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SteamWorld Build
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
64 of the 98 reviews raise this.
“Listened to The fall Off album 3 times while playing this game. Its addicting atleast for me. I like it, I like the way it looked and overall I had fun. Its relaxing when you know what you are doing. My complaint is not…”
“First playthrough is really nice, and it's an easy but not trivial city builder with some interesting elements in the mines. But that's it! Every other map is exactly the same, with just some randomized areas. But…”
“There's a certain part of my brain dedicated to each game that I love - more a general format than anything else, but it takes the name of the first one. This game has a neat overlap between Anno and Dungeon Keeper that…”
14 of the 98 reviews raise this.
“Listened to The fall Off album 3 times while playing this game. Its addicting atleast for me. I like it, I like the way it looked and overall I had fun. Its relaxing when you know what you are doing. My complaint is not…”
“Its just Anno but with robots Honestly as a person who didn't get anno games before, this made me get it. Graphics are good too? Honestly the games kinda mid, not much replay value. I had fun though, so, eh?”
“Steamworld gives its take on the city builder franchise. Pros: -Fun skins and addition of the steamworld aesthetic into a city builder. -The main gameplay of the mines is pretty fun to build out. -It's easy to move…”
11 of the 98 reviews raise this.
“Played 10 hours and got about 6 of enjoyment. It starts off nice and ends tedious and pointless. Story was kinda nice but the ending is so disappointing. No cool boss. No overwhelming enemies. No big events. It's just…”
“I love the SteamWorld universe and I’m not a big fan of city builders. That’s probably why I enjoyed this game. Most negative reviews say it’s basically a heavily simplified version of Anno for kids, but since I’ve…”
“Really good town builder with some elements from other town builders. Love the lore build up too.”
10 of the 98 reviews raise this.
“SteamWorld Build is a relaxing city builder. It tries to do something different by having an above ground city (ie, SimCity style), and a subterranean city (ie, like dungeon keeper). For the most part, resources are…”
“I'm mixed on this. It took 30 hours to 100%, but one achievement “Chop down 50k trees across all playthroughs” required maybe about 8-10 hours of AFKing. I’m not sure if you can reach 50k trees by completing all 8 maps,…”
“Really fun game with replay value. It's one of my go to games when I want something light and interesting”
8 of the 98 reviews raise this.
“I'm mixed on this. It took 30 hours to 100%, but one achievement “Chop down 50k trees across all playthroughs” required maybe about 8-10 hours of AFKing. I’m not sure if you can reach 50k trees by completing all 8 maps,…”
“I think this is a poor attempt at a dumbed down Anno type game. My first run took 8 hours, mostly AFK waiting for things to get made. After realizing how simplistic the town building was, I started another run, just to…”
“Played 10 hours and got about 6 of enjoyment. It starts off nice and ends tedious and pointless. Story was kinda nice but the ending is so disappointing. No cool boss. No overwhelming enemies. No big events. It's just…”
33 of the 98 reviews raise this · 18 of them still recommend the game.
“if you get it on a deep discount like I did, this game is fun for a few hours. but it's very limited in what you can do, the build cycle gets pretty tedious, and there's narrative hooks that fight their setting which…”
“Listened to The fall Off album 3 times while playing this game. Its addicting atleast for me. I like it, I like the way it looked and overall I had fun. Its relaxing when you know what you are doing. My complaint is not…”
“[h1][b]PROS[/b][/h1] 1. Red / Green / Blue / Yellow Workers Simple to understand. 2. Steamworld IP Not bad. [h1][b]CONS[/b][/h1] 1. Dungeons 1,2,3 It's the same game, isn't it? But it isn't DungeonKeeper. 2. Underground…”
20 of the 98 reviews raise this · 16 of them still recommend the game.
“SteamWorld Build is a relaxing city builder. It tries to do something different by having an above ground city (ie, SimCity style), and a subterranean city (ie, like dungeon keeper). For the most part, resources are…”
“Steamworld gives its take on the city builder franchise. Pros: -Fun skins and addition of the steamworld aesthetic into a city builder. -The main gameplay of the mines is pretty fun to build out. -It's easy to move…”
“Cute, functional game with decent mechanics. Not much of a challenge, but easy to waste a few hours with.”
18 of the 98 reviews raise this · 12 of them still recommend the game.
“First playthrough is really nice, and it's an easy but not trivial city builder with some interesting elements in the mines. But that's it! Every other map is exactly the same, with just some randomized areas. But…”
“[h1][b]PROS[/b][/h1] 1. Red / Green / Blue / Yellow Workers Simple to understand. 2. Steamworld IP Not bad. [h1][b]CONS[/b][/h1] 1. Dungeons 1,2,3 It's the same game, isn't it? But it isn't DungeonKeeper. 2. Underground…”
“Its just Anno but with robots Honestly as a person who didn't get anno games before, this made me get it. Graphics are good too? Honestly the games kinda mid, not much replay value. I had fun though, so, eh?”
10 of the 98 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“Steamworld gives its take on the city builder franchise. Pros: -Fun skins and addition of the steamworld aesthetic into a city builder. -The main gameplay of the mines is pretty fun to build out. -It's easy to move…”
“Took me a nice 6.9hrs to launch the rocket and get 75% of the achievements game looks and runs very nice the UI is good aswell, seems bit on the easy side for the most part did think it would be longer feels like part…”
“such a beautiful game and world, i only wish it was a bit longer”
8 of the 98 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“if you get it on a deep discount like I did, this game is fun for a few hours. but it's very limited in what you can do, the build cycle gets pretty tedious, and there's narrative hooks that fight their setting which…”
“An adequate city builder, but it doesn't do anything particularly interesting. The story is extremely basic and predictable, so that doesn't help. And there's some rather shallow combat mechanics thrown in that amount…”
“Steamworld gives its take on the city builder franchise. Pros: -Fun skins and addition of the steamworld aesthetic into a city builder. -The main gameplay of the mines is pretty fun to build out. -It's easy to move…”
Counted across 98 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 84.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Think of it as a strategy-lite game. You won't find mega complicated mechanics but sometimes that's a good thing if you wanna just sit back and chill. Gameplay loop is split into two tasks which both unlock progress with one another ; city building, and mine exploration. Both…”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs played“The steamworld series is an interesting one for gaming because it more or less lacks a main character and stranger yet refuses to tie itself to one genre. The philosophy seems to be approach a popular genre, strip it down to its simplest parts, apply their style to those refined…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“Honestly, a solid city builder, but I felt no need to play the additional maps after beating the first. It's a cute game, especially if you're newer to the genre. However, if you're a city building veteran like me (e.g. Timberborn, Against the Storm, Banished), then this game…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | City Builder · Relaxing · Casual · Economy · Singleplayer · Resource Management · Cartoony · Colorful · Controller · Cute · Management · Family Friendly (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Polish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 28 |
| Official site | https://steamworldgames.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5 8400 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 4 GB available space Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system