Best Management Game

shapez 2 is an automation and factory-building simulation game developed by tobspr Games and released into early access in 2024. As the successor to the original shapez, it tasks players with constructing expansive, mechanized networks to extract, cut, rotate, and stack abstract geometric shapes. Th...

Overcooked 2 is a cooperative cooking game developed by Ghost Town Games and published by Team17 in 2018. Building on the mechanics of the original Overcooked, players work together to prepare, cook, and serve food orders in increasingly chaotic kitchen environments. The sequel introduced online mul...

PlateUp! is a 2022 restaurant management and cooking game developed by It's happening and published by Yogscast Games. It combines roguelite progression with culinary action, allowing players to design, build, and manage their own restaurant. The game can be played solo or in cooperative multiplayer...

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is a Japanese indie game developed by EasyGameStation, originally released in 2007 and localized into English by Carpe Fulgur in 2010. The player controls Recette, who manages an item shop to repay her father's debts, and can also venture into dungeons with hired adven...

Farthest Frontier is a medieval city-building and survival game developed by Crate Entertainment, the studio behind Grim Dawn, and released in early access in 2022. Players build and manage a settlement, with systems for crop rotation, food preservation, disease, and seasonal weather. The game empha...

shapez is a 2020 factory-building and automation puzzle game developed by Tobias Springer and published on Steam. Set on an infinitely expanding flat plane, the game tasks players with extracting, cutting, rotating, stacking, and coloring abstract geometric shapes to satisfy increasingly complex del...

Islanders is a minimalist city-building puzzle game released in 2019 by the German indie studio GrizzlyGames. Players place procedurally generated building packs onto small islands, earning points based on proximity to compatible structures, with high scores unlocking additional packs and expanding...

Overcooked: All You Can Eat is a 2020 compilation game developed by Ghost Town Games and published by Team17. It bundles the complete content of the co-op cooking games Overcooked and Overcooked 2, including all previously released downloadable content, into a single remastered package. The compilat...

Motorsport Manager Mobile 3 is the third mobile installment by Playsport Games in their racing team management series, featuring updated teams and race mechanics.

Dome Keeper is a 2022 roguelite survival game developed by Bippinbits. Players control a character who must mine resources underground during quiet phases, then return to the surface to defend a dome against waves of alien enemies. The game alternates between resource extraction and combat, combinin...

"Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game" is a highly detailed business simulation developed by Camshaft Software where players manage their own automotive manufacturing company. The title is uniquely distinguished by its deep, robust engineering tools that allow users to meticulously design car ch...

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator is a crafting and shop management game developed by niceplay games and published by tinyBuild. Released into early access in 2021 with a full release following in 2022, the game places the player in charge of a medieval alchemy shop. Its central mechanic is a tactil...

Pioneers of Pagonia is a settlement-building strategy game developed by Envision Entertainment and designed by Volker Wertich, the original creator of The Settlers series. Released in early access in 2023, the game emphasizes logistics-driven city building with a focus on supply chains, production n...

Autonauts is a 2019 colony simulation and automation game developed by Denki. Players control a group of colonists who must automate their civilization by programming robotic workers. The game distinguishes itself with a visual, node-based programming system that allows players to record their actio...

Kingdoms and Castles is a 2017 medieval city-building game developed by Lion Shield. The game tasks players with growing a small hamlet into a sprawling city while managing resources, food, and the happiness of its citizens. It is distinguished by its minimalist polygonal art style and its emphasis...

Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! is a restaurant management and cooking simulation game developed by Vertigo Gaming and released in 2020. As the third main installment in the series, it shifts the setting from a stationary restaurant to a food truck traveling across a futuristic United States. Players mu...

War for the Overworld is a real-time strategy and dungeon management game developed and published by Subterranean Games, released in 2015. It was explicitly created as a spiritual successor to Bullfrog Productions' Dungeon Keeper series. Funded through a Kickstarter campaign, the game tasks players...

The Wandering Village is a city-building and management simulation game developed by Stray Fawn Studio and released into early access in 2022. Players are tasked with establishing and managing a settlement on the back of a colossal, nomadic creature traversing a post-apocalyptic world. The core game...

Terra Nil is an environmental strategy game developed by Free Lives and published by Devolver Digital in 2023. It is uniquely structured as a "reverse city-builder," where the primary objective is not to construct endless urban sprawl, but to restore a barren, polluted wasteland into a thriving, bal...

Forager is a 2D open-world crafting and resource management game developed by the independent developer HopFrog and released in 2019. The gameplay centers on gathering resources, crafting items, building bases, and solving puzzles, with progression systems that incorporate idle clicker mechanics. It...

"Megaquarium: Freshwater Frenzy" is a downloadable expansion pack for the 2018 theme park management game "Megaquarium," developed by Twice Circled. The expansion introduces a significant mechanical shift to the base game by allowing players to construct freshwater exhibits, moving beyond the purely...

"Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!" is a restaurant management and simulation game developed by Vertigo Gaming and released in 2017. As the direct sequel to the original 2012 title, it significantly expands the gameplay mechanics by introducing holding stations, allowing players to prep ingredients and co...

"Farm Together" is a casual farming simulation game developed by Milkstone Studios and released in 2018. The game distinguishes itself within the genre through its emphasis on seamless, cooperative online multiplayer, allowing landowners to grant permissions to friends to help manage their farms. Pl...

Space Haven is a sci-fi colony management game developed by the Finnish studio Bugbyte Ltd. Released into early access in 2020, it combines spaceship base-building mechanics with interstellar travel. Players construct spaceships tile by tile, manage the needs and moods of their crew, and engage in t...

Dungeons 4 is a 2023 dungeon-building strategy game by German studio Realmforge, the fourth series installment, continuing the franchise's blend of underground base management and overworld RTS missions.

Democracy 4 is a 2020 political simulation by UK indie studio Positech Games, the fourth series entry, modeling national governance through interconnected policy sliders and voter demographic systems.

'Grand Prix Story' is a motorsport management simulation game developed and published by Kairosoft. Released for mobile devices, the game tasks players with building and managing their own racing team from the ground up. Players must hire and train drivers, upgrade vehicle parts, and research new te...

'Gnomoria' is an indie sandbox colony-management game developed by Robotronic Games. The game tasks players with guiding a small group of gnomes as they establish and expand a thriving settlement in a procedurally generated 3D environment. Players must gather resources, craft tools, and construct el...

Ratopia is a colony-simulation and platformer game developed by Cassel Games where players establish and manage a subterranean rat civilization. Combining city-building mechanics with side-scrolling action, the game requires players to gather resources, enact laws, and defend their settlement from i...