The Best Economy Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Shopkeeper Simulator added at rank #10.
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Beastie Bay DX (2021)

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Develop a deserted island and collect rare monsters!

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

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Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn't know you needed.


  • space
  • medical
  • simulation
  • trading
  • moddable
  • economy
  • cyberpunk
  • management
  • surreal
  • funny
  • aliens
  • horror

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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.

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

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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.

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

5

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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Gym Manager (2024)

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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

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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.

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

9

Fuel Station Simulator (2025)

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Take control of your very own fuel station and transform it into a bustling business hub! Experience the perfect mix of management, customization, and exciting challenges as you serve customers, expand your services, and build your empire.


  • life
  • base-building
  • building
  • simulation
  • economy
  • western
  • open-world
  • immersive
  • management
  • relaxing
  • family-friendly
  • time-management
  • crafting
  • realistic
  • choices

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Shopkeeper Simulator (2025)

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Take on the role of a manager in the most addictive simulation game - open the doors to your supermarket and build it from scratch, transforming a small shop into the ultimate supermarket! Become a great manager and make your store outstanding.


  • simulation
  • management
  • life
  • immersive
  • economy
  • trading
  • building
  • 3d
  • funny
  • first-person
  • atmospheric
  • choices
  • single-player
  • realistic

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