Builder Simulator
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 24, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 6.3h
- Value
- $3.17/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GTX 750TI 2GB. Windows only.
Builder Simulator is the perfect game for those who want to build a house, from the ground up, one brick at a time. On easy, the game will guide and teach you by showing you full instruction, but on hard you will get no help - instead rely on your builder skills and make everything yourself.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 60 percent. Among the games that feel like it, House Flipper ($24.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Cafe Owner Simulator ($18.99, scores 11).
Of the 749 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 681 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 386 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6.3 hours; clearing it takes 16, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
86% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
21 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 09:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
**How to play Builder Simulator:** 1. Launch the game 2. Get a construction job 3. Arrive at the construction site 4. Pick up some bricks 5. Place the bricks 6. Place more bricks 7. Build a wall 8. Build another wall 9. Pick up a hammer 10. Hit something 11. Pick up a drill 12. Drill something 13. Carry materials across the entire map 14. Realize you forgot one brick 15. Walk back 16. Get the brick 17. Walk back...
Love taking your build from start to finish .But the finishes are really lacking.
Added the DLC. Now the upstairs window do not allow the addition of a sill for any of the windows. I cannot remove the windows or manipulate them in any way. I am stuck at 76% completion for this part of the construction any cannot go forward. Prior to the DLC, in a previous build in which I apparently missed installing or plaster a location I was forced to begin the project again because I cannot undo anything. I...
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Cite this score
Builder Simulator scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1120320/builder-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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