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• gamedeal user

  Jun 11, 2022

  It's a very cool concept and if they expand what's here, it could be really awesome - but it's not there yet. What this game does very well is the basics of constructing a foundation and walls. It also has an interior decorator mode (not my personal cup of tea, but it does seem to have quite a few options there), so if you like decorating but not building, you can do that. It also has a sandbox mode and contracts. The thing I like the most about it is that it allows you to skip anything you consider tedious just by holding down a button for a few seconds. This game does respect the player's time and lets you do what you want to do while not worrying about stuff you don't. If it has all that, why am I giving it a thumbs down then? As it stands, this game is lacking a lot of features that I believe should have been included to be fairly called Builder Simulator: 1. You can only build hip roofs (or completely flat roofs) - no other roof types are possible. 2. Only modern styles of architecture are possible. Your sandbox building will look very out of place in, say, the Old Italian town map. 3. Buildings can have at most two floors and no basements. Ground floor and first floor only. 4. There is only really one type of staircase (there are different textures for it, though). 5. There are no arches. Windows and doors can only be rectangular in shape. 6. There are no doorways; only doors or gaps in a wall. 7. Walls cannot be made two tiles thick. 8. Walls cannot be diagonal to the grid. They also cannot curve. 9. There are no electrical or plumbing systems. 10. There is no customization of window sills at all. 11. Front doors can only be placed on an exterior wall, so you can't build an apartment building, for example. I don't want to be too negative as this really could be an awesome building sim if some of these features get added, but as it stands, it's just too incomplete for me to recommend.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 23, 2022

  I was hoping for a game that would give me relative freedom in how and what I can build; unfortunately it’s the opposite. The game is extremely limited, and rather pointlessly so (given that the buildings don’t even need to be useable) -- there is exactly one type of roof in exactly one colour, one type of stairs, irritating limitations when it comes to door placement, all windows have the same height, building is limited to ground floor / first floor only, buildings must have exactly one perimeter wall, etc etc. Forget about split levels, attics, basements, slanted walls, varying wall heights/widths, L-or U-shaped stairs, variable roof slants/patterns, wider/narrower stairs, chimneys, multi-story building, bay windows, half walls, terraforming, columns, roof trims, shutters, fences, any sort of landscaping, any sort of wood constructions, courtyards, pools, garages, garden sheds, window sills ... none of that is even remotely possible. Sims 1 had more flexibility IIRC, and that’s more than 20 years old. The UI is also terrible -- there’s no way to figure out anything in-game (tooltips or anything like that), you *must* sit through a bunch of needlessly long-winded tutorials (or watch the videos that some helpful person has put up on YouTube to shorten the process at least a little) to find even the most basic functions.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 5, 2023

  I've been keeping an eye on this game for a while and decided to try it out as I got it on sale. I will refund my purchase because of the following: You cannot design more than 1 building at the same time in "free build" (You cannot make a house AND a shed). There is a spacing requirement when placing doors and windows meaning you end up with a 75cm minimum spacing on each side of each door/window. This limits the variation in which one can design, for example the most narrow corridor one can make is 75cm x2 + 1meter if you want a door, 2,5m is a pretty wide corridor. Another thing is when you design buildings you cannot have any difference in elevation of roof. So you cannot build a house that has one section of it being only on the ground floor while another part is a story taller.(like a church, lighthouse, house with tower, etc) The downsides ive seen with the game really limits what one can build, so much so that i'll refund it.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 12, 2022

  I still wish Steam would offer a choice between thumbs up and down. As much as I don't want to "not recommend" this game, in the same breath, I also can't at this moment. My first and biggest gripe is the gameplay options. You have some tutorials to get you started, then you have 10 "contracts". These feel like an extension to the tutorials. The money in these are pointless and each "job" is a standalone "continue what someone else has abandoned but don't actually finish it" (except for the last job). The option you have is sandbox, where to do anything, you have to first "design" the building. If you are not creative or just want to build something (like the game title suggests), you are stuck. There is no career mode. No building your skills to earn better jobs. The game just falls flat on its face. The other option is interior designing which appears to have had the most work put in. Strange, as not only do most builders not get involved with this, but the game is called "Builder Simulator", not "Interior Designer Simulator". There is House Flipper for that. Sorry, but my hopes have been dashed with this release and feel they have not released a game that either matches the title, or does anything decent after the tutorials. They say they have things in the pipeline, but maybe they should have kept the game off the shelves until they were done. If a proper career mode is added, I will certainly look at my recommendation but for now, save your money unless you want an alternative to House Flipper (although this is nowhere as good as that).
• gamedeal user

  Jun 10, 2022

  As real world architect i can recommend this gem of a game. 10/10. It's very fun, easy to learn (use tutorial first) and educational. Perfect, i wish for future dlc's and feautures. It is my favorite game now.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 15, 2022

  Nice idea, simplistically executed. The only thing consistent is the inconsistency. Pros: Auto-complete for steps you don't like and no limits like amount of money or unlocks. Good tutorial. Flexibility to design your house but there's a caveat here. I'd like to mention a host of other things but.. that brings us to the cons. Cons: (should stand for consistency) For foundations, you need to dig the area for the perimeter walls, lay concrete forms & reinforcements, mix the concrete, wheel it around in a wheel barrel and pour it. For brick work you must also mix your mortar and lay it out for the bricks before you lay the bricks. I use this as my standard to measure level of detail so I'm measuring their level of detail against their demonstrated level of detail. - Despite the detail required for laying foundations & brick work, you never need to mix plaster or any other compound nor do you have to tape or corner bead walls or put down any plastic barrier on the concrete floor under the framing to protect the aluminium partition frame from being eaten away by concrete acidity, a critical step in framing against concrete just as forms and reinforcements are critical in foundations. Consistency! - On easy mode the game goes to considerable effort to not only remove unwanted drudgery but to make placement of things easier. Well.. Until it comes to furnishing at which point everything is 100% manual. You need to line cabinets up with each other and against the wall strictly by eye in a 3D view with no aid. Consistency! After working on my FIRST house for 6.7 hours I gave up trying to install the kitchen cabinets. - All houses are brick. The only time you'll see a stick of wood is on the roof and the steps are simplistic, frame and shingle, no sheeting, again in sharp contrast to the level of detail required for foundations and brick laying. - Someone forgot what a closet is. Seriously, the game will refuse a house design with any room smaller than 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) in width. So, my broom & coat closets are 5 feet deep. Yup, I have a walk-in broom closet. OH and ALL walls must be sound proofed, so my brooms will never be disturbed by my music. - In house planning mode, the game provides absolutely NO reference to tell you how far from a wall your cursor is. I was constantly drawing partition walls just as measuring tools to determine the size of spaces like hallways or rooms before I drew those walls. - Rather than being able to tell the game which area is the house interior or the game detecting different perimeter walls, the game views the house as a single close loop perimeter wall. Thus my first house, my dream house, a courtyard house with the yard in the middle of the house (Kind of like a square ring), wasn't possible because it saw in the outer box of walls as being the house and viewed the inner box of walls to be a second house. I had to break a gap in the house and make the walls a complete loop to make it work. - House rendering has got some real scale issues in my opinion. Everything seems many times smaller than it should be for the measurements on the plan. Its as though the measurements on the plan had 10 feet added to them that was removed in the 3D model. - OH and my pet PEEVE! ANIMATIONS MUST NEVER TRUMP PLAYER ACTIONS OR VIEW!! Slowing me down because of some stupid animation of roof tiles being laid or worse, blocking my view with panels of wall insulation for the animation of the tiles being placed is annoying to the max! I saved the best for last. There's more than 1 kind of save game. There are .DAT files for the plans and .SAV files for the house being built in 3D. As long as I was planning my house and had no .SAV files, the load game option would only show my plans and load directly into the appropriate area of the game to continue. The instant I had a house being built and saved, my house plans that I made backup copies of, where no longer visible from the initial load option. Well kind of.. Luckily I'm a developer of 40 years.. As it turned out there were numerous save locations. Plans not only save in the Steam folder for the game, they save in the folder specific to the lot size for the specific house plan, while the 3D house build part of the game (.SAV files) saved in your your user/appdata folder structure! So loading my plans after I had a house being built in 3D meant not only going into the Plan mode but also going into the specific planning lot size that my plan save file would be in, to be able to load my planning file and confirm the room sizes on the plan that felt so off in the 3D model! It gets better... In my effort to figure this out I clicked the import button which popped up a message box telling me to just copy pate into the save folder!!! Which of course doesn't work with plan files!!! So 6.7 hours on a single house that failed until I made it a single polygon instead of an area between separate polygons and was abandoned due to difficulties with furniture placement. Recommendations to developers: - All spaces between walls need measurements, not just the spaced between room walls. You only measure DEFINED ROOMS, not the undefined spaces like halls. Look at a blue print. Its plan mode, I need to know how big things are. - In plan mode, there should always be an active measuring tape between the mouse pointer and all nearby walls so you know how far from a wall you are when you begin to draw another object. Its plan mode, I need to know how far away things are. - House area is the space between ANY perimeter wall polygons, not the space contained WITHIN a single, contiguous polygon. - Furniture placement should at least offer snap positions against walls or other objects even if the snap ability is on demand by pressing shift or something. You should be able to draw counter/cabinets like you draw bricks and flipping between plan view and 3D view for furniture placement would be a definite improvement. - Aim for some kind of consistency. If your going to have highly detailed laying of foundations and brick than have an equal level of detail in other activities. - One save file location, one save file load for all saves regardless of type (That's what code is for). I know it's Unity but C# can do it! - Import: if you're going to have an Import option prominently displayed on the load screen than have an Import function behind it, not just message box instructions to copy paste!!! That's just lazy and sloppy! - OH.. Players should not find themselves trapped in the roof when they complete framing it said roof whilst standing on it. I guess that's what happens when you skip from framing all the way to tiling and automatically trap players with sheeting. - I'd say consider wood framed structures too (They're big in North America).
• gamedeal user

  Jun 10, 2022

  A major plus I noticed and want to point out right away - [b]this game isn't an eternal indie-early-access title[/b] - its fully released, and comes with a demo. Thats fantastic, and its very refreshing to see that. The game is pretty good. There's a fair amount to it, and the tutorial teaches you everything you'd need to know and do pretty well, and quickly enough. The robot that seems to accompany you throughout the game (doing little intros to contracts and whatnot) is a little over-enthusiastic for my taste, but thats just me, and no fault of the game (besides, there's the voice volume option for a reason). The game lets you design and build houses really however you like, and even lets you furnish them. From my initial experience, and looking through it a little bit, it seems to be decently close to House-Flipper levels of furnishing, which is great! Everything that the game has is done well, and it all seems pretty polished and finished. There are a few instances of things that I feel the game would benefit from having as optional - such as the as the automatic foaming when installing doors and windows - but at current, it lets the game have a more casual of a feel to it. Now, there is one big thing that I, personally, feel is missing. This may or may not be planned for the future, and someone may correct me for this, but I'd like to say it. At current, there is no real "campaign" mode. The game has what you [i]could[/i] call a campaign, but I'd personally label it as challenges. They're contract levels that you complete, and each one seems disconnected from the previous - money that you spent or supplies you bought doesn't matter, as it seems each contract has its own starting set of cash, and no carried over materials or anything. Personally, I would like to see a mode where things carry over, and money matters. Like, having a place where you return to, and can take certain jobs, like "[company/person] needs [level of construction] done, pays [however much]" and lets you earn money that you can use to spend on contracts or jobs later on, or even on your own projects, that you could then sell or use or whatever. There's some things I'd also love to see in the game, and, again, these may or may not be planned, and someone can correct me for this. But, I feel like the game could benefit from having the ability to do electrical, and plumbing work. And while I'm unsure if these are really the jobs of construction workers, I would love to be able to do these things in game, being able to plan where outlets would go, plan where water connections would be, do all the wiring and plumbing before putting up insulation and drywall, etc etc. Also I didn't know where to put this, but I wanted to mention - the mouse sensitivity could use a little work. Even at 100, looking around feels a bit sluggish with 1800 DPI. Its not awful, and you can get used to it, but I wanted to point that out. This has probably been a bit ramble-y, but I hope it comes across well. Overall, games good, and I'd def say its worth your time if you're looking for this sort of thing. I'd say a solid 9/10.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 11, 2022

  i would recomend addingmutplayer2-4
• gamedeal user

  Dec 2, 2022

  An awesome time consuming game. I am a mechanical engineer and like the concepts within the game, and how they are simplified in order to make the game enjoyable and not seem too much like a real job. Some of the things within the game are a bit weird compared to how houses are build IRL, at least in my area. Like roof tiles instead of asphalt shingles, and brick walls instead of normal wood framing. Overall a great game so far and can't wait to continue through the contracts!
• gamedeal user

  Jun 30, 2022

  This is a very-early-access game marked as a full release. There are just so many things that you can't do/are not available - it's so bare-bones. Maybe wait two years and see what gets implemented.