Top-Rated Free Building Games on Steam

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

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Aniimo - Players say: Catch creatures across Idyll, then Twine with them to fight, solve puzzles, and traverse an open world in real time. Players like: Creature Designs · World Exploration · Twine Creature Control ·
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Aniimo is a free-to-play, next-gen creature-catching open-world RPG. Explore the vast continent of Idyll, Twine with unique Aniimo, unlock new abilities. Travel to a sky-floating metropolis, meet other Pathfinders, and battle in exciting competitions. Choose your Aniimo and begin your epic journey!

Cheap Car Repair: Welcome to Nowhere - Players say: Run a 1990s Polish village garage, repairing cars with proper parts—or dubious substitutes—while chasing profit and story jobs. Players like: Garage Humor · Improvised Repairs · Hands-On Car Work ·
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Meet the local mechanic from the village of "Bumfuck Nowhere". Run your own car repair shop, hustle and cut corners however you can, but be careful! You probably don't want to get on the bad side of the local businessman, Christopher Kingman...

AFK Journey - Players say: Guide mage Merlin through Esperia, exploring seasonal storybook maps and assembling heroes for tactical, auto-battler fights. Players like: Seasonal Stories · Storybook Art · Relaxed Play ·
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Welcome to the enchanted land of Esperia! Play as the legendary mage Merlin and explore a beautifully illustrated storybook world. Outsmart your foes in strategic card battles and uncover the secrets of this world alongside other heroes.

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Apr 27, 2026
77% 👍
of 825
Virtual City Playground®: Build Your Metropolis - Players say: Grow a small town into a metropolis by building districts, producing and delivering goods, routing transit, and expanding city services. Players like: Relaxed City Building · Growing Your Metropolis · Detailed Buildings ·
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Relaxing city builder where you grow a vibrant metropolis, produce goods, manage transit and build iconic landmarks at your own pace.

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!

Money Simulator: Brokeville (Free Prologue) - Players say: Start broke in Brokeville, earn cash through jobs and races, trade vehicles and crypto, then build and staff a shop. Players like: Rags-to-Riches Progression · Varied Ways to Earn · Vehicle Trading ·
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Welcome to the Brokeville! Grind your way to the top through jobs, deliveries, bicycle races, and risky crypto trades. Buy, customize, and sell cars & motorcycles for profit. Build your own businesses, manage them, and hire staff to grow your empire.

Mall Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Run a mall in first person: stock shops, set prices, serve shoppers, and reinvest profits to open more stores. Players like: Satisfying Mall Growth · Hands-On Shopkeeping · Relaxing Gameplay ·
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Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! Start working with Prologue now. To avoid going bankrupt, you'll need to build new stores, set good prices and keep up with trends. A limited number of stores & services for Prologue are waiting for you.

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.

Bakery Cafe Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Run a first-person bakery café solo or with up to three friends, preparing orders, stocking ingredients, and arranging your shop. Players like: Hands-On Café Routine · Baking and Coffee · Co-op with Friends ·
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Start bake, build, and grow your dream bakery cafe with prologue now! Create delicious pastries, design your space, and serve customers. Play solo or with friends in online co-op to expand your business and experience the excitement of running a bustling cafe!

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
92% 👍
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Deconstruction Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Run a small demolition business: take contracts, dismantle or smash properties, salvage valuables, and reinvest your earnings. Players like: Satisfying Demolition · Relaxing Work Loop · Company Progression ·
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Deconstruction Simulator: Prologue is the ultimate demolition simulator, offering you complete freedom of action and a wide array of contracts to complete. Get ready for spectacular destruction.

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!

Supermarket Together - Players say: Build and run a supermarket solo or with up to 15 others, stocking shelves, serving shoppers, hiring staff, and catching thieves. Players like: Chaotic Co-op · Store-Growth Progression · Wide Product Range ·
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The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

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!

Hamster Playground - Players say: Raise and train customizable hamsters, care for their home, and compete in simple maze, drag-strip, and skateboard challenges. Players like: Cute Hamster Designs · Relaxed Casual Play · Enjoyable Races ·
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Prepare for cuteness overload, relentless training, and fierce rivalry as you and your hamsters take on challenges while traversing the maze and riding a skateboard, with more modes coming soon! Be the first to cross the finish line to earn rewards and yummy treats!

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.

The Powder Toy - Players say: Experiment with particles in a 2D physics sandbox, mixing materials, building reactors and circuits, or triggering chain reactions. Players like: Particle Experiments · Physics Interactions · Reactors and Circuits ·
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The Powder Toy is a classic physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances

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Jun 14, 2024
98% 👍
of 3.0k
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.

Idle Hero TD - Tower Defense RPG - Players say: Place fantasy heroes to stop monster waves, build skill synergies, and grow stronger through repeatable tower-defense runs. Players like: Hero Synergies · Layered Progression · Background Idling ·
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Endless Idle Tower Defense with deep strategy and RPG progression and combat mechanics. Recruit, upgrade, and position powerful fantasy heroes, discover game-changing synergies, and survive infinite monster waves. Grow stronger every run with literally millions of upgrades and endless auto battles.

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.

Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure - Players say: Shipwrecked on mystical islands, gather and craft supplies, battle monsters, and build a settlement for the first survivors. Players like: Pixel-Art Visuals · Relaxed Pacing · Clear Progression ·
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A Shipwrecked Adventure is a free prologue immersing you into the vast world of Tinkerlands. Uncover the story of the first survivors on these mystical islands. Explore the breathtaking archipelago, craft essential tools, build your settlement, and strive to survive!

Palia - Players say: Settle into a fantasy world where you gather, craft, farm, and befriend villagers while uncovering the mysteries of ancient humans. Players like: Relaxed No-Combat Play · Home Decorating · Varied Gathering Skills ·
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Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.

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Mar 25, 2024
86% 👍
of 44k
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.

Supermarket Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Run a small supermarket: order stock, arrange shelves, serve customers, set prices, and manage the business within a limited prologue. Players like: Addictive Stocking Loop · Relaxing Storekeeping · Easy To Learn ·
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Start running your own supermarket with Prologue already. Stock shelves, handle cashier tasks, process online orders, design & expand. Set the prices based on the market. Be prepared to face the consequences if you fail to make the nightly repayment to the gangs.

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Jan 26, 2024
94% 👍
of 4.8k
FUCK STALIN - Players say: Build physics-based torture contraptions for Stalin, use weapons to score points, and share custom maps in a sandbox. Players like: Ragdoll Mayhem · Absurd Dark Humor · Creative Setups ·
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Avenge millions of innocent victims and inflict brutal violence on the communist dictator Joseph Stalin using a wide range of torture tools thanks to the blessing of the free market.

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Jan 12, 2024
85% 👍
of 940
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.

Life Makeover - Players say: Create a customizable avatar, style and dye outfits, tackle themed story challenges, and design a home in a fashion-focused life sim. Players like: Detailed Avatar Creator · Fashion and Dye · Home Decorating ·
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Explore Life Makeover: Unleash your style, dye outfits, and design freely. Dive into unlimited dress-up, build your dream home - all for free.

Planet S - Players say: Colonize a procedurally generated solar system, supply growing cities, and pursue scientific or military power alone or with others. Players like: Absorbing Expansion · Playing With Friends · Multi-Planet Building ·
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Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.

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% 👍
of 621
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.

Sim Companies - Players say: Grow a small company by building production chains, trading with players, and adapting your business to a shifting online market. Players like: Dynamic Player Market · Deep Production Chains · Company Growth ·
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Build a business empire in a player-driven online economy. Manage supply chains, trade with thousands of players, dominate markets, research new products, and grow from a small startup into a global corporation.

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Aug 31, 2023
80% 👍
of 1.1k
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% 👍
of 1.1k
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.

Let's School Homeroom - Players say: Rebuild and run a school as headmaster, designing facilities while managing teachers, students, their needs and school crises. Players like: ·
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Let's School: Homeroom is the prologue of Let's School. You can experience 2 weeks of in game time. If you like the experience, please go to Let's School Full Version's Store page and add to wishlist!

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Jun 20, 2023
94% 👍
of 1.0k
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.

Ship Graveyard Simulator 2: Prologue - Players say: Dismantle stranded ships with hand tools, sort and collect valuable scrap, and build a salvage business along a wreck-strewn coast. Players like: Satisfying Shipbreaking · Scrap Sorting Minigame · Useful Salvage Tools ·
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The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Visit the new beach coast with the largest, biggest ship graveyard in the world, dismantle huge ship parts and collect tons of precious steel. Roll up your sleeves, it's time to get back to the business.

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!

Cooking Live - Italian Kitchen Simulator - Players say: Traveling food blogger Jane helps local restaurants survive by cooking timed orders, upgrading kitchens, and restoring cafes. Players like: Addictive Serving Rush · Cute Colorful Art · Restaurant Stories ·
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Hello everyone! My name is Jane, and I need your help! I travel around the world and create a blog about local restaurants and cuisine. I’ve seen how big corporations squeeze out talented local cooks and their restaurants! Let’s take matters into our own hands and give them back their zest for life!

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!

FUCK HITLER - Players say: In a first-person sandbox, build traps and use weapons to torment Hitler, earn points, and share custom maps. Players like: Sandbox Construction · Absurd Dark Humor · Physics Experiments ·
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Adolf Hitler almost 80 years after his death returns to suffer punishment for the Holocaust and his other crimes by becoming the object of torture for thousands of gamers from around the world.

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Nov 30, 2022
90% 👍
of 10k
Espresso Tycoon Prologue: Underwater - Players say: Run an underwater Sydney café: design the shop, craft coffee recipes, serve customers, and manage staff and supplies. Players like: Sea Creature Facts · Funny Queue Blocking · Clean And Repair ·
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A completely FREE underwater mission from the Espresso Tycoon - a coffee shop simulator. Build your own cafe from scratch, hire staff, create the most delicious recipes in the whole Pacific Ocean and make customers happy! Decorate, manage, and build a successful coffee business in Sydney!

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!

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!

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% 👍
of 530
Half-Earth Socialism - Players say: As humanity’s global planner from 2023, choose policies and projects to balance climate, resources, food, and political support. Players like: Thought-Provoking Ideas · Challenging Strategy · Engaging Resource Planning ·
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Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?

Occupy White Walls - Players say: Design a museum from the ground up, curate real artworks, and explore the imaginative galleries built by other players. Players like: Gallery Building · Art Discovery · Exploring Player Galleries ·
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A game about building art galleries may sound boring until you realise that just about anything can be an art gallery... Add in cutting edge AI, extremely creative community, Unreal graphics, and did we mention it's free?

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.

Trimps - Players say: On a hostile planet, manage a growing population of Trimps by gathering resources, fighting, upgrading, and automating their work. Players like: Deep Progression · Flexible Automation · Strategic Choices ·
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A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.