The Best Economy Games for Xbox One

Update : Galacticare added at rank #2.
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Tropico 6 (2019)

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Tropico 6 is a city-building game that offers an engaging mix of elements such as ruling your own island dictatorship, sandbox mode with customizable goals, missions, and easy controller support. You can be a big picture person and make decisions that impact the entire island or get into the minute details of urban planning.


What we like:
  • Engaging mix of elements
  • Sandbox mode with customizable goals
  • Missions
  • Easy controller support:No need for mouse and keyboard or touchscreen
What could be improved:
  • Minor performance issues

  • city-building
  • simulation
  • economy
  • political
  • sandbox
  • management
  • strategy
  • construction
  • military
  • politics

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Galacticare (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Build, manage and optimise intergalactic hospitals! Recruit staff to satisfy the whims of various alien species, and cure their bizarre illnesses - for money! Save the (literal) Galaxy in story mode, or head into sandbox to design the hospital of your dreams.


  • medical
  • humor
  • management
  • god-game
  • base-building
  • building
  • economy
  • dark
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • funny
  • cartoony
  • sci-fi
  • narration
  • space

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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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SimAirport (2020)

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Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!


  • base-building
  • city-building
  • flight
  • management
  • building
  • economy
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • resource-management
  • casual
  • large-scale
  • strategy

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Spirit of the Island (2022)

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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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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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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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Ruin (2023)

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Escape the levels of Ruin in this 2D platformer with tight controls where you traverse dangerous traps and difficult obstacles.


  • precision
  • rpg
  • platform
  • god-game
  • base-building
  • 2d
  • parkour
  • action-adventure
  • economy
  • pve
  • building
  • rogue-like
  • management
  • character
  • crafting

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Bakery Simulator (2022)

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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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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

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