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Best Building games on PC

Games where players construct structures, bases, settlements, or other creations, either as a central goal or as part of survival, simulation, strategy, or sandbox play.

Related: Sandbox, Crafting, Survival, Open World Survival Craft

2,955 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

2,955 games

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Terraria
Terraria
2D sandbox adventure built around digging, crafting, and boss fights
97% positive 1.4M reviews
Rust
Rust
Open-world multiplayer survival built around crafting, bases, and raids
87% positive 1.3M reviews
Garry's Mod
Garry's Mod
Physics sandbox for building contraptions and playing community-made modes
97% positive 1.2M reviews
Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley
Open-ended farming RPG about rebuilding a farm and community
98% positive 956K reviews
The Forest
The Forest
First-person survival horror with base building and mutant cannibals
95% positive 634K reviews
ARK: Survival Evolved
ARK: Survival Evolved
Open-world survival crafting with dinosaur taming and base building
84% positive 625K reviews
Valheim
Valheim
Norse open-world survival crafting with co-op building and bosses
93% positive 501K reviews
Palworld
Palworld
Open-world survival RPG combining creature collecting, crafting, and base automation
94% positive 432K reviews
Project Zomboid
Project Zomboid
Open-world zombie survival sandbox where every mistake can end a life
93% positive 396K reviews
Raft
Raft
First-person ocean survival crafting on an expandable floating home
92% positive 350K reviews
People Playground
People Playground
2D physics sandbox for building contraptions and destroying ragdolls
98% positive 339K reviews
Sons Of The Forest
Sons Of The Forest
Open-world survival horror with base building and cooperative exploration
88% positive 308K reviews
Schedule I Demo
Schedule I
Open-world crime simulation about building and automating a drug operation
98% positive 302K reviews
7 Days to Die
7 Days to Die
Open-world zombie survival sandbox built around crafting and base defense
86% positive 296K reviews
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Turn-based historical strategy with expanding cities and five victory paths
85% positive 290K reviews
Satisfactory
Satisfactory
First-person factory builder about automating an alien open world
97% positive 247K reviews
Cities: Skylines
Cities: Skylines
Single-player city builder about growth, budgets, traffic, and public services
89% positive 240K reviews
The Sims™ 4
The Sims™ 4
Free-to-play life simulation about creating Sims, homes, and stories
86% positive Free
RimWorld
RimWorld
Sci-fi colony sim where an AI storyteller drives survival
97% positive 221K reviews
Muck
Muck
First-person island survival with crafting, base building, and nighttime attacks
93% positive Free
Once Human
Once Human
Open-world multiplayer survival crafting amid monsters and polluted wilderness
78% positive Free
Factorio Demo
Factorio
Factory-building strategy game about automating production and defending your industry
97% positive 206K reviews
Oxygen Not Included
Oxygen Not Included
Space colony simulation built around survival and interconnected resource systems
96% positive 142K reviews
Starbound
Starbound
Spacefaring sandbox RPG built around exploration, crafting, and colonization
93% positive 131K reviews