11 Best Resource Management Games for Linux

RimWorld is a 2013’s top trending Construction and Management Simulation by Ludeon Studios. The game focuses on the objectives of the game to Explore and Expand a newly built colony of Survivors of a deadly Spaceship Crash. The primary tasks are to explore, collect resources and repairing the ship so the survivors can escape the planet. With a remarkable Top-down 2D view, RimWorld offers a randomly generated storyline and an open world to explore. RimWorld offers three AI (Artificial Intelligence) Storytellers in the game named as Cassandra, Phoebe, and Randy. The story of RimWorld revolves around several characters, and it allows the players to control three characters initially at the early stages of the game. One fantastic feature of the game is that it allows the players to keep on generating the characters until they are satisfied with their particular attributes. As the time passes, more and more colonists join the game and in particular the Colony. The new colonists can act upon their will individually, or they can be taken as prisoners and forced to join the Colony. During the gameplay, the Storytellers keep on throwing random events at the players and the players gets to select between accepting the event or they can reject them. Accepting the events as quests can be good for the players as they offer tons of rewards. The characters in the game can keep on progressing until they have all escaped the planet, and that is when the game ends. With a very familiar and easy to understand gameplay and controls, beautifully created visuals and immersive gameplay, RimWorld is a fun Construction and Management Simulation to enjoy.

Towns is a great Isometric City-Building and Management MMO-RTS simulation that offers a beautiful sandbox style theme. The game leaves you in a partially build piece of land and allows you to manipulate the land as you like it, explore, gather up resources and build structures you want. At the beginning, Towns allows you to choose biomes (Grass, Desert, Snow or Land) process your selected biomes with their own qualities, grow crops or clean the land and wildlife, build homes, farms and other structures by using the resources and eventually build a whole new civilization and help your people thrive in a very friendly environment. With the help of 11 villagers, you must perform the necessary tasks, settle them up in homes and grow the population, befriend neighboring settlements and grow economically, start trade and grow your nation and enjoy playing this marvelous game. Towns as compared to a lot of other titles of the similar nature, is one of the best simulation to enjoy. Try it out and you’ll love it for sure.

Stellaris is a Grand Strategy, 4K, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive. The game offers a thrilling gameplay centers on resource management, space exploration, establishing an empire, diplomacy and spacefaring civilizations. It mixes the RTS (Real-time Strategy), and space exploration elements and takes place in the Sci-fi-themed world focuses on space in the future 2200. In the start of the game, the player controls a strange species in the beginning level of space exploration, right after the invention of FLT (Faster-than-light) ship technology. In the game, the player manages a ship, including building, science, and military vessels. There is only a single planet in the start of the game offers a single science ship, a construction ship, and three small warships to progress. The player needs to establish his empire, recruit his force, and effort to battle spacefaring enemies and more to score the points and use them to unlock additional content. With detailed features, improved gameplay, and wonderful controls, Stellaris is the incredible game for space lovers.

Kingdoms and Castles is a Strategy, City-Building, Sandbox, and Management Simulation developed and published by Lion Shield, LLC. The game features Single-player mode and is about building a castle from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling town. It takes place in the medieval settings, and you have to build your kingdom surrounded by dangerous castles. You start the game from an empty land, and your objective is to establish a city by placing different buildings, gather resources, and complete a series of missions to collect money. You must recruit your army, equip them with weapons and lead them during battlefield to defend the city and its inhabitant. Expand your city further and raise your people up and keep them happy by offering the best services. You explore the world from an isometric perspective, unlock additional content to use during the game and decorate your city to look beautiful. Navigate the open-ended world and immerse yourself in sandbox gameplay experience. Kingdoms and Castles offer core features such as lots of Levels, Upgrades, Types of Buildings, Resources to collect, and more.

SimCity 4 combines the elements of Construction and Management, City-Building, Crafting and Simulation developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the fourth major entry in the series of SimCity. In the beginning, you have an empty land, and the ultimate task is to create different buildings which grow into a fantastic and beautiful city. There are different types of buildings, materials, and items to use and create. Gather resources and build settlements, commercial buildings, houses, shops, roads, and more. Offers all the facilities to the inhabitants and keep them happy. Compete against rival NPCs and earn experience points and money to unlock further content in the game. In the game, you can assume the role of the Mayor and your goal is to populate all tracts into cities. You’ll face different challenges such as overpopulation, electricity shortage, garbage, water, disposal and other. The game is distributed into three different modes such as MySim, mayor, and god. Establish a city and earn money through different ways. SimCity 4 offers exciting features such as Build an Entire Region, Unleash your Imagination, Upgrades, Competition, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Dwarf Fortress is an Open Ended RTS, Roguelike, Construction, management and City-Building video game. The game is set up in a procedurally generated game world in which you control two different groups of dwarfs. Your objective is to make the two dwarf groups work and build an underground fortress and all the buildings required. The open world is full of continents, oceans, and beastly civilizations and allows you to gather up resources by fighting and defeating your enemies. Text based game interface, Turn-Based Strategy and Roguelike game elements make this game a bit different than others but quite addictive and engaging. Dwarf Fortress features dwarfs with different mood swings and skills, for example, you can make a dwarf craft super beautiful and legendary artifacts or you can just task them to go search for resources etc. Dwarf Fortress features best 3D graphics, a lot of exciting objectives to complete, a huge amount of objects/resources to collect and much more. Do try it out.

X3: Terran Conflict mixes different genres such as Trading, Combat, Exploration, and Space Simulation. It is developed by Egosoft and published by Deep Silver. The game takes place in the massive space environments and lets the player explore the game world from first-person perspective. To get into the game world, the player must create and customize his/her starship with different items. There are different races such as Xenon, Terran, Split and more and the player can select one of them and start his journey to navigate ship around different sectors. The game world comprises thousands of stations and ships and the player can create his colony, gather resources, and trade with NPCs to earn money. He has to fight against rival alien races to protect his colony and defeat them to earn amazing rewards. The Ship can be upgraded by using experience points that the player earned by complete objectives. X3: Terran Conflict includes key features such as New Factions, Largest X Universe, over 100 Spaceship, Management Tools and more. Try it out.

The Universim is a City-Building, Sandbox, Resource Management, and Strategy video game with god-game elements created and published by Crytivo Games for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the world of The Universim and introduces a dynamic weather system creatures by the procedural planet generator. In the game, the player has an ability to control a planet and its creatures. The primary objective is to build different structures place in various buildings, craft useful items and keep the creatures happy to gain positive points. The only Single-player mode is supported in the game, and the developers of the game feature static environment with breathing and living world. During the game, the player interacts with environment and objects to progress and can customize everything using his abilities. The Universim offers core features such as Multiple Planets, 3D Environments, Lots of Objectives to complete, Dynamic Weather, Living World and more. With immerse gameplay, smooth controls, customization, and more. Try it out and have fun.

Reus by Abby Games is an amazing Management and Simulation video game that lets you control the Giants who are responsible for terraforming a whole planet, explore a huge game world, gather resources, accommodate, animals, individuals like them, grow crops, plant trees etc. The basic goal of this wonderful game is to provide a living support for the humans, animals and other life bearing things that solely depend on you. Reus with all the great options like character customization, decoration, crafting etc. is a wonderful game to play and enjoy. Do try it out for a truly remarkable Crafting, building and Management simulation experience. You’ll definitely love it.

War for the Overworld is a great Real-Time Strategy, management and a Fantasy-based video game by Subterranean Games. The game lets you be an Underlord who lives Underground and is destined to build Dungeons with traps and an underground lair for defense purposes. The only task of the game is to save the underground world from the Overlord heroes with the help of a huge army of Minions. Your best strategies and management skills are the things that can guarantee your safety along with the minions. You must train the Minions to mine and collect different materials as the resourced build defenses and protect your keep against the wrath of the Overlord Heroes. War for the Overworld is a great RTS, Management and Fantasy video game to play and enjoy.

Spacebase DF-9 is a great City-Building, management and MMO-RTS Simulation that takes you to an amazing space journey. This wonderful Construction, Development, Real-Time Strategy and management game allows you to maintain your own space station with all the resources you have. With a beautiful space theme, Spacebase DF-9 lets you hire workers for different jobs, build new structures, generate and manage your resources, accommodate your people and eventually grow your space station to other parts of the galaxy. The main task is to find specific points in the galaxy, send explorers, scientists, and workers, settle a small group of people on the discovered area, help them grow by completing different tasks and conquer the worlds. Construction is one of the main objectives of Spacebase DF-9, so you must build structures, defend them against the enemies (Aliens) and keep your people alive by using all the available tactics, strategies and ways possible. This interesting amalgamation of Construction, management MMO and Strategy elements will definitely allow you to have hours of plain entertainment and fun.