Resource Management is a type of RTS (Real-time Strategy) video game genre, in which the player acquire resources for the purpose of building structures, unit construction, etc. Resources can be varied in each game while the player needs to collect them all by navigating the environment to full his tasks. Water, Gold, Wood, Items, Gems, etc. are prominent resources which the player can be used in multiple games to build his structure. In RTS games, the player assumes the role of the leader, commander, ruler, or other classes with a task to establish his empire, castle, or kingdom by gathering resources while recruiting armies to defend his creation from enemy attacks. In these games, the player receives points for each completed tasks and use these points to unlock additional stuff like features, content, and resources, which he can be used for further progress in-game. Resources Management games are played from an isometric perspective and come with an inventory which the player uses to include his collected resources and use when needed. Resource Management Games deal with City-building, Time Management, RTS, Construction and Management, etc. games.

26 Best Resource Management Games for Android

#1 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville

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Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville is a Strategy, City-Building, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game developed and published by Northway Games. The game takes place in the zombie-apocalyptic and includes a variety of characters who are survivors. It put you into the ruined city and assigned you a task to restore civilization and build different structures to offer shelters. It introduces five different skills such as Defense, Leadership, Building, Scavenging, and Engineering. The gameplay is a mix of resource management, building, real-time combat, and crafting elements. Progress through the game by creating your unique Empire with survivors and fulfilling your objectives. The game rewards you with experience points and amazing rewards as you advanced. There are over seventy types of items to find and up to hundred survivor perks including Green Thumb, Melee Training, Light Sleeper and more. It has two different modes such as Turn-based and Real-time. Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville offers prominent features such as Fifty Building Types, Thirty-five Tree, Five Skills, and more. Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville is the best game as compared to other City-building games.

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#2 Mega Mall Story

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Mega Mall Story is a Management Simulation developed and published by Kairosoft Co, Ltd for Android and iOS. The game offers you an opportunity to design your mall, attract droves and earn money to upgrade your Mall further and further. It has two different modes such as Free and Story Mode each mode offers different gameplay. It offers the similar gameplay to Tower Mall and enables you to construct his own Mall and gain popularity by managing various resources accurately. There are different structures available that you can use during the gameplay such as Hallway, Stairway, Escalator, Elevator, Vending Machine, Toy Display, etc. It has twelve different levels, and each level needs a completion of certain objectives. The primary task is to attract as many visitors as possible to earn much money to unlock useful items, structures, etc. in the game to become the master. You can hire staff to maintain your mall, take care of customers, and more. With addictive features, immersive gameplay, and prominent features, Venture Towns is the best game to play and enjoy.

#3 SimCity Buildit

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SimCity Buildit is an addictive and quite brilliant Building and Management Simulation by Electronic Arts (EA). The game lets the players be the mayor of a city, construct various types of buildings, factories, research facilities, generate and collect resources, etc. To generate the resources, the players must build factories where they can forge Metal, plastic and other types of resources. Building parks, Apartments and a good sewerage system keeps the citizens happy, so the players will definitely have to manage their resources well and build beautiful houses and apartments for the people living in the SimCity. To supply clean water and continuous power supply, players will have to build power houses and a whole new system of water supply for each and every apartment in the city. The trade element of the game allows the player to collect resources from the factories, use them on the city and if they have extra they can sell them in markets and earn SimCity coins. Players can also visit neighboring cities, take a look at their design and buy some of the building material to use them in their own city. Good strategic and management abilities will always benefit good so the players must use their abilities to plan the city, water and power supply lines, keep the factories far from the population and must collect taxes to keep the economy in good shape. Building parks, assigning jobs to the people of the City and taking care of the law and order situations would definitely make the game more entertaining for the Mayor. With a remarkable gameplay, beautiful 3D visuals and all the building and management fun, SimCity Buildit is one of the best mobile simulations to enjoy. Do try it out.

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#4 Tiny Tower

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Tiny Tower is a Single-player Business and Management Simulation developed and published by NimbleBit. The ultimate goal of the game is to build and manage a massive tower, fill it up with virtual people known as Bitzians, keep on building new floors in the tower and eventually make it the tallest building of the world. The player must also be able to assign various types of jobs to the Bitzians and keep them busy. Resource management, and strategically use them is a great responsibility so the players must be good at that. The game offers multiple floors and categorically accommodates the Bitzians onto them based on their importance in the game. For example Ordinary Bitzians would live in lower floors of the tower, however, the Vips live on the higher floors of the towers. Similarly there are various types of Spenders in the tower, including the Big Spenders, Celebrities, etc. There are different types of Bitzians in the game such as Construction Workers, Delivery Men, Real Estate agents, Big Spenders, Celebrities and Dream Workers, etc. Economics in the game are of more interest because that is the easiest way to earn money and spend it on construction material, upgrades and loads of other cool items. With a marvelous game setting, great background sounds and a remarkably addictive gameplay, Tiny Tower is a fun Business and Management video game to play and enjoy.

#5 Eden

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Eden is a City-building, Crafting, Management, Role-playing and Single-player video game created by Channel 4 Television Corporation. The game puts the player in the role of the protagonist and tasked him to build his own village and maintain his community. There are several of levels and the player has to complete each by building, crafting, scavenging, and hunting. He can grow different crops, craft items and build houses to keep his people happy. Harvest virtual resources and use them during gameplay. The player must navigate the game world, find resources and gather them to expand his village further and further. Use decoration to make the shelter more beautiful and fulfill the tasks to earn lots of money. Eden offers key features such as Share your Progress with Fellows, Craft Items, Survive as long as you can, Hunt Fish, Decorate your Village, gather Resources, and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.

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#6 Out There

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Out There is an Adventure, Rogue-like and Single-player video game developed by Mi-Clos Studio for multiple platforms. The story of the game takes place in the futurist 22nd century, in which there are limited resources remain on the planet Earth, and the humanity is going to end. An astronaut is sent to space to the Jupiter’s moon in order to locate resources and supply to Earth. You assume the role of the hero, who must navigate the space, gather resources to supply Earth while facing the terrifying space entities like aliens, pirates, and monsters. During the journey, the astronaut sleeps until reaching his destiny. He wakes up and discovers that he stuck on a strange planet populated creatures. There are three different civilizations, and you have to select your favorite one to start the game. It focuses on resource management and exploration. You start the game with a small ship loaded with some equipment, oxygen, fuel, and hull metals. Out There includes prominent features such as Sci-fi Adventure, 59 Achievements, Leaderboard, 10 Spaceship No Combat element, Crafting System and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#7 Build-a-lot 4: Power Source

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Build-a-lot 4: Power Source is a cool Building and Management Simulation by G5 Entertainment. The game lets you build amazing new power sources to encounter the shortage of power and make your cities glow like diamonds. Your task in the game is to build new power sources like Solar plants, wind energy plants, nuclear power plants etc. and make your cities and other settlements prosperous. In Build-a-lot 4: Power Source you’ll have to make great plans and strategies to use the available resources and go green, use the energy and save it for the next generations. Build-a-lot 4: Power Source provides with 68 challenging levels, four main Single-player campaigns, a lot of upgrades along with beautiful visuals and an addictive gameplay.

#8 Township

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Township is a great blend of City Building, Management and Farming elements and provides with a great fun-filled game-play ever. The game lets you construct different buildings, grow crops, harvest them and sell them in the markets to ear revenue that you can use to buy upgrades and other items. You can collect resources from a number of sources such as Mining, businesses, and archeology etc. Farming part of the game allows you to grow different organic crops, process them, make different products with them and sell them afterwards to earn money. With a wonderful setting, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play this game will entertain you to the limits.

#9 Paradise Island 2

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Paradise Island 2 is an addictive, Massively Multiplayer Online, City-Building, and Management Simulation developed and published by Game Insight. The game is available to play on Mobile platforms such as Windows Phone, Android, and iOS. It takes place in the super world and allows you a chance to create your dream Island using a variety of buildings. Gather useful resources, create a playfield, amusement parks and attract as many visitors as you can to earn a massive amount of money. Upgrade your city, invite your friends to assist you in your project and engage yourself in management experience. Create an exciting zoo in your Island, buy exotic animals and take care of them by feeding, and caring. Collect dangerous animals, complete your collection and show off in the zoo to earn money. Explore the fantastic world to find the buried treasures and play different mini-games like arcades, puzzles, pairs, etc. with daily ranking and achievements. Play against your friends in PvP mode or compete against environment and NPCs in PvP mode. Paradise Island 2 includes core features such asDevelop the City, Feed Animals, PvP Fights, Play with Friends, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#10 Goodgame Empire

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Goodgame Empire is a wonderful Online Browser-based RTS and MMO video games. This cool game is all about epic encounters with enemies, building gigantic and powerful Fortresses, Training massive Armies and building a thriving Economy and a prosperous settlement. Goodgame Empire lets you enjoy most of the features you are already familiar with regarding the MMORTS genre and immerse yourself into enhanced and well embedded game-play. Building your own fortress, reaching out to other settlements for either diplomatic relations or to fight them off and capturing their lands, making grand alliances or to simply trade resources to grow your settlements, Empire lets you experience almost everything that you want to be part of an Online Strategy video game. Building better and impenetrable fortress and all the building inside that fortress is the main task, so you should focus on upgrading your fortress along with expanding to the never before conquered lands. The most important feature of the game is the Unique management system that lets you to manage your resources and distribute them properly throughout your settlement. You must take good care of the citizens, build homes, businesses for them and let them live in peace and prosperity, Assign them tasks such as Mining, resource collection, building construction etc. With all the great things combined, Goodgame Empire is one of the best Browser-based Real-Time Strategy and MMO to play and enjoy.

#11 Travian: Kingdoms

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Travian: Kingdoms is a brand new addition to the already trending Travian Franchise. The game offers diversity and plenty of room to the gameplay because of its unique and improved mechanics. This amazing game actually offers the best ever MMORTS experience and is playable on both Android and iOS platforms. It offers a gameplay much similar to its predecessor but offers enhancements in graphic interface, new Ul design and eliminates the weaknesses that you might have witnessed in previous games of the series. The game offers mainly a three tribe systems and allows you to select anyone of the Romans, Ghouls or Teutons, explore the game world, control the resources and reign over the world as a Governor or a King. As a governor, you can have freedom to make decisions, gather or loot resources from robber hideouts or from other sources but as a King, you will have to do way more than that. As a King, you’ll have to achieve the one ultimate goal of expanding the Empire and to do that you’ll have to strategically approach any problems, control economics and relations with other nations etc. Resource collection and management is a whole different story as it requires more wit and the ability. PvP combats and building elements are the ultimate sources of resource generation. With a multi-stage gameplay, Travian: Kingdoms offers plenty of depth in building, constructional and upgrading elements. With a number of unique units, multiple maps, quests, and a unique Hero system, Travian: Kingdoms offers the most amazing RTS experience ever.

#12 Supermarket Mania

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Supermarket Mania is a wonderful sequel to Supermarket Mania and it allows you to get into the character of Nikki, gather up her friends and take them to the amazing Tinseltown to help her uncle Ross save his supermarket from the evil Mr. Torg. You are allowed to gather up enough resources to open up new shops and use you best Management skills to save the supermarket. With super cool visuals, great background music, a lot of new customers, products, devices and a lot of new and challenging levels, this game is fun to play and enjoy. Do try it out if you love playing Time Management and Strategy video games such as Supermarket Mania and enjoy the ultimate fun.

#13 Megapolis

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Megapolis is a great City Building, Construction and Management Simulation. The game allows you to build whole new city from scratch, explore, collect and manage resources, build massive economies and enjoy being control of everything. Finance management is the key element in Megapolis that allows you to simply balance your resource production and consumption etc. and allows you to build a system of check and balance. Megapolis is set on a huge area of land so it needs hardcore skills to manage it and unlock more features that will eventually lead you to build a more enhanced, developed and technologically advanced community. Just like some of the big names like SimCity and games like The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Megapolis allows you to build whole new cities and all the necessary structures like Theme parks, Roads, hospitals, Schools, Power Houses, police Stations, beaches etc. With a wonderful setting, great visuals, challenging and engaging game-play, Megapolis is one of the best alternatives to The Simpsons: Tapped Out. Do try it out, it’s fun playing.

#14 Timebuilders: Pyramid Rising 2

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Timebuilders: Pyramid Rising 2 by “Bloo Buzz” is another great City Building and Management video game like “Island Castaway: Lost World”. The game takes you back in time and puts you right into the character of Pharaoh named “Touti”, lets you gather up your friends and build up eight majestic temples of pharaohs. As the priest commanded, a cataclysmic event is going to happen soon that will erase everything from the face of the earth but these eight pyramid temples will stand. You are required to gather up resources, and man power, and build the massive temples. With 120 challenging levels, great visuals, great game-play and a lot of other cool features, this game is a great alternatives to “Island Castaway: Lost World”.

#15 Ice Age Village

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Ice Age Village is another marvel and one of the best games of this specific genre. This wonderful City-Building and Management video game takes you to an amazing world of Ice Age Village and allows you to build homes for your most favorite characters, manage the resources and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. The game offers a brilliant game-play for both teen agers and adults and provides with separate options (parental Control, General Chat Modules etc.) for them. Your task in the game is to rescue all kinds of animals, provide them with shelter, go on amazing quests assigned to you by the Ice Age characters, collect resources, manage them and help thrive a prosperous community of animals in Ice Age Village. With almost 50 species of different animals, regular updates, DLC along with brilliant graphics and an addictive game-play, Ice Age Village is a marvelous game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.

#16 Empire: Four Kingdoms

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Empire: Four Kingdoms is a Building and Management MMORTS (Massively Multiplayer Online – Real-time Strategy) Simulation by Goodgame Studios. The game allows the players to become a mighty Emperor of the Four Kingdoms, build a small castle and turn it into a gigantic Fortress. Enjoy reigning hell over the enemies in epic PvP Combats, build and expand the Empire, collect Resources and manage them well. The players are tasked to produce and collect and trade resources, build your Fortress, recruit and train a massive army based on multiple troop units, and conquer the unseen world to expand the empire. Empire: Four Kingdoms lets the players form alliances with friends, attack the threats to kingdom and defeat them as a massive collective force the history has ever seen. This brilliant game allows the players to train over fifty different types of troop units, build and upgrade over sixty various types of buildings, and strategically attack the enemies, and defend the fortress. With all of its glory and the medieval depictions, Empire: Four Kingdoms takes the players back to an era in history where surviving the vicious enemies was itself a very hard task. Players will definitely enjoy being in control of the biggest and mightiest settlements of the time. With a very addictive and engaging gameplay, beautiful 3D graphics and all the brilliant mechanics, Empire: Four Kingdoms is one of the most fantastic creations of Goodgame Studios. Do try it out, Empire: Four Kingdoms is available to play on both Android and iOS platforms.

#17 Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff

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Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff is one amazing Building and Management Simulation inspired by The Simpsons: Tapped Out and offers similar game-play, mechanics and other elements. This free-to-play City Building and management video game allows you to create and customize different Family Guy characters, and rebuild the whole town as it is totally destroyed after a huge fight between the Giant Chicken and people. You’ll have to set yourself up into the character of Peter Griffin, explore and collect the resources and start rebuilding the town by following a number of quests and by completing different tasks. Brick by brick, it’s your duty to build every character’s home and unlock more characters, hire workers, manage the whole operations and enjoy being in control of everything. Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff offers amazing adventures all based up on Family Guy stories, superbly engaging game-play and beautiful visuals etc.

#18 Galaxy Life: Pocket Adventures

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Galaxy Life: Pocket Adventures is a Strategy and Massively Multiplayer Online video game developed by Ubisoft. The game lets you a chance to participate in the most exciting strategy war of the Galaxy. It combines the elements of the building, resource management, and tower-defense and lets you create your troops and train them to protect your units. The game world filled with rival players and evil enemies that want to destroy your units and loot the resources. The ultimate task is to equip your team with deadly weapons, gather resources to survive, and fight against other faction to win amazing rewards. Interact with other players, team-up with them and dominate the world map. Use your points to unlock further more effective units and weapons. Build your colony and decorate it with different accessories and items. Upgrade the towers and unlock other eight defense using your points and money. The game includes customization features, through this, you can personalize your character with different outfits as you like. Galaxy Life: Pocket Adventures offers core features such as Attack other Players, Communicate with Others, Customization, Crafting, Defend your Colony, Real-time Battles and more. Galaxy Life: Pocket Adventures is the best game to play and amuse.

#19 The Paradise Cove

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The Paradise Cove is a great Management and Building Simulation that offers a The Simpsons: Tapped Out like experience. This amazing City Building and management video game lets you rule over an island, explore and clear it out of the wildlings, trees and bushes, collect resources (Wood, Metal, Rocks, Ores etc.) create houses and other buildings, accommodate people, hire them to work with your and eventually turn it all into a full habitable space for all the people. In order to explore the seas, you must also build ships, go fishing and feed your people. The Paradise Cove offers its own unique currency and economic system and allows you to trade with people and neighboring islands to generate revenue, purchase and build energy infrastructure and enjoy being in power of everything. The Paradise Cove offers great deals of content updates, DLCs and a lot of other great things. With beautiful setting, great visuals and an immersive game-play, The Paradise Cove is a fun game to play and enjoy.

#20 Gardens Inc 4: Blooming Stars

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Gardens Inc 4: Blooming Stars is an Action, Time-Management, Strategy and Single-player video game with farming element developed by GameHouse. The game lets you a chance to create an exciting garden of your dream, in which you can grow different plants, trees and flowers around the world. Explore the world to gather resources and accomplish your task within time limit. Join an adventure and become a TV star to level-up. The game combines the elements of Management and Hidden Objects. It puts you on an adventure with Mike and Jill, who are working on their TV show to raise the money for charity. You must complete forty-five challenging levels within hundred days. To earn experience points to have to complete all levels, in which you must overcome obstacles, find hidden objects and more. Gardens Inc 4: Blooming Stars includes core features such as Decoration, Coin Frenzy, Overcome Obstacles, Manage Resources and Time, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#21 Monopoly

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Monopoly is a Resource Management, Strategy, and Multiplayer Board game developed by Elizabeth Magie and published by Hasbro. The game offers exciting gameplay, in which you must collect resources and trade with others to score points. Buy properties, resources, items and more thing and sell them to other players to expand your land. You can customize the game rules, buildings, road, and more. It comprises different levels you must complete at any cost to progress in the game. Build hotels and other building and earn money. Play against other players or computer controlled opponents and show your skills. Complete the goal before your opponents and score the highest points to win. It includes core features such as House Rules, Trading, Resource Management, and more. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and dynamic sounds, Monopoly is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

#22 Townsmen

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Townsmen is a Strategy-based Building and Management Simulation developed by Handy Games. It takes the players back to the medieval Era and tasks them to build their own City. The game’s ultimate goal is to develop a tiny village into a fully advanced and thriving Empire, boost the economy, and produce the happiest villagers ever. It allows the players to find mining spots, harvest all the necessary resources, and enjoy constructing them.

The players are also tasked to build fields, gardens, markets, erect statues, build massive and attractive monuments to decorate the city. Bandits in the game are the worst of all problems. The players must build barracks, guarding towers, recruit and train soldiers to protect the citizens. The game offers to run the businesses smoothly to make an economically strong nation.

#23 Craft the World

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Craft the World is a marvelous Sandbox Construction, Management, and MMO and RTS Simulation by Black maple games. The Simulation actually lets you be an in charge of a whole big Dwarf Society that with time changes into a fully developed community. Your task is to explore the world around you, collect resources, battles against the monsters, craft different items like “weapons, vehicles, buildings” etc. and discover new technologies to equalize your worth and strengthen your defenses, Defeat your enemies in order to capture their lands and to loot their resources etc. With a number of complex game levels filled with pure awesomeness and fun, amazing amounts of resources, and sandbox aesthetics, wonderful visuals, immersive gameplay and a lot of other cool things, Craft the World is one of the best game to play. Do try it out.

#24 Smurfs’ Village

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Smurfs’ Village takes you to an amazingly colorful world of tiny blue beings Aka. The Smurfs’. The game offers a wonderful City Building and Management Simulation type of game-play and tasks you with finding all the lost Smurfs and rebuilding their homes in the village. The recent attack of Gargamel and his vicious cat left the village in ruins, now it’s your duty to explore the village, find the Smurfs, collect the resources and rebuild the village. Building wonderful Huts, Farms, Roads, Schools etc. are the fun part of this brilliant game, you can also buy different objects, gadgets etc. to decorate your homes and enjoy living among your favorite characters and in a wonderful world. Smurfs’ Village lets you control the economy and manage resources, trade with friends etc. and enjoy amazing game-play, cool visuals and a lot of other great things. Try it out for an amazing Management and City Building experience. You’ll love it for sure.

#25 My Kingdom for the Princess

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My Kingdom for the Princess mixes the elements of Time-Management, Real-time Strategy, Building and Simulation created by Nevosoft Inc. You can play the game as a brave knight named Arthur, and your main task is to restore the world and rescue the princess. The game takes place in a fantasy world and lets you assume the role of the Protagonist and jump into the game world where you must fight against enemies using weapons, rebuild demolished land and gather resources. You are the last hope of the King named Olmert who assign you a task to rescue her cute daughter from the custody of evil dragon called Firemouth. It offers the combination of management, simulator, and strategy. It has over fifty levels in four different locations. My Kingdom for the Princess offers core features such as Captivating Maps, Mini-games, Detailed Environment, a variety of Tasks, Exciting Story and more. Try it out, and it’ll surely entertain you.

#26 CastleVille Legends

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CastleVille Legends is a fantasy based freemium Management and Farming simulation that makes you a hero who manages a whole kingdom, creates farms, buildings, established businesses to flourish a prosperous settlement. The game is set in a spell bound world that is darkened by a wizard’s curse and allows you to take charge of the things, turn a small piece of land into a massive kingdom by planting the crops, build different structures (Houses, Workshops, Mines, Factories, Markets etc.), and sell your products to the far and near lands to generate revenue. The game also allows you to free the heroes from wizards curse and send them on quests to find resources, loots and earn experience points. The experience points help unlock upgrades and more lands to explore. The unique RPG element in the game makes you able to strategically enhance the premises of your kingdom by fighting and conquering your enemies and use their resources to develop your kingdom. A great feature of CastleVille Legends is the graphics quality and a story based on the path selected by the player, so the story of the game totally depends on your actions and keeps on changing according to your will that keeps you attached to the game for a huge amount of time. With all the great things, CastleVille Legends is one of the best video games of this specific genre. Do give it a try.