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1090 Crafting & Building games reviewed and scored, best first.
1090 reviews
The comfort-game renovation sim that made cleaning and decorating genuinely satisfying — weighed down by a progress-erasing bug reviewers have reported for years and a sprawling paid DLC ecosystem that locks most of the game's achievements behind it.
6.5 / 10
A voxel mining sandbox where you carry exactly one object at a time and build hydro-powered machines to stop doing that by hand — six years of near-continuous updates from a tiny studio, undercut by real content thinness once automation clicks into place.
6.5 / 10
Grumpy Rhino Games' 2018 cult-tycoon idler turns its tower into an actual production chain instead of an upgrade list, and its Idol-summoning prestige loop still holds up — but the studio has settled into bug-fix-only maintenance, and there's little new to chase for anyone who cleared the tower years ago.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$5.99 solo-developed idle RPG that builds a genuinely large xianxia cultivation ladder — four realms, twelve stages, a reincarnation-and-soul-perk prestige loop — undercut by a recurring, still-unresolved save-corruption bug and a depth ceiling its own most invested players describe hitting after two or three lifetimes.
6.5 / 10
A small, self-published idle digger about a living pickaxe smashing its way to the core of the earth — genuinely satisfying for the four or so hours its content lasts, before the post-game stretch that chases the last achievements turns into the thing several reviewers actually complain about.
6.5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic idle game built around a genuine grid-inventory puzzle rather than a spreadsheet of upgrade buttons, undercut by a prestige system that does the math against itself and timers that make "idle" feel like the wrong word for long stretches of it.
6.5 / 10
A three-day-old idle ARPG from Chinese solo studio TUNA TUN that docks a full loot-and-buildcraft game — skill trees, randomised affixes, gem sockets, a 50-level dungeon path and an infinite Ascension ladder above it — into a fixed panel in the corner of your screen, undercut by an immovable window, a tedious itemisation flow and freeze bugs its nine early reviewers are already naming.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed idle RPG whose gear-absorbing prestige system and genuinely deep loot hooked hundreds of hours out of its fans -- while a hands-on bounty system that fights the "idle" label and some brutally uneven scaling keep it at Mixed rather than a genre standout.
6.5 / 10
Kolibri Games' decade-old mobile idle didn't just popularise the miner-elevator-warehouse loop, it more or less invented the template every mining incremental since has copied. Ten years and a Ubisoft acquisition later, the loop still works — the monetisation menu and the interface built on top of it are where the wear shows.
6.5 / 10
A polished incremental about commanding elemental golems to strip-mine an endless dungeon, with the best chain-reaction visuals the genre has produced this year — and a finish line most players cross in a weekend, despite the name.
6.5 / 10
Raise bees on floating islands, crossbreed them for traits, and rebuild a supply of honey for a dying Earth. A lovely, meditative idea shipped without an Early Access label straight into a week of blocking bugs — and patched fast enough that its Steam rating has been climbing ever since.
6.5 / 10
A minimalist, procedurally generated building-placement puzzle game marketed as a relaxing city builder, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 10,200 reviews for its charming presentation — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that it isn't really a city builder at all, but a short, score-based placement puzzle with no simulated citizens, thin content, and real frustration from procedural generation that can produce unplayable island layouts.
6.5 / 10
A single-player roguelite that recreates the specific childhood nostalgia of trading cards on a school playground, praised as a hidden gem for its Pokemon-and-Magic-flavoured collecting loop and complete absence of microtransactions, undercut by unfair difficulty scaling and a punishing lose-a-card mechanic that traps struggling players in a downward spiral.
6.5 / 10
Jargon is an $11.99 solo-developer word-game roguelite that fuses Scrabble-style tile play with a Balatro-style escalating run structure, and its small but unanimously positive review sample praises a genuinely strategic, replayable core loop built around a persistent gameboard, even from reviewers who came in expecting just another entry in a crowded genre.
6.5 / 10
A macro-focused RTS where you claw territory back from a robot horde that already owns the whole map, spend every watt of power on a rolling trade-off between economy, defence and offence, and push toward a 16-mission campaign the developer rates at 25-plus hours on Hard. Released 6 August 2026 with zero user reviews yet and a demo that's been public since March.
6.5 / 10
Avalanche Studios' explosion-driven open-world sandbox remains a genre landmark for its enormous map, physics-based grappling hook and parachute traversal, and sheer chaotic freedom — but this Steam release has drifted into functional abandonware, with widespread, well-documented crashes on modern systems requiring specific manual fixes that most reviewers now treat as mandatory rather than optional.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely inspired mashup of PlateUp!'s frantic real-time chaos and tower defense's cannon-and-ammunition strategy — beloved by the players who found it, undercut by severe multiplayer lag and specific reproducible bugs, and confirmed abandoned by its developer roughly seven months after launch in favour of a new project.
6.5 / 10
Developer Tlön Industries, published by indienova and V Publishing, delivers a metroidvania fused with survival-crafting and factory-style automation, earning specific praise for its genre blend, art direction and writing from a Mostly Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint that manual plant-watering, shallow base management and inconsistent combat undercut an otherwise ambitious automation loop.
6.5 / 10
A casual management sim built around the real Chinese jade-gambling tradition of cutting open raw stone to reveal what's inside, earning a small but entirely positive launch reception for its tense cutting loop, while reviewers are candid that its crafting and haggling systems stay shallow once the pattern is learned.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer, first-person turn-based deckbuilding roguelike that launched into Early Access on 6 August 2026 with three classes, over 100 relics and a ten-tier ascension ladder already in place — reviewed the following day, with zero user reviews yet to check the pitch against and achievement stats that resolve to roughly two reporting accounts.
6.5 / 10
A stylish, microtransaction-free idle game about building an alien empire and clicking asteroids -- genuinely loved for its writing and its refusal to nickel-and-dime, and just as consistently criticised for running out of new things to do long before players run out of interest.
6.5 / 10
A Fifty-Seventh Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review LEARNING ROGUE launched on Steam on 26 August 2026 from developer YIICTSC, and at the time of writing it has zero user re
6.5 / 10
Bristol outsourcing studio Meteor Pixel's first original IP turns a sticker book into a cozy decorating sandbox, and a genuinely charming, well-crafted sticker library wins over the vast majority of players even as a consistent, specific complaint about thin content and short runtime runs through a meaningful share of its own reviews.
6.5 / 10
A cozy Stardew Valley-in-space farming RPG whose charming art and clever "planets instead of seasons" hook are consistently undercut by grind and a punishingly fast day-night clock that its own long-time fans say still hasn't been fixed.
6.5 / 10
