Main points
- Simulation games offer unique and sometimes bizarre experiences, like becoming a stone, breaking up with your high school sweetheart, or living the life of a bee.
- PC Building Simulator 2 allows players to run a PC building business and learn everything there is to know about building and customizing the PC of their dreams.
- Flight Mode simulates a realistic flight experience, giving players the opportunity to enjoy the mundane activities of a six-hour flight in real time.
Simulation games have been around for about as long as computer games. Its origins can be traced back to classic games like Flight Simulator and SimCity, but it never really achieved mainstream success. Compared to shooters, platformers, and action games, the simulation aspect is a bit too complex and intimidating for most gamers. But for those who love playing simulation games, simulation games are the most satisfying experience you can get.
While Flight Simulator and City Builders are still strong, there’s also a huge weakness in sim games that allow you to experience jobs, perspectives, and situations you’d never think the developers would bother making. However, they do exist. I can’t say that all of them will be funny, but they are certainly unique and at least worth watching, if only for a laugh. I’m adding the link here to prove that all these simulated computer games are real, so let’s get started.
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1 PC Assembly Simulator 2
We are now getting the metadata
Hardcore PC gamers love the craftsmanship that goes into building our dream PCs, piece by piece. It’s this extra work that brings us closer to our hardware, but buying and assembling the parts is expensive and time-consuming. PC Building Simulator 2 lets you run your own PC building business so you can use your free time to build, upgrade and customize PCs to your liking.
You have a full career mode where you will progress through various PC jobs and learn how to troubleshoot and solve software and hardware problems. You can also enter the free build mode to create the gaming PC of your dreams. Either way, you’ll truly understand all the ins and outs of building a PC and can apply them to real-world situations.
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2 Rock Simulator 2
this is exactly what you thought
Is this a joke game? Yes. Is it still real and has very positive reviews on Steam? Yes. Sim Rock is exactly what you imagine it to be, but people find it to be a zen-like experience and one that can be spent with hundreds of hours of “play” time.
I know what you’re thinking: Don’t I need to play the first game to understand what’s going on? Just choose your favorite rocks and weather and enjoy the atmosphere. There’s also multiplayer, so you can level up and collect new rocks together.
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3 Heartbreak High: Breakup Simulator
not you but me
Heartbreak High: Breakup Simulator
Which is worse, breaking up with someone or being broken up with? Heartbreak High focuses on the former, letting you break up with all your high school sweethearts as quickly but gently as possible. That’s not meant to be entirely stressful, though, as the writing is fairly lighthearted and full of jokes to keep it from becoming too heartbreaking.
The entire game is only about half an hour, but replays are encouraged. There are multiple ways to interact with each of your soon-to-be ex-lovers, and multiple paths to different endings. This game probably won’t make you good at breaking up with people, but I don’t think that’s a real skill anyone wants to master.
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4 airplane mode
fasten your seatbelt
There are plenty of flight simulators that put you in the cockpit of a variety of aircraft, but what if you want the real-life flying experience that most people have? Flight mode perfectly replicates the experience of a six-hour long-haul flight in economy class. Of course, these six hours are in real time. What do you do during a flight? The same things you do on a real flight, like eating bad snacks, reading a book, listening to music, and trying to ignore the crying babies a few rows behind.
I can’t seriously recommend this game to anyone unless you for some reason just enjoy the experience of sitting in an uncomfortable seat for six hours with next to nothing to do. But if this is how you want to spend your free time, by all means give it a try.
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5 NIMBY Railroad
Cheating
Anyone who has ever traveled on public transport will have an opinion on this. Maybe except in Japan, no railway system can satisfy everyone, but how difficult is it to create the perfect railway system for a city? NIMBY Rails gives you an idea of what it would be like to create your own train lines to best serve different groups of people.
This is not a casual railway game. You’ll need to pay attention to the actual layout of the city and your own train paths to keep everything running smoothly. You can micromanage your trains, down to individual trains and times of day, and you can set up stations around the world simultaneously to work during the day and off at night. People who are diehard about trains tend to be pretty diehard, so it only made sense to finally make a simulator of this type.
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6 Speaking Simulator
say what?
How hard can it be to speak? Even babies learn how to do it, right? Well, unlike speaking simulators, you need to manually manipulate your tongue and lips to form words. If you mess up, your face will explode. Obviously this isn’t the most hardcore simulation out there, but it’s one of the craziest ideas for games and hilarious mini-games I’ve ever heard of.
The premise is that you are an artificial intelligence trying to fool ordinary humans by adapting and speaking normally. You’ll go through ten different social situations, such as job interviews, dates, and eulogies, trying to pretend to be a real person. Just don’t let the game make you realize how difficult it actually is to speak, or you might actually bite your tongue.
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7 PowerWash emulator
very clean
Why are chores so boring and tedious in real life, but when you do them in a video game, they suddenly become so satisfying and relaxing? Whatever the magic is that causes this, PowerWash Simulator is the perfect example. Blowing away dust and dirt just tickles the part of your brain that wants things clean and tidy.
Again, this is a job that no one really considered, let alone imagined, would make a great emulator, but it’s one of the most popular. It’s also one of the easiest simulators to get started, with simple controls and a completely stress-free structure so you can sit back and clean at your own pace. Will it inspire you to clean more in real life? Maybe not, but it’s nice to pretend.
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8 I am bread
balanced breakfast
If you thought being a stone was an odd idea for an emulator, how about a piece of bread? Technically, bread shouldn’t be able to move either, but I Am Bread moves in the most inconvenient way. This is a game from the same developer as Surgeon Simulator, so if you’re familiar with that game, you’ll know what to expect here.
This game puts you in the shoes of a piece of bread (the crust), seeking to reach the toaster and turn into toasted bread. Getting around is tricky enough thanks to the intentionally clunky controls, but you also need to get there as cleanly as possible without burning yourself by staying in the heat for too long. It’s the rare combination of a joke game that’s fun to master and has tons of extra levels, blending in with other games like Team Fortress 2 and Goat Simulator.
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9 Bee Simulator
be a bee
There are already simulators for all kinds of weird animals, like goats, deer, and cats, but what about the humble bumblebee? Bees are unique creatures, so what is the life like for one of thousands of bees living in one part of a hive? Bee Simulator improves the whole thing quite a bit, but it does stick to the basic idea of following the queen bee’s orders to collect pollen.
The most fun thing about Bee Simulator is flying around a giant park from a bee-sized perspective. It also includes some cool educational elements so you can learn more about one of nature’s most important creatures. There are single player and multiplayer modes so you can travel the world together.