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Best Base Building games on PC

Games where players construct, expand, and manage a base, ranging from survival shelters to colonies, factories, and military settlements.

  • Construct and expand a home base
  • Gather and manage building resources
  • Upgrade defenses, production, or utilities

Related: Resource Management, Crafting, Survival, Automation

760 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

ARK: Survival Evolved
Open-world survival crafting with dinosaur taming and base building
83% positive 778K reviews
Valheim
Norse open-world survival crafting with co-op building and bosses
94% positive 552K reviews
Palworld
Open-world survival RPG combining creature collecting, crafting, and base automation
95% positive 489K reviews
7 Days to Die
Open-world zombie survival sandbox built around crafting and base defense
87% positive 401K reviews
Subnautica
First-person underwater survival crafting on a dangerous alien ocean
97% positive 380K reviews
Raft
First-person ocean survival crafting on an expandable floating home
93% positive 379K reviews
Sons Of The Forest
Open-world survival horror with base building and cooperative exploration
88% positive 321K reviews
Schedule I
Open-world crime simulation about building and automating a drug operation
98% positive 317K reviews
Satisfactory
First-person factory builder about automating an alien open world
97% positive 280K reviews
RimWorld
Sci-fi colony sim where an AI storyteller drives survival
98% positive 247K reviews
Squad
Large-scale military FPS built around teamwork, tactics, and combined arms
81% positive 244K reviews
Factorio
Factory-building strategy game about automating production and defending your industry
98% positive 235K reviews
Once Human
Open-world multiplayer survival crafting amid monsters and polluted wilderness
79% positive Free
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Historical real-time strategy spanning centuries of civilizations and warfare
95% positive 183K reviews
Oxygen Not Included
Space colony simulation built around survival and interconnected resource systems
97% positive 144K reviews
Fallout 76
Open-world multiplayer RPG about rebuilding post-nuclear West Virginia
72% positive 141K reviews
ASTRONEER
Open-world space sandbox about reshaping planets and building bases
92% positive 139K reviews
Frostpunk
Survival city builder where heat, resources, and laws decide lives
93% positive 138K reviews
V Rising
Open-world vampire survival RPG with castle building and blood hunting
89% positive 137K reviews
Space Engineers
Open-world space sandbox for building and breaking physics-driven machines
89% positive 134K reviews
Cult of the Lamb
Action roguelite and colony sim about building a woodland cult
96% positive 130K reviews
Scrap Mechanic
Physics-based survival sandbox for building machines with friends
92% positive 123K reviews
ARK: Survival Ascended
Open-world survival sandbox about taming dinosaurs and building bases
60% positive 118K reviews
Kenshi
Open-world squad RPG about surviving and shaping a hostile wasteland
96% positive 117K reviews