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1719 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.

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Megastore: Tidy Up Together

A genuinely satisfying, varied cozy sorting sim spanning three increasingly large stores, widely praised for smart auto-sort quality-of-life and real item variety, undercut by heavy asset reuse from genre rival Supermarket Chaos in its later levels, reported autosave and save-corruption bugs, buggy shelf placement, and slow skill progression that doesn't carry between stages.

6.5 / 10

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Meltopia

A minimalist exploration game from Garden of Dreams where you melt through a frozen world with a heat cannon, rated Very Positive across a large English review sample for its satisfying core loop, tempered by a strong, repeated complaint that a mid-game weapon swap grinds progression to a halt.

6.5 / 10

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MeowCraft Review

A Cursed Cat Runs a Blacksmith Shop Instead of Wielding a Sword MeowCraft's premise is a tidy inversion of the usual dungeon-crawling RPG: rather than swinging a sword, a curse

6.5 / 10

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Microsoft Flight Simulator

A genuine technical marvel that recreates the entire Earth in staggering, mesmerizing detail — sold on Steam behind a mandatory external-launcher download that reviewers have documented, consistently and specifically, running out Steam's refund window since launch day in 2020.

6.5 / 10

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Milo's Tiny Fish Pond

A desktop-overlay idle aquarium that genuinely earns its Idler tag and out-designs its rivals on tank capacity and how literally it sits on your desktop, but a fifteen-month-old review corpus this thin, two serious memory-leak reports and thirteen months of developer silence keep it from matching the library's better-supported pond games.

6.5 / 10

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Minami Lane

A tiny, gorgeously drawn cozy management sim about building a single street of shops and homes, where a genuinely lovely art style and low-stress mission design earn wide, sincere affection, tempered by a near-consensus that its content and challenge run out well before most players are ready to stop.

6.5 / 10

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Mineral Mining Simulator

An automation-focused mining and gem-refinement sim from Bewolba Studios, Very Positive across 65 Early Access reviews for its satisfying production-chain loop — held back by a specific bottleneck bug in its machine logic and a fair complaint that it reuses a formula the studio has shipped before.

6.5 / 10

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Miner's Nook

A solo-developed idle mining clicker that left seven months of Early Access on 6 August 2026 with a genuinely novel twist — spending points to weight the odds of its own random events — but arrived with a three-review corpus already reporting broken pet slots, a muted-sound bug, and a gem shop that won't take money.

6.5 / 10

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Mining Goblins Idle

A cheap, cheerfully chaotic idle mining game whose launch reviews all landed before a major "Big Bang" update rewrote its ending, fixed its most-cited bugs and added the prestige payoff early buyers said was missing — leaving a genuinely funny, well-supported small idler whose new true ending has its own, very real pacing problem.

6.5 / 10

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Mirthwood

A medieval-fantasy blend of Stardew Valley farming and open-world RPG adventuring, built by a two-person team, whose beautiful art and genuine ambition were badly let down by a "1.0" launch that its own most-upvoted reviews say played like early access — since substantially redeemed by almost two years of continuous free updates.

6.5 / 10

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Mob Factory

A factory-automation game that replaces mining with monster-farming — kill enemies for resources, funnel the drops into furnaces and assemblers, defend the pipeline with towers — praised for a genuinely fresh hook and criticized at launch for feeling more like a polished demo than a finished game, with real post-launch work since narrowing that gap.

6.5 / 10

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MUKKE: Music Machine

MUKKE: Music Machine is a story-driven music-creation game from APETENSE Interactive set in a fictionalized 1978 Berlin, where players compose tracks on an unconventional "loop machine" as struggling musician Micky Zander, and this review's sample finds a genuinely loved creative toolset and voice cast let down by a full release that shipped with only a single chapter of story and has gone quiet since.

6.5 / 10

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Mushroom Clicker

Wizard Shrimp Games' Mushroom Clicker casts players as a novice Mushroom Wizard harvesting fungi and hiring creature helpers across an idle-incremental mode and a tower-defense-style Fungal Forces mode, earning a Very Positive reception for its cute art, relaxing soundtrack and chill pace, tempered by a repeated complaint that its mechanics don't do much new within an already crowded genre.

6.5 / 10

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Mushroom Nook

A cosy desktop-companion idler about collecting and growing nearly 200 species of mushrooms, praised for its charming pixel art and relaxing pace but held back by a genuinely confusing interface.

6.5 / 10

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Mushroom Simulator Co-op

A tiny, chaotic co-op party game from Nimble Starship where you play a mushroom growing by yelling into your microphone while dodging worms and a basket-wielding forager, Very Positive across 115 reviews for its short, funny sessions with friends — held back by a genuine microphone-calibration bug that leaves some players unable to progress.

6.5 / 10

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My Heaven's Dale

A charming, carpentry-first cozy farming sim about rebuilding a ghost-haunted town, let down by a stiff interface, no pause button, and a story that trails off before it finishes.

6.5 / 10

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My Idle Witch

A cozy desktop-pet witch who brews and sells potions in the corner of your screen while doubling as a genuinely useful Pomodoro timer — let down only by an economy that runs out of things to spend on far too soon.

6.5 / 10

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My Little Spider

A NZ$7.39 desktop-companion idle game about a pet spider that catches real, correctly-drawn insect species on a transparent overlay web while you work or study, praised repeatedly and unusually specifically as accidental arachnophobia therapy, but held back by missing Steam Cloud support, no Linux transparency, and a distracting sell-your-bugs interruption loop several reviewers say undermines true idle passivity.

6.5 / 10

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MyRobot

MyRobot is a robot-building sandbox from tiny developer sgthale where players customize companion robots and talk to them through an optional AI chat system, and this review's sample finds a genuinely inventive, funny toybox undercut by real save-corruption bugs and a token-based AI monetization scheme that curious players should understand before buying.

6.5 / 10

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