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1729 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
1729 reviews
A NZ$10.29 desk-diorama ant colony sim from a solo student developer, launched unfinished on 1 April 2022 (unintentionally, on April Fools), publicly apologised for, patched twice over the following five months, and then left behind — a review from November 2023 says the developer "completely abandoned" it, and the game's own tiny nine-review corpus backs that up.
3 / 10
A pretty setting undermined at nearly every turn Park Ranger Simulator sets players loose in an open-world park to patrol trails, manage wildlife, and handle a rotating list of mai
3 / 10
A tight, narrative-focused colony-sim idler about a crew of raccoons building a trash empire, whose small but consistently warm review sample praises its art and polish while one detailed negative review flags a genuine shortage of quality-of-life conveniences and a single, fixed path to completion.
3 / 10
A broken game that became a phenomenon anyway School Teacher Simulator sets out, per its own description, to be a fairly conventional day-in-the-life simulator: manage a classroom,
3 / 10
Blue Goo Games and Kwalee's cosmic cooking-and-exploration sim, six years in public development, whose Mostly Positive review sample praises a genuinely addictive Stardew-meets-Starbound-meets-Overcooked loop, undercut by a widely and specifically repeated complaint about a confusing, guide-required progression system and a punishing early-game grind.
3 / 10
A minimalist, emoji-illustrated idle farming game about planting, watering, and harvesting seeds that double in price and payout, whose small review sample splits sharply between players who find its zen simplicity deliberate and satisfying and others who find the same simplicity a sign of missing depth -- a genuine prestige system, confirmed by Steam's own achievement data, sits closer to the middle of that disagreement than either side allows.
3 / 10
A desktop-overlay idle game about buying, stocking, and upgrading vending machines across a growing city street, whose large, Mixed-rated 67-review sample -- majority Chinese-language -- repeatedly corroborates specific launch bugs around auto-restocking and achievement tracking, several of which the developer has since directly acknowledged and patched.
3 / 10
A cheap, thin desktop-wallpaper colony builder with a review sample too small to trust on its own — but three separate negative reviews independently describe the game running unexpectedly in the background after being closed, a real and specific risk for Steam's own 2-hour refund window.
3 / 10
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A Pared-Down Airline Manager With a Simple Promise Simple Airline Sim pitches itself honestly in its own store description: a tiny, uncomplicated take on the airline-management gen
2.9 / 10
A Tribal Fantasy MMO That Plays Nothing Like Its Own Trailer Adventurers Guild is a free-to-play MMORPG from AG Studio, set on the continent of Parmons, where players build a fanta
2.8 / 10
BidKing is a $2.99 multiplayer auction-bluffing game built on a genuinely clever sealed-bid psychological warfare concept, but its Very Negative early review sample is dominated by a disturbing, repeated pattern of hijacked Steam accounts being used to dump hundreds of dollars into the game, alongside credible cheating allegations that undermine its core hidden-information premise.
2.8 / 10
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Sad Virus Castle is a short, bare-bones 3D collectathon starring a returning mascot searching a castle for nine beer bottles, and while a few reviewers find brief, undemanding charm in it, a detailed and well-sourced negative review accuses the developer of building it from stolen or misrepresented third-party asset packs, a serious credibility problem this review can't responsibly ignore.
2.8 / 10
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A cozy sandbox farming-and-digging platformer whose currently shipped build cannot actually walk — horizontal movement is blocked the instant the player is standing on the ground.
2.8 / 10
A Free Cat Idles on Your Desktop While You Do Something Else Desktop Pet: DonEatFish is a free-to-play screen ornament: a small animated cat perches in a corner of your desktop, id
2.7 / 10
A bare-bones restaurant management sim with no missions, goals, or real progression loop, compounded by crashes and a broken autosave, and one detailed reviewer's unverified claim that the developer may not have built the game's assets themselves.
2.6 / 10
Umpteenth Photo is a $0.99 retro photography sim from solo developer Tonguç Bodur where you snap portraits of villagers for pay, and this review's full 5-review sample leans Mostly Negative, with a locked camera angle and a missing save system drawing the sharpest complaints.
2.6 / 10
A NZ$3.19 idle "tycoon" whose entire loop, according to multiple independent reviewers, is buying one of 36 plots and watching it pay a flat 1 coin regardless of price or level — the fourth Boogygames Studios template Wanderer has reviewed, and the thinnest one yet.
2.5 / 10
A bare, aggressively monetised mobile-tapper port whose own paid "Farmer's Pack" is independently reported by multiple reviewers to break the game's economy outright, on top of an idle game that several reviewers say isn't actually idle at all.
2.5 / 10
A charming desktop-companion idle game about raising and gacha-collecting pixel fish, undercut at launch by a save system that repeatedly failed to persist progress between sessions -- a bug the developer claimed to fix within days, but which reviewers kept reporting for months afterward.
2.5 / 10
Steldrift's dollar-tier idle clicker about digging for ever-rarer ore delivers exactly what its name promises, and its small, Mixed review sample is split almost entirely on whether 'exactly what it says on the tin' is a compliment or a complaint once the whole game is finished in under an hour.
2.5 / 10
A music-festival business sim from sunsixEstudios, unanimously negative across all five reviews to date, several independently and across different languages suspecting AI-generated content behind an unfinished, bug-riddled release — a suspicion this review could not confirm directly, but one compounded by a game-breaking input bug and, checked directly against the developer's own news feed, a confirmed silence since 9 June 2026.
2.5 / 10
Code Voyager's free-to-play clicker asks you to click thousands of times for a random chance at tradeable Steam Marketplace items, but reviewers report broken servers, achievements that never unlock, and a shop bolted on top of what several call an exploitative item-farming scheme.
1.9 / 10
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Shell Increment is a $3.99 pirate-themed incremental game where you command a skeleton crew looting ships for shells, and this review's full 10-review sample is Mostly Negative, dominated by a core-breaking bug that pauses idle progress the moment you alt-tab away and a save-data-loss issue reported in three separate languages.
1.9 / 10
A promise of wilderness survival, and almost nothing behind it Collinwood advertises itself as a sandbox wilderness survival game: gather materials, craft tools, build a cozy cabin
1.5 / 10
