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1729 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1729 reviews
A tiny, dirt-cheap virtual-pet game about caring for a catgirl, warmly received for its pixel-art charm and an unusually responsive solo developer, but honest with itself about how little there actually is to do once the achievements run out.
5.5 / 10
A Cozy Warehouse Sim Riding a Very Crowded Wave Package Chaos drops the player into a cluttered warehouse with a simple, familiar promise: pick up thousands of scattered packages,
5.5 / 10
An AI terraforms Mars in a colony-management sim with a genuinely well-regarded science-fiction story, undercut by a midgame and endgame reviewers repeatedly describe as falling apart under a punishing interface, unreliable colonist AI, and hours-long waiting for late-stage terraforming milestones.
5.5 / 10
Veslo Games' web-of-relays base defence owes an open debt to the Kongregate flash classic The Space Game, and for a handful of missions that inheritance is a genuine strength. Fifty-two achievements and a leaderboard have sat broken since the developer went quiet in 2018, and the sixteen-mission campaign runs out of new ideas well before it runs out of missions.
5.5 / 10
A retail business sim from Art Games Studio about running a pharmacy, validating prescriptions, and expanding a growing store, drawing a Mostly Positive but genuinely divided review sample that credits its distinctive prescription-checking mechanic and responsive developers while flagging a fair, heavily corroborated complaint about game-breaking bugs at launch.
5.5 / 10
A spiritual sequel to the beloved anomaly-detection horror game The Exit 8, trading its predecessor's tense "spot the difference and turn back" structure for a forward-only survive-the-anomaly loop, a bold reinvention that a large portion of returning fans feel abandons exactly what made the original special.
5.5 / 10
A crowdfunded rhythm game with real genre credibility PLATiNA :: LAB is a vertical-scrolling rhythm game built around "Decoders" unlocking a database world through fallin
5.5 / 10
1,600 Plushies And No Instructions Plushy Store Tidy Up, released September 1, 2026 by solo studio SIV Games, drops players into a store buried under more than 1,600 stuffed animal
5.5 / 10
A cozy co-op alchemy shop sim that reviewers say shines brightest with a second player at the cauldron, praised for its puzzle-like ingredient discovery and active developer support, but held back at launch by sync bugs, an awkward single-item inventory, and a content pool several reviewers say runs dry after fifteen to twenty hours.
5.5 / 10
The long-running cycling management sim returns with a rebuilt season planner and detailed simulation upgrades, but a divisive automated scheduling system and years-old AI quirks leave the peloton's veterans frustrated.
5.5 / 10
A free MMO racer with a genuine lineage back to 2006, relaunched on Steam in 2019 — reviewed for what a new player actually finds when they arrive, including how few of them there currently are.
5.5 / 10
A derivative but genuinely expanded checkpoint-inspection zombie shooter with a story reviewers keep singling out, undercut by widely reported poor optimisation, distracting AI-generated NPC voices, and an infinite zombie-spawn exploit that breaks its own economy.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely satisfying trash-sorting job-sim for its first ten hours, let down by a content ceiling reviewers describe with remarkable consistency, a confirmed use of AI-generated art that a large share of its own audience specifically objects to, and a base-game recycling chain that reviewers say only becomes complete once you buy a separate paid DLC.
5.5 / 10
Building a town to fend off the Demon Realm, slowly Refence blends three genres that don't always combine cleanly: roguelite run structure, idle-game progression, and tower-def
5.5 / 10
A clever Balatro-inspired real-estate combo-builder whose Mostly Positive score papers over an unusually loud, consistent chorus of reviewers, both critical and complimentary, reporting that the entire game is solvable and exhausted within two or three hours.
5.5 / 10
Better physics, wrapped around a shrinking game RIDE 6 is the latest entry in Milestone's long-running motorcycle racing series, built around a new "RideFest" festiva
5.5 / 10
A first-person Japanese horror walking sim from solo-adjacent studio OTL GAME about a virtual streamer whose real life starts unravelling after a stream cuts out mid-broadcast, earning a small, leaning-positive launch reception praised for its avatar-culture horror hook but flagged by reviewers for thin branching, a progress-blocking bug, and rough interface details.
5.5 / 10
An early-20th-century factory and logistics tycoon sim with a genuinely deep production-chain concept, undercut by a clunky, information-poor interface that forces spreadsheet-tracking and heavy manual micromanagement of every supply link.
5.5 / 10
A solo dev's shelved project finally sees daylight Sigma World Online has an origin story that colors almost everything about how it plays: the developer has described it as a
5.5 / 10
Runner Duck's spiritual sequel to Bomber Crew moves the frantic multi-station crew-management formula into space, and a large share of the beloved original's own fans say the move cost it depth and variety rather than adding to it.
5.5 / 10
A one-developer idle game that mashes up Factorio logistics, Path of Exile itemization and Eve Online's economy into a single premise, shipped as a full 1.0 release that multiple reviewers say plays like an early build — and a developer whose rapid post-launch patching has already turned at least one thumbs-down into a thumbs-up.
5.5 / 10
A cozy, hover-to-harvest incremental from solo studio Who Nose Studios, Mostly Positive across 89 reviews for its charming handmade presentation and satisfying core loop — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that it's over almost as soon as it starts, a claim this review corroborated directly against unusually high completion rates across its own achievement data.
5.5 / 10
A Debt-Ridden Space Trucker Sim From a Solo Developer Star Haul Tycoon launched August 6, 2026 from solo developer sugames, casting the player as a space-logistics operator who owe
5.5 / 10
A space-cargo-delivery adventure from critic-turned-developer Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw whose witty, well-regarded writing is consistently praised even by disappointed reviewers, set against a large, remarkably consistent negative-review theme describing a repetitive core loop, glacial pacing, and a price many feel isn't justified against genre benchmarks like Stardew Valley.
5.5 / 10
