Play The Sims 2

Build a house, fill eight need bars and steer a family through work and neighbours; the best-selling PC game.

Build mode, mods and a decade of packs; the Sims of the 2010s.

One open neighbourhood with no loading screens, and Create-a-Style.

Regions, terraforming and a traffic simulation people still argue with.

Zone, tax, build a stadium and watch it burn; the city builder that defined the genre.

The 1989 original: lay down three kinds of zone, watch the traffic, then send a monster through it.

Move to a village of animals, pay off a raccoon and check the shop every day, in real time.

Fifty years of one manufacturer in an evolution mode that starts in 1950; the most careful game in the series.