There's nothing quite like idly passing the time in your favorite management game, free of your usual combat stress, but filled with the constant dread of losing it all and going broke. As the years continue to pass, we get to see some inspiring new takes and special new management experiences that flood these genres with fun. It's always a pleasure to see how each Game Developer puts their own unique spin on it. With hundreds of games coming out, here are a few of the best and brightest in the bunch from Steam Next Fest, 2023 in terms of all things Dungeons & Management.
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These games are not ranked in any specific order. They're only numbered to stay organized.
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Just because we're not planning on reviewing a game does not dictate it as bad or good. We only have so much time to review games so we prioritize ones we personally want to play over others. Our tastes may differ, but that doesn't mean a game isn't quality.
1. Super Dungeon Designer
🏷️ Genre: Dungeon Crawler, Level Editor, PvP
📅 Release Date: September 2023
🗒️ Description: Build your own dungeons and share them with others! Create tricky puzzles and fun challenges and share your creation with the world!
📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
2. Landnama
🏷️ Genre: Strategy, City Builder, Simulation, 2D, Roguelite
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
📱 Social Media: Unable to Locate
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
3. Jumplight Odyssey
🏷️ Genre: Srategy, Simulation, Management, Colony Sim
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Keep hope alive on your adventure to the mythical Forever Star! Gather survivors, repair and build out your starship, brave black holes, and fend off attacks, all while managing the daily soap opera of your colorful crew.
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
4. Merchant of the Six Kingdoms
🏷️ Genre: RPG, Trading, Economy, Turn-Based Strategy, Management
📅 Release Date: Jun 27, 2023
🗒️ Description: Become a medieval merchant and master the arts of bartering, haggling, and investing, Explore 20 markets, barter with 200 characters, and trade in over 1,800 items in a dynamic bartering and haggling system that will challenge and reward.
🎮 Website
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
5. Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master
🏷️ Genre: Management, Sandbox, Funny, Building, 3D
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage & defend your dungeon in this satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair !
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
6. Mind Over Magic
🏷️ Genre: Simulation, Magic, Colony Sim, Base Building
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Design, build and manage your magic school to explore what lies below. Study lost arcana, grow exotic plants, brew potions, and raise undead servants -- only you can prepare your fragile students to harness their Mind Over Magic.
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
7. Laysara: Summit Kingdom
🏷️ Genre: Strategy, City Builder, Building
📅 Release Date: 2023
🗒️ Description: Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
8. Homeseek
🏷️ Genre: Multiplayer, City Builder, Colony Sim, Simulation
📅 Release Date: July 20th, 2023
🗒️ Description: Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a dystopian, resource-strapped Earth at the beginning of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice becomes life or death. With your guidance, survival just might be within reach.
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
9. Ratopia
🏷️ Genre: Simulation, Indie, City Builder, Strategy, 2D
📅 Release Date: Q4 2023
🗒️ Description: New game with combined genre of strategic survival, Sandbox, and city building simulation. Enjoy the simulation with vast world to adventure with a great number of contents. Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Possibly
10. Quest Master
🏷️ Genre: Dungeon Crawler, Controller, Level Editor, Action
📅 Release Date: Unannounced
🗒️ Description: Quest Master is a dungeon maker inspired by the classics that first made us love dungeon crawling. Unleash your imagination, alone or in local co-op, to make dungeons full of puzzles, traps and monsters. Upload them for others to explore and challenge yourself with other players’ creations.
🎮 Discord
📝 Reviewing?: Unlikely
That's all folks!
That's it for the best Dungeons & Management games of the Steam Next Fest 2023 event. Click HERE to be taken back to the Master List article... but before you go, make sure to drop a like below if you're a big fan of the genre, and leave a comment telling us what games you're looking forward to most!
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