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1090 Crafting & Building games reviewed and scored, best first.
1090 reviews
A genuinely inventive Lua-scripted sandbox for building retro-styled electronic gadgets, held back by a punishingly steep learning curve and a real Early Access wobble that's only recently given way to substantial, active development again.
6.5 / 10
A deceptively deep ASCII roguelike RPG that BBS and MUD veterans recognize instantly, praised for genuine crafting, exploration and combat systems hidden behind simple text graphics — undercut by a detailed, technical reviewer account of late-game balance breaking down entirely, and a genre-identity debate over whether permadeath even suits it.
6.5 / 10
A beautiful, genuinely novel pirate sandbox whose reviews split almost entirely on one axis — whether you can tolerate its unrestricted PvP and the community built around it — plus a real, press-covered 2026 community-safety controversy worth knowing about before you buy.
6.5 / 10
What if Goat Simulator went to wizard school? Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate sends players into a prestigious, thinly-disguised wizarding academy hid
6.5 / 10
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EXLIX's ambitious fusion of choose-your-own-adventure storytelling, roguelite deckbuilding, and turn-based card combat delivers on its post-apocalyptic worldbuilding and branching narrative far more consistently than it delivers a fair, bug-free fight.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely excellent, Dorfromantik-inspired daytime tile-placement builder wrapped around a Lovecraftian night-time tower-defense mode reviewers consistently describe as rough, unbalanced and unwieldy by comparison, redeemed somewhat by an actively responsive developer already patching based on player feedback.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$3.74 solo-scale mining clicker from Kitty Games — eight upgrade tiers, a New Game Plus prestige loop that unlocks passive buildings, an Endless Mode and combinable difficulty mods, all narrated by a snarky fox in a top hat — checked against its own store data and a six-review sample rather than played.
6.5 / 10
A co-op sky-island survival game that trades hunger bars and monsters for solar panels and delivery drones — charming and genuinely clever in its energy systems, but its progression runs out of new ideas long before the credits.
6.5 / 10
Another Shelf, Another 4,000 Rubber Ducks Sort Them Ducks is the latest entry in the small but suddenly crowded genre of first-person tidy-up games kicked off by titles like Librar
6.5 / 10
A pixel-art MMO built around reshuffling roguelite dungeons and a player-run overworld, launched into Early Access carrying the baggage of its previous life as an NFT game.
6.5 / 10
A survival game where you recruit tribespeople who keep working while you're logged out — a genuinely original idea, attached to a 1.0 launch so rough the developers published a public 90-day plan to fix it.
6.5 / 10
A fantasy RTS/RPG hybrid that launched genuinely buggy and unbalanced in 2017, briefly carried a real, documented tracking-software controversy, and was rebuilt into a noticeably better game by a free 2020 overhaul most reviewers now treat as the definitive way to play it.
6.5 / 10
The clearest case in this library of a Steam score that has become a historical document — a Mixed badge earned in 2023 sitting on top of a game that, three years and a flight update later, its current players mostly recommend.
6.5 / 10
An Americana-infused space trucking sim that launched without control remapping — locking out at least one player with a physical disability entirely — before a fast fix and nearly two years of steady, ongoing support. This review reads the whole arc, not just the rocky opening week.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely influential open-world zombie survival RPG whose Very Positive reputation across more than 15,000 reviews sits on top of a real, well-documented controversy — years of abandoned patches while a paid remaster was sold separately — that Undead Labs ultimately resolved by giving every original owner a free copy of that remaster.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed WWII grand strategy wargame that strips Hearts of Iron-style nation-management down to something reviewers repeatedly call accessible and genuinely fun, undercut by specific, unresolved mechanical gaps around diplomacy, unit death and population that keep it feeling like an early, unfinished sandbox rather than a complete strategy game.
6.5 / 10
Netmarble folds its 25-year-old dinosaur-taming franchise into an idle deck-builder, and the 24-unit battles are genuinely more tactical than the "auto-play RPG" label suggests — right up until the real-time PvP mode starts pricing in who's willing to spend.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$30.99 hand-drawn metroidvania from Jotun developer Thunder Lotus that has held Very Positive across roughly 4,090 Steam reviews since July 2017 — some of the most consistently praised art direction in the genre, wrapped around a randomized horde-combat system that a large share of its own reviewers argue actively fights the exploration-driven genre it belongs to, worst of all in a final act public achievement data confirms most players never finish.
6.5 / 10
A Gothic, Lovecraft-adjacent nautical roguelike set beneath a subterranean sea, Very Positive across nearly 5,700 reviews for genuinely exceptional prose and world-building — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that the actual sailing and economy gameplay is slow, repetitive filler between story beats, alongside a specific, long-unaddressed font legibility bug and reported ongoing crash issues.
6.5 / 10
Fontty Games' Sunset Sprout drops a burnt-out office worker onto a tropical island to rebuild an abandoned farm, earning a Positive reception for its clicker-adjacent, hands-on production loop and relaxed tone, in a small but enthusiastic review corpus that treats it as a low-stakes, mouse-friendly alternative to Stardew Valley rather than a rival to it.
6.5 / 10
Super Starship is a solo-developed, lo-fi space exploration game from developer Les Bird offering a persistent, million-star, 18-million-planet universe to freely explore and claim, and this review's largely positive sample finds a chill, No Man's Sky-at-home experience whose real bugs and rough rover controls have been the subject of an unusually relentless, weekly patch cadence.
6.5 / 10
A Tiny Sim That Just Wants You to Catch a Wave Surf Sandbox, released August 25, 2026 from developer nocanwin, bills itself exactly as its name suggests: "a tiny, casual surfi
6.5 / 10
You Already Know the Apocalypse Is Coming. What Do You Hoard First? Survival Log, developed by Midnight Workshop and published by Lilith Games, opens with a premise borrowed straig
6.5 / 10
Sushi Cat - Tower Defense revives Armor Games' long-dormant flash-game mascot as a maze-building roguelite tower defense, and its Very Positive review sample praises a genuinely satisfying path-building hook and an unusually responsive launch-week patch cadence, while converging hard on real performance crashes and a repetitive, single-strategy midgame.
6.5 / 10
