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409 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
409 reviews
A solo-developed 18th-century Caribbean trading sim that pairs a genuinely layered supply-chain economy with a rough, one-day-old Early Access build — Mostly Negative across its first ten Steam reviews, with independent day-one reports of unbeatable enemy encounters, brutal docking damage and helm controls that pull you off the wheel to do anything else.
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 solo-developed cozy idle farm sim that most short-session players find genuinely relaxing -- while its handful of longer, more critical reviews describe its headline "8 worlds" feature as cosmetic and the whole thing as thin once the initial charm wears off.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely beautiful nature-themed idle game -- biologist-verified species cards, lush stylised regions -- ported from mobile with its premium-currency shop apparently removed days after launch, though reviewers as recent as 2026 still describe running into one.
5.5 / 10
A 2015 remaster of Firefly Studios' 2003 cult classic that turns out to be closer to The Sims in space than the SimCity-style colony builder its marketing suggests — a genre mismatch the overwhelming majority of its negative reviews describe independently, on top of real modern-PC stability bugs.
5.4 / 10
A genuinely beautiful atmospheric horror walking sim, undercut by an over-reliance on cheap jump scares that reviewers say breaks the very atmosphere it built, plus persistent crash reports spanning years and a store page that openly lists unresolved compatibility issues.
5.4 / 10
The rough, genuinely enjoyable first entry in what became a long-running franchise — a puzzle-like repair loop reviewers say works well in short bursts, undercut by real repetition, a lack of goals or garage progression, and a wobbly first-person camera several reviewers say induces motion sickness.
5.3 / 10
A genuinely deep, satisfying custom weapon-forging simulator wrapped in a dark, divisive narrative — undercut by a specific, severe structural flaw where wrong dialogue choices can permanently end a save with no warning, and unverified reviewer allegations of AI-generated content.
5.3 / 10
A genuinely detailed, historically respectful dive into the Titanic wreck that even its critics praise for content and atmosphere — let down by control and interface problems severe and consistent enough to make it feel unfinished for non-VR and gamepad players.
5.3 / 10
A genuinely charming little desktop-widget cafe sim undercut by widespread, still-present bugs in its core customer AI and placement systems — though this review's own check of the developer's patch history contradicts one reviewer's claim that the game has been abandoned.
5.2 / 10
Hyper Hippo's second idle game keeps the lemonade-stand loop from AdVenture Capitalist and welds two new systems onto it — a per-resource Rank ladder and a Capsule gacha full of collectible Researcher cards. One of those additions is real strategic texture. The other is a lootbox.
5 / 10
A budget open-world flight sim from mobile studio Ovilex, offering 31 airliners and 50-plus real-world-inspired airports for one upfront price, launched the same day as a combat-flight sibling from the same publisher at the same price point, with zero user reviews yet to test either one against.
5 / 10
A one-dollar, one-week-old clicker about tapping a capybara and buying Brazilian-themed upgrades — with a genuinely inventive twist where three-quarters of its 80 achievements exist purely to decorate your Steam profile, and a progression ladder with no visible prestige loop.
5 / 10
A real-time station-management sim, not the clicker some trackers file it under, whose own vote-weighted Steam tags confirm it — but whose changelog stopped eleven days after launch, and whose reviewers, positive and negative alike, all clock out in under an hour.
5 / 10
A genuinely novel pitch — Prohibition-era Chicago as a hybrid of XCOM tactics and Civilization-style empire management — from Doom co-creator John Romero's studio, undone by a buggy, shallow launch and, three years later, an outright abandonment that left a paid, pre-purchased second expansion permanently unreleased.
5 / 10
A genuinely ambitious 50v50 jungle-warfare expansion of the Hell Let Loose formula — tunnels, helicopters, patrol boats and 17 battlefield roles — undercut by a launch several reviewers call "extremely early access," a crossplay aim-assist complaint that dominates the negative reviews, and a NZ$61.99 price competing with cheaper, better-established Vietnam shooters.
5 / 10
A free-to-play idle RPG about farming, fishing and fighting for scrap, released by solo developer blevsoft in December 2023 and left without a content update since January 2024.
5 / 10
A free solo-developer idle sim about running a weapon shop, prestiging into a town, and sending adventurers out to die for profit — a genuinely distinctive premise undercut by a near-total absence of tutorial explanation and two separate multi-month stretches where updates simply stopped.
5 / 10
A NZ$8.99 solo-developed idle cultivation RPG that reviewers repeatedly call "a cut-price Melvor Idle in xianxia clothing" — Mixed across 87 reviews, with a strong 2025 run undone by a dead-quiet Early Access: no update since 11 June 2025, and its own Steam interface page marks English support as "Not supported," which is why not one of those 87 reviews is in English.
5 / 10
A genuinely novel business-sim sequel -- build and run an internet cafe complete with a working in-game browser -- undone by a single, specific, four-years-unfixed bug that keeps showing up in reviews: save files randomly corrupting or wiping hours of progress, in a game its own last content update predates by over four years.
5 / 10
A free-to-play sci-fi idle game split almost exactly down the middle, with "AI slop" the single most repeated word in its negative reviews — and a store-page disclosure confirming AI tools were used across art, writing and UI text, rather than leaving that complaint unverified.
5 / 10
A genuinely novel Early Access experiment in which every NPC's behaviour is driven by a language model the player supplies themselves, reviewed here on the strength of its complete 21-review Steam record and the solo developer's own unusually candid admission that this is one of three AI-driven projects competing for his attention, and currently not the one winning.
5 / 10
A NZ$2.99 click-to-build island tycoon with no ads and no in-app purchases, whose entire Steam review history — five reviews, four positive — was written inside five weeks of its November 2023 launch and hasn't gained a single new one since.
5 / 10
A Two Point Hospital-flavoured prison-management sim with genuine charm and a supportive launch window, undercut by thin long-term content, a restrictive early economy, and a developer that stopped updating it in August 2022 — confirmed by a news feed gone quiet and a concurrent-player count in the single digits.
5 / 10
