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160 Farming & Life Sim games reviewed and scored, best first.
160 reviews
A US$5 solo-dev card game about getting obscenely, monstrously rich — Cookie Clicker's number-go-up loop wearing a satirical life-sim's clothes, with real documented flaws (a reset mechanic that still catches players a year after the fix) and none of the monetisation traps this library usually has to warn about.
7.3 / 10
A two-day-old cozy first-person tidying sim that scatters 2,071 jigsaw pieces from 87 real public-domain paintings across a gallery and asks you to sort them back into place, priced at €4.67 and sitting at 91.7% positive on its opening weekend.
7.2 / 10
A solo-developed top-down delivery sim across three open cities, where cargo condition and a watchful police force matter as much as your route — launched two days ago with a tiny but detailed early review corpus and no achievement data yet to check its claims against.
7 / 10
A gorgeous, genuinely soothing pixel-art fishing game that lets you fish actively or let an idle mode do it for you — beloved enough to have gotten real players off the couch and back onto real lakes with their own families, undercut at launch by a real, consistently documented complaint that idling outperforms actually playing, and that there simply wasn't much game underneath the vibe.
7 / 10
A dungeon-crawling incremental where the monsters are also the ingredients — charming, tightly made, and finished by most of the people who buy it in a single sitting, for better and for worse.
7 / 10
A solo-developed idle aquarium game that nails the cozy, screensaver-adjacent fantasy of collecting fish, but leans so hard on one buy-raise-sell loop that its rarest rewards become a months-long grind with nothing else underneath to fall back on.
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 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
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 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
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
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 cheap, IAP-free idle-meets-gacha garden decorator that four years of Steam reviews agree on in an unusual way -- the exact randomised-drop system that makes it distinctive is also the thing that eventually wears players down.
7 / 10
A plant shop sim so pleasant that almost nobody has a bad word for it — and so short that the people praising it keep mentioning they finished everything in four hours. Lovely, cheap, and about three systems away from being something you'd still be playing next month.
7 / 10
A lovely four-hour game about scrubbing an alien ocean clean, 98% positive, whose only real complaint was the price — and the price has since fallen 70%.
7 / 10
A gorgeously drawn desktop-companion bathhouse sim starring a Korean webtoon dog character, backed by the most sustained developer support this lane has found all session, split between a large international fanbase that adores it exactly as it is and a real minority who find the content thinner than the price and the "Idler" tag suggest.
7 / 10
A first-person survival sandbox about hunting, farming and building a village that eventually runs itself, wrapped around the promise of a multi-generational dynasty that almost nobody who owns it ever actually reaches — a Very Positive, 42,000-plus-review Steam favourite that has spent the last two years answering "what's missing" with paid cosmetics instead of the content its own late-game silence keeps calling for.
7 / 10
A three-day-old Early Access idle RPG that runs thirteen separate skill trackers off one RuneScape-flavoured template, lets you train two of them at once, and caps its offline catch-up at a clearly documented 24 hours — for a one-time NZ$4.31 with no reviews, no achievements curve worth reading, and a developer FAQ that admits the balance still needs work.
7 / 10
A vampire farming sim with the best time-pressure idea the cosy genre has had in years, and almost no progression ladder to spend that pressure on.
7 / 10
A charming, Ghibli-inspired post-apocalyptic crafting and farming life-sim that's built a genuinely devoted, cross-generational fanbase over six years — while a long, consistent thread of its own reviews keeps arguing the developers never quite finished fixing it.
7 / 10
A pixel-art automation game that grafts Factorio-style conveyor belts onto a Forager-style hand-gathering loop. The first ten hours are genuinely charming; the back half turns into a long wait for timers to finish, and a cluster of recent reviews accuse it of bundling data collection players can't fully switch off.
7 / 10
The indie life sim that spent seven years being the great Sims alternative, now 91% positive and a million copies sold — with a build mode people adore and a live mode its own supporters say isn't finished.
7 / 10
