Top-Rated Free Economy Games on Steam

66 free Economy games with 500+ reviews and a 70%+ positive rating, newest first.

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Money Simulator: Brokeville (Free Prologue) - Players say: Start broke in Brokeville, earn cash through jobs and races, trade vehicles and crypto, then build and staff a shop. Players like: Rags-to-Riches Progression · Varied Ways to Earn · Vehicle Trading ·
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Welcome to the Brokeville! Grind your way to the top through jobs, deliveries, bicycle races, and risky crypto trades. Buy, customize, and sell cars & motorcycles for profit. Build your own businesses, manage them, and hire staff to grow your empire.

Upload Labs - Players say: Build a node-based computer system to download, process, and upload files while researching, hacking, coding, and training AI. Players like: Addictive Progression · System Optimization · New Mechanics Unlock ·
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A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect

Idle Pixel Fantasy - Players say: Hire fantasy units that farm chests for gold and crystals, unlock new layers, then take on the dragon and prestige. Players like: Cute Pixel Art · Relaxing Background Play · Easy Achievements ·
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Recruit hard-working helpers and magical creatures that automatically collect gold and crystals. Unlock new levels, invest in stronger units, and work your way up to the powerful dragon boss at the top. A relaxing pixel-style idle clicker!

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Sep 22, 2025
78% 👍
of 934
Scratch Inc. - Players say: Scratch cards for points, upgrade a growing grid, automate earnings, and prestige through successive tiers of an expanding empire. Players like: Layered Progression · Automation Unlocks · Satisfying Number Growth ·
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Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.

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Sep 17, 2025
91% 👍
of 2.2k
Mall Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Run a mall in first person: stock shops, set prices, serve shoppers, and reinvest profits to open more stores. Players like: Satisfying Mall Growth · Hands-On Shopkeeping · Relaxing Gameplay ·
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Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! Start working with Prologue now. To avoid going bankrupt, you'll need to build new stores, set good prices and keep up with trends. A limited number of stores & services for Prologue are waiting for you.

TWA - First Haul - Players say: Take a first trucking job across Australia's outback, hauling cargo, handling your rig on foot, and facing storms and rough roads. Players like: Hands-On Truck Tasks · Roadside Events · Outback Atmosphere ·
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Become a truckie in the heart of Australia! Brave the scorching desert, conquer a sandstorm and support the local industry by delivering vital cargo across the continent’s treacherous terrain.

Bakery Cafe Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Run a first-person bakery café solo or with up to three friends, preparing orders, stocking ingredients, and arranging your shop. Players like: Hands-On Café Routine · Baking and Coffee · Co-op with Friends ·
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Start bake, build, and grow your dream bakery cafe with prologue now! Create delicious pastries, design your space, and serve customers. Play solo or with friends in online co-op to expand your business and experience the excitement of running a bustling cafe!

Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware - Players say: As Duncan Ironbrow, build a medieval settlement, grow its economy and army, and hold your castle against enemy waves. Players like: City-Building Defense · Tactical Base Planning · Hard-Won Victories ·
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Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.

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Apr 30, 2025
92% 👍
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Wrap House Simulator🌯 Prologue - Players say: Run a wrap shop by chopping ingredients, grilling meat, assembling orders, and serving customers alone or with up to three friends. Players like: Co-op With Friends · Hands-On Cooking · Funny Shared Chaos ·
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Welcome to Wrap House Simulator🌯 Prologue! Run your own wrap shop, chop, grill, and serve in this cooking adventure. Customize your shop, master the grill, and survive the rush solo or co-op with up to 4 players. Keep up with orders, satisfy customers, and build your dream restaurant!

Deconstruction Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Run a small demolition business: take contracts, dismantle or smash properties, salvage valuables, and reinvest your earnings. Players like: Satisfying Demolition · Relaxing Work Loop · Company Progression ·
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Deconstruction Simulator: Prologue is the ultimate demolition simulator, offering you complete freedom of action and a wide array of contracts to complete. Get ready for spectacular destruction.

Fruit Stand Fortune - Players say: Run Kate the Cat’s fruit stand: spin slot machines, collect bouncing produce, sell it, and reinvest in new fruit and automation. Players like: Cute Pixel Characters · Quick, Relaxed Sessions · Rewarding Upgrade Progress ·
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Start with nothing and spin your way to the top! Gather fruit from slot machines and sell them to buy upgrades, new fruit types, and more! Unlock cute customers! Meet a Bear Wizard! Build your fruit empire with Fruit Stand Fortune!

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Jan 24, 2025
96% 👍
of 668
2024: Mosaic Retrospective - Players say: Solve Minesweeper-style clues across a vast grid, filling tiles to reveal pixel-art scenes and 2024 news events. Players like: Relaxing Puzzle Sessions · Satisfying Mosaic Progress · Helpful Hints ·
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2024: Mosaic Retrospective is a charity-fundraising picross/minesweeper hybrid featuring a single ENORMOUS puzzle inspired by global news stories from throughout the year.

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Dec 30, 2024
89% 👍
of 1.1k
Tobacco Shop Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Run a first-person tobacco shop: sign brand contracts, stock shelves, serve customers, and grow alone or in four-player co-op. Players like: Co-op Shopkeeping · Hands-On Store Routine · Shop Growth ·
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Run your tobacco shop in this free prologue version of the game. Sign contracts with leading brands, order products, and meet customer needs. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your shop.

Magic Archery - Players say: Train a commoner into a powerful archer by breaking targets, improving skills, earning quest rewards, and unlocking magical arrows. Players like: Satisfying Progression · Relaxed Idle Play · Visible Archer Upgrades ·
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Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

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Oct 4, 2024
98% 👍
of 8.5k
Finn Dorset's Institute For Livestock Replication - Players say: Clone moon sheep, sell their wool, and upgrade an alien farm as its landscape changes in this incremental idler. Players like: Hand-Drawn Art · Changing Farm Visuals · Absurd Humor ·
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An animated incremental game about cloning livestock. Make as many moon sheep as you can. Research technology, upgrade your operation and become a clone farm billionaire!

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Oct 2, 2024
84% 👍
of 1.3k
Industry Idle - Players say: Build an industrial economy by placing factories, balancing resource chains, trading goods, and restarting for lasting upgrades. Players like: Factory Optimization · Relaxed Idle Play · Player Market Trading ·
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Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

Supermarket Together - Players say: Build and run a supermarket solo or with up to 15 others, stocking shelves, serving shoppers, hiring staff, and catching thieves. Players like: Chaotic Co-op · Store-Growth Progression · Wide Product Range ·
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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!

TCG Card Shop Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Run a local trading-card shop: stock and price packs, serve customers, host card games, or open boosters to build a collection. Players like: Booster Pack Opening · Shop Organization · Relaxing Storekeeping ·
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Open your local game store early with the Prologue version, which includes main gameplay of the full version, but with limited progression. Stock shelves with booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, sell cards to customer.

Sunset Motel: Prologue - Players say: Restore a run-down motel by renovating rooms, serving travelers, and handling daily guest services to keep the business running. Players like: Room Customization · Varied Motel Tasks · Relaxing Simulator ·
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Sunset Motel: Prologue is a free motel management game. Ensure customer satisfaction, renovate interiors, design entertainment spaces! Manage your motel in your own style and provide travelers with unforgettable experiences!

Retail Company Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Run a first-person clothing shop: source branded stock, set prices, serve shoppers, hire staff, and grow your store. Players like: Store Layout Customization · Relaxed Shopkeeping · Easy Checkout ·
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Run your retail company in this free prologue version of the game. Sign contracts with leading brands, order new products, meet customer needs, and never let your customers leave the store empty-handed. Hire new workers, expand your store, and enjoy the growth of your retail company.

Tapple - Idle Clicker - Players say: Tap to collect Tapples, upgrade your clicking power, automate income, and advance through ten levels and hidden goals. Players like: Easy, Relaxed Play · Background Automation · Growing Tapple Totals ·
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Welcome to Tapple, the idle clicker game where every tap brings you closer to an ever-growing collection of Tapples. Build your empire one tap at a time, discover unique Tapple drops, and AFK all you want!

Saloon Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Rebuild a ruined Wild West saloon by cleaning, furnishing it, mixing drinks, cooking meals, and serving its customers. Players like: Western Atmosphere · Drink-Making and Cooking · Story and Quests ·
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Saloon Simulator Prologue lets you restore an abandoned Saloon and discover that managing it isn't just about creating drinks and meals. Clean up, organize, and choose the right friends - all to become the most recognizable business in the Wild West!

Lemonade Apocalypse: First Squeeze - Players say: Grow a lemonade stand into an empire by tuning prices, upgrading production, and steering politics toward an apocalyptic climate. Players like: Short, Fun Sessions · Capitalism Satire · Silly Humor ·
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Lead the world to apocalyse with lemonades! Price affects demand, but take into account the cost of each lemonade when selling. Upgrades reduce cost and increase demand. Invest in a factory, and eventually control the politics of the world to increase climate's temperature and beverage consumption.

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Apr 5, 2024
95% 👍
of 1.1k
Supermarket Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Run a small supermarket: order stock, arrange shelves, serve customers, set prices, and manage the business within a limited prologue. Players like: Addictive Stocking Loop · Relaxing Storekeeping · Easy To Learn ·
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Start running your own supermarket with Prologue already. Stock shelves, handle cashier tasks, process online orders, design & expand. Set the prices based on the market. Be prepared to face the consequences if you fail to make the nightly repayment to the gangs.

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Jan 26, 2024
94% 👍
of 4.8k
United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up - Players say: Build a penguin settlement, manage its residents’ needs and resources, and defend it from killer whales and food-stealing seals. Players like: Charming Penguin Setting · Settlement Building · Approachable Management ·
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This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Builders of Greece: Prologue - Players say: Manage an ancient Greek polis by planning its layout, balancing resources and citizens’ needs, and directing trade and defense. Players like: City-Building Strategy · Economic Management · Ancient Greek Setting ·
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Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try your hand as a ruler of an ancient Greek city-state, practice your management skills, and learn basic game mechanics.

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Sep 18, 2023
75% 👍
of 621
Sim Companies - Players say: Grow a small company by building production chains, trading with players, and adapting your business to a shifting online market. Players like: Dynamic Player Market · Deep Production Chains · Company Growth ·
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Build a business empire in a player-driven online economy. Manage supply chains, trade with thousands of players, dominate markets, research new products, and grow from a small startup into a global corporation.

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Aug 31, 2023
80% 👍
of 1.1k
Beecarbonize - Players say: Manage industry, society, science and ecosystems through climate-driven card crises as you work to cut emissions and avert collapse. Players like: Strategic Card Balancing · Multiple Victory Paths · Climate Learning ·
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Do you have what it takes to save the planet? Beecarbonize is an environmental card strategy game with climate change as your opponent.

Monsters Domain: Prologue - Players say: Command a monster army defending its domain, directing creatures, looting heroes, and developing dark-magic upgrades. Players like: The unusual premise of playing as monsters defending their realm, rather than as heroes. · Developing and directing the monster army, including experimenting with tactics and upgrades. · Management and customization activities such as optimizing production and traps. ·
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Defend the Monsters’ Domain. Kill heroes and collect their treasures. Play the Monsters’ side and loot foolish warriors who dare to explore your realm. Build up your forces, upgrade them and equip them with better weapons, skills and tricks to lure and kill even more shiny forces of the light.

Let's School Homeroom - Players say: Rebuild and run a school as headmaster, designing facilities while managing teachers, students, their needs and school crises. Players like: ·
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Let's School: Homeroom is the prologue of Let's School. You can experience 2 weeks of in game time. If you like the experience, please go to Let's School Full Version's Store page and add to wishlist!

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Jun 20, 2023
94% 👍
of 1.0k
Beer Factory - Prologue - Players say: Run a first-person brewery, moving ingredients through brewing and bottling while managing workers, machinery, finances, and deliveries. Players like: Hands-On Production · Factory Progress · Relaxed Pacing ·
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Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.

Underworld Idle - Players say: Grow an underworld by managing factions, resources, and creature chains where powerful units produce weaker ones. Players like: Moody Pixel Art · Layered Progression · Background Friendly ·
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An idle dungeon management game, where high tier units can create low tier units.

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Feb 2, 2023
71% 👍
of 1.4k
Espresso Tycoon Prologue: Underwater - Players say: Run an underwater Sydney café: design the shop, craft coffee recipes, serve customers, and manage staff and supplies. Players like: Sea Creature Facts · Funny Queue Blocking · Clean And Repair ·
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A completely FREE underwater mission from the Espresso Tycoon - a coffee shop simulator. Build your own cafe from scratch, hire staff, create the most delicious recipes in the whole Pacific Ocean and make customers happy! Decorate, manage, and build a successful coffee business in Sydney!

Oxygen: First Breath - Players say: Build around the Oxygen Center, manage workers and supplies, and protect a settlement from deadly weather and toxic cracks. Players like: Distinct Oxygen Premise · Tense Survival Management · Atmospheric Setting ·
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This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Half-Earth Socialism - Players say: As humanity’s global planner from 2023, choose policies and projects to balance climate, resources, food, and political support. Players like: Thought-Provoking Ideas · Challenging Strategy · Engaging Resource Planning ·
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Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?

Prosperous Universe - Players say: Run a spacefaring company by choosing planetary bases, building production chains, moving cargo, and trading in a player-run economy. Players like: Economic Simulation Depth · Supply Chain Planning · Player-Driven Markets ·
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In Prosperous Universe start your galactic empire by trading on the real-time market exchange with other real players. Build your 1st base from humble beginnings & watch as your business flourishes with complex supply chain strategies. Economics, politics & realism fuel this immersive business MMO.

Urbek City Builder: Prologue - Players say: Design a resource-driven city without money, shaping neighborhoods through building synergies, education, and careful planning. Players like: Building Synergies · Creative City Layouts · Relaxing City Building ·
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Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures. Try it yourself for free!

Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings - Players say: Run a small robot-powered factory: lay out rooms, coordinate production, research upgrades, and balance costs against market demand. Players like: Factory Optimization · Factory Progression · Flexible Layouts ·
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This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!

SimRail - The Railway Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Drive passenger and freight trains through two Polish scenarios, managing cab controls, signals, speed, and station stops. Players like: Realistic Train Handling · Detailed Cab Controls · Passenger And Freight ·
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SimRail - The Railway Simulator Prologue presents the full range of possibilities of the newest and best simulator of the work of train driver. Take on the challenge and take the controls of a freight or passenger train!

Car Detailing Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Take detailing jobs, wash and polish neglected cars, and build a workshop with specialized tools and upgrades. Players like: Relaxing Cleaning Loop · Visible Car Makeovers · Specialized Detailing Tools ·
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Car Detailing Simulator, you get a chance to renew any car and restore its splendor at the request of demanding customers! A nice and well-groomed vehicle can be the pride of every human being! Clean, polish and marvel at your creations in this highly realistic game where every little detail counts!

Animal Shelter: Prologue - Players say: Run a first-person animal shelter: care for pets, build facilities, and match each animal with a suitable home. Players like: Cute Shelter Animals · Hands-On Animal Care · Shelter Customization ·
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In Animal Shelter Prologue, your main target is to make your four-legged friends happy. Pet them, hand out treats, play with toys - and they will pay you back with great trust. Get to know the animals well enough to find them the best home! Don't wait any longer, open your animal shelter now!

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Nov 3, 2021
91% 👍
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Ship Graveyard Simulator: Prologue - Players say: Dismantle salvageable parts from abandoned ships, search their decks for valuables, and sell scrap to improve your tools. Players like: Satisfying Salvage Work · Industrial Ship Atmosphere · Tool Upgrade Progression ·
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Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!

Airline Manager - Players say: Build an airline by choosing aircraft, setting passenger and cargo routes, and managing fuel, maintenance, and finances as flights run in real time. Players like: Route And Fleet Planning · Aircraft Variety · Aviation Appeal ·
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Create and manage your own airline. Create both passenger and cargo routes all over the world while you upgrade and expand your fleet of airplanes and airports. Airline Manager is among the most realistic of its genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.

Vedelem: The Golden Horde - Players say: Build a medieval frontier settlement, claim resource-rich land, and raise an army to withstand timed Mongol assaults. Players like: Mongol-Era Atmosphere · Simple RTS Building · Escalating Final Assaults ·
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Védelem: The Golden Horde is a medieval Real Time Strategy and Survival game set in the 13th century. Build, expand and defend your lands against the deadliest Mongolian invasion ever witnessed. They will seek to destroy your walls and salt your earth. Will you survive the Golden Horde?

Hell Architect: Prologue - Players say: Manage a cartoon underworld colony: build facilities, gather resources, meet sinners’ needs, and devise their punishments. Players like: Varied Torture Options · Dark-Humor Art · Intuitive Controls ·
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Hell Architect is a hell colony sim. Build and manage your hell. Take care of the sinners with funny cartoon-style tortures, fill their needs, develop buildings, gather resources, grow your population. Prologue is a free standalone version of the game 'Hell Architect'.

OpenTTD - Players say: Build a transport company on generated maps, routing trains, trucks, ships, and aircraft to move passengers and cargo for profit. Players like: Transport Network Building · Absorbing Long Sessions · Train Route Design ·
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OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players earn money by transporting passengers and cargo via road, rail, water, and air. It is an open-source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

Vectorio Classic - Players say: Claim map resources, build powered defenses, research weapons, and expand your base to withstand enemy shapes and four guardians. Players like: Addictive Progression · Tower Defense Appeal · Resource Logistics ·
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The original, uncompleted version of Vectorio. Claim resources, unlock new buildings, and expand your defenses as you fight back against enemy forces in the classic edition of Vectorio! Play for free now.

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Mar 22, 2021
93% 👍
of 1.5k
The Tenants - Free Trial - Players say: Manage rental apartments, choose tenants, renovate flats, and handle unexpected problems in this free prologue to The Tenants. Players like: ·
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Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental empire. Will you rent your apartment to a college couple or an older lady with four cats? Try it yourself for free!

Farm Manager 2021: Prologue - Players say: Manage a seasonal farm by scheduling crops, caring for livestock, maintaining machinery, and balancing staff, logistics, and weather. Players like: Farm Management ·
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Get ready for a logistic challenge in the new and even better Farm Manager 2021: Prologue! Plan your field work according to the seasons, look after the animals, take care of machines and staff satisfaction and react to the changing weather.

I Am Your President: Prologue - Players say: Run a US presidency through branching dialogue, cabinet choices, and responses to world events while trying to win the election. Players like: ·
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I Am Your President: Prologue is a free narrative strategy simulator. Play as the previous US president, decide the fate of the world and run the country any way you like! Enjoy the unique storyline, make choices and carve your path to victory. Election Day is coming – can you secure your victory?