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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BoomTown! Deluxe An explosive combination of mining sim and city builder. Your dream of building your own thriving town starts with few explosive charges and a yellow truck. As you mine the landscape and the money starts to roll in you'll be able to expand your empire, buying buildings, shops and facilities.

Price 6.15€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Oct 2016
Predynastic Egypt Do you know how did Ancient Egypt looked like before the Great Pyramids? Lead the future Egyptian citizens all the way through the historical hardships to the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt, and you will find out!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.7
Release 10 Oct 2016
Cossacks 3 Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!

Price -88% 2.59€
Rating 8.0
Release 20 Sep 2016
Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition Catapult werewolves over castle walls, incinerate troops with dragon fire and command the Knights of the Round Table! This remaster of the mythical ‘castle sim’ features Steam multiplayer, Workshop support, new maps, achievements and DLC campaigns.

Price -77% 3.54€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Sep 2016
Mad Games Tycoon Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Price -87% 2.08€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Sep 2016
The Final Station Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Price -96% 0.68€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Aug 2016
Caesar™ 3 Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!

Price -35% 3.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 29 Aug 2016
The Hive The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you survive in this hostile yet beautiful underworld?

Price -99% 0.27€
Rating 6.8
Release 25 Aug 2016
Frozen State Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.

Price 11.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 05 Aug 2016
Just Deserts Just Deserts is a sci-fi action dating sim where you play as a soldier who must protect a city from mysterious alien attack, while at the same time you will also be seeking to capture the heart of your dream girl(s)! Theme song by Vesuvia [Ecky], vocal track by iMochi

Price -97% 0.38€
Rating 6.9
Release 25 Jul 2016
12 Labours of Hercules V: Kids of Hellas (Platinum Edition) With your help, Hercules must return the kids home, blow up the factory that produces the evil toys, and lead a strategic operation to destroy Ares' command transmitter in 12 Labours of Hercules V: Kids of Hellas!

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 17 Jun 2016
Turmoil Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.

Price -82% 2.42€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Jun 2016
Simutrans Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 24 May 2016
Blueprint Tycoon Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Price -75% 0.74€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 May 2016
Offworld Trading Company Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Price -98% 0.68€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 Apr 2016
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence - Ascension In the simulation game series "Nobunaga's Ambition", players aim to unify Japan in the troubled times of the Warring States era. In this release we include "Officer Play" for the first time in the series, allowing players to advance from retainer to Castle Lord and then on to Daimyo.

Price 59.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 23 Mar 2016
Polaris Sector Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.

Price -66% 13.49€
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Mar 2016
Sheltered Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Price -90% 1.34€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Mar 2016
Gnomoria Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Feb 2016
Governor of Poker 3 Governor of Poker 3 is the best multiplayer poker game with a great design. In this multi-player version of Governor of Poker you compete live with thousands of real poker players to prove you are the number 1 Texas Hold ’em poker star!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 19 Feb 2016
12 Labours of Hercules IV: Mother Nature (Platinum Edition) The legendary hero Hercules and his wife Megara are back, ready to embark on their next adventure! The Gods are outraged at their defeat and have summoned a fearsome beast who can match Hercules's god-like strength.

Price -80% 0.60€
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Dec 2015
Gnomes Garden Dry summer withered the king’s beloved garden and the surrounding gardens of the kingdom alike. The ruler has fallen ill and the kingdom is in danger. Help the princess save the gardens and make the king better again.

Price -91% 1.35€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Dec 2015
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Maker "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Maker" celebrates the 30th anniversary of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series. It has been realized through a collaboration between the creators of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series, Koei Tecmo Games, and the creators of the "TSUKURU" series, KADOKAWA.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 09 Dec 2015
Thea: The Awakening Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game inspired by the Slavic mythology and set in a procedural dark fantasy world infused with non-linear story and unique combat system.

Price -95% 1.11€
Rating 8.3
Release 20 Nov 2015
Dungeon Warfare Dungeon Warfare is a challenging tower defense strategy game where you become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wanna-be heroes.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Nov 2015
Anno 2205™ In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Price -85% 5.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Nov 2015
Kingdom: Classic Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Oct 2015
Empire TV Tycoon Empire TV Tycoon is a game in which you manage a TV channel and fight for audiences taking decisions that will project your channel to fame and fortune.You will decide the content of your channel, select advertisers, hire workers, make your own productions, hire actors, and engage in much more activities!

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Oct 2015
Planetbase Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Price -60% 5.93€
Rating 7.8
Release 15 Oct 2015
Human Resource Machine Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Price -94% 0.96€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Oct 2015
Prison Architect Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Price -85% 3.91€
Rating 8.8
Release 06 Oct 2015
Train Valley Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!

Price -97% 0.38€
Rating 8.6
Release 16 Sep 2015
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence Become a Daimyo of the Warring States period of Japanese history in NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION, a historical simulation game of conquest and domination. It is the 30th anniversary of this series and this current release, NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence, is the crown of the series.

Price -36% 38.53€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Sep 2015
Dead In Bermuda DEAD IN BERMUDA is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements. Lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash. Assign them to tasks, gain experience, develop your survival skills, research and craft new items, explore the island and solve its mysteries.

Price -93% 1.08€
Rating 7.0
Release 27 Aug 2015
Big Pharma What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

Price -58% 10.46€
Rating 7.5
Release 27 Aug 2015
Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden “Master, Master! I did it!!” "I can hear you, no need to shout! Oh, my! This is a rather firm Kidney." My Organic Garden is an avant-garde organ-clicking game. Whether it’s to get Master’s praise, or to please the customer, click away and ship those organs!

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Aug 2015

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