The Best Resource-management Games for Linux

Update : shapez 2 added at rank #38.
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Terraformers (2022)

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Transform Mars into a habitable planet in Terraformers. With challenging strategizing and resource management, explore the planet and expand population, all while watching the stunning new natural wonders build up before your eyes. Take on different scenarios and bonuses and create a thriving utopia. Get lost in the addictive puzzle-like game with unique replayability and rewarding graphics and UI.


What we like:
  • Focus on strategy
  • Various difficulty levels
  • Unique victory conditions
  • Nice graphics and UI
  • Rich soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Only one way to lose the game
  • Some bugs present
  • Game can become repetitive

  • turn-based
  • mars
  • space
  • resource-management
  • science
  • rogue-like
  • nonlinear
  • card
  • procedural
  • board-game
  • colony
  • sci-fi
  • choices
  • simulation
  • management

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Dotage (2023)

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Embark on a gripping survival journey in dotAGE, where you'll lead your villagers to thrive against all odds. Craft your strategy, build your village, and face the mysterious apocalypse. Each decision shapes your destiny in this enthralling turn-based adventure with endless replayability. Will you unveil the secrets and ensure your villagers' legacy?

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What we like:
  • Strategic turn-based gameplay
  • High replay value with roguelite elements
  • Diverse characters for varied playstyles
  • Intuitive controls
  • Robust accessibility options
What could be improved:
  • One bad luck will ruin your game

  • turn-based
  • rogue-like
  • resource-management
  • colony
  • city-building
  • tabletop
  • humor
  • board-game
  • medieval
  • building
  • resource
  • buildings
  • simulation
  • dark
  • pixel

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Train Valley 2 - Community Edition (2019)

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Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!

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  • time-management
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • minimalist
  • stylized
  • family-friendly
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle
  • third-person
  • trains
  • tactical
  • management
  • difficult

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Word Farm Adventure: Word Game (2021)

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Unveil the story of Perry the Parrot, Rex the Dog, and the other farm heroes on their adventure in this awesome word puzzle game!. Want to enjoy exclusive bonuses, meet other word puzzle enthusiasts, and dive deeper into the Van Der Farm story?

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  • crossword
  • word
  • arts
  • multiple-endings
  • martial
  • choices
  • emotional
  • resource-management
  • fiction
  • lore
  • drama
  • visual-novel
  • romance
  • historical
  • alternate

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Save Room - Organization Puzzle (2022)

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When you enter a save room you know you are safe, no danger can come to you, you can relax. Take advantage of this short period of time to organize your inventory, heal your wounds and reload your weapons. Can you make all the items fit in your inventory?


  • management
  • movement
  • gun
  • resource-management
  • inventory
  • logic
  • sniper
  • minimalist
  • relaxing
  • grid
  • survival-horror
  • hunting
  • re4
  • military
  • customization

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Learning Factory (2021)

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Build and manage production systems to craft and sell goods to cats and finally achieve Catopia where all the systems are operating at peak efficiency. Machine Learning for sales, multi-layered generated maps, thoughtful complex gameplay, and a relaxing atmosphere are included.


  • automation
  • cats
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • education
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • farming
  • crafting
  • management

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Mindustry (2017)

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Android IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows

- Minor bugfixes. - Minor fixes to bug fixes. - Major bugfixes to bugfix the bugfix for bug fixing. - Bug fixes for bugfixing the bug fixing bug.

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  • tower-defense
  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • automation
  • factory-building
  • resource-management
  • cross-platform
  • multiplayer
  • sandbox
  • strategy
  • building
  • team
  • mech
  • hard

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WizUp! (2024)

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Incremental game with unfolding mechanics, resource management, and WIZARDS!

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  • idler
  • resource-management
  • auto-battler
  • simulation
  • magic
  • strategy
  • pixel
  • inventory

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Godlike Burger (2022)

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In Godlike Burger you run the craziest restaurant of the galaxy! Stun, poison and kill customers in many devious ways… and turn them into burger meat! And don’t worry: Alien customers will keep coming if you are smart about it, because cannibalism is just too damn tasty.


  • cooking
  • comedy
  • aliens
  • resource-management
  • time-management
  • rogue-like
  • dark
  • cartoony
  • space
  • crime
  • isometric
  • assassin
  • funny
  • stripped-back
  • management

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Do Not Feed the Monkeys (2018)

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A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!


  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • humor
  • point-and-click
  • political
  • multiple-endings
  • mature
  • dark
  • dystopian
  • choices
  • life
  • story
  • management
  • 2d
  • pixel

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