The Best Base-building Games for Playstation 5

Update 13 December 2023: Winter Games Challenge added at rank #9.

Here are our 10 Best Base-building Games for Playstation 5:

Play Video: The Riftbreaker

Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Android

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
• resource-management
• mech
• real-time
• strategy
• rpg
• bullet-hell
• aliens
• top-down
• action
• resource
• shooter
• arpg

Good match + 192 Bad match - 267

Play Video: Meet Your Maker

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

Good match + 9 Bad match

Play Video: Garden Simulator

Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One

PLANT - DESIGN - HARVEST - With Garden Simulator you’ll get your own allotment, place deco elements and cultivate plants to harvest and sell them. Get ready for a beautiful time in nature. Always remember: A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.

• simulation
• base-building
• relaxing
• building
• city-building
• time-management
• farming
• agriculture
• management
• casual
• 3d
• family-friendly
• first-person

Good match + 9 Bad match - 5

Play Video: Merchant of the Skies

Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!

• trading
• base-building
• experimental
• sandbox
• steampunk
• economy
• building
• exploration
• procedural
• management
• resource-management
• relaxing
• 2d

Good match + 114 Bad match - 209

Play Video: Starsand

Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

In Starsand, you'll explore a vast and unforgiving desert, scavenging for resources, building a shelter, and hunting to survive. With dynamic weather and day/night changes, you'll have to plan and act wisely to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization and make it back home. Can you survive in this harsh environment and make it out alive?

• Good survival elements
• Interesting premise
• Nice desert atmosphere
• Nice exploration aspects
• Unique navigation system

• Limited content
• Clunky gameplay
• Unforgiving resource allocation
• Bugs and glitches
• Lack of save points

• survival
• crafting
• open-world
• base-building
• resource-management
• building
• inventory
• 3d
• management
• sandbox
• aliens
• sci-fi
• atmospheric
• realistic
• first-person

Good match + 23 Bad match - 31

Play Video: Forever Skies

early access Playstation 5 PC Windows

Forever Skies is a first-person post-apocalyptic survival game. Return to Earth, ravaged by an ecological disaster. Fly, upgrade and customize your mobile high-tech airship base. Scavenge resources to survive, face dangers on the surface and hunt for viral pathogens to cure a mysterious illness.

• survival
• crafting
• base-building
• post-apocalyptic
• science
• inventory
• first-person
• exploration
• procedural
• sandbox
• management
• resource-management
• fps
• action-adventure
• sci-fi

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Play Video: Smalland: Survive the Wilds

early access Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch l PC Windows

Experience a vast open world in Smalland: Survive the Wilds and discover a new perspective on survival games. Traverse the Land of the Small and explore dense forests, hazardous swamps, and strange ruins. Tame and ride an array of creatures, ranging from Grasshoppers to Spiders. Work together with up to 10 players in multiplayer, build encampments, and craft powerful armor sets. Survival is not easy in this world, as creatures see you as an easy meal and weather conditions and seasons are in constant flux. Can you survive the wilds?

• Similar to Valheim in terms of base building and progression
• RPG-like paper doll UI adds a unique element to the game
• Graphics and sound design are respectable
• Performance is solid
• Decent number of session customization options

• Combat lacks a parry mechanic and encounters can drag on
• Character feels slow when exploring and there's no fast travel
• Survival elements are basic and inventory is small
• Taming/mount mechanics are underwhelming
• Lack of character progression, stats, perks, or levels

• crafting
• survival
• open-world
• cooperative
• base-building
• building
• city-building
• character
• sandbox
• third-person
• action-adventure
• multiplayer
• customization
• exploration

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early access Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

• base-building
• building
• rpg
• post-apocalyptic
• sandbox
• heist
• open-world
• zombies
• strategy
• stylized
• pvp
• cartoony
• military
• first-person
• sci-fi

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early access Nintendo Switch l Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows j

Winter is a 2D pixel-art strategy game inspired by Slavic mythology. Build an army, protect your forest settlement from mythical creatures, and bring eternal spring to your land. Explore, recruit fighters, and strategize to overcome the challenges of winter.

• cooperative
• colony
• base-building
• scroller
• tower-defense
• simulation
• medieval
• pixel
• 2d
• survival
• atmospheric
• local
• fantasy
• controller-support
• strategy

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Play Video: Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

• survival
• colony
• base-building
• simulation
• base
• real-time
• post-apocalyptic
• management
• crafting
• strategy
• resource-management
• sandbox
• israeli

Good match + 43 Bad match - 60

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