Best Resource Management Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated resource management games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Resource Management games on Steam.

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Tin Can You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?

Price -98% 0.46€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 May 2022
Lost Nova Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!

Price -81% 2.92€
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% 5.57€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 May 2022
Bakery Simulator Get up before dawn and see what it's like to be a baker! Learn to bake several dozen types of bread. Use realistic bakery machines. Deliver orders to stores, earn, and invest. Use original recipes or experiment with ingredients.

Price -97% 0.54€
Rating 6.6
Release 03 May 2022
Trimps A text-based incremental idle game with a ridiculous amount of unique content. Automate old stuff as you unlock new stuff to keep things interesting for hours and hours, no spam clicking necessary! Trimps is everything you love about your favorite games, distilled to their purest form.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 02 May 2022
Idle Spiral This is a beautiful "Idle", "Incremental" game based on spirals and mathematics. Your goal is to make the spiral grow farther and farther from the origin. The game is very simple, but it is very deep and can be enjoyed for a long time!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 30 Apr 2022
Ravenous Devils A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Apr 2022
Dorfromantik Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

Price -50% 6.62€
Rating 9.4
Release 28 Apr 2022
Save Room - Organization Puzzle When you enter a save room you know you are safe, no danger can come to you, you can relax. Take advantage of this short period of time to organize your inventory, heal your wounds and reload your weapons. Can you make all the items fit in your inventory?

Price -40% 1.81€
Rating 9.3
Release 28 Apr 2022
Trigon: Space Story Trigon: Space Story sees you take command of your very own spaceship. Carry out tactical battles, defend your vessel against space pirates, and escape from enemy territory. On your voyages, you’ll face a slew of tricky decisions in your quest to uncover the mystery of the galaxy.

Price -60% 8.09€
Rating 6.8
Release 28 Apr 2022
Prehistoric Kingdom Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.

Price -73% 6.81€
Rating 8.4
Release 27 Apr 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 -97% 0.62€
Rating 7.3
Release 21 Apr 2022
Warpips Warpips is the ultimate quick to learn but amazingly deep tug-of-war strategy game. Deploy the right composition of soldiers, tanks, helicopters and planes in this tight, streamlined strategy-focused war game. Compose the best army, research the right tech; overwhelm your enemy!

Price -97% 0.57€
Rating 8.5
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 7.2
Release 20 Apr 2022
Dummynation Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.

Price -10% 8.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 15 Apr 2022
The Heroic Legend of Eagarlnia Lay out your grand strategy on the land of Eagarlnia where humans, elves, orcs, dwarves, and the undead each battle out a corner of land. Manage your territories by navigating complex decisions and grow your economy.

Price -59% 4.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Apr 2022
Orb of Creation Orb of Creation is an active incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Mar 2022
Refactor Refactor is a hard-core tower defense game that combines modular building, route planning, and element composition.

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 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 -98% 0.97€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Mar 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 -20% 9.99€
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 -96% 0.66€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Mar 2022
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 -97% 0.82€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Mar 2022