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1090 Crafting & Building games reviewed and scored, best first.
1090 reviews
The Artifactory is a $19.99 Overcooked-style couch co-op game about crafting magical loot in a chaotic, constantly-breaking factory, and this review's Mostly Positive sample (13 of 17 reviews) consistently praises its cute art and genuine co-op fun while just as consistently flagging persistent control jank and conveyor belts that break down too often, with one long-term player reporting the same core bugs remained six months after launch.
5.5 / 10
A years-in-the-making, Kickstarter-backed open-world farming sim that finally hit Early Access — and immediately ran into the one thing its audience cared most about. The co-op isn't the shared-farm co-op people bought it for, and the Mixed rating is mostly that discovery happening 392 times.
5.5 / 10
A spiritual successor to the classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms-inspired JRPG series Tunshi Tiandi, offering genuinely satisfying general-and-skill team-building on top of Liu Bei's rise from the Yellow Turban Rebellion, undercut by an awkward split keyboard-and-mouse control scheme and a total absence of maps or fast travel that a striking number of reviewers single out as painful.
5.5 / 10
The Torchlight series' return from a scrapped free-to-play MMO experiment landed as a slimmer, shallower action RPG than its beloved predecessor — and six years on, its Mixed Steam rating hasn't moved an inch, even as the studio that made it no longer exists.
5.5 / 10
A single-tower roguelite defense game with a genuinely neat central hook — build and upgrade one tower instead of placing many — undercut at launch by narrow build viability, a cramped view window and a price several of its own fans said was too high for what shipped.
5.5 / 10
Riding The Tidy-Up Wave Toy Shop Tidy Up is a $4.99 cozy organizing sandbox from small studio Shiftmoon, released on Steam on August 7, 2026 with no prior demo or Early Access peri
5.5 / 10
The latest entry in a decades-old railroad simulation franchise with a genuinely huge, devoted user-content community and an unusually long, real support record, undercut by persistent performance problems worse than its own predecessor and a DLC business model that locks even basic visual quality behind hundreds of separate purchases.
5.5 / 10
A short incremental business sim about sorting trash for profit, whose fun core concept and progression won over a slim majority of players but whose full release feels noticeably slower and grindier than the beloved free demo it grew from, splitting the review pool almost down the middle.
5.5 / 10
A visually extraordinary point-and-click mystery built from genuine hand-crafted physical dioramas, whose near-unanimous artistic praise is repeatedly undercut by real technical bugs, unfair 90s-style puzzle logic, and a story reviewers describe as disjointed.
5.5 / 10
A free, Motherload-inspired 2D mining exploration game about drilling ever deeper for minerals and upgrades, whose charm and generosity at zero cost earn wide goodwill, tempered by consistently reported clunky, unrebindable controls and a specific story-progression-blocking bug that appears to have gone unaddressed for an extended period.
5.5 / 10
A cheap, chapter-based choose-your-own-adventure through an alternate 1888 British Empire from a developer better known for jigsaw puzzles — genuinely witty in places, undercut by a missing save system and a colonial-frontier premise played disappointingly straight.
5.5 / 10
An old-school, Warcraft-inspired RTS with a distinctive prehistoric setting of cavemen and dinosaurs, praised by genre nostalgics but held back by a persistent, long-unaddressed lack of mid-mission saving and widely reported unfair AI behavior in its campaign.
5.5 / 10
A co-op incremental dump-digging sim about hunting for a discarded Bitcoin fortune, whose absurd premise and chill dig-sell-upgrade loop land well with players looking for a short, silly co-op session, but whose lack of post-launch content, save-game bugs, and close resemblance to another recent trash-digging game leave a large share of reviewers unconvinced of its value.
5.5 / 10
A visually charming cozy bakery idler let down by a confusing tutorial, slow RNG-gated progression, and a genuine mismatch between how the game is marketed and how much active attention it actually demands.
5.5 / 10
A cheap, initially satisfying wild-west mining and town-building sim that reviewers compare to a spiritual sequel of Prison Escape Simulator, undercut by a single mining area that runs dry within a handful of hours, inconsistent optimisation, a quest line that breaks if purchases aren't made in a specific order, and reported progress-blocking bugs including resources vanishing through the world.
5.5 / 10
A gorgeous, Breath of the Wild-indebted survival roguelite about a shipwrecked warrior sailing between procedural islands — praised for its art and boat-building, undercut by a identity crisis between story, survival and permadeath that most players never resolve, since fewer than one in eleven ever finishes it.
5.5 / 10
A charming, cute-witches take on the Stacklands card-factory formula that most of its own reviewers describe honestly as exactly that — a solid, well-dressed variation rather than a genre evolution — and one whose grindy mid-game and thin narrative payoff keep it from standing entirely on its own.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely charming restoration-and-tinkering sim wrapped around a nostalgic story about a grandfather's workshop, let down by real technical problems, a short story with no proper free-play mode, and a support record that genuinely did stop for good in December 2022.
5.5 / 10
Talentless Person Games' pocket-sized clicker sends you smashing other planets apart to rebuild the home you lost, over a LoFi soundtrack and a run that's done in about an hour. It's a pleasant enough hour for the asking price, but "survival" in the title oversells a game with no hunger, health or threat system anywhere in it.
5.5 / 10
A Love Live! Sunshine spin-off that rebuilds the franchise as a Slay the Spire-style roguelite deckbuilder, charming in its production values but leaning so heavily on its inspiration's mechanics, and so aggressively on paid DLC, that this review's sample repeatedly asks why not just play the original.
5.5 / 10
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An ambitious three-person team's squad-based tactical RPG with real keep-building and army-management ideas, undercut by combat several detailed critics independently call shallow and repetitive, a thin story, and tactical bugs the developer's own "continuously improving" claim didn't hold up against a follow-up review.
5.5 / 10
A Hurricane Survival Story With Real Ambition Category 6 asks a question survival games rarely bother with: what happens after the storm, not during a zombie outbreak or a nuclear
5.4 / 10
A short, cheap Lovecraftian walking-sim horror game about a fleshy alien bio-mass spreading through the Rocky Mountains, built on strong atmosphere and a divisive twist ending.
5.4 / 10
A survival game about outliving a plague Nested Lands drops players onto an island overrun by bandits and a spreading plague, tasking them with scavenging, fighting, and slowly reb
5.4 / 10
