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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12 Labours of Hercules III: Girl Power Help Megara free the hero and then accompany him in all of his adventures, including the forest of the Amazons and Mount Olympus in 12 Labours of Hercules III: Girl Power!

Price -77% 0.69€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Aug 2015
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Kakushin with Power Up Kit An extension of the 12th release in the Nobunaga’s Ambition series, Nobunaga’s Ambition: Iron Triangle, has appeared at the Steam Store as Nobunaga’s Ambition: Iron Triangle w/Power-up Kit!

Price 50.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 Jun 2015
Lethis - Path of Progress Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.

Price -95% 1.16€
Rating 6.6
Release 25 Jun 2015
12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull Accompany Hercules in his quest for the Cretan Bull!

Price -82% 0.55€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Jun 2015
Space Colony: Steam Edition Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 30 Apr 2015
Out There: Ω Edition Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.

Price -79% 3.24€
Rating 7.3
Release 02 Apr 2015
The Spatials It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.

Price -88% 1.19€
Rating 6.6
Release 30 Mar 2015
Cultures - Northland The Vikings are back! Get this RTS classic!

Price -86% 0.71€
Rating 7.8
Release 26 Mar 2015
12 Labours of Hercules Accompany Hercules on a quest to rescue his wife, kidnapped by the evil Hades in 12 Labours of Hercules! You'll meet heroes from Ancient Greece as you vanquish beasts, repair roads and construct wonders in this stunning Time Management game!

Price -71% 0.89€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 Mar 2015
Cities: Skylines Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

Price -82% 5.17€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Mar 2015
Marble Age Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.8
Release 04 Mar 2015
Hero of the Kingdom II Lovely adventuring RPG series. Casual, story-driven journey and quests. The kingdom is under threat from pirates. Sail to the farthest islands to save your sister and become hero of the kingdom.

Price -95% 0.52€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Feb 2015
Seven Kingdoms 2 HD Get ready for an exciting real-time strategy game experience like no other with Seven Kingdoms 2! Say goodbye to the monotony of resource gathering and army building, its unique gameplay offers a thrilling blend of city management, trade, industry, espionage, diplomacy, and conquest!

Price -79% 2.13€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Feb 2015
Craft The World Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Price -96% 0.92€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Nov 2014
This War of Mine In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Price -96% 0.93€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Nov 2014
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Nov 2014
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

Price -96% 0.53€
Rating 8.4
Release 27 Oct 2014
Stronghold Crusader 2 Stronghold Crusader 2 is the long awaited sequel to the original castle sim. After 12 years Stronghold returns to the desert with a new 3D engine and powerful Havok Physics. Crusader 2 recaptures the original game’s addictive, fast-paced gameplay and authentic castle simulation.

Price -97% 1.00€
Rating 7.1
Release 22 Sep 2014
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Souzou The 14th entry of the the historical simulation series "Nobunaga's Ambition." Become a daimyō of the Warring States era, and unite the land! With "the creation of a new age" as the key concept, this title features beautifully recreated castle towns, dynamic battlefield action and dramatic event scenes.

Price 21.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Aug 2014
Five Nights at Freddy's Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Aug 2014
Gods Will Be Watching Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.

Price -88% 1.21€
Rating 6.9
Release 24 Jul 2014
Wildlife Park 2 Now’s the chance to build the Zoo of your dreams! Just like in a real Zoo, your animals must receive complete care. Feed them, train them, cure them and even relocate them. Observe their realistic interactions with one another, the landscape, the play equipment and even Zoo visitors.

Price 6.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jul 2014
Tropico 5 Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Price -91% 1.90€
Rating 7.7
Release 23 May 2014
RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe One of the best games from acclaimed Tycoon series, with well designed gameplay mechanics, appealing graphics, and really high re-playability value. There’s no limit to what you can create so design and build the most thrilling roller coaster the world has ever seen!

Price -75% 1.49€
Rating 9.2
Release 21 May 2014
1849 1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.

Price -85% 2.37€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 May 2014
The Promised Land The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...

Price -51% 3.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 25 Apr 2014
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Price -42% 8.68€
Rating 9.3
Release 27 Mar 2014
Banished In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Price -70% 5.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Feb 2014
Hero of the Kingdom Lovely adventuring RPG series. Casual, story-driven journey and quests. Your home has been raided. Your father is missing. Set off on a dangerous journey to save him, and become the hero of the kingdom.

Price -94% 0.51€
Rating 9.0
Release 14 Nov 2013
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 21 Oct 2013
Stronghold HD (2012) The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 21 Oct 2013
Knights and Merchants KNIGHTS and MERCHANTS recreates the era of the Middle Ages. Apart from the purely fictitious geography of our world, all game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, 1200 A.D. And we haven't used imaginary elements like fabled creatures, either. The player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the Palace Guard.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 Oct 2013
Reus In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.

Price -80% 2.04€
Rating 7.6
Release 16 May 2013
Age of Empires II (Retired) Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 09 Apr 2013
Tropico 4 The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

Price -91% 1.49€
Rating 8.9
Release 27 Oct 2011
The Guild II Renaissance For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Jul 2010

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