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1719 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1719 reviews
A charming, food-themed roguelite city-builder clearly indebted to Against the Storm, held back by a blueprint RNG system reviewers in two languages agree can make runs unwinnable through bad luck alone, and a baffling lack of key rebinding.
6.5 / 10
A cozy-looking but genuinely demanding incremental strategy game from solo developer Quiétude, casting players as an ant colony gathering food and evolving specialized workers to satisfy an ever-hungrier Queen, Mostly Positive across 237 English reviews for its charming art and surprisingly deep build-optimization puzzle — with a widely repeated complaint that progress walls force exact "correct" builds and long, wasted waiting periods to discover mistakes.
6.5 / 10
A tiny, near-unanimously loved $2.99 finger-independence trainer that nails its single core idea but is honest about how little of it there is, with reviewers repeatedly finishing everything in one to three hours and wishing for more.
6.5 / 10
A first-person mystery following fire lookout Henry through a summer in the Wyoming wilderness, told almost entirely through radio conversation with his supervisor Delilah, Very Positive across nearly 57,000 reviews for exceptional voice acting and atmosphere — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that its mystery builds toward an anticlimactic, unresolved ending, a well-corroborated length-for-price concern, and a 2017 DMCA controversy involving the studio's co-founder that a specific share of reviews cite directly.
6.5 / 10
A cheap, genuinely relaxing idle fishing-fleet game from a solo developer who patched launch-week bugs within days and kept supporting it for a year and a half, let down by thin long-term depth and achievement targets several players call artificially padded.
6.5 / 10
A gentle, creativity-first bouquet-building sim with genuinely satisfying flower-arranging tools, held back by thin customer stories and a lack of real progression.
6.5 / 10
A short, cheap first-person psychological horror game about a grieving, guilt-ridden widower haunted by something inexplicable in his own home, praised as an impressive solo-developer debut with genuine atmosphere, but let down by loud, cheap jumpscares and a punishing lack of checkpoints.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed BL suspense visual novel about cannibalism, class and a very literal kind of appetite, two days into Early Access with zero Steam reviews yet — reviewed on the developer's own Early Access FAQ, patch history and a genuinely positive 18-month demo record.
6.5 / 10
A Small, Unanimously Positive Chase Horror Debut Frost-Buried Truth, released August 12, 2026 by solo-ish developer DIBATAG WORKS, is a first-person survival horror game built enti
6.5 / 10
A faithful, unmistakably addictive Steam port of Kairosoft's decade-old mobile classic about building a video game studio, doing almost nothing to update it for PC beyond the bare minimum, and lacking the enhanced content some reviewers say a newer mobile version already has.
6.5 / 10
A desktop-simulator horror-mystery sequel centered on a forgotten Counter-Strike-inspired game frozen in time, praised for its nostalgic detail and multiple-ending structure but held back by a short runtime, inconsistent puzzle difficulty, and thin overarching story.
6.5 / 10
A cozy arcade-management sim from Gnome Games where you serve customers and challenge them at real mini-games, Very Positive across 77 Early Access reviews for its chaotic, "one more task" charm — held back by a progress-loss bug and a fair complaint about launch content falling short of what was promised.
6.5 / 10
A short, gleefully mean-spirited incremental game about getting rich by making pollution worse — genuinely funny in its first half hour, and honest that there isn't much more than that first half hour to find.
6.5 / 10
A small, unanimously well-liked decorating sandbox where birds bring seeds and gifts to slowly fill an island with plants and decorations, backed by a genuinely sustained run of seasonal content updates and a warm, consistent English review record.
6.5 / 10
A charming, Very Positive cozy sandbox about hybridising alien plants and decorating tiny rooms around them — undercut at launch by a genre-labelling problem several reviewers call actively misleading, and split ever since between players who find its slow pace soothing and those who find the same loop tedious.
6.5 / 10
Giant's Heart mashes King's Field-style first-person dungeon crawling into a five-minute combat timer and a garden-based meta-progression system, and its review sample loves the strange combination while repeatedly flagging balance problems, technical rough edges, and a run that's over almost as soon as it starts.
6.5 / 10
Mistical Studios' GLONK is a short, cute incremental game about feeding and growing a hungry blob-like creature, earning a Very Positive reception for its charming presentation and addictive early hour, tempered by a heavily repeated complaint that its endgame prestige loop grows repetitive and its upgrade tree doesn't meaningfully change how the game plays.
6.5 / 10
A Swords and Sandals-inspired gladiator manager that spent over four years in Early Access, including a lengthy silent period reviewers openly called abandonment, before finally reaching a full 1.0 release in April 2026.
6.5 / 10
A dark first-person hybrid of gas station management and deer hunting horror that a clear majority of reviewers found weirdly addictive despite persistent performance issues, buggy hunting AI, and a permadeath system several players found more punishing than fun.
6.5 / 10
A Wooden Puppet's Guide to Surviving a Scorched Wasteland GRAIN ROT casts you as a small wooden puppet trying to survive a sun-scorched, monster-infested desert, descending int
6.5 / 10
A niche Bordeaux wine-making business sim earns real affection from its small review sample for the depth of its viticulture and the emotional pull of its father's-debt storyline, but that same sample is consistent that the game still looks and feels unfinished, with thin late-game content and interface rough edges to match.
6.5 / 10
A free-to-play roguelite mech-builder serving as a prologue campaign to a separate, paid main game, Granvir: Zero Front earns genuine praise for tense, deliberate mech combat and a deep, tinker-friendly part-building system, but is held back by real, corroborated complaints about a confusing, poorly explained interface and an unforgiving tutorial.
6.5 / 10
A medieval cemetery sim with a tech tree the size of a small factory game and a sense of humour about corpse disposal. Also the only game I've reviewed where a player says they finished it out of hatred — and where the community's fix is a mod list that removes the walking.
6.5 / 10
G-Police's Spiritual Successor Arrives in Early Access G-Rebels entered Early Access on July 20, 2026, from developer Reakktor Studios and publisher Senatis, and reviewers reac
6.5 / 10
