Some people like fast-paced shooting while others like repetitive organization. The latter is in for a treat! Management games have always been around, but only now are developers focusing on aesthetics when it comes to this genre.
Strategy-management lovers need never feel left out again when a new and improved stylistic game comes out. Now, there are stylized games for all!
10 Merchant Of The Skies
You live life with your head in the clouds in Merchant of the Skies. Off the bat the game is attractive because of its calm color scheme of mauves and blues. It’s reminiscent of serenity and calming winds.
Captain of a floating vessel, the player must manage their own trading company. You travel far and wide earning money by buying, selling, and trading goods. You earn all the money in the world and upgrade your ship until you can’t!
9 Kingdoms And Castles
Kingdoms and Castles offers a cartoonish approach with its style of graphics. It’s a pixel-block sandbox world much like that of Cube World and Trove. In it, the player controls the growth of a tiny village.
From shacks and cabins to kingdoms and castles, the player transforms towns into cities with vibrant color schemes.
8 Yes, Your Grace
Yes, Your Grace takes a more RPG stylized approach. It’s a strategy management game as well as a “choices matter” adventure. A management game with an interactive story. The player controls a king and has to make decisions based on morals or ego. Save the kingdom’s money for war or use half of it to help some peasants out of a rut?
This game contains multiple endings. Because of its role-playing aspect tied into management, there are many hours of fun to be had here.
7 Spiritfarer
This is a unique management game because it doubles in as an adventure game with a moral story. The player controls a ferry that guides spirits into the afterlife. There is adventure, story, and sadness that awaits!
It’s the animated graphics that look out of an artistic kid’s show or comic book that brings people into this gem. Manage the ferry of doom (or peace), it’s temporary inhabitants, and resources.
6 Spellcaster University
If you’re a Wiccan (or simply a Harry Potter fan), Spellcaster University is the management game to pick. The player is the head of a university that specializes in witches, warlocks, and really anyone with a magic touch.
Control the school’s success or failure. Make sure that the students and teachers are getting the best out of the education system! To do this, the player uses a trading card deck system to upgrade and manage.
5 Turmoil
All that Red Dead Redemption wasn’t for nothing! Get your cowboy on in 1899 with Turmoil, where the player digs for oil faster than his or her opponents. May the best oil company win!
The stylized approach of Turmoil is colorful yet calm and funny because of its key Western themes like the font and oranges and reds. The gameplay is simple enough, performing actions like clockwork back and forth as you rack up coins. Turmoil is a good game to take a load off yet still occupy the mind.
4 Flotsam
Flotsam shares vibrant colors like that of Kingdoms and Castles but instead of the block graphics, it’s almost comic-book-like. In Flotsam, the littered trash of our oceans is yours to explore.
The city you manage and grow is a garbage town in the middle of the sea set in a post-apocalyptic world. The trash plus comic book style is reminiscent of Borderlands for any fans looking for another chaotic cartoon fix.
3 Good Company
Good Company’s art style is soothing in color and adorable in the style of the characters. Another cartoon come-to-life, but more relaxed. In this game, the player controls a company that manufactures robots and robotic parts.
The goal is simple. Make sure production is top-notch and orders are complete! The player can invent new ideas and optimize sales.
2 For The People
A choose your own adventure with a dark atmosphere. There’s more reading in For The People than there may be in other management games because there’s a story intertwined that the player can decide the outcome of.
The player is in a position of political power within a state. They get to decide the political tides that turn and shape the community and history itself. For The People has a noir, visual novel appeal with multiple endings. The management comes in with handling societal affairs and enforcement.
1 Frostpunk
Frostpunk is a classic management game with hyper-realistic visuals that attract the masses into playing. The game is set in a frozen apocalyptic world where only one city and civilization stands. It’s up to the player to make sure that civilization stays afloat and thrives.
The aesthetics are similar to a snowy Russia with steampunk elements, offering a rustic and gritty style for the right type of player.
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