Best Economy Games on Steam

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Democracy 4 Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...

Price -76% 7.09€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Jan 2022
Internet Cafe Simulator 2 Internet Cafe Simulator 2 is an extremely comprehensive and detailed internet cafe business simulation game.

Price -87% 2.61€
Rating 7.2
Release 07 Jan 2022
Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 05 Jan 2022
Motor Town: Behind The Wheel Enjoy realistic driving in the open world. Relaxing cargo deliveries or driving buses and taxis will give you enough money to buy new cars and parts. You can test your driving skills at the race track. It's all about pure driving pleasure!

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Dec 2021
Kubifaktorium Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Price -50% 8.39€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Dec 2021
Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn't know you needed.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 07 Dec 2021
Frontier Pilot Simulator FPS is a Sci-Fi cargo pilot sim, with an engaging emergent mission-driven storyline, with a real-time economy with free flight and trading, on an alien world to explore. All in customizable upgradeable, well-simulated VTOL craft with real weather, and flight dynamics.

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 07 Dec 2021
Global City Become the mayor and build the city of your dreams! In this game, anything is possible. Whatever you can imagine in a city-building and development simulator, you can do. Start from the very beginning and unlock new possibilities for developing your city in Global City!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 30 Nov 2021
Farming Simulator 22 Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.

Price -75% 5.10€
Rating 9.1
Release 21 Nov 2021
Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 Become a motorbike mechanic and build your empire. Buy, repair, renovate, and create your own dreamed custom motorcycle.

Price -76% 4.86€
Rating 6.6
Release 17 Nov 2021
Factory Town Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Price -35% 12.86€
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Nov 2021
SimCasino Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!

Price -39% 15.15€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 Nov 2021
Jurassic World Evolution 2 Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.

Price -91% 5.74€
Rating 8.8
Release 09 Nov 2021
Let's Build a Zoo It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Nov 2021
Laptop Tycoon Welcome to Laptop Tycoon!Compete with the tech giants! You will have the opportunity to show your skills in business management. Start your own laptop company! Choose and hire the best people for your company, buy and upgrade your own office and start building your dream laptop.

Price 7.79€
Rating 7.1
Release 29 Oct 2021
Moonglow Bay Embark on a journey as a rookie angler in Moonglow Bay, fulfilling your partner's final wish. Team up with friends, family, and neighbours to hone your fishing skills, nourish relationships, and restore a remote town's fractured community in this slice-of-life fishing RPG!

Price -81% 4.78€
Rating 6.7
Release 26 Oct 2021
Idle Pins Idle Pins is an Incremental game made by an Incremental addict for Incremental lovers. Over 250 Pins to collect and merge. Hundreds of upgrades, features and QoL. Enjoy one of the most rewarding 'grind' experience, now on Steam!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.0
Release 16 Oct 2021
Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.

Price -50% 6.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Oct 2021
Rebel Inc: Escalation A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.

Price -95% 0.80€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Oct 2021
Junkyard Simulator Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.

Price 19.50€
Rating 6.3
Release 13 Oct 2021
Touhou Mystia's Izakaya A brand new pixel art restaurant simulator based on the Touhou Project! Play as Mystia, the owner of a small izakaya. Collect ingredients by day, cater to the customers by night, learn recipes from familiar characters, and become the best izakaya owner in all of Gensokyo!

Price -46% 2.98€
Rating 9.6
Release 01 Oct 2021
Citystate II Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

Price 24.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 Sep 2021
Gas Station Simulator Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Price -67% 6.57€
Rating 8.6
Release 15 Sep 2021
No Umbrellas Allowed Reveal the true value of the items coming into the shop. Each item has their own history. Dig deep to see what is behind them and become an expert appraiser. Begin a tug of war with customers. With their own expectations and knowledge, they never give up on money.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 03 Sep 2021
Cookie Clicker 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.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 01 Sep 2021
Reactor Tech² Become the main power engineer of the world - the builder of the most powerful power plant that feeds the whole world! You have to build your own power plant, research new technologies and make the most successful power company in 100 gaming years.

Price 12.49€
Rating 6.7
Release 31 Aug 2021
MIR4 MIR4 is a free-to-play open world K-fantasy MMORPG that can be cross-played on both PC and mobile devices. MIR4 is full of action and features numerous large scale clan PVP battles. Join now and become a legend.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 25 Aug 2021
Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet Shop Tycoon is a store simulator. Create a supermarket, sex shop, games store or a store with good Polish vodka. Place your logo, hire employees, expand your car fleet, build offices and parking lots, create a chain of stores and more!

Price -83% 1.00€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Aug 2021
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

Price 18.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Aug 2021
Hell Architect Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.

Price -85% 3.33€
Rating 6.7
Release 18 Aug 2021
Life is Hard Life is Hard is a godsim town simulator game developed by a two-man-team. Your main aim here is to manage your town. Expand your domain, prevent famine, make war, trade with others, attract new people. Make history!

Price -92% 0.76€
Rating 6.1
Release 14 Aug 2021
Dust to the End Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.

Price -90% 1.06€
Rating 7.6
Release 11 Aug 2021
Patron Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Price -89% 2.37€
Rating 7.1
Release 10 Aug 2021
Lawn Mowing Simulator Experience the beauty and detail of mowing the Great British countryside in Lawn Mowing Simulator, the only simulator that allows you to ride an authentic and expansive roster of real-world licensed lawn mowers from prestigious manufacturers; Toro, SCAG and STIGA as you manage your business.

Price -98% 0.50€
Rating 6.9
Release 10 Aug 2021
City of Gangsters In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.

Price -92% 2.48€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Aug 2021
Cooking Simulator VR Step into VR kitchen and become supreme Chef. Master realistic cooking with lifelike physics, 100+ recipes, 140+ ingredients and natural VR controls — or embrace chaos with fires, explosions, and sandbox freedom.

Price -60% 7.56€
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Jul 2021

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