PC Building Simulator

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 94%Very Positive · 94%2019

The verdict

A relaxing, educational PC repair-shop sim with a free-build sandbox, but it's abandoned, has dated parts and gets repetitive. Skip it if you want current hardware.

Great for

Beginners who want to learn PC building and enjoy relaxed tinkering, ideally on sale

Main risk

Parts stop around 2022, no updates, and the job loop gets repetitive

What players love

Teaches how to build a PC

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“After playing this game for 40 hours, I feel like I can confidently build a PC from scratch with no help.”
Steam review · 41.4 h played ↗

“I knew nothing about building PCs but I knew I wanted to, so I bought a cheap prebuilt and played this game for a few hours and was able to build the PC I have now.”
Steam review · 9.2 h played ↗

“Thanks to this game I built a new computer, I recommend it to everyone.”
Steam review · translated · 44.5 h played ↗

Fun, silly memorable moments

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“Somehow cable management in this game is more stressful than real life.”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗

“Great game, you can build powerful PCs you can't afford in real life.”
Steam review · translated · 10 h played ↗

Relaxing, addictive gameplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“Super chill and relaxing game.”
Steam review · 5.6 h played ↗

“Great game, perfect blend of complication and simplicity, easy to pick up, IMPOSSIBLE to stop playing”
Steam review · 3.8 h played ↗

“feels good to come back to and just chill and build.”
Steam review · 71.4 h played ↗

Engaging career mode with humorous emails

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews

“The story mode emails are a riot”
Steam review · 138.4 h played ↗

“The career mode is satisfying, especially if you enjoy troubleshooting and optimizing builds.”
Steam review · 24.5 h played ↗

Realistic, detailed real components

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews

“Parts and cases are accurate, and a few things are simplified for the sake of gameplay”
Steam review · 453.3 h played ↗

“very good game and it really simulates the IRL building”
Steam review · 3.5 h played ↗

Free build sandbox mode

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“whenever I get the itch to build a pc I like to hop on the freeplay mode and go crazy for a little bit.”
Steam review · 7.6 h played ↗

“sandbox mode where you can just build anything with no limit”
Steam review · 20.1 h played ↗

What players complain about

Sequel is Epic-exclusive, devs abandoned this

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“Sold out to Epic and now PCBS2 is EGS locked forever.”
Steam review · 7.3 h played ↗

“the fact Epic bought the rights to the sequel means that this franchise is in basically dead now.”
Steam review · 97.6 h played ↗

“Game is abandoned and the sequel will never be released on Steam due to it being Epic Games exclusive”
Steam review · 8.2 h played ↗

Outdated parts, no updates

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“No components manufactured past around 2022 when the game was last updated 4 years ago.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“outdated game, no rtx 4th or 5th series, no intel arc series gpus, nothing parts past 2021*.”
Steam review · 48.8 h played ↗

“The game is outdated, much as I wish it weren't. No updates since 2023, not even small patches.”
Steam review · translated · 27.6 h played ↗

Repetitive, tedious jobs

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“It's the same jobs over...and over...and over...and over again.”
Steam review · 15.3 h played ↗

“90% of the tasks are just replacing components without finding the cause of the fault.”
Steam review · translated · 8.8 h played ↗

“Fun for first 2 hours and after that, game feels like what they are trying to simulate, a real job.”
Steam review · 12.1 h played ↗

Clunky UI and poor quality of life

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“the garbage inventory system. Nothing stacks, there is no filtering section.”
Steam review · 15.3 h played ↗

“With no in-game method of determining whether a certain upgrade will meet the requirements or not until after you've installed it an run the benchmarking software”
Steam review · 9.8 h played ↗

“Why does the UI still look like baby's first game?”
Steam review · 4 h played ↗

Bugs and jobs that won't complete

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“it always said thay the case was incomplete. I had put all the sidepanels on”
Steam review · 4.4 h played ↗

“you're stuck with a job that says “Ready to Boot” forever.”
Steam review · 1.2 h played ↗

“After buying the workshop DLC the game no longer saves progress.”
Steam review · translated · 57.4 h played ↗

Poor optimization and lag

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“my pc is way over spec'd for this game, but whenever i am walking it gets super choppy and laggy.”
Steam review · 60.4 h played ↗

“game runs laggy as hell even with a 4070”
Steam review · 1.4 h played ↗

“The game is very badly optimized.”
Steam review · translated · 1.1 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 7 or higher

ProcessorIntel Core i5-2500K or AMD Athlon X4 740 (or equivalent)

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsGeForce GTX 660 (2048 MB) or Radeon R9 285 (2048 MB) - Integrated GPUs may work but are not supported.

Storage30 GB available space

OSWindows 7 or higher

ProcessorIntel Core i5-2500K or AMD Athlon X4 740 (or equivalent)

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsGeForce GTX 660 (2048 MB) or Radeon R9 285 (2048 MB) - Integrated GPUs may work but are not supported.

Storage30 GB available space

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