PC Building Simulator
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 22.4h
- Value
- $0.89/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 85% over the last 30 days against 93% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
November 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 58 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Supermarket Simulator ($19.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats House Flipper ($24.99, scores 75).
Players rate it 93 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 85 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 35 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 3,119 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, finite spend); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 22.4 hours; clearing it takes 100, which is 4.5 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
66% 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
132 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Even though this game is now a little bit dated, its a great time for casuals to understand some of the basics of PC building. Custom watercooling was a cool switch up at level 20.
Such a good game, really easy to pick up how to identify issues and has helped me to build on my knowledge of IT. The career mode is great but I do love the free build mode as well, so fun just building PCs all day xD
Do you want to build a computer that was mildly relevant 5 years ago in a game where your poor financial decisions can't follow you? Then this is the game for you!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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PC Building Simulator scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/621060/pc-building-simulatorThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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