Best Economy Games on Steam

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Seven Kingdoms 2 HD Get ready for an exciting real-time strategy game experience like no other with Seven Kingdoms 2! Say goodbye to the monotony of resource gathering and army building, its unique gameplay offers a thrilling blend of city management, trade, industry, espionage, diplomacy, and conquest!

Price -70% 2.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Feb 2015
Airline Tycoon Deluxe Airline Tycoon Deluxe is a funny economy simulation proceeding in realtime and assigning you the complete responsibility for an airline.

Price -96% 0.49€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Nov 2014
Merchants of Kaidan Regain your riches, restore your honor and avenge your father's murder. A challenging trading game with lots of RPG elements.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Nov 2014
Farming Simulator 15 Welcome to the new generation of Farming Simulator!With a brand new graphics and physics engine, Farming Simulator 15 offers an immense open world, filled with details and visual effects transporting the Farming Simulator franchise to a new era.

Price -69% 5.32€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Oct 2014
Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you.

Price -86% 1.01€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Oct 2014
A Golden Wake The rise and fall story of a real estate agent in 1920s Miami. Based on historical events. From Francisco González, creator of the Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator series, Shardlight, and Lamplight City.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 09 Oct 2014
TransOcean: The Shipping Company TransOcean – The Shipping Company is your ticket to the world of gigantic ships and transnational transport empires. Build a mighty fleet of modern merchant ships and conquer the seven seas.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 Sep 2014
The Guild Gold Edition It’s the year 1400- the late Middle Ages. Europe sees the dawn of the golden age of the new departures and the free spirit. Under the rule of the bourgeoisie and businessmen, more and more towns are emerging from the clutches of the aristocracy and are achieving independence, power and wealth.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Sep 2014
Train Fever It’s the year 1850, and there are great times ahead! Establish a transport company and be its manager. Build infrastructure such as railways and stations, purchase transportation vehicles and manage lines. Fulfill the people’s needs and watch cities evolve dynamically.

Price -93% 1.58€
Rating 6.3
Release 04 Sep 2014
GamersGoMakers In GamersGoMakers, you found a little company creating the first video games in history. Create your first game with only basic sound and simple graphics available in the year 1980. You´re one of the pioneers entering the rising global market for computer games.

Price 7.39€
Rating 7.3
Release 08 Aug 2014
Wildlife Park 2 Now’s the chance to build the Zoo of your dreams! Just like in a real Zoo, your animals must receive complete care. Feed them, train them, cure them and even relocate them. Observe their realistic interactions with one another, the landscape, the play equipment and even Zoo visitors.

Price 6.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jul 2014
WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.01 From the author of Spice and Wolf, Isuna Hasekura, comes WORLD END ECONOMiCA. This is the first episode out of three part sci-fi/economic thriller visual novel set on the moon.

Price -97% 0.40€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Jun 2014
Tropico 5 Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Price -97% 0.78€
Rating 7.7
Release 23 May 2014
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack This compilation includes the entire RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 series, with the original game as well as the Time Twister and Wacky Worlds expansions.

Price -94% 0.62€
Rating 8.6
Release 21 May 2014
1849 1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.

Price -85% 2.37€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 May 2014
SuperPower 2 Steam Edition SuperPower 2 is the only global geopolitical simulation game which allows players to control entire countries. Players control countries in 3 major areas: political, economic and military, but this time, in a beautiful real-time 3D environment.

Price -75% 2.58€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 Apr 2014
Banished In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Price -77% 4.49€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Feb 2014
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 21 Oct 2013
Stronghold HD (2012) The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 21 Oct 2013
Knights and Merchants KNIGHTS and MERCHANTS recreates the era of the Middle Ages. Apart from the purely fictitious geography of our world, all game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, 1200 A.D. And we haven't used imaginary elements like fabled creatures, either. The player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the Palace Guard.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 Oct 2013
Democracy 3 Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.

Price -70% 7.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 14 Oct 2013
Game Dev Tycoon In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Price -75% 2.39€
Rating 9.3
Release 29 Aug 2013
Europa Universalis IV Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

Price -95% 2.63€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Aug 2013
Euro Truck Simulator 2 Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.

Price -75% 4.99€
Rating 9.7
Release 12 Oct 2012
Port Royale 3 The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.

Price -97% 0.48€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 May 2012
Tropico 4 The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

Price -97% 0.46€
Rating 8.9
Release 27 Oct 2011
Cossacks: Art of War Cossacks: The Art of War continues the history of the great battles of XVII–XVIII centuries

Price -84% 0.82€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Aug 2011
Cities in Motion Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam

Price -96% 0.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Feb 2011
EVE Online Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Dec 2010
Patrician III Become a fellow of the famous medieval Hanse trading association in the 13th century. Manage the politics, prestige and economic success in your city and the known parts of Europe!

Price -92% 0.41€
Rating 7.8
Release 18 Nov 2010
X: Beyond the Frontier The Human Race had advanced to the point where we could travel among the stars, we developed giant automated machines to help us colonise other worlds, but there was a fault in their programming and they turned and attacked. Forcing us to lay a trap to protect Earth and exiling the Human race to stay on Earth once again.

Price -92% 0.41€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Oct 2010
Sid Meier's Civilization® V Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

Price -94% 1.85€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Sep 2010
Victoria II Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...

Price -95% 1.12€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Aug 2010
The Guild II Renaissance For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Jul 2010
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.

Price -90% 2.14€
Rating 8.0
Release 20 Jul 2010
The Guild II The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history and can even change it in real-time. Go back to the dark middle ages and found a new dynasty!

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 24 Jun 2010

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