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409 Simulation games reviewed and scored, best first.
409 reviews
A free four-day preview of Stones Games' inspection-sim-meets-zombie-shooter, released a week after the paid full game it advertises, and dogged by the same lag and AI-voiceover complaints — plus a Steam community that keeps naming the much bigger game it resembles.
5 / 10
A solo-developed management sim with real, distinctive depth — build and run a recreation centre down to the individual pool lane and arcade cabinet — that stopped receiving public updates in September 2022 and has spent the four years since accumulating an unusually self-aware review corpus that argues, in real time, about whether "abandoned" is fair to say out loud.
5 / 10
A first-person solo-dev landlord sim whose overwhelming launch complaint — that the core loop was mostly sleeping to skip time — was rewritten by the developer in two patches shipped the very same day this review was researched.
5 / 10
A cute, cheap goblin-blacksmith crafting and resource-management game with a small, genuinely fond following -- and an equally consistent complaint that there simply isn't much of it, with most players finishing in well under an hour.
5 / 10
A Japanese doujin-scene idle game about looping rail carts around a base to gather materials and craft your way through dungeons, built on genuine long-term content but undermined by having no offline progression at all.
5 / 10
Nine years, a fired writer, a dropped studio and one troubled development later, Bloodlines 2 shipped as an action-adventure closer to Dishonored than an RPG — and its own most-upvoted review, at over 10,000 votes, says the original team "deserved better than this."
5 / 10
A free mobile-derived restaurant sim with over 20 million downloads and genuine long-term fans, ported to Steam with the same wait-timers and in-app-purchase economy intact — and a large negative-review cluster calling it exactly that trade-off, unsoftened.
4.6 / 10
A solo-developer campus-management sim with an unusually specific pitch — schedule real courses and sections, build dorms, hire professors, chase reputation — undercut by a launch-week save bug, support that appears to have stopped within days of release, and Steam's own achievement data showing almost nobody gets past the opening hour.
4.6 / 10
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A carrier-launched arcade combat flight sim from Ovilex Software, released the same day, at the same price, as a civilian sibling title built on what reads as the same engine — and checked here against the developer's own decade-long Steam catalog rather than a review corpus this game doesn't have yet.
4.5 / 10
A very cheap sci-fi idle clicker whose ten planets and resources turn out to be copy-pasted variations on the same system, according to a strongly corroborated group of reviewers who each independently report seeing everything the game offers within minutes.
4.5 / 10
A physics-based burger-flipping game built entirely around one mouse-controlled hand, with no way to rebind, retune, or replace that control scheme — which is also the single thing its own Steam reviews argue about most.
4.5 / 10
A mobile-to-Steam idle production-line game with a genuinely well-regarded crafting chain buried under aggressive monetisation and, more seriously, a documented save-reliability problem — one top-voted reviewer reports losing an entire weekend of event progress despite manually saving before logging off.
4.5 / 10
A one-person Steam sim about physically building a mining rig and speculating on a simulated coin market — a genuinely different idea to the genre's usual click-and-wait idlers, left to rot by a developer who stopped updating it within a year of launch.
4.5 / 10
A post-apocalyptic reskin of developer FreeMind's own hit Farmer's Life, swapping the horse and hand-sown fields for a legged robotic tractor and a seed-drone, and landing at a Mixed rating with its harshest reviews arriving in the week it left Early Access rather than the months before.
4.5 / 10
A NZ$0.95 debut incremental from IncBirdsGames where you click birds out of the sky, feed and sell them, and grind through a 16-upgrade tree gated by two currencies at once — a charming physics hook wrapped around a UI its own genre curator calls "clunky as hell."
4.5 / 10
A dirt-cheap, small-studio click-and-expand supermarket tycoon that borrows its name from a much bigger, unrelated hit — with a genuinely hooky core loop for the few who've reviewed it, undercut by a bug that reportedly blocks the last fifteen levels and a string of rough-edge complaints, from missing achievements to an un-renamed Unity default company ID.
4.5 / 10
A three-person GDevelop sequel about executing villagers and farming their souls, honest and unpretentious about what it is — but every one of its handful of Steam reviews so far is negative, and they converge on the same two complaints, an achievement curve that backs both up.
4.5 / 10
Even loyal fans of the prolific Chilla's Art horror catalogue widely call this one of the studio's weakest entries — a tedious back-and-forth walking simulator with a genuine progression-blocking bug and a sound-based puzzle with no accessibility option for deaf or hard-of-hearing players.
4.3 / 10
A striking-looking body-horror survival sim with a hollow core underneath — most reviewers, including fans, describe an idle grind with no real ending or consequence — and a tonal concern raised independently by more than one reviewer that this review could not verify but takes seriously enough to flag plainly.
4.3 / 10
A Prohibition-era mafia grand strategy game with a genuinely rare premise and almost none of the depth needed to carry it past the first few hours.
4.2 / 10
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A NZ$12.49 seven-currency idle economy game whose own most-invested reviewers — median 23.7 hours played, well above its positive reviewers' 5.7 — describe a triple prestige system that resets everything for nothing, a save that "bricked itself" at 135 hours, and an achievement curve that halves at every difficulty gate.
4 / 10
A NZ$2.99 satire of Steam's own trading-card economy, where bots buy, sell and craft cards into badges to push a level counter upward — a clever premise that Steam's tiny, Mixed-rated review corpus says never grows past its opening idea.
4 / 10
A simplified, buggier follow-up to the well-regarded Mars Colony: Challenger, with real crashing and missing-feature complaints and no updates recorded since 2016 — and a recent reviewer tribute revealing the game's solo developer passed away in December 2025 after a long illness, which this review treats with the care that context deserves.
4 / 10
A NZ$3.19 merge-idler about evolving cats through drag-and-drop merges — clean on monetisation, but backed by so little player evidence (two English Steam reviews in four years, zero concurrent players at time of writing) that its own storefront can't muster a score.
4 / 10
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