The Best Base-building Games for PC Windows

Update 14 August 2024: shapez 2 added at rank #7.

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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.

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

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

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

Good match + 106 Bad match - 126

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Satisfactory is an engaging first-person factory-building game on an alien planet, allowing players to explore a pre-generated world and harvest natural resources to create automated factories. With great power systems and conveyor belts to help automate resource collection and transportation, the game offers a fun and addictive experience for control freaks and automation enthusiasts. The added survival element provides extra depth, making it a must-play for exploration and building game fans.

• Engaging first-person factory-building experience
• Pre-generated world for unique gameplay experience
• Fun power systems and conveyor belts for resource automation
• Survival element adds extra depth
• Great for building and automation enthusiasts

• May require significant time investment to unlock useful devices and modes of transportation
• Demands patience, structure and adaptability

• automation
• robo-said
• factory-builder
• base-building
• first-person
• rps
• cookie
• sandbox
• whale
• factory
• open-world
• crafting
• energy
• survival
• resource-management

Good match + 92 Bad match - 99

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

Good match + 2 Bad match

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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

Good match + 3 Bad match

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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

Good match + 17 Bad match

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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.

• 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

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

• survival
• base-building
• tower-defense
• mech
• real-time
• strategy
• resource-management
• resource
• aliens
• rpg
• defence
• shooter
• action
• twin-stick
• tower

Good match + 151 Bad match - 139

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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
• building
• logic
• space
• sandbox
• crafting
• factory-building
• puzzle
• multi-layer
• resource-management
• relaxing
• programming

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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.

• 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

• 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

Good match + 128 Bad match - 116

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Paragon Pioneers is a casual island management game where you build and manage a series of island nations. It offers over 100+ buildings to advance through and has an abstract look and mechanics that make it easy to manage on small screens. It's a stress-free game for casual players.

• Detailed explanations and tutorials
• No ads or premium currencies
• Easy to pick up and put down
• Reminiscent of the Anno series with idle gameplay
• No inherent time limit
• Over 100+ buildings to advance through

• Long waiting times
• Lack of a thrilling narrative
• Game mechanics become increasingly complex
• Colonization aspect may be troublesome for some players
• Combat has a limited army size and isn't very interesting

• idler
• city-building
• colony
• tutorial
• management
• base-building
• building
• simulation
• medieval
• crafting
• economy
• top-down
• relaxing
• 2d
• resource-management

Good match + 31 Bad match - 30

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

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