The Best Base-building Games for Nintendo Switch

Update 13 December 2023: Winter Games Challenge added at rank #16.

Here are our 10 Best Base-building Games for Nintendo Switch:

Play Video: Kingdom Eighties

Android Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone

Kingdom Eighties is a standalone expansion to the award-winning Kingdom series. A singleplayer epic adventure of micro-strategy and base building. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed, and discover the secrets of your family lineage!

• pixel
• micro-strategy
• colony
• base-building
• city-building
• tower-defense
• strategy
• simulation
• survival
• economy
• resource-management
• building
• skateboard
• medieval
• procedural

Good match + 12 Bad match

Play Video: Kingdom: Two Crowns

Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Playstation 4 Xbox One IOS iPhone Linux Android

In Kingdom Two Crowns, players must work in the brand-new solo or co-op campaign mode to build their kingdom and secure it from the threat of the Greed. Experience new technology, units, enemies, mounts, and secrets in the next evolution of the award-winning micro strategy franchise!

• micro
• medieval
• pixel
• colony
• strategy
• side-scrolling
• cooperative
• base-building
• tower-defense
• city-building
• simulation
• building
• scroller
• survival
• 2d

Good match + 6 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

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Get ready to rethink all your defense strategies! Build barricades to stop monsters, or lure them into a maze and attack. A variety of stages that change each time depending on how you play them.

• tower-defense
• deckbuilder
• base-building
• pve
• building
• space
• attack
• score
• hand-drawn
• logic
• strategy
• cartoony
• 2d
• colourful
• survival

Good match + 33 Bad match - 81

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 + 264 Bad match - 555

Play Video: Mr. Prepper

PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Mac OS

In Mr. Prepper, you must build an underground shelter, craft machines, and explore atmospheric locations to survive in a world controlled by an authoritarian government. Will you help Mr. Prepper defy the government and stay alive? This thrilling survival game offers an interesting prepper/survival concept, with a decent variety of items to build and explore. The game will keep you on edge with the slight stress of coming under inspection, all while providing a relaxing experience. Craft, trade, explore, and scavenge your way to success!

• Interesting prepper/survival concept
• Decent variety of stuff to build
• Slight stress of coming under inspection
• Fun exploring the map
• Relaxing game

• Building/crafting loop is low-impact
• Short replay value
• UI improvements needed
• Lots of grinding

• survival
• resource-management
• crafting
• simulation
• base-building
• underground
• life
• 2.5d
• atmospheric
• management
• point-and-click
• economy

Good match + 124 Bad match - 230

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 + 58 Bad match - 109

Play Video: Monster Outbreak

PC Windows Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch

It's a Monster Outbreak! The King's dimensional orb malfunctioned, bringing hordes of dimensional monsters into the Kingdom. As Yulia, the last survivor of the Royal Guard, defend your staging ground against the monsters, upgrade your arsenal, and survive long enough to find the orb and destroy it.

• base-building
• hack-and-slash
• tower-defense
• cooperative
• split-screen
• crafting
• local
• survival
• multiplayer
• building
• controller-support
• 2d
• exploration
• pixel
• arcade

Good match + 10 Bad match - 28

Play Video: Taur

Android Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?

• tower-defense
• top-down
• strategy
• base-building
• action-strategy
• sci-fi
• real-time
• maze
• tactical
• destruction
• replay-ability
• automation
• defense
• futuristic
• wave

Good match + 31 Bad match - 48

Play Video: Hobo: Tough Life

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 + 66 Bad match - 136

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