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513 Crafting & Building games reviewed and scored, best first.
513 reviews
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
Grumpy Rhino Games' 2018 cult-tycoon idler turns its tower into an actual production chain instead of an upgrade list, and its Idol-summoning prestige loop still holds up — but the studio has settled into bug-fix-only maintenance, and there's little new to chase for anyone who cleared the tower years ago.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$5.99 solo-developed idle RPG that builds a genuinely large xianxia cultivation ladder — four realms, twelve stages, a reincarnation-and-soul-perk prestige loop — undercut by a recurring, still-unresolved save-corruption bug and a depth ceiling its own most invested players describe hitting after two or three lifetimes.
6.5 / 10
A small, self-published idle digger about a living pickaxe smashing its way to the core of the earth — genuinely satisfying for the four or so hours its content lasts, before the post-game stretch that chases the last achievements turns into the thing several reviewers actually complain about.
6.5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic idle game built around a genuine grid-inventory puzzle rather than a spreadsheet of upgrade buttons, undercut by a prestige system that does the math against itself and timers that make "idle" feel like the wrong word for long stretches of it.
6.5 / 10
A three-day-old idle ARPG from Chinese solo studio TUNA TUN that docks a full loot-and-buildcraft game — skill trees, randomised affixes, gem sockets, a 50-level dungeon path and an infinite Ascension ladder above it — into a fixed panel in the corner of your screen, undercut by an immovable window, a tedious itemisation flow and freeze bugs its nine early reviewers are already naming.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed idle RPG whose gear-absorbing prestige system and genuinely deep loot hooked hundreds of hours out of its fans -- while a hands-on bounty system that fights the "idle" label and some brutally uneven scaling keep it at Mixed rather than a genre standout.
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 polished incremental about commanding elemental golems to strip-mine an endless dungeon, with the best chain-reaction visuals the genre has produced this year — and a finish line most players cross in a weekend, despite the name.
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 single-player roguelite that recreates the specific childhood nostalgia of trading cards on a school playground, praised as a hidden gem for its Pokemon-and-Magic-flavoured collecting loop and complete absence of microtransactions, undercut by unfair difficulty scaling and a punishing lose-a-card mechanic that traps struggling players in a downward spiral.
6.5 / 10
A macro-focused RTS where you claw territory back from a robot horde that already owns the whole map, spend every watt of power on a rolling trade-off between economy, defence and offence, and push toward a 16-mission campaign the developer rates at 25-plus hours on Hard. Released 6 August 2026 with zero user reviews yet and a demo that's been public since March.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developer, first-person turn-based deckbuilding roguelike that launched into Early Access on 6 August 2026 with three classes, over 100 relics and a ten-tier ascension ladder already in place — reviewed the following day, with zero user reviews yet to check the pitch against and achievement stats that resolve to roughly two reporting accounts.
6.5 / 10
A stylish, microtransaction-free idle game about building an alien empire and clicking asteroids -- genuinely loved for its writing and its refusal to nickel-and-dime, and just as consistently criticised for running out of new things to do long before players run out of interest.
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 gorgeous Castlevania-meets-Dark-Souls action RPG whose strong opening hours give way, by a large share of its own reviewers' account, to boss reuse and repetitive combat -- and whose launch was briefly derailed by a real, since-resolved controversy over an overreaching EULA.
6.5 / 10
The best-designed digital card game in years, attached to an acquisition economy where the complaint isn't that you can pay to win — it's that you can't reliably pay to get the card you want at all.
6.5 / 10
A genuine technical marvel that recreates the entire Earth in staggering, mesmerizing detail — sold on Steam behind a mandatory external-launcher download that reviewers have documented, consistently and specifically, running out Steam's refund window since launch day in 2020.
6.5 / 10
A Windows-98-styled incremental about building a weapons manufacturer from a single hand-cranked bullet press to a nuke, undone late by an achievement wave that broke 100% completion for a lot of the players who loved it most.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed idle mining clicker that left seven months of Early Access on 6 August 2026 with a genuinely novel twist — spending points to weight the odds of its own random events — but arrived with a three-review corpus already reporting broken pet slots, a muted-sound bug, and a gem shop that won't take money.
6.5 / 10
A cheap, cheerfully chaotic idle mining game whose launch reviews all landed before a major "Big Bang" update rewrote its ending, fixed its most-cited bugs and added the prestige payoff early buyers said was missing — leaving a genuinely funny, well-supported small idler whose new true ending has its own, very real pacing problem.
6.5 / 10
A medieval-fantasy blend of Stardew Valley farming and open-world RPG adventuring, built by a two-person team, whose beautiful art and genuine ambition were badly let down by a "1.0" launch that its own most-upvoted reviews say played like early access — since substantially redeemed by almost two years of continuous free updates.
6.5 / 10
A deckbuilding RPG with forty advanced classes, a hand-built dark-fantasy world and one mechanic that dominates every conversation about it — Shadow Invasions that drop enemies with triple the health of anything else in the zone on top of you, unannounced, over and over.
6.5 / 10
A solo-developed first-person open-world RPG that regenerates a 250 km² province every campaign and wraps combat, crafting, family upkeep, crime and slavery-and-abolition systems around one shared skill ladder — launched into Early Access with an 18-to-24-month roadmap to 1.0 and its main storyline not yet in the build.
6.5 / 10
