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.
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Open-world survival crafting at insect scale, alone or together
82% positive
11K reviews
Norland
Medieval colony sim about noble families, politics, and survival
82% positive
10K reviews
Planetbase
Single-player space colony sim about building a self-sufficient outpost
80% positive
10K reviews
Stronghold HD (2012)
Medieval strategy game about building castles and surviving sieges
96% positive
10K reviews
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Medieval castle-building RTS balancing settlement economics and siege warfare
87% positive
10K reviews
Severed Steel
First-person shooter with wall runs, slow motion, and destructible levels
95% positive
10K reviews
The Survivalists
Island survival crafting with monkeys that gather, build, and fight
76% positive
10K reviews
Hobo: Tough Life
Open-world survival RPG about enduring winter on city streets
84% positive
10K reviews
Endzone - A World Apart
Post-apocalyptic colony builder about surviving radiation and extreme weather
77% positive
10K reviews
Voidtrain
First-person survival crafting aboard a train crossing a surreal void
73% positive
9,952 reviews
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player city builder focused on regional planning and transportation
82% positive
9,868 reviews
Kingdoms Reborn
Medieval city builder with card-based growth and multiplayer kingdoms
90% positive
9,735 reviews
Stronghold Kingdoms
Medieval MMO strategy about building castles and ruling through factions
64% positive
Free
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
Accessible sci-fi RTS with base building and large-army battles
91% positive
9,554 reviews
Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™
Sci-fi real-time strategy with three campaigns and live-action storytelling
90% positive
9,356 reviews
Volcanoids
Open-world survival shooter built around a mobile drillship base
83% positive
9,354 reviews
Stationeers
Technical space survival sandbox about engineering and automating a station
88% positive
9,293 reviews
Might & Magic: Heroes VI
Turn-based fantasy strategy with city building and hero progression
48% positive
9,273 reviews
Songs of Syx
Low-fantasy city builder scaling villages into warring empires
94% positive
9,270 reviews
Stormgate
Top-down real-time strategy with base building and three warring factions
47% positive
Free
Forever Skies
Open-world survival crafting aboard a customizable flying airship
78% positive
9,047 reviews
Colony Survival
Colony-building survival game with workers and nightly monster attacks
92% positive
9,010 reviews
Wildfrost
Roguelike deckbuilder with tactical positioning and timed automatic attacks
83% positive
8,854 reviews
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Real-time space strategy where orbiting planets reshape battlefronts
84% positive
8,773 reviews