Best Management Game

Caesar III is a city-building simulation game developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra On-Line in 1998. Players assume the role of a Roman governor tasked with establishing and managing cities across the Roman Empire. The gameplay mechanics involve constructing housing, establishing su...

Starsector is a single-player open-world science-fiction role-playing and space-combat game developed by Fractal Softworks. Formerly known as Starfarer, it combines real-time, top-down battles with strategic fleet management, exploration, trading, and other activities in a simulated sector. Players...

Football Manager 2022 is a football management simulation developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega. Released in 2021, it places the player in charge of a professional football club, with responsibilities that include squad selection, tactics, transfers, scouting, training, and competiti...

Out of the Park Baseball 22 is a baseball management simulation released in 2021 by Out of the Park Developments. Players can act as a general manager, manager, or both, depending on the chosen role, and make decisions about rosters, lineups, pitching, trades, contracts, scouting, player development...

Out of the Park Baseball 23 is a baseball management simulation released in 2022 by Out of the Park Developments. It lets players operate a club by setting lineups and rotations, handling trades and contracts, evaluating prospects, developing players, and directing games through strategic choices. T...

Football Manager 2020 is a football association management simulation developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega. Released in 2019, it places the player in charge of a club or national team, with responsibilities that can include tactics, training, scouting, transfers, contracts, staff, f...

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...

NHL Eastside Hockey Manager is an ice hockey management simulation developed by Sports Interactive and released in 2004. Instead of controlling players directly during games, the player manages roster construction, tactics, contracts, scouting, staff, and the broader day-to-day operation of a hockey...

Rebel Inc: Escalation is a political and military strategy simulation from Ndemic Creations. Players govern fictional regions emerging from war by funding infrastructure and public services, negotiating with local groups, managing public support, and responding to an armed insurgency. The central ch...

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...

Children of the Nile, also titled Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile, is a 2004 city-building and management game developed by Tilted Mill Entertainment and set in ancient Egypt. It distinguishes itself by modeling individual citizens as members of households and social classes with occupations,...

"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...

Total Extreme Wrestling is a text-based professional wrestling promotion management simulation series developed by Grey Dog Software. The player operates a wrestling company by managing its roster, finances, contracts, storylines, titles, and event cards. Matches and performers are represented throu...

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...