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Top Management Games

60+ management games ranked by player tags and tunable re-ranking. Related tags include Simulation, Singleplayer, Strategy, Multiplayer.

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  1. #1 Schedule I
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 288,530 reviews2025
    Developer: TVGS
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 18.5hMean: 27.8h≥1hr: 97%

    From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

  2. #2 Supermarket Simulator
    98% matchVery Positive92% of 80,575 reviews2025
    Developer: Nokta Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 11.1hMean: 33.2h≥1hr: 94%

    Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

  3. #3 Planet Zoo
    98% matchVery Positive91% of 93,912 reviews2019
    Developer: Frontier Developments
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 6.4hMean: 34.2h≥1hr: 84%

    Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

  4. #4 Cities: Skylines
    98% matchVery Positive93% of 286,936 reviews2015
    Developer: Colossal OrderPublisher: Paradox Interactive
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 10.0hMean: 65.0h≥1hr: 87%

    Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

  5. #5 Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
    98% matchVery Positive94% of 52,523 reviews2018
    Developer: ProjectMoon
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.7hMean: 30.0h≥1hr: 74%

    A roguelite monster-management simulation inspired by the likes of the SCP Foundation, Cabin in the Woods, and Warehouse 13. Order your employees to perform work with the creatures and watch as it unfolds; harness greater energy, and expand the facility

  6. #6 Two Point Hospital
    98% matchVery Positive92% of 34,380 reviews2018
    Developer: Two Point StudiosPublisher: SEGA
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.5hMean: 34.9h≥1hr: 89%

    Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

  7. #7 Game Dev Tycoon
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,663 reviews2013
    Developer: Greenheart Games 💚
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 8.0hMean: 15.4h≥1hr: 94%

    In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

  8. #8 Motorsport Manager
    98% matchVery Positive92% of 14,004 reviews2016
    Developer: Playsport GamesPublisher: Miniclip
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.8hMean: 41.5h≥1hr: 91%

    Have you got what it takes to become the manager of a high-performance motorsport team? Motorsport Manager is a highly detailed, best-in-class management game for fans of motorsport. You’ll hire the drivers, build the cars and embed yourself in the dynamic world of racing.

  9. #9 DAVE THE DIVER
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 147,999 reviews2023
    Developer: MINTROCKET
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 13.4hMean: 26.2h≥1hr: 90%

    DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.

  10. #10 TCG Card Shop Simulator
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 46,691 reviews2024
    Developer: OPNeon Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 12.0hMean: 25.8h≥1hr: 95%

    Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.

  11. #11 Jurassic World Evolution
    98% matchVery Positive87% of 54,890 reviews2018
    Developer: Frontier Developments
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 7.3hMean: 28.0h≥1hr: 89%

    Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

  12. #12 RimWorld
    98% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
    Developer: Ludeon Studios
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 59.1hMean: 259.4h≥1hr: 92%

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

  13. #13 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal
    98% matchMixed54% of 226,468 reviews2023
    Developer: 鬼谷工作室
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 30.8hMean: 72.8h≥1hr: 96%

    Tale of Immortal is an open-world sandbox based on Chinese mythology and cultivation. You will grow to become immortal, conquer the beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Season, make your choices carefully and grasp your own destiny.

  14. #14 Supermarket Together
    97% matchVery Positive95% of 88,985 reviews2024
    Developer: DeadDevsTellNoLies
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.9hMean: 8.5h≥1hr: 79%

    The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

  15. #15 Crusader Kings III
    96% matchVery Positive91% of 137,655 reviews2020
    Developer: Paradox Development StudioPublisher: Paradox Interactive
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 28.8hMean: 143.8h≥1hr: 94%

    Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.

  16. #16 Football Manager 26
    96% matchMostly Negative32% of 30,190 reviews2025
    Developer: Sports InteractivePublisher: SEGA
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 56.1hMean: 110.5h≥1hr: 96%

    Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.

  17. #17 Planet Coaster
    96% matchVery Positive91% of 71,331 reviews2016
    Developer: Frontier Developments
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 4.3hMean: 22.2h≥1hr: 77%

    Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

  18. #18 Cities: Skylines II
    96% matchMixed54% of 86,513 reviews2023
    Developer: Iceflake StudiosPublisher: Paradox Interactive
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 23.8hMean: 72.6h≥1hr: 94%

    Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

  19. #19 Jurassic World Evolution 2
    95% matchVery Positive90% of 45,488 reviews2021
    Developer: Frontier Developments
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.9hMean: 22.3h≥1hr: 83%

    Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.

  20. #20 Factorio
    95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
    Developer: Wube Software LTD.
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 44.8hMean: 188.9h≥1hr: 95%

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

  21. #21 Oxygen Not Included
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
    Developer: Klei Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 8.9hMean: 67.7h≥1hr: 86%

    Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

  22. #22 Clicker Heroes
    94% matchVery Positive90% of 61,916 reviews2015
    Developer: Playsaurus
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 10.5hMean: 164.2h≥1hr: 85%

    Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

  23. #23 Prison Architect
    93% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
    Developer: Introversion SoftwarePublisher: Paradox Interactive
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.0hMean: 30.1h≥1hr: 87%

    Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

  24. #24 Tavern Master
    93% matchVery Positive92% of 12,821 reviews2021
    Developer: Untitled Studio
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 7.8hMean: 11.6h≥1hr: 86%

    Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

  25. #25 Dyson Sphere Program
    93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
    Developer: Youthcat StudioPublisher: Gamirror Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 13.2hMean: 75.2h≥1hr: 84%

    Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

  26. #26 Fallout Shelter
    92% matchVery Positive88% of 80,218 reviews2017
    Developer: Bethesda Game StudiosPublisher: Bethesda Softworks
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 4.8hMean: 31.7h≥1hr: 76%

    Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

  27. #27 Startup Company
    92% matchVery Positive81% of 6,175 reviews2020
    Developer: Hovgaard Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 6.0hMean: 19.8h≥1hr: 86%

    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!

  28. #28 Teamfight Manager
    92% matchVery Positive87% of 5,795 reviews2021
    Developer: Team Samoyed
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 8.4hMean: 14.4h≥1hr: 92%

    Teamfight Manager is a simulation game where you are the coach of an e-sports team. You must manage players to set them up for matches. Make the best of pick & ban by evaluating the characteristics of the champions/players! A smart strategy can make up for a lack of individual player skills.

  29. #29 Dwarf Fortress
    91% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 reviews2022
    Developer: Bay 12 GamesPublisher: Kitfox Games
    Platforms: Windows, Linux
    Median: 5.5hMean: 38.4h≥1hr: 78%

    Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

  30. #30 Transport Fever 2
    91% matchVery Positive91% of 31,208 reviews2019
    Developer: Urban GamesPublisher: Good Shepherd Entertainment
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 15.7hMean: 65.7h≥1hr: 84%

    The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!

  31. #31 Farming Simulator 22
    91% matchVery Positive93% of 90,204 reviews2021
    Developer: Giants Software
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 34.8hMean: 149.4h≥1hr: 94%

    Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.

  32. #32 Cookie Clicker
    90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 89,166 reviews2021
    Developer: OrteilPublisher: Playsaurus
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 89.4hMean: 370.6h≥1hr: 97%

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

  33. #33 Graveyard Keeper
    90% matchVery Positive86% of 46,799 reviews2018
    Developer: Lazy Bear GamesPublisher: tinyBuild
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 9.2hMean: 31.9h≥1hr: 87%

    Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

  34. #34 Stacklands
    90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,013 reviews2022
    Developer: Sokpop Collective
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 5.3hMean: 11.9h≥1hr: 89%

    Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

  35. #35 Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
    90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 51,774 reviews2020
    Developer: Thunder Lotus
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 4.4hMean: 15.2h≥1hr: 83%

    Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.

  36. #36 911 Operator
    90% matchVery Positive89% of 19,330 reviews2017
    Developer: Jutsu GamesPublisher: Games Operators
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 2.7hMean: 9.4h≥1hr: 74%

    Game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Answer incoming calls and react properly - give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of firemen / police / ambulances, or sometimes - just ignore the call. Play on ANY CITY in the world!

  37. #37 RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic
    90% matchVery Positive91% of 2,924 reviews2017
    Developer: Origin8 Technologies Ltd.Publisher: Atari
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 3.6hMean: 61.3h≥1hr: 76%

    Create incredible parks in the original rollercoaster sim from Chris Sawyer.

  38. #38 RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe
    90% matchVery Positive94% of 8,087 reviews2014
    Developer: Chris Sawyer ProductionsPublisher: Atari
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 1.3hMean: 14.9h≥1hr: 54%

    One of the best games from acclaimed Tycoon series, with well designed gameplay mechanics, appealing graphics, and really high re-playability value. There’s no limit to what you can create so design and build the most thrilling roller coaster the world has ever seen!

  39. #39 Manor Lords
    89% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
    Developer: Slavic MagicPublisher: Hooded Horse
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 9.3hMean: 21.5h≥1hr: 89%

    Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

  40. #40 Big Ambitions
    89% matchVery Positive93% of 12,519 reviews2023
    Developer: Hovgaard Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 10.8hMean: 24.0h≥1hr: 88%

    Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

  41. #41 Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection
    89% matchMixed64% of 2,002 reviews2018
    Developer: Frontier DevelopmentsPublisher: Xbox Game Studios
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 3.1hMean: 6.5h≥1hr: 76%

    The wildly popular Zoo Tycoon series gets set to crank up the excitement, challenge, and fun of building the ultimate zoo. Let your imagination run wild with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Build, manage, and maintain your dream zoo alone or with up to four players.

  42. #42 Project Highrise
    89% matchVery Positive85% of 4,730 reviews2016
    Developer: SomaSimPublisher: Kasedo Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 8.7hMean: 32.1h≥1hr: 85%

    Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

  43. #43 Tropico 6
    89% matchVery Positive88% of 28,783 reviews2019
    Developer: Limbic EntertainmentPublisher: Kalypso Media
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 5.5hMean: 26.9h≥1hr: 88%

    El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

  44. #44 Bomber Crew
    88% matchVery Positive88% of 15,271 reviews2017
    Developer: Runner DuckPublisher: Curve Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 3.5hMean: 14.4h≥1hr: 79%

    Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!

  45. #45 PlateUp!
    87% matchVery Positive95% of 25,910 reviews2022
    Developer: It's happeningPublisher: Yogscast Games
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 8.2hMean: 22.5h≥1hr: 88%

    Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

  46. #46 Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
    87% matchVery Positive94% of 16,959 reviews2015
    Developer: Camshaft Software Ltd
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 9.7hMean: 53.6h≥1hr: 89%

    Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader, or just a footnote in automotive history?

  47. #47 Farming Simulator 19
    87% matchVery Positive94% of 75,720 reviews2018
    Developer: Giants Software
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 28.0hMean: 127.0h≥1hr: 94%

    The best-selling franchise takes a giant leap forward with a complete overhaul of the graphics engine, offering the most striking and immersive visuals and effects, along with the deepest and most complete farming experience ever.

  48. #48 NBA 2K25
    87% matchMixed59% of 42,427 reviews2024
    Developer: Visual ConceptsPublisher: 2K
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 34.1hMean: 99.0h≥1hr: 95%

    Command every court with authenticity and realism Powered by ProPLAY™, giving you ultimate control over how you play in NBA 2K25. Define your legacy in MyCAREER, MyTEAM, MyNBA, and The W.

  49. #49 RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Platinum
    87% matchVery Positive92% of 5,223 reviews2008
    Developer: Frontier
    Platforms: Windows
    Median: 2.2hMean: 12.0h≥1hr: 64%

    Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of a great strategy simulation. RCT3 Platinum combines the roller coaster theme park fun of the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with included expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Now enjoy more options than ever.

  50. #50 AdVenture Capitalist
    86% matchVery Positive88% of 59,967 reviews2015
    Developer: Hyper Hippo Games
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 7.0hMean: 67.9h≥1hr: 81%

    Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!

  51. #51 Mini Motorways
    85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,591 reviews2021
    Developer: Dinosaur Polo Club
    Platforms: Windows, Mac
    Median: 6.0hMean: 16.8h≥1hr: 89%

    Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

  52. #52 Victoria 3
    85% matchMostly Positive71% of 58,205 reviews2022
    Developer: Paradox Development StudioPublisher: Paradox Interactive
    Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
    Median: 15.1hMean: 114.1h≥1hr: 91%

    Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

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