Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 09:13 am
Builderment – Simulation Game Review
Builderment is a Simulation/Strategy game from Builderment LLC, first launched in 8th June 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,186+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Builderment Stand Out
Builderment is a factory building game at heart. It’s all about crafting and automation. You start by harvesting resources and crafting items in factories. Use those crafted items to research new technology and recipes to craft ever more complex items.
Earth has run out of resources… You have been sent to a distant planet to extract its infinite resources and craft items to send back to Earth. You'll need to establish a base on this planet to build factories and production lines to automate the assembly of items.
Features
- Build factories on a massive scale
- Use conveyor belts to transport items between factories
- Craft dozens of unique items
- Research technology to build more advanced buildings
- Expand to harvest every resource on the map
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Builderment is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 10th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
- New world generation with faster extractors but fewer resource nodes. Reduces the tedium of extracting resources.
- Added 24 achievements through Game Center.
- Improved performance & bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Builderment is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Im not kidding when we say this is one of the very best games. Flawless, no bugs. A ton of fun. Completely free. Ads are AT WILL to earn gems. But you do not need gems to play. You can beat the whole game without seeing a single ad. And its so addictive. Kudos and a solid 5 stars to the people that built this game.
This is sooooo cool. Question though. Do u think u could add some more materials/ minerals? That would be awesome! Maybe make the map slightly bigger, and a lot more things to make. Also one thing, remember u guy(s) are special, and awesome in every way. Hope you see this.
Ive spent hours on this game without trying to turn on our streaming, if you knew us you would know thats HUGE we are hooked.
Could you make trains that can move ores around.
Finally a game that Ive actually enjoyed.
This game has simple mechanics and easy to understand displays This game could be better though with the addition of the game running when the app is closed because sometimes it takes long periods of time to unlock the research items.
We appreciate you continuing to support and update this game please dont stop we love seeing new content.
This game is simple, and we like that. Here are a few things to consider, such as the ability to turn on/off factories. This would be useful for everyone. Conveyor belts that can be built on water would also help with our productions so we can build on lakes.
We love this is game. We can watch the belts moving items all day.
Great game been playing since its first released, still building off our first map Wish it had an idle mode even for an hr or two would be nice to earn offline after so much building and rebuilding. Also loving the power plants hate that it takes so long to ours uranium. Hopefully later on they make some uranium extractor upgrades.
We love this game! One thing we would change is adding servers so we can progress even when the app is closed. Otherwise, we love the grind.
This is an amazing game Im addicted but WE NEED ANOTHER RESEARCH LABBBBBBBBBB we CANT WITH ONE.
Our phone is an iPhone 6s and this game runs very smoothly. The feeling of making a factory is very fun. Making the game not run in the background is a very good choice because if that wasnt the case, you wouldnt have to revise your factory for efficiency and you wouldnt prepare for the next research.
No ads whatsoever except for rewards which is optional. If you were to play this game nonstop casually, it would take you days, even a week to complete, theres that much gameplay. The map is absolutely enormous, and it is randomized each world. There are multiple resource types. The game automatically chooses a good spawn point for you. The UI is really easy to learn, and you learn tricks along the way. And again, the best part by far, when you go to settings in Builderment and disable Enable Ads, you wont accidentally click that annoying button on the top right. Overall, absolutely amazing game, and they update it not too frequently that you cant catch up, but frequently enough so that theres not an endless gap between updates. No ads, hours of gameplay, totally sandbox, so you can do whatever you want, and hundreds of thousands of tiles are available for your factory. We HIGHLY recommend this game to everyone of all ages. Its the best game Ive ever got on the App Store besides YouTube and Roblox. Go have fun building your factories guys! (also thank you devs so much for the coal power plants).
We love this game how did you even make the game.
Played non-stop since we downloaded. Probably one of the best mobile games Ive played. It doesnt have forced ads like every other game. Perfect concept of a game and executed basically perfect. The game gets better and more complicated as you progress and there is no difficulty spike at any point. The game doesnt feel too easy or too annoying and is perfect to sink hours of your time into. Am incredible idea executed perfectly! Leaves so much room for creativity and freedom to the point where every single thing you create is personalized and feels rewarding when you finally get it all working. 10/10 would recommend to download even if the game doesnt seem interested.
Ive been playing for like two years and we cant wait to play this new update about nuclear power and rearrange our factory ( its very messy ) but cant wait for more keep up the good work.
We absolutely love this game! We love the problem solving, each and every little moving piece and animation style. The only thing we think this game needs is a way to send resources to other peoples worlds on different devices.
Good game(sorry no long review).
Updated Review This game is very much a five star game that has sucked hours and hours from us and we've loved every single second of it. However, these days we like to play more on a Macbook Pro. It would be nice to have dedicated keyboard controls, even if it means paying for it, this game is that good. ~~~~~ Original Review Amazing on mobile. Runs beautifully on the latest iPhones and iPads. Pair it with an Apple Pencil and we've quite literally spent hours on this game.
Own major bummer is only one research center. Once you get farther in the game its basically just deleting and re making stuff because there are only 4 ports to a research center and you cant add another. We also wish there was some sort of goal. We get the goal is to unlock more stuff to unlock more stuff but we just dont see the main point or goal? Its. Really fun game but once you get hundreds of thousands of coins and unlock everything theres no real point to it. Interesting game.
Builderment is a well made, somewhat simplistic factory game on mobile and we have thoroughly enjoyed it so far. However, after unlocking the metal frames we dont think we will be progressing further for one sole reason: transport. In the game, if you just ours the resource nodes near you and do that for manufacturing, youll find yourself sitting and just waiting for several minutes, sometimes longer. However, it is rather difficult to build factories further out because you need to be zoomed in to a degree to place long distance belts, but while doing this there is no minimap to tell where you are. Thus, if you want to build a factory that can actually produce a decent amount of stuff per minute, you need to constantly zoom out and back in, and basically spam your finger on the screen to place a long range belt. The belts arent a great situation either. They transport things painfully slowly even when you spend dozens of thousands of gears to upgrade them. The slow speed makes long range transport very difficult. The big problem is that there are no better transport solutions. There are no drones, vehicles or trains to take advantage of. You can only just build more egregiously long belts. For us that is not worth it. For the developer: please fix this game by making it easier to place long range belts (maybe being able to click and drag a brand new belt from any zoom size), increasing the belt speed, and adding more resources near the center! Or just solve it all by adding trains. Thanks for reading.
We have been playing this game a little bit now and have even introduced our friend to it. But we have and idea or two. First, we think it would be a good idea to and separate modes of transportation for materials like trains and trucks, which would drive on roads and train tracks, and would require gas and coal to work which would be resupplied at train stations and gas stations, and would be faster than conveyor belts. This would also give a good use for storage, as you can put storage containers as a way to put materials into the vehicles. Otherwise, this is a very fun game and we will be playing it for weeks to come.
New content is always great, but wouldve liked it if uranium didnt plow over our conveyors and factories. Maybe make a system so that they dont spawn on buildings? Thanks.
This game is so good although we did have a little trouble at the start but thats when we just download it we extremely recommend downloading this game.
We enjoyed this game. We even find it addicting. But beware of the in app purchase. You can play the game without the gem tree if you have the patience and its still fun. But the gems provided by the gem tree allow you to buy decorations and to speed up or complete production and so on. And carefully and patiently managed you can eventually produce gems by the hundreds. The BEWARE is that the gem tree is NOT a one time purchase. You start the game with 100 gems but you need 250 gems to buy a gem tree so you have to pay 4.99$ for 250 gems (or more money for more gems of course) to buy a gem tree(s). After that if youre patient you can harvest gems slowly to buy each proceeding tree. And the more gem tress the faster you build up to the next tree. BUT its not a restorable purchase. You have to spend at least 4.99$ FOR EVERY WORLD YOU START if you want starter gem tree. You can watch videos for gems but the access to videos is erratic and they cut you off after using it too much. So using it fur gems is not a reliable way to get enough gems unless you just dont play until you have the 250 gems. Im almost done with the game and only had 189 gems before we got fed up, gave up and bought a few decorations to use as markers.
Played before, wont anymore. Idle game that only progresses if open? Fine if a level doesnt require 1000 units, at 5 units a minute production only when open. So, five hours of? Unless, of course, you pay. We are certainly not against making money, but this is just stupid. These arent games to play, just games to pay. Sad. Most unfortunately, this is the App Store writ large.
This has everything ive been looking for in a game. You dont have to pay to get ahead and no bugs from what ive seen. Ads are optional and it loads up immediately.
Play because is good except ads won't load sometimes.PLAY GAME.
If you like satisfactory and want to take it mobile here is a game with no adds bo tutorials thats scratching that itch.
This game is fantastic of course there are options for watching an ad to get gems or what not but this is optional outside of that zero ads. This game is great with its variety of things to do its awesome. Of course we have one issue and thats no idle due to some things taking hours it would be great to have idle possible because if your not in the app the game stops. So if you can fix it because we dont wanna let our phone sit their for 2 hours straight. Other than that if you want to download this game but not sure the please do this game is amazing.
First off, this is an amazing game in the sense that people could be producing the exact same things but their factories look entirely different. The flexibility and creativity involved makes it that much better. The items all make sense enough to be seen as realistic production. (Excluding anything sci-fi late game stuff) One thing thought, either the extractors are ever so slightly quicker than stated or furnaces and workshops and ever so slightly slower. Even though we have double and triple checked the math, items accumulate on the belts, even though extremely slowly. For example, for our copper wire factory we have 8 extractors on 150% which is 90 per minute, and we also have 4 on 100% which is another 30 per minute. We have 4 furnaces on 100% which should process all 120 per minute according to our calculations, but items still accumulate very slowly. Please fix this devs and the game will be that much better.
Would like to try premium but not spending $20 on it, $10 would be more like it.
We dont give reviews often but this is a solid game. Feels weird to say but we want to watch the ads because the developers spend so much time making this great game virtually for free. Perks: Completely free except decorations and boosts Better graphics than Factorio Impressively user-friendly controls.
We recently started playing this, and we love the idea and mechanic. Its such a fun and addicting game just building your factory. One thing that kept us stuck is a bug. The bug is that the underground conveyors dont work. Everytime we try to use them, it fails.
So awesome and flawless the only thing we would add is a new ore and more upgrades.
By far the best game Ive played in years and because its low budget small-app ad-free bliss. The game is simple but needs a clear end objective such as a menu of silly cosmetic items to work towards.
The industrial revolution and its consequences.
Please stop making us late for work and not getting sleep. This game is too amazing. We attempted to find another game like this even after finding this one and they just dont exist. Its a unique one of a kind game. After saying all of this we have a request for the developer. Please make a way that a design made in one world can be saved/transferred to another one. As we learn more and make a new world with new knowledge we forget how we made some things and a shortcut to saving a setup would be wonderful. Thanks for all your hard work on this game. We just updated with the latest update and am about to pay the $20 to make larger worlds. Sounds awesome. More room would be amazing.
Ye love the game although we wish it had an option that when your phone is off us still runing in the background so yo u dont have to be in the app for the research challenges.
We absolutely love building games like satisfactory, factorio, shapes.io and of course this game but there is a blueprint unlock missing so you arent able to get past a certain point and we stopped playing after we figured it out definitely a 5 star review once that problem is fixed.
We used to love playing this game, but the lack of new content has us bored. There havent been new machines in a year and a half, and havent been new non-cosmetic items or materials for much longer. We wish we still wanted to play this game but the only updates are 1) rare and 2) about quality of life, not new content.
We have had the game for about a year and we love it. Here are some things to make it better. Let it run idle and automatically upgrade things when the player has money.
We LOVE this game. Its so simple to build what you want, and has so much room for creativity. One of the most recent updates introduced the ability to gain gems without the need for inn-app purchases by watching ads, which would be great if it would allow us to watch the ad. Instead the button says not available. What isnt available? Im connected to the internet via WiFi, and Ive tried other wireless networks, so we dont think its that. It has worked once before, but we havent been able to view ads for gems since then. We remember it wouldnt allow us to initially either. We have no idea what changed and allowed us to view the ads for gems that one time. Any help would be appreciated. Additionally, we noticed that the price for a gem tree rose from 150 to 250 gems. Given that players start off with 100 gems, it now at least triples the amount of ads that one has to watch if they want to obtain a gem tree without in-app purchases. Nonetheless, this is one of the only problems we have with this game. We do wish there was something we could do with the lakes that sometimes litter the map, but thats all we can think of. Hopefully the ad problem gets fixed soon.
The game is cool but you can add all sorts of creatures.
This game is great Free, and no forced ads! When you do watch an ad for the gems you only get one gem but it takes 1000s of gems to get any benefit, not entirely worth it to us.
We love the game but we cannot play it for long as it does not work in background. Even if you put the app in the background or use another app. It does not work. We read your reasoning why you dont allow that. Unfortunately, we cant keep staring at our screen to play this game. Things take time to build and transport. Uninstalling.
Until it started sucking up your personal data.
The game is great, but theres no way to get gems for free, so the gem tree is useless. Adding achievements or something could be nice. Also, productions completely stops when you are offline, could be cool to add offline progression because its annoying to have to keep the game open 24/7 to progress in the game.
Played through and unlocked more than half of the game. Reached a wall of non existant items within the game such as: turbocharger, nano wire, coupler, tungsten carbide, rotor, electric motor, carbon fiber etc. Very fustrating bc this game can get confusing anyway. Checked every available recipy from every building and forge and it cant be finished as is. Maybe you have to pay to finish? Idk if you like unfinished things…. This game is for you.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.14.1
- Size: 47.74 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, HE, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Builderment LLC
Last updated: 10th November 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Builderment LLC