  • mmo
  • rpg
  • western
  • top-down

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Prosperous Universe (2022)

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early access Linux PC Windows

In Prosperous Universe start your galactic empire by trading on the real-time market exchange with other real players. Build your 1st base from humble beginnings & watch as your business flourishes with complex supply chain strategies. Economics, politics & realism fuel this immersive business MMO.

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  • mmo
  • multiplayer
  • space
  • economy
  • management
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • trading
  • text
  • sandbox
  • building
  • sci-fi
  • open-world
  • inventory

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