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The best resource management indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-10-23. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 98 resource management indie games on Steam, holding 1,717,701 reviews at an average of 87% positive. This list ranks them by Steam review count, the most reliable public sales proxy, with a white-box sales estimate behind every title. The most reviewed is Satisfactory with 236,679 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Satisfactory · 236,679 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  2. Factorio · 196,758 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  3. Oxygen Not Included · 136,058 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  4. This War of Mine · 89,428 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  5. Cookie Clicker · 88,812 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
  6. Dyson Sphere Program · 83,815 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  7. Supermarket Simulator · 79,802 reviews · 92% positive · 2025
  8. Prison Architect · 63,262 reviews · 89% positive · 2015
  9. Five Nights at Freddy's · 53,932 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  10. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 38,211 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  11. Banished · 37,944 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  12. Forager · 35,599 reviews · 89% positive · 2019
  13. Loop Hero · 33,897 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  14. Dorfromantik · 27,514 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  15. Hydroneer · 27,291 reviews · 86% positive · 2020
  16. Transport Fever 2 · 27,285 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  17. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 · 24,003 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  18. Foundation · 23,334 reviews · 87% positive · 2025
  19. Soulmask · 18,568 reviews · 77% positive · 2026
  20. Dawn of Man · 17,149 reviews · 87% positive · 2019

How this list is built

Games are ranked by Steam review count, the most reliable public proxy for sales when actual figures are private. Each title links to its indielist page, where the white-box sales estimate expands into the full Boxleiter formula, so you can audit the number rather than trust a black box. Review counts come from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official sales data.

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