It adds a lot of personalization elements to the home and pets in the gameplay, which is more in line with what most of the people want in life simulation games.
Fortunately, with the announcement of New Leaf in , I eventually had a game that is similar to The Sims. Ok, we know that this is a strategy game and not exactly a social simulation, but it has a component that you might like if you played The Sims.
Harvest Moon combines the development of a simulation game with a role-playing adventure and combats. The objective of the game is to take care of your animals, plant different plants and visit your friends in the town to get rewards and improve your quality of life. The way to play is very simple. You only have to assemble a team of between two and six people, since teamwork is essential, and enter one of the two Escape Rooms of Mystery Room. As CEO, you must hire employees, design your office, and turn your business into a ruthless money-making machine.
A system of employee productivity and social interactions combined with procedural generation allows a variety of playstyles. You are the boss! Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves. Establish a food supply and find a way to grow while facing challenges along the way. Protect your villagers from the unfriendly wilderness.
You were camping with some friends when the apocalypse began. Somehow, you managed to survive and flee. As demons take over, you and your friends vow to fight back. Deep inside an alien space rock, your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive. You must monitor the colonists' hunger, waste, and oxygen levels to keep them alive.
It's been a few years since the zomb-pocalypse turned the world's cities into graveyards and sent the few survivors into hiding. Now you must gather them up and restore civilization to a ruined city, one building at a time. Together you can thrive. Europa with its frozen surface is a hostile environment, and life can only be found in the dark ocean beneath the ice — and the small pockets of human habitation are not the only form of life to be found there.
Command your crew and craft equipment in a tense 2D experience. Operate the many onboard systems of your submarine, from nuclear reactors to sonar, guns, engines and more.
Risk it all to breakout from the toughest prisons in the world. Explore the biggest prisons yet, with multiple floors, roofs, vents, and underground tunnels. Being in prison forces you to be creative and work with the limited tools at your disposal.
Reaching the fallout shelter in time is only the beginning. Whatever you scavenged and whoever you saved will play a vital role in your survival.
Each survival story will be different, with every day surprising you with unexpected events. Set in an unrelenting world of bloodthirsty cannibals, starving bandits, brutal slavers and wild beasts, survival alone is a grueling struggle. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Aid or oppose the various factions in the world while striving for the strength and wealth necessary to survive in the harsh desert.
Custom design as many characters as you want and build up a whole squad to fight for you. Characters will grow and become stronger with experience, not just in their stats but their appearance too. Second Life is exactly what it sounds like — an online virtual world that offers the ultimate player freedom, ability to connect with others and its own economy that has allowed many of its users to generate real-life income.
This is your other life in cyberspace. Some of the most beloved features of The Sims franchise serve as the backbone of the game. If you build a fancy nightclub here, you can not only visit it with your playable avatar but you can also meet up with other real players who are looking for a fun night on the town. You can even play the role of the DJ by spinning your own musical selections and hoping you keep the crowd happy.
It is truly the ultimate life simulation game and an experience that is constantly offering something new for you to do every time you log in. If you like the insane amount of customization offered in Second Life and want to keep the online social features without feeling so overwhelmed by being dropped in a whole secondary universe, IMVU is your game.
You can even interact with other IMVU avatars that you come across. Just remember that the primary function here is the ability to chat with others in a new way.
SimCity offered a version of The Sims that capitalizes on the building features in the series and took the focus away from the individual Sims you can control. With lots of nods to the Jurassic series, and a great look and feel, this is a slightly different kind of sim that will bring out the budding dino park manager in you.
Where there is a life sim, death will inevitably follow. If you're after something a bit darker in tone and a lot more morbid, Graveyard Keeper will hit all the right notes. Just as Death appears in the shape of the grim reaper in the Sims, here death becomes a prominent part of your livelihood as you become the new manager of a graveyard in a medieval town. You can even design the layout of the graveyard and craft items to help you please the locals and make life in the medieval world a bit easier.
The darker side doesn't just stem from the element of death though - plenty of questionable decisions will pop along the way that will make the choices you make in the Sims seem like a piece of cake.
The Sims 4 truly perfected the house building system into a game of its own. Spending a good chunk of time creating a giant mansion plucked straight out of your imagination is incredibly satisfying and enjoyable.
If building up towns and decorating homes is the main draw for you, House Flipper is the answer to all your prayers. Empyrean's realistic house renovation sim lets you buy rundown houses off the market and fix up them to make a healthy profit from your efforts.
Transforming a grimy, cockroach-infested kitchen into a sparkling, beautifully designed cooking haven makes you feel like a true DIY champion. All in first-person with some very fun building mechanics, you can let your creative juices flow and give some neglected houses a new lease of life in any style you want.
Looking for more suggestions? Be sure to check out our list of games like Stardew Valley. I started out writing for the games section of a student-run website as an undergrad, and continued to write about games in my free time during retail and temp jobs for a number of years.
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