Best Resource Management Games 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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ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS XIV Triumph over the land, take charge of the fate of China! Conquer territories and fly your colors!

Price -48% 31.60€
Rating 6.2
Release 15 Jan 2020
Mad Tower Tycoon Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Jan 2020
AO Tennis 2 AO Tennis 2 is the only tennis experience designed for and by its community. Create your own players, stadiums and legendary matches. Enter the competition to reach the top of world tennis in Career Mode.

Price -96% 2.33€
Rating 6.8
Release 09 Jan 2020
Cat Lady - The Card Game Cat Lady - The Card Game is a fun card-drafting game in which players are Cat Ladies, trying to tempt cats into their cattery using food, toys, costumes and more. Based on the much-loved card game by AEG.

Price -69% 1.24€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Dec 2019
Transport Fever 2 The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!

Price -84% 6.48€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Dec 2019
Ylands Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 05 Dec 2019
Automation Empire Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 20 Nov 2019
Railroad Corporation Relive the pioneering spirit of the Golden Age of Steam by establishing your own railroad empire across 19th century North America. Bring settlements together, produce and trade goods and develop new technologies to stay ahead of the competition. Want more? RAILROAD CORPORATION 2 Out Now!

Price -98% 0.95€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Nov 2019
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition 42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.

Price -69% 10.39€
Rating 9.4
Release 14 Nov 2019
Basement Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.

Price -98% 0.46€
Rating 6.9
Release 10 Nov 2019
Planet Zoo Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Price -88% 5.82€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Nov 2019
Mars Power Industries Deluxe Mysterious puzzle inspired by 2001:Space Odyssey. Manage resources, solve challenging puzzles and uncover what lies beneath the surface! Year after year, strange happenings plague our tiny colony, darkness devours Mars. Your job as an Electrician? Bring light where darkness reigns!

Price -91% 0.54€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Nov 2019
Autonauts In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Price -97% 0.68€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Oct 2019
Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind Life between myths. Lead the Riders clan into legend or obscurity as you explore an ancient world. Plan ahead as you navigate this challenging storybook strategy game, immersing you in the land of old gods and magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.

Price 20.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Oct 2019
Little Big Workshop Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Price -90% 2.09€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Oct 2019
Rise to Ruins A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Price 13.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Oct 2019
YORG.io 3 Defend, Attack, Survive! Build up your base and defeat the zombies with this unique combination of tower defense, base building and supply chain management. Now with multiplayer, mods and loads of new content!

Price -86% 0.86€
Rating 6.4
Release 13 Oct 2019
Mindustry An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Price -48% 5.22€
Rating 9.4
Release 26 Sep 2019
Crying Suns Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.

Price -96% 0.91€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Sep 2019
Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 06 Sep 2019
Fantasy General II The fantasy wargaming classic is back! Lead powerful heroes and mighty armies into battle in this critically acclaimed turn-based strategy milestone. Level up and train your units and guide them through a gripping story campaign to decide the fate of a world on the brink of destruction.

Price -98% 0.78€
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Sep 2019
Battle Royale Tycoon Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 6.7
Release 02 Sep 2019
MicroTown Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Aug 2019
Shortest Trip to Earth Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.

Price -91% 2.47€
Rating 7.4
Release 15 Aug 2019
Cliff Empire After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Price 17.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Aug 2019
Oxygen Not Included Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Price 22.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 30 Jul 2019
Automachef Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Price -96% 0.66€
Rating 6.9
Release 23 Jul 2019
Field of Glory: Empires Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture.

Price -94% 2.54€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 Jul 2019
Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.

Price -90% 1.04€
Rating 6.4
Release 09 Jul 2019
Survive on Raft Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.1
Release 05 Jul 2019
They Are Billions They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Price -10% 26.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Jun 2019
Seeds of Resilience Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Price -91% 1.39€
Rating 6.6
Release 13 Jun 2019
Cooking Simulator A realistic cooking sim where every ingredient reacts with real physics. Master 80+ dishes in Career mode or go wild in Sandbox as you cook, experiment, or cause total kitchen chaos in a fully interactive chef’s playground.

Price -59% 6.98€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 Jun 2019
YORG.io YORG.io is a game with an original twist on supply chains and zombies. Your goal is to build a base which survives the night which is when zombies attack. Build and upgrade defensive towers to protect your base and try to survive as long as possible.

Price -80% 0.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 May 2019
Rise of Industry Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Price -99% 0.44€
Rating 7.1
Release 02 May 2019
Fade to Silence Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.

Price -92% 2.59€
Rating 6.1
Release 30 Apr 2019

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