Best Base Building Games on Steam
Games about constructing, defending, upgrading, and managing a home base.
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1Valheim - A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Feb 2, 2021
In this game, you can…
- build a house with a fireplace and die if you forget ventilation.
- drag a cart full of ore across the wilderness, then end up building roads and supply routes to get it home.
- ship ore and even livestock across islands by building docks and running maritime trade routes.
- hunt sea serpents on purpose at night for food.
- watch enemies from different regions start fighting each other while you just stand back.
- build with structural support so big halls and towers need real beams, not just stacked walls.
- sail in a night storm, guide a friend's ship to port by torchlight, then sprint to the walls when a raid warning hits.
- tear down a bad build and get all the materials back, so you can rebuild freely.
2Palworld - Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Jul 9, 2026
In this game, you can…
- hand a sheep a rocket launcher and let it wipe out a bandit camp for you.
- lasso a fire-breathing duck and hook it up to your base generator for electricity.
- put cute creatures on an assembly line to mine ore and mass-produce ammo around the clock.
- craft guns after starting out with nothing on a beach.
- catch creatures, then assign them to fight, mount, and work at your base before everyone eats and sleeps together.
- use your creatures to run your whole base: smelt, harvest, haul, build structures, and keep production going as long as they're fed.
- ride creatures across land, sea, and sky to reach places you can't access on foot.
- enter a boss portal that tells you what's inside, kill or capture the boss, and bring it home in a loot explosion.
3Raft - Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Jun 20, 2022
In this game, you can…
- drop anchor at an island, jump off to loot it, and realize your raft can drift away if you didn't secure it first.
- use antennas and a receiver to follow radio coordinates to story locations packed with puzzles and notes explaining why the world flooded.
- play co-op where one person builds, another cooks, and you can carry unconscious teammates back to bed like it's normal.
- start on a 2x2 raft with a plastic hook.
- yank floating trash with a hook, then turn it into a purifier, grill, sail, bed, and research table as your raft becomes a real ship.
- reinforce your raft so a shark stops tearing off platforms, turning it from a threat into background noise.
- dive underwater to scavenge reefs for ore and rare materials, then surface to unlock higher-tier crafting.
- build nets that automatically catch drifting debris, so the ocean feeds you a constant stream of materials.
4Subnautica - 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.
Jan 23, 2018
In this game, you can…
- throw a fish to distract a predator, then have it come back carrying scrap metal for you.
- pilot a giant submarine you can live in, including growing food onboard for long expeditions.
- take a mech suit into extreme depths and outfit it with a drill and grappling hook to mine and swing around.
- crash onto an alien ocean world and start with only a lifepod.
- keep pushing deeper until the surface stops feeling reachable.
- get trapped in twisting underwater caves where there's no straight swim back up.
- scan wrecks and fragments to unlock new tools and vehicles, turning scavenging into a tech tree you build yourself.
- leave a crashed spaceship because you lack the tools, then return later with new gear to open more of it up.
- build modular underwater bases that store vehicles, generate power, and start leaking if the pressure gets too high.
5Schedule I - 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.
Mar 24, 2025
In this game, you can…
- mix drugs with other ingredients to create effects like super jump, speed boosts, or turning users into ticking time bombs.
- pickpocket the whole city by day, then go gambling at night as part of the same routine.
- buy a Golden Skateboard, break in through a shack window, knock a guy out, then pickpocket him to get your money back.
- build a drug empire from nothing, scaling into properties, employees, dealers, laundering, and automated production across Hyland Point.
- run the entire operation hands-on: water and trim plants, mix ingredients, bag and package product, test purity, then coordinate in-person handoffs.
- discover weird recipes and lace your product with absurd additives that radically change what it does to people.
- stack boxes and barrels to climb over fences and slip past police patrols during curfew.
- set up dealers to unload lower-quality batches while you keep experimenting with new mixes, keeping money flowing while you expand.
6Satisfactory - 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!
Sep 10, 2024
In this game, you can…
- walk in one direction for 30 minutes and realize it's all one connected 30 km² world.
- build a 4 km pipeline just to bring crude oil back to base.
- power an acre-long production line with nuclear energy, then use the leftovers to build a racetrack in the desert.
- turn a pristine alien landscape into a sprawling logistics megafactory.
- go from hand-mining ore to running powered drills, vehicles, jetpacks, and trains in the same save.
- string conveyor belts across cliffs and valleys until the terrain is basically your factory's floor plan.
- expand from hand-crafting parts to fully automated production lines that keep making them while you do something else.
7RimWorld - 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.
Oct 17, 2018
In this game, you can…
- stockpile hundreds of mortar shells, have one cook off during a raid, and set off a chain reaction that blows half your mountain base apart.
- trap an insect infestation in a sealed room, steal the jelly, and keep repeating until the bugs are basically livestock.
- recruit a cannibal crime lord, feed him nutrient paste, surgically add retractable claws, and rename him C.A.N.N.I.B.A.L.
- start as a lone 74-year-old scientist, build cleaning robots, survive a siege, then install turrets and replace your colonists with bionics.
- watch a pet rat jump a raider, die in the fight, and still make the raider bleed out from the wounds.
- build layered turrets, combat cyborgs, and war animals, then have a horde of manhunting tortoises chew through the perimeter and overwhelm the whole plan.
- turn a prisoner into a walking happiness beacon by installing mood tech, then keep them around as a mobile morale boost.
- amputate an infected foot by hitting it with a jade club.
8Factorio - 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.
Aug 14, 2020
In this game, you can…
- lay down a base blueprint and have hundreds of flying robots swarm out to build the whole thing for you.
- turn your own pollution into a trigger for escalating alien attacks, then answer with turrets, flamethrowers, laser walls, and artillery.
- watch one slow belt starve a whole smelter line, then chase the fix into new mines, defenses, trains, and a bigger power grid.
- go from chopping trees by hand to a coal-powered setup that keeps crafting grenades while you're off building elsewhere.
- tear down a working factory and rebuild the entire layout at once using thousands of construction robots.
- build a rail network that connects distant mines and outposts, then run multiple trains through it without crashes or jams.
- unlock an oil chain that forces you to refine, crack, and route multiple fluids just to keep science production fed.
- create a factory so huge you can't fully understand it anymore, with belts looping for miles just to feed one machine.
- build an automated machine empire that can run overnight while robots repair, haul, and keep production moving.
9Muck - Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Jun 5, 2021
In this game, you can…
- get chased across the island by a giant golem, scramble to craft a bow mid-pursuit, then have more golems spawn until you're fighting two, then five, plus their minions.
- play a versus mode where the world border shrinks, forcing survivors into an inevitable endgame showdown.
- build towering bases into the sky until the world starts failing to load correctly.
- survive nightly sieges as enemies pour out of the dark and keep coming until you're dead or the sun rises.
- crack open chests for random powerups that stack into absurd speed, double-jumps, damage, and knockback.
- race the short day-night cycle by sprinting for resources all day, then hunkering down as each night spawns tougher waves.
- have a teammate accidentally summon a night boss and turn a normal run into a full group emergency.
- trigger an altar, instantly spawn aggressive golems, and watch exploration flip into a fight you didn't plan for.
- stack enough upgrades to become effectively unkillable for dozens of days, turning early desperation into a late-game power trip.
10Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - 42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Nov 14, 2019
In this game, you can…
- watch a monk convert your knights mid-fight, and they instantly switch sides.
- tell AI teammates what units to train, where to build, and what target to attack.
- play voice-acted historical campaigns like Saladin or Joan of Arc, and even run some of those missions in co-op.
- auto-explore the map with your scout.
- collapse buildings into rubble when they're destroyed, instead of just disappearing.
- queue unit production and technologies at the same time, so upgrades don't pause your momentum.
- skip the early setup and jump straight into fighting with a mode that starts after the opening minutes.
- race a campaign mission timer by destroying every castle in a city in under 30 minutes.
