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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.

  • Constructing structures and custom creations
  • Planning layouts and managing resources

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

1,165 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

Terraria
2D sandbox adventure built around digging, crafting, and boss fights
97% positive 1.6M reviews
Rust
Open-world multiplayer survival built around crafting, bases, and raids
87% positive 1.4M reviews
Garry's Mod
Physics sandbox for building contraptions and playing community-made modes
97% positive 1.3M reviews
Stardew Valley
Open-ended farming RPG about rebuilding a farm and community
98% positive 1.0M reviews
ARK: Survival Evolved
Open-world survival crafting with dinosaur taming and base building
83% positive 778K reviews
The Forest
First-person survival horror with base building and mutant cannibals
96% positive 683K reviews
Valheim
Norse open-world survival crafting with co-op building and bosses
94% positive 552K reviews
Palworld
Open-world survival RPG combining creature collecting, crafting, and base automation
95% positive 489K reviews
Project Zomboid
Open-world zombie survival sandbox where every mistake can end a life
94% positive 483K reviews
7 Days to Die
Open-world zombie survival sandbox built around crafting and base defense
87% positive 401K reviews
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Turn-based historical strategy with expanding cities and five victory paths
86% positive 379K reviews
Raft
First-person ocean survival crafting on an expandable floating home
93% positive 379K reviews
Sons Of The Forest
Open-world survival horror with base building and cooperative exploration
88% positive 321K reviews
People Playground
2D physics sandbox for building contraptions and destroying ragdolls
98% positive 318K reviews
Schedule I
Open-world crime simulation about building and automating a drug operation
98% positive 317K reviews
Cities: Skylines
Single-player city builder about growth, budgets, traffic, and public services
93% positive 292K reviews
Satisfactory
First-person factory builder about automating an alien open world
97% positive 280K reviews
RimWorld
Sci-fi colony sim where an AI storyteller drives survival
98% positive 247K reviews
Factorio
Factory-building strategy game about automating production and defending your industry
98% positive 235K reviews
The Sims™ 4
Free-to-play life simulation about creating Sims, homes, and stories
86% positive Free
Once Human
Open-world multiplayer survival crafting amid monsters and polluted wilderness
79% positive Free
Kerbal Space Program
Physics-based spaceflight sandbox for building and piloting homemade spacecraft
96% positive 147K reviews
Oxygen Not Included
Space colony simulation built around survival and interconnected resource systems
97% positive 144K reviews
ASTRONEER
Open-world space sandbox about reshaping planets and building bases
92% positive 139K reviews