A genre (mainly) of {{Video Game}}s. This type of game focuses on elements like gathering and management of [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas resources]], construction, expansion, research and exploration. Combat may exist, but isn't the point of pure Construction and Management games. If there is a goal, it usually is to reach a certain settlement size, to gather a certain quantity of a resource, or to construct/research certain objects. WideOpenSandbox play with no overarching goal is common.

Most {{Space Management Game}}s and many RealTimeStrategy games overlap with this, as do many cases of AnEntrepreneurIsYou and RenovatingThePlayerHeadquarters. Depending on how detailed the interactions are, many can also be considered {{Simulation Game}}s. Most of these take the form of (isometric or 3D) RealTimeStrategy with a NonEntityGeneral, but many take the perspective of individuals in a third-, first-person or {{side view}} as well. [[FactoryBuildingGame Factory Building Games]] are a SubGenre.

!!{{Trope}}s typically encountered in this genre of games:

* CommandAndConquerEconomy
* ConstructAdditionalPylons
* NonEntityGeneral
* TechTree
* YouRequireMoreVespeneGas
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!!Examples:
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[[folder: Board Games ]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Catan}}''
* ''TabletopGame/{{Citadels}}''
* ''TabletopGame/HamletTheVillageBuildingGame''
* ''TabletopGame/EmpireBuilder''
* ''Suburbia''
* ''TabletopGame/TicketToRide''

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''VideoGame/SevenDaysToDie''
* ''VideoGame/EightRealms''
* ''VideoGame/AgainstTheStorm''
* ''VideoGame/ATrain''
* ''VideoGame/AlienLegacy''
* ''VideoGame/AnnoDomini''
** ''VideoGame/Anno1404''
** ''VideoGame/Anno1800''
* ''VideoGame/{{Aquatico}}''
* ''VideoGame/AvenColony''
* ''VideoGame/{{Banished|2014}}''
* ''VideoGame/BattleshipCraft''
* ''VideoGame/BiingSexIntrigenUndSkalpelle''
* ''VideoGame/BookOfHours''
* ''VideoGame/BuildALot'' series of {{Casual Video Game}}s
* ''VideoGame/CaptainOfIndustry''
* ''VideoGame/CityBuildingSeries'':
** ''VideoGame/{{Caesar}}'' series:
** ''VideoGame/{{Pharaoh}}''
** ''VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus''
** ''VideoGame/EmperorRiseOfTheMiddleKingdom''
* ''VideoGame/ImmortalCitiesChildrenOfTheNile''
* ''[[VideoGame/ChipperAndSonsLumberCo Chipper & Sons Lumber Co.]]''
* The ''VideoGame/{{Chocolatier}}'' series of games from [=PlayFirst=] has the player help to rebuild a family chocolate empire after the family has some kind of problem. The first one had a feud between two sisters, the second one had an outsider ingratiate himself with the patriarch and expect to marry the boss's daughter (you help said daughter behind her father's back), and the third one is set in the aftermath of WWII. You must buy and upgrade factories, source ingredients, find or discover or invent recipes, manage your money, and so on.
* ''VideoGame/CitiesInMotion''
* ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines''
* ''VideoGame/CitiesXL ''
* ''VideoGame/CityBuildingSeries''
* The ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' series
* ''VideoGame/{{Clonk}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Colonization}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Constructor}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Corneroids}}''
* ''VideoGame/CritterCoast''
* ''Videogame/CultOfTheLamb''
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfCrafting''
* ''VideoGame/DeepTownMiningFactory''
* ''VideoGame/{{Depraved}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Diggles}}''
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders''
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders2''
* ''VideoGame/{{DREDGE}}''
* ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper''
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''
* ''VideoGame/DysonSphereProgram''
* ''VideoGame/EmperorRiseOfTheMiddleKingdom''
* ''VideoGame/TheEldritchZookeeper''
* ''VideoGame/EmpireBuilder''
* ''VideoGame/{{Eurorails}}''
* ''VideoGame/EvilGenius''
** ''VideoGame/EvilGenius2''
* ''VideoGame/{{Evony}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Factorio}}''
* ''VideoGame/FactoryIdle''
* ''VideoGame/FairyGodmotherTycoon''
* ''VideoGame/FalloutShelter''
* ''VideoGame/{{Flotsam}}''
* ''VideoGame/FortuneBuilder''
* ''VideoGame/FreeCiv''
* ''VideoGame/FromTheDepths''
* ''VideoGame/FrostPunk''
* ''VideoGame/{{Globulation}}''
* ''VideoGame/GrowSongOfTheEvertree''
* ''VideoGame/TheHappyHereafter''
* ''VideoGame/HoneyIJoinedACult''
* ''[[VideoGame/HolyPotatoes Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!]]'', and subsequent games in the series.
* ''VideoGame/HospitalTycoon''
* ''VideoGame/HotelGiant''
* ''VideoGame/{{Impire}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{IXION}}''
* ''VideoGame/JurassicParkBuilder''
* ''VideoGame/JurassicParkOperationGenesis''
* ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldEvolution''
* ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldEvolution2''
* ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldTheGame''
* ''VideoGame/KaijuAGogo''
* ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram''
* ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram2''
* ''VideoGame/KingdomsAndCastles''
* ''VideoGame/KingdomConquest''
* ''VideoGame/KingOfTheCastle'': A CompetitiveMultiplayer variant in which one King and three factions of Nobles have to manage shared resources to each achieve their own ambitions while sabotaging the others.
* ''VideoGame/KZManager''
* ''VideoGame/{{LEGOLAND}}''
* ''VideoGame/LetsBuildAZoo''
* ''VideoGame/LethisPathOfProgress''
* ''VideoGame/{{Locomotion}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Majesty}}''
* ''VideoGame/MarenianTavernStoryPattyAndTheHungryGod'': Combination restaurant-management simulation and EasternRPG
* ''VideoGame/MedievalDynasty'': Progress from impoverished peasant to lord of a personally-built woodland settlement
* ''VideoGame/{{Micropolis}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''
* ''VisualNovel/MinotaurHotel'': Actually primarily a VisualNovel, however, the management mechanics are made apparent later on in the game where you have to manage the hotel and its workers.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mobility}}'': Research the effects of various futuristic proposals on street traffic and pollution.
* ''VideoGame/NelkeAndTheLegendaryAlchemistsAteliersOfTheNewWorld''
* ''VideoGame/{{Northgard}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Outpost}}''
** ''VideoGame/Outpost2''
* ''The Palace Builder'': Build and landscape for ''ancient regime'' nobles.
* ''VideoGame/{{Parkasaurus}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Parkitect}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Patrician}}'' (crosses this with merchant/trading game)
* ''VideoGame/PlanarPioneers''
* ''VideoGame/PlanetCoaster''
* ''VideoGame/PlanetZoo''
* ''VideoGame/ProjectHighrise''
* ''VideoGame/PunchClub''
* ''VideoGame/{{Railroad}}''
* ''VideoGame/RailroadTycoon''
* ''VideoGame/{{Rebuild}}''
* ''VideoGame/RockStarAteMyHamster''
* ''Restaurant Empire''
* ''VideoGame/TheRiftbreaker''
* ''Toys/RockRaiders''
* ''VideoGame/RollerCoasterTycoon''
* ''VideoGame/RoyalEnvoy'': Direct rebuilding of communities after a major storm.
* ''VideoGame/{{Satisfactory}}''
* ''VideoGame/ScrapMechanic''
* ''VideoGame/{{Settlemoon}}''
* ''VideoGame/SidMeiersSimGolf''
* ''VideoGame/SimCity''
** ''VideoGame/SimCity2013''
* ''VideoGame/SimSafari''
* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' franchise can be played as this.
* ''VideoGame/SimTower ''
* ''VideoGame/{{Simutrans}}''
* ''VideoGame/SortTheCourt''
* ''VideoGame/SpaceEngineers''
* ''VideoGame/SpaceRun''
* ''VideoGame/SpaceWarlordOrganTradingSimulator''
* ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Starmancer}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Startopia}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Stonehearth}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Stranded}}''
* ''VideoGame/{{Stronghold}}''
* ''VideoGame/StrongholdKingdoms''
* ''VideoGame/SurvivingMars''
* ''VideoGame/TerraInvicta''
* ''VideoGame/{{Timberborn}}''
* ''VideoGame/ThemeHospital''
* ''VideoGame/ThemePark''
* ''VideoGame/ThisIsThePolice''
** ''VideoGame/ThisIsThePolice2''
* ''VideoGame/ThisWarOfMine''
* ''VideoGame/{{Townsmen}}''
* ''VideoGame/TransportTycoon''
* ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}}''
* ''VideoGame/TunnelTown'', an ''VideoGame/AnimalJam'' SpinOff MobilePhoneGame, in which the player manages an UndergroundCity populated with rabbits
* ''VideoGame/TwoPointHospital''
* ''VideoGame/TheUniversim''
* ''VideoGame/UrbanEmpire''
* ''VideoGame/TheWanderingVillage''
* ''VideoGame/WarForTheOverworld''
* ''VideoGame/WeHappyRestaurant''
* ''VideoGame/{{Westward}}'' series of {{Casual Video Game}}s--borderline combat-heavy
* ''VideoGame/WettlaufInsAll''
* ''VideoGame/{{Winemaker}}'': Inherit grandfather's vineyard, gather pieces of a family blend recipe, buy supplies, grow and harvest grapes, make wine, fill orders, reassemble estranged members of an international winemakers' guild.
* ''VideoGame/WorkersAndResourcesSovietRepublic''
* ''VideoGame/ZooTycoon''
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