Strategy/Management Recommendations

MurphyBrix · 26 Dec 2019 at 11:34

Hi Guys

Seeing though ive chucked Football Manager for the first time in years, ive got a strategy/Management itch that needs scratching.

Any recommendations people??

McPhee · 26 Dec 2019 at 12:18

Prison Architect
Cities Skylines
Jurassic World Evolution
Planet Zoo
Two Point Hospital
Frostpunk
Tropico
Transport Fever 2

Prison Architect, Frostpunk, Jurassic World and the older Tropico games are available pretty cheap at the moment.

aoaaron · 26 Dec 2019 at 13:55

MurphyBrix said:
Hi Guys

Seeing though ive chucked Football Manager for the first time in years, ive got a strategy/Management itch that needs scratching.

Any recommendations people??

hahah oh god that terrible game.

i had an FM addiction. so much time wasted looking at 2d characters and spreadsheets.

CaptainRAVE · 26 Dec 2019 at 13:58

satchef1 said:
Prison Architect
Cities Skylines
Jurassic World Evolution
Planet Zoo
Two Point Hospital
Frostpunk
Tropico
Transport Fever 2

Prison Architect, Frostpunk, Jurassic World and the older Tropico games are available pretty cheap at the moment.

Planet zoo and Jurassic world are tempting me.

Flaevius · 26 Dec 2019 at 14:20

Unity of Command.

An older indie WW2 military strategy game, akin to Panzer General. The first game plus expansions is just over £5 on Steam - very highly rated in general.

MurphyBrix · 26 Dec 2019 at 14:49

satchef1 said:
Prison Architect
Cities Skylines
Jurassic World Evolution
Planet Zoo
Two Point Hospital
Frostpunk
Tropico
Transport Fever 2

Prison Architect, Frostpunk, Jurassic World and the older Tropico games are available pretty cheap at the moment.

I already have Frostpunk. Good game but doesnt have a lot of return play. Any ideas regarding theme park games?

McPhee · 26 Dec 2019 at 15:09

MurphyBrix said:
I already have Frostpunk. Good game but doesnt have a lot of return play. Any ideas regarding theme park games?

Planet Coaster is probably the best of them. But it's more about building roller coasters and themeing than managing the park. I've heard good things about Parkitect, but haven't picked it up myself yet.

Or there's OpenRCT2, which is free.

YoungBlood · 26 Dec 2019 at 15:14

Oxygen not included is a good killer of time.
Easy to learn hard to master.

loftie · 30 Dec 2019 at 01:45

I will hesitantly throw Factorio into the mix. Strategy and management in the form of layout planning, resource management, base expansion and defence from friendly neighbourhood bugs.

Oxygen Not Included - very cool game IMO.
OpenTTD - it's free, can get complex, build a transport network.
Cities Skylines - Build/plan a city. Then mess about with some shores and realise you're crap a landscaping as your city gets flooded (oops)
Anno - not played enough of 1800 to judge how good/bad it is, though it seemed good. However price of entry into some of the older titles makes it easier to try to see if you like the series. I'd probably go for 2070, though 1404 is also very good. 2205 is... different. I wouldn't start with that one.

Mercutio · 31 Dec 2019 at 12:26

Are you after full, beardy, deep strategy or something a bit more... light?

For heavier stuff (that WILL punish you the first few hours till you get an idea of a good direction):
Rimworld for a colony management type thing, it's awfully simple graphics if you need eye candy but is VERY deep if you want.
Stellaris for a proper grand 4x strategy game. The original game alone is fine, each of the DLC's adds something without ANY being required.

Ryan-3 · 1 Jan 2020 at 18:12

I needed to scratch my strategy itch and picked up Stellaris in the Steam sale. It goes very deep but I'm liking it a lot.