2020 was a pretty good year for management games, but nothing released in the past 12 months has impressed us enough to squeeze its way into our best management games list. Don’t worry, though – it’s only because there are already so many classics to choose from. If you’re looking for something to sink into over the holidays, check out our picks below.

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‘Building’ is a pretty broad theme. There are a lot of games where you build things, after all, and they can be very different. Helpfully, then, I’ve split this list of the 20 best building games on PC into four sections, each covering a sub-category of this big, messy genre.

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Paradox Interactive are pitching in on Covid-19 coronavirus relief efforts with a sale on several of their big management games and RPGs until Friday, April 3rd. You can snag some mighty hefty discounts on things like Cities: Skylines, Pillars Of Eternity, and BattleTech. Paradox are committing proceeds from the sale to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

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Management games have been enjoying a bit of a renaissance in recent years, meaning there are now even better, more efficient ways to direct trains, corral visitors, lay down conveyor belts and profit, profit, profit than ever before. To that end, we’ve put on our builder hats and constructed a list of the best management games you can play on PC in 2020. Whether you want to be a budding city planner, wannabe farm herd or survive against the elements, there’s a game for you below.

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After the blurry blue delights of last month’s Sonic fest, those bundle fiends over at Humble have put together a brand new pack of game goodies for December, this time focusing on Paradox’s best management games to celebrate the early access launch of Surviving the Aftermath. Ironically, Surviving the Aftermath did not, in fact, survive the cut to get into the bundle itself, but Humble’s Paradox management bundle does include the most excellent Surviving Mars, Cities: Skylines and Prison Architect and all their various expansions for under $20.

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You’ll ocassionally find someone on the internet sounding off about how the strategy genre is dead. If you see such a person in the future, send them this list of the best strategy games ever made.

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Living on Mars? Easy. Even that meme idiot might be able to do it. But living on Earth? That’s a challenge. Especially if you’re not one of the self-important squillionaires planning to piss off to another planet (or Middle-Earth) once we fully ruin Earth. So after offering the easy future in colony-building management sim Surviving Mars, Paradox today announced Surviving The Aftermath. They describe it as a “post-apocalyptic survival colony builder” and… that’s about all they have to say right now. That future, eh?

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A lot of genres have had a resurgence over the past five years, but none more successfully than management games. There are now more ways to direct trains, lay conveyor belts, coral visitors and profit, profit, profit than you could play in a lifetime. The question is: which of these famous timesinks is worth your time, and which of the whipsmart new hires can compete against the hagard, seen-it-all old dogs?

That’s what this list is for. These are 20 best management games you can play right now on PC, in no particular order, and updated for 2019.

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I m trapped on Mars, and it s getting cold. Despite the reflective sheeting I ve hung up to insulate my workspace, night has long since fallen, and the heat is leaching from the glass walls. I m eating boiled potatoes yet again, and I miss my family like crazy. But there s no way I can see them again, until I ve solved a lot> of problems

So I put another layer on, rub my hands to warm them, and press on with the mission. Leaning forward to inspect my screen again, my face is lit with the dull red glow of the monitor – the same sombre ochre as the Martian surface. My face looks haggard in that light, as I review the colony s dwindling water stocks. I ll have to set a new vaporator, and that ll mean making new parts, which I ll need metals and yeah, it s going to be a long night yet.

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Green is the new red and you, dear Surviving Mars player, have committed the fashion faux-pas of colonising a planet in last season’s colour. Oh dear oh dear. Thankfully, the second expansion for Haemimont’s colony-building strategy game will allow you to change that pass rust red for verdant greens and pops of blues by terraforming the planet. As a bonus, terraforming should make the planet safe for humans without clunky spacesuits, which should vastly expand the planet’s fashion possibilities. Terraforming Mars will also bring economic benefits and… but I assume it’s mostly for fashion.

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