Buildanauts
Open-world construction simulator with building design and town management
TouchTilt Games · Published by Octopus Tree · Released May 4, 2017 · Early Access
Early Access, no updates for over a year
- Reviews
- Mostly Negative
- 25% of 57
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 30, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 9 years ago
- Jun 16, 2017
What is Buildanauts?
You serve as a town's planner, foreman, and mayor, with a construction crew turning your designs into buildings. You explore an open landscape, search for resources, reshape terrain, draw structures, choose materials and colors, and place roads and amenities to keep residents happy.
For you if...
- +you enjoy designing custom structures in a building sandbox
Not for you if...
- −you want to build without managing residents' needs
What players say
25% of 57 reviews are positive
Players praise the town-building concept, but complain about lost saves, loading problems, and terrain tools. Later reviews report bugs that block progress and describe development as abandoned.
Screenshots and trailer
Buildanauts system requirements
Minimum: ® 400 Serias, 4 GB RAM, 2 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Buildanauts?
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- OS
- Windows® 7 64-bit, Windows® 8 64-bit, Windows® 10 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel® Core™ 2 Quad processor (or equivalent AMD processor) 2.4 GHz or faster
- Graphics
- nVidia® 400 Serias/ATI-AMD® 5000 or faster (Mobile chipsets may not work), DirectX® 11.0c-compliant, SM 3.0-compliant
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 2 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
Does Buildanauts have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Buildanauts run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 16
- Steam features
- Workshop, Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Text only: English.
Does Buildanauts use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 28, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
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Recent updates
- Jun 16, 2017 · June 16th Update
- Jun 16, 2017 · June 16th Update
- May 23, 2017 · Version 1.2.4.5 is now live!
- May 23, 2017 · Version 1.2.4.5 is now live!
- May 9, 2017 · Version 1.2.1.0 is now live!
