The Best Base-building Games for Xbox Series X

Update 29 May 2023: Farworld Pioneers added at rank #11.

Here are our 10 Best Base-building Games for Xbox Series X: 1

The Riftbreaker (2021)

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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.

What we like:
  • 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
What could be improved:
  • 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 + 142 Bad match - 157

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Meet Your Maker (2023)

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74

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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

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Dyson Sphere Program (2021)

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96

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X

In Dyson Sphere Program, you'll become a space engineer, building Dyson Spheres and managing interplanetary logistics. Explore the universe, gather resources, and design efficient production lines. Will you construct a galactic empire from scratch? Harness the power of the stars and find out!

What we like:
  • Perfect for automation game enthusiasts
  • Unique interplanetary logistics
  • High-quality factory building and logistics
  • Multiple end-game goals and achievements
  • Not reliant on Dyson Sphere completion
What could be improved:
  • Improvements needed in mid-to-late game
  • Challenging planet navigation in late game
  • automation
  • space
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • management
  • simulation
  • mech
  • city-building
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • space-exploration
  • sci-fi
  • 3d

Good match + 37 Bad match - 74

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Garden Simulator (2023)

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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

5

SimAirport (2020)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

  • base-building
  • city-building
  • flight
  • management
  • building
  • economy
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • resource-management
  • casual
  • large-scale
  • strategy

Good match + 3 Bad match - 3

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Starsand (2021)

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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?

What we like:
  • Good survival elements
  • Interesting premise
  • Nice desert atmosphere
  • Nice exploration aspects
  • Unique navigation system
What could be improved:
  • 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 + 8 Bad match - 6

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Hobo: Tough Life (2017)

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

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.

  • survival
  • base-building
  • cooperative
  • conversation
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • heist
  • sandbox
  • socio-economy
  • fiction
  • story
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • realistic
  • atmospheric

Good match + 4 Bad match - 4

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Smalland: Survive the Wilds (2023)

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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?

What we like:
  • 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
What could be improved:
  • 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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9

Common'hood (2022)

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55

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!

  • colony
  • base-building
  • building
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • automation
  • economy
  • management
  • minimalist
  • sandbox
  • stylized
  • in-game
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • resource-management

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10

Cafe Owner Simulator (2022)

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

Open your dream restaurant at FPP. Create a unique exterior and interior, hire the best workers and chefs, create a place where people will love to eat, spend time and spend their money. Simulation of the restaurant business.

  • illustration
  • design
  • simulation
  • cooking
  • life
  • base-building
  • immersive
  • resource-management
  • sandbox
  • economy
  • building
  • logic
  • family-friendly
  • management
  • relaxing

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