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Revision as of 04:05, 2 December 2022

PC Building Simulator
PC Building Simulator cover
Developers
Claudiu Kiss
The Irregular Corporation
Publishers
The Irregular Corporation
Engines
Unity 2018[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows January 29, 2019
Reception
OpenCritic 72
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack, DLC, Sponsored
Microtransactions Cosmetic, Finite spend
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control, Point and select
Genres Business, Simulation
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Series PC Building Simulator
PC Building Simulator on HowLongToBeat
PC Building Simulator on IGDB
PC Building Simulator on MobyGames
PC Building Simulator on Wikipedia
PC Building Simulator
PC Building Simulator 2019
PC Building Simulator 2 2022

PC Building Simulator is a singleplayer first-person business and simulation game in the PC Building Simulator series.

General information

Official Discord server for game series
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

A demo is available from itch.io.

Monetization

Type Notes
DLC Several DLC packs are available that add new workshop environments to the game.
Expansion pack The Esports Expansion includes an additional campaign with new gameplay features.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Sponsored Features real-world computer hardware products that are an integral part of gameplay.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
Cosmetic The Overclocked Edition Content and Deadstick Case DLC consist of reskins of existing in-game PC cases. They have no effect on gameplay.
Finite spend The Overclocked Edition Content and Deadstick Case DLC can each be bought only once.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Esports Expansion New campaign that puts the player in the role of tech support for an esports team.
Windows
Razer Workshop Razer themed workshop.
Windows
Republic of Gamers Workshop Republic of Gamers themed workshop.
Windows
NZXT Workshop NZXT themed workshop.
Windows
Overclockers UK Workshop Overclockers UK themed Workshop.
Windows
AORUS Workshop AORUS themed design and aesthetic workshop
Windows
EVGA Workshop EVGA workshop inspired by the EVGA Game Arena
Windows
Overclocked Edition Content Cosmetic. Includes four custom skins for the NZXT H500 and H700 cases.
Windows
Deadstick Case Cosmetic. Deadstick themed NZXT H700i case. No longer available.
Windows
Good Company Case Cosmetic, free. Good Company themed NZXT H700i case.
Windows
GOG Galaxy Edition Case Cosmetic. Free with GOG.com version. Exclusive GOG 'Galaxy Edition' themed NZXT H700i.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\The Irregular Corp\PC Building Simulator\
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/621060/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 3]
Microsoft Store
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/621060/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use the command line arguments:
-popupwindow -screen-fullscreen 0 -screen-width 1920 -screen-height 1080[2]
Set 1920 and 1080 to the desired width and height of the window.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
200 fps cap
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

Input and Gameplay settings.
Input and Gameplay settings.
Keybinding menu (with Xbox One controller plugged in).
Keybinding menu (with Xbox One controller plugged in).

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Shader Model support 5
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2500K
AMD Athlon X4 740
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
AMD Radeon R9 285
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Integrated GPUs may work but are not supported.


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 2018.4.16f1[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/621060/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (621060) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  3. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References