The Base Building Zone

Games about constructing, defending, upgrading, and managing a home base.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Permafrost - Permafrost is a story-driven survival sandbox set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world. Discover a vast lore-rich open world, alone or in co-op with up to 4 players. Explore, scavenge, craft, and build a network of shelters to outlast the cold.
Piworld - Piworld is a unique multiplayer game where everyone can find something to do to suit their desires. Try out different roles: from a simple fisherman to an adventurer. Explore the world alone or with friends, fight evil, develop your skills, and create your own story.
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Oct 4, 2026
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The Piper of Dawn - Players say: Build an alchemist’s farm and shop in a time-looping city, using crops, alchemy, and faction ties to shape its fate. Players like: Distinctive Character Art · Intriguing City Mystery · Varied Management Systems ·
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Welcome to Diamond City, a realm trapped in an endless cycle of madness! This story-rich dark fantasy sim lets you master alchemy, grow magical crops, run a thriving shop, and build relationships with humans and non-humans alike. Discover the city's many fates through your choices.

The Crust - Players say: Build a lunar colony by mining resources, automating factories, managing settlers, and trading with Earth in a story-driven sim. Players like: Lunar Atmosphere · Factory Planning · Earth-Market Contracts ·
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Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Code: Terraform - A deep automation and programming game on a frozen alien planet. Write real code to drive rovers, run power grids, fabricate parts, and fly drone fleets across the world. Your scripts run while you plan your next move. The more you terraform, the more the planet responds.
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Sep 9, 2026
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Warlord: Awaji - Lead a samurai invasion into the mysterious island of Awaji! Recruit, promote, and upgrade your warriors while navigating the ancient world of feudal Japan. Use samurai weapons and strategies to conquer the entire island and become Warlord!
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Sep 9, 2026
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Honeycomb: The World Beyond - Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.
Tower Lab - Enemies have no health, push them off instead. Weaponize physics in this roguelite tower defense game. Draft a deck, chain towers into living contraptions, grow and shrink every projectile, and launch hordes of robots off the edge.
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Sep 7, 2026
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Dungeon Settlers - Players say: Build a refuge on barren land, then train a four-person party to scavenge a shifting dungeon in pauseable real-time combat. Players like: Dungeon-Base Loop · Pauseable Tactical Combat · Squad Building ·
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A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.

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Endzone - A World Apart - Players say: Lead survivors back to a poisoned surface, building a settlement and balancing supplies against radiation and extreme weather. Players like: Survival Resource Planning · Post-Apocalyptic Atmosphere · Settlement Design ·
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Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

PlateUp! - Players say: Build a restaurant, cook to order, and manage customers solo or with up to three friends as menus and upgrades reshape each run. Players like: Co-op Teamwork · Replayable Runs · Kitchen Automation ·
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Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

Beyond Contact - Players say: On Ketern, a Space Corps responder gathers resources, researches technology and builds to survive alien hazards and aid a planet in crisis. Players like: Story And Setting · Exploration And Biomes · Crafting And Progression ·
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A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Green Hell - Players say: Stranded in the Amazon, anthropologist Jake Higgins must craft, hunt, treat injuries, and survive while searching for his wife. Players like: Layered Survival Systems · Jungle Atmosphere · Learning By Experiment ·
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Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Kingdom Two Crowns - Players say: As a mounted monarch, spend coins to grow a kingdom by day, then defend its walls from nightly Greed attacks and conquer islands. Players like: Atmospheric Art and Music · Fun Co-op Play · Absorbing Strategy Loop ·
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Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Kingdom: New Lands - Players say: As a monarch on horseback, spend coins to grow a kingdom by day, defend it from nightly raids, and sail to new islands. Players like: Pixel Art and Music · Resource Strategy · Island Exploration ·
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Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Arctico - Players say: Continue your late mentor’s Arctic research by exploring an icy island with sled dogs, gathering samples, and building an outpost. Players like: Calm Arctic Atmosphere · Dog Sled Travel · Relaxed Exploration ·
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Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.

The Survivalists - Players say: Stranded on a changing archipelago, gather, craft, build, and train monkeys to help you survive and find a way to escape. Players like: Monkeys Handle Tasks · Co-op Island Adventures · Charming Pixel Art ·
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A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game - Players say: Build and run a pixel-art arcade: place machines, hire staff, manage power and money, and keep customers entertained. Players like: Arcade Building · Relaxed Tycoon Play · Retro Pixel Art ·
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Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.

War for the Overworld - Players say: Build an underground dungeon, manage monstrous minions and defenses, and repel heroes in a strategy-management campaign. Players like: Dungeon Keeper Feel · Dungeon Building · Humorous Narration ·
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War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition - Players say: Build and manage a theme park, design rideable roller coasters, and expand into waterparks and animal habitats. Players like: Creative Park Building · Roller-Coaster Design · Childhood Nostalgia ·
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Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.

The Last Spell - Players say: Lead a squad of heroes through turn-based night battles, then rebuild the haven and its defenses before the next monster wave. Players like: Weapon Build Variety · Tactical Horde Combat · Metal Soundtrack ·
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Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

A World of Keflings - Keflings may be small, but their kingdom-building adventures are gigantic! Build a world with your friends in A World of Keflings! Harvest resources, construct robots, befriend a dragon, and help a creepy witch get even creepier in this update of the classic 2010 city-building adventure.
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Jul 29, 2025
99% 👍
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Red Rocket Defencism - You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!
ShellMobile: Titan Rampart - On the cosmic frontier, humanity has fought alien species for a century. As traditional defenses fall to new-gen alien mechs, tech giant ShellMobile—human-centered at its core—kindles new hope via breakthroughs in extraterrestrial titanium ore research.
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Dec 31, 2025
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The Final Earth 2 - The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Returns Outlet Simulator - Players say: Run a returns shop by unboxing mystery pallets, sorting and repairing goods, then stocking shelves and selling them for profit. Players like: Mystery Pallet Finds · Relaxed Shopkeeping · Repair And Salvage ·
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Returns Outlet Simulator is a relaxed first-person simulation where every aspect of operating your own shop springs to life.

Cube Chaos - Players say: Place ability-driven cubes, build interacting armies and defenses, and adapt your strategy against an opposing force each run. Players like: Unexpected Cube Synergies · Creative Run Builds · High Replay Variety ·
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Cube Chaos is a complex strategy roguelike about placing units to create giant armies, factories, combos, or self replicating murder crabs, overwhelming and outsmarting your opponents. Build and adapt new strategies each run using a ludicrous variety of units, perks and more.

GolfTopia - Players say: Design and manage a futuristic golf resort, balance golfers’ needs and finances, fight weeds, and play your own courses. Players like: Flexible Course Design · Terrain Sculpting Tools · Futuristic Golf Gadgets ·
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DESIGN, BUILD and MANAGE your own futuristic golf course. Keep 200 persistent visitors fed, hydrated, and happy. Defend your creation from a growing infestation of weeds with robotic workers and defensive turrets. Evolve your course into a mega resort where nobody wants to go home, EVER!

Keep Her Safe - Keep Her Safe is a survival shooting game. Gather resources, fortify your base, and withstand zombie hordes to keep the rocket project alive and bring an end to the acid rain apocalypse. Besides the hard life in wasteland, you can also chill up with friends in different multiplayer gameplays.
Bone's Cafe - Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.
Colony 37 - Dig deep down the abandoned planet to find its secrets and earn cash by collecting resources. Spend your money on buying various trinkets and instruments that will help you along the way to earn even more profit.
Midori no Kaori - Players say: Build a Japanese restaurant in the afterlife, serve spirit visitors or automate service, and unlock decor as it grows. Players like: Calming Look and Sound · Flexible Decorating · Optional Automation ·
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Welcome to Midori no Kaori, a relaxing cozy game that allows you to create your own Japanese shop and manage customers. There are no winners or losers here, just unleash your creativity and enjoy a unique experience.

MicroTown - Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Schedule I - Players say: Start broke in Hyland Point, make and mix drugs, deliver orders, and grow a criminal operation with staff and automation. Players like: Growing Your Empire · Playing With Friends · Recipe Experimentation ·
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From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

RimWorld - Players say: Lead three crash-landed survivors as they build a colony, manage needs and defend against events shaped by an AI storyteller. Players like: Emergent Colony Stories · Replayable Runs · Extensive Mod Support ·
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A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Factorio - Players say: Stranded on an alien world, mine resources, research technology, automate a sprawling factory, and defend it from hostile creatures. Players like: Factory Optimization · Satisfying Automation · Problem-Solving Depth ·
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Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Subnautica - Players say: Stranded on an alien ocean, gather, craft and build your way into deeper waters while managing survival and avoiding predators. Players like: Immersive Ocean Exploration · Tense Sound And Atmosphere · Beautiful Underwater World ·
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Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Satisfactory - Players say: As a FICSIT employee on an alien world, explore for resources and build first-person factories that automate production. Players like: Factory Optimization · Rebuilding Production Lines · Conveyor-Belt Networks ·
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Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Oxygen Not Included - Players say: Direct a crew of duplicants on an asteroid, digging and building systems to manage oxygen, food, water, heat, and power. Players like: Interlocking Simulations · Engineering Problem-Solving · Learning Through Failure ·
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Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

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Jul 30, 2019
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Dyson Sphere Program - Players say: As the mech Icarus, automate factories across planets and star systems, then harness a star by building a Dyson Sphere. Players like: Factory Optimization · Interstellar Expansion · Dyson Sphere Spectacle ·
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Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) - Players say: Build a desert fortress, manage its economy and armies, then defend or besiege rival castles in Crusades campaigns and skirmishes. Players like: Nostalgic Appeal · Castle-Economy Strategy · Distinctive AI Lords ·
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The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.

shapez 2 - Factory - Players say: Build a multi-level space factory that cuts, paints, stacks, and routes geometric shapes to meet changing production orders. Players like: Relaxed, No-Pressure Play · Factory Optimization · Smooth Building Controls ·
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Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

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Apr 23, 2026
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Outpath: First Journey - Players say: Gather and craft in a first-person island-building prologue, upgrading tools, automating production, and expanding across biomes. Players like: Relaxed, Low-Pressure Pace · Satisfying Progression · Charming Visual Style ·
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Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Emberward - Players say: Shape tetromino-like mazes to reroute monsters, then place and upgrade towers through a roguelite tower-defense run. Players like: Custom Maze Building · Varied Tower Choices · Replayable Runs ·
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Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!