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569 Farming & Life Sim games reviewed and scored, best first.
569 reviews
A wonderfully strange drag-and-drop illuminated-manuscript creator turns medieval art history into an addictive, wildly creative sandbox, though a missing search function and no way to group elements leave its enormous asset library harder to work with than it should be.
7 / 10
A real-time idle town-builder that deliberately explains almost nothing, and genuinely keeps growing while the game is closed — the rare idle game its own biggest fans call "the anti-idle game," at the cost of a sizeable share of players who never work out what to do.
7 / 10
Ryo Kobuchi's arcade window-cleaning life-sim follows a young man juggling rope-swinging skyscraper work with the daily grind of rent, sleep, and relationships, earning a small but unanimously "Positive" reception for its addictive cleaning loop and surprisingly earnest life-sim storytelling.
7 / 10
A roguelite auto-battler where you draft slimes wave by wave, decide which ones hold the line and which roam free, and defend a King who's surrounded on every side rather than tucked behind a lane — a solo debut from Softkeep Studio, reviewed the day after launch.
7 / 10
A hand-drawn cozy city builder from debut studio Turbo Dog Games, where growing a village is only half the loop — the other half is coaxing hidden spirits out of hiding by experimenting with weather, timing and item placement, delivered as a four-to-seven-hour campaign priced at €8.54 two days after launch.
7 / 10
Live your best squirrel life Squirreled Away lets players experience an oversized suburban park entirely from a squirrel's point of view: leaping between tree limbs, gathering
7 / 10
A beloved, wholesome sticker-shop creation sim landing Overwhelmingly Positive on its charm and customer storylines — undercut by a serious, multiply-corroborated complaint that its achievement list has progressively been locked behind paid DLC released after launch.
7 / 10
A solo developer's genuinely distinctive idle cafe that lives quietly on your taskbar while you work, doubling as a real productivity tool with a built-in Pomodoro timer and task list — warmly reviewed for its ambient jazz and hands-off charm, with minor rough edges around its tutorial and a couple of upgrade-gated features some reviewers feel should be free from the start.
7 / 10
One of the biggest indie management-sim hits of the era, whose addictive stock-and-sell loop earned it a huge, devoted following through Early Access — a following that has spent the year since its 1.0 release documenting two real, dateable grievances in detail: unresolved AI-generated promotional art, and a 2026 DLC rollout that now more than doubles the price of owning everything the base game once implied was complete.
7 / 10
A Zombie Apocalypse Told Like a Movie, Not a Game Survivor's Notes doesn't play like most things wearing the "zombie survival" tag on Steam. There's no crafti
7 / 10
A free incremental with one reviewer clocking 31,732 hours and a persistent complaint from the rest — that a game with "idle" in its title keeps asking you to click.
7 / 10
Lunarch Studios follows Islands of Insight with a leaner, more focused stained-glass logic puzzler boasting over a thousand handcrafted puzzles, though real crash reports and needlessly heavy performance demands undercut an otherwise exceptional puzzle design.
7 / 10
An Early Access pixel-art survival RPG about waking into a world ruled by endless labour and debt, exploring an underground lab alongside a rebellion of strange creatures called KB-Cats, praised for creative, thought-provoking writing about work and survival and a surprisingly deep career-and-economy system, held back by thin early guidance that leaves some players genuinely lost.
7 / 10
A short, hand-drawn cozy-gothic point-and-click puzzle adventure through a cursed town, praised for its beautiful art and melancholic story but held back by puzzles most reviewers found too easy for a debut otherwise this accomplished.
7 / 10
Erkberg Games' short incremental about washing ash off a dead planet with a rain-cloud and a skill tree — a review of how far a three-hour, five-dollar cozy game can stretch its one good idea before it runs out of road.
7 / 10
A pastel island-building idler about growing crystal-producing plants and befriending spirit-like residents, widely praised for its charm and automation curve but weighed down by a consistently reported performance problem and a genre-defying amount of manual clicking.
7 / 10
An adorable desktop-companion idler where pixel animals roam the bottom of your screen while you work — undercut by a genuinely strange design choice for a game in this genre, its own idle mascots get sick if you leave them alone for too long.
7 / 10
Frozenbyte's fifth fantasy co-op puzzle-platformer is, by wide agreement, its most gorgeous entry -- and its most persistently broken in the mode the series is built around. Steam has it at Very Positive, but a third of its English-language negative reviews, spanning three full years, describe co-op desyncs, lost progression and crashes that were never fixed.
7 / 10
A tropical management sim from prolific developer Kairosoft that reviewers say goes unusually deep on its signature building-combo mechanic, landing Positive despite real, specific complaints about clunky desktop controls, an oversized fixed UI, and a completionist achievement so difficult one reviewer needed six full playthroughs to earn it.
7 / 10
Developer Mimmox's UMAMI turns 3D jigsaw puzzling into a cozy, food-themed ritual, assembling wooden blocks into mouthwatering cake and dish dioramas, earning consistent praise for its adorable craftsmanship and relaxing pace from a Very Positive review base, tempered by a repeated complaint about crashes on some systems and a shorter runtime than its price suggests.
7 / 10
Saving the World, One Stained Carpet at a Time Unmotivated Heroes is a $6.99 first-person life sim with a joke premise it commits to fully: an ordinary family lands in an extraordi
7 / 10
A solo-developer chatroom-fishing game that turned into one of 2024's biggest indie surprises, sitting Overwhelmingly Positive across 70,000+ reviews — but a full read of its negative sample and Steam's own announcement feed shows a game whose developer has gone quiet since January 2025, leaving a well-documented lobby-security problem unresolved.
7 / 10
Developer Pine Creek Games, published by Noodlecake, delivers a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse restoring a ruined childhood home, earning widespread praise for its art, music and character writing from a Very Positive review base, tempered by a dominant, heavily repeated complaint about missing quality-of-life features, tedious backtracking, and a short, linear story that leaves its systems feeling unfinished.
7 / 10
A cozy, semi-idle life-sim about a socially anxious young necromancer who inherits her grandmother's apartment garden of living and undead plants, and slowly gets to know her neighbours along the way.
6.9 / 10
