The Best Economy Games for Linux

Update : Epic Space Trader added at rank #13.
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Victoria 3 (2022)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Take over as leader of one of the 200 nations with a centralized industry, back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, it's your job to improve the lives of your citizenry, manage their economy, and keep them happy. Politics plays a huge part in this game and you must form relationships with other countries to succeed.

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What we like:
  • Nested tooltips provide detailed information on concepts
  • Excellent GUI
  • Lots of events
  • Detailed population groups with their own needs
  • Deep economic system
What could be improved:
  • War mechanic not so great

  • grand-strategy
  • economy
  • political
  • politics
  • simulation
  • historical
  • military
  • strategy
  • war

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Synergy (2024)

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early access Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Synergy is a city-building game in which humanity must survive in a strange and hostile world. Build a city while respecting the ecosystem. Explore and analyze your environment. Provide for the needs of your citizens.


  • diplomacy
  • post-apocalyptic
  • economy
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • building
  • trading
  • steampunk
  • resource-management
  • survival
  • management
  • simulation
  • strategy
  • farming

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Tropico 6 (2019)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

Tropico 6 is a city-building game that offers an engaging mix of elements such as ruling your own island dictatorship, sandbox mode with customizable goals, missions, and easy controller support. You can be a big picture person and make decisions that impact the entire island or get into the minute details of urban planning.


What we like:
  • Engaging mix of elements
  • Sandbox mode with customizable goals
  • Missions
  • Easy controller support:No need for mouse and keyboard or touchscreen
What could be improved:
  • Minor performance issues

  • city-building
  • simulation
  • economy
  • political
  • sandbox
  • management
  • strategy
  • construction
  • military
  • politics

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GearCity (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Do you find tycoon games too simplistic? GearCity is a complex and in-depth business simulator. It focuses on a realistic economic simulation of the global automobile industry. The game takes several hours to grasp and hundreds of hours to master. Can you succeed where many other CEOs have failed?


  • simulation
  • management
  • economy
  • auto
  • capitalism
  • business
  • automotive
  • sims
  • strategy
  • realistic
  • turn-based

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Industry Idle (2021)

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IOS iPhone Android Mac OS PC Windows Linux

Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

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  • hex
  • automation
  • transportation
  • grid
  • idler
  • clicker
  • base-building
  • economy
  • resource-management
  • city-building
  • capitalism
  • building
  • minimalist
  • simulation
  • procedural

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SimAirport (2020)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!


  • base-building
  • city-building
  • flight
  • management
  • building
  • economy
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • resource-management
  • casual
  • large-scale
  • strategy

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Prosperous Universe (2022)

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85
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early access Linux PC Windows

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.

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  • mmo
  • multiplayer
  • space
  • economy
  • management
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • trading
  • text
  • sandbox
  • building
  • sci-fi
  • open-world
  • inventory

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Egypt: Old Kingdom (2018)

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Android IOS iPhone Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Strategy simulator of the Great Pyramids period, where you take your path from the unification of Egyptian tribes to the foundation of The First Empire. Developed with the assistance of Egyptologists.


  • political
  • construction
  • economy
  • fight
  • sandbox

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World Turtles (2023)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

The World Turtle carries entire civilizations on its back through outer space, and the gentle Meeps are the only ones on a quest to save it. Cooperation, rather than conquest will save the day, so prepare to harvest, build, research, and explore the void in this wholesome turtleback builder.


  • colony
  • city-building
  • economy
  • hex
  • simulation
  • god-game
  • nature
  • immersive
  • medieval
  • family-friendly
  • hand-drawn
  • grid
  • stylized
  • 3d
  • management

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Scorchlands (2023)

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Linux PC Windows

The birdfolk of Giwi are masters of exploration. In Scorchlands, colonize the volcanic moon Helia, using magic and technology to build cities, manage resources with lasers, terraform environments, and fend off creatures.


  • hex
  • colony
  • automation
  • economy
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • grid
  • stylized
  • post-apocalyptic
  • sandbox
  • top-down
  • management
  • relaxing
  • 3d

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