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- Stardew Valley. Stardew Valley captures the number 1 spot with its replayability, charm, and simple, yet addictive gameplay. Ahhhh simple country living!
- Spiritfarer. Let your cares drift away with the tides in Spiritfarer, our penultimate entry. I’m a pretty emotional guy. I’m not ashamed to admit it, and I like a game that isn’t either.
- Two-Point Hospital. You might as well get your affairs in order if you manage to find yourself warded at Two-Point Hospital. I wish I could get a glimpse at the health insurance policies in this weird parallel dimension.
- Civilization 6. Divide and conquer with entry number 4, Civilization 6. When the first voice you hear in the game’s opening dialogue is that of Ned Stark, the Warden of the North himself, you know that you’re about to be immersed in top-tier medieval high fantasy content.
- Best Management Games
- Oxygen Not Included
- Anno 1800
- Megaquarium
- Slime Rancher
- Dungeon Keeper
- OpenTTD
- Surviving Mars
- Frostpunk
- Prison Architect
We've selected all different kinds of management games below, with something to satisfy you whether you want to run a household, keep colonists sane, process poisonous gases, or obsess over conveyor belt efficiency. The only rule is that it needs to be fun to play right now. That means we've excluded some formative classics that feel less easily re...
Oxygen Not Included is one of a handful of Dwarf Fauxtress games in this list where you take charge of a small group of hapless people arriving in an inhospitable location, in this case the centre of an asteroid, and you must mine and construct the tools they need to survive. Where it differs from most of its peers is in the engineering rigour it r...
Anno 1800 is arguably one of the finest city builders ever made. Set in Western Europe during the nineteenth century, this is a game that starts out with idyllic rural farmsteads and ends with the hulking great railways and smoke-pumping factories of industrial commerce. Its early hours may feel overly familiar for Anno veterans, but once you've go...
Fish are magical beings aren’t they? Well, anything that lives underwater is pretty impressive - so obviously, the best thing to do with them is to keep them in tiny little fish prisons so you can gaze longingly at their sweet, gormless faces forever. Megaquariam is a game that's all about managing an aquarium, from hiring the best staff members to...
Slime Rancher might look cute on the surface, but beneath its gelatinous, googly-eyed exterior lies a heart of pure chaos. Unlike the beasts you'll find in other animal management sims such as Planet Zoo or even Jurassic World Evolution, the smiling blobs of Monomi Park's farming slime 'em up excel at getting themselves into scrapes while you're of...
Not every horse in Bullfrog's legendary stable of genre-defining 90s management games stands up well by today's standards, particularly in terms of interface, and that's why Themes Park or Hospital of old aren't here. Dungeon Keeper sails close to the wind, too, but it remains fiendishly playable, especially if you install the free KeeperFX fan exp...
Transport Tycoon Deluxe remains one of our favourite transport management sims, even if the original is no longer available to buy on today's PC storefronts. Thankfully, we've got OpenTTD instead, a fan-made remake of Transport Tycoon Deluxe that expands on Chris Sawyer's 1994 original by adding more map sizes as well as LAN and online multiplayer ...
This red planet colonisation sim has come along way since it first came out in March 2018. Back then, it felt a little bit barebones and kept tripping over its own user interface. Today, it's a different story. With a greater variety of domes and buildings, a more coherent UI, and the ability to link up your various fragile settlements, Surviving M...
Most management games are about indulging yourself as opposed to providing a real challenge. They're about an ever-widening circle of building possibility - the more hours you put in, the more things open up. Frostpunk is different. Frostpunk's interest is in starkly limiting what options are available to you, to the point where you're frequently m...
Theme Hospital might be the first popular management game to dwell on the dark side of profiteering, but Prison Architect is an even darker proposition. Can you keep your inmates happy? Can you make a profit? How important is it to process death row residents efficiently? What happens when a riot breaks out? The brilliance of Introversion's game is...
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- Football Manager 2024. It doesn’t get much more managerial than being at the helm of one of the world’s biggest football clubs. FM24 didn’t seem like it had much planned for this year, but as our FM24 review states, it has a bunch of new features that improve the experience massively.
- Rimworld. While management games like The Sims let you manage every aspect of a person’s life, right down to what they get up to in the bathroom, shifts the perspective back a little and puts you in charge of managing a whole colony of people after crash landing onto an alien planet.
- Dyson Sphere Program. Dyson Sphere Program is a great option if you’re looking for a more relaxing management game. The aim is to build your base from the materials across the galaxy, to research new technology and ultimately create the Dyson Sphere to harness the power of the stars.
- Frostpunk. Frostpunk mixes management with the harsh challenges of survival games. You have to manage people, yes, but the goal isn’t to make money – it’s to make it through each bitter night without condemning your citizens to a sudden and chilly death.
- MIT Sloan Management Simulation Games. Platform: Browser-based. The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the seven super-elite private schools for MBA programs standing alongside Harvard, Wharton, Chicago Booth, Columbia, Kellogg, and Stanford.
- Capitalism II. Platform: Windows | Mac. Price: $7.49. In today’s cutthroat corporate world, the challenges are immense, yet the rewards can be equally significant.
- Virtonomics. Platform: Browser-based. Price: Free. Virtonomics is a turn-based MMO online simulation game that focuses on the workings and principles of business within a competitive environment.
- OpenTTD. Platform: Windows | Mac | Android | Linux | FreeBSD. Price: Free. OpenTTD is an open-source, multi-platform business simulation game where players aim to build their transport empire.
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- Dwarf Fortress. An Unforgiving Fantasy Colony Simulator. Platform(s) Linux , macOS , Microsoft Windows. Released. August 8, 2006. Developer.
- OpenTTD. An Old-School Tycoon Game About Managing Transport. Steam User Rating: 96% This open-source remake of Chris Sawyer's 1995 classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe is a business simulation game that tasks players with earning as much money as possible.
- Amazing Cultivation Simulator. A Colony Sim Centered Around Feng Shui. Steam User Rating: 88% Like RimWorld, Amazing Cultivation Simulator has players managing a colony from a top-down perspective, managing their different needs and defending their colony from enemies.
- RimWorld. Manage Mental and Physical Health. Platform(s) PC , PS4 , Xbox One. Released. October 17, 2018. Developer(s) Ludeon Studios. Genre(s) Simulation.
Jun 19, 2024 · Simon Hill. Gear. Jun 19, 2024 12:00 PM. 17 Awesome Management Games for Armchair Tycoons. These building- and resource-based simulations are perfect for single-player fun and relaxation. If...
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Sep 27, 2019 · Management simulation is a term for any game in which you decide what happens with a thing you’ve been given, which in my opinion makes it nothing short of the truest form of gaming.
