If you like to compose or just want to learn how to compose a PC, there's PC Building Simulator. It is after less than a year's stay in Early Access that it goes into full form. You can embark on it in your computer.
The title is exactly what the title says. It's a very detailed simulation of PC compilation. You will fold it from the very foundation to the last screw. You choose from a wide range of components, connect them properly and test your benchmark. There will be everything there is to compose computers and it is a very good idea from the authors for both players and companies. Namely, companies as well as players want to see their components in the title, and both groups pay for it.
At the same time, the game is both fun and educational. Players will learn how to build PCs from scratch and try to detect various errors on computers. Free folding is complemented by a career where you will need to repair broken computers and upgrade them. It interferes with virtually everything a PC market can offer. This is, of course, purely a desktop market, not a laptop, an all-in-one PC or other non-editable devices.
The campaign will put you in the career as a guy who opens up his PC service. It has one room and one corridor where the PC is to be repaired. You have free movement, the possibility of buying new tables and equipment, but especially your personal PC on which you accept and collect orders. These will be different, first it will be a simple PC repair, which can not be started, need to unwind, clean up, by changing a component, or various upgrades, to the composition of a new PC.
Customers have different requirements for style, design or performance. For example, they only give you a performance for a particular game, where you then need to study its requirements and fold everything accordingly. In doing so, follow the specific tags of the components they want on the PC and especially the budget you can work with. Depending on how you adhere to these terms, you receive an assessment. The rating then increases your rating and allows you to earn more and more demanding or more luxurious orders.
You process the orders themselves manually. You take your computer out of the hallway, move it to the table and begin to dismantle it. Everything is detailed here, so you must unscrew each screw to fold the cover. You have to plug and unplug each cable, you have to do everything methodically and try not to forget anything. For example, if you forget the paste when you place the processor on the processor and fold it all the way up to running the PC and blowing up the blue screen, you'll find that you've made a mistake somewhere. You must then dismantle everything again.
But later in the career, when you earn and get a higher level, the game will allow you to buy upgrades for automatic wiring, screws, and the entire micromanage is eliminated. This will also open up a bazaar where you can buy components cheaper and possibly make more repairs. Money will be needed both for the above upgrades and for rent and energy payments. You care about your business.
In addition to a career, there is a simple How to Build and PC tutorial that will give you a basic explanation of how a PC is made, but it's a pretty simple thing to do better in the Free build section of the game. Free build will show you the possibilities of composing your PC. Indeed, here you choose what you will compose, from the ground up regardless of price. You can select any skin, motherboard and other components. It will be up to you what you choose and what you put together. It may be your dream set, or another set you plan to buy.
The offer of components is great even if you still can't find everything you want there. It grows nicely, but slower than we would have liked. For example, the latest i9 processors and RTX cards have been added to the release, but only in the official Founders editions.
There's also a full operating system with Bios, so you can overclock the CPU and memory directly through Bios, and you can download the overclocking utility to your system. Just be careful, the simulation knows the limitations of the system and you can get to the blue screen just at startup or shortly at startup. This should be handled with care, temperature monitoring, or improved cooling, or even a source. There is also a software load tester or a 3D mark for a comprehensive test. Specifically, there is a simulated Time Spy benchmark that will show you a framerate and show the final number.
This includes, for example, the RGB backlight setting utility. In addition, modern RGB elements are lacking, and although they do not yet have all the effects, they will at least indicate how the assembly will look like and also lack water cooling with different fluid colors.
The visual title is not bad, it offers a nicely crafted office environment, well-engineered transitions between space and PC or screen, rotation and component details. It just wants to improve lighting and materials. Some materials do not feel and act very flatly, just like components in cabinets that no longer appear subtle inside. Instead of shining, water cooling is instead used to change the RGB lighting.
It is a shame, it does not get very tired of the folding experience, but you will not enjoy your final product as it could. Hopefully the authors will gradually improve it. Such a photo mode after completing a PC would be a nice thing. In contrast, the control is solved very well - from movement, through the assembly of components, cables, cooling, pipes. Everything is intuitive and you get there very quickly.
Overall, PC Building Simulator is a very nice offer for PC composing fans. It allows you to gain experience in folding, as well as experience in troubleshooting PC problems, and finally in creating high quality and fast builds with overclocking and RGB backlighting. There's virtually everything you need to build reports and it will be interesting to watch the game grow and improve.
