A deserted island, a loan from Tom Nook and the spring of 2020.
Seven hundred cars and the Nurburgring on the PS2; the sim racer at its most complete.
Stamp passports at the border of Arstotzka and decide whom to let through; a bureaucracy game about morality.
Move to a village of animals, pay off a raccoon and check the shop every day, in real time.
Be a god with a giant creature and a village that worships you; Molyneux's ambition.
Dogfights against the Kilrathi and a branching campaign; Chris Roberts in 1990.
Fly for the Empire; the best space combat sim, from 1994.
Cure Bloaty Head and Slack Tongue while the patients queue; Bullfrog's comedy management sim.
Build a park and lay a coaster track piece by piece; Chris Sawyer wrote almost all of it in assembly.
The real driving simulator with licence tests; 140 cars on the PlayStation.
Build a house, fill eight need bars and steer a family through work and neighbours; the best-selling PC game.
Zone, tax, build a stadium and watch it burn; the city builder that defined the genre.
Cosy farming and small-town life (2016).
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