Best Resource Management Games on Steam

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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 -63% 14.99€
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 6.1
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 -76% 7.46€
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 -59% 12.36€
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 -83% 4.00€
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
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 -80% 4.19€
Rating 6.7
Release 18 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 -98% 0.51€
Rating 7.1
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 -91% 2.61€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Aug 2021
inbento A cooking puzzle game about arranging beautiful bento lunches! Solve 120+ recipes, play with food, think inside the box and enjoy a heartwarming story in this culinary brain-teaser!

Price -83% 0.89€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Jul 2021
Mini Motorways Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.4
Release 20 Jul 2021
The Fermi Paradox The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.

Price -20% 12.79€
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Jul 2021
Arid Discover the mysteries of the Atacama, explore the abandoned mining networks, evade the scorching sun and survive the environment in one of the most arid place in the world. Arid is a FREE survival game made by students from Breda University.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 29 Jun 2021
Airline Manager Create and manage your own airline. Create both passenger and cargo routes all over the world while you upgrade and expand your fleet of airplanes and airports. Airline Manager is among the most realistic of its genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 23 Jun 2021
Vedelem: The Golden Horde Védelem: The Golden Horde is a medieval Real Time Strategy and Survival game set in the 13th century. Build, expand and defend your lands against the deadliest Mongolian invasion ever witnessed. They will seek to destroy your walls and salt your earth. Will you survive the Golden Horde?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 22 Jun 2021
Idle Monster TD An endless Tower Defense game of epic Monsters vs evil War Machines. Unlock and upgrade tons of unique elemental Monsters (Water, Air, Earth, and Fire) to defend your home from an infinite swarm of robots. Strategize the most effective placement of Monsters to synergize their elemental abilities.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Jun 2021
Spellcaster University Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Price -91% 1.97€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Jun 2021
Slipways Weave isolated planets into a vast trade empire. Hatch plans. Research game-breaking technologies. Still be done in time for lunch. Enjoy the endless possibilities of a space grand strategy game in 60 minutes flat.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 03 Jun 2021
Gaia Project Gaia Project is the digital adaptation of the boardgame Gaia Project created by Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller and published by "Feuerland Verlag". It is a 1-4 player strategy game. It plays in the same universe as Terra Mystica and continues the adventure in the far future.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 31 May 2021
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries The year is 3015. The battlefields are dominated by war machines known as BattleMechs. Level entire cities and decimate the enemy in your BattleMech. Follow a quest for glory and revenge. Manage an expanding mercenary company. Fight alongside your friends with a four-player PvE co-op.

Price -10% 27.21€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 May 2021
Toy Tinker Simulator: BETA Have you ever wanted to be a toy tinker? Here you can take the first step to become one! This is a tiny portion of Toy Tinker Simulator, which includes only ten toys.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 21 May 2021
The Wild at Heart Wield an ever-growing herd of quirky creatures to rebuild broken paths, battle perilous beasts, and solve peculiar puzzles in a rich, interconnected world. Join two young runaways as they unravel the mysteries of a lost realm in this nostalgic storybook fantasy!

Price -73% 6.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 19 May 2021
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Price -99% 0.44€
Rating 7.6
Release 18 May 2021
Lab Rags Enjoy failure as it fuels your success in Lab Rags, where you get to use your ragdoll bodies to solve puzzles!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 16 May 2021
Before We Leave Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Price -97% 0.67€
Rating 7.5
Release 13 May 2021
Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator Winemaking could be your best adventure. Make the best wine interacting with soil and nature and take your winery to the top. Your beautiful journey into the winemaking tradition starts now.

Price -49% 10.89€
Rating 7.4
Release 13 May 2021

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