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513 Crafting & Building games reviewed and scored, best first.
513 reviews
A one-day-old, solo-developed turn-based castle-builder that spent over a year in a public demo before launch — 70-plus buildings, 90-plus technologies and 50-plus historical Crusade-era Lords for a budget price, tested so far by exactly one Steam reviewer.
7 / 10
A two-person Swedish studio's pixel-art ARPG stacks skill trees, runes, sockets and artifacts into a genuinely deep build sandbox for the price of a takeaway meal — but the achievement data shows most players never see the endgame that's supposed to justify it.
7 / 10
A Scottish Highlands colony sim that deliberately swaps RimWorld's raids and pirate attacks for winters, in-laws and beekeeping — four years into Early Access, with monthly patches still landing and the same comparison still following it everywhere.
7 / 10
A voxel colony-building strategy game crossing Minecraft's block-by-block construction with genuine tower-defense stakes, still in Early Access more than nine years after its 2017 debut — sustained by an unusually transparent weekly developer blog and a loyal Very Positive fanbase, with a persistent, still-current complaint that its mid-to-late game never quite matches the promise of its opening hours.
7 / 10
A gorgeous, Kickstarter-backed farming sim whose "1.0" release in late 2023 shipped with main quests literally marked "work in progress" — a real, widely-documented letdown for long-time backers that the game has spent the time since quietly living down.
7 / 10
Weather Factory's card-driven cosmic horror sim deliberately refuses to explain itself -- a design choice its own creators later softened for its 2023 successor after eight years of Steam reviews split almost exactly along the line between players who find that opacity thrilling and those who find it simply punishing.
7 / 10
A creature-taming roguelike deckbuilder with a genuinely distinctive hook — recruit your enemies into your deck instead of collecting pre-made cards, then lose them permanently if they die in battle — undercut for a meaningful slice of players by steep, RNG-heavy difficulty spikes that a dedicated "Difficulty Update" only partly resolved.
7 / 10
A 2-4 player co-op mining game about sharing one wallet, one pool of light and one simple goal — go deeper than your last run — where gas pockets, earthquakes and radiation punish anyone who pushes past what their gear can survive.
7 / 10
A second-monitor idle game about building a spacefaring trade fleet, launched thin enough that its loudest early reviewers called it a demo with a price tag — and then patched hard enough, with a dedicated endless mode and monthly content drops since, that the complaint driving most of its negative reviews is now largely out of date.
7 / 10
A factory-and-colony sim where the automation isn't belts or menus of orders but a real node-based programming language you wire up yourself, one behavior graph per unit. The most technically ambitious game in its genre, and honest proof of how much that ambition costs at the door.
7 / 10
A voxel-styled match puzzle that swaps the usual click-and-swap for sliding whole rows and columns like a stone tablet, wraps it in a roguelite deckbuilding run, and backs it with a real 8-player online mode that almost nobody is around to fill.
7 / 10
An Australian-outback survival life-sim that earned four years of goodwill in Early Access, then spent most of it in six weeks when its solo developer sold publishing rights to KRAFTON and the resulting EULA sparked one of Steam's more pointed 2025 backlashes.
7 / 10
A Cult of the Lamb-shaped roguelite about taming, breeding and battling with dinosaurs that a large majority of players genuinely enjoy for its cute art and satisfying core loop, worn down for a real minority by breeding RNG and small-feeling maps.
7 / 10
A charming, deeply likeable Disney life-sim whose 2022 Early Access promise of an eventual free-to-play release was formally scrapped in 2023 — a well-documented reversal that still shapes how existing players talk about the game more than two years later.
7 / 10
Meta Interaction's 2018 semi-idle RPG buries a genuinely deep itemization system — talent trees, enchanting, reforging, scrolls, gem sockets — under rough localization and RNG that can make its best ideas exhausting to reach.
7 / 10
A Kickstarter-funded spiritual successor to Suikoden, built by the genre veterans who created it, that delivers on its hundred-recruit army-building promise while carrying a rough English localization and a completionist grind that its own Steam reviews argue about at length.
7 / 10
A hand-painted 2D desktop RPG about exploring enchanted realms, fishing quiet waters and filling out a Knowledge Book of everything you meet — released yesterday, priced under six dollars, and already dropping hints in its own patch notes that "single-player" might not stay the whole story.
7 / 10
A beloved, deeply engaging cozy-fantasy RPG sequel that a genuinely enormous share of its own players finish and keep playing — sitting alongside the single most consistent, most heavily-upvoted complaint this review has documented all year, that its marketed co-op is severely restricted, undersold by its own promotional videos, and takes hours just to unlock.
7 / 10
A chaotic, systemically fun open-world shooter set against an American cult uprising — increasingly reviewed less on its own merits than on a 2025 Ubisoft EULA change that reviewers say gives the publisher the right to revoke access to games players already paid for.
7 / 10
The franchise's current entry brings a genuinely better-looking, better-sounding engine and three new regions, but a large share of its own veteran audience says content was cut rather than added relative to Farming Simulator 22 — and the DLC structure has grown to two full season passes plus a dozen standalone equipment packs.
7 / 10
A menu-only farming MMO that has quietly run since 2021 with no ads and a genuinely optional shop, propped up by a community wiki so thorough that half the game's actual strategy lives outside the app.
7 / 10
A NZ$5.99 idle RPG that dresses an 11-skill crafting-and-progression system up as a joke about spinning a fidget spinner impossibly fast, from a solo developer who patched constantly through Early Access and then went almost completely silent after the September 2023 1.0 launch.
7 / 10
A stylish hybrid of deck-building and turn-based tactics staged as John Wick-style action- movie fight choreography -- Very Positive on Steam, with a consistent balance and replayability complaint against genre giants like Slay the Spire, and a recent, specific monetisation grievance from its most invested players.
7 / 10
A text-based football world generator where you don't pick a lineup or call a tactic — you only approve or reject the transfers clubs propose, then watch decades of invented history unfold. A genuinely different angle on football management, launched with a five-review Steam page and some sharp early complaints about its own core promise.
7 / 10
