Play The Sims 3

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.

Ageing, genetics and wants; the Sims sequel that gave them lives.

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.

A deserted island, a loan from Tom Nook and the spring of 2020.