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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 2026-06-13. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 77 resource management indie games on Steam, holding 1,962,832 reviews at an average of 89% 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 229,323 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Satisfactory · 229,323 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  2. Factorio · 191,955 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  3. Oxygen Not Included · 132,475 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  4. Frostpunk · 112,553 reviews · 93% positive · 2018
  5. This War of Mine · 88,747 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  6. Cookie Clicker · 85,892 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
  7. Dyson Sphere Program · 82,756 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  8. Supermarket Simulator · 77,801 reviews · 92% positive · 2025
  9. Prison Architect · 59,791 reviews · 89% positive · 2015
  10. Five Nights at Freddy's · 52,730 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  11. They Are Billions · 45,790 reviews · 85% positive · 2019
  12. Forager · 43,580 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  13. Banished · 37,741 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  14. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 37,088 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  15. Loop Hero · 33,580 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  16. Transport Fever 2 · 31,816 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  17. Outward Definitive Edition · 30,986 reviews · 73% positive · 2022
  18. Dorfromantik · 29,288 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  19. Hydroneer · 27,976 reviews · 86% positive · 2020
  20. Mindustry · 26,869 reviews · 96% 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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