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1719 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1719 reviews
Push Pray Devote is a short, text-free horror game from Japanese developers Actor and Nakamura Syuto that strips its "mysterious facility" premise down to a single repeated gesture — push a button, then pray — and this review's sample, gentle achievement data, and language-independent design all point to a small, deliberately unintimidating horror experience that delivers exactly what it promises.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely sharp Papers, Please-style checkpoint sim set during a zombie outbreak, undermined by widely and repeatedly corroborated launch bugs and softlocks that reviewers say persisted for months, a short campaign reviewers describe as poor value, and a specific, strongly disliked post-launch direction of unremovable streamer and franchise cameo content.
6.5 / 10
A hidden-object horror game from solo developer froggyrs about working the night shift in a library while an intruder lurks, drawing a small but entirely positive English review sample that praises its tense, unique atmosphere and skill-based progression while repeatedly flagging a severe, corroborated audio-accessibility problem in its core threat-detection mechanic.
6.5 / 10
A first-person ranch sim that spent a year in public demos before its Early Access launch, and it shows — the "done" list is unusually long for a day-one build. What isn't done yet is co-op, and the recommended specs ask for more GPU than a cozy farm game should need.
6.5 / 10
A large-scale ranching, farming and hunting sim that exited a long Early Access run in 2023, praised for its satisfying core loop and remarkable five-year development history — held back by long-standing vehicle handling jank (only very recently reworked), a persistent animal- health bug, and real reviewer frustration over paid content expansions.
6.5 / 10
A tense, tactically excellent SWAT shooter whose lifetime score is still recovering from a massive, well-documented 2025 review-bomb after the developer retroactively censored the PC version to match a new console release — recent sentiment suggests the wound is healing, but slowly.
6.5 / 10
An Idle Village Sim Built Around Watching Heroes Live Their Lives Renz Village Adventure is a solo-developed idle simulation RPG that puts the player in charge of a small fantasy s
6.5 / 10
An Early Access management sim about building and running a retro arcade across ten rooms, praised by a large early review sample for its customisation and progression, but undercut by disclosed AI-generated art assets several reviewers found genuinely off-putting, a tedious manual restocking loop, and a reported autosave bug.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive Lua-scripted sandbox for building retro-styled electronic gadgets, held back by a punishingly steep learning curve and a real Early Access wobble that's only recently given way to substantial, active development again.
6.5 / 10
A first-person psychological horror game that flips the Tamagotchi premise so the player is the pet, earning a small but unanimously positive launch reception for its striking concept and genuine scares, tempered by one reviewer's honest note that the localisation feels rough.
6.5 / 10
A gas-station management sim where you're secretly aliens gathering intel on humanity — a great hook for a group of friends on a Friday night, let down by how little the alien half actually changes about restocking shelves and running a till.
6.5 / 10
A deep, text-and-menu college baseball GM sim built by a single active developer, earning real devotion from dynasty-management fans logging dozens to well over a hundred hours, while a recurring progression-blocking bug locked several dedicated players out of their saves entirely.
6.5 / 10
One Developer, One Solar System Rocket Engineer is a solo-developed 2D orbital mechanics sandbox from Xavier B., who took the game from a 2024 progress-update blog through more tha
6.5 / 10
Rod of Asclepius casts the player as a Roman army doctor in a crumbling 4th-century frontier province, and this review's tiny but glowing sample finds genuinely striking historical writing wrapped around a turn-based medical RPG that multiple reviewers, and the solo developer's own words, describe as only the first of several planned chapters.
6.5 / 10
The farming-RPG series' first fully 3D entry, loved by a devoted fanbase logging hundreds of hours -- while a wide, well-documented share of reviewers, including many of its own biggest fans, argue the jump to 3D cost the series more than it gained.
6.5 / 10
A cozy incremental fishing game from Glass Gecko Games, casting players as a fishmonger who catches, cleans, and sells creatures across four themed zones, Very Positive across 1,840 reviews for its satisfying cleaning minigames and charming art — with a widely repeated complaint that upgrades and money reset to zero at every new zone.
6.5 / 10
A Balatro-inspired roguelike that swaps poker hands for scratch cards, building a deck of coins and modifiers to scratch your way past an ever-rising rent payment, praised for a genuinely addicting core loop once it clicks but held back by harsh early-run RNG and a thin content pool that several reviewers had already exhausted within a couple of hours.
6.5 / 10
What if Goat Simulator went to wizard school? Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate sends players into a prestigious, thinly-disguised wizarding academy hid
6.5 / 10
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A chaotic Overcooked-style co-op cooking game built as a genuine love letter to Southeast Asian cuisine and culture, SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure earns wide praise for its charm, art, and inventive ingredient-hunting twist, but a real split in its review sample reports rough launch-state bugs, punishing later-game difficulty, and sprawling level design that turns cooking into a memory-test scavenger hunt.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely unprecedented solo-developer grand strategy game where you play a secretive evil god corrupting a living, Crusader Kings-style simulated fantasy world from the shadows — praised almost unanimously for a concept unlike anything else in the genre, undercut by consistently, harshly criticized UI and mechanical clarity problems that went largely unaddressed for years before a modest, deliberately cautious fix arrived.
6.5 / 10
A third-person ancient-warfare squad battle sim casting you as a Roman commander leading testudo formations and javelin volleys across historical campaigns — genuinely fun in short bursts, but held back by a lopsided unit cap, no campaign save system, and a post-launch update cadence that slowed to a crawl after leaving Early Access.
6.5 / 10
A cozy package-packing sim from the makers of Lost but Found, charming enough to hook players for the first several hours before a well-corroborated slice of its Very Positive review pool ran into item-physics bugs and a hollow, reward-free endgame.
6.5 / 10
An incremental game about elderly gamblers who soil themselves for coin drops, using genuinely dark subject matter as fuel for a tight, addictive clicker loop with a surprising story underneath the gross-out premise.
6.5 / 10
A surreal, first-person vandalism sim sequel to the cult-favourite SLUDGE LIFE, praised for preserving its predecessor's distinctive humor, music and slacker-utopia charm — but criticized by a substantial share of returning fans for falling well short of its own marketing promise to be "twice as dense," delivering a shorter, easier, less surprising experience instead.
6.5 / 10
