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What is your favorite simulator game? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Zombiepirate@lemmy.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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Simulators are one of the earliest PC game genres, and remain compelling experiences to this day, even if they're not as popular as they used to be.

I like all kinds of combat flight sims; the MS Combat Flight Simulator from 1998 was something special, and I've had some similar fun in IL-2 Sturmovik. The newest civil air sims are pretty great too, I'll pop on a podcast and make a flight. They're particularly cool in VR.

I've also found the MechWarrior games to be fun, but I've only played 2 and 5. I got to play a bit of Steel Battalion with the full crazy controller at a con a few years back, and that's got to be a lot of fun once you really know what you're doing.

So what's your favorite sim?

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[–] orochi02@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Swat 4 πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

[–] roserose56@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Euro truck simulator 2! I have lots of hours in this game, playing date and night. At some point I had a Logitech wheel with pedals and shifts, it was so damn good!!!

My routine was to get a long route through graphic and small roads, listening to radio for hours.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Not super in-depth like some of these other games but I love Snowrunner. I can count on 3 fingers the number of games I’ve spent over $100 on the game+ additional content in my entire life. Civ5, Civ6, and Snowrunner. It’s such a relaxing game but can definitely be difficult as well. Also i can play music at the same time and not miss any story because there isn’t really any story.

[–] gorkur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

My parents got me a copy of Harrier Jump Jet by Microprose one christmas. I can't even begin to imagine how many hours I spent on that game, both actually playing it and studying the manual for it. Still have the manual actually but the floppies are long gone.

After that I got every Microprose sim I could get my hands on, F14 Fleet Defender was probably my favorite after Harrier.

Then I kinda lost interest in simulators until Arma came along, spent years where I hardly played anything else.

Nowadays though ETS is pretty much the only sim I play.

[–] eth0slash0@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Farming Simulator.

I grew up in the country and moved to a city. It's neat to see how accurate the older tractors and equipment are to real life.

[–] Hathaway@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Falcon BMS. It’s a mod of falcon 4.0 from the 90’s. Best combat flight sim out there. DCS is prettier, I guess, but, overpriced garbage by comparison.

[–] This2ShallPass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Anything by Janes Combat Simulations.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

B-17 (intellivision)

F19 (Atari computer)

Jumbo jet (Atari computer)

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I definitely have the most time spent in Project Cars 2 on PS4, but I've since switched to PC sims and have been playing Automobilista 2 since it is the most similar.

I'd like to get into Assetto Corsa more but idk how to get the mods running on Linux / Steam

[–] trslim@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

XWing Alliance will probably always be my favorite, but Elite Dangerous is up there. If Elite had story missions and a singleplayer campaign to elaborate on the world building, it probably would be my favorite.

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Oh my god I think this is one of the two games from my childhood that I first played and have not for the life of me been able to find

The other is some weird frog sidescroller platformer I got at Staples as a kid in the late aughts or possibly early 2010s

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I like goat simulator

[–] Securus777@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Heavy Gear 1 and 2. So much fun when multiplayer ever worked.

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

BeamNG.drive

Starsector

Dwarf Fortress

Dota 2 (psychological warfare simulator)

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

The one where you get to shoot jfk.

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