COMPARISON

Never Sort By Color or Brick by Brick?

Pick this game for a solo workshop and a six-figure pile. Pick Brick by Brick for co-op and a smaller town of 18,490 pieces.

Updated 2026-11-13

Price and review cells are Steam readings from 13 Nov 2026. Each game’s listing is one source for its own figures.
	Never Sort By Color	Brick by Brick: Tidy Up the Small Town!
Release	10 Nov 2026	15 Oct 2026
Price	$9.99, launch discount $7.99	$7.99
Reviews	154 reviews, 80% positive on the store	1,008 reviews
Piece count	Official HUDs read 105,456 and 106,146. Two shots, not one blended total.	18,490 on that game’s store description
Players	Single player	Solo or co-op, up to 5
Platforms	Windows and Linux / SteamOS. PS5 later, no date.	Windows
Studio	Bryan Livingston (Legend Studio)	PaperPixel Games
Core loop	File by part, then build from books, including imports on desktop.	Collect, sort, and place bricks to rebuild a small town.
Store tags	Casual, simulation	Casual, indie, simulation

Who each one is for

If you want a friend in the same pile, Brick by Brick is the one that ships co-op. If you want Linux, model books, and a larger pile on the published counts, this game is the one. I am not scoring them. The piece counts come from different kinds of sources: two HUD screenshots here, a store-description sentence there. The two figures describe published content, rather than a measured comparison of completion time.

Choose by play style

For shared play, choose Brick by Brick: its store advertises online co-op for up to five. For sorting a solo workshop into labeled drawers and then assembling instruction-book models, Never Sort By Color is the closer match. The prices happen to match during the NSBC launch offer, but their regular prices differ.

Solo workshop pile used as this side of the comparison — This side is single-player. The other game’s store page is the co-op side. © Legend Studio

Part-labeled drawers in the workshop — Labels and model books are the extra layer Brick by Brick’s pitch does not center. © Legend Studio

Questions

Which is cheaper?

On 13 Nov 2026 both could be $7.99: this game on its launch discount, Brick by Brick at its list price. This game’s list price is $9.99.

Which has more bricks?

Published figures: about 105,456 or 106,146 here, depending on the screenshot, and 18,490 on Brick by Brick’s store text.

Sources

Steam store page — checked 2026-11-13
Steam page for Brick by Brick — checked 2026-11-13
Official screenshots on the studio page — checked 2026-11-13
Legend Studio official page — checked 2026-11-13