Building tag
Tag created in June 2017
Building's popularity amongst developers
This chart displays the games released over the years with the Building tag and the percentage of total Steam releases they represent. The number of releases gives a sense of the amount of games published each year. It often increases, following the total amount of Steam games released.
The percentage gives a better estimate of the tag's trend. It shows if the Building tag is getting more or less popular amongst developers. The Review chart can let us know if this trend is a positive thing (i.e. players interest for the tag is growing) or a negative one (the tag is overcrowded).
The Building tag has peaked in 2022, with 580 games released. The popularity of the tag is in a range between 0.15% in 2010 and 0.42% in 2023.
Keep in mind that the current year is not over, so the number of games released will still increase. But the percentage is usually a good estimate.
Building's popularity amongst players
This graph displays the reviews for games associated with the Building tag, both as count and as a percentage of all Steam reviews, and the value for an average game. If the normalized and average lines are too small, you can deactivate the review count and % of the average lines by clicking on the legend.
While the review count clearly quantifies the reviews a tag receives, keep in mind that it also follows the popularity of Steam itself. The value normalized as a percentage of all Steam reviews is often more revealing, as it gives you the popularity trend for Building tag games.
A typical game associated with this tag collected on average between 84 (2010) and 2007 (2014) reviews. Keep in mind that it is the average and not the median, meaning it is heavily influenced by extreme values, like a very successful game with this tag.
The reviews per game as a percentage of the average show that games in the Building tag received between 209% (2011) and 431% (2019) reviews compared to other tags.
Price of games tagged with Building
This chart displays the evolution of the Building tag's games price in USD over time, as well as the percentage of free games in this tag. Don't forget that a price should slowly increase year-on-year just to keep up with inflation.
The median price for Building games peaked in 2011 at 14.99$, and bottomed in 2013 at 9.99$. The free to play ratio peaked in 2017 at 16%, and bottomed in 2023 at 1%.
Positive reviews ratio for Building, per language
This graph shows an aggregated Steam rating for the whole Building tag, separated by language. It gives an idea about how different audiences will judge a game with this tag. A lower rating doesn't always mean that the audience doesn't enjoy that particular tag, as some cultures tend to always give lower scores. But it will affect a game's rating nonetheless.
The best rating for Building games is 94% for the Romanian audience, and the worst is 81% for the Japanese audience.
| Image | Name | Description | Price | Rating | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | Incredipede | Grow arms and legs to transform into a snake, spider, butterfly, or fifty-legged horror - anything you can imagine. Control your creations in a fumblecore dash to solve each puzzle. Learn to swing through the trees, climb sheer cliffs, or even fly. | 9.99 | 79.5% | Mar 18, 2013 |
  | TerraTech | TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector. | 24.99 | 92% | Aug 10, 2018 |
  | Reassembly | A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks. | 14.99 | 94.1% | Feb 19, 2015 |
  | Medieval Engineers | Medieval Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology. Players build castles; construct mechanical devices and underground mining. There is an entire planet to explore! | 9.99 | 53.3% | Feb 19, 2015 |
  | Besiege | Besiege is a physics based building game in which you construct medieval siege engines. Battle your way through a 54 level singleplayer campaign, unleash chaos with your friends in multiplayer, create your own worlds with the level editor, customize your game with mods through the workshop. | 14.99 | 95.6% | Feb 18, 2020 |
  | ChaosTower | Chaostower - Build and defend, a physics-based action puzzler. Build a tower from a whole bunch of different parts and prove it against several natural forces like earthquakes, wind and meteors. Defend your tower against artificial enemies, like robots, tanks, bomb-birds and many more. | 4.99 | 69.2% | Feb 23, 2016 |
  | Poly Bridge | Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles! | 9.99 | 91.8% | Jul 12, 2016 |
  | Scrap Mechanic | Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures! | 19.99 | 93.1% | Jan 19, 2016 |
  | Jurassic World Evolution | Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way. | 44.99 | 86.6% | Jun 11, 2018 |
  | World of Contraptions | World of Contraptions is a physics-based building game in which you build the most varied contraptions to solve the most diverse types of puzzles. Win dozens of levels with different types of obstacles. Design the best contraption for each challenge using a giant collection of blocks. | 9.99 | 87.3% | Mar 24, 2022 |
  | Lords of Kingdoms | Lords of Kingdoms is a multiplayer online war game. Turn your small castle into a mighty fortress and become ruler of the greatest realm. | Free | 37.3% | Jun 15, 2018 |
  | Juno: New Origins | Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode. | 19.99 | 90.2% | Jan 26, 2023 |
  | Occupy White Walls | A game about building art galleries may sound boring until you realise that just about anything can be an art gallery... Add in cutting edge AI, extremely creative community, Unreal graphics, and did we mention it's free? | Free | 92.8% | Jul 8, 2022 |
  | Bonkies | Monkeys in space. Building things. Together. Strong. | 14.99 | 95.7% | Sep 10, 2018 |
  | Wrench | Wrench is a mechanic simulator where players prepare and maintain race cars. The parts in Wrench are the most detailed of any game in the genre. Extreme attention has been paid to even the smallest components, including fasteners which are accurate to the thread pitch and install torque. | 29.99 | 90.6% | Dec 19, 2018 |
  | Castle Flipper | Castle Flipper is your unique chance to become a medieval royal craftsman. Build your own Kingdom and re-arrange the castle at your own discretion. Breathe a whole new life into the old rooms and maybe one day you will become a King! | 18.99 | 64.4% | May 26, 2021 |
  | Block of Rum | Block of Rum is a sandbox dedicated to building sailing ships and piracy. | 1.99 | 71.9% | Feb 5, 2019 |
  | Wingspan | Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. | 19.99 | 94.6% | Sep 17, 2020 |
  | 我来自江湖 From Jianghu | 《我来自江湖》是一款结合武侠、角色扮演、模拟经营多种元素的独立游戏。在游戏中，你需要扮演一个小势力的掌门，带领弟子在开放的江湖里自由探索，发展自己的势力，经营不同产业，在风云诡谲的江湖里生存下去。 | 9.99 | 79.6% | Jul 24, 2020 |
  | Poly Bridge 2 | The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun! | 14.99 | 95.8% | May 28, 2020 |
  | Making it Home | A vehicle building game. Put your engineering, design and creativity skills to the test as you combine simple elements into complex contraptions. Jump around your vehicle to keep it moving and overcome challenges in the campaign, or just relax and build your dream machine in the cozy mode! | 14.99 | N/A | Sep 3, 2021 |
  | Landlord's Super | Your quintessential construction simulator is here. Take a dodgy loan, restore a property, move in the locals, attend to their grievances, then celebrate with a pint in this fully-simulated, open-world 1980's Britain. | 19.99 | 87.9% | May 25, 2023 |
  | A Planet of Mine | A Planet of Mine is a mini procedural 4X. Starting from a single and unique planet, survive, gather and combine resources, develop your technologies and start the conquest of space. | 8.99 | 63.4% | Dec 10, 2019 |
  | Craftica | Craftica is an elegant block-based sandbox game with ultra high degrees of freedom for creative building. Here you can build smooth and beautiful architectures, or construct advanced devices and machineries such as computers, vehicles and robots. Try it out and start exploring your imaginations! | 5.99 | N/A | Mar 26, 2020 |
  | Grand Casino Tycoon | In this colorful tycoon with unique puzzle elements you are the designer of stunning, glamorous casinos. Your guests, though, have varied and sometimes opposite demands! Analyze their routines, split them up and manipulate them on your way to success! | 17.99 | 65.9% | May 20, 2021 |