Resource Management Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated resource management games.

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Bone's Cafe Bone's Cafe is a fast paced, 1-4 Players couch co-op, cooking game. Customize the layout of your kitchen to guarantee your success. Specialize your menu in ingredients and recipes to design your ultimate cafe. Put your necromancy skills to the test and raise your own undead kitchen staff.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Oct 2022
USAC: Code Breach USAC: Code Breach™ is a unique coop experience set in a cyberpunk universe. As a special police unit, you and your partner are called in to investigate the unexpected shutdown of a high-tech research facility. Between reflection and action, you must survive a situation that is beyond you.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Oct 2022
WW2: Bunker Simulator During WWII you are an American soldier who captured the german bunker in Normandy. You must defend it at all costs and survive this World War II. Complete missions, cook & shoot, search the bodies for medicines, ammo, and food to survive. WW2: Bunker Simulator is a mix of fps and simulator.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Oct 2022
FLERP Fend off hordes of enemies in this arcade tower defense roguelite with autobattler elements. Build up a team of powerful synergies and become unstoppable.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 09 Sep 2022
Deisim Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

Price -70% 4.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 01 Sep 2022
Lighthouse Keeper You are tasked with taking care of the old Lighthouse in a small island. Repair its broken parts, hunt for food to get by, gather materials to craft stuff to help you along your journey through 11 islands.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Aug 2022
MergeCrafter Welcome to the magical world of Runaria! Explore dungeons, craft tools, chop trees, mine rocks, and discover treasure! Merge identical items to create valuable resources, Craft new tools and upgrade them with powerful enchantments! Setup passive mining drills and tree farms to rebuild your camp!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 23 Aug 2022
Crustacean Nations 🦀Crustacean Nations🦀 is a real-time strategy game about total crab warfare. Build a sprawling sand castle and amass huge armies to dominate the beach and become the one true crustacean nation!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Aug 2022
Recipe for Disaster Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!

Price -66% 5.07€
Rating 6.8
Release 05 Aug 2022
Autonauts vs Piratebots Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

Price -98% 0.43€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Jul 2022
The Final Earth 2 The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Price -60% 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Jul 2022
PomoFarm PomoFarm is half focus timer and half idle farming game! As Tomato the Duck, grow your farm as you focus on tasks in the real world!

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Jul 2022
Pro Cycling Manager 2022 Recruitment, budget, strategy: you make all the decisions. Explore the new system for detecting young potential, new options for customising your experience, a peloton that is more aggressive and much more.

Price -92% 3.25€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Jun 2022
Pacifish Pacifish is an incremental fishing management game with several mechanics to interact with and improve. It can be played both idly, or more actively to progress faster.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 07 Jun 2022
The Last Clockwinder A VR puzzle-automation game. Create intricate clockwork contraptions out of your own clones and restore life to an ancient tree using automation, a collection of rare plants from across the galaxy and a team of clockwork gardeners.

Price 22.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 02 Jun 2022
Tinyfolks Train your folks, defeat monsters and upgrade your town!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Jun 2022
Trainz Railroad Simulator 2022 Drive, Explore, Operate and Create the railroad of your dreams - and now you can collaborate in real time with Multiplayer Surveyor! TRS22 showcases a range of high quality routes, sessions and trains to drive, plus all the scenery you need to make your own masterpiece.

Price 38.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 30 May 2022
BBQ Simulator: The Squad Dive into a hilarious sandbox BBQ experience with friends! Grill, serve, and manage mayhem as meats soar and sizzle. Craft your grill, cook steaks, and feed everyone before hunger strikes!

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 May 2022
The Sushi Spinnery Revolutionize the revolving sushi bar in this fresh new sim!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 May 2022
Lost Nova Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!

Price -80% 3.10€
Rating 8.6
Release 11 May 2022
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Become a real paleontologist, explore various environments and search for dinosaur fossils. Dig for and study the remnants of these majestic creatures to learn about their evolution. Build your own museum and experience an immersive background story.

Price -72% 5.59€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 May 2022
Godlike Burger In Godlike Burger you run the craziest restaurant of the galaxy! Stun, poison and kill customers in many devious ways… and turn them into burger meat! And don’t worry: Alien customers will keep coming if you are smart about it, because cannibalism is just too damn tasty.

Price -99% 0.27€
Rating 7.3
Release 21 Apr 2022
Prosperous Universe In Prosperous Universe start your galactic empire by trading on the real-time market exchange with other real players. Build your 1st base from humble beginnings & watch as your business flourishes with complex supply chain strategies. Economics, politics & realism fuel this immersive business MMO.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 20 Apr 2022
Chromosome Evil Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Mar 2022
Townsmen VR Townsmen VR uses the exciting possibilities of virtual reality to further enhance the classic city building game with entirely new gameplay experiences and interactive mechanics. It combines elements of a God-game simulation and a classic building game with the interactive possibilities of VR.

Price -99% 0.56€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Mar 2022
Buggos Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!

Price -76% 3.88€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Mar 2022
Home Wind Home Wind is a minimalist, relaxing and cozy city builder about creating large settlements based on proximity tactics. All for free!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Mar 2022
Over the Counter A pharmaceutical business management game.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Feb 2022
Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator Open your own Card shop by the seaside! Buy, trade and sell Cards, OR keep them for your own collection! Earn reputation with customers, beat your shop goals, unlock new decorations, and host exciting events to bring everyone to the best Card shop in town!

Price -85% 2.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 10 Feb 2022
Power to the People Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Price -83% 2.24€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Feb 2022
Gods of Sand Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.

Price -21% 6.55€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Feb 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
Heaven Dust 2 Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies. Heaven Dust 2 is a love letter to classic survival horror games featuring exploration, action, puzzles, and resource management.

Price -71% 3.73€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jan 2022
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
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% 15.04€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 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

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