Games like Basement
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Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.
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$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Resource Management
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Base Building · Management · Resource Management
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Colony SimBase BuildingSimulationManagementResource ManagementStrategySandboxSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuilding👍 955
$23.99ShapeHero Factory
Sep 17 · Asobism.Co.,Ltd
Both: Base Building · Resource Management · Building
In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.
AutomationBase BuildingTower DefenseRogueliteResource Management2.5DCuteStrategyBuildingSimulation👍 991
$22.00Ratopia
Apr 30 · Cassel Games
Both: Building · Base Building · Difficult
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
BuildingColony SimBase BuildingSurvivalDifficultStrategyCity Builder2DCuteManagement👍 4,639
$14.99Outpath
Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Resource Management
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
AutomationBase BuildingCraftingSandboxResource ManagementIncrementalExplorationSimulationOpen WorldRelaxing👍 2,899
$34.99Foundation
Jan 31 · Polymorph Games
Both: Sandbox · Management · Resource Management
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
City BuilderSimulationMedievalStrategySandboxManagementResource ManagementBuildingRelaxingEconomy👍 23,045
$14.99Tower Factory
Nov 7 · Gius Caminiti
Both: Base Building · Resource Management · Management
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
AutomationTower DefenseStrategyRTSRogueliteRoguelikeBase BuildingResource ManagementManagementCrafting👍 1,221
$24.99Blockbuster Inc.
Jun 6 · Super Sly Fox
Both: Sandbox · Building · Base Building
Ever dreamed of making your own movies? Build up your own movie studio, scout for upcoming stars, and produce cutting-edge films and TV shows. Try to stay ahead of your competition throughout the history of cinematography.
SimulationSandboxBuildingBase BuildingLevel EditorCharacter CustomizationImmersive SimVideo ProductionModdableManagement👍 618
$14.99Dwelvers
Dec 19 · Rasmus Ljunggren
Both: Base Building · Management · Sandbox
Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.
Base BuildingVillain ProtagonistUndergroundManagementSandboxDarkFantasyMagicTop-DownBuilding👍 237
-40%$8.99The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
Dec 18 · PeatyTurf
Both: Sandbox · Base Building · Building
Put your engineering and problem solving skills to the test in this sandbox physics building game! Enjoy the freedom of completely gridless 3D sandbox building combined with hilarious ragdoll third person controls, offering a truly unique and hilarious "Enjeniring" experience!
SandboxPhysicsParkourMedievalBase BuildingFunnyThird PersonSingleplayerSimulationBuilding👍 682
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Management · Sandbox · Building
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
CookingMultiplayerSimulationManagementPhysicsSandboxFunnyTime ManagementImmersive SimBuilding👍 7,017
$8.99Terracards
Nov 7 · Pixel Purrfect
Both: Management · Building · Base Building
Farm, sell, learn, repeat. Terracards is a tactical roguelike-deckbuilder where you manage your own farm, You'll utilize animals, crops, and structures through cards, transforming them into valuable resources and wealth with each turn. But beware - deplete your funds, and it's game over.
Early AccessStrategyRoguelike DeckbuilderDeckbuildingRogueliteCasualManagementCapitalismBuildingBase Building👍 731
$24.99Outpost: Infinity Siege
Mar 26 · Team Ranger
Both: Base Building · Resource Management
Command Mobile Outpost and take XEN Firearm to venture deep into the Signet surveillance off-limit area. Collect unique Weapon Units. Amp up the firepower of the Outpost that fights with you. This is an FTD game - FPS, Tower Defense, Base Building and much more all at the same time.
Robots3DTower DefenseBase BuildingFPSResource ManagementCo-opSingleplayerPost-apocalypticSci-fi👍 11,637
-50%$9.99The Sims™ Legacy Collection
Jan 31 · MAXIS
Both: Sandbox · Building · Management
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
SandboxBuildingManagementLife SimCasualSimulationCharacter CustomizationAtmosphericSingleplayerImmersive Sim👍 2,329
$5.99Lakeside Bar
Jul 30 · BITCOVER
Both: Resource Management · Building · Management
A cozy management sim where the jazz is smooth, the cocktails are cooler than the evening breeze, and the lake reflects your perfect escape.
IdlerIncrementalPixel GraphicsSimulationCuteResource ManagementBuildingFishingManagementCapitalism👍 822
$14.99Grocery Store Simulator
Nov 21 · EXPERIMENT ONE
Both: Management · Resource Management
Grocery Store Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you build and manage your own supermarket by stocking shelves, setting prices, hiring staff, and customizing your store, all while expanding your business and keeping customers happy.
Online Co-OpMultiplayerSimulationCo-opManagementInventory ManagementResource ManagementFirst-PersonEconomySingleplayer👍 5,336
$9.99MewnBase
Oct 30 · Cairn4
Both: Base Building · Sandbox · Building
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Base BuildingCraftingCuteExplorationSandboxSurvivalSpaceBuilding2DAction-Adventure👍 1,333
-65%$8.74Bang-On Balls: Chronicles
Oct 5 · Exit Plan Games
Both: Sandbox
A quirky, absolutely content-packed, destructible open-world sandbox adventure with combat, platforming, character customization, and collect-a-thon scavenger hunt experience. Play solo, 2-player split screen, or online co-op for up to 4 players. No paid cosmetic DLC nonsense.
CombatCo-opOpen WorldLocal Co-OpSandboxSingleplayerAdventureSplit ScreenOnline Co-OpAction👍 4,335
$11.99Deep Corp
May 26 · KishMish Games
Both: Management · Resource Management · Sandbox
Dig mines, extract resources, and produce goods to restore order to the state. Become a successful businessman and an effective state governor in the late Wild West era!
StrategyMiningRTSManagementUndergroundResource ManagementSandboxExplorationWesternTime Management👍 367
$9.99Ice Cream Simulator
Jun 5 · AM Playhouse
Both: Management · Base Building
Run your dream ice cream shop in Ice Cream Simulator! Create delicious ice cream using a variety of ingredients, manage your business, hire staff, decorate your store, handle changing weather and different customers, and enjoy a relaxing first-person simulation experience.
CookingSimulationSingleplayerLife SimFirst-PersonManagementImmersive SimDesign & IllustrationRealisticBase Building👍 180
$5.99Sandbox Skyline
Jan 10 · Chute Apps
Both: Sandbox · Resource Management · Building
Build impressive skyscrapers pixel-by-pixel, and protect them from the harsh realities of nature. Each pixel is physically simulated to interact with earthquakes, firestorms, blizzards, and tsunamis. Protect your skyline and expand your territory in this relaxing (yet challenging) sandbox builder.
City BuilderSandboxPhysicsSimulationRelaxingResource ManagementBuildingReal Time TacticsRoguelikeSurvival
-35%$12.34Beer Factory
Jan 10 · MyceliumGames
Both: Resource Management · Management
Beer Factory is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
SimulationAutomationFirst-PersonResource ManagementSingleplayerManagementArtificial IntelligenceEconomyCraftingPhysics👍 1,410
$9.99Cluckmech Oasis
May 9 · BlackLight
Both: Building
Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.
StrategyRoguelikeTower DefensePixel GraphicsTop-Down ShooterCuteRogueliteBuildingActionShooter👍 3,078
$14.99Turnip Boy Robs a Bank
Jan 18 · Snoozy Kazoo
Both: Dark Comedy
Turnip Boy is back! This time he’s teaming up with the fearsome Pickled Gang to plan and execute the weirdest heist of all time. Shake down hostages, steal precious valuables, battle the fuzz, and use wacky tools bought off the dark web to move further into the vaults of the Botanical Bank.
Shoot 'Em UpTop-Down ShooterRogueliteAction-AdventureRoguelikeHack and SlashTwin Stick Shooter2DCuteDark Comedy👍 1,893
$19.99Nordhold
Mar 25 · StunForge
Both: Base Building · Management
Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?
Tower DefenseStrategyRogueliteDark FantasyTurn-Based StrategyRoguelikeIndieBase BuildingCity BuilderManagement👍 2,876
$4.99Dungeon Keeper™ 2
Mar 7 · Bullfrog Productions
Both: Base Building
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
StrategyGod GameAction RPGSingleplayerReal Time TacticsActionVillain ProtagonistRTSClassicBase Building👍 1,253
-15%$5.94Moon Garden
10 days ago · Kairos Games LLC
Both: Resource Management · Building · Management
A cozy incremental game about growing your way home. Strategically plant flowers, optimize machinery, and grow your tree tall enough to escape!
IdlerStrategyIncrementalResource ManagementBuildingManagementRelaxingCuteAtmosphericCasual
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-60%$4.79Retail Company Simulator
Aug 6 · Business Tycoon
Both: Sandbox · Management
Run your retail company. Sign contracts with leading brands, order products, hire workers, expand your store, and never let your customers leave the store empty-handed. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your shop.
Life SimOnline Co-OpShop KeeperSimulationCasualSandboxManagementDesign & IllustrationImmersive SimEconomy👍 604
$19.99Dawn Apart
Jul 14 · Industrial Technology and Witchcraft
Both: Base Building · Resource Management
Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…
Colony SimBase BuildingAutomationStrategyCraftingVoxelSpaceSimulationResource ManagementPhysics👍 245
$7.99BOXROOM
Jun 11 · Nested Loop Studios
Both: Building · Sandbox
BOXROOM allows you to design, define and decorate a room - a sanctuary - for your Steam library, and then revel in the organisation of your game collection.
SimulationSoftwareLife SimBuildingDecoratingSandboxModdableFirst-PersonDesign & Illustration3D👍 284
$14.99Supermarket & Internet Cafe Simulator
Sep 13 · SmartPlayGames
Both: Building · Management
"Internet Cafe & Supermarket Simulator 2024" is a comprehensive simulation game that combines the management of both an internet cafe and a supermarket. Step into the role of a shop owner, apply your business acumen, and expand your empire step by step.
Simulation3DBuildingLife SimTime ManagementManagementRPGPhysicsEconomyCasual👍 847
$15.99Mon Bazou
Dec 18 · Santa Goat
Both: Sandbox · Building
Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?
Automobile SimDrivingSandboxLife SimRacingChoose Your Own AdventureExplorationBuildingOpen WorldFirst-Person👍 19,936
$8.99Backwoods Town
Nov 24 · Andrii Prots
Both: Building · Sandbox
Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.
BuildingFarming SimSurvivalAgricultureAtmosphericInventory ManagementLootAdventureSandboxExploration👍 192
$9.99Pile Up!
Jul 23 · Remoob
Both: Base Building · Sandbox
"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different ways on a small land. But don’t let your guard down in this chill environment, we only get you relaxed so you destroy everything you did.
RelaxingBase BuildingIndieCasualAtmosphericSandboxMinimalistStylizedColorfulRoguelite👍 961
$4.99A Game About Digging A Hole™
Feb 7 · DoubleBee
Both: Sandbox
A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!
ExplorationMiningSandboxVoxelHorrorSimulationEconomyCraftingSingleplayerUnderground👍 18,788
$4.99Nubby's Number Factory
Mar 7 · MogDogBlog Productions
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
RoguelikeStrategySurrealArcadeSingleplayerPsychological HorrorStylizedDeckbuildingIndie2D👍 18,152
$9.99Ice World
Nov 16 · CoolRabbit Games
Both: Building · Base Building
A blizzard brought a long winter, Humanity on the brink of extinction. you had to face ferocious beasts, mine ice and snow to build a base, and survive in the cold apocalypse.
AdventureSurvivalPost-apocalypticBuildingBase BuildingMMORPGThird-Person Shooter3DAgricultureCrafting👍 111
$14.99Furnish Master
Feb 19 · Alex Blintsov
Both: Sandbox · Building
Furnish Master is a relaxing game about furnishing apartments, houses, commercial estate and even outdoor territory! Realize your design dreams!
Early AccessColorfulSandboxDesign & IllustrationBuildingJob SimulatorCozyModdableRelaxingCute👍 1,109
$4.99X Invader
Aug 12 · ALLAF GAMES
X Invader is an action roguelite where you hack into big corporations' servers. Use add-ons from fellow hackers to defeat monsters. Powerful, cute bosses guard these servers!
Shoot 'Em UpArena ShooterAction RoguelikeBullet HellTwin Stick ShooterTop-Down ShooterRogueliteHack and SlashPvEShooter👍 531
$2.99Ultimate Ragdoll Game
Jan 26 · Sunday's Games
Both: Sandbox · Building
Ultimate Ragdoll Game is a Sandbox game without any limits. Have fun with ragdolls available in Steam Workshop and build your very own constructions using wide variety of blocks.
SandboxPhysicsGoreDestructionBuildingModdableActionArtificial IntelligenceMemesFunny👍 701
Fractured Veil
Jan 25 · Paddle Creek Games
Both: Building · Base Building · Resource Management
Embrace the Aloha Spirit to chill in your choice of safe & social PvE only servers or PvP only. Build with a quick craft and effortless building system. Take a killer risk into the jungle for greater rewards and endless exploration where you'll meet mutants and friendly vendors waiting to say Aloha.
Early AccessExplorationBuildingZombiesSurvival HorrorSimulationBase BuildingResource ManagementPvEMultiplayer
$4.99Mall: Tidy Up Together
Aug 21 · Games Together
Both: Sandbox
Shelve the products, unlock new skills, and use your unique methods to tidy up the mall. Enjoy the online co-op and online PvP with your friends, or go solo! Fill up the shelves and experience a sense of relief and satisfaction.
CasualSimulationCollectathonOrganizingOnline Co-OpPuzzleRelaxingPvPSandboxRealistic👍 258
-70%$2.39Necrosmith 2
Mar 27 · Alawar
Both: Management
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
Tower DefenseStrategyRogueliteReal-TimeBullet HellManagementSimulationTop-DownActionExploration👍 1,316










