The Best Economy Games for Playstation 4

Update : Recycling Center Simulator added at rank #5.
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Beastie Bay DX (2021)

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Android Xbox Series X Xbox One IOS iPhone PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Develop a deserted island and collect rare monsters!


  • simulation
  • colony
  • city-building
  • economy
  • rpg
  • farming
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • casual
  • battle
  • strategy
  • 2d
  • cute
  • survival

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Drill Deal - Oil Tycoon (2022)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Drill Deal is a fun oil business simulator. Start from a single tiny rig and expand it to a large complex of connected platforms. Optimize & grow your business. Look out for threats like weather, terrorists, fire, and others. Take care of your working crews.


  • voxel
  • modern
  • economy
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • building
  • management
  • pirates
  • platform
  • drilling
  • family-friendly
  • tower-defense
  • business

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Imagine Earth (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch j Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X

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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Gym Manager (2024)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch j Android Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

Gym Manager is a simulation game where you can build, expand and manage your own gym. To attract more customers, invest in new equipment and sabotage your competition. But beware: the town's shady streets provide opportunities for illegal business ventures.


  • simulation
  • capitalism
  • illustration
  • design
  • immersive
  • economy
  • base-building
  • management
  • destruction
  • life
  • resource-management
  • building
  • fitness
  • sandbox
  • sport

5

Recycling Center Simulator (2024)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox Series X j Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.


  • simulation
  • automation
  • economy
  • life
  • time-management
  • capitalism
  • resource-management
  • immersive
  • management
  • building
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • first-person
  • crafting
  • physics

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The Settlers: New Allies (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.


  • city-building
  • strategy
  • economy
  • real-time
  • resource
  • simulation
  • military
  • medieval

7

Bakery Simulator (2022)

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j Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows

Get up before dawn and see what it's like to be a baker! Learn to bake several dozen types of bread. Use realistic bakery machines. Deliver orders to stores, earn, and invest. Use original recipes or experiment with ingredients.


  • cooking
  • life
  • time-management
  • simulation
  • economy
  • education
  • resource-management
  • crafting
  • realistic
  • family-friendly
  • replay-value
  • relaxing
  • management
  • first-person
  • 3d

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Startup Company (2020)

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l Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!


  • management
  • economy
  • simulation
  • building

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orbit.industries (2022)

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Linux Android Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. ️ Explore, Build and Prosper!


  • space
  • resource-management
  • management
  • building
  • economy
  • automation
  • simulation
  • science
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • cinematic
  • immersive
  • politics
  • abstract
  • procedural

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