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1719 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1719 reviews
A match-3 puzzle game wrapped in a deliberately crude dating-sim framing, Overwhelmingly Positive across nearly 24,000 reviews largely on the strength of a genuinely strategic puzzle system — one that a consistent, decade-long thread of reviews says spikes sharply in difficulty right when the stakes are supposed to feel like a payoff.
6 / 10
A small, solo-developed idle RPG built on a genuinely distinctive hook — permadeath and souls-like difficulty grafted onto an auto-battler — that rewards deeply invested fans with hundreds of hours while leaving newcomers to discover its harshest rules the hard way.
6 / 10
A budget idle looter about climbing from rookie knight to legend through gear hunting, expeditions and an expansive skill tree, well liked as a cheap, chill background game for casual play but criticised by its most detailed reviewer for a skill tree that offers the illusion of choice without much real agency underneath.
6 / 10
A solo-developed factory-and-idle hybrid that grafts a miniature Factorio-style belt economy onto a prestige loop, released in July 2023 with roughly five stated hours of content and an open-source codebase.
6 / 10
A turn-based idle grinder built around hiring the monsters you've just killed, with a genuinely clever risk-versus-reward twist buried under a spreadsheet-dense interface and a release so quiet that Steam has barely registered it exists.
6 / 10
A free-to-play incremental about growing a one-person garage venture into a tech empire, with a genuinely honest monetisation model let down by a midgame economy that stops making sense and a content well that runs dry fast.
6 / 10
An Early Access cultivation-themed idle RPG that has built a genuinely dedicated niche following — some players logging thousands of hours — around its Dao and Aspect build systems, held back by extremely slow pacing multiple long-term players confirm barely changes after 100+ hours, a rebirth mechanic one detailed review calls fundamentally broken by design, and real technical issues including a reported save-data-loss risk.
6 / 10
A solo-developed, node-based automation game that scratches the Factorio itch without Factorio's build-everything-yourself demands, still in Early Access two and a half years in and still being actively rebalanced — most recently to remove the exact progression walls its players have been complaining about since launch.
6 / 10
A cheap, charming procedural-generation island builder whose own title promises more than the finished game delivers — a short, one-sitting civilisation puzzle rather than the ongoing incremental system a meaningful share of its own reviewers say they expected.
6 / 10
A two-person indie project that turns manual artillery triangulation into a genuinely satisfying, tactile puzzle-simulator with phenomenal sound design and a beloved customisable cat, undercut by a missing mid-mission save, simulation depth that thins out fast, and a string of progress-affecting bugs.
6 / 10
Isekai Mage Girl Gacha Pull Simulator bolts a genuinely well-received stock-chart-style card-trading system onto a repetitive click-the-gacha-button loop, and this review's heavily Japanese-language sample splits sharply between players who find the trading layer a real breakthrough and players who find the whole thing an AI-art-illustrated, hand-cramping void.
6 / 10
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A childhood browser game, resurrected on Steam Jacksmith: Weapons and Warriors is Flipline Studios' Steam revival of their own 2011 Flash browser game, in which players run a d
6 / 10
A dinosaur park management sim built on genuinely gorgeous creature models and animation, Very Positive across more than 23,000 reviews for its spectacle — undercut by an extraordinarily consistent complaint that the underlying management gameplay is shallow and repetitive, with near-identical dinosaur AI behaviour and limited building tools, since substantially superseded by two full sequels from the same developer.
6 / 10
A short, charming incremental fishing game with a genuinely responsive developer and a satisfying core loop, undercut by real bugs, a disputed drone-upgrade balance, and a completion time — roughly 2.9 hours by one detailed calculation — that one reviewer specifically flags as suspiciously close to Steam's two-hour refund window.
6 / 10
A cathartic, comedic first-person spider hunt that lets you burn down your own house to be rid of one arachnid — genuinely funny for the four-to-six hours it lasts, before a large share of its own fans say the joke runs out well before the game does.
6 / 10
A cozy, rain-soaked premise with real atmosphere Kiosk puts you behind the counter of a small, isolated late-night food stand, taking orders from a rotating cast of strange, unsett
6 / 10
A first-person rolling platformer from solo studio Megame LLC that reimagines the Russian folk tale of Kolobok as an Only Up-style climbing challenge, praised in a thin English review sample for its unique core mechanic and quirky charm, tempered by a fair complaint about a punishingly unforgiving hard mode.
6 / 10
Wisageni Studio's hand-drawn K-pop management sim charms reviewers with its art, music, and idol-scouting loop, but a "Mixed" reception centers almost entirely on one complaint - the game abruptly ends the moment your group debuts, cutting off the career players actually wanted to manage.
6 / 10
Nihon Falcom's Persona-meets-Metroidvania spiritual successor to Tokyo Xanadu has a genuinely interesting hybrid structure and a strong opening stretch, but repetitive combat, thin enemy variety, and a story that sets up a sequel instead of finishing its own are compounded by one glaring, self-inflicted problem: it launched with no official English localization at all.
6 / 10
A gorgeous Viking village-building colony sim praised for its presentation and satisfying core loop — held back by clunky, poorly-explained mechanics, at least one persistent progression-halting bug, and a genuinely serious complaint that the game shipped its full 1.0 release without any defined ending or endgame goal.
6 / 10
A ground-up Unreal Engine 5 remake bundling both original Layers of Fear games, their DLC and new connective content into one package — whose own returning fans keep saying the same thing, backed by a real, measurable gap: the 2016 original still holds Very Positive 88.4% on Steam against this remake's Mostly Positive 79.0%.
6 / 10
A dark, stylized horror-fantasy kidnapping simulator about a modern-day druid sacrificing neighbors to keep an uncertain god appeased, whose genuinely inventive premise and strong voice acting earn real admiration, undercut by a widely reported, poorly explained core mechanic that leaves many players confused before the story's short runtime concludes.
6 / 10
Carding customers instead of just scanning barcodes Liquor Store Simulator drops you behind the counter of a small alcohol retailer, stocking shelves, hiring staff, and eventually
6 / 10
A cheap, pixel-art resource-management survival game about tending an isolated lighthouse as sanity and supplies both run out, praised for its Lovecraftian atmosphere and price but held back by punishing, unforgiving difficulty and rough bugs.
6 / 10
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