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1719 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1719 reviews
Panda Dev's solo-developed Early Access idler asks you to grow an island empire in 3D rather than a flat spreadsheet of numbers — gathering resources, training soldiers, and sending them into dungeons to fight Titan bosses. Six months into Early Access it's thin on content and still finding its optimisation footing, but its one-time price, complete absence of microtransactions, and an unusually hands-on developer make it an easy game to root for.
6.5 / 10
A short first-person psychological horror game from Runebox Studio, styled in black and white, about a nightmare-haunted apartment where dolls must be burned in a fireplace to escape, drawing a small, uniformly positive English review sample praising its distinctive visual style and effective jump scares.
6.5 / 10
Troika Games' legendary, writing-driven vampire RPG set in modern-day Los Angeles, Very Positive across more than 10,300 reviews for dialogue and world-building widely regarded as among the best the genre has produced — sold on Steam in a state the overwhelming majority of recent reviewers say does not run on modern Windows without a community-made unofficial patch.
6.5 / 10
A BAFTA-nominated narrative visual novel that casts you as a reformed vampire teaching genuine cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to fellow bloodsuckers, whose sharp writing, voice acting, and real educational value earn heartfelt praise from many players, while a near-universal, specific complaint holds that the game never lets you fail or truly choose, functioning more as an interactive teaching tool than a game with real narrative stakes.
6.5 / 10
A small, charming Kairosoft pixel-art town-management sim with a devoted but tiny Steam following -- reviewed here from a genuinely small sample, honestly disclosed, rather than padded out to look more authoritative than the evidence allows.
6.5 / 10
A grand-strategy game brave enough to be about economics instead of conquest, four years and seventeen DLC later still arguing with its own players about warfare — and its newest expansion needed nine hotfixes in two months.
6.5 / 10
A deep, AI-assisted idle RPG from solo developer HammaLlama with 26 skills and class-based combat, Mostly Positive across 47 reviews for its huge content depth at a bargain price — clouded by a specific complaint that its "hand-crafted" marketing contradicts the developer's own disclosure of AI-generated code, art, and music.
6.5 / 10
Vlad the Landlord is a $5.99 solo-developed pixel-art vampire management sim from Melinus Games that has players stocking a mansion "pantry" of tenants, managing thirst, and unlocking vampiric powers to eventually become human again, and this review's small, unanimously Positive sample praises its unusually genuine take on vampire fantasy and surprising depth.
6.5 / 10
A charming, Animal Crossing-adjacent casual RPG about crash-landing on an island and taming pets to complete quests for its inhabitants, fondly remembered by longtime players from its earlier Yahoo Games era — tempered by one detailed reviewer's account of real instability and repetitive pacing across multiple purchased copies.
6.5 / 10
A 100-player tactical Early Access FPS from BULKHEAD, published by Team17, pitched as a cash-driven, Battlefield-meets-Arma sandbox shooter, entering a Mostly Positive reception despite a genuinely chaotic launch day of server queues, a DDoS attack, and a last-minute anti-cheat swap that broke Linux and Proton support the developers had previously promised.
6.5 / 10
A card-based Cultist Simulator-inspired alchemy sim that genre fans on both sides of the aggregate respect, undercut by a real mid-game grind wall, real save-corruption bugs, and offset by unusually active, near-weekly developer patching since launch.
6.5 / 10
The Yearly Kickoff for a Football Manager Alternative WE ARE FOOTBALL 2027 arrived September 16, 2026 from Winning Streak Games GmbH, the latest annual entry in a management-sim se
6.5 / 10
A strike team, a contaminated city, and a merciless clock Welcome Back, Commander sends a small squad into the plague-ridden city of Sun Stone, alternating between narrative-flavou
6.5 / 10
A Long-Awaited Third Chapter in a Cult Horror Series Reflect Studios built a following on a strange, singular idea: horror games where the scariest thing isn't a monster in a h
6.5 / 10
An award-winning narrative anthology exploring the mysterious deaths of a cursed family through a series of inventively told vignettes, Very Positive across more than 18,400 reviews for its genre-defining use of gameplay as storytelling — undercut by a specific, extensively documented field-of-view problem causing real motion sickness for a meaningful share of players, alongside consistent length-for-price and shallow-storytelling complaints.
6.5 / 10
Who Are You!? is a first-episode-only sci-fi psychological horror walking sim built around real UFO research, and this review's sample is Very Positive on atmosphere and premise while flagging real concerns about the pace of a small, only-partially-released episodic story, buggy launch-week jank, and one specific, disputed claim that the game's "no AI" pledge doesn't match what a reviewer says they found in-game.
6.5 / 10
A Lovecraftian hotel-management dating sim, built by a two-person Chinese studio through two crowdfunding campaigns, landing Very Positive despite an unedited machine translation and a live, still-unresolved dispute over undisclosed AI-generated background art.
6.5 / 10
A 3D coin-pusher arcade game wrapped around a lich army-building RPG layer, released November 2023 after its solo developer publicly paused production over the Unity pricing controversy, and still receiving support patches in August 2026.
6.5 / 10
A villainess otome life-sim from solo developer Lyyycaena, casting players as a scorned noblewoman scheming to seize the throne while balancing kingdom stats and romancing four love interests, drawing a Positive English review sample praising its intriguing political intrigue and charming cast, heavily tempered by corroborated complaints about a weaker, repetitive second half.
6.5 / 10
The Yearly Madden Alternative, Now With a New Graphics Engine Axis Football 2027 is the latest entry in a small indie studio's long-running attempt to give PC football fans an
6.4 / 10
A cozy Supermarket Simulator-style shop sim reskinned around cosmetics and fashion, whose relaxing stock-and-serve loop won over most players even as a real, months-long silence from the developer fuelled "abandoned" complaints before a major core-engine rebuild finally delivered the achievements and decoration system players had been promised.
6.4 / 10
Sorting Thousands of Scattered Trading Cards Into an Album Cards Everywhere! is a first-person organizing game from solo-ish studio Armed Chicken, part of the recent wave of cozy &
6.4 / 10
Siesta Studio's cube-styled idle garden makes for a genuinely relaxing desktop companion for hundreds of hours, but gacha-style plant unlocks and an increasingly demanding endgame grind test the patience of even its biggest fans.
6.4 / 10
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A typewriter battle royale with a revolver at your temple — a brilliant, meme-ready premise held back by empty lobbies and no real matchmaking.
6.4 / 10
