Real-life simulation games offer low-stakes relaxation & focus on ordinary experiences like trucking, farming, or managing card shops. Popular hits like Euro Truck Simulator 2, TCG Card Shop Simulator ...

Set to launch on Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox, Witchbrook has yet to reveal an exact release date but is now aiming for a ...

Quorum Games has announced Call of Elyndra, a combination of life / farming simulation with old school 2D action RPG. It will be available for PC via Steam, with the possibility of later console ports ...

Of all the many new PC games I saw at Gamescom 2024, Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator is among those that surprised me most. Following on from developer Aesir Interactive's Police Simulator, the ...

Farming life simulation game Orange Season will leave Early Access and launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on October 24, publisher SOEDESCO and ...

Check out the Reveal Trailer for Critterville Goes Bankrupt, a town life simulation RPG developed by Penniless Games.

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For the past 25 years, any list of games like The Sims has been mostly wishful thinking. There hasn't been anything truly like The Sims series—until now. Last year we finally got some true Sims ...

The Sims 4's decade-long reign as the king of life sims finally has a worthy contender for the crown. Krafton's upcoming PC game inZOI is no ordinary life sim; as its meta narrative framing puts the ...

The Sims continues to hold a monopoly over the genre despite everyone very much wanting the opposite. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...