The Best Economy Games - Page 3

Update : Hotel Architect added at rank #40.
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Victoria 3 (2022)

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Take over as leader of one of the 200 nations with a centralized industry, back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, it's your job to improve the lives of your citizenry, manage their economy, and keep them happy. Politics plays a huge part in this game and you must form relationships with other countries to succeed.

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What we like:
  • Nested tooltips provide detailed information on concepts
  • Excellent GUI
  • Lots of events
  • Detailed population groups with their own needs
  • Deep economic system
What could be improved:
  • War mechanic not so great

  • grand-strategy
  • economy
  • political
  • politics
  • simulation
  • historical
  • military
  • strategy
  • war

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Neo Cab (2019)

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A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.


  • cyberpunk
  • narrative
  • economy
  • visual-novel
  • noir
  • choices
  • futuristic
  • conversation
  • comic
  • uber
  • survival
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • soundtrack
  • sci-fi

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Imagine Earth (2021)

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Imagine Earth is a thrilling real-time planet simulation and strategy game that lets you explore and colonize distant planets. In this game, you play a space colony manager tasked with building profitable colonies while preserving living conditions for your people amidst corporate greed and environmental concerns. Dig for resources, build power plants, farms, and factories while fending off threats like asteroids, wild fires, and hostile colonies. You can trade resources and technologies to enrich your colonies, build towers, and research for advanced technologies. Now, it's time to expand your colony and dominate the universe!


What we like:
  • Well-polished game with unique art design and relaxing gameplay
  • Heavy emphasis on competitiveness with multiple ways to hinder AI competition
  • Great fun in multiplayer games
  • Continual and meaningful updates from the developers
  • Unique approach to a tile-based system
What could be improved:
  • Lack of micromanagement may disappoint city-building enthusiasts
  • Voice acting could be better
  • Limited countermeasures against weather effects
  • Unintuitive resource gathering and pollution mitigation

  • simulation
  • diplomacy
  • colony
  • economy
  • planet
  • city-building
  • capitalism
  • science
  • lore
  • management
  • nature
  • sandbox
  • building
  • resource
  • procedural

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Dune: Spice Wars (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X

A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.

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  • real-time
  • 4x
  • strategy
  • economy
  • political
  • tactical
  • military
  • sci-fi
  • resource
  • dune
  • espionage
  • grand-strategy
  • dragonfly
  • novel
  • diplomacy

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Airline Manager (2021)

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PC Windows Android

Create and manage your own airline. Create both passenger and cargo routes all over the world while you upgrade and expand your fleet of airplanes and airports. Airline Manager is among the most realistic of its genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.


  • transportation
  • simulation
  • flight
  • economy
  • asynchronous
  • strategy
  • aviation
  • multiplayer
  • management
  • auto
  • real-time
  • immersive
  • couch
  • empire

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X4: Foundations (2018)

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PC Windows Linux

X4: FOUNDATIONS brings our most sophisticated universe SIMULATION ever. Fly every ship, EXPLORE space or manage an empire; TRADE, FIGHT, BUILD and THINK carefully, while you embark on an epic journey. Experience tons of improvements with the massive 7.50 Update!


  • space
  • economy
  • trading
  • simulation
  • empire
  • sandbox
  • capitalism
  • flight
  • building
  • exploration

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Idle Colony (2024)

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PC Windows

A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

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  • automation
  • idler
  • clicker
  • colony
  • economy
  • building
  • simulation
  • management
  • nature
  • rogue-like
  • resource-management
  • casual
  • strategy
  • cute
  • funny

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Stronghold: Warlords (2021)

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Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!


  • real-time
  • economy
  • strategy
  • medieval
  • military
  • city-building
  • historical
  • colony
  • simulation
  • building
  • tactical

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Spirit of the Island (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One Android

A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook exquisite dishes, gather resources, build shops and museums to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!


  • farming
  • cooperative
  • 2-player
  • cycling
  • romance
  • fishing
  • campaign
  • economy
  • mining
  • nature
  • choices
  • discovery
  • management
  • open-world
  • mystery

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Highrise City (2023)

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PC Windows

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.


  • economy
  • simulation
  • colony
  • city-building
  • diplomacy
  • immersive
  • cinematic
  • sandbox
  • building
  • modern
  • 3d
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • moddable
  • strategy

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