Where are the f*cking Life Simulation Games?!

[fpsbroski]

It's around 4 years since i checked the amount of life simulation games, and since then no company created something similar to The Sims or Animal Crossing? Why are game developers too scared to create a life simulation game. It's a genre with insane potential and opportunitys. Also if i am wrong state any games that are actually like those 2, real life simulation games about living or simulating a life.

 

[x65943]

Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons/Rune Factory doesn't count?

 

[fpsbroski]

Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons/Rune Factory doesn't count?

They involve too much with farming, it's not balanced as you do farming alot more than other stuff it's not a typical life simulator like animal crossing or the sims to be honest.

 

[x65943]

They involve too much with farming, it's not balanced as you do farming alot more than other stuff it's not a typical life simulator like animal crossing or the sims to be honest.

IMHO Animal crossing involves too much fishing and fruit picking.

Harvest Moon is much closer to a human life than Animal Crossing.

You've got: work, love interest, actual home improvements, pets, storms (with actual catastrophic effects), death etc. etc.

 

[fpsbroski]

IMHO Animal crossing involves too much fishing and fruit picking.

Harvest Moon is much closer to a human life than Animal Crossing.

You've got: work, love interest, actual home improvements, pets, storms (with actual catastrophic effects), death etc. etc.

Yeah but you don't have too do the fishing and fruit picking in animal crossing, while it's actually required to maintain a farm in harvest moon

 

[guisadop]

Simulators in general aren't as popular as they used to be nowadays.

 

[x65943]

Yeah but you don't have too do the fishing and fruit picking in animal crossing, while it's actually required to maintain a farm in harvest moon

Not true. At least in HM64, you could play the whole game without ever tilling one piece of soil. You can collect money via fishing/collecting wild fruit.

 

[fpsbroski]

Simulators in general aren't as popular as they used to be nowadays.

Even life simulation games?!

 

[FAST6191]

and since then no company created something similar to The Sims

I think that is the problem. Much like guitar hero ran that concept into the ground the billion sims expansions did no favours here. I am also inclined to wonder if there is not an element of the mmorpg problem where smaller companies take a look, see how many man hours went into such things and then exit stage left to make another hidden object game or something.

Also when people say life simulation these days I tend to find they mean things like http://www.academagia.com/ , also I can recommend that if you are looking for games like that. Not sure what it will do for sims or animal crossing fans though.

 

[Zero72463]

Dude. Goat simulator IS life...

 

[fpsbroski]

Dude. Goat simulator IS life...

Haha yeah but it was fun for a couple hours after that i never touched the game again XD

 

[MichiS97]

Btw, what would you guys recommend as the best harvest moon game nowadays ?

 

[fpsbroski]

Btw, what would you guys recommend as the best harvest moon game nowadays ?

Mineral of Town