Welcome to our review of Builder Simulator, a game where even the tutorial needs a tutorial at times…
Builder Simulator is a game for those, whose biggest dream always was to construct your own house from scratch. Prepare your plan, buy needed materials, and build a perfect residence brick by brick. Will it be an easy task? At first, yes! After all, you’re just a rookie in this serious building industry. A specially made tutorial will guide you step by step through the twists and turns of construction work. However, the more experience you get, the more demanding the challenges become.
Have you finished your little design? Good! Now it’s time to put it into practice. Grab a bunch of bricks, take some cement, roll up your sleeves, and build, construct, and create! Are you afraid it’ll be boring? No, no, no. Nothing like that! You’ll dig the foundation, erect walls, insert windows or doors, and many more. It will not only be exciting, but above all, it will be fun!
You’re very proud of those straight walls and perfect roof… but it’s not over! It’s time to finish this pretty, little house. How? Of course, by polishing its exterior! It’s like putting makeup on a perfectly sculpted face. You can finish the elevation, do the floor or paint walls. Do everything you can to make this house splendid!
Every big construction project starts with a pencil and a piece of paper. And so, it is in the Builder Simulator. You’ll start your work by designing a house on a drawing board. Lines, curves, squares – the whole layout is up to your taste. The only thing that can hold you back is your own imagination. So use this head of yours and draw the most excellent building of it all! And if you don’t have an idea for a design, you can always choose one of the projects we have prepared.
Leaving this creation to rot on your computer would be such a waste, right? That’s why we prepare something special for all our precious players – the Community Builder! This is a place where you can share your projects. You can also build a house based on someone else’s project. Show your creations, admire the works of people from all over the world and meet other building freaks! Just share your passion and most importantly…
Well at least on paper, it sounds this nice, but in reality, this game is often more confusing than not. As amazing as its premise sounds, it really is not a fun game. I often felt the game was purposely blocking my inputs and commands, like how I wanted to pick my shovel to get the foundations out of the way and it just would not.
It was either stuck in a menu for a while or it just would not listen because you were not doing the right thing, a thing you were not getting explained either, just painful as an experience. All the time I felt like this game had an amazing premise but a very shitty way to bring it to the table. Clearly this is a Steam game being ported to a console and it just doesn’t work without the mouse and keyboard.
I did check out gameplay on YouTube from Steam and some of those players, it just felt like they were playing another game, much smoother and much more fun. Maybe I just don’t click with the game, but honestly, when you struggle with a tutorial, you know the game is bad.
In conclusion, I didn’t like it one bit.
