Builder Simulator
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Builder Simulator is an adventure game released in 2022. Developed and published by Live Motion Games, it has received 2,142 Steam reviews with 72% positive feedback.
Overview
Builder Simulator is a 2022 Adventure game developed by Live Motion Games and published by Live Motion Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,182 player reviews, 72% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Live Motion Games with publisher Live Motion Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 79,000 to 183,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Builder Simulator can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,182
Positive
72%
Steam appid
1120320
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.079K to 183K
units (median: 131K)
≈ $897K to $2.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_72% | 0 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 60 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Builder Simulator at roughly 79,000 to 183,000 copies, with a median around 131,000, derived from its 2,182 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.5M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
18 observed days · window low $3.99Across 18 observed UTC days from 2026-06-01 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $19.03. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-01.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Fanatical -15%$18.96 Buy
- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-23 04:19 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Tags
SimulationBuildingSingleplayerDesign & IllustrationSandboxEducationRelaxingReplay ValueImmersive SimFamily FriendlyEconomyManagementFirst-PersonBase-Building3DRealisticIndieDestructionControllerAdventure
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Builder Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Builder Simulator has sold between 78,552 and 183,288 units (median 130,920), derived from its 2,182 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Builder Simulator?
- Builder Simulator was developed by Live Motion Games and published by Live Motion Games.
- Who published Builder Simulator?
- Builder Simulator was published by Live Motion Games, developed by Live Motion Games. See Live Motion Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Builder Simulator released?
- Builder Simulator was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does Builder Simulator have on Steam?
- Builder Simulator has 2,182 Steam reviews, of which 72% are positive.
- Is Builder Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate Builder Simulator 72% positive across 2,182 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Builder Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as House Flipper, House Flipper 2, Gas Station Simulator, Derail Valley, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Live Motion Games's other releases and Live Motion Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Builder Simulator sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Builder Simulator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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