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.
Pacific Drive
First-person driving survival through a shifting, anomaly-filled exclusion zone
83% positive
27K reviews
Farthest Frontier
Medieval city builder with physical logistics, farming, and frontier survival
86% positive
26K reviews
Forts
Physics-based 2D strategy battles built around forts and destruction
92% positive
25K reviews
The Riftbreaker
Base-building action RPG with alien hordes and tower defense
90% positive
25K reviews
Foundation
Gridless medieval city builder with organic roads and modular buildings
87% positive
24K reviews
Sunkenland
Open-world survival crafting across flooded ruins, alone or in co-op
80% positive
24K reviews
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
Three-faction sci-fi RTS with base building and giant war machines
48% positive
24K reviews
Thronefall
Minimalist tower defense with daytime building and nighttime battles
96% positive
24K reviews
Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Xianxia colony simulator about rebuilding and managing a cultivation sect
86% positive
24K reviews
War Selection
Free-to-play base-building RTS spanning the Stone Age to heavy tanks
85% positive
Free
Age of Mythology: Retold
Mythological real-time strategy with base building and god powers
90% positive
24K reviews
Tribes of Midgard
Viking survival action RPG with crafting, base building, and giants
76% positive
23K reviews
Kingdom: Classic
Side-scrolling strategy where coins build defenses against nightly raids
91% positive
Free
Soulmask
Open-world survival crafting with recruitable tribes and automated bases
77% positive
22K reviews
Going Medieval
Medieval colony sim with multilevel building and siege defense
89% positive
21K reviews
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Medieval real-time strategy built around desert castles and sieges
97% positive
21K reviews
House Flipper 2
First-person renovation sim for cleaning, decorating, and building together
87% positive
20K reviews
ELEX
Post-apocalyptic action RPG with open-world exploration and jetpack travel
74% positive
20K reviews
Empires of the Undergrowth
Ant colony RTS about building nests and commanding insect swarms
94% positive
19K reviews
Company of Heroes
World War II RTS built around cover and destructible battlefields
94% positive
19K reviews
Dungeons 3
Dungeon-building strategy with real-time invasions of the surface world
94% positive
19K reviews
Infection Free Zone
Zombie survival city builder set on real-world street maps
81% positive
19K reviews
Breathedge
First-person space survival adventure among a wreck’s drifting debris
81% positive
18K reviews
Stronghold Crusader 2
Medieval real-time strategy mixing castle building, sieges, and desert economies
72% positive
18K reviews