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