House Builder
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 10h
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 750. Windows only.
From traditional huts to modern homes of the future - become a one-person crew! Gather resources, use tools, and build brick by brick across history. Discover architecture secrets and create your dream homes!
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 $7.79. That was August 2026. 44 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator ($9.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Builder Simulator ($19.99, scores 24).
17 of the 750 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 236 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
87% start to 2% 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
22 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 22:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The detailed, satisfying house-building and bizarrely specific skill tree gave me some genuinely enjoyable moments. However, getting to them meant fighting the game's bugs, bad performance, clunky movement, forced progression, and especially its broken control scheme. I still had fun for quite a few hours, but I can't recommend it in its current state. +++ The house building aspect is actually pretty detailed. In...
Decided to pick this game up again because of the new event and I was reminded why I sat it down in the first place. The game is buggy in the weirdest ways and the level designs feel like an afterthought. I spent 20 minutes looking for a pressure washer only to find out that I needed to restart all of my work in a level because it simply didn't load when I launched the level. Then in the next level I decided to try...
It seemed like a nice premise and I was enjoying it at first, but the more I played the more I saw inconsistent design, buggy interactions and poorly scripted notifications. I was going to try to finish it but I lost all interest, especially in trying to go for any of the speed achievements.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
House Builder scores 46/100 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/1244630/house-builderReviews 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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