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Builder Simulator

Live Motion Games · 2022-06-09

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

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).

14
playing now
72%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
6h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

14 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 14 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 21% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 44k–100k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,218 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.90-80%
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 88 of 89 observed days (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

42112026-08-11 17:00 — 39 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 27 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 32 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 42 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 27 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 24 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 42 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 31 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 30 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 29 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 22 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 22 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 39 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 11 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 29 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 35 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 15 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 23 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 37 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 20 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 27 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 23 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 19 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 26 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 25 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 15 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 26 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 26 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 14 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.99$3.662022-05-312026-08-262022-05-31 — 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 $19.992026-08-26 — 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

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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