Where it differs from most of its peers is in the engineering rigour it requires from players. Oxygen Not Included is one of a handful of Dwarf Fauxtress games in this list where you take charge of a small group of hapless people arriving in an inhospitable location, in this case the centre of an asteroid, and you must mine and construct the tools they need to survive. You can write your own entry for the game in the comments, and we'll consider it for inclusion in a future revision to this list. If you don't see your favourite on the list, it must be at number 21. You can hit the links to go direct to the write-up of the game in question. The list below contains our picks for the 20 best management games to play on PC, split across two pages. It doesn't highlight every single one of the management games on our list, but it does focus on the games nearer the top. Here's a video version of this list for those of you who like words to be spoken and pictures to move. That means we've excluded some formative classics that feel less easily recommended in 2021 - although you'll still find a handful of games here that are old enough to drink.

The only rule is that it needs to be fun to play right now. We've selected all different kinds of management games below, with something to satisfy you whether you want to run a household, keep colonists sane, process poisonous gases, or obsess over conveyor belt efficiency. If you're looking for something to sink into over the holidays, check out our picks below.

Don't worry, though - it's only because there are already so many classics to choose from. 2021 has been 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.

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