Tag: sim

Understandable AI paranoia has inspired a developer to change the handcrafted character art in its upcoming sim: ‘They look a bit AI’

Understandable AI paranoia has…

Generative AI sucks for so many reasons, from its impact on the environment to the skyrocketing cost of RAM,…
Birdwatching Notebook is meant to be a relaxing idler, but it drove me to new depths of unlock-obsessed birdmania

Birdwatching Notebook is meant…

I love being outdoors with the excuse of watching the birds, but given it has rained every single day…
I didn’t expect to kidnap alligators, save Woodstock or give people dysentery in a game called Transport Fever 3—but here we are

I didn’t expect to…

The humble transport management sim is a venerable, fundamental part of PC gaming that’s been inspiring an obsession with…
This Factorio-ish sim is threatening to devour hours of my time, and I haven’t even gotten to the part where I make my own starships yet

This Factorio-ish sim is…

Friends, I have a disease. Not, uh, not one of the bad ones, I mean a disease of the…
The demo of Sucker for Love: Crush Landing is the gentle reminder I needed that dating an eldritch god wouldn’t be straightforward, actually

The demo of Sucker…

I love an obscure dating simulator, so you can safely assume the ritual performing, eldritch abomination courting experience of…
Easy Anti-Cheat is coming to Rocket League, but Psyonix promises not to get all Fortnite with it and hose your Steam Deck and Linux installs

Easy Anti-Cheat is coming…

It’s 11 years old and Rocket League has decided it’s had it up to here with cheating. In a…
Schedule 1’s latest update adds a jukebox, because drugs without music is just kind of a drag, man

Schedule 1’s latest update…

You know what goes great with drugs? Music. Or at least that’s what I’ve been told by other people,…
This dreary low-poly delivery game pairs Animal Crossing villagers with soul-crushing gig work and I can’t wait to play it

This dreary low-poly delivery…

I spent six years as a delivery guy in a profoundly depressed area, so I’m receptive when a game…
This ‘narrative simulator’ about a delivery driver in deeply rural Russia is giving me serious Mudrunner meets Disco Elysium vibes

This ‘narrative simulator’ about…

Mudrunner in the style of Disco Elysium is maybe not the most obvious videogame mashup imaginable, but that’s pretty…
I thought Fishing Shop Simulator was a joke after I saw mechs in ancient Rome, but after two hours with its demo, I’m hooked

I thought Fishing Shop…

As much as I love janky, often surface-level fishing minigames that are crammed into almost everything these days, I’ve…