Base Building Games

This is NOT about RTS games where you put down your base and your orcs ("work, work") gather wood and ores for you.

Good Games

Put down floors and walls

• Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition (You connect rooms)
• Empyrion - Galactic Survival
• Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition
• Outpost Zero
• Fallout 4
• Interstellar Rift
• No Man's Sky
• Planet Nomads (get it from GOG)
• Conan Exiles
• Minecraft (content page on this wiki: Minecraft)
• The Planet Crafter
• FarSky
• Subnautica
• Once Human
• Stranded: Alien Dawn

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• A Game of Dwarves
• FortressCraft Evolved!
• The Front
• GRAV
• ARK: Survival Evolved
• Balrum
• Don't Starve
• Vintage Story (You WILL die!)

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• Evil Genius
• Evil Genius 2

Only put down buildings and/or machines

• Kenshi
• Hammerting
• No Place Like Home
• Homestead Arcana
• KINGDOMS
• Portal Knights
• Slime Rancher
• Shoppe Keep
• Palia
• Starfield
• The Planet Crafter

Mentioned Games

Put down floors and walls

• Wurm Unlimited
• 7 Days to Die
  Constructing for hours and then one wrong block and everything goes down. :-( Too bad, I'd love to play this but each time I have this result. I got this 2014 and tried multiple times because it is a very good game.
• Gnomoria
• Space Engineers
  More like a puzzle. If you don't know certain things or don't come to certain conclusions or don't build in a certain sequence you are doomed. Or bored. Or angry. Or mad. You get my drift?
• Planet Explorers
• Starbound
• Terraria
• Staxel

Only put down buildings and/or machines

• Autonauts
• Shoppe Keep 2
• My Time at Portia

Not tested

• Architect Life: A House Design Simulator
• Meeple Station
• Dwarf Fortress
• RimWorld
• Dune: Awakening

Not available yet (2025-07-10)

• Nighthold