Last updated on December 17th, 2025 at 03:48 am
Energy Manager – 2026 – Strategy Game Review
Energy Manager – 2026 is a Strategy/Simulation game from Xombat ApS, first launched in 23rd April 2024.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 451+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Energy Manager – 2026 Stand Out
Are you the next power and energy mogul? Can you achieve a monopoly? In Energy Manager you create and manage your own power empire where you build it up from nothing to owning routes all over the world. Compete to be at the top of the multiplayer leaderboards and challenge your friends and other real life energy managers from all over the world.
- 2 game modes – EASY and REALISTIC
- 30+ energy source and storage types
- 160+ countries to start from
- 30,000+ cities to expand to
REAL LIFE ENERGY GENERATORS
Utilize the power of an energy tycoon simulator to create a strategy where you can become as big as real energy key groups like Nextera, Shell, Aramco, Engie or Iberdrola and claim monopoly. Create, schedule and explore international connections between significant cities like Tokyo, New York, Paris, Madrid and Shanghai.
Track your network live when you designate redundant energy or when sun and wind is not on your side and production stands still.
CHOOSE REALISTIC GAMEPLAY
You can play on two difficulties: either EASY or REALISM. Go the easy way to lower prices and increase profits or challenge yourself with realism where you have to be the manager of the smallest things like surplus prices and taxes.
ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY
Shape the future for everyone with a focus on sustainable energy sources and storage such as solar, wind, water, electric and nuclear. Make sure that cars, ships, trains, planes and trucks can get around without increasing pollution.
Coal, oil and natural gas power plants are available too if you want to cover all your bases.
Features include:
- Track your network LIVE
- Manage your staff
- Invest in rival energy companies
- Put your company on the stock market
- Create or join alliances with influential managers or friends
- Both known and less known power sources
- Buy and sell energy
- Customize and upgrade wind turbines, solar panels, power plants and more
- And much more!
Become the CEO of a vast network of energy and power and strive to take over the world and realize your dreams of a monopoly.
You got the power!
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Energy Manager – 2026 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Download & Availability
Energy Manager – 2026 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Good game. Like the economic balance. Frustratingly, we do not get notifications. We have ensured the game notifications are on within the app, as well as our device notifications are on in our settings, specifically for the app, yet nothing. We have also deleted the app and reinstalled, but never get a warning when discharge is complete or when power banks are full.
Super fun and a good learning curve but its addicting and a 10/10.
This is our favorite kind of idle game. There are no mechanics which try to get us to log on often and it is just something fun that we can spend 5 minutes on once or twice a day.
Every night we fill up our oil plants and they should be full when we wake up but at some point they stop charging our batteries and just burn all our fuel.
Will yall please fix glitches and issues. Love the game.
So off the bat, we like the game, however we feel like Im playing a beta version and not the launch version, and judging by the version history it has only been out 6mo. We love playing the roll of a grid operator. We find power generation fascinating and have been wanting a game that is more serious at simulating that, that also doesnt have cartoon graphics. This game hits pretty close. Heres what we think needs improvement/ refinement: Map: we would love to see city names on the map and see interstates so there is some resemblance of location. Also please get rid of the green back ground, it looks weird and is annoying. Power plants: Id like to see greater variation in power plant, and you left out a major way to make power! Hydroelectric! Change the map to add some water ways and add hydro. Also Id like for there to be Natural Gas Plants that are actually called that and not low emission gas. Its just weird, call it for what it is. Grid: We need to be able to connect directly to the grid and not only be able to store power at stations. Add in peak demand and peak rates and ways to have some automation with having certain plants like gas come online during peak demand. Overall, anyone playing this game is likely a nerd like us, and you can never go wrong with adding detail and depth to the game. We want options. More power plant, more fluctuations in demand, make it seem more real with updating the map. Keep up the good work! Your on the right path.
Hydrogen is by far the best money maker. The reason is simply demand is never depleted at that hours rate. Electricity however, is by grid, and a grid may only be buying 800 MWH. A 5 GWH LIPO is over 6 times that, yet is worth 50% value when selling because fully storage is sold on grid. IRL this is known is avoided cost. If we could discharge our batteries to what a grid needs, and then discharge to other grids, the remaining amounts and so on, itd be much more realistic. Currently, cross grid discharging is useless unless you need to instantly sell power.
It is a very fun non-demanding game to play. The no forced ads make this game ideal for playtime! We wish they would spend some more time in the alliance section. Give us more to research. More boosts ect. And give us some of the stuff thats been saying coming soon for a while now. Few small tweaks will make this game boom.
Like this game a lot. Have all of them. One thing, we think that there should be some way to turn waves or tides into energy. (Water energy).
Lets start with bad because we all want to know. About a month of playing it is a great idle game. No forced ads, no pay to win etc. When it comes to earning points that is used for fuel storage upgrades, and everything else, the price difference between how fast you can earn them and how much upgrades are seem a little off, almost as if the players are heavily influenced by game mechanics to purchase them through booster packs later on in the game. Possibly increasing ad reward between 5-15 points and guaranteeing ads everytime you log on so it doesnt seem like that is a major part of the games main focus. The P2X storage system lacks dicharge history and also needs individual discharging instead of a mass sell across all of your storages. Also when is the new items like the grid connectors and sea turbines coming out they seem to have been coming soon for a while now. Overall though with the critisism it is a genuinely fun idle game, definitely needs mechanical tweaking as said but we hope the developers will use this and hopefully expand the game even further.
Hello developers and everyone else. We love the game, we love the concept, and we cant wait to see whats cooking in future updates. There is one issue we have regarding the storage facilities though. We could be in the app and have a storage facility at 65% capacity, we would close the app and reopen it some time later and the storage facility would be at 57%. Its like a data loss after reopen. But thats just one example, this problem has came across us dozens of times now and most often, it would be a full storage facility that was dropped down to near only half full. It really beats us down every time because its not only a lot of wasted resources, but time. We appreciate the read through.
Its an amazing game and you can just do something by else and by the time you come back you have like 1,000,000,000,000 dollars. There is one problem thought, it is probably too complicated because we got stuck on the tutorial for like 5 mins. You should change the part where you place down your first windmill or whatever to: place your first energy source somewhere in the highlighted part of the grid. If you do this we would really appreciate it.
Absolutely love the game!! Only thing its aggravating to go to all the plants, and storage units all one by one to repair them. We suggest that we need a repair all button somewhere in the game. That would make this a hole lot simpler.
Just downloaded this game excited for it but its constantly loading and freezing. We have a new iPhone not sure why this is an issue. Developers work your bugs out.
Could be a good game but whats the point if you are going to limit the number of power plants to 50? Replay value becomes 0.
Can play this anymore. You lose all energy youve stored through the day unless you sell it before dusk. All energy storage units loose all stored energy when the sun goes down. This game is just not worth the effort.
We love how the developers put soooo much work into this game! We have had so much fun playing it.
The game is very good. We like this style.
Our only thing we wish was added, was the ability to repair all items that need it. Other than that, we really enjoy this game.
We signed in as a guest account and it worked for a week but suddenly it kicked us out and wouldnt let us sign it to continue our account.
Good game. Kept us entertained for a while but about 3 weeks in it kicked us back to the login screen and wouldnt let us resume our progress.
Our rating would of been higher if there wasn't large leap in cost of power plant and there should smaller power plants that are 10mw to 50 mwatt plants for fossil and if possible add hydro plant and geothermal plants and biofuel plant.
We dont know if its just our internet or it take forever to load we we see is a green screen but sometimes when it lets us play when we wait for 5 minutes it literally on occasions it wont let you click stuff.
Its great except it wiped our progress out of nowhere.
The game is fun but for some reason every time we go past 255 points the game literally steals them and knocks us back down. Ive tried watching the adds and same thing happens. Ill get the points for like 5 mins then it will get knocked down to 255. Please fix.
The us is messed up it doesnt even have Michigan.
- The power in the battery cannot be discharged as required, it can only be completely emptied. 2. After purchasing a facility twice, it will show low inventory and increase the price. However, we dont know how long it will take to return to normal prices. This time is very long, and it doesnt seem to automatically return to the original price unless you keep buying at a high price. 3. There are very few types of fossil power plants, and there is a gap in facilities between 1.5MW-75MW, which is very low in cost performance and extremely unbalanced. 4. Other battery information cannot be viewed during battery discharge. 5. Information such as wind speed and load of unpurchased power grids cannot be viewed, so reference suggestions for purchase cannot be viewed. 6. The power plant needs to be connected to the battery to generate electricity, but the power plant will not stop generating electricity when the battery is fully charged.
After reaching a point where we have maxed out what we could, the game teases new stuff coming soon. However, 2 months in, nothing new has been added except a few proformace upgrades and bug fixes. We are to the point now where im bored with the game. Getting to this point has been decent at passing time, but its a very inconsistent game as far as alliance funds, prices and price comparisons. Basically, hydrogen is the only at to make decent money consistently.
All of the Great Lakes are replaced with land. Theyre outlined so Id think this would be an easy fix, then again what do we know. Also theres no audio at all. We dont know if this is a issue on our end or if the game just has no audio. If this is not a issue on our end, we would heavily suggest adding audio. Even cheap audio fx would be better then nothing. (we had checked game settings, our sound for the fourth time, and iOS settings to try to hear the audio if any.) Other then that its pretty solid game other than some other issues people brought up. We would give it a ~4 but we wanted the game devs to see and hopefully fix. :).
However the conditions can be harsh and too realistic. There are also some good plants that are in Coming Soon mode, especially the solar plant.
So far its seems to be a good game. However if they wanted to use only metric standards then they shouldve kept us from choosing a country that uses empirical standards. Can you make the temp and everything else march the area you allow us to pick please? Not its not that hard to do as Im a game coder/dev, so yes we do understand what Im asking.
This game is very fun and is always enjoyable but a few problems. 1. Is kinda hard to understand 2. Still has a few bugs and 3. Some things require money.
What we like is that its not pay to win. Ofc you can pay but that just removes the entire purpose of playing the game. There is no direct competition where if you dont pay you cant win. We personally like it and hope there is gonna be more content soon.
Its really good fun but only way we can get point is either do micro transactions or watching a video. If we can earn points on achievements it would be ideal.
Overall, the game is good, but at the near the end of the tutorial when you finish all of the stuff it says to join the discord, but when you click on it, nothing happens. We couldnt figure out how to buy a grid so we couldnt continue the game. If you could explain how to do it, that would be helpful.
Love the game its simple but in depth and can be played for a while need to add some things like alliance rankings etc.
It's a good game but the gap between the second oil plant and the first coal plants is too big. The game needs more plants to fill the gap.
This is a fun game but it takes entirely too long long between rounds.
We can't enter the game when we download it again.
Just wish they would add the ev charger and grid power storage.
Could we do a Hospital manager game built just like this one.
We love the game but we cant open it when we do ot just stays on the green screen and you should add more content to explore and stuff.
We feel like you need to add a button to fuel all your plants with the current market value of materials its taking us over 40 minutes to fill some of our storage units and we just cant do that if you made this change this would 100% be a 5 star game but until a change like that is made we cant play this game and waste that much time.
Needs work to make it fun and not bogged down chasing grid wind speeds etc. The cost to buy other power sources is prohibitive, this game will die on the vine . Has great potential but is not there yet.
This game is great as of right now. However, we believe it could be even better if the developers visit the right areas and implement the right things. Also, would be great to be able to speak directly with developers maybe once every few weeks.
Our biggest issue is the fact that youre limited to 60 production units. Our goal was to have wind and solar covering every grid in the USA, but because youre limited to 60 production units, we are going to stop playing the game, as we cannot play how we wanted and do not want to switch to using other production units(like coal and oil), at least until we had expanded much farther than it will allow us. We were very much enjoying the game but will no longer be playing.
Would like to see the coming soon things to come online.
Overall this game seems like a good concept, however it glitches to where we cant put build on any of our owned grids. The only one that worked was our starting grid and that was only half the time.
This game is kinda good actually, yall should try it.
Super good game recommend for anyone.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.14
- Size: 125.30 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: AR, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Xombat ApS
Last updated: 19th November 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Xombat ApS