Best Resource Management Games on Steam

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Dwarf Fortress Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Price 28.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 06 Dec 2022
Final Upgrade Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!

Price -90% 1.67€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Dec 2022
Cafe Owner Simulator Open your dream restaurant at FPP. Create a unique exterior and interior, hire the best workers and chefs, create a place where people will love to eat, spend time and spend their money. Simulation of the restaurant business.

Price -96% 0.86€
Rating 6.4
Release 05 Dec 2022
Another Farm Roguelike Another Farm Roguelike is a 2D farming & crafting game with rougelike elements where your job is to earn as much money as possible to pay the rent. Start from scratch and build the most profitable farm you can make as soon as possible. Work hard to be able to afford the rent.

Price -75% 0.74€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Nov 2022
Starsand Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 6.5
Release 17 Nov 2022
Sunset Routes Sunset Routes is an easy and intriguing roguelite game. You can choose your crew, put them in the cabins, select your destination, and set sail. Through a series of choices, you can earn profits during the emergency period of the New World and even decide its fate—unintentionally or on purpose.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Nov 2022
Idle Monster TD: Evolved Evolve epic monsters and crush puny humans in this endless idle tower defense game! Unlock, upgrade, and evolve over 150 unique monsters and pets, ranging from cute and colorful flower creatures to epic fire breathing dragons, to assemble the ultimate team against the endless waves of enemies.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Nov 2022
The Oregon Trail The Oregon Trail is back in a beautiful blend of charming pixel art characters, 3D environments, and cutting-edge lighting and visual effects!

Price -60% 11.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Nov 2022
Lords and Villeins Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Price -99% 0.39€
Rating 7.0
Release 10 Nov 2022
Astro Colony Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Price -56% 8.69€
Rating 7.9
Release 07 Nov 2022
Honey, I Joined a Cult It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!

Price -98% 0.45€
Rating 7.1
Release 03 Nov 2022
TFM: The First Men An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Price 24.50€
Rating 6.1
Release 02 Nov 2022
DORAEMON STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of the Great Kingdom Noby and his friends are back in an all-new Doraemon: Story of Seasons title! Grow crops, raise animals, and use Doraemon's Secret Gadgets to help friends in a fun-filled and heartwarming story that people of all ages can enjoy.

Price -69% 15.96€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Nov 2022
Out of Ore A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.

Price 24.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 31 Oct 2022
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
Mosaique Neko Waifus 5 Unique hentai puzzle about flirting with cute anime Neko girls. "Neko Waifus" is a series loved by millions around the world

Price -50% 2.94€
Rating 8.9
Release 26 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
Victoria 3 Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

Price -77% 11.53€
Rating 6.6
Release 25 Oct 2022
Settlement Survival In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Price -98% 0.47€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Oct 2022
Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip Embark on a road trip like no other in this co-op narrative survival adventure. Visit fun locations, meet wacky characters, and manage your resources wisely. And yes: you still can date some hot monsters ;)

Price -97% 0.44€
Rating 9.3
Release 21 Oct 2022
Potionomics You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.

Price -9% 22.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Oct 2022
Stay Out of the House Can you escape the home of a cannibal serial killer? It's only a matter of time until you're dinner!

Price 12.49€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Oct 2022
Stardeus Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Price -5% 28.74€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Oct 2022
Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

Price -93% 1.10€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 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
Bakso Simulator Create the most successful bakso business in this world!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Oct 2022
Oxygen: First Breath This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 07 Oct 2022
Dome Keeper Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Price -95% 0.95€
Rating 9.0
Release 27 Sep 2022
Card Survival: Tropical Island Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Price 20.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Sep 2022
Idle Skilling Idle Skilling is the ultimate Idle Game with years of content! Meant to be played for 5-10 minutes a day, you gradually unlock new skills like mining, fishing, pet breeding, crusading, potion-making, lab-research, construction, and more! With new updates coming, you'll never run out of stuff to do!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 15 Sep 2022
Mist Legacy Mist Legacy gives you a new way to experience the thrills and adventures of an MMORPG. Handcrafted by a small team of passionate developers, the game features an easy to play top-down world, turn-based combat and a skill-based progression system. Try our game for free. We hope you like it!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 13 Sep 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
Railbound A relaxing puzzle game about fixing train connections and travelling the world - now with a level editor!

Price -90% 1.35€
Rating 9.1
Release 06 Sep 2022
Gloomwood Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.

Price -90% 2.02€
Rating 9.2
Release 05 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 -90% 1.00€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Aug 2022

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