MMOs with Building & Construction

Some players don't just want to live in a world — they want to shape it. Building and construction systems let players place walls, structures, and entire settlements piece by piece, whether that's a small personal outpost, a fortified base built for defense, or a full player-run town other people can actually visit. Unlike simple decorative housing, this is about the world's geography itself changing based on what players choose to put there — often tied to resource costs, land claims, and upkeep that make construction a genuine strategic investment. This tag covers MMOs with base and settlement building, from fortified outposts built for siege defense to sprawling player-made settlements shaping the map itself.

Found 24 games
EVE FrontierFree To Play

EVE Frontier

MMORPGEarly access

Civilization collapsed generations ago, and EVE Frontier hands survivors nothing but a ship, a signal from three black holes, and the very real job of...

4
1 rating
ARK: Survival EvolvedBuy To Play

ARK: Survival Evolved

MMORPGReleased

Released by Studio Wildcard in 2017, ARK: Survival Evolved puts players on a prehistoric island where taming, breeding, and riding over a hundred dino...

5
1 rating
Fallout 76Buy To Play

Fallout 76

MMOFPSMMORPGReleased

Fallout 76 is Bethesda's online Fallout, a persistent post-nuclear West Virginia that has grown across eight years of free updates into a wasteland sp...

4
1 rating
Conan ExilesBuy To Play

Conan Exiles

MMORPGReleased

Conan Exiles is an open-world survival sandbox set in the Exiled Lands of Robert E. Howard's Hyboria, where players raise fortresses from bare desert,...

4
1 rating
Dune: AwakeningBuy To Play

Dune: Awakening

MMOFPSMMORPGReleased

Dune: Awakening drops you onto Arrakis in a timeline where Paul Atreides was never born and the Fremen have vanished without explanation. Extract wate...

5
1 rating
Once HumanFree To Play

Once Human

MMORPGMMOFPSReleased

Capture anomalous creatures called Deviations, install them in your base to mine ore and cook your meals, then send them ahead to the next season when...

5
1 rating
Haven & HearthFree To Play

Haven & Hearth

MMORPGReleased

Haven & Hearth is a sandbox MMORPG of foraging, crafting and settlement-building in a world drawn from Slavic and Germanic myth, made by two Swedish d...

4
1 rating
Wurm OnlineFree To Play

Wurm Online

MMORPGReleased

Pick a hillside, and Wurm Online lets you flatten it, tunnel through it or pave a road across it — permanently, on a map where every structure was bui...

4
1 rating
Sigma World OnlineFree To Play

Sigma World Online

MMORPGCBT

Industry that poisons the ground it stands on, robots you program instead of command, and a particle collider you assemble by hand to fuel quantum jum...

Project Ghost

Project Ghost

MMORPGClosed

Project Ghost was an in-development MMORPG from Fantastic Pixel Castle, the studio founded by former World of Warcraft designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" St...

4
1 rating
Gloria VictisFree To Play

Gloria Victis

MMORPGAnnounced

Gloria Victis is a low-fantasy medieval sandbox MMORPG where politics, territory, and siege warfare matter as much as combat skill. Guilds fight for c...

4
2 ratings
ArcheAgeFree To Play

ArcheAge

MMORPGReleased

Released by XL Games in 2013, ArcheAge built its reputation on sandbox freedom rarely matched since — housing, farming, shipbuilding, and open-ocean p...

4.3
3 ratings