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1729 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1729 reviews
A NZ$3.69 mobile port that charges upfront and then layers in-app purchases on top anyway — the single complaint its small review corpus has repeated, unprompted, for eight straight years, alongside a progression wall around planet 40-60 and a broken "offline progress" promise that shows up twice, four years apart.
3.5 / 10
A solo-developed psychological horror farming simulator about tending crops and serving customers by day while trying to ignore something wrong beneath the surface, whose small but unanimously positive review sample praises its claustrophobic atmosphere and multi-ending structure, tempered by a shared concern that the core loop wears thin before the story concludes.
3.5 / 10
A Beautiful Ship Wrapped Around a Deeply Troubled Release Titanic Escape Simulator launched August 24, 2026 from magicprostudio and Vintage Digital Revival, promising a private-inv
3.5 / 10
A genuinely deep 13th-century resource-management sim, confirmed complete and well-liked by multiple competition judges — undone on this shelf by a missing viewport tag that makes the entire game unreachable on a real phone, from the very first tap.
3.4 / 10
A genuinely well-regarded airport-management sim with a distinct, ground-handling-focused concept praised even by many critics, confirmed abandoned by this review's own check of a three-year Steam news silence — leaving a real, unfinished game for sale with no further development in sight.
3.4 / 10
He Followed Me is a $4.99 episodic psychological horror game about a pizzeria worker being stalked after a workplace argument, and this review's Mixed sample (11 of 16 reviews) splits sharply between players charmed by its atmosphere and beloved cat companion, and others who found it a derivative, buggy experience that can leave players softlocked in their own bathroom.
3.3 / 10
Eight Reviews, Every Single One Negative Idle Pixels launched on Steam on 6 August 2025 from developer Pixel Labs, and at the time of writing it carries eight user reviews — every
3.3 / 10
A one-person dungeon-management sim where you wall off rooms, seed traps and synthesise monsters to grind down invading adventurers. The pitch has real bones, but its entire English Steam review history — three reviews, all negative — describes a game that stopped short of finishing itself.
3.2 / 10
A one-developer gladiator hack-and-slash that launched in 2018 as a stripped-down single-player sliver of a much bigger multiplayer Roman-arena RPG its own official website still describes as "upcoming" and "in alpha" — three Steam reviews total, and the one detailed negative report says the settings menu doesn't work.
3.2 / 10
A genuinely likeable spin on the House-Flipper renovation genre, with a real ghost-catching hook reviewers enjoyed for months — undercut by severe, persistent bugs and a rights transfer to a new studio that this review independently confirmed via a year of Steam silence, exactly matching multiple reviewers' abandonment claims.
3.2 / 10
Eerie Dossier:the Haunted Apartment is a $4.99 first-person anomaly-spotting horror game from developer Gameloop and publisher 隐书大宅, the latest entry in an established series, and this review's full 46-review sample lands Mixed (30:16), with many returning fans specifically judging it a step down from its own predecessors.
3.1 / 10
A budget farming simulator promising a small plot of land grown into an agricultural empire, met with a small but strikingly consistent multi-language chorus of early reviewers describing a repetitive, content-thin loop of ploughing, sowing and selling with no economy, vehicle variety or upgrades to speak of.
3 / 10
A free-to-play dark-fantasy tactics gacha with a genuinely interesting merge-based class system arrives buried under chaotic multilingual localization, aggressive monetisation, and a review sample repeatedly and specifically alleging bought positive reviews.
3 / 10
A genuinely novel premise — build a crypto-mining empire starting in 2014 — abandoned by its developer mid-development, left with a reported unwinnable debt bug that can end a run outright, and dogged by real performance and security concerns this review could not fully resolve.
3 / 10
A solo-developed beekeeping sim with real, specific depth that actual beekeepers among its tiny review sample genuinely admire — buried under a total absence of any tutorial, a broken hiring feature, and a game the developer never patched after its 2022 release.
3 / 10
DINOGOD's debut mech-western, a farming sim bolted onto Armored Core-flavoured combat, earns a genuinely Mixed reception -- reviewers love its heartfelt story, voice acting, and setting, but a large share describe combat, controls, and pacing that never shake off a rough, unfinished feel.
3 / 10
A Nancy Drew-inspired first-person mystery adventure set in the Australian outback, whose Positive review sample praises its authentic rural-Australian setting, full voice acting, and internet-sleuthing puzzle design, weighed against a short 3-to-4-hour runtime, an underdeveloped ending, and real launch-week performance complaints.
3 / 10
A free pixel-art clicker from developer E-Crew, built on the same chest-and-card "idle collectible" template as Adventure Communist and Cell to Singularity, abandoned six weeks after its March 2023 launch.
3 / 10
A post-apocalyptic colony-survival shooter whose Early Access launch drew one of the most lopsided negative receptions this library has documented — and a same-day developer admission, unusually honest for how bad the reviews were, that quick fixes won't be enough.
3 / 10
A live-action FMV detective thriller and romance sim set aboard a luxury cruise ship, sequel to Detective Please Keep My Secret, whose large Overwhelmingly Positive review sample praises its cinematic production values and returning cast while sharing a wide range of specific, repeated complaints about clue-flooded deduction puzzles, static dialogue-heavy pacing, a rough English translation, and real bugs.
3 / 10
Hellfire: Wukong dresses a generic idle-cultivation grinder in Journey to the West clothing, and this review's overwhelmingly negative sample describes a game whose progression math barely works, whose saves can vanish without warning, and whose developer patched frequently for two weeks after launch before apparently going quiet.
3 / 10
A NZ$6.29 xianxia-themed idle herb farm from a Chinese solo developer who shipped a near-identical idle game five weeks earlier — a decorative thousand-card compendium and an auto-battling cultivator sit on top of a loop with exactly one real decision, and both patches and the developer's attention stopped inside the first week.
3 / 10
A faithful, functional JavaScript port of the original open-sourced Micropolis (SimCity) that works cleanly with a mouse on desktop — city creation, zoning, budget and demand graphs all confirmed working — but which refuses to even load on any phone-compatible screen size, in either orientation, behind its own built-in "screen is too small" gate.
3 / 10
A free, short VR "edutainment" trip to a lunar base that genuinely charms the players who can get it working, undercut by severely inconsistent controller support that leaves a large share of reviewers unable to turn, move, or even start the experience at all.
3 / 10
