Best Economy Games on Steam
Games about money flows, markets, production, trade, prices, and resource exchange.
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1Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Oct 12, 2012
In this game, you can…
- practice alley-docking so much in-game that it carries over to real CDL-style trailer backing tests.
- join online convoys where a small bump can turn into a cross-country chase, or into a friendly honk-and-wave road trip with strangers.
- install major map mods and end up convoying through places like Iceland on custom roads with new physics and navigation.
- start with quick jobs, buy your first truck, take out loans, hire drivers, and grow into a multi-garage fleet that earns while you're out hauling.
- hammer down the highway with the speed limiter off, then sweat every speed camera and fine as you try to keep the delivery on time.
- reverse a full trailer into a tight loading bay and park it cleanly.
- cross a border and immediately deal with new road rules, new signage, and suddenly driving on the opposite side in the UK.
- haul everything from fuel and chemicals to oversized machinery and vehicles, then adjust how you drive to keep the cargo intact.
- tune in to live local radio stations as you drive and switch countries until the music and traffic rhythm sync up with the route.
2Cities: Skylines - Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Mar 10, 2015
In this game, you can…
- accidentally route sewage outflow into your own drinking-water pumps and watch the whole city get sick from polluted water.
- follow a single named citizen as they commute, work, shop, and chain a metro ride into a bus transfer.
- use mods to expand the playable map far beyond the base size and even fly a plane through your own city.
- lay roads from a lone highway connection and watch empty land turn into neighborhoods with homes, shops, and factories.
- rebuild highway exits and roundabouts until traffic patterns actually change and congestion drops dramatically across the city.
- draw and rename districts, then flip policies like free public transport or no high-rises to reshape how an area develops.
- build a dam that raises the river, then watch the new water level flood whatever neighborhoods you put too close.
- run buses, metros, trains, taxis, cargo ships, and airports, then tune routes so the entire transport network works together.
3Sid Meier's Civilization® V - Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Sep 21, 2010
In this game, you can…
- open your borders to Gandhi, then watch him pillage your land, annex cities, denounce you, and launch nukes anyway.
- send a nuclear fleet across the world, punch through a submarine blockade, fire the warheads, then drop XCOM squads to seize the top superpower's capital before the space race ends.
- absorb a nearby city-state instantly, then trigger a chain-reaction war where your allies help wipe out an empire.
- start in 4000 BC with one settler and build a world empire.
- win wars by pure positioning, using terrain choke points while cities shoot enemies from two tiles away.
- bribe leaders and city-states into alliances until a few denouncements turn into a globe-spanning world war.
- fight late-game resource wars where uranium decides everything, nuclear subs blockade coasts, cruisers break through, and XCOM drops capture capitals.
- race two victories at once, then lose one turn before winning because another nation hits a different win condition first.
- build famous wonders in completely wrong places, like the Great Pyramids in Honolulu or the Great Wall of Portugal.
4American Truck Simulator - Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
Feb 2, 2016
In this game, you can…
- get stuck in a traffic jam because there's a small plane sitting on the highway behind cones and a cop car.
- neglect your truck and have it get worse mid-trip, like the engine starting to fail or the gearbox losing high gears.
- start as a hired driver, buy your first truck, then build garages and hire drivers until your fleet's income covers your tickets and repairs.
- choose a hard backing-in, an easy pull-in, or skip parking at the end of every delivery.
- back a long trailer into a loading dock using only your mirrors, with handling that can feel real enough to train the skill.
- roll into a delivery yard at night with a double load, thread tight turns without clipping anything, then inch the trailer into place a few feet at a time.
- hit the brakes and downshift an 18-speed in fog and rain when a car blows a stop sign, then still make the dock, grab a new trailer, and keep hauling.
- run convoys with friends, drive side by side, refuel together, and deal with the same chaotic merges while everyone watches it happen.
5Crusader Kings III - Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Sep 1, 2020
In this game, you can…
- make the pope your vassal, imprison him over a feast insult, seize Rome, force-convert him, and banish him.
- create a custom religion with rules like forced nudity or ritual cannibalism, then use conversion to control and humiliate rivals.
- start as a two-year-old empress, face near-total revolt, then grow into a famous conqueror and reformer.
- play a dynasty where you die, then keep ruling as your heir.
- lose your wife to concubinage, rescue her decades later, then adopt a feral "wolf-boy" and raise him into a kingdom-building heir.
- turn a rumor into a chain of spying, blackmail, secret murders, and a land-claim war that drags the whole realm into marching armies.
- breed a "perfect heir" through dynasty genetics until your family tree becomes strategically useful and completely tangled.
- revoke an empire's election laws with a single decision, then deal with powerful nobles resisting the change and testing your rule.
6Frostpunk - Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Apr 24, 2018
In this game, you can…
- replace whole work crews with automatons that work all night and don't care about the cold.
- sign laws that let you put children to work in mines, kitchens, and coal piles to keep the city alive.
- build watchtowers, propaganda centers, and prisons, then run the city on fear when hope and warmth stop working.
- build a city in rings around a single coal generator.
- push the generator into overdrive as the cold keeps dropping, and gamble on upgrades before it fails.
- send scouts into the frozen wasteland for survivors and supplies, knowing the storm can wipe them out mid-trip.
- let refugees in wave after wave, then decide who gets left outside to die when space and food run out.
7House Flipper - House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!
May 17, 2018
In this game, you can…
- turn a 350-square-foot wreck into an open-concept home with a kitchen, full bath, and a bedroom that fits a double bed.
- place a single toilet in the middle of a room, or fill a house with only bathtubs, just to see which buyer prefers it.
- mow lawns, plant gardens, enter a garden competition, then auction the house on Saturdays.
- take a cleanup job, haul out trash, mop filth, paint walls, install heaters and showers, then fully furnish the place for the client.
- smash out walls, rip out windows and doors, and sell the pieces while you redesign the whole house layout.
- build a house with no kitchen and two bathrooms, then still sell it to whatever bizarre buyer shows up for it.
- shuffle objects until the game re-labels a room, like making a living room suddenly count as a kitchen to satisfy buyers.
- buy your first trashed house, gut it, remodel and stage it, then list it and hope the right buyer pays for your choices.
- find a hidden room on the minimap, then smash through a wall to reveal it and rebuild the space around it.
8Supermarket Together - The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Aug 9, 2024
In this game, you can…
- use a fire extinguisher to blast people across the floor and launch them into the supermarket.
- chase shoplifters down the street with a broom, beat them up, and make them drop what they stole.
- expand the supermarket enough to stock up to 49,000 products on shelves, forcing real choices about space and storage.
- spawn in with friends and start broom-fighting everyone outside before the store even opens.
- set up anti-theft gates and CCTV, spot thieves in the act, then run them down and stop them from escaping.
- run the store as a co-op assembly line where one person cashiers, one restocks, one cleans, and one hunts thieves.
- watch the shop go from empty shelves to a packed operation where everything sells out fast and you sprint to restock before it collapses.
- set ridiculous prices for basic groceries and still have customers sometimes buy them anyway.
9Planet Zoo - Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
Nov 5, 2019
In this game, you can…
- have an antelope herd get spooked, jump the fence into the guest crowd, and trigger a full-on panic as people sprint for the exits.
- select breeders by multiple genetic traits, track rare genes through family lines, and end up with unusual offspring like albinos.
- rotate, overlap, and clip building pieces to make custom shops and restaurants, then save them as blueprints to reuse in other zoos.
- zoom in and just watch lemurs or red pandas roam, with lifelike animations and realistic calls.
- dig rivers and lakes, raise mountains, carve caves, and build a huge custom zoo for hours with no money pressure.
- build a habitat from scratch, tune humidity and planting, add enrichment and climbing, then watch the animal move in and thrive.
- save a custom restaurant as a blueprint, then drop it into other zoos and blend it into whatever theme you're building.
- release new generations back into the wild after breeding them, so your zoo's animals become part of a continuing lineage.
10Cookie Clicker - An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Sep 1, 2021
In this game, you can…
- trigger a grandma apocalypse where grandmas mutate into monsters and merge with the world, then contain and repurpose the fallout.
- turn light into cookies with prisms, pull shipments from other planets, and start harvesting cookies from other dimensions.
- time golden cookie spawns so two huge buffs overlap, then ride the surge into a Legacy reset and a prestige ascension tree.
- start by clicking one cookie, then end up running farms, banks, temples, wizard towers, and portals to the Cookieverse.
- wait for a sugar lump to ripen for a day, then spend it to level buildings and unlock new upgrades and achievements.
- train a cookie dragon to hold two auras at once, then pair it with wizard-tower spells to supercharge your best buff combos.
- mutate garden plants by arranging plots in specific patterns, breeding new plants that boost your production in different ways.
