BEST Base Building Games To Watch In 2023/2024!! - Upcoming City & Base Builders

What are the best upcoming Base Builders to watch in 2023/2024? Well I have a few suggestions that you should keep an eye on. We're diving deep into the Base Building genre and taking a look at some of the best city-builders, survival base builders and more!
Have I missed any? Let me know! (Stay tuned for a video on ALL the best upcoming city builders!)
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00:00 - Intro
00:57 - The Crust - bit.ly/3HBsbRq
02:01 - New Cycle - bit.ly/3p7InDP
02:57 - War Hospital - bit.ly/42o0Dqz
04:08 - Galacticare - bit.ly/3Vt0GPE
05:26 - Outpost: Infinity Siege - bit.ly/3mRkhvT
06:22 - Manor Lords - bit.ly/3G5ZMmK
07:35 - Infection Free Zone - bit.ly/42mrt2t
08:59 - Forever Skies - bit.ly/44tlcnm
10:01 - One Lonely Outpost - bit.ly/3WWt38v
11:07 - ARK 2 - bit.ly/412UkaU
11:53 - Pirate Commander - bit.ly/40X5Lkp
13:00 - Rooted - bit.ly/3NAgtKE
14:02 - Voidtrain - bit.ly/3NzkIWO
15:03 - Occupy Mars: The Game - bit.ly/3X14mrJ
16:16 - Above Snakes - bit.ly/3AQPinn
17:10 - Post Apo Builder - bit.ly/3oXO8DM
18:08 - Homeseek - bit.ly/3TuYQev
19:06 - Synergy - bit.ly/3WZhQES
20:01 - El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - bit.ly/3GfBKpk
20:45 - Diluvian Winds - bit.ly/3HAsXhA
21:36 - Railway Empire 2 - bit.ly/3vwNuxc
22:25 - Myriads: Renaissance - bit.ly/42if3ss
23:24 - Laysara: Summit Kingdom - bit.ly/3UQWk3v
24:00 - Techtonica - bit.ly/3BfN5S8
24:47 - Viking City Builder - bit.ly/3O549Aj
25:56 - Derelicts - bit.ly/3NxyVUb
27:02 - Mob Factory - bit.ly/3p4KaJF
27:51 - Starship Troopers: Extermination - bit.ly/3Vt4O26
28:34 - Tempest Rising - bit.ly/3HBZBzu
29:04 - Fata Deum - bit.ly/3VzRaZz
29:57 - Bonus Games
30:56 - World Turtles - bit.ly/3hwI4yp
31:14 - Full Metal Sergeant - bit.ly/40XxXnV
31:44 - Flooded - bit.ly/41lcLs8
32:11 - Project Astra Dominium - bit.ly/3Mu1OA6
32:43 - Rogue Station - bit.ly/3LBKLM8
33:17 - One Military Camp - bit.ly/3Gxx3ad
33:58 - Outro
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[@orbitalpotato]

Let me know if you'd to see a video highlighting all the best upcoming City Builders!

[@brodriguez11000]

Galacticare sounds like two point hospital in space.

[@FriZY84SK]

hey. You didn't include best building game which should be release this year. soviet republic workers and resources ;)

[@LemuriaGames]

There's Black Forest, coming out in September. Survival city builder.

[@PorkPoncho92]

I would love a video that specifcially highlights games that are out of early access and had their full releases. Ive been burnt soo many times by early access games. Something like "top 10 fully released base builders" and "top 10 fully released automation games"

[@RecOgMission]

Thanks for featuring my game, World Turtles, again!

[@TheAltairFun]

I hope you have settled the copyright with the owners of Terry Prattchet's work, because it is too similar to discworld ...

[@RecOgMission]

@@TheAltairFun Hi! The various World Turtle myths actually predates Discworld by many many years (I'm a huge fan of Discworld). STP borrowed the world on elephants on a turtle idea from Hindu mythology. I even contacted Rhianna Pratchett just to be sure, and she's fine with it, as long as I don't use Discworld specific characters, locations and ideas. But the setting is definitely not Discworld specific.

[@fighterra]

I can't wait to play Frostpunk 2, Frostpunk is my personal favourite of any survival-base builder and I'm really hyped for the second part. (Even tho It's not on the list) Great video, I will definitely check out some games from here. Thanks man. :)

[@jaylast5550]

Wow, I had not heard of many of these games. I thought you did a fantastic job presenting them and you put it all in one video rather than several. You have certainly earned a sub from me.

[@RyanLabombaTV]

march 24, good list man, i love and will play them all. but my super favourite and firts to play is above snake 😁

[@Fudzbo]

Great list! Added quite a few to my wishlist.

[@Archont4000]

Thank you! Nice list, I've picked up a few titles.

[@borisbosnjak4812]

Thanks for an excellent video! I know these types of videos take an awful lot of time to compile, so I appreciate your effort!

[@orbitalpotato]

[@zafilerusse]

The Crust looks very promising to me, can't wait so play it!

[@AdamStephens]

Fantastic video and some real gems in there. Thank you.

[@desmondm728]

Great content & game ideas - thank you.

[@JohnLudlow]

I'd add Gord to the list, a mix of medieval village builder and ARPG

[@allyourgardeningneeds]

So many games upcoming. What a time to be alive and city building!

[@liamlecool]

Waiting for Manor Lords here !!! 🤩🤩Really nice video thank you!

[@tatoman2]

I subscribe because you sound like a real human, not a robot. There are small changes and difficulties in pronunciation which makes it real and human. Thanks, keep it this way, real !!

[@zondor8123]

I hate the idea of a first person builder 😂. Good thing most of them are either top down or manor Lords camera.

[@fieryeagle9748]

Great video bro, thanks.

[@captain4318]

Infection Free Zone looks very interesting!

[@InnerHacking]

Can't wait to try Galacticare, the Theme Hospital of the future, I used to love that old game

[@thoraero]

I found Summit Kingdom city pretty funny. At that slope anyone would expect you to build roads diagonally upward.

[@ZimCrusher]

11:33 ARK 2: Instance rendering is 2 different things. If you are a dev, it's rendering something once, then using that render on all similar models. Meaning you can render 1 tree, and stamp it around, saving a ton of GPU/CPU. To players, this normally means that all the cut scenes are realtime render, so during the cut scene your character will look like your character, and not a pre-rendered movie.

[@CuriousTrotter]

Synergy has the most unique and charming art style! Looking forward to it the most!

[@i_kill_for_zardoz]

It rips off Mœbius (Jean Giraud) 100%. But he's dead so I guess no one cares. If you like that art style, check him out.

[@CuriousTrotter]

@@i_kill_for_zardoz wow ty his art looks amazing! But what do you mean rip off? Surely they are inspired from his work, and this is a this a management game while from what I find he did a lot of comics and illustrations

[@i_kill_for_zardoz]

​@@CuriousTrotter Yea I meant that the aesthetic design, costumes, rendering style, color palettes, line weight and hatching etc is all just straight Jean Giraud. Often games with a strong visual art design will be "influenced" by famous artists, but this game just straight up steals his style, as if he working on the game himself. As a professional concept artist myself I'm not a fan of such blatant "inspiration" without permission. But he was a comics/graphic novel illustrator and died in 2012, so he has nothing to do with modern games directly. He did work on several movies though, such as the Fifth Element. He was VERY influential in the 70s and 80s. wcgcomics.blogspot.com/2012/03/legacy-of-jean-girard-aka-gir-aka.html The gameplay might be good, but stealing his art style leaves a bad impression on me. Not that big of a deal, but it was the first thing that jumped out at me when I saw it.

[@Nexovus]

Manor Looooords! I can't wait!

[@Dadsezso]

Thanks!

[@henrychang2267]

You missed out one in this video, Desynced. I've been waiting for this game to release this year. I think it's cool.

[@Tonyryann]

Very cool game! I played the demo for like 30 hours lol

[@lyzbennet]

The Crust 🔥🔥🔥

[@yaryar8624]

Looking for an upcoming base builder where you are stranded on an island and trying to survive. Can't remember the name or find any more info about it. Looked pretty cool

[@orbitalpotato]

Havendock?

[@MrTeddybear1987]

Nice content, and i realized your videos volume a little bit lower than normal i guess. I mean sound volume. Have a nice day.

[@Lockbane]

Against the Storm still has my full attention

[@roberthpilesund384]

About the game Synergy. I checked, and it seem to be a French studio making it - and boy, do they love the art of Jean "Moebius" Giraud . As do i.

[@CitySurvivorGaming]

Can't wait for manor lords!

[@zachgeorge2195]

pirate commander looks great!

[@subject8332]

There is also 'Nebula' a starship base building colony sim game releasing soon.

[@SuperFlamethrower]

Techtonica and Forever Skies are releasing to early access in Q2. That's soon!

[@henrychang2267]

I feel that Galacticare is just Two Point Hospital with a different theme and artstyle. 🙂

[@stupidgerman6050]

Wunderbar!

[@XenophobiaUK]

It amazes me that they left base building out of starship troopers terran command RTS and gave it to Extermination FPS, odd move, also any ideas when Terminator Dark Fate RTS is coming? just says 2023 all the time. but nothing else.

[@makdoyyamote7270]

sir, can you info like what platforms will the games be in?

[@hectorcornejo1468]

Is Myraids: Renaissance still around? I just tried looking for it on Steam and Im not getting any results. Maybe it was released with a different name?

[@stardust1007]

Would you be so kind to record your gameplay of Prologue video of Infection Free Zone, which is now availale on steam?

[@MrsLarkinson]

Not sure if it is proper city-builder but i would suggest Thronefall

[@geoffreywlotzka]

hey man, your vids are relatively quite compared to other videos. you may want to consider raiseing the volume. on my speaker i normally have it set to 10/100 for this vid i had to crank it to 20/100

[@angelariley5163]

have played most of these but i can see a pretty price on most of them i am playing the post apo one but cant build the bridge 25:16 i have been waiting on this one for a min

[@thebluetrooper15]

Coool😎

[@daevaesma]

Is there any Base Builder on Moving Platform (Machine,Train,Animals,etc)?

[@fbispdy0]

Captain of Industry? It's still in beta but i think its a very good game..

[@Tigerpanzer6666]

it seems like that one hospital base builder and that school one made by the same people 4:34

[@howardyeah]

I just wish more of these were gridless

[@Entity005]

War Hospital release date is 31 August 2023 - Ark 2 will be delayed a year more atleast i saw yesterday -Starship Troopers: Extermination is released 18 may:) thats close

[@juliancuenca9108]

The best upcoming Base Builder is Frostpunk 2.

[@jingyui264]

man i played the crap out of the manor lord demo when it was up think I put in 10 hours. looking forward to its release in April. Enjoyed the crust demo as well. lonely outpost was bit bland for me..

[@PK-se2jh]

thankyouu

[@graldor1850]

I dont feel like this is the BEST upcoming base building games, just upcoming base building games...

[@malpherian9459]

Your voice reminds me of Q from startrek

[@wraithstrikevids]

I wish this video focused on the gameplay of each game instead of just showing trailers and talking about the setting

[@KryyssTV]

FYI ARK2 is not a base builder and appears to have been cancelled judging from recent activity at Wildcard.

[@abbynormall207]

SunkenLands and Forever Skies are great games

[@CT-1035]

In the intro, I saw surviving mars

[@CT-1035]

There has been a few updates, tool related, and some bug fixes

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

Ratopia is fun

[@Duros360]

No mention of Streets of Rogue 2? :S

[@d1m18]

Ark 2, city / base buildering??

[@AdKoolaid]

ARK 2 can claim whatever it wants, but it better remove the host tether or no buy.

[@hankplaysgames6569]

just heard that ark 2 will not be released to 2025 if you dont already know about that

[@stijnVDA1994]

I have forever skies, it's great! Some things need balancing but! It feels like it could work in co-op!

[@TheMuddy407]

Is it just me or is the footage for the crust in a really low definition ?

[@historickeeper]

it's you fine here.

[@sektetor213]

Yea it sucks, its not you.

[@zZSkarbogZz]

@@historickeeper nice trolling...

[@historickeeper]

@@zZSkarbogZz :)

[@cmon89Jarhead89cmon]

Frostpunk 2?

[@veomstudio6686]

👍

[@StArikAriel]

Canadian :)

[@Tigerpanzer6666]

for some reason this game bugs me they give you a trolly then a locomotive or a train 14:49

[@Stellar73b]

Manor Lords FTW!

[@johnm.4141]

I love the concept of ARK but it was not optimized enough. Sadly they will probably make the same mistake with ARK 2

[@StArikAriel]

25:30 Psst... Vikings r europeans too, u know ;D

[@sodanakin]

Keep in mind before buying ARK 2 : Ark Survival evolved was resold as Ark Survival Ascended for the same price and Official servers quickly turned off. This is a developer to avoid. Ark 2 also has been delayed several times!

[@finng745]

It’s embarrassing for the game industry to see how many of these games should’ve been released according to their original schedule yet still float in development almost a year later

[@ToastedSandwich]

Geez what's up with post apocalyptic games, surely someone can come up with a better idea

[@Kindlesmith70]

I really dislike the blanket term "god game" since they are just management games pure and simple. I can't imagine a god telling people where and what to build in detail their entire community space, let alone govern resources for them. Genre names really have gotten out hand and are losing all meaning. There's a small gem of a game in development that is basically 2d Black & White. Eden Universe, by Haxo Game Studios. SteamWorld Build, by Thunderful Development, a mining town builder. Villagedom, by Dazar takes a page out of Kingdom and adds village building. Clanfolk, by MinMax Games Ltd. is a survival city builder. Songs of Syx, by Gamatron AB, is an ambitious idea of kingdom building. You are not wrong about there being a huge number of these games in development.

[@skyraptor62]

2023 is Half Over and NOTHING has been coming out!!!

[@KrK-EST]

Occupy mars is baddly made, not based on science

[@nordichorde6121]

ARK 2..... lol... the game keeps getting delayed week by week.... 2025 is the projected release window now.... I'm not buying it at all. Not worth it anymore.

[@bsmracing6592]

"30" "Best"..... making a new dictionary?

[@Rezail_Uhhh]

Can people just start the video?

[@morsecode5078]

Just from watching a few seconds of the intro, I’m guessing 95% of these are pc only. Wish that would’ve been mentioned before wasting any more of my time.

[@Jinkypigs]

Strange that you didn't even mention city skyline 2 ..