Games like Buildest
If Buildest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Burned Out!, Dorfs: Hammers for Hire and Overcooked — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and relaxing. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Buildest: Manage a team of industrious workers to create buildings in different architectural styles. Explore various designs, craft elaborate building elements and CREATE! You can also play with friends in co-op mode!
Players who liked Buildest also play
Steam players who put hours into Buildest also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Burned Out!
WHY THIS
Top pick for Buildest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Buildest.
Burned Out! is a chaotic office co-op game for 1-4 players where pointless computer tasks and paperwork spiral into full-blown workplace mayhem. Type, print, sign, stamp, staple, and deliver every order on time. Coordinate and keep everything moving through workplaces designed to break you.
Dorfs: Hammers for Hire
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Buildest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Buildest.
A co-op crafting platformer where your friends prove worse than any enemy. Craft weapons and armor from your dwarven workshop, help your patron's army win the battle, and make your way up the Iron Mountain!
Overcooked
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Buildest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Buildest.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Diner Bros Inc
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Buildest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Buildest.
Join the Bros once again as they defend their precious restaurant! Co-operate or compete against your friends in this frantic party game for up to 4 players. Beat quick sequences of crazy minigames, fight a mysterious villain, and collect gems. Quickly! Before time runs out!
Hack 'n' Stack
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Buildest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Buildest.
Physics meets tower defense in this chaotic party game for 1 to 4 players. Craft barricades and turrets with whatever you can find. But beware: relentless waves of enemies are coming to tear down everything you build.
The Artifactory
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Buildest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Buildest.
Craft chaos. Pack loot. Save the factory. Team up with friends in this frantic couch co-op party game where you craft magical loot, dodge hazards, and ship it all out before the factory falls apart around you.
Tools Up!
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Buildest.
Ranked #7 for Buildest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Buildest.
Tools Up! is an exciting local co-op that tests your renovation and teamwork skills. Paint walls, tear off wallpaper, and move couches against the clock!
Bunhouse
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Buildest.
Ranked #8 for Buildest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Buildest.
Bunhouse is a cute, simple, bunny-filled game focused on growing plants and managing a greenhouse with fellow buns. Take care of your leafy plant buddies by balancing the amount of water and light they get. Play with friends and upgrade your greenhouse for wholesome, relaxing fun.
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Overcooked! 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural levels with Buildest.
Reviewers of Buildest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Casual with Buildest.
Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!
Moving Out
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Buildest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Buildest.
Moving Out is a ridiculous physics-based moving simulator that brings new meaning to "couch co-op"! Are you ready for an exciting career in furniture? As a newly certified Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician, you’ll take on moving jobs all across the busy town of Packmore.
PlateUp!
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Buildest.
Reviewers of Buildest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Casual with Buildest.
Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Buildest at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Buildest on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Buildest.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Buildest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Buildest.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Buildest on Steam right now. Shares Action with Buildest.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Buildest on Steam right now. Shares Action with Buildest.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Buildest on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Buildest.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Buildest on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Buildest.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Buildest on Steam right now. Shares Action with Buildest.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Buildest on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Buildest.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Buildest.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Buildest.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Buildest.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Buildest.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Buildest.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Buildest.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Buildest.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dorfs: Hammers for Hire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Casual with Buildest.
A co-op crafting platformer where your friends prove worse than any enemy. Craft weapons and armor from your dwarven workshop, help your patron's army win the battle, and make your way up the Iron Mountain!
Overcooked
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Simulation with Buildest.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Tools Up!
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Buildest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Simulation with Buildest.
Tools Up! is an exciting local co-op that tests your renovation and teamwork skills. Paint walls, tear off wallpaper, and move couches against the clock!
Bunhouse
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Buildest.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and Casual with Buildest.
Bunhouse is a cute, simple, bunny-filled game focused on growing plants and managing a greenhouse with fellow buns. Take care of your leafy plant buddies by balancing the amount of water and light they get. Play with friends and upgrade your greenhouse for wholesome, relaxing fun.
Frequently asked about Buildest
- How much does Buildest cost?
- Buildest is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Buildest have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Buildest supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Buildest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Buildest are Burned Out!, Dorfs: Hammers for Hire, Overcooked.
- Who developed Buildest?
- Buildest was developed by Arkhipov Pavel and published by MAYO Games.
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