Top 12 Best Management Games to Play on PC

Love management games, but don't know what your next management game should be? From Factorio to The Sims 4 (and a few other inclusions that might surprise you), we've put together a list of the best management games to play on PC, so you know what managment game you should boot up next!

It's tough to decide what to have for tea, let alone come up with a definitive list of the best management games on PC, but everyone on Team Rock Paper Shotgun decided to put our heads together and do it. Anyway, it's fun to reminisce about time spent with some of the greatest management games of all time, like Cities Skylines, Frostpunk and everything else mentioned in this list. Hopefully you'll have as much fun watching this top 12 best management games to play on PC list video, as we had making it.

0:00 Intro
1:14 Frostpunk
2:43 Prison Architect
3:43 Tropico 6
5:04 Banished
6:12 Planet Coaster
7:28 Factorio
8:47 Two Point Hospital
10:19 The Sims 4
11:26 Cities Skylines
12:51 Dwarf Fortress
13:52 Stardew Valley
15:21 RimWorld
16:53 Outro

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[zombieowen]

Banished is easily my most played game. I love that it's more about survival than expansion and that your main resources is your population, not gold.

[elseadev]

Great list, played most of them. Rimworld is a masterpiece, if anyone is reading this comment, give it a try, spend a couple hours learning how to play it, you won't regret.

[Arnold.J.Rimmer]

Nice to see Rimworld at number 1 and Factorio in the list.

[LimerickWarrior]

"Going medieval" is a fantastic "Banished" killer on stream. Going Medieval is like Age of Empires combined with Banished.

[immortalsun]

Nothing beats Factorio.

The factory must grow

[batotit]

If you are serious with the hospital sims, then I suggest playing Project Hospital instead of Two point. It is much more serious, much deeper, and far more interesting than the latter.

[andreasask]

Workers and Resources is a great city building game. Logistic chains are the main task in the game, but all resources you produce can be used to build buildings or produce other goods. Deep complexity.

[greyowlaudio]

"Child injured at work"
"Crushing decision"
Increase production by 20% to compensate for the lost labour.

[aBeatnikMob]

Tropico 1 and 2 were my favorites because they were way more challenging than the Kalypso games.

[BenSKG]

After not really been into games for about 5-7 years, it was Banished that got me back in. No idea how I came across it, but its really great. Might have to fire it up again now!

[Damedghost]

Nice fun compilation! A pleasure to watch, even if I am not really into simulation games. Frostpunk does look mighty good though.. hmmm

[aaronfinch]

This is going to be quite specific, but I've been hunting for a specific kind of strategy game for a while now. A grand strategy game where you build your own nation from the ground up, much like Civ6. Except there is an emphasis on how you organize your society; how you distribute resources, how you assign jobs, even going so far as to model your own government in your own unique way. Your culture forms as you press on though the ages, and management becomes more complex. The history of your people will determine their cultural values. You'll need to deal with loyalty, famines, war, all through completely dynamic supply chains of resources and influence. Does anyone know of any game that at least moderately matches that description? Please bring me your suggestions.

[chrisxxx]

i know its hard to make a choice, but Football manager and oxygen not included should be on the list!

[Greggiexplore]

Planet Zoo should be number game, this is just outstanding game!

[rahmat]

Rimworld is the king, Ive sunk 2300 hour into this game

[PossumMedic]

16:30 - soooo... is Nelson dead?! 🤣
Thanks for the list! Added a few new ones to my Steam wishlist and downloaded a few old ones I have but haven't given much of a chance!

Parkasaurus is also worth checking out! 😃🙌‍ THE cutest Jurassic park style game

[DistinctionDave]

That's a cracking list, and I've played them all in some manner or another. Management games are probably my favourite.

As a life-long simmer myself, I'd probably say Sims 3 is the best, but I think it's a matter of personal opinion - Sims 2 was the best until Sims 3 got a number of updates and DLC. Sims 4 never quite hit the right mark for me, but again, that's probably subjective.

I might argue for games such as Planet Zoo, which is more of a management game than Planet Coaster, and Parkitect to be on there too, but this list of games is definitely up there. Can't see a game that doesn't deserve to be played and loved.

[BehavioristBri]

Thank you for this video! I will be getting banished as i get my first gaming laptop this week ❤

[nickinthelead]

Jurassic park evolution is honestly a pretty interesting game i found out about very similar to all these theme park builders but it innovates so much with dinosaurs

[Viqtor]

I picked up cities skylines one day randomly cuz it was on the game pass.. who knew 2 years later it would be one of my most played games