The 10 Most Complex Management Video Games

Teamfight Manager

In this simulation game, players are in charge of coaching an e-sports team. They have to manage the players, choose champions for each match, and make sure that the strengths and flaws of each player and champion are balanced.

Teamfight Manager gives players a lot to do, like managing their equipment, training and recruiting new players, and using their skills at the right time in auto-battle style fighting. Strategy is a big part of the game, and there is also online PvP where up to ten other people can play in a league.

Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines is a new take on the old-school city-building game. It has a deep and complicated scenario that gives players a lot to handle. In the game, players must make sure that their city has basic services like healthcare, schooling, water, electricity, and emergency services. Getting all of these things up and running at the same time takes time, work, and planning.

In addition, players must keep their city’s economy going while also taking care of the needs of their people, making sure traffic works well, managing different districts, and making sure the right rules are in place to keep the city under control.

Tropico 6

Because Tropico 6 was part of a series with a long past, it had big shoes to fill. Fans of the series will be happy to know that it lived up to the expectations. Tropico 6 puts players in charge of an island state and lets them choose how to lead the people who live there in four different time periods.

Archipelagos are groups of islands that can be managed together. Players are in charge of transportation between islands and keeping their area under control. Players will mostly be in charge of their infrastructure and logistics while also leading their teams in certain ways. Tropico 6 is fun in part because it gives players a lot of freedom, but having so many choices also makes it more difficult.

Football Manager

Football Manager 2023, the latest game in this series, is one of the best ones so far for fans of the series and management games in general, especially football and soccer players.

In Football Manager, players have to pick a club, players, a team, and the staff that works in the back office. In order to win, players will have to carefully choose their team and the methods they will use. This game also has features for fans, like the “Supporter Confidence” system, and it has several AI coaches that make the game harder as players get better.

Prison Architect

This management game lets players plan and build their own jail, taking in a range of prisoners, some of whom are more dangerous than others, and managing their budget and economy.

People who play Prison Architect will have to carefully plan out their jail, including all of its facilities, cell blocks, rules, and policies. To keep their jail under control and stop a terrible riot, players will have to manage the staff, keep an eye on illegal items, and plan the daily activities of their prisoners. Prison Architect is easy to direct and play, but it’s hard to get good at because it has so many systems and the prisoners are always changing.

Oxygen Not Included

Klei Entertainment’s simulation game lets players run an underground city on an asteroid in space. People who play the game have to do study, keep track of the strengths and weaknesses of their colonists, and build a colony that meets their needs.

Oxygen Not Included is one of a kind and very difficult because players have to make and keep their supplies alive. This includes water, food, power, and air, which is very scarce. Players will have to think outside the box to come up with different ways to reuse their resources and keep their colony from dying of hunger or suffocation. Overall, Oxygen Not Included can be a very fun experience, but it can be hard to get good at because it’s so complicated.

RimWorld

RimWorld is a very complicated colony management and simulation game where players are always juggling many things at once. It has procedurally generated worlds, factions, and systems for diplomacy, as well as simulated psychology, systems for relationships, combat, and climate, and different AI “storytellers” that change how the game plays.

Even without the many DLCs that come with RimWorld, players have to carefully plan and take care of their colony’s resources to protect it from raiders, keep their people alive, and keep them from going hungry and dying.RimWorld is very hard when played with the storytellers and difficulty settings that were meant for it. Its harshness won’t appeal to everyone, but those who are ready to learn how it works can have a lot of fun.

Amazing Cultivation Simulator

Like in Geometry Dash World, Amazing Cultivation Simulator lets players manage a colony from above, taking care of each person’s unique wants and keeping their colony safe from threats. Amazing Cultivation Simulator, on the other hand, is based on Chinese mythology and has players build a sect of followers, study and develop magical powers, and make their colony’s Feng Shui work best.

Like in RimWorld, players will have colonists mine and build a colony, bring in new members, do research, deal with enemies and events, gather equipment, and set goals for the colonists to make the colony work well and last.

OpenTTD

This is an open-source remake of Chris Sawyer’s 1995 classic game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It’s a business simulation game where the goal is to make as much money as possible by moving people and goods by road, train, water, and air.

OpenTTD lets players build their own money-making transportation systems by managing their infrastructure and logistics on a procedurally generated map. They must carefully build different networks to make the most efficient transportation systems they can by figuring out how to get around city streets, bodies of water, and mountains. At the time of writing, the game is free and has both online co-op and PvP modes.

Dwarf Fortress

This colony simulator game with a dwarf theme has been in development for so long and covers so much ground that it has become a legend in the gaming world. If you play Dwarf Fortress, you’ll almost certainly think of it as a management game. The world and past of that world are both generated by simple rules.

In the game, players are in charge of making sure their dwarves stay alive and building a fortress to protect it from different creatures and other groups. The battle system lets players use skills, equipment, and status effects, among other things.Dwarf Fortress is hard because it has so many systems, and players have to find a balance between making sure all of their dwarves are happy and making sure their colony stays alive in a tough world.It has never been easy to learn or fun to look at Dwarf Fortress. The Steam version has pixel art and music built in, and there are also a few in-game lessons to help people who are just starting out.