I've never built a full PC from scratch, but I feel like a right engineering genius every time I open a PC up and stick in some extra memory or a new graphics card. If you want to get that feeling ...

It needs work. That’s the first thing I’ll say about PC Building Simulator, now that we’ve spent some time with it. The game’s site calls it a pre-alpha build, but even that’s a pretty generous term.

It never fails that a new simulator-type game appears on the market with a premise that sounds so completely mundane that it could not possibly be entertaining, yet manages to offer a rewarding ...