Building is a type of Simulation video games where the players act as the leader and planner of the town or city. The players are the responsible for the growth and management of their town and city. In building games, there are a variety of structures available, and it’s on the player select the building from inventory and place them in the right place to expand his territory. There are lots of famous building games available including SimCity, Cities: SkyLines, Cities XXL and more. The genre of the building was created in 1989 and introduced in SimCity, with heavy emphasized building rather than specific victory conditions. The players can follow the personal preferences in growth and design. Most of the games take place in the sandbox environment based on blocks, and the players can use multiple blocks to construct their creations. In building games, the player creates different objects like rides, roads, houses, parks, zoos, airports, and many other things.
#1 Virtual City HD
Virtual City HD centers on City building and Strategy Simulation developed and published by G5 Entertainment. The game takes place in five different locations such as New York, Colorado, California, Montana, and Michigan. It consists of up to fifty challenging levels with eighteen distinct missions. The player get a chance through this simulation to create his dream city using different types of buildings, accessories and items. Your ultimate objective to build a city and manage it. Take on the role of the mayor, perform everything to run your industry and maintain your economy to survive in the world. Complete a set of levels, and complete missions to earn money and upgrade your city, building and more. Build factories to produce goods, create routes, open airport, and transport passengers from their desired locations. Navigate five different states and maintain balance between key parameters such as income, population, pollution, environment, and happiness. Virtual City HD offers core features such as Twenty-five types of Goods, Ton of Upgrades, Fifty types of Buildings, and more. Try it out.
#2 Godus
Godus developed and published by 22Cans for Android and iOS platforms. It is a Single-player god game Simulation, and you starts the game by rescuing a woman and a man from drowning. Your ultimate task is to lead them throughout a variety of levels and build a tent to progress through the game. It takes place in the stunning world consists of various locations around the globe and includes a series of levels with day/night cycle. In the game, you can redesign the world in your style, and you have to breed the worker to build as many tents as possible to fulfill your tasks. The game proceeds, the population of human will be increased, and they develop more tents to live. Explore the world to discovers new technologies and unlock further stages to build advanced tents to earn more experience. You can control each and everything in this Promised Island and can control the creatures to uncover mysteries. Godus offers prominent features such as Create Village, Lead Followers, Meet the Astari, Cast Miracles, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#3 Valhalla Hills
Valhalla Hills is a Strategy, Mythology, City-building, Management and Single-player Fantasy-based Simulation created by Funatics Software and published by Daedalic Entertainment. The game offers a brilliant story, in which you spent your entire life in the service of the Asgard’s gods. When you die, you receive a place in the halls of Valhalla. When you reach there to receive your final rewards, no answered. Odin has shown his back to the people including you and underestimated the Viking Spirits. You as the protagonist must lead your people on Valhalla Hills and battle enemies to prove your strength, honor, and worthiness. Explore the environment, gather food, chopping wood, and build complex structures to survive. Dominate each battle and reach the portal at the top of the highest mountains, and cry loud enough for Odin to hear your voice. If they don’t agree to give you and your people the reward you deserve, then using your axe, you have to take it from them. The game features procedurally generated worlds comprise a variety of levels with different challenges. Earn your Place in Valhalla, complete Basic Needs, Fight enemies to eliminate, Upgrades, and Randomly Generated Levels, etc. are the prominent features to play and enjoy.
#4 Roblox
Roblox, developed and published by Roblox Corporation is an MMO (Massively Multiplayer online) and a Sandbox video game available to play on PC, Mac OS X, iOS and Android platforms. The game lets you be part of a virtual world by selecting and customizing an online avatar for yourself, explore an open world, interact with a lot of online players, play games together, make friends online and focuses on your creative and building abilities by manipulating the blocks and create whatever you want. You can talk over the mic or chat with your friends via an online text based platform. Everything you see in the game is basically situated inside the differently stylized, sized and colored bricks and blocks, and offers you a unique experience of Voxel based sandbox gaming. You get to visit different places, some provided by the game itself and some user created (Maps created by Lua 5.1 Programming Language), you can walk, run, jump, ride on skateboards, bikes, cars etc. and buy houses to live in. Roblox allows you to buy a structure and decorate it according to your likes and dislikes. If you don’t like a building or you want to destroy something you can totally bring it down and rebuild just according to your style and demands. The game provides you with best 3D graphics, two types of virtual currency (Tickets and Robux) to buy things, a lot of upgrades that you can buy with Tickets or Robux and a lot of other exciting things to do and enjoy.
#5 Terraria
Terraria is an open world Action-Adventure, Survival RPG and Voxel-based Sandbox video game set in a 2D game world. The game lets you be part of the game world with three basic tools, a pickaxe, a sword and a wood cutting axe and allows you to explore, gather resources and fight off your enemies. The game world is filled with things that would like to slay you so you need to be a bit more careful while exploring. As the game mainly focuses on night time game-play, the enemies attack at night, so you must be a bit more attentive to the details and your surroundings. Combats are normally melee type so you will have a better chance of earning the XP points that will help you buy some upgrades. Because of being a 2D game, Terraria seems a bit different than other sandbox games, but it isn’t actually. You’ll experience almost the same game-play and a lot of other exciting things. Terraria is available to play on multiple platforms.
#6 Fallout Shelter
Fallout Shelter is an Engaging, Single-player Mobile Simulation developed and published by Bethesda Game Studios. The game takes place in the fictional wasteland and allows you get into the game world where you have to create your vault. Explore the game world, gather resources, customize your dwellers and protect your world from evil and enemies. Lead your vault and populate it with people. Fulfill their needs such as food, power, and water. Decorate your world with tons of decorations and accessories. Offer the facilities for health, jobs, products and more to your city’s inhabitants. Maintain balance in resources and important aspect of the game. Create different rooms in the vault as you like and offers different stat bonuses and items. Earn experience points by completing tasks and use them to unlock more items, features, and other stuff. Increase the number of dwellers by pairing a female and a male dweller in living vault. Fallout Shelter includes core features such as Customization, Create the Perfect Vault, Thriving Community, Explore the game world, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#7 Bridge Constructor Stunts
Bridge Constructor Stunts is a Construction and Single-player Simulation developed by ClockStore and published by Headup Games for cross platforms. It takes place in the three-dimensional environment and introduces a variety of stages. You must control a vehicle and struggle to reach the end of each stage while performing insane tricks in the air to score the points. In the game, you must build imposing loops and ramps to reach the endpoint in the diverse stage. Building structures aren’t enough to win the level, and you must drive the vehicle yourself and have to explore the environment to maneuver it skillfully to the end of the level. During exploration, you have to gather stars, accomplish daredevil jumps, do spectacular stunts and flips, and unlock further levels to become the master. In the game, you have the ability to reposition the structures by clicking and holding on the part of the construction you want to move. Bridge Constructor Stunts includes prominent features such as different Building Materials, Create Ramps, Construction Mode, Spectacular Stunts, Collect Stars and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#8 King’s Empire
King’s Empire is an Action-Adventure, Free-to-play, Real-time Strategy, and Role-playing video game created and published by Tap4fun. In the game, you can assume the role of the King, and your primary task is to build your own Empire and defend from others. The game allows you lead your nation and protect them against demons, collect and train your forces, and can use them to fight against other online players in epic arena battles. The game provides you with the combination of Trading, Tower-defense, Exploration and Combat gameplay and lets you immerse yourself in Trade resources experience. You can take part in PvP arena combat events with other players and win amazing prizes and rewards that you can use to buy or unlock upgrades, power-ups, and other outfits. You can create your own alliance or become a part of others guilds to fight together against enemies. You must fight and defend your Empire and make it beautiful by trading. The game includes core features such as Epic PvP, Resources, Customize your Soldiers, Explore Dark Magic, Research the technologies, Resources Production and much more. With the exciting story, entertaining gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and touch-controls, and stunning visuals, King’s Empire is one of the best gameplay as compared to other Strategy and MMORPGs to play and enjoy. Try it out. It’ll surely entertain you.
#9 King Boom: Pirate Island Adventure
King Boom: Pirate Island Adventure is an addictive Real-time Strategy video game developed by Digi Ten for Android and iOS. The game takes place in the beautiful world comprises several exotic islands. In the game, the player assumes the role of the pirate, and his primary goal is to sail the ship to become the richest pirate in the globe. The player receives a daily spin by which he can test his fortune to get the massive rewards. Sail the ship, build an empire on beautiful islands and attack other players to earn tons of golds, collect shields to defend his covers from enemy attack and set out himself on a journey of adventures. Up to nine different islands available and the player needs to expand his empire further to become the master. The game deals with loot, attack, and building elements and brings the exciting features for the players. Spin your Fortune, Build an Island, Unlockable Content, Become a Pirate, Sail the Ship, Multiple Weapons, etc. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#10 The Battle of Polytopia
The Battle of Polytopia brings a Strategy, Turn-based, Single-player and Multiplayer Building video game created and published by Midjiwan AB. The game takes place in the beautiful world and introduces up to eleven tribes. The player must select his one of eleven tribes and struggle to conquer the square-shaped worlds by dominating cities. In the game, the player assumes the role of the leader with a task to build an empire and battle against enemies, attack their bases, and loot their resources to expand his tribe further and further. He starts the game from a small and empty land covered with snow and other grass. The player manipulates the steamy Kickoo forests and claims the lush land for his empire. It has numerous levels with increasing difficulties, and the player needs to fulfill the objectives to unlock additional content and earn points to become the master. With addictive gameplay and superb mechanics, The Battle of Polytopia is the best game to play and enjoy.
#11 Dead Town: Zombie Survival
Dead Town: Zombie Survival is an Adventure, Survival, Exploration and Top-down video game with emphases on Crafting and Building elements developed by Lemon Puppy Games for Android and iOS. The game takes you in the brutal environment populated with zombies and lets you assume the role of the survival. The ultimate task is to manipulate the world from a top-down view, craft useful items and weapons to take down zombies and struggle to survive as long as possible while creating your shelter. There are different types of equipment available that you can use to defend yourself and fight against enemies. It contains numerous levels and each level has a set of objectives the player has to complete to progress through the game. In the starts, the game looks easy to simulate, but become tough to master as you advanced. Different kinds of Weapons, Equipment, Special Zombies, Bosses, etc. are core features of the game.
#12 You Must Build a Boat
You Must Build a Boat is a Puzzle-based Role-playing and Single-player video game developed by EightyEight Games Ltd. The game mixes the Match-3, Pixel Graphics, and Strategy elements and it is the sequel to the 10000000 video game, released by Redwood. It starts with the character who is in a small boat with his two companions, who guide the protagonist to build a massive board to reach the specific goal. The player takes on the role of the character, and his ultimate objective is to build a wonderful board with the help of his assistance and hire knights to defend the board against attacks. During the gameplay, the player needs to capture monsters, and collect resources to progress through the game and use them to upgrade his weapons, equipment, and boards. The character of the player can run, walk and jump on the screen’s top and can encounter monsters loot treasure chests. You Must Build a Boat lets the player gather his crew, build a boat, and capture the monsters, cast spells and more. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and superb visual, You Must Build a Boat is the best game to play.
#13 Stonies
Stonies is a Free-to-play, Farming, Strategy and City-building Simulation developed and published by Upjers GmbH for mobile platforms. The game takes place in the stone-age village and lets you assume the role of the leader who must lead your crew, explore the world, gather resources and harvest crops to expand your community. In the game, you will teach your kin to make fire, hunt, and build own village with different building elements. Lead your stonies through the world full of dangers, gripping tasks, and challenges. The game is played from the isometric perspective, and you can use multiple building to create your village, decorate it using lots of accessories and grow different crops to feed your stonies. Using craft elements, you can create various weapons such as wooden spears and other traditional weapons to hunt down rabbits, and deer. Stonies combine the life-simulation and strategy elements and put you in the old-classic world with your tribe. Stonies includes prominent features, addictive gameplay, and excellent mechanics. Try it out.
#14 My Free Circus
My Free Circus is a marvelous, Building and Business Simulation published and developed by Upjers GmbH for mobile platforms. The game offers you an opportunity to establish your own circus, hire an artist and train your animals to perform the exciting stunt. Plan your shows on different places, attract visitors and show off your fearless performers, hilarious animals, and breathtaking clowns to entertain the visitors earn money to upgrade your circus further and further. During the game, you must collect exotic animals, train the superb acrobats and hive your audience a brilliant show like nothing they have ever experienced before. There are numerous circus animals available to show off in the ring including Llamas and Monkeys to Lions and Elephants. Assume the role of the manager, maintain your circus and earn enough to money to become the tycoon. My Free Circus offers core features such as Fantastic Animation, Decoration Options, Animal Pens, Customization, Entertainment Quests, and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.
#15 Roads of Rome 3
Roads of Rome 3 offers an exciting gameplay, revolving around Real-time Strategy, Time Management and Building elements developed and published by Realore for multiple platforms. The game casts the player in the role of the protagonist, and his ultimate task is to fend off barbarians by fighting against each other and rebuild shelters before time runs out. There are Forty-three ridiculous levels available, and each level needs a completion of individual objectives. During the game, the player controls the character, collect resources like gold, woods, stones, etc. and harvest crops to earn points. The player can use his resources to rebuild bridges, overcome obstacles and make his land beautiful using lots of items and decorations. The story focuses on the female protagonist named as Julia, who lived with his people and enjoy peace. One day, a messenger appears with bad news about Barbarians spreading destruction everything in Roman Province. The player must stop the enemies and rebuild the city to become the master. Roads of Rome 3 offers core features such as Resource Management, Strategy Gameplay, beautiful Graphics and more.
#16 Townsmen Premium
Townsmen Premium is a Classic City Building, Strategy and Single-player Simulation developed and published by HandyGames. The game takes place in the medieval settings and available to play on mobile platforms such as Android, iOS and Windows Phone. In the beginning, you starts off from a tiny village, and your primary aim is to turn it into a grand medieval empire. You have to navigate the world to find resources, craft items, build houses, bakeries, factories and other buildings to progress. The game rewards you with money as you fulfill quests and can use these funds to upgrade your buildings and unlock further content. You have to recruit army, train and equip them with weapons to defend your Empire. Keep your people, grow different crops, fruits, and trees to expand your Empire further and further. As the game progress, it becomes difficult to play. Townsmen Premium offers core features such as City-building Gameplay, cute Citizens, Diverse Scenarios, Meaningful Seasons, Dozens of Towns, and Military elements with Bandits and Soldiers, Sandbox mode and more. Try it out if you like playing City-building games with medieval settings.
#17 Puzzle Craft
Puzzle Craft developed and published by Chillingo is an Adventure, Puzzle, City-building, and Farming video game with Business Simulation elements available to play on multiple platforms. The plot centers on several villagers, who have established a new village and they have put the player in the charge. In the game, you as the leader must control the entire community including its inhabitants and must assist them to grow their houses into the bustling city. To accomplish your goals, you must create farms, mine, gather taxes, hire skilled workers and train them. The game has two different modes such as Match-3 and Building Sim. Using crafting system, you can create tools to aid your workers with mining and farming. Manage unique buildings to enhance your productivity. The game rewards you with points, as you progressed through it. There are lots of levels, and each level offers a unique gameplay with a set of tasks. Puzzle Craft offers prominent features such as Town Building Sim, exciting Gameplay, Crafting Tools, Hire Villagers, Special Buildings and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#18 Cafeteria Nipponica
Cafeteria Nipponica is a Management and Single-player Simulation by Kairosoft for Android and iOS. The game takes place in the stunning environment and puts the player in charge of a restaurant. In the game, the player can construct and design his dream restaurant in his style and can decorate it using multiple accessories, items and decorations. He can select his favorite menu and can cook delicious food to satisfy the customers’ hunger. Hire and train his staff and attract as many customers as possible to make more money. During the game, the player will face numerous issues such as researching new food items, managing staff, and more. The player needs to pay salaries to his employee, keep his staff and his customers happy and become a wonderful business tycoon in his land to earn reputation. Cafeteria Nipponica includes prominent features such as different Dishes, various Items, Boosting the Popularity, a variety of Events and more. Try it out, and you’ll love the game.
#19 The Tribez and Castlez
The Tribez and Castlez mix the Farming, Real-time Strategy and Building Simulation developed and published by Game Insight for mobile platforms. The game takes you in the fantasy world of Tribez and Castlez and embarks you on an unforgettable adventure. You assume the role of the ruler and will face different problems and challenges throughout the game. In the beginning, you need to create your castle using different buildings, structure and decorate it using accessories and items. During the gameplay, you can command your people, grow crops, harvest them and sell at good prices to upgrade your castle. Become a hero, when vicious monsters, villains, and fearful creatures are coming toward your castle and defeat them by controlling your armies. Use different towers to fend off enemies by reaching your castle and kill them instantly to avoid increasing their amount. There are different levels available, and each level offers a set of endless adventure and a variety of enemies. The Tribez and Castlez offer core features such as Develop your Country, Rebuild your Kingdom, Beautiful Graphics, Conquer enemy Castle, and more. Try it out.
#20 Junk Jack
Junk Jack is a brilliant Action-Adventure, Crafting and Sandbox video game created and published by Pixbits for multiple platforms. Like other Crafting and Sandbox games, Junk Jack has no clear objectives with no particular plot. The player has an ability to create his storyline based on his experience. The game comprises collectible items to traverse to other lands to perform various tasks. It takes place in the procedurally generated world filled with thousands of new content to discover, craft to learn, loot to equip and monster to fight. The world contains more than twelve planets and each with hand-crafted environments. Both Single-player and Multiplayer modes are available to play alone or with friends. The game offers a chance to the player to unleash is creativity and build anything he can imagine. It has tons of decorations, objects, and blocks to place. Day/night and dynamic weather system are also introduced in the game. Junk Jack offers core features such as two different Styles Crafting, Deep Electronic System, Online Multiplayer, Hundreds of Objects, Travel between 12 Planets and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#21 Glam Doll House: Girls Craft
Glam Doll House: Girls Craft is a Building, Decoration, Role-playing and Single-player video game developed by Tiny Dragon Adventure Games. The game takes place in the stunning environment and puts you in the role of the protagonist who is an interior designer with crafting, designing and mining elements. Unleash your creativity and design your dream dollhouse in the 3D world populated with cute creatures like Unicorn and more. The game offers the environment similar to Minecraft, and you can navigate the world from the first-person perspective. It offers a block-based world where you can craft different items using materials. Design your home and show off your creativity to impress your buddies. Your character can run, walk, climb stairs, and interact with environment and objects to progress through the game. You can build and destroy anything in the sandbox world. Glam Doll House: Girls Craft offers prominent features such as an Open World, First-person, stylish Furniture, Tons of Accessories and Items, Block-based Environment and more. With smooth gameplay, addictive features and brilliant mechanics, Glam Doll House: Girls Craft is the best game to play.
#22 Minecraft
Minecraft, developed by Mojang and 4J Studios and published by Mojang, Microsoft Studios and Sony Computer Entertainment is an indie, Sandbox building and FPS (First Person Shooter) video game. This game is available to play on multiple platforms like PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. The game allows the player to construct buildings out of textured cubes in a 3D generated open world. Player can craft different objects, explore the world, gather resources and engage in combats with enemies. Minecraft also features Survival, Creative and Adventure gaming modes. According to the storyline, player roams in an open world with no specific goals to accomplish breaking and making different kinds of structures with the help of blocks. Walking through deserts, snowfields and jungles, the player switches from first person perspective to third person perspective upon his will and engages in gunfights with the enemy. Minecraft is a great Sandbox, Building, Crafting and Shooting video game to play and enjoy. You must try it out.
#23 Fortnite
Fortnite offers the superb blend of Third-person Perspective, Battle Royale, Survival, and Sandbox elements and supports Co-op, Single-player, and Online Multiplayer modes developed and published by Epic Games for multiple platforms. The game is about exploration, scavenging items, crafting weapons, building different structures, and fighting against hordes of enemies and zombie-like creatures. There are different characters from which the player can select his favorite one to start his adventure. In Fortnite game, players need to work together to scavenge items that they can use to defend and build structures and complete a variety of objectives to progress through the game.
During the gameplay, the player can edit each wall of the structure with a 3×3 grid, roofs, lay downstairs, and more. The game contains two different modes, one of which is Fortnite: Save the World, offering a co-op shooter-survival gameplay for up to four players to battle against zombies and defend objects using fortification players can build. The second mode of the game is Fortnite Battle Royale mode which comes with free-to-play Battle Royale gameplay where up to 100 players parachute on an island to battle against each other to be the last person standing. There are four different character classes such as soldier, ninja, constructor, and Outlander each class has its unique abilities and personality.
Explore the world from a third-person view, interact with non-player characters, progress through the game by completing objectives, and survive as long as possible to become the master. Fortnite offers core features such as Open World, Forest Environment, lots of Challenging Levels, and more.