The Best Construction Games for Nintendo Switch

Update 28 May 2024: Construction Simulator 4 added at rank #2.

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Factorio is an absorbing factory management game. You play the role of a handy person who needs to build a rocket and craft almost anything with little more than spit and elbow grease. Automation is the key to success as you establish production chains and assembly lines to make sure all the hard work is done for you.

• Complex puzzle-solving
• Open-ended gameplay
• Automation mechanics
• Creative assembly lines
• Captivating story

• Tedious combat
• Limited environmental resources
• Environmental consequences of mass manufacturing

• management
• construction
• automation
• trains
• robots
• simulation
• base-building
• sandbox
• factory-building
• crafting
• empire
• resource-management
• multiplayer
• cooperative
• resource

Good match + 18 Bad match

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Construction Simulator returns to mobile devices. Explore three large areas within a map never before seen in the Construction Simulator series. 80+ vehicles, machines, and attachments from 20+ license partners. Original map, inspired by the Canadian landscape. Multiplayer mode for 2 players.

• construction
• truck
• vehicle
• concrete
• driving

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TerraTech is the perfect game for creative kids who love to build their own vehicles and explore a randomly generated world. Construct powerful machines, bases, and weapons to defend against rival miners, gather resources, and improve your standing with the Mining Corporations. Explore treacherous mountain ranges, luscious grasslands, and huge deserts while building and creating your own unique style. The gameplay is fun and intuitive, and the simplistic graphics don't require high-end hardware.

• Fun and intuitive gameplay
• Creative freedom with lots of room for your own style
• Enticing game with interesting mechanics
• Simplistic graphics don't require high-end hardware
• Provides a unique and addictive experience

• Feels empty with repetitive fetch quests
• Lack of big updates
• Multiplayer needs a lot of work

• sandbox
• building
• crafting
• open-world
• construction
• vehicle
• survival
• robots
• physics
• early-access
• exploration
• funny-looking
• online
• vehicles

Good match + 41 Bad match - 49

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Take on the role of a tester at the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and help guide the little stick folk - Bendies - in their vehicles from their starting point to the nearby exit. Use scaffold planks, strong cables and triangles to create an appropriate structure for them to traverse each test chamber. Enjoy GLaDOS' dark humour as she guides you through your missions!

• Authentic feel with Ellen McLain's voiceover
• Fun and challenging puzzles
• Easy-to-use controls
• In-game handbook of best practices for constructing structures
• No punishment or limit to money spent on materials

• Limited list of different materials available
• Not much variety between levels

• physics
• puzzle
• construction
• vehicle
• simulation
• building
• challenging
• bridge-building

Good match + 16 Bad match - 3

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Ride into a hilarious construction puzzler; packed with over 100 creative physics-based challenges, sports and bloody disasters! Build contraptions to help every passenger reach their destination. Enjoy the sports by controlling your riders away from (or towards if you feel like it) peril!

• building
• construction
• physics
• skiing
• simulation
• sandbox
• editor
• level
• sport
• management
• puzzle
• funny

Good match + 23 Bad match - 44

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Test your engineering and improvisation skills in a puzzle game where the stakes are as high as they get. Game features: - Different materials to build from - Wood, Metal, Cables - 36 levels of increasingly difficult puzzles - Varied, detailed environments full of interactive elements - Multiple cars to test out your constructions - Realistic physics engine - Beautiful, stylised art style - Available in 13 languages

• construction
• puzzle
• simulation
• 2d
• physics
• interactive
• skill

Good match + 7 Bad match - 23

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Project Highrise is a management sim game that allows you to build and manage your own tower. You must manage basic needs, desires of tenants, take on contracts and loans while making sure to turn a profit. The game offers two modes - Sandbox Mode, where you are given total freedom; and Scenario Mode, where you are given specific tasks with certain constraints.

• Attention-to-detail in managing the building
• Creative workarounds to keep businesses running
• Real challenges that require smart solutions
• Clean presentation
• Satisfying depth

• Menus can be overburdening
• May need to bumble your way through some problems

• simulation
• management
• building
• construction
• tower
• sandbox
• sims
• economy
• strategy

Good match + 41 Bad match - 44

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Churn out massive machines in your finely-tuned factory - day and night, even while you’re not playing!

• construction
• military
• exploration
• classic
• online

Good match + 5 Bad match - 10

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Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.

• construction
• building
• zoo
• simulation
• management
• city-building
• complex
• strategy
• classic
• economy

Good match + 8 Bad match - 18

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Take control of one of ten distinct and varied vehicles that share one characteristic. Drive a cement mixer, a drilling truck, a fork lift, an excavator and more! Feel the immense power of those impressive vehicles and use them to the best of your ability!

• construction
• driving
• realistic
• truck
• vehicle
• real-time
• physics

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