The best resource management indie games, ranked by reviews

Data report Assembled from live indielist data on 2026-06-06. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 60 resource management indie games on Steam, holding 1,750,712 reviews at an average of 91% 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 228,423 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

1. Satisfactory · 228,423 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
2. Factorio · 191,633 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
3. Oxygen Not Included · 132,230 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
4. Frostpunk · 112,340 reviews · 93% positive · 2018
5. This War of Mine · 88,714 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
6. Cookie Clicker · 85,736 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
7. Dyson Sphere Program · 82,685 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
8. Supermarket Simulator · 77,643 reviews · 92% positive · 2025
9. Prison Architect · 59,769 reviews · 89% positive · 2015
10. Five Nights at Freddy's · 52,676 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
11. They Are Billions · 45,754 reviews · 85% positive · 2019
12. Banished · 37,726 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
13. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 37,031 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
14. Forager · 35,009 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
15. Loop Hero · 33,548 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
16. Crush Crush · 28,079 reviews · 89% positive · 2016
17. Dorfromantik · 27,088 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
18. Hydroneer · 26,565 reviews · 86% positive · 2020
19. Transport Fever 2 · 25,891 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
20. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 · 23,407 reviews · 94% positive · 2014

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 modeled estimates, not official sales data.

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