23 Best Building Games for Xbox One

Aven Colony is a City-building, Strategy and Single-player video game created by Mothership Entertainment and published by Team17. The game takes place in the Science-fiction environment, and the primary storyline of the game centers on the human colonization of an alien planet. You must build a new colony to survive in the strange alien planet using different materials and buildings. It offers a human city named as Aven Prime, a planet light-years far away from the planet Earth. The primary objective is to explore the environment to gather resources, build shelters and invite people to live in the colony to survive. You must build the colony from scratch and a massive variety of buildings ranging from tent-like structures to skyscrapers. These buildings contain different categories such as living quarter, oxygen creation, food cultivation and resource mining. You can use drones to upgrade, manage and recycle everything available in the colony. The game features dynamic day/night cycle, and during the night time, everything freezes and the food will not grow, and the solar panels don’t produce electricity. Aven Colony includes core features such as Build the Future, Discover the Past, Survive your Colonists, meet the Locals, Expedition System, Prepare for winter, and more. Try it out.

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.

LEGO Worlds is a Single-player and Multiplayer Sandbox Simulation with Building elements developed by Traveller’s Tales and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game enables the players to construct their buildings in a 3D randomly generated the world. The player can build different construction using Lego bricks and can get rewards and points for their creation. In the beginning, the player needs to manipulate the world to collect several objects spread across the maps using studs, the game currency. In the world, the player can unleash his creativity and build anything the player imagines. There are lots of characters available, and the player can select one of them to get access to the world where he can customize it using multiple outfits. He can modify the terrain and environment using the landscaping tools and can craft different vehicles like cars, helicopters, and more. LEGO Worlds includes prominent features such as Open Ended World, lots of Crafting Tools, various Buildings, challenging Objectives, Exploration and more. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and smooth controls, LEGO Worlds is the best game to play and enjoy.

Cities: Skylines is a wonderful City Building, Management and massively Multiplayer online Real-Time Strategy Simulation packed with new and improved gameplay mechanics and elements and it tends to entertain you with all the provided thrill and hardships of creating and managing a whole city. The game basically assesses your abilities of being a good Manager, Builder, Crafter, etc. all at once and throws various hardcore challenges at yourself to improve your abilities and ultimately be a great Building and Management Mogul, rule the businesses and, build and create new technologies and take it to a whole new level of entertainment. With awesome visual details, great game-play options, addictive nature, a lot to build and manage and Strategically grow your Economics, Relations and defenses, Cities: Skyline is a great City-building, Management, MMO, RTS simulation to enjoy. Try it out if you really want to enjoy an amazing experience of all the beautiful combination of various elements, you’ll love it for sure.

Planetbase is a Strategy and Space Simulation with Building elements created and published by Madruga Works. The game is about establishing a human colony on the distant planet and creating an outpost to survive on an alien planet. There is a group of settlers, and you must lead the team and struggle to build a colony on an isolated planet. You can assume the role of the protagonist, who is a base architect and a manager. Lead your group, and it is your responsibility to make sure that your team is working properly, building the base in the empty place where they can survive and have a supply of food, oxygen, and water. You are responsible for controlling your team to create a self-sufficient base where they can get water and grow food to survive. There are a variety of levels, and each level needs a completion of certain objectives to progress. It has different planets such as Gas Giant Planet, Frozen Planet, Desert Planet, and Storm Planet. As the manager, you must control the flow of the new people coming toward your colony and make sure that the people with unique skills will come to the planet. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Tropico 5 is a marvelous new MMO-RTS, City-Building, Management Simulation that offers gameplay a lot similar to its predecessors and Anno series games. With a unique Co-op Multiplayer (4-Player) feature, Tropico 5 lets you build whole cities on different islands and allows you to work with or against each other. The main task in the game is to manage your cities and take your settlement to the Colonial Era, witness World Wars, Cold War and finally reach to the modern era, embrace technological advancements and thrive in an advanced society. You can also be one of the super powers of the time by simply working hard, write the constitution and decide the independence of your cities or countries and by waging wars against your enemies and defeating them. With all the wonderful building and management options, great visuals, and an addictive game-play, Tropico 5 is a brilliant Simulation to spend your precious time on. Do try it out for a beautiful MMO, RTS, management and City-building experience.

Astroneer is an Action-Adventure, Sandbox, Single-player and Multiplayer Simulation created and published by System Era Softworks. It takes place in the stimulating environment, and the player is tasked with building the different structure, mining resources and colonizing planets. The game has no specific goals and storyline. You as the playable character are able to create your own storyline and build the world that you imagine. It offers open world environment played from a third-person perspective. You must manipulate procedurally generated environment either on foot or by spacecraft and lunar rover. Using crafting features, you can create multiple vehicles, spacecraft modules, and oxygen reserve tanks. You can convert ice into the fuel for spacecraft of the astronaut. During the exploration, the player can explore the vast environment, drive vehicles and build colonies to survive as long as possible while scoring the highest points. The game becomes desperate to play, as you advanced. Gather resources and use them to build different structures. Astroneer includes prominent features such as Detailed Environment, Four-player Online Mode, custom Vehicle, unique Multiplayer Experience, and more. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and smooth controls, Astroneer is the best game to play.

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.

Constructor mixes the Real-time Strategy (RTS), Construction and Management Simulation developed by System 3 and published by Acclaim Entertainment. Both Single-player and Multiplayer modes are supported in the game, and it is available to play on multiple platforms. In the game, the player assumes the head of a construction company in a huge map divided into several states, and he must deal with other teams to win the competition or the game. The ultimate task of the player is to expand his company further and further to drive the players out of business. The player must hire a team of workers and foremen, and effort to build facilities to create materials like concrete, sawmill, etc. to construct houses, and more. The game is played from an isometric perspective, and the player can use different materials and show off his creation. He must fulfill the requirements of each project and earn enough money to unlock additional items in the game. Hire new workers, tenants, and other characters grow his production and turn an empty land into a luxury city comprises airports, amusement park, multiple routes for transport and more. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and wonderfully detailed graphics, Constructor is the best game to play.

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.

Trove is a Sandbox MMORPG video game developed by Trion Worlds. With a Minecraft and Cube World inspired game-play and visuals, Trove is one of the best game of this specific genre. The game lets you select player character from a number of classes, select skills and go to the Arena called Hub to access the Portals and reach to other worlds to fight against the opponents, go to amazing quests, interact with NPCs and other online players, defeat the bosses and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. Trove allows you to select any character from any available character classes, use their special abilities to explore the world, to craft buildings, weapons and loads of other cool items and go against a number of different types of enemies to enjoy the game. Trove lets you explore a massive game world, filed with all kinds of wonders, different types of enemies etc. and it lets you have some of the most coolest Power Ups and upgrades to enhance your abilities and keep on playing the game until you get tired. Trove offers a brilliant Sandbox gameplay similar to the biggest names of the genre such as Minecraft, Cube World and others and offers a truly amazing MMORPG experience ever. Do give it a try, you’ll definitely love this game.

Project Spark is an Action-Adventure, Sandbox, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Team Dakota and published by Microsoft Studios. It is a digital canvas uses to create games, animation movies, and other experiences. The game takes place in the brilliant world and lets the player download user-based content to remix or create his own. The environment consists of mountains, towns, rivers, and buildings. The player can create his unique character, levels filled with puzzles, traps, and obstacles and can share with his friends to play. The player starts off the game with a white paper or a pre-designed level, but there are always customization tools available to remix the game. The player needs to get into the world of fantasy, unleash his creativity and create something unique to impress his fellows. He can build different vehicles, buildings, hurdles, each and everything. Progress through the game to unlock further content and become the master. With brilliant gameplay, excellent mechanics, immersive graphic details, and smooth controls, Project Spark is the best game to play and enjoy.

Industry Giant II created and published by JoWood Productions is a Single and Multiplayer Business Simulation for multiple platforms. The game serves as the sequel to Industry Giant and features improved gameplay, soundtracks, and modes. It takes the player in the year 1900 and allows him to start his business with limited money but huge ambitions. Through strong decision making, the player can build up a massive business empire. It features more than 150 products from the twentieth century and introduces more than fifty vehicles. There are up to twenty endless maps with detailed environment and graphics. In the game, the primary objective of the player is to start from a small village and turn it into a luxury city full of all facilities. It has two different modes such as Pro-Mode and Campaign Mode. Pro-Mode introduces all relevant statistics and dates while Campaign mode comprises twenty brilliant missions for beginners. Industry Giant II includes key features such as 20 Endless Maps, 50 Vehicles, Detailed Graphics, Two Modes, and more. Industry Giant II is the best game as compared to other Economics Simulations.

ScreamRide is a Puzzle and Single-player Building Simulation developed by Frontier Developments and published by Microsoft Studios for Xbox platform. The game features more than fifty levels and up to three modes such as ScreamRider, Engineer, and Demolition Expert. It takes place in the futuristic year 2400, where the thrill seekers are hired by a corporation known as Scream works to experience a set of roller coasters and rides for the future of the sciences and humanities. In Engineer mode, the player must solve development puzzle for roller coaster using limited resources while scoring the points. He can ride and handle the coasters, with a task of keeping the riders secure from falling the coaster in Screamrider mode. The player must unleash his creativity, and build an amazing roller coaster park using the various material, resources and items while earning enough points to become the master in Expert Mode. The player must collect enough money, and use to unlock additional content in the game. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and incredible graphics, ScreamRide is the best game to play.

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.

Zoo Tycoon is 2001’s wonderful business Simulation by Blue Fang Games. The game tasks the players to manage a zoo, make profit and eventually by growing up, become a zoo tycoon and enjoy collecting wealth resources and enjoy. Zoo tycoon is available to play on Only XBox Platforms so it offers a bit of different gameplays for both of the devices. In the XBox Version of the game, it offers a 15 hour long campaign mode in which you can enjoy the freedom of exploration (Infinity Mode) and the game will task you to complete a number of small tasks. The XBox version of the game also features Kinect-based gameplay that offers more detailed gameplay and loads of fun. However, in the XBox 360 version of the game allows you to enjoy a bit of different gameplay in which you can have almost 65 different animals in the game world, and the game offer a bit of inferior visual details and it only features Single Player mode. Zoo ycoon with all the amazing environments, beautiful visuals, addictive gameplay and loads of other exciting things in totally worth playing. Do give it a try if you haven’t yet played it.

Doodle God: Ultimate Edition is an addictive Puzzle, and Building Simulation with Match-3 twist developed and published by JoyBits, Inc. for Xbox platform. The primary objective of the player is to create a complete universe with the combination of puzzle and building elements. You will watch your planet come alive, as you create each new items. The entire world was not set up in a single day, and you will start your work with a single microorganism to create animals, storms, tools, sky rappers, and even recruit armies before creating the universe. But beware, if something goes wrong, causing a zombie plague and your all inhabitants in the universe will be transformed into zombies. There are a series of levels, and each level needs a completion of individual objectives. In the game beginning, the game looks easy to play, but as you progress, it becomes difficult to understand. Combine different items to get a mew. Doodle God: Ultimate Edition offers improved graphics, mechanics and gameplay. Try it out.

Portal Knights is an Action Role-playing and Survive video game with Building elements like Terraria and Minecraft developed by Keen Games and published by 505 Games. The game supports both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and mixes the elements of exploration and building with the role-playing aspects. It takes place in the sandbox environment and offers the freedom to the player to manipulate the world and gather resources to build different structures while fighting enemies to earn points for each kill. Like Minecraft video game, the player can craft multiple items such as swords, pickaxes, and tools to smash objects, battle monsters and build elaborate construction, weapons, and armors. In Single-player mode, the player explores the world alone while in Multiplayer mode, the player can explore and battle with up to four friends simultaneously. The player participates in tactical combat, dodge their attacks in fast-paced action and third-person perspective battles. There are different character classes available, including Mage, Warrior, and Ranger, etc. It has several landscapes available, and each offers new quests and exclusive items in multiple events. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Prison Architect combines the elements of Construction and Management Simulation created and published by Introversion Software. The game offers top-down gameplay and deals with city-building genre. The main objective of the player is to build and run a prison to earn money and experience points. It offers the similar gameplay like Theme Hospital, and the player has to build different units, rooms, cages, and office. Hire staff such as a warden, workers, and guards and train them. There are two types of roles that the player can assume such as Governor and Architect. It has a set of levels, and the player will rank up as he completes the objectives. The player can enjoy two different types of modes offering different challenges, story and gameplay such as Escape mode and Story mode. Navigate the world, complete tasks and expand the prison further and further to earn lots of money and points and compete against rival NPCs. With superb gameplay, addictive soundtracks, and brilliant visuals, Prison Architect is the best game as compared to other Business Simulations.

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.

Prison Architect: Psych Ward is a Downloadable Content Pack for the original game Prison Architect and introduces a variety of new inmates, wardens, staff, building plots, and more. The game enables the player to open his lockup to new inmates such as handle their needs, the criminally insane, control the behavior of inmates without pushing the population to break point. The game is played from the two-dimensional Top-down perspective. It is a construction and management simulation where the player has to take control of the building and running a prison to earn money. The player is responsible for managing different aspects of his inmates such as buildings cells, connecting utilities, hiring new staff including workers, warden, guards, and more. There are a variety of stages, and each stage needs a completion of certain objectives. He can build a workshop for the prison with reform programs that reduce the repeat offender rate of the specific prisoner. With improved gameplay, enhanced mechanics, and fantastic graphics, Prison Architect: Psych Ward is the incredible game to play and enjoy.

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.

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.