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409 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
409 reviews
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 solo-developed space factory incremental with a five-hour campaign and a clean ending instead of an endless ladder. The idea is refreshing; the execution runs out of steam exactly when the prestige system should be taking over.
6.5 / 10
A digital adaptation of a real tabletop primer used by Fight Club International's professional military wargaming network — a 20-minute hex-and-counter hill assault built to teach the genre's core mechanics, shipped day one with zero user reviews and no achievement data to check its claims against.
6.5 / 10
A choice-driven interactive fiction RPG told entirely through the pages of a turning book, following Karl von Aiden across five chapters, three routes and six ways to die — from a Chinese solo-scale studio, with AI-assisted CG art and full dual-language narration, and so far a launch nobody has reviewed.
6.5 / 10
A football sim that puts you on the whistle instead of the ball — full 3D matches where every foul, dive, card, penalty and VAR review is your call, marked out of ten afterward, with a four-league career and 1-4 player online co-op where friends run the lines. Launched into Early Access 6 August 2026 from a solo Swedish developer.
6.5 / 10
The base game is free and the creative tools are still the best in the genre. The full catalogue — all 113 add-ons — costs about NZ$1,580, and almost every negative review this game has ever received is about that number.
6.5 / 10
A short, atmospheric first-person horror sim from a solo developer with an established following, whose genuinely effective scares and Night of the Living Dead homage were nearly undercut by real launch bugs — since addressed by nine patches in the game's first week alone.
6.5 / 10
East Side Games' 2017 licensed idle tycoon turns Sunnyvale Trailer Park into a business-management loop, wraps its prestige reset in the show's own running joke about jail, and is still getting seasonal updates on mobile nine years later — even after its Steam PC version was quietly abandoned and delisted.
6.5 / 10
A one-person tactical boxing sim where fighters age, get hurt and can genuinely die — built by a boxer, for boxing fans, with a real perk system underneath a genuinely rough interface and a review sample so small that this covers all eleven of it.
6.5 / 10
A small, charming Kairosoft pixel-art town-management sim with a devoted but tiny Steam following -- reviewed here from a genuinely small sample, honestly disclosed, rather than padded out to look more authoritative than the evidence allows.
6.5 / 10
A grand-strategy game brave enough to be about economics instead of conquest, four years and seventeen DLC later still arguing with its own players about warfare — and its newest expansion needed nine hotfixes in two months.
6.5 / 10
A card-based Cultist Simulator-inspired alchemy sim that genre fans on both sides of the aggregate respect, undercut by a real mid-game grind wall, real save-corruption bugs, and offset by unusually active, near-weekly developer patching since launch.
6.5 / 10
A 3D coin-pusher arcade game wrapped around a lich army-building RPG layer, released November 2023 after its solo developer publicly paused production over the Unity pricing controversy, and still receiving support patches in August 2026.
6.5 / 10
A calm, procedurally generated Finnish-mythology city-builder about goblins, water and the turning of the seasons — recently out of two years of Early Access, and still short on the reasons to keep watching after your first winter.
6.4 / 10
A cheap, ad-free phone-and-tablet design sim with real depth in its spec sheets and zero monetisation tricks — but a Steam score that only tells the truth once you split its mostly-German audience (90% positive) from its much cooler English-language corpus (60%, Mixed).
6.3 / 10
A solo-developed hybrid that welds grand-strategy nation management onto clicker mechanics — genuinely novel in concept, but a divisive combat rework, opaque economy and buggy pathfinding have left its Early Access reception stuck at Mixed.
6 / 10
A survivors-style auto-harvester where you point a magic weapon at crops instead of monsters, built around a skill tree and prestige loop that a majority of players clear in a single sitting — and whose own achievement data backs up the negative reviews' loudest complaint, that one starting crop breaks the balance for everyone else.
6 / 10
A perfectly decent Anno wrapped in one of the least generous packages of 2025 — a NZ$99.95 base game, a Year 1 Pass that doesn't cover all of year one's DLC, Denuvo, a required Ubisoft account, and a disclosed use of AI tools for in-game assets.
6 / 10
A Viking colony sim with a genuinely loved foundation — Rimworld's scheduling, Medieval Dynasty's village-building, Valheim's Nordic survival — undercut by villager AI that both its biggest fans and its critics independently name as the one thing standing between it and greatness.
6 / 10
Nineteen months into Early Access, the driving model is superb and the game around it has been getting smaller — the career economy was removed in February 2026, and the open world people bought it for still isn't here.
6 / 10
A one-day-old solo-developer idle game built around a single inversion of the genre's usual habit — your number grows faster the longer you refuse to spend it, and every purchase resets it to zero — spread across six upgrades, three currencies and two mirrored prestige ladders, for NZ$4.31 with no user reviews yet on record.
6 / 10
A gorgeously drawn, lofi-scored panda laundromat that plays almost nothing like a conventional idle game and everything like a desktop focus timer with decorations, which delights the audience that wants exactly that and frustrates the sizeable share who bought it expecting real systems underneath the art.
6 / 10
A NZ$3.69 "meditative" crypto-trading toy with no fail state, no complex interface and pleasant background music, whose tiny nine-review corpus is entirely positive but includes at least one review that openly admits to being posted to support the developer's family.
6 / 10
A charming, cheap cat-run boba tea shop sim that earned a loyal following in its first five months of Early Access, then went quiet — no update since April 2023, no save mid-shift, and a growing pile of reviews from players who love what's there and are giving up waiting for the rest.
6 / 10
