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.
Cossacks: Art of War
Real-time strategy with five campaigns of historical battles
82% positive
380 reviews
TDS - Tower Defense Strategy
Tower defense meets real-time strategy as you mine and fight
82% positive
374 reviews
Retro Commander
Post-apocalyptic real-time strategy with faction technologies and changing weather
77% positive
Free
Catizens
Cat colony sim where personalities shape town building and jobs
81% positive
367 reviews
Of Life and Land
Colony-building strategy game where settlements reshape living ecosystems
86% positive
367 reviews
Roots of Yggdrasil
Norse city builder where building cards shape each timed run
86% positive
366 reviews
Annihilate The Spance
Space RTS with autonomous fleets and strategic base building
90% positive
366 reviews
OF MICE AND SAND -REVISED-
Strategy simulation about managing mice aboard a desert craft
80% positive
363 reviews
Airmen
First-person shipbuilding and airship battles across an open-world archipelago
76% positive
361 reviews
Syn-Chorus 01: The New Life
Fantasy city life RPG about rebuilding through farming and crafting
83% positive
356 reviews
RailGods of Hysterra
Cosmic horror survival and crafting aboard a living train
54% positive
345 reviews
Research Story
Farming and life sim built around researching plants and creatures
95% positive
344 reviews
Gym Manager
Gym management sim with facility upgrades and rival sabotage
80% positive
342 reviews
Alien Marauder
Top-down survival RTS about building defenses against alien swarms
62% positive
340 reviews
Organs Please
Dystopian management sim screening arrivals to build an escape ship
83% positive
334 reviews
Sumerians
Historical city builder centered on irrigation, trade, and planning
87% positive
331 reviews
Cozy Keep: Farm, Craft, Manage
Medieval shopkeeping sim where farming, crafting, and exploration stock shelves
94% positive
330 reviews
Crab God
Side-scrolling underwater colony strategy guiding crabs to protect an egg
82% positive
329 reviews
Alien Hallway
Mouse-controlled action strategy commanding soldiers against waves of aliens
65% positive
325 reviews
Mercury Fallen
Isometric sci-fi colony sim about rebuilding a ruined planetary outpost
77% positive
321 reviews
Imperia Online
Medieval multiplayer strategy about building empires and waging alliance wars
59% positive
Free
Gone: Survival
First-person open-world survival with crafting, shelters, and zombies
44% positive
319 reviews
Time Break Chronicles
Turn-based roguelite RPG with customizable parties from across time
89% positive
313 reviews
Broken Universe - Tower Defense
2D tower defense across planets with player-shaped enemy paths
91% positive
313 reviews