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1729 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1729 reviews
The latest instalment in a long-running yearly geopolitical simulation series, offering genuine, unmatched depth for fans willing to run a country's economy, army and secret services, undercut by bugs its own loyal fanbase say have carried over unfixed for years and a full annual price for what many call a minor content refresh.
5 / 10
A Two Point Hospital-flavoured prison-management sim with genuine charm and a supportive launch window, undercut by thin long-term content, a restrictive early economy, and a developer that stopped updating it in August 2022 — confirmed by a news feed gone quiet and a concurrent-player count in the single digits.
5 / 10
A cheap, short phobia-confrontation horror experiment built around blind blue-or-red door choices, praised by some for genuinely engaging with real phobias, but criticized by a substantial share of reviewers as a repetitive, luck-based guessing game with too little atmosphere or design behind its central gimmick.
5 / 10
Puppy Park is a real-time daily dog hotel sim in the Nintendogs mold from solo developer TM39, and its Mixed, nearly evenly split review sample argues over whether its short, low-content sessions are a deliberate cozy design choice or simply not enough game for the money.
5 / 10
Pure Farming 2018 arrived with Techland's backing and a genuinely ambitious pitch — four continents, region-specific crops, three difficulty tiers — aimed squarely at Farming Simulator's audience. Its own reviewers largely agree it's a reasonable budget alternative for newcomers, and just as largely agree its worker AI and optimization problems were never properly fixed across the roughly thirteen months of support it actually received.
5 / 10
A free four-day preview of Stones Games' inspection-sim-meets-zombie-shooter, released a week after the paid full game it advertises, and dogged by the same lag and AI-voiceover complaints — plus a Steam community that keeps naming the much bigger game it resembles.
5 / 10
A solo-developed management sim with real, distinctive depth — build and run a recreation centre down to the individual pool lane and arcade cabinet — that stopped receiving public updates in September 2022 and has spent the four years since accumulating an unusually self-aware review corpus that argues, in real time, about whether "abandoned" is fair to say out loud.
5 / 10
A first-person solo-dev landlord sim whose overwhelming launch complaint — that the core loop was mostly sleeping to skip time — was rewritten by the developer in two patches shipped the very same day this review was researched.
5 / 10
A genuinely cozy, nostalgic electronics-repair simulator praised by real repair technicians for its accuracy, engulfed by an unusually well-documented community investigation into undisclosed generative-AI art and a data-collection privacy policy reviewers say the developer denied and then partially admitted to.
5 / 10
A cheap incremental game built around lottery scratch cards has a genuinely charming premise, but a Mixed review pool documents severe progression-balance walls, store-page screenshots that misrepresent the actual content, and a string of save-corrupting bugs that go beyond typical early-life jank.
5 / 10
A roadside-business management sim from ikika Games where you grow a small stop into a full service hub with a shop, gas station, restaurant, and motel, Mixed across 26 reviews for a promising, engaging core loop — badly undercut by a well-documented cluster of launch bugs that this review confirmed a single patch only partly addressed.
5 / 10
Shed Skin, Bleed Ink is a FREE experimental ritual game from a five-person USC Games student team that asks players to draw sigils on their own skin with a pen or marker to bridge the digital and physical worlds, and this review's small, mixed sample split sharply between genuine admiration for its concept and craft and real frustration with its pacing and interface.
5 / 10
A cozy co-op vinyl-sorting sim with a genuinely relaxing core loop and a real quality-control problem — AI-generated cover art that ranges from sharp to unreadable, plus bugs and typos that even AI-tolerant reviewers say should have been caught before launch.
5 / 10
A cute, relaxing idle village-defense game with genuinely charming art and music, held back by very linear progression with little real strategy, missing damage feedback that leaves upgrade value unclear, and a runtime multiple reviewers say is too short to justify calling it a proper idle game.
5 / 10
A Title That's Also A Warning Label The full name of this Early Access sniper game runs to more than thirty words, and that joke sets the tone for everything that follows. Rele
5 / 10
A landmark creature-evolution sandbox from Will Wright's team at Maxis, still Very Positive across 66,000-plus reviews — sold today with its own online creature-sharing ecosystem, the feature the entire original pitch was built around, broken for anyone who buys the Steam version specifically.
5 / 10
SYMMETRY wraps a survival-management sim in genuinely striking retro-futuristic vector art and a mysterious, half-told sci-fi story. Its own reviewers largely agree the atmosphere is the best thing about it, and just as largely agree the actual click-and-wait management loop underneath is one of the most punishing, repetitive experiences in the genre.
5 / 10
A small five-person Polish studio's ambitious crew-role WWII tank sim launched in a rough, unfinished state after its publisher reportedly pulled funding overnight, and while reviewers consistently praise the concept and the developers' visible post-launch effort, an equally consistent chorus of bugs, broken AI, and cluttered UI complaints makes clear this is a game still finding its footing.
5 / 10
A beautiful, genuinely mysterious Pacific Northwest survival game from a six-person team whose atmosphere and unusually visible developer responsiveness earn real goodwill, undercut by a specific, widely repeated and serious complaint that saves and progress can be wiped outright, alongside severe performance issues even on high-end hardware.
5 / 10
A cute, cheap goblin-blacksmith crafting and resource-management game with a small, genuinely fond following -- and an equally consistent complaint that there simply isn't much of it, with most players finishing in well under an hour.
5 / 10
The Host: Cataclysm is an ambitious, up-to-eight-player post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG about hunting colossal world bosses across a fractured world, and this review's most notable finding is that it has attracted zero public reviews in the six months since launch, despite the game's own achievement data showing a real, if small, playerbase actually fought through it.
5 / 10
A Japanese doujin-scene idle game about looping rail carts around a base to gather materials and craft your way through dungeons, built on genuine long-term content but undermined by having no offline progression at all.
5 / 10
A short, PS1-styled cozy-horror shop simulator from solo developer samuel, Very Positive across a small English review sample for well-timed jump scares and charming nostalgic presentation, with a fair, repeated complaint that it closely follows The Boba Teashop's formula without adding enough of its own.
5 / 10
A free-to-play Polish railway simulator built for serious enthusiasts, Train Driver 2 offers deeply realistic, cooperative driver-and-dispatcher gameplay that longtime players describe as unmatched by rival train sims, but its Steam debut is badly undercut by a severe language barrier that leaves most non-Polish speakers unable to even start a train, plus an awkward external account-registration process and real optimisation complaints from years-long veterans.
5 / 10
