Skip to content
indielist (beta)

The best resource management indie games, ranked by reviews

5 min read for players

resource-managementgenre-guidedata-reportrecommendations

Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-09-07. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 98 resource management indie games on Steam, holding 1,761,276 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 234,628 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Satisfactory · 234,628 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  2. Factorio · 234,322 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  3. Oxygen Not Included · 135,173 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  4. Cookie Clicker · 93,033 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
  5. This War of Mine · 89,170 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  6. Dyson Sphere Program · 83,444 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  7. Supermarket Simulator · 79,130 reviews · 92% positive · 2025
  8. Prison Architect · 60,109 reviews · 89% positive · 2015
  9. Five Nights at Freddy's · 53,556 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  10. Banished · 43,322 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  11. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 37,817 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  12. Forager · 35,363 reviews · 89% positive · 2019
  13. Loop Hero · 33,804 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  14. Transport Fever 2 · 32,556 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  15. Dorfromantik · 27,404 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  16. Hydroneer · 27,101 reviews · 86% positive · 2020
  17. Foundation · 24,203 reviews · 87% positive · 2025
  18. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 · 23,829 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  19. Soulmask · 18,321 reviews · 77% positive · 2026
  20. IXION · 17,692 reviews · 79% positive · 2022

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.

Want the underlying estimate for your own game? Try the sales estimator, or browse the full game directory.