Best Resource Management Games on Steam

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Capybara Spa Build your own capybara spa in this relaxing point and click simulation game! Grow fruits, craft soaps and clean towels to pamper the capybaras during their visit. Furnish the mountain with gardens, baths and decorations to design the best capybara spa!

Price 6.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 14 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
Airborne Kingdom The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Price -98% 0.64€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Mar 2022
Over the Counter A pharmaceutical business management game.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
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 -92% 1.04€
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
Last Wood In Last Wood, it is an oceanic world after the Fall. You will guide several survivors in the ocean from pieces of rafts, survive, build rafts, defense the threats, explore the unknown world, even have their offsprings, and find the truth of the world.

Price -40% 7.49€
Rating 6.5
Release 26 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
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 -66% 4.29€
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 16.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 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
Alien Marauder “Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!

Price 16.79€
Rating 6.2
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
Tavern Master Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Price -46% 8.21€
Rating 9.0
Release 16 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 -38% 15.42€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 Nov 2021
Surviving the Aftermath Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Price -91% 2.98€
Rating 6.9
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
To The Rescue! To The Rescue! is a charming dog shelter simulator. Take care of unique dogs and find the right homes for as many of them as you can. Upgrade your shelter, control disease outbreaks, learn each dog's preferences, and make tough decisions, all while helping support real-world animal shelters!

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 6.5
Release 02 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
Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.

Price -73% 10.83€
Rating 8.5
Release 28 Oct 2021
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 23 Oct 2021
Aquarium Designer Aquarium Designer gives you an opportunity to create the aquarium of your dreams! Become a professional whose job is to design it, build it, and fill it with the various underwater wildlife! All types, all sizes - your creativity is your only limit!

Price -95% 0.46€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Oct 2021
Sailwind Sailing simulator featuring realistic sailing physics and a vast open world to explore. Embark on cargo delivery missions, customize your boat, try fishing and cooking. A relaxing day sail, or an epic ocean voyage? Your sailing adventure starts here!

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 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
The Riftbreaker The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

Price -70% 9.29€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 Oct 2021
Increlution Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
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
Vagrus - The Riven Realms Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Accompanied by a hardy crew, you must trade, fight, and explore your way to success as the leader of a traveling company in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.

Price -61% 11.76€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Oct 2021
Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense An infinitely replayable multiplayer and single-player tower defense. Defend against waves of enemies and destroy the enemy's king before they destroy yours. Legion TD 2 is a one-of-a-kind game of tactics, teamwork, and prediction. Party as 1-8 players.

Price 22.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Oct 2021
Dice Legacy Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.

Price -67% 4.98€
Rating 6.7
Release 09 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
Obsideo Obsideo is a 1-4 player online co-op psychological horror, where you and your team of priests explore different locations experiencing paranormal events in an attempt to figure out what ghost they're dealing with and exorcise it from the property.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 27 Aug 2021
DPS IDLE Collect cards, upgrade cards, defeat monsters, join guilds and hire heroes. Raise your DPS!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 21 Aug 2021

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