Practisim Designer

Practical shooting sandbox for designing courses and testing them yourself

AncientSky Games · Released Feb 14, 2023

Reviews: Very Positive; 95% of 93
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 17; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update on Steam: 2 weeks ago; Oct 9, 2026
Minimum PC: 1080; 8 GB RAM · 12 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Practisim Designer?

A free, single-player 3D design tool for practical shooting sports such as USPSA, IPSC, and IDPA. You arrange props from a library of hundreds of items, test courses in first person with physics-driven target mechanisms, and export written stage briefings as PDFs.

For you if...

+you want to plan shooting competitions before setting up equipment

Not for you if...

−you want a conventional shooter rather than a design tool

What players say

95% of 93 reviews are positive

Players praise the stage-design workflow and continued updates. Some describe the interface as clunky, though others find it intuitive.

Screenshots and trailer

Practisim Designer system requirements

Minimum: 1080, 8 GB RAM, 12 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

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Minimum

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel i7 or Ryzen 5
Graphics: Geforce 1080
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 12 GB available space
DirectX: Version 11

Does Practisim Designer have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Practisim Designer run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

Default controller config not fully functional
Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS
Steam features: Family Sharing
Languages: Full audio: English.

Does Practisim Designer use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam