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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.

Nightingale
Open-world survival crafting through Fae portals, with base building
66% positive 18K reviews
Shop Titans
Free-to-play fantasy shop management with crafting, trading, and hero quests
78% positive Free
IXION
Space station survival city-builder with punishing resource management
79% positive 18K reviews
Myth of Empires
Open-world survival sandbox about building fortresses and commanding armies
68% positive 18K reviews
State of Decay
Third-person, open-world zombie survival with scavenging and base building
85% positive 17K reviews
RoadCraft
Construction simulation about rebuilding roads after natural disasters
75% positive 16K reviews
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Real-time space strategy blending empire management with large fleet battles
93% positive 16K reviews
Cossacks 3
Historical real-time strategy with vast armies and economic management
82% positive 16K reviews
Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3
Alternate-history RTS with three factions and land, air, naval warfare
85% positive 16K reviews
Iron Harvest
Alternate-history RTS with base building and dieselpunk mech warfare
73% positive 16K reviews
shapez
2D factory automation sandbox about cutting and combining shapes
96% positive 16K reviews
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Historical real-time strategy spanning ancient cities to modern warfare
95% positive 16K reviews
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Historical real-time strategy about building civilizations and conquering rivals
84% positive 16K reviews
Chernobylite Complete Edition
First-person survival horror RPG mixing Chernobyl expeditions and base management
82% positive 16K reviews
ZERO Sievert
Top-down extraction shooter about scavenging a radioactive wasteland alone
85% positive 16K reviews
shapez 2 - Factory
Sandbox factory simulation about automating and transporting geometric shapes
97% positive 15K reviews
Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense
Competitive tower defense with randomized armies and player-sent mercenaries
86% positive 15K reviews
Rusty's Retirement
Idle farming simulator that runs along your screen's edge
97% positive 15K reviews
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
Large-scale sci-fi RTS battles spanning multiple destructible planets
84% positive 15K reviews
Mist Survival
Single-player open-world survival crafting amid fog, infected, and bandits
76% positive 14K reviews
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Large-scale sci-fi RTS with base building and massive armies
97% positive 14K reviews
HumanitZ
Isometric open-world zombie survival with crafting and base building
74% positive 14K reviews
Eco
Open-world society simulator balancing industry against a simulated ecosystem
81% positive 14K reviews
Yog-Sothoth’s Yard
Lovecraftian hotel management sim with dating and branching endings
94% positive 14K reviews