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409 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
409 reviews
A two-day-old racing game that makes you both the bettor and the horse — buy a Trifecta ticket on a track girl, then run the race yourself to try to cash it in. Thirteen Steam reviews exist so far, all of them Japanese, all of them positive, and most of them call it Uma Musume at home.
6.5 / 10
The 1999 Bullfrog classic that put you on the evil side of a fantasy dungeon, reissued on Steam in 2024 as a straight port of the GOG build. The dungeon-management design still holds up completely. Whether the executable does depends entirely on your PC.
6.5 / 10
A dwarf-themed idle mining sim that spent the better part of two years in Early Access before its July 2024 1.0 launch, built around floor management, cloneable dwarves and a slow climb toward daylight.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous, open-ended cozy farming RPG whose central mystery hook — why does everyone on this island know you, and where is your missing sister — draws players in and then goes conspicuously quiet, leaving a well-crafted farm sim without the narrative payoff its own setup promises.
6.5 / 10
A solo-built voxel colony sim where every species of tree and vein of ore keeps its own look all the way into the furniture you craft from it, three and a half years out of Early Access at NZ$38.49 with no user reviews yet against the 1.0 build.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed space-colony sim that spent a year in Early Access fixing the exact problems its first reviewers complained about, then launched to a small but genuinely engaged audience most readers have never heard of.
6.5 / 10
A cheap, genuinely relaxing idle fishing-fleet game from a solo developer who patched launch-week bugs within days and kept supporting it for a year and a half, let down by thin long-term depth and achievement targets several players call artificially padded.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed BL suspense visual novel about cannibalism, class and a very literal kind of appetite, two days into Early Access with zero Steam reviews yet — reviewed on the developer's own Early Access FAQ, patch history and a genuinely positive 18-month demo record.
6.5 / 10
A short, gleefully mean-spirited incremental game about getting rich by making pollution worse — genuinely funny in its first half hour, and honest that there isn't much more than that first half hour to find.
6.5 / 10
A small, unanimously well-liked decorating sandbox where birds bring seeds and gifts to slowly fill an island with plants and decorations, backed by a genuinely sustained run of seasonal content updates and a warm, consistent English review record.
6.5 / 10
A medieval cemetery sim with a tech tree the size of a small factory game and a sense of humour about corpse disposal. Also the only game I've reviewed where a player says they finished it out of hatred — and where the community's fix is a mod list that removes the walking.
6.5 / 10
Square Enix marketed this as a life-sim farming game and its own review corpus -- praise and criticism alike -- spent four years correcting the record. It's a JRPG with farming on the side, and knowing that before buying changes almost everything about how the game lands.
6.5 / 10
A polished AdVenture Capitalist-style idle tycoon that still earns steady thumbs-ups eight years on, even though its developer stopped visibly supporting it in 2019.
6.5 / 10
The comfort-game renovation sim that made cleaning and decorating genuinely satisfying — weighed down by a progress-erasing bug reviewers have reported for years and a sprawling paid DLC ecosystem that locks most of the game's achievements behind it.
6.5 / 10
A fruit-merging incremental that wears its debt to Gnorp Apologue openly and executes the formula well enough to earn Very Positive reviews, undercut mainly by a name that promises more hands-off progress than the game is actually willing to give.
6.5 / 10
A free-to-play boat-and-crew idler with 1,215 Steam achievements and a genuinely active two-year patch history, undercut by a store-page AI Generated Content Disclosure and a bolt-on excavation system that its own achievement data shows almost nobody finishes.
6.5 / 10
Kolibri Games' decade-old mobile idle didn't just popularise the miner-elevator-warehouse loop, it more or less invented the template every mining incremental since has copied. Ten years and a Ubisoft acquisition later, the loop still works — the monetisation menu and the interface built on top of it are where the wear shows.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer SRPG about running a guild of summoned adventurers, seven months into Early Access with a genuinely rare trait for the genre — a developer who ships updates almost every fortnight and replies to reviews within the hour.
6.5 / 10
Raise bees on floating islands, crossbreed them for traits, and rebuild a supply of honey for a dying Earth. A lovely, meditative idea shipped without an Early Access label straight into a week of blocking bugs — and patched fast enough that its Steam rating has been climbing ever since.
6.5 / 10
A big-number aquarium idler that genuinely earns its Idler tag — fry-pack gacha, a quadrillion-scale currency and a decoration economy with real payoffs — but its own audience keeps calling it a Chillquarium copy, and the saltwater half has sat unfinished since mid-2025.
6.5 / 10
A solo developer's yard-cleanup incremental turns raking leaves into a genuine tool-upgrade power fantasy — reviewed for whether a two-hour runtime and a single backyard are worth the Overwhelmingly Positive reputation, or just too little game for the price of admission.
6.5 / 10
A free, game-jam-born satirical incremental about escalating a lemonade stand into a factory, a skyscraper and eventually the climate itself, genuinely charming for its short one-sitting runtime but held back for most of its life by real bugs the solo developer has only recently and decisively fixed.
6.5 / 10
A cozy Stardew Valley-in-space farming RPG whose charming art and clever "planets instead of seasons" hook are consistently undercut by grind and a punishingly fast day-night clock that its own long-time fans say still hasn't been fixed.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 first-person forest-chopping incremental from Inner Realm Studios and Dumb Duck Games — 680 Steam reviews at 82.5% positive, checked against a full pull of every English negative review and the game's own achievement-completion curve, both of which land on the same structural complaint: a strong first two hours, then a wall.
6.5 / 10
