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1729 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1729 reviews
Nippon Ichi Software's farming sim from the team behind Yomawari blends Stardew Valley- style rural life with unsettling Japanese folk horror, earning a perfect "Positive" score for its atmosphere and story, tempered at launch by a missing English localization and rough keyboard/mouse controls.
8 / 10
A Half-Hour Walk Distilled Into a Warioware Collection walk released on July 18, 2026, from solo developer bilge, and at $1.99 it has quietly become one of the most purely beloved
8 / 10
A narrative "cozy" tea-shop game from The Stanley Parable creator's studio that deliberately refuses catharsis in favour of sitting with discomfort — a design choice its own highest-voted review frames precisely as "this is therapy, not catharsis," which a substantial minority of players found genuinely frustrating rather than illuminating, especially a mechanic that wipes everything a player has built at the end of every act.
8 / 10
A cozy horror farming RPG blending Stardew Valley's daily rhythm with genuine Junji Ito-and-Lovecraft-inflected dread, released after years of anticipated demo and Patreon alpha development to overwhelming, cross-language enthusiasm, tempered by a specific, repeated complaint about tedious permanent stat debuffs and a real cluster of interface and quality-of-life rough edges.
8 / 10
A god-game sandbox where civilizations of humans, orcs, elves and dwarves grow, fight and collapse almost entirely on their own while you throw lightning, plagues and dragons at them. Nearly five years into Steam Early Access, it's still one of the most purely enjoyable toyboxes in PC gaming — as long as you never expected it to have an ending.
8 / 10
A near-universally beloved comedy simulator about living the remote-work grind as an adorable, googly-eyed worm, praised across an overwhelming 384-review sample for its charm, polish and hidden-detail density, tempered by a shift into idle-game stock-market mechanics that splits opinion, a mandatory Clippy-style assistant some find grating, and a short overall runtime.
8 / 10
A Gorilla, a Shotgun, and a Bar Full of Liars Animaly Bar: NO HUMANITY! opens on a simple, gleefully absurd premise: the animals won. Humanity lost some unspecified war, and the wo
7.8 / 10
A cozy bakery management game built around a genuinely clever hook: customers describe what they want in riddles and clues rather than by name, turning every order into a small deduction puzzle.
7.8 / 10
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A NZ$4.99 sandbox life-sim RPG about being a cow — juice anything, weave anything into a basket, burn everything, and grind 13-odd skills across a warm, sincerely queer world. Small review sample, but a startlingly consistent one.
7.8 / 10
GLADIMAKER is a whimsical auto-battler RPG about building a stat-and-equipment combo for a gladiator who fights entirely on his own, and its perfect Positive review sample praises its deep build variety and charming cast while flagging a few late-game balance and quality-of-life complaints.
7.8 / 10
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A cozy, fully voiced visual novel about running a family flower shop and helping customers through the language of flowers — near-universally loved for its warmth, voice acting, and bouquet-crafting hook, with only light, specific complaints about pacing and polish.
7.8 / 10
A pixel-art maid café management sim built almost entirely around the beloved Cabaret Club minigame from the Yakuza series, expanded into a full game with its own comedic story, championship rivalry, and a two-person Korean development team that has kept up a steady post-launch patch pace.
7.8 / 10
A Night Shift Spent Among the Cacti The Plant Shop drops you into the life of Silvia, a 26-year-old with a corporate day job who has decided, for reasons the game slowly unpacks, t
7.8 / 10
A BL-flavored mystery-horror visual novel about an amnesiac maid who discovers he's a man, mixing a genuinely engrossing murder mystery with meme humor, light minigames, and a large, appreciative multilingual audience.
7.7 / 10
Inner Voice is a solo-developed, first-person exploration adventure about a man named Booker searching for answers after his wife's disappearance, guided by a haunting narrator across four dreamlike chapters, and its Positive review sample praises its atmosphere and restraint while flagging thin narrative payoff and a real motion-sickness accessibility gap.
7.7 / 10
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The Spotter: Dig or Die blends meditative daytime digging with adrenaline-fueled nighttime tower defense, and largely pulls it off, even if a jarring late-game detour and a few grindy edges keep it from greatness.
7.7 / 10
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A relaxing idle aquarium sim that lives in the corner of your screen, praised for its breeding, fishing and social systems, with a shaky launch-era social loop now largely patched and a couple of specific gripes still worth knowing about.
7.7 / 10
Read review of Tiny Aquarium: Social Fishkeeping Review: A Desktop Pet Done Right
Adorable Adventures casts players as a lost baby wild boar named Boris, using scent trails to reunite his family after a forest fire, and its huge Very Positive review sample is close to unanimous on the game's charm while raising real, repeated complaints about its short length, navigation, and technical bugs.
7.6 / 10
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A deceptively deep survival sim that runs entirely on cards instead of free movement — brutal, granular and beloved by its fans, but gated behind an interface several reviewers call the real enemy.
7.6 / 10
Sim: Heavyweight Boxing Champion is a deep, text-based boxing management sim spanning 1880 to 2026 with 2,500 real fighters, and reviewers consistently praise its historical richness and an unusually responsive developer, while flagging thin player agency and an underused money system as its clearest growing pains.
7.6 / 10
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A short, stylish incremental game about running genetic experiments on Pac-Man-like organisms, praised for actually requiring strategic thought rather than idle clicking, though a few late-game hurdles and UI quirks keep it from being a flawless three-hour trip.
7.6 / 10
A first-person, hands-on take on the resort-management genre, shoveling snow and chopping wood instead of clicking menus, that's already one of the more addictive Early Access sims on Steam despite real early-access rough edges.
7.6 / 10
A budget-priced hot dog cart management sim with branching, morally murky storytelling that reviewers consistently rate as one of the year's most pleasant indie surprises.
7.6 / 10
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A cozy bookshop management sim built around a genuine, meticulously researched library of real books, adored for how deeply it rewards actual literary knowledge but held back by an inconsistent recommendation system and a repetitive back half.
7.6 / 10
Read review of Tiny Bookshop Review: The Real-Books Mechanic Makes This Sim Special
