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Builder Simulator

Live Motion Games · 2022-06-09

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Oct 09, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Oct 09, 2023 (Xbox One), Apr 24, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 09, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

Builder Simulator is an Adventure, Casual, Indie and Simulation game released in 2022, priced at $19.99, with an estimated owner base of 100,000 to 200,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 2218 reviews).

33
playing now
72%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3.27★
PlayStation Store rating (237 ratings)
6h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

33 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 33 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 163 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~20/week).
  • · Review velocity up 83% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (505 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 28,748 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 45k–102k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,256 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2026-07-23) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 81 of 88 observed days · $22.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
39139120222026Week of 2022-06-01: 391 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 114 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

68102026-09-15 00:00 — 34 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 26 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 56 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 34 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 41 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 51 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 28 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 17 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 28 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 31 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 13 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 21 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 29 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 13 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 28 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 56 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 24 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 20 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 35 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 20 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 22 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 35 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 15 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 33 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
37017Jun 2022Aug 2026Jun 2022 — avg 370 · peak 1,427Aug 2022 — avg 74 · peak 228Oct 2022 — avg 32 · peak 89Dec 2022 — avg 48 · peak 171Feb 2023 — avg 33 · peak 77Apr 2023 — avg 54 · peak 206Jun 2023 — avg 76 · peak 180Aug 2023 — avg 39 · peak 92Oct 2023 — avg 42 · peak 118Dec 2023 — avg 51 · peak 173Feb 2024 — avg 30 · peak 74Apr 2024 — avg 28 · peak 70Jun 2024 — avg 38 · peak 148Aug 2024 — avg 24 · peak 67Oct 2024 — avg 26 · peak 69Dec 2024 — avg 31 · peak 75Feb 2025 — avg 63 · peak 239Apr 2025 — avg 20 · peak 50Jun 2025 — avg 26 · peak 78Aug 2025 — avg 22 · peak 54Oct 2025 — avg 18 · peak 46Dec 2025 — avg 32 · peak 84Feb 2026 — avg 17 · peak 44Apr 2026 — avg 56 · peak 261Jun 2026 — avg 30 · peak 72Aug 2026 — avg 39 · peak 145
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$99.99$3.662022-05-312026-10-142022-05-31 — best price $99.992022-12-01 — best price $19.992023-02-17 — best price $13.992023-06-06 — best price $14.992023-07-04 — best price $19.992023-09-13 — best price $17.332023-10-17 — best price $9.792023-11-28 — best price $19.992023-12-29 — best price $19.992024-01-25 — best price $14.992024-02-13 — best price $15.892024-03-17 — best price $14.992024-04-20 — best price $14.992024-06-06 — best price $7.992024-07-10 — best price $14.992024-08-06 — best price $15.892024-09-19 — best price $19.992024-10-21 — best price $10.002024-12-03 — best price $14.252025-01-14 — best price $14.252025-03-23 — best price $19.992025-04-30 — best price $6.702025-06-13 — best price $15.892025-07-28 — best price $9.992025-08-30 — best price $14.252025-10-27 — best price $7.002025-11-24 — best price $14.992026-01-10 — best price $19.992026-03-03 — best price $5.992026-04-10 — best price $4.362026-05-14 — best price $4.362026-06-09 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-09-02 — best price $24.992026-10-14 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

58
achievements tracked
85.8%
earned "Everything starts with a shovel"
23.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam WorkshopDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, Polish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2026-07-30 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,3345%58
PS4 (PlayStation)22616%58
Xbox One (Xbox)2218%57
PS4 (PlayStation)5810%58
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DEconomySandboxBuildingRelaxingEducationManagementSimulationFirst-PersonReplay Value

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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