The Best Resource-management Games for Playstation 5

Update : Punch Club 2: Fast Forward added at rank #3.
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The Riftbreaker (2021)

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The Riftbreaker is a base building, survival game with action RPG elements that borrows from a lot of other games. Play as Ashley S. Nowak and enter the hostile planet Galatea 37 in your powerful Mecha-suit to build a base and defend yourself against thousands of creatures trying to eliminate you. The Riftbreaker offers high-quality graphics, great sound and music, flexible custom difficulty settings, varied biomes, and hours of gameplay that provides endless replayability.


What we like:
  • Good storyline and rewarding gaming experience
  • Customizable gameplay options
  • Hours of gameplay with almost endless replayability
  • Exciting and balanced base building, resource gathering, and combat
  • High-quality graphics, great sound and music
What could be improved:
  • Fairly demanding on PC
  • Lacks gameplay depth in research and weaponry
  • Cumbersome weapon and armor upgrades

  • survival
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • resource-management
  • mech
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • bullet-hell
  • aliens
  • top-down
  • action
  • resource
  • shooter
  • arpg

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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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Punch Club 2: Fast Forward (2023)

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You have come here to read game descriptions and play fighter management sims…and you’re all outta descriptions.


  • arts
  • cyberpunk
  • nostalgia
  • time-management
  • martial
  • management
  • resource-management
  • rpg
  • 1990s
  • tactical
  • 1980s
  • life
  • sport
  • pixel
  • simulation

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Warpips (2021)

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Warpips is a physics-based combat game that will keep you entertained for hours. You get to assemble your army from a variety of infantry, vehicles and airplanes, and lead them to the battlefield without the stress of micromanagement. With each round lasting between 10-20 minutes, this game is easy to learn and hard to master. You can try out various randomly generated battles with multiple replay options, unlockable upgrade tree, and multiple strategic combinations that provide a unique gaming experience.


What we like:
  • Awesome graphics and soundtrack
  • Challenging gameplay that is easy to learn
  • Multiple units and upgrades available
  • Runs smoothly on Linux
  • Good value for its price
What could be improved:
  • Repetitive gameplay
  • No multiplayer or ability to play as other side's units
  • Units are consumable and get boring quickly
  • Lack of innovation and unit diversity

  • auto-battler
  • strategy
  • resource-management
  • tower-defense
  • real-time
  • war
  • 2.5d
  • base-building
  • wargame
  • tanks
  • tactical
  • combat
  • pixel
  • physics

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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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Prison Tycoon: Under New Management (2021)

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Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff and manage your penitentiary to create the perfect rehabilitation facility while you turn it into a profitable business in this reboot of the Prison Tycoon franchise.


  • simulation
  • management
  • resource-management
  • medical
  • building
  • life
  • sandbox
  • base-building
  • economy
  • cartoony
  • god-game
  • time-management
  • inventory
  • strategy
  • top-down

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Until the Last Plane (2021)

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Until the Last Plane is an airfield management game during WW2. Send pilots on mission. Craft spare parts. Repair your planes. Face your enemy and resist.


  • turn-based
  • minigame
  • auto-battler
  • management
  • world-war-2
  • resource-management
  • war
  • military
  • strategy
  • pixel
  • historical
  • top-down
  • pixel-graphics
  • tactical
  • combat

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Prison Tycoon: Under New Management - Maximum Security (2022)

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Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff, and pamper your prisoners to create the perfect rehabilitation facility in Prison Tycoon: Under New Management


  • management
  • medical
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • building
  • life
  • sandbox
  • base-building
  • god-game
  • time-management
  • inventory
  • sims
  • cartoony
  • city-building
  • top-down

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orbit.industries (2022)

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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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Life in Willowdale: Farm Adventures (2022)

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From planting and harvesting fresh produce, taking care of the animals to improving your skills, there’s never a dull moment in Willowdale, your new home. Discover the different zones with their unique characteristics, challenges, and boss fights.WILLOWDALE HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE - Willowdale offers everything you can expect from a lively village. Annual events, good food in the restaurant, fishing at the pond or cooking at Wine & Dine, there’s always something to do in the cheerful town of Willowdale!


  • simulation
  • farming
  • life
  • local
  • cooperative
  • resource-management
  • cartoony
  • action-adventure
  • family-friendly
  • exploration
  • casual
  • crafting
  • single-player

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