Top-Rated Free Base Building Games on Steam

86 free Base Building games with 500+ reviews and a 70%+ positive rating, newest first.

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CivIdle - Players say: Build a civilization across eras by placing production buildings, researching technologies, and rebirthing for permanent bonuses. Players like: Deep Resource Planning · Long-Term Progression · Idle Background Play ·
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CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!

The Perfect Tower II - Players say: Defend a lone tower through enemy waves, then spend rewards on town upgrades, linked minigames, and automation. Players like: Deep System Variety · Tower Build Options · Ongoing Unlocks ·
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The Perfect Tower II is a mix between an incremental and a tower defense game. Build a town, manage resources and explore a variety of mini-games and tons of upgrades. Fully automate your game and watch numbers going up!

Daisho: Survival of a Samurai - Players say: Gather resources, craft weapons, fight bandits, and grow a Japanese village in a quest-led survival RPG. Players like: Samurai Setting · Village Building · Relaxed Sessions ·
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Daisho: Survival of a Samurai is an Action RPG with casual survival game mechanics and big village-building possibilities. You'll experience a new type of survival game with quests, continuous open world progression, monthly events and your dumb ways to die not harming your fun level.

Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware - Players say: As Duncan Ironbrow, build a medieval settlement, grow its economy and army, and hold your castle against enemy waves. Players like: City-Building Defense · Tactical Base Planning · Hard-Won Victories ·
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Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.

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Apr 30, 2025
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Wrap House Simulator🌯 Prologue - Players say: Run a wrap shop by chopping ingredients, grilling meat, assembling orders, and serving customers alone or with up to three friends. Players like: Co-op With Friends · Hands-On Cooking · Funny Shared Chaos ·
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Welcome to Wrap House Simulator🌯 Prologue! Run your own wrap shop, chop, grill, and serve in this cooking adventure. Customize your shop, master the grill, and survive the rush solo or co-op with up to 4 players. Keep up with orders, satisfy customers, and build your dream restaurant!

New Day - Players say: Create customizable islanders, furnish their apartments, and shape their social lives through everyday activities and relationships. Players like: Character Customization · Inclusive Identity Options · Quirky Island Stories ·
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New Day is an upcoming life simulation game where almost anything can happen! Create your own islanders, design their apartments, and get involved with their day-to-day life as they divulge into unexpected friendships, problems, and more!

Haven & Hearth - Players say: Build a homestead in a mutable online wilderness, gathering and crafting to grow stronger amid open PvP and permanent death. Players like: Deep Crafting Systems · Quality-Based Progression · Worldbuilding and Exploration ·
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A free-to-play MMORPG with crafting, building, landscaping, foraging, hunting, fishing, a dash of poetry, and open PvP combat,

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Nov 1, 2024
73% 👍
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Industry Idle - Players say: Build an industrial economy by placing factories, balancing resource chains, trading goods, and restarting for lasting upgrades. Players like: Factory Optimization · Relaxed Idle Play · Player Market Trading ·
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Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

Nordhold: Origins - Players say: Build a Nordic village, balance its economy, and combine towers, heroes, and relics to withstand 20 enemy waves. Players like: Village Economy · Flexible Tower Builds · Changing Run Combos ·
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Immerse yourself in Nordhold: Origins, a tower defense game with high replayability. Build a medieval Nordic village, develop its economy, and defend it with unique towers and upgrades. Choose heroes and relics, compete on leaderboards, and aim for the Valhalla rank!

The Walking Dead: No Man's Land - Players say: Lead survivors through turn-based walker missions, strengthen your team, and keep a resource-gathering camp running. Players like: Tactical Turn-Based Combat · Walking Dead Characters · Camp and Team Growth ·
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Step into the dangerous world of The Walking Dead: No Man's Land. Lead survivors in turn-based strategy battles, manage resources, and make tough choices to ensure their survival. Fight walkers, build your base, and face endless dangers.

Sunset Motel: Prologue - Players say: Restore a run-down motel by renovating rooms, serving travelers, and handling daily guest services to keep the business running. Players like: Room Customization · Varied Motel Tasks · Relaxing Simulator ·
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Sunset Motel: Prologue is a free motel management game. Ensure customer satisfaction, renovate interiors, design entertainment spaces! Manage your motel in your own style and provide travelers with unforgettable experiences!

Once Human - Players say: Explore a Stardust-tainted wasteland, craft and customize guns, fight monsters, and build a relocatable base alone or with others. Players like: Creative Base Building · Atmospheric World · Solo-Co-op Flexibility ·
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Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Ocean World: Eden Crafters Prologue - Players say: Survive an ocean planet’s giant waves by gathering resources, crafting tools, automating production, and transforming the terrain. Players like: Factory Automation · Base Building · Relaxing Atmosphere ·
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Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Astrometica: Prologue - Players say: Stranded in space, gather materials, craft survival gear, follow signals, and build a base to explore asteroid fields. Players like: Exploration With Purpose · Atmospheric Space Setting · Base Building ·
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Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.

Viking Rise - Players say: Lead a Viking tribe in Midgard: build a settlement, gather resources, recruit heroes, and wage real-time land and sea wars. Players like: Viking Atmosphere · Strategy and Teamplay · Settlement Building ·
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Race against other players to explore Valhalla and conquer Midgard!

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May 21, 2024
70% 👍
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Mini Settlers: Prologue - Players say: Build island settlements, connect factories by roads, trains and ports, and balance deliveries to meet residents’ needs. Players like: Simple City Building · Resource Logistics · Relaxing Minimalist Style ·
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Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Monster Tiles TD: Tower Wars - Players say: Build a shifting maze from earned tiles, then evolve monster towers and combine their abilities to stop invading space pirates. Players like: Custom Maze Building · Tower Choices · Replayable Tile Runs ·
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Free Tower Defense game with unique roguelike elements. Custom base building mechanics allow you to create your own base and maze with tiles earned after each wave. Unleash a variety of monsters, each with its own evolution path and unique skills, and evolve them into legendary creatures.

United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up - Players say: Build a penguin settlement, manage its residents’ needs and resources, and defend it from killer whales and food-stealing seals. Players like: Charming Penguin Setting · Settlement Building · Approachable Management ·
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This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Taora : Beginning - Players say: Scavenge a zombie-infested island, build a base, craft and upgrade gear and vehicles, and develop skills to survive. Players like: Relaxed Survival Play · Island Scavenging · Vehicle Customization ·
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Taora : Beginning offers the limited introduction experience to Taora : Survival, an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse!

Builders of Greece: Prologue - Players say: Manage an ancient Greek polis by planning its layout, balancing resources and citizens’ needs, and directing trade and defense. Players like: City-Building Strategy · Economic Management · Ancient Greek Setting ·
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Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try your hand as a ruler of an ancient Greek city-state, practice your management skills, and learn basic game mechanics.

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Sep 18, 2023
75% 👍
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URBO: Dream One - Players say: Place and merge houses into a growing island city, planning each move around a mysterious Tower and a crowded board. Players like: Relaxing Building Puzzle · Miniature Island Visuals · Peaceful Soundtrack ·
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URBO: Dream One is a meditative puzzle game where you build houses around the mysterious Tower. Let your mind wander through visions of an enchanted city on an island in the middle of the crystal clear waters of a vibrant lake.

Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders - Bandit's Trail - Players say: As Robin Hood in a free prologue set in Barnsdale, explore, fight or sneak, and grow a forest refuge for rebels. Players like: Settlement Building · Genre Mix · Forest Scenery ·
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FREE PROLOGUE! Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.

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Aug 9, 2023
83% 👍
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Vacuum Warrior - Idle Game - Players say: Vacuum piles of dust, sell the haul, upgrade industrial cleaners and robots, and unlock new locations to clean. Players like: Relaxing Dust Cleanup · Robot Automation · Easy Background Play ·
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Vacuum Warrior is a Free to Play incremental idle game. Listen to the crisp crackle of dust and debris entering your vacuum as you vacuum ridiculous amounts of dust. Upgrade your vacuums, idle gains, and robot vacuums, earn achievements, and explore numerous locations in the Vacuum Warrior universe!

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Jun 29, 2023
79% 👍
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Monsters Domain: Prologue - Players say: Command a monster army defending its domain, directing creatures, looting heroes, and developing dark-magic upgrades. Players like: The unusual premise of playing as monsters defending their realm, rather than as heroes. · Developing and directing the monster army, including experimenting with tactics and upgrades. · Management and customization activities such as optimizing production and traps. ·
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Defend the Monsters’ Domain. Kill heroes and collect their treasures. Play the Monsters’ side and loot foolish warriors who dare to explore your realm. Build up your forces, upgrade them and equip them with better weapons, skills and tricks to lure and kill even more shiny forces of the light.

Pixel Starships - Players say: Design a pixel-art starship, assign its crew and AI, then upgrade, explore, and battle other players in a persistent universe. Players like: Ship-Building Depth · Customizable Crew AI · Strategic Combat ·
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Pixel Starships is an FTL-style online sci-fi strategy builder and management game with a competitive PVP tournament. Set in the retro galaxy, your role is to explore space, meet aliens, and develop your ship, crew and AI. The game contains deep strategic and 4x elements. PSS is community-driven.

3 Days War - Players say: Command a faction in a real-time grid war, building forces, choosing strategy cards and battling players in three-day campaigns. Players like: Distinctive RTS Format · Strategic Unit Counters · Team Multiplayer ·
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3 Days War is a unique multiplayer strategy war game. Integrating the mechanics of RTS+4X, it allows dozens of players to engage in a three-day real-time strategy competitionon. Commanders, use your skills, strategies, games and even deception to become the ultimate winner!

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Apr 16, 2023
84% 👍
of 721
Above Snakes: Prologue - Players say: After a catastrophe devastates a frontier settlement, help survivors rebuild while placing world tiles, crafting, and exploring. Players like: Tile-Based Worldbuilding · Relaxed Exploration · Crafting and Building ·
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In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.

Miniland Adventure: Prologue - Players say: Shape a tiny island with biome tiles, then gather, craft, farm, build, explore caves, and fend off monsters. Players like: Creative Worldbuilding · Relaxing Pixel Style · Crafting System ·
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Miniland: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full game. Your task is to build your world and fight against your enemies. The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself!

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!

Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission - Players say: After landing on Nova, Emilia gathers resources, builds and automates a base with helper bots, and explores connected islands. Players like: Relaxed, Simple Play · Building and Logistics · Technology Exploration ·
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Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission is a prologue chapter of the main game, Nova Lands. Learn your way around the planet you've landed on, build your base, and automate it with your helpful bots!

Bakso Simulator - Players say: Run an Indonesian bakso stall: manage supplies and staff, fend off trouble, complete town quests, and grow the business. Players like: Restaurant Management · Relaxing Side Activities · Town Quests ·
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Create the most successful bakso business in this world!

Oxygen: First Breath - Players say: Build around the Oxygen Center, manage workers and supplies, and protect a settlement from deadly weather and toxic cracks. Players like: Distinct Oxygen Premise · Tense Survival Management · Atmospheric Setting ·
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This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Mist Legacy - Players say: Stranded beyond the Mist, a trained explorer uncovers a fantasy world through skill-gated travel, crafting, and turn-based combat. Players like: Flexible Material Crafting · Relaxed Slow Pace · Skill-Based Progression ·
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Mist Legacy gives you a new way to experience the thrills and adventures of an MMORPG. Handcrafted by a small team of passionate developers, the game features an easy to play top-down world, turn-based combat and a skill-based progression system. Try our game for free. We hope you like it!

Galaxy Life - Players say: Build a colony of tiny aliens, train troops, defend your base, and battle rivals as you expand across a persistent galaxy. Players like: Childhood Nostalgia · Colony Building · Simple Strategy ·
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The universe is full of Starlings, tiny orange aliens that want to take over the galaxy. Create your own space colony, fight epic battles and discover new planets. Train your soldiers, develop your technology and create unimaginable gadgets. Enjoy this huge social game with friends!

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Aug 31, 2022
92% 👍
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Crustacean Nations - Players say: Build a crab beach fortress, gather resources and command specialized units in real-time battles against rival colonies. Players like: Crab-Themed Strategy · Cute Visuals · Casual Fun ·
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🦀Crustacean Nations🦀 is a real-time strategy game about total crab warfare. Build a sprawling sand castle and amass huge armies to dominate the beach and become the one true crustacean nation!

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Aug 19, 2022
93% 👍
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Truck Mechanic: Dangerous Paths - Prologue - Players say: Drive an old truck through South American wilderness, hauling cargo, choosing rough routes, and repairing breakdowns on the road. Players like: Prologue Appeal · Fun To Play ·
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Truck Mechanic: Dangerous Paths - Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. You will have to explore, fix, drive, deliver, repair, load, think, avoid, beware - simply be a truck driver.

Prosperous Universe - Players say: Run a spacefaring company by choosing planetary bases, building production chains, moving cargo, and trading in a player-run economy. Players like: Economic Simulation Depth · Supply Chain Planning · Player-Driven Markets ·
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In Prosperous Universe start your galactic empire by trading on the real-time market exchange with other real players. Build your 1st base from humble beginnings & watch as your business flourishes with complex supply chain strategies. Economics, politics & realism fuel this immersive business MMO.

The Genesis Project - Players say: Enter a Homestuck-inspired Sburb session, build and alchemize gear, then explore planets and battle through dungeons solo or co-op. Players like: Homestuck Recreation · Co-op Chaos · Character Customization ·
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The Genesis Project is an attempt to replicate Sburb from the popular webcomic Homestuck, made by Andrew Hussie.

Citywars Tower Defense - Players say: Fight on the front line as you gather and craft, build towers, and defend a crystal from waves of monsters. Players like: Unusual Genre Blend · Co-op Teamwork · Tower Variety ·
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Citywars TD is a cute multiplayer third person Survival Tower Defense. Build towers, gather resources, craft tools, upgrade weapons, level up buildings, expand your city with your friends and work under pressure before the next incoming wave of monsters.

The Planet Crafter: Prologue - Players say: Survive on a barren planet by gathering resources, building terraforming machines, and gradually creating conditions for life. Players like: Visible Planet Changes · Relaxing Base Building · Steady Terraforming Progress ·
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Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Pet idle - Players say: Care for cats, dogs, and other pets by meeting their needs, teaching tricks, and expanding and decorating a shared home. Players like: Cute Pet Designs · Home Decorating · Garden Activities ·
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Pet Idle is a simulation game where you can take care of various virtual animals! Build and manage your home to be a cozy home for many pets!

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Dec 9, 2021
77% 👍
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Star Chef 2: Cooking Game - Players say: Grow ingredients, cook for restaurant guests, and expand and decorate your restaurant while completing quests and joining chef competitions. Players like: Varied Activities · Team Challenges · Easy to Pick Up ·
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Kitchen Simulation | Learn Cuisines | Cook Delicious Food | Become A Chef

Vedelem: The Golden Horde - Players say: Build a medieval frontier settlement, claim resource-rich land, and raise an army to withstand timed Mongol assaults. Players like: Mongol-Era Atmosphere · Simple RTS Building · Escalating Final Assaults ·
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Védelem: The Golden Horde is a medieval Real Time Strategy and Survival game set in the 13th century. Build, expand and defend your lands against the deadliest Mongolian invasion ever witnessed. They will seek to destroy your walls and salt your earth. Will you survive the Golden Horde?

Hell Architect: Prologue - Players say: Manage a cartoon underworld colony: build facilities, gather resources, meet sinners’ needs, and devise their punishments. Players like: Varied Torture Options · Dark-Humor Art · Intuitive Controls ·
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Hell Architect is a hell colony sim. Build and manage your hell. Take care of the sinners with funny cartoon-style tortures, fill their needs, develop buildings, gather resources, grow your population. Prologue is a free standalone version of the game 'Hell Architect'.

Muck - Players say: Gather, craft, and build by day on a generated island, then fight escalating night creatures alone or with friends. Players like: Chaotic Co-op · Addictive Survival Loop · Fast Gear Progression ·
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Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021: Prologue - Players say: Run a motorcycle repair garage: dismantle bikes, replace parts, fulfill customer jobs, customize paintwork, and test-ride builds. Players like: Satisfying Bike Repairs · Detailed Motorcycle Parts · Creative Paint Options ·
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Become a motorbike mechanic and build your empire. Buy, repair, renovate, and create your own dreamed custom motorcycle.

NGU INDUSTRIES - Players say: Build and optimize a bizarre idle factory, producing odd materials, completing work orders, researching upgrades, and fighting foes. Players like: Factory Optimization · Goofy Humor · Unlocking New Systems ·
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NGU INDUSTRIES (sequel to NGU IDLE) is a Free To Play Idle game and Factory Manager! It's packed with weird humor, tons of upgrades, and many hours of content! If you want that sweet, sweet dopamine release that comes with making Numbers Go Up, NGU INDUSTRIES is your game!

Vectorio Classic - Players say: Claim map resources, build powered defenses, research weapons, and expand your base to withstand enemy shapes and four guardians. Players like: Addictive Progression · Tower Defense Appeal · Resource Logistics ·
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The original, uncompleted version of Vectorio. Claim resources, unlock new buildings, and expand your defenses as you fight back against enemy forces in the classic edition of Vectorio! Play for free now.

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Mar 22, 2021
93% 👍
of 1.5k
Super Raft Boat Classic - Players say: Sail a homemade raft across four flooded oceans, shooting sea creatures and expanding your craft between waves on the way to the Final Island. Players like: Quick Arcade Sessions · Wave-Based Combat · Easy to Learn ·
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The world's been flooded, and all you have is your Super Raft Boat. Can you reach The Final Island?

Garbage: Hobo Prophecy - Players say: Manage a homeless man’s survival, build a camp, and prepare a team for automatic fights in this darkly comic prologue. Players like: Comic-Book Art · Urban Atmosphere · Crafting And Choices ·
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Experience the struggle which a homeless man goes through in a humorous manner. Primitive elements of contemporary life that we take for granted, such as staying warm, well-nourished, and hygienic, will become an issue.

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Jan 28, 2021
73% 👍
of 1.4k