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The 16 best games with base building on Steam in 2026

Among games with base building on Steam, Terraria leads right now, then Project Zomboid and The Forest.

Ordered by fit with the genre, Steam review score, number of reviews and how each game plays. Steam figures checked 13 Sept 2026. How the order works

The 16 best games with base building, ranked

01
97% positive · 1,554,677 reviews · USD 9.99
Terraria
Terraria is a 2D sandbox that outgrew the '2D Minecraft' shorthand: bosses, classes, and a craft tree that keeps rewriting the world. Co-op is optional; the map is persistent.
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94% positive · 481,033 reviews · USD 24.99
Project Zomboid
Knowledge of heating, moodles, and TV schedules is the skill.
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03
96% positive · 682,426 reviews · USD 19.99
The Forest
The Forest is first-person survival on a cannibal island: build, raid caves, keep a story in the background. Co-op is the usual way in.
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04
93% positive · 377,108 reviews · EUR 20.49
Raft
Raft is an ocean craft loop: expand the floater, dive, do not get sharked. The base is a square of wood that grows, and the island is a stop you chose with a sail.
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05
94% positive · 547,040 reviews · USD 29.99
Valheim
Valheim is a Viking survival sandbox: you gather, build, sail, and fight biome bosses on a world you keep. Co-op building is the spine.
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06
87% positive · 397,652 reviews · EUR 43.99
7 Days to Die
7 Days to Die is a voxel zombie sandbox whose week ends in a horde night. You mine, you wall, you hope the seventh dusk finds the concrete finished.
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07
94.8% positive · 31,493 reviews · USD 29.99
Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress is a colony sim: you dig a fortress into a generated world and manage dwarves whose moods, needs and mistakes write the story.
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08
90% positive · 95,389 reviews · EUR 39.99
Grounded
Grounded is backyard survival at ant scale: base, bugs, and co-op optional. A lawn becomes a biome, and a spider is a raid you did not schedule.
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90% positive · 43,276 reviews · EUR 18.99
Banished
Banished is a harsh village sim: food, firewood, and a winter that does not care whether you named the dead. A famine is a schedule you wrote when you built one house too many.
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10
86% positive · 105,536 reviews · USD 39.99
Enshrouded
Building and shroud exploration sit on the same save.
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90% positive · 51,942 reviews · EUR 29.99
Medieval Dynasty
Medieval Dynasty is a first-person village: hunt, marry, tax, repeat. A house becomes a street, and the save is a family that still needs grain.
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12
85% positive · 102,257 reviews · USD 2.49
Green Hell
Green Hell is a first-person Amazon survival game where infection, parasites, and sanity sit next to hunger.
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85% positive · 51,313 reviews · EUR 29.99
They Are Billions
They Are Billions is a colony RTS that ends when the horde finds the hole you left in the wall — a campaign of postponing that minute.
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14
95% positive · 487,243 reviews · USD 29.99
Palworld
Palworld mixes creature collection with guns and base craft.
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15
75% positive · 67,272 reviews · EUR 33.99
ICARUS
ICARUS drops you on a planet for a timed prospect, then you extract or die. The mission ends. The unlocks wait in the lobby for the next drop.
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95.9% positive · 15,877 reviews · USD 0.99
shapez
Shapez is an abstract belt puzzle that becomes a factory.
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Resolved mechanic is base-building. Valheim's longhouse, 7 Days' horde-night wall, and a factory that stores belts all qualify for different reasons.

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The 16 best games with base building, ranked

Terraria

Project Zomboid

The Forest

Raft

Valheim

7 Days to Die

Dwarf Fortress

Grounded

Banished

Enshrouded

Medieval Dynasty

Green Hell

They Are Billions

Palworld

ICARUS

shapez

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