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1719 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1719 reviews
Blue Backpack, the Cologne studio formerly known for Trüberbrook and Constance, tells a century of German history through the residents of a single Berlin flat, and while its art direction, voice acting and individual vignettes earn real praise, a specific and detailed share of players argue the short runtime, uneven chapter quality and rough interaction design leave the ambitious anthology structure undercooked.
6.5 / 10
The Escapists 2 sends up to four players into a series of increasingly elaborate prisons to plot their breakout through crafting, routine-management, and careful rule-breaking. Its sandbox premise draws real, sustained praise, tempered by a specific, well-documented complaint that escape plans are far more scripted than the marketing suggests, and by a development history that's been effectively dormant for years.
6.5 / 10
A solo-or-co-op casino management sim from Toxic Studio in which you build a gambling empire from scratch, Very Positive across 491 English reviews for its chaotic charm and genuine co-op fun, held back at launch by a widely repeated complaint that its mission-locked progression left almost no room for sandbox freedom — a complaint the developer has since directly addressed with a sustained, multi-month patch campaign.
6.5 / 10
Two acclaimed writers, one enormous experiment The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- arrives with one of the more genuinely exciting premises in recent visual novel history: it&#
6.5 / 10
A retro-futurist "Firewatch in space" walking sim adapting Stanislaw Lem's hard-sci-fi novel, praised almost unanimously for its atmosphere, voice acting and philosophical depth — undercut by consistently, sharply criticized traversal that the developer has openly admitted has real design limits, and an ending a substantial share of reviewers describe as abrupt to the point of feeling unfinished.
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 cozy idle RPG from solo developer vkaike2, casting the player as a brown shih tzu named Ramon searching for his missing friends, earning a Positive launch reception for its charm and developer responsiveness, tempered by one detailed reviewer's honest complaint that its resource chains are too indirect for either true idle or true hands-on play.
6.5 / 10
A cheap, meme-fuelled gambling simulator from developer Simba and publisher Six Seven Studio, Positive across a small English review sample for its deliberately rigged-in-your-favour casino minigames and card collection, tempered by a fair complaint that it doesn't excel at anything in particular.
6.5 / 10
A slow-paced, atmospheric survival simulation set in the frozen Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic disaster, Very Positive across nearly 41,000 reviews for its enduring, celebrated sandbox survival mode — clouded by a decade-long wait for its narrative campaign's final chapter, which launched in March 2026 to a wave of disappointed reviews, and by reported community moderation of critical players.
6.5 / 10
A roguelite deckbuilder from solo developer Mheep about a slot car endlessly circling a loop, drafting cards and charms to chase ever-higher scores, earning an overwhelmingly Positive launch reception for its build variety and hypnotic feel, tempered by a specific reviewer complaint about its price relative to its depth.
6.5 / 10
A neon-noir open-world cop sandbox that lets you play the officer instead of the criminal for once — a genuinely rare premise reviewers say the atmosphere and driving feel earn honestly, undercut by an arrest procedure with almost no real detective work and enough missing basic polish that a large share of its 9,241-review audience describes a game shipped one development cycle short of its own ambitions.
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
A short solo-developed horror game from Malerouille in which a teenager tracks her missing cat through a deserted office building, playing a tense game of hide-and-seek with monsters that hunt by sound and sight, drawing a small but consistently positive English review sample that praises its atmosphere and clever phone-based mechanics while flagging a shaky difficulty balance and a missing way to revisit in-game messages.
6.5 / 10
They See You sends a computer repair technician into a remote village overrun by a strange, hard-to-categorize digital horror, and its unusually international review sample loves the concept and its tense atmosphere while repeatedly flagging launch-week bugs and a total lack of performance or accessibility options.
6.5 / 10
A tactical narrative gamebook from A Sharp, the designers of King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages, sending a randomly-generated crew of heisters on short, choice-driven raids into hell, earning a Very Positive launch reception for its writing and art, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about heavy randomness, a vaguely-worded trait system, and thin strategic depth.
6.5 / 10
Spellgarden Games follows Sticky Business with a charming, wildly popular Unpacking-style thrift store decorator, but a review sample that's overwhelmingly warm still agrees the content runs out fast and the actual "business" side barely exists.
6.5 / 10
A Whole House, Not Just A Shelf Tidying Simulator, released September 3, 2026 from solo-flavored developer and publisher GamJangJangi, takes the small, satisfying genre of "pu
6.5 / 10
A free, tense seven-minute management simulation set aboard a Cold War-era nuclear missile submarine gripped by a communications failure, praised for its art, voice acting, and historical inspiration but hampered by an overwhelming tutorial dump and very little runtime.
6.5 / 10
A gleefully unhinged idle game about planting seeds in strangers and bouncing baby geese for profit — the strangest thing to hit the incremental genre in years, and one of the more oddly addictive ones too.
6.5 / 10
A free, fully voice-acted medieval choose-your-own-path strategy game built by a solo developer working with AI tools at every layer of production, backed at launch by a small but entirely positive review sample praising its replayability and choice-driven storytelling.
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
