What are the best PC management games?

Are you looking for a good PC management game ? City builder, colony sim, tycoon, simulation, or real-time strategy: you'll find something here manage a city, a colony, or an entire empire, from the simplest to the most complex.

This selection covers all styles of PC management games :

• City-builder as Cities: Skylines Where SimCity 4
• Colony Simulation as RimWorld Where Timberborn
• Tycoon as Planet Zoo Where Planet Coaster
• real-time strategy as Northgard Where Anno 1800.

Just a quick note: This list reflects our own choices. Some great titles might be missing—let us know in the comments.

Our favorites

1. Factorio

Factorio puts you in the shoes of an engineer stranded on a alien planet, after his ship crashed. Your goal: harvest resources and automate factories to build a rocket and go home.

With its extension Space Age, you'll unlock four additional planets to colonize.

If you like management games, Factorio You're in for a treat: he mixes real-time strategy, survival and combat. There construction of your production base is at the heart of every part. On Steam, this title has some of the highest ratings in its genre. Since it's a sandbox game, you can extend the part As many hours as you want once you've reached the goal, whether you're playing solo or in multiplayer.

2. Two Point Hospital

Two Point Hospital invites you to running a private hospital in the county of Two Point, the same universe that Two Point Museum and Two Point Campus.

In practical terms, you hire doctors, set up the rooms, and manage the budget. You also treat completely absurd illnesses, in a humorous tone that makes the’experience unique.

It's the management game ideal for a experience in the medium term. Do you like humor in the style of Theme Hospital, to whom the title pays homage? You're going to love taking care of such zany patients.

3. RimWorld

For an atmosphere similar to Factorio, we recommend that you RimWorld. The game puts you in charge of a group of survivors of a space crash.

Your goal: establish and then manage a human settlement in an unknown and hostile world. Are you going to gather sufficient resources to get away in time?

RimWorld is aimed at the seasoned management game players, in search of a experience demanding. The plot of your part is generated in real time by an AI narrator. Every part generates a universe unique narrative, making it one of the management games the most replayable on computer.

4. Frostpunk

Frostpunk takes place in a universe Post-apocalyptic steampunk. You play as the leader of a group of survivors, as the entire world is hit by an ice age.

The resource management isn't limited to materials. You also have to produce heat and share it with your city, which is what makes this title so unique.

Are you looking for more than just a management game ? Go for it Frostpunk. There management of your city under the snow, day after day—in fact, one of the securities the most immersive of their kind. The ruthless setting constantly pits you against moral dilemmas, and each of your choice weighs heavily on the survival of your people.

5. Against the Storm

Finally, let's move on to Against the Storm. This title combines the concept of the city-builder with roguelikes mechanics.

You play the role of an emissary of the Charred Queen, tasked with establish colonies to resupply the Incandescent City. The problem is that the «Cataclysm» is constantly wreaking havoc. So we have to start over again and again.

Against the Storm is perfect for get off the beaten track of that sort. The gameplay plays on the sensation of making progress while starting from scratch, through temporary settlements. The construction a city, which is usually an end in itself, becomes a cycle here.

Top 50 best PC management games

This is the Complete list of the 50 best management games on PC, sorted by rating Steam. There you'll find some securities of simulation, of strategy and of construction for all profiles.

#1 – Schedule!

#2 - Euro Truck Simulator 2

#3 – Slime Rancher

#4 – Dave the Diver

#5 – Oxygen Not Included

#6 – TCG Card Shop Simulator

#7 – Stacklands

#8 – Mini Motorways

#9 – Kenshi

#10 – WorldBox, God Simulator

#11 – Timberborn

#12 – House Flipper

#13 – Barotrauma

#14 – Lobotomy Corporation

#15 – Contraband Police

#16 – PlateUp!

#17 – Two Point Museum

#18 – Supermarket Simulator

#19 – PC Building Simulator

#20 – Automation

#21 – Cities: Skylines

#22 – Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

#23 – Tavern Master

#24 – Planet Zoo

#25 – Planet Coaster

#26 – Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

#27 – Crusader Kings III

#28 – Jurassic World Evolution 2

#29 – Transport Fever 2

#30 – Football Manager 24

#31 – The Wandering Village

#32 – Prison Architect

#33 – The Alters

#34 – Gas Station Simulator

#35 – Tropico 6

#36 – Stellaris

#37 – Manor Lords

#38 – Northgard

#39 – Farthest Frontier

#40 – Last Train Home

#41 – Sid Meier’s Civilization VI

#42 – Foundation

#43 – UBOAT

#44 – Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

#45 – Drill Core

#46 – Farming Simulator 25

#47 – Anno 1800

#48 – Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm

#49 – SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

#50 – F1 Manager 2024

As you can see, there’s no shortage of great games! Be sure to check out the ones on this list—especially our top picks, which are definitely worth checking out!

And for even more great PC games, check out our list of the top best Mac games !