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1719 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1719 reviews
A NZ$3.69 "meditative" crypto-trading toy with no fail state, no complex interface and pleasant background music, whose tiny nine-review corpus is entirely positive but includes at least one review that openly admits to being posted to support the developer's family.
6 / 10
Blackjack, but the dealer is trying to kill you Blackjack Descent takes the "horror gambling roguelike" formula popularized by games like Buckshot Roulette and Cloverpit
6 / 10
A grim, Lovecraftian medieval deckbuilder with a genuinely fresh premise — you're a barber-surgeon protecting corrupted villagers rather than a warrior slaying monsters — and art direction reviewers repeatedly compare to Inscryption and Darkest Dungeon, undercut by a cross-camp consensus that runs feel repetitive and same-y, convoluted writing, and real stability bugs including reported soft-locks.
6 / 10
A charming, cheap cat-run boba tea shop sim that earned a loyal following in its first five months of Early Access, then went quiet — no update since April 2023, no save mid-shift, and a growing pile of reviews from players who love what's there and are giving up waiting for the rest.
6 / 10
An Unreal Engine 5 tactical shooter built around a genuinely distinctive body-camera perspective, whose reputation was badly damaged by a November 2024 update that stripped out hard-earned cosmetic progress and replaced it with a cash shop — the single highest-voted review this library has found on any game, at nearly 4,000 votes.
6 / 10
A Cover Story That's Mostly Story Bookbinding – Dark Cozy Sim launched on Steam on July 24, 2026, from developer NDApolis and publisher Caspianborn Publishing, following a publ
6 / 10
Bridge Constructor Portal merges the engineering-puzzle series with the Portal license, guided by Ellen McLain's GLaDOS through 60 test chambers of portals, propulsion gel, and wobbly bridge physics. The crossover concept and voice work earn genuine praise, while a specific, repeated complaint about jittery bridge physics and a near-absent tutorial runs through a large share of the review sample.
6 / 10
The latest entry in Serafini Productions' Japanese psychological horror series, praised across English, Chinese, Russian and Italian for its atmosphere and thoughtful, non-exploitative treatment of trauma and isolation, undercut by a specific, repeatedly corroborated complaint that the roughly two-hour runtime doesn't justify its asking price, plus real disagreement over pacing and technical polish.
6 / 10
A first-person psychological horror walking sim from Serafini Productions, the fourth BrokenLore entry and a prequel to UNFOLLOW, following Anne through surreal, symbolic memories of bullying and a fraught mother-daughter relationship — Very Positive across 156 reviews for its atmosphere and story, with real complaints about unclear direction, a rushed ending, and technical rough edges.
6 / 10
An adult-oriented, Vampire Survivors-style bullet-heaven roguelite about rescuing and nurturing flower-themed girls in a miniature otaku-cabinet world, whose reviewers consistently describe the core survivors combat as average at best and the real draw as its generous, AI-illustrated animated intimate scenes.
6 / 10
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Card Corner is a desktop-companion idle poker game from Conradical Games, built to sit in the corner of your screen while you work, and its Mostly Positive sample praises a genuinely deep Balatro-influenced deck system, while repeatedly and specifically flagging a stalled post-launch patch cadence the developer's own announcement history appears to confirm.
6 / 10
A card-creation simulator that lets you build your own roster of characters, complete with families, rivalries, pets and elemental tournament battles, drawing praise from a tiny early audience for its worldbuilding depth while one detailed reviewer argues the actual battle system doesn't yet live up to everything else surrounding it.
6 / 10
A chaotic, first-person casino management sim for solo or up to four-player co-op, praised as an unusually good-value grab for its dollar price despite thin content, jankiness, and a cooperative title that many found worked better solo.
6 / 10
A cat-themed barista sim that launched into a rocky, thief-plagued economy before its developer patched a steady path toward the cozy game it wanted to be.
6 / 10
Channel 64 is a $1.99 debut solo horror game about digitizing found-footage VHS tapes, and its Mostly Positive review sample praises the tense, tape-driven atmosphere and the genuine promise it shows for a first project while repeatedly flagging underused mechanics, an ending that still reads as abrupt after two developer rewrites, and a bug that can freeze the game outright.
6 / 10
A heartfelt, visually faithful spiritual successor to Caesar III and Zeus: Master of Olympus that nails the nostalgia and presentation its fans were hoping for, undercut by a strategic layer and difficulty curve a large share of the same nostalgic audience says never grows past its opening hours.
6 / 10
Colossal Order's sequel to the beloved city-builder launched into one of the genre's most severe, well-documented disasters — severe performance failures, a "fake" simulation several reviewers describe finding through direct testing, and a real CEO controversy over blaming the community for backlash. This review can confirm, via the developer's own communications, that Colossal Order and publisher Paradox split entirely in November 2025, with a new studio, Iceflake Studios, now credited by a real, growing share of reviewers with a genuine turnaround since taking over development in 2026.
6 / 10
A Tiny, Free Café Sim With No Reviews to Its Name Yet Coffee Craze is a free-to-play, first-person café management sim in which you serve coffee and pastries to a steady stream of
6 / 10
Collector's Cove sends you sailing between floating islands to farm, fish, and hunt down rare "Fabled" variants of everything you collect, and its large all-language review sample loves the first biome before repeatedly describing the same loop wearing thin, cryptic unlock conditions, and a queasy camera.
6 / 10
A Kingdom Rendered in Text and Console Characters Console Kingdom commits hard to a single visual conceit: everything in its kingdom-management sim — the throne room, the petitione
6 / 10
An Early Access idle shop sim built to be ignored — it lives in the corner of your monitor, restocks its own shelves and asks for a glance every twenty minutes. Charming, three dollars, and currently carrying a save bug that can wipe a 76-hour store.
6 / 10
Cozy Desktop Konbini is a desktop-companion idle game from Evrac Studio, released on Steam on 18 April 2025, that puts players in charge of a small Japanese-style convenience store
6 / 10
A hand-drawn life-sim about a ghost scout helping bear spirits move on from a cursed island, Very Positive across nearly 3,800 reviews for its charming art and atmosphere — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint about a real-time daily play-limit mechanic that deliberately stretches a short amount of content across many months, alongside a well-corroborated complaint about repetitive fetch quests and tiny inventory capacity.
6 / 10
A cheap, meditative 2D digging simulator where drilling through randomly generated mines for gold, coal, and iron proves genuinely relaxing, undercut by mobile-style controls that don't translate cleanly to PC and a progression system that runs dry after just a few hours.
6 / 10
