These games have been played in ways completely unintended by their developers.

These 'mundane' games have turned normal everyday experiences into digital playgrounds. Trust that if there’s something in ...

Build an empire, pilot a jumbo jet, or try your hand at industrial power-washing with these engrossing sim and sandbox games. In 2014, I began my career at PCMag as a freelancer. That blossomed into a ...

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...

The world of virtual world building and strategic resource management has entered a transformative new era with the arrival ...

If you haven't heard of this game before then it might be time to put it on your radar. 20th Century Summer Kid follows fourth-grader Satoru as he whiles away the summer vacation in rural Japan, ...

Racing games are one of the oldest genres that meld with simulators. Gran Turismo 7 isn’t a pure simulation in that sense but is a great balance between realistic physics and handling, with satisfying ...

Game enthusiasts and industry personnel pose for a photograph with "The Sims 4," one of the best simulation games, during the EA Play event at the Hollywood Palladium on June 08, 2019 in Los Angeles.

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 ...

James is a writer for GameRant. He fell in love with video games as a child and has yet to recover. He is still obsessed with Ocarina Of Time and regularly lectures people on how Metal Gear Solid ...

The four titles that made it onto this year's shortlist for Best Simulation Game show that, despite the genre's traditional reputation for being a bit staid, there's plenty of creativity to be found ...