The Best Base-building Games (2025)

PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux

Factorio is an absorbing factory management game. You play the role of a handy person who needs to build a rocket and craft almost anything with little more than spit and elbow grease. Automation is the key to success as you establish production chains and assembly lines to make sure all the hard work is done for you.

What we like:

• Complex puzzle-solving
• Open-ended gameplay
• Automation mechanics
• Creative assembly lines
• Captivating story

What could be improved:

• Tedious combat
• Limited environmental resources
• Environmental consequences of mass manufacturing

• management
• construction
• automation
• robots
• simulation
• base-building
• trains
• crafting
• empire
• sandbox
• resource-management
• multiplayer
• cooperative
• resource
• aliens

early access Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Synergy is a city-building game in which humanity must survive in a strange and hostile world. Build a city while respecting the ecosystem. Explore and analyze your environment. Provide for the needs of your citizens.

• diplomacy
• post-apocalyptic
• economy
• base-building
• city-building
• building
• trading
• steampunk
• resource-management
• survival
• management
• simulation
• strategy
• farming

PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Build, manage and optimise intergalactic hospitals! Recruit staff to satisfy the whims of various alien species, and cure their bizarre illnesses - for money! Save the (literal) Galaxy in story mode, or head into sandbox to design the hospital of your dreams.

• medical
• humor
• management
• god-game
• base-building
• building
• economy
• dark
• simulation
• city-building
• funny
• cartoony
• sci-fi
• narration
• space

Android Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone

Kingdom Eighties is a standalone expansion to the award-winning Kingdom series. A singleplayer epic adventure of micro-strategy and base building. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed, and discover the secrets of your family lineage!

• pixel
• micro-strategy
• colony
• base-building
• city-building
• tower-defense
• strategy
• simulation
• survival
• economy
• resource-management
• building
• skateboard
• medieval
• procedural

Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows

The Riftbreaker is a base building, survival game with action RPG elements that borrows from a lot of other games. Play as Ashley S. Nowak and enter the hostile planet Galatea 37 in your powerful Mecha-suit to build a base and defend yourself against thousands of creatures trying to eliminate you. The Riftbreaker offers high-quality graphics, great sound and music, flexible custom difficulty settings, varied biomes, and hours of gameplay that provides endless replayability.

What we like:

• Good storyline and rewarding gaming experience
• Customizable gameplay options
• Hours of gameplay with almost endless replayability
• Exciting and balanced base building, resource gathering, and combat
• High-quality graphics, great sound and music

What could be improved:

• Fairly demanding on PC
• Lacks gameplay depth in research and weaponry
• Cumbersome weapon and armor upgrades

• survival
• tower-defense
• mech
• base-building
• strategy
• real-time
• resource-management
• resource
• aliens
• rpg
• action
• shooter
• top-down
• construction
• local

early access Linux Android PC Windows Mac OS

Dive into a factory-building game where the focus is on just that — building huge factories! Construct sprawling multi-level factories and min-max your layouts without limits. Shapez 2 is tailor-made for enthusiasts who crave the thrill of optimizing production lines and perfecting automation.

• automation
• trains
• transportation
• base-building
• factory-building
• building
• logic
• space
• resource-management
• sandbox
• crafting
• simulation
• relaxing
• programming
• puzzle

Linux Android PC Windows Mac OS

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

• automation
• base-building
• science
• cats
• building
• resource-management
• fishing
• economy
• management
• sandbox
• relaxing
• crafting
• cute
• family-friendly
• education

PC Windows Xbox Series X/s Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X

Meet your Maker is a post-apocalyptic first-person building-and-raiding game where every level is designed by players. Play solo or with a friend as you mastermind devious maze-like Outposts full of traps and guards, then gear up for methodical fast-paced combat raiding other players’ creations.

• first-person
• post-apocalyptic
• base-building
• shooter
• asynchronous
• fps
• cooperative
• maze
• editor
• level
• multiplayer
• building
• asymmetric
• resource
• tactical

PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

SKY is a new way of looking at urban planning strategies. Change voxel landscapes at your discretion, develop technologies, build environmentally friendly cities of the future, and withstand any blows from the elements.

• base-building
• sandbox
• voxel
• city-building
• automation
• open-world
• multiplayer
• survival
• sky
• procedural
• pve
• pvp
• action-adventure
• immersive
• management

PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Space Haven is an early access game where you can design your own ship and manage your crew as you embark on a journey to save humanity. Build your spaceship tile by tile, explore the vast universe, engage in tactical ship-to-ship combat and witness the drama and emotions of your crew. The game allows for complete freedom to customize and design your ship symmetrically or asymmetrically.

What we like:

• Great sprites and sublime music
• Game is approachable with a balanced feel
• Unlimited freedom to build your own ship
• Core game loop is engaging and not monotonous
• Developers fully commited

What could be improved:

• Lacks crew leveling up
• Lacks variety in gameplay beyond building bigger ship and fending off pirates.

• colony
• simulation
• base-building
• space
• management
• tile
• resource-management
• sandbox
• pirates
• building
• sci-fi
• city-building
• resource
• survival-strategy