The Best Resource-management Games

Update : Kaiserpunk added at rank #1.
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Kaiserpunk (2025)

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Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with the world conquest of strategy games in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

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  • i
  • grand-strategy
  • colony
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • world-war-2
  • diplomacy
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • historical
  • alternate
  • management
  • choices
  • economy
  • building

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Little Lighthouse of Horror (2025)

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A pixel art psychological horror game inspired by the Flannan Isles mystery. Manage a remote lighthouse, handle limited resources, and confront eerie occurrences as isolation erodes your sanity. Multiple endings await based on your choices and actions. How long can you last?

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  • resource-management
  • i
  • pixel
  • horror
  • minimalist
  • multiple-endings
  • mythology
  • life
  • survival
  • mystery
  • scroller
  • story
  • emotional
  • psychological
  • creepy-cute

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Learning Factory (2025)

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Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.


  • automation
  • base-building
  • science
  • cats
  • building
  • resource-management
  • fishing
  • economy
  • management
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • crafting
  • cute
  • family-friendly
  • education

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Island Master (2025)

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Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • procedural
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • faith
  • top-down
  • base-building
  • nature
  • building
  • management
  • strategy
  • dungeon-crawler
  • colourful
  • 3d

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Airborne Empire (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

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  • city-building
  • real-time
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • strategy
  • flight
  • economy
  • open-world
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • survival
  • colony
  • simulation
  • steampunk
  • community

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Hell Dive (2025)

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PC Windows

A first-person horror game where you play as Daniel, a Maritime Operative trapped alone aboard a submarine. Sent to investigate an abandoned deep-sea colony, you uncover dark secrets as terrifying horrors await in its depths.

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  • submarine
  • psychological
  • immersive
  • supernatural
  • walking-simulator
  • resource-management
  • survival-horror
  • horror
  • multiple-endings
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • exploration
  • sci-fi
  • mystery

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Captain's Call (2025)

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PC Windows

Captain's Call is a strategic RPG where every decision shapes your followers' future. Manage your resources, morale, followers, and treasury wisely to protect your followers and keep your settlement thriving as you face constant challenges.

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  • choices
  • rpg
  • resource-management
  • medieval
  • strategy
  • multiple-endings
  • isometric
  • logic
  • management
  • top-down
  • economy
  • 3d
  • pve
  • city-building
  • buildings

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Pollute & Conquer (2025)

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PC Windows

An economic war over territories and resources is raging on the planet. Will you destroy the planet and all life on it in the chaos of pollution... or prevent the end of the world by developing new technologies? Play with friends using "Steam Remote" or play against smart AI!

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  • turn-based
  • hex
  • economy
  • capitalism
  • resource-management
  • strategy
  • 4x
  • building
  • grid
  • procedural
  • board-game
  • education
  • top-down
  • space
  • 2d

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Trade Conquest (2024)

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PC Windows

Rise from a cunning strategist to a powerful ruler. Master economic warfare, manipulate global events, and build industries or armies to conquer the world. Every decision in this modern Grand Strategy game shapes your ascent to power—will you rise through wealth or force?

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  • economy
  • political
  • grand-strategy
  • diplomacy
  • wargame
  • 4x
  • capitalism
  • politics
  • resource-management
  • modern
  • management
  • simulation
  • strategy
  • trading
  • nonlinear

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Monarchy (2024)

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A 2D side-scrolling strategy game of resource management, base defense and conquest.

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  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • scroller
  • tower-defense
  • rogue-like
  • building
  • cooperative
  • procedural
  • local
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • medieval
  • strategy
  • exploration
  • multiplayer

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