RimWorld
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.
#1 Starbound
Starbound is an amazingly addictive Action-Adventure, RPG and Indie video game developed by Chucklefish Games. Starbounds fixes you up into the character of the protagonist who flies from his planet and crashes on another. The game takes you to an amazing 2D procedurally generated game world and allows you to explore, craft different items such as weapons, armors, and other objects, fight against the enemies and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. Starbound lets you craft different weapons and tools for survival and allows you to fight against the enemies using different types of skills and tactics. As the universe around you is kind of infinite, you’ll experience an amazing and quite addictive endless game-play along with great visual details and story of the game. With a number of challenging game levels, puzzles, quests, and missions, sandbox type layout, super cool 3D visuals and an immersive game-play, Starbound is a wonderful game to play.
#2 Dwarf Fortress
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.
#3 Factorio
Factorio mixes the elements of Action, Real-time Strategy, and Survival developed and published by Wube Software. The game supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story revolves around a spaceman who landed on an alien planet due to crash. As the survival, your primary objective is to harvest resources by hand to build up different structures, and a rocket to escape back to home. The inhabitants of the planet are trying to defend their environment from the destruction and pollution by you. The game is about creating a colony, searching resources, and surviving as long as possible to progress in the match. In the beginning, you starts off from an empty land, and your initial task is to build a colony by collecting resources and expand it further and further to progress through the game. There are three vehicles available that you can use during gameplay such as train, car, and tank. Three types of enemies present to take you a tough time while you are completing your objectives such as splitters, worms, and bitters. Explore the world from a top-down perspective, accomplish randomly generated levels and build your spaceship to escape to home. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#4 War for the Overworld
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.
#5 Craft the World
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.
#6 Tropico 4
Tropico 4, developed by Haemimont Games and Feral Interactive is an Open Ended City-Building, management and MMO-RTS Simulation video game. The game allows you design, build and manage the Cities as the President of Tropical Islands (Banana Republic). You must govern over Banana Republic and build buildings and structures on any island by choosing one from the map or you can just randomly select an island and start building. The game lets you be part of the game world by selecting and customizing an online avatar for yourself and after you have completed the initial steps you can start working on your cities. Tropico 4 allow you to play game in Campaign and provides with 20 levels of addictive and engaging game-play in which you get a chance to attack your enemies and conquer their lands and loot their resources. You must use best Turn Based Strategies to eliminate your enemies and any threat that diverts your attention from building your cities. Tropico 4 is an amazingly cool MMO-RTS, City Building and Management video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#7 Neo Scavenger
Neo Scavenger is another great Action-Adventure and Survival video game that leaves you right in the middle of a Wasteland and lets you survive in an unforgiving environment, find out who you really are and why are you here. The game totally lets you decide what to do with your life and where to go from here, how to start exploring the world, how to scavenge for all the necessary items and supplies and how to approach all the ones you encounter. In order to survive, you’ll have to keep yourself properly fed, and drink plenty of water because the dehydration element will challenge you again and again, lack of weapons and tool will force you to collect different materials and create useful items. You must know how to survive in an apocalyptic environment or else you’ll perish. With a marvelously unique setting, turn-based game-play, permadeath element presence, choices between sandbox or story modes, amazing crafting abilities and a totally realistic gaming experience, Neo Scavenger is one of the brilliant games of this genre ever created. Do try it out.
#8 Omerta: City of Gangsters
Omerta: City of Gangsters is a Turn-based, Management, Tactical, Strategy, Single and Multiplayer Simulation developed by Haemimont Games. The game takes place in the fictional city called Atlantic City in Atlantic Country where alcohol is ban. The city is threatened by the criminal gangs who makes money off gambling trade. The game lets the player get into the role of the unnamed character with big dreams. The player must explore the game world, start from small jobs, collect criminals and create his gang, earn money from gambling trade and expand his empire. Create the base, fight against other gangs and defeat them to earn reputation points. Use the points to unlock further content. There are fifteen different characters each with unique skills, backgrounds, and personalities. The game includes twenty different maps with various environments to explore. Omerta: City of Gangsters offers core features such as RPG system, Turn-based Combat, Strategic Gameplay, Historical City, Stealth Action, and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.
#9 Spacebase DF-9
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.
#10 Towns
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.
#11 Subnautica
Subnautica is a brand new Open World, Adventure and Survival video game set in the underwater world of an alien planet. Subnautica is set in a futuristic Era of the 22nd century, and it offers a futuristic experience. It refers to a period when Humanity started exploring and inhibiting the alien planets. To colonize the planets, various advanced vessels were sent on Exploration Missions. One of the Vessels named as Aurora was also forwarded to an exploration and terraforming mission to an alien water world known as 4546B. The vessel was on its way to a station on the planet when an unknown energy source disabled it. With a hull badly damaged, and all the systems failed, the vessel crash landed into the water and sank to the ocean floor. This is where the player character gets into the play. After getting out of the life pod, the palyer must explore the world, find means of survival (Food, Drinking Water, Oxygen to breath, etc.) in an alien world, defeat all the underwater alien life forms and survive by evolving in the environment. Resource collection has its own importance in the game because without resources there is no survival. Subnautica offers various game modes such as Freedom Mode, Hardcore Mode, Creative Mode as well as unique Crafting abilities, great upgrades, beautiful graphics and addictive gameplay.
#12 Tropico 5
Tropico 5 is a marvelous new MMO-RTS, City-Building, Management Simulation that offers gameplay a lot similar to its predecessors and Anno series games. With a unique Co-op Multiplayer (4-Player) feature, Tropico 5 lets you build whole cities on different islands and allows you to work with or against each other. The main task in the game is to manage your cities and take your settlement to the Colonial Era, witness World Wars, Cold War and finally reach to the modern era, embrace technological advancements and thrive in an advanced society. You can also be one of the super powers of the time by simply working hard, write the constitution and decide the independence of your cities or countries and by waging wars against your enemies and defeating them. With all the wonderful building and management options, great visuals, and an addictive game-play, Tropico 5 is a brilliant Simulation to spend your precious time on. Do try it out for a beautiful MMO, RTS, management and City-building experience.