Put on your hard hat for these construction games

If you’re a builder at heart, bring out your inner architect with this array of construction picks. From theme park management to building a whole city, your imagination is the only limit.

Bend the world around you to your will in the game that created a genre. Break blocks, craft new things with the materials you find, build whatever you can imagine, explore online servers, and give those annoying Creepers what for.

Keep the hot dogs cooking and water fountains flowing in your very own theme park. You’ll construct and manage every inch of your park, and once the benches are set, build the crazy coaster of your dreams.

In this retro-styled management game, lose yourself in the cozy fantasy of helping your grandpa run his small railway. He’ll help you learn the ropes so you can continue running people and cargo all over the world. As you master the trade, you’ll compete with rival railway companies to show the world whose construction is king.

Develop your dream city from scratch with this building simulator where you take on the role of architect, project manager, and financier. While you expand your metropolis with houses, skyscrapers, parks, and monuments, make sure you keep your citizens happy or you might lose out to other builders.

Civic engineers rejoice – Keep those factories churning and those utilities running to expand your budding metropolis. On top of astute city planning and strategic construction, you’ll have to balance the needs of residents, commerce, and industry to make a truly prosperous city.