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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 2026-07-24. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 96 resource management indie games on Steam, holding 1,848,736 reviews at an average of 88% 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 232,215 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Satisfactory · 232,215 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  2. Factorio · 193,619 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  3. Oxygen Not Included · 142,787 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  4. Supermarket Together · 95,896 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  5. This War of Mine · 88,937 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  6. Cookie Clicker · 86,876 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
  7. Dyson Sphere Program · 83,095 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  8. Supermarket Simulator · 78,530 reviews · 92% positive · 2025
  9. Prison Architect · 59,960 reviews · 89% positive · 2015
  10. Five Nights at Freddy's · 53,111 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  11. Forager · 43,850 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  12. Banished · 37,798 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  13. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 37,431 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  14. Loop Hero · 36,448 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  15. Transport Fever 2 · 32,145 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  16. IdleOn · 29,344 reviews · 78% positive · 2025
  17. Dorfromantik · 27,282 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  18. Hydroneer · 26,916 reviews · 86% positive · 2020
  19. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 · 23,623 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  20. Foundation · 22,753 reviews · 87% positive · 2025

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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