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1729 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1729 reviews
A dual-era farming and life sim sequel whose time-travel hook and active developer earn real goodwill, undercut by a widely criticized paid in-game guide, persistent bugs, and a sense among many longtime fans that it's closer to a reskin of the original than a true sequel.
4.3 / 10
Flourish is a cheap, cozy garden-tending incremental, and this review's Mostly Positive sample (28 of 38 reviews) is split between players who found it a genuinely relaxing, well-supported way to unwind and a substantial minority who felt the game shipped far too short, though the developer's rapid post-launch content update directly answers that specific complaint.
4.3 / 10
A striking-looking body-horror survival sim with a hollow core underneath — most reviewers, including fans, describe an idle grind with no real ending or consequence — and a tonal concern raised independently by more than one reviewer that this review could not verify but takes seriously enough to flag plainly.
4.3 / 10
A satisfying loop wrapped around very little game Chicken Fries puts you behind the counter of a first-person fast-food kitchen: bread the chicken, drop the baskets, salt the fries
4.2 / 10
AMGames TC's fantasy spin on the Theme Hospital formula has real charm and a clever extra resource layer, but reviewers describe persistent save-corruption bugs and an apparently stalled patch cycle that turned early goodwill into frustration.
4.2 / 10
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A Prohibition-era mafia grand strategy game with a genuinely rare premise and almost none of the depth needed to carry it past the first few hours.
4.2 / 10
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A cozy fairytale tavern-management game with a werewolf twist, undercut for a large share of reviewers by progress-blocking bugs, an underused shapeshifting gimmick, and a wall of repetitive minigames attached to nearly every action.
4.2 / 10
Eight Stars, One Worm, and a Village Nobody Asked to Explore Worm In Village casts the player as, unsurprisingly, a worm, tasked with walking and jumping across a small village and
4.1 / 10
A first-person horror-parody investigation game from Paws and Play Studios about checking off a list of household problems inside a supposedly haunted house, drawing an extremely small, majority-negative English review sample that credits its parody concept while repeatedly flagging a lack of actual content and horror substance.
4 / 10
A Co-op Spot-the-Anomaly Horror Game From a Solo Dev Anomaly Company is a 1-4 player online co-op horror game from solo developer Kekdot, built around a now-familiar liminal-space
4 / 10
A desktop idle RPG about running a Kairosoft-inspired hero academy, recruiting and class-advancing students through branching career paths, backed by an unusually active near-daily patch schedule and hundreds of reviews -- most warmly positive, with recurring complaints about incomplete English localisation and an end-game pace that several long-term players say collapses into overnight idling.
4 / 10
An Idle Bomber Squadron With A Steam Market Bolted On Bomb Farm, released free on Steam August 28, 2026 by developer Stream On, is an idle RPG in the vein of the earlier "Task
4 / 10
A deliberately empty joke sim where you are a cactus and nothing else happens, whose devoted fanbase has spent years asking the developer to fix a single broken achievement while the asking price quietly climbed nearly eightfold from launch.
4 / 10
Same shelf, different products Car Mechanic Shop Simulator drops you behind the counter of an auto-parts store, stocking shelves, arranging inventory, and serving a rotating cast o
4 / 10
A bare-bones weapon-themed clicker whose ten weapon types turn out to be reskinned icons rather than distinct mechanics, and whose prestige system asks for twenty to thirty minutes of uninterrupted clicking for a five percent gain that several reviewers say barely registers.
4 / 10
Playing the Pest, Not the Exterminator Cockroach Simulation is a small survival horror game from solo studio WIZWIN with a genuinely unusual premise: rather than hunting or fleeing
4 / 10
A solo-developer construction business sim with a promising premise undercut by shallow, repetitive click-through gameplay, a near-absent tutorial and rough localisation, softened somewhat by a rapid post-launch patching pace that has earned the developer real goodwill from reviewers.
4 / 10
Origin Studio's guild-master village builder promises deep RPG management but plays out as a repetitive unlock-and-quota clicker, hampered further by inconsistent AI-assisted art and a frustrating lack of equipment control.
4 / 10
A PSX-style first-person psychological horror game about a first, unsettling night as a dormitory receptionist, undermined by a small but genuinely corroborated set of technical problems spanning collision and scaling bugs, a reported soft-lock, near-unreadable lighting, and a Japanese localization multiple reviewers describe as completely broken despite being explicitly marketed.
4 / 10
A MOBA-flavoured esports management sim that lets players draft, staff, and coach a team through full seasons, undercut by a shallow draft phase, a bare-bones match presentation, and missing tutorials that most of its small early review sample describes as leaving the game feeling unfinished.
4 / 10
A genuinely funny, chaotic co-op concept, fishing with guns and turret-deploying garden gnomes, undermined by an overwhelming, specific and near-universal complaint that the game becomes unplayable within a few hours as accumulated objects tank performance, alongside widely reported save corruption and a specific, checkable discrepancy in the developer's own AI-music disclosure.
4 / 10
An Early Access shop-management sim about running a gun store on the edge of the law, cleaning and customising weapons for shady customers while dodging mafia pressure and police attention, with a genuinely appealing premise undercut at launch by a striking number of specific, game-breaking bugs.
4 / 10
A business-management sim casting players as a CPU engineer and chip-fab tycoon from 1986 to 2026, Mixed across 28 reviews for a genuinely detailed engineering simulation enthusiasts praise as the most advanced of its kind — undercut by a well-corroborated, game-breaking pricing mechanic and, confirmed directly against the developer's own update history, an apparent abandonment with no update since mid-June 2026.
4 / 10
ZuitLabs' incremental game about tending a strange, obsessive Machine wraps its click-and-lever progression in a genuinely affecting story about compulsion and isolation, and a Very Positive review sample largely rewards that ambition, though a smaller, specific set of reviewers describes the same design choices as frustrating, repetitive, and at times simply broken.
4 / 10
