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Best Simulation Games
Simulation video games aim to create play around closely simulated real-world activities. This could be a battlefield, landscape, motor racing, farming, flying or just a kitchen.The novelty is that you are not only playing a game but interacting with complex systems modelling the real-world in some way. This opens the door for creative and inventive approaches to succeeding in the game. It also provides the player with an open-world in which to spend time simply experiencing the simulation.
Almost any game can offer a simulation experience as this can combine with most genres to skew gameplay in a more realistic and open direction. This can mean that players enjoy a particular game not because of the shooting or racing but because it's a chance to spend time in a simulated world or system they enjoy.
From an educational and experiential perspective, a simulation game offers an entirely new way to learn and understand the world. Rather than a cold or external understanding of how things work, this offers an embodied experience of a system as the player moves and interacts with the simulation from within.
Animal Crossing (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/12/2001, updated in 2020
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii
Genres: Open World and Simulation
Developer: @NintendoAmerica
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
You live on a small island teeming with life. Insects, fish, trees, vegetation and fossils are represented with cute cartoon visuals. Rather than the scale or grandeur of other game worlds, it’s the interconnected drama of the world and characters...
Tracks The Train Set Game
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 11/10/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Creative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @WhoopGroup
Players: This is a single player game
This is a digital version of wooden toy train sets, without the costs of buying more and more track pieces. You build your toy train set and towns and then jump into the driver's seat and drive the train, seeing your toy world to scale. It's a very...
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/02/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Dan_Games
Players: You can play this with 5 players online
Stormworks is an open world adventure where you design, build and pilot your own air sea rescue service. You create programmable vehicles using it's block-building system and pilot them into dangerous situations to rescue stricken vessels or...
Webbed
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Sbuggames
Players: This is a single player game
Webbed is a running and jumping game with a twist. You play a spider who can make webs, swing, climb and all the while create music as she goes. It follows the story of our happy little spider on an adventure to save her boyfriend from a big dumb...
The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 03/03/2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: This is a single player game
This game departs from the previous Zelda formula with the scale and depth of its world. You walk, fly, ride and climb your way through a landscape that varies in climate, terrain, inhabitants and vegetation. Weather and the passage of the sun and moon...
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/11/2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Platform, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @Bfod
Players: This is a single player game
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a strange game about movement and momentum. You are tasked with climbing a mountain. However, your only means of locomotion is a hammer that can stick to objects and drag you forwards.
Toca Life: World (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/01/2019
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @TocaBoca
Players: This is a single player game
The Toca Boca, Toca Life, series of games comprise what are essentially toys in electronic form. They build on the Sago Mini games for 6-10-year-old children. Recreating interactive everyday settings like shopping, hospital,...
Raft
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 23/05/2018
Platforms: PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @RedbeetOfficial
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Raft is a survival game where you work to build a raft while stranded at sea. You start the game on a small raft with only a hook made of old plastic, with which you use to pull in floating barrels and planks of wood.
Townscaper
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 30/06/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @OskSta
Players: This is a single player game
Townscaper is a town building toy. You pick colours from the range available and click to put down a house in the sea. As you continue to add houses of different colours the game automatically orientates the architecture for you.
Thousand Threads
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 30/07/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @ThreadsGame
Players: This is a single player game
Thousand Threads is an open world game of consequences. You are free to interact with the world, animals and people however you like, give, take, save, kill, inform, hide, befriend, betray. But how you do this will have ongoing and unavoidable...
Stranded Deep
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 21/04/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Creative, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @BeamTeamGames
Players: This is a single player game
Stranded Deep is a survival game set in the Pacific Ocean. Taking a cue from films like Cast Away, you survive a plane crash and face life-threatening scenarios in a large open world. As the weather and time of day changes with the hours, you explore...
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/08/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Open World and Simulation
Developer: @AsoboStudio
Players: You can play this with 30 players online
Microsoft Flight Simulator (Microsoft Flight Sim 2020) is the latest flight simulator game in the long running series. Along with a huge range of aircraft you can learn to fly, the game recreates the entire Earth using textures and data from data Maps...
Freddy Spaghetti
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/12/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Simulation
Developer: @RatalaikaGames
Players: This is a single player game
Freddy Spaghetti is a running and jumping game. But you play a piece of spaghetti rather than a person. The game simulates the pasta’s physics as you use two trigger-buttons and a joystick to steer the main character across a wide variety of levels,...
Islanders
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 04/04/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Creative, Open World, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @_GrizzlyGames
Players: This is a single player game
Islanders is city-building game where you carefully place structures to earn points from their geographic location and relation to other features and buildings on your islands. Earn enough points and you unlock new buildings and eventually the chance to...
Pikmin 3 Deluxe
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/10/2013, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Fighting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @MonolithSoft
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pikmin is a series of puzzle games where you direct hordes of titular plant-like creatures to navigate garden locations. Different colour Pikmins have different abilities so the challenge is to get enough of the right ones to destroy obstacles, avoid...
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 11/12/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @UsTwo
Players: This is a single player game
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is an adventure game where you play as a young girl who starts a wildlife conservation club. When Alba visits her grandparents on a Mediterranean island, she is excited for a summer of exploring with her friend Ines. But when...
Super Mario Galaxy (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/11/2007
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Simulation
Developer: @Nintendo
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Mario Galaxy is a different style of running, jumping and exploration game. It takes the Mario character to hundreds of different planet shaped levels adding more realistic physics to the platforming play. Each world, or collection of worlds is...
The Last Of Us Part II
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 19/06/2020
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Role-Playing, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @Naughty_Dog
Players: This is a single player game
The Last of Us Part II is an action-adventure game set five years after The Last of Us. You control two characters in a post-apocalyptic United States. Ellie is out for revenge after suffering a tragedy, and Abby is a...
PixArk
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 31/05/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @SnailGamesUSA
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
PixArk is an adventure game similar to the more complex (and violent) game Ark: Survival Evolved. With a simpler interface and Minecraft=style block building, it's a survival game that never gets too scary while also inviting ambitious play and...
Ark: Survival Evolved
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 08/08/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Survivetheark
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
This game offers hunting-and-harvesting gameplay in a primal setting. Although not as polished or streamlined as a game like Horizon Zero Dawn, this is a more ambitiously open world where you can choose your own way to survive. With crafting and...
Hot Lava
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 19/09/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Open World, Platform and Simulation
Developer: @Klei
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Hot Lava is a running and jumping game where you mustn't touch the floor because it's covered in lava. It takes the childhood playground game online as you work to cross nostalgia-filled maps on your own or with other players
Subnautica (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 11/04/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @UnknownWorlds
Players: This is a single player game
Dive into an underwater ocean on an alien planet and collect the resources you need to establish a base and survive. There’s an open and immersive watery world to discover as you construct tools, bases and submersibles, and interact with wildlife....
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/04/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Fighting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @LandfallGames
Players: This is a single player game
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (know as TABS) is a fighting game where you choose different armies and troops to battle each other in an automatic simulation that models their offensive and defensive abilities. Once setup, the fight is largely...
Just Die Already
Expected Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @DoubleMoose
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Just Die Already is a sandbox game where you play a retiree in a near future where people aren’t having any children and pensions funds are drying up. It's an intentionally absurd set-up of old people fending for themselves in a world that wants them...
The Forest
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 30/05/2014
Platforms: PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @EndNightGame
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Forest is a survival horror game where you are the only passenger to live after a plane crash. You explore a mysterious forest to find food, shelter and safety but soon have to battle strange cannibalistic people.
Boomerang Fu
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 13/08/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @BoomerangFu
Players: You can play with 6 players in the same room
Boomerang Fu is a fighting game where you control small food-like characters. Using your boomerang the aim is to slice the other players with ranged or melee attacks. You can use a large range of power-ups such as: explosive boomerangs, disguise and...
Orwell's Animal Farm
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 10/12/2020
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Nerial
Players: This is a single player game
Orwell's Animal Farm is an adventure game with a decent slice of strategy, all brought to life with beautiful hand-drawn storybook art. As the name suggests, the game is based on the 1945 literary classic Animal Farm by George Orwell, which uses a farm...
Bugsnax
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @YoungHorses
Players: This is a single player game
Bugsnax is a whimsical adventure where you track, trick, catch and eat anthropomorphic food in all shapes and sizes. But as you do, you literally become what you eat. It's silly puzzling fun from the creators of [link to game/Octodad+Dadliest+Catch...
Lego Worlds
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/10/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @TTGames
Players: This is a single player game
Lego Worlds takes virtual building back to the classic bricks with familiar figures, buildings and challenges from other Lego video games in an open world where your imagination can go wild in a bottomless bucket of bricks.
Stardew Valley
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/02/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @ConcernedApe
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Stardew Valley looks like a farming simulator. That’s partly what it is, but you must also develop relationships with the other townsfolk and delve deep into the mines. Its quirky labyrinthine attention to detail is as inviting for young players to...
Littlewood
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 18/06/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @SeanYoungSG
Players: This is a single player game
Littlewood (coming to Switch soon) is a town and farming simulator a little like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing. Here though, the twist is that the game is set after a grand adventure. You...
Watch Dogs Legion
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 29/10/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Watch Dogs: Legion is an adventure game, the third instalment in the Watch Dogs series. It's set in a fictionalised future dystopian London. You play hackers in group DedSec seeking to clear their name for bombings in the city.
The Red Lantern
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @TimberlineGames
Players: This is a single player game
The Red Lantern is a personal adventure about making something of your life. You and a team of sled dogs head into the wilderness and must navigate the ever-changing events of the Alaskan bush to find your way home.
The Long Dark
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 22/09/2014
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @HinterlandGames
Players: This is a single player game
The Long Dark is a thoughtful exploration-survival game where you have crash-landed in the icy Canadian wilderness after a global disaster and must find a way to survive. Through exploring, crafting and fighting you must look after your body...
Star Wars: Squadrons
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 02/10/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @MotiveMontreal
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Star Wars: Squadrons is a shooting game where you master piloting spaceships. Squadrons offers a single player, narrative-based game, in which you play as two pilots (one in the Galactic Empire and one in the New Republic) where you'll fight in battles...
Teardown
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @TuxedoLabs
Players: This is a single player game
Teardown is a strategic game where you plan and execute a heist in a fully destructible environments. Your objective is to claim the key cards that are hidden around the map. However taking one triggers the alarm, giving you only sixty seconds before...
Sea of Thieves
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 20/03/2018
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @RareLtd
Players: You can play this with 24 players online
Sea of Thieves is an online game where you are a pirate searching for treasure and adventure. Cast into a large open sea you work with other online players to crew your ship and find treasure. The game has a main story but really focuses on creating...
Totally Reliable Delivery Service
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 24/06/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Open World, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Werefivegames
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Totally Reliable Delivery Service is a package delivery game, where you use different means to get parcels to their rightful owners in the time limit.
Slime Rancher
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/10/2016
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @MonomiPark
Players: This is a single player game
Slime Rancher is a farming simulation with a difference. Rather than chickens, sheep or cows, you farm slimes. You explore the open world from a first-person perspective to find and collect slimes. As you develop your farm in numerous ways you generate...
Umurangi Generation
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 19/05/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Creative, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Veselekov
Players: This is a single player game
Umurangi Generation is an adventure you play by exploring a city and taking photographs. Unlike other games where the photography is secondary, this is the main way you progress. As you do, you discover a story about ecology, friendship and the...
Hitman (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 01/01/2000, updated in 2021
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Puzzle, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @IOInteractive
Players: This is a single player game
Hitman 3 is a stealth game where you take on assassination missions and then figure out how to execute them. The dynamic situations you enter unfold as you play and you can try different approaches.
Portal (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 10/10/2007, updated in 2011
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, Web Browser, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @ValveSoftware
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
You are in a science laboratory where you seem to be being tested. Watched by the artificial intelligence GLaDOS, you have a gun that can create a pair of magic portals on any surface: one is an entrance and the other is an exit. Through a series of...
Zoo Tycoon (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 17/10/2001, updated in 2017
Platforms: Nintendo DS, PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Creative, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @AsoboStudio
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 4 players online
Zoo Tycoon is a zoo simulator series where you take charge of a zoo business, build the park, care for animals and attract visitors. You can build, expand, and upgrade the zoo by purchasing animals, creating suitable animal habitats, and allocate staff...
Unturned
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 08/07/2014
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Fighting, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Sdgnelson
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 100 players online
Unturned is a strategy survival game where you are in a Minecraft and Roblox-style world filled with zombies. You have to carefully explore the world, gather resources and craft weapons. You might go in guns blazing, sneak around making use of...
Good Pizza, Great Pizza
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/06/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Creative and Simulation
Developer: @TapBlaze
Players: This is a single player game
Good Pizza, Great Pizza is a simulation game where you run your own Pizza shop, fulfilling orders from customers while making enough money to keep your shop open. You can upgrade your shop with new toppings and equipment to compete against your...
War Thunder
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 21/12/2016, updated in 2018
Price: Free
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Open World, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @GaijinEnt
Players: You can play this with 16 players online
War Thunder is a shooting game where you drive a range of vehicles in warfare combat. Similar to Wargaming's World of Warplanes it creates realistic battles on air, land, and sea. The attraction of the combat is that each vehicle or craft’s...
Grounded
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 28/07/2020
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @GroundedTheGame
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Grounded is a survival game where you are tiny and find yourself in someone’s back garden. It’s like Honey I Shrunk The Kids meets Fortnite. Ants, cockroaches, and bees pose a threat along with environmental hazards like water, tall grass and large...
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 11/11/2011, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @BethesdaStudios
Players: This is a single player game
The Elder Scrolls is a series of action role-playing games that take you to detailed open worlds with free-form gameplay. The series has sold more than 58 million copies.
Two Point Hospital
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 25/02/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Creative, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @TwoPointStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Two Point Hospital is a light-hearted healthcare simulator. You take charge of a hospital, similar to Theme Hospital, where you must construct and maintain wards, machines and staff.
Ooblets
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/07/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure and Simulation
Developer: @Glumberland
Players: This is a single player game
Ooblets is a farming and creature collecting game where you tend your animals, explore the world and bring home new wild Ooblet animals from the wild. You can then battle in turn-based dance-offs.
Island Saver
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 13/05/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @NatWest_Help
Players: This is a single player game
Island Saver is action-adventure about cleaning up litter and goop to make money. It's created by Natwest with the aim of teaching children how to manage money. Unusually for a game with ideological ambitions, it's also a lot of fun.
Griftlands
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 14/06/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @Klei
Players: This is a single player game
Griftlands is an adventure game where you use cards to fight and negotiate your way through a broken-down sci-fi world. You will die or fail often, but then use your knowledge and growing deck of cards to have a better chance of survival on your next...
Escape from Tarkov
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 27/07/2017
Platforms: PC
Genres: Open World, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @BStateGames
Players: You can play this with 14 players online
Escape from Tarkov is an online shooting game set in the fictional Norvinsk region in Northwest Russia. You play during a war between two private military companies and join matches to fight others for loot, survival and ultimately escape.
Skatebird
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Racing, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @GlassBottomGame
Players: This is a single player game
SkateBird is a running (rolling) and jumping game where you play a skateboarding bird who performs tricks and explores skate parks. The skate parks are made of everyday objects such as pencils, books, and staplers which have been transformed into ramps...
Grow Up (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 26/08/2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Platform and Simulation
Developer: @UbiReflections
Players: This is a single player game
Grow Up is a running and jumping adventure. It is the sequel to 2015's Grow Home and extends the real physics exploration that lets you push, pull, climb and direct how plants grow in the world.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 10/02/2012, updated in 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @ReckoningGame
Players: This is a single player game
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is an adventure where you set out from the vibrant city of Rathir to rescue a world torn apart by a vicious war. Along with its huge scale, the game offers nuanced character development and a political system where you...
Spiritfarer
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 18/08/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Platform and Simulation
Developer: @ThunderLotus
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Spiritfarer is a boat building exploration game. Unusually though, you play Stella, ferry master to the deceased and the boat you manage takes them to the next life.
Viva Pinata
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/09/2006
Platforms: Nintendo DS, PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @RareLtd
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
This game is a fantasy garden-simulation game where your tending and care encourages one of 60 different piñata animals to make it their home. You use gardening tools to plough, sow seeds, create ponds and sculpt the land. Do this well and more animals...
No Man's Sky
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 10/08/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Open World and Simulation
Developer: @HelloGames
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 32 players online
This game invites you to take your spaceship to explore and colonise a universe rich with diverse planets, creatures and fauna. Facing so vast a space is daunting at first, but a rhythm of survival, combat and trading draw you into a space drama of your...
Astroneer
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 16/12/2016, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @SES_dev
Players: This is a single player game
Astroneer is an open-world space adventure where you colonize planets by creating habitable structures, farming and mining resources. There is no specific story, although the challenges of each planet give rise to struggles of achievement to placate the...
Among Trees
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 14/06/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @AmongTreesGame
Players: This is a single player game
Among Trees is a game you play in a forested wilderness full of creatures and fauna. It's handcrafted by a small team and creates a vibrant world to explore. This isn't a game you aim to win or dominate, but rather find your place in.
Gang Beasts
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/12/2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @Coatsink
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Gang Beasts is an over the top brawling game where you play wobbly characters who kick, throw, push, pull and pummel up to seven other rivals to win. The game models real physics so you have to work with the grappling and jelly-like bodies to both get...
The Pathless
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/11/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @GiantSquidology
Players: This is a single player game
The Pathless is a mythic adventure about an archer and an eagle in a vast forest. You use timed button presses to use your bow and discover the open world, and unlock a mystical island and dispel a curse of darkness that grips the world.
Biomutant
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 25/05/2021
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Experiment1O1
Players: This is a single player game
Biomutant is a role-play game where you play a Raccoon mammalian warrior in a world filled with mutated animals. Exploring this living breathing world has the feel of Zelda Breath of the Wild, but in a broken down steampunk aesthetic and with political...
Bonkies
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/01/2021
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @BonkieCorp
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Bonkies is a co-operative building game where you construct buildings from different blocks. With a jetpack and a grab-arm you work with other players to maneuver the blocks into place. It starts quite simply but soon gets everyone shouting.
Cook, Serve, Delicious 3 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 05/10/2012
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Chubigans
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Cook, Serve, Delicious! is a series of three games where you run a restaurant. You have full control over how you improve your restaurant and what food or drink you want to sell. Each game plays in a similar way, adding new locations, challenges and modes.
Five Nights at Freddy's (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/07/2014, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @SteelWoolStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) is a series of puzzle horror games. You play the night-guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and have to survive the night while in your office, checking the cameras and closing the doors, or make repairs, all while being hunted...
Sago Mini (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/06/2017
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Creative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @SagoSagoToys
Players: This is a single player game
Sago Mini games are designed for 3-5 year old pre-school children. Like Toca Boca games for younger kids, they offer interactive storybook characters with light narratives and open-ended play. Superheroes, space explorers, boat...
Blaseball
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 20/07/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: Web Browser
Genres: Narrative, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @TheGameBand
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Blaseball is an online baseball simulation. Unusually though, it blends-in an absurd horror story where players are incinerated and the rules can change -- a little like the board game Blood Bowl. Players compete not so much to get their team to win,...
Mafia Definitive Edition (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 29/08/2002, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @Hangar13Games
Players: This is a single player game
Mafia is a series of action/adventure game about being in the Mafia. You play Tommy Angelo, a poor hard-working cab driver who gets caught up in a fight between two crime families. You explore a large open city taking on criminal activities to rise...
Nuts
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 20/01/2021
Platforms: PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @JoonTurbo
Players: This is a single player game
Nuts is an adventure game where you play a rookie field researcher. You use your camera, caravan, GPS and map to investigate the depths of the enigmatic Melmoth Forest. As you study the local squirrel population you uncover a strange mystery.
Sifu
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Fighting, Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @Sloclap
Players: This is a single player game
Sifu is a martial arts fighting game with a flowing control system and ageing protagonist. You fight with Kung-Fu combat designed with impact and authenticity in mind.
Mini Metro
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 06/01/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS
Genres: Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Dinopoloclub
Players: This is a single player game
Create an ordered, efficient underground train system. It sounds like hard work, but the simple Tube-map visuals, calm music, and streamlined interactions make this relaxing, like sudoku. Dip your toe in this strategy challenge and keep the system...
Mini Motorways
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 04/03/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Dinopoloclub
Players: This is a single player game
Mini Motorways is by the same developer as Mini Metro but tasks you with planning a road network rather than subway. You lay down roads, traffic lights and motorways to ensure enough cars can get to the buildings that pop up in your city as time passes....
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/07/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @PridefulSloth
Players: This is a single player game
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is an adventure where you explore a world seeking out and collecting magical creatures, known as sprites, to banish an ominous shroud known as the Murk. As you do this, you make your way in the world, farming,...
Pikuniku
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 24/01/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Sectordub
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Pikuniku is an adventure where you play a red creature, Piku, on a mission to harvest the colourful world's resources. You interact with different objects to trigger switches and open doors. You can also lasso your legs to swing from hooks or curl into...
Through the Darkest of Times
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 27/05/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @Paintbucket_de
Players: This is a single player game
Through the Darkest of Times is a strategy game that conveys the sombre mood of the dark period of history between January 1933 and May 1945. With interactive drama, it tells the story and the struggles of average people living in the 3rd Reich.
Satisfactory
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 19/03/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Creative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Coffee_Stain
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Satisfactory is a factory building set on a foreign planet. Like the popular Tycoon and Factory games in Roblox, you start with humble beginnings, you harvest what you can by hand but steadily you build a sprawling empire of automated harvesting...
The Wandering Villiage
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Adventure, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @StrayFawnStudio
Players: This is a single player game
The Wandering Village is a strategy game where you build a city to escape a world made toxic by spores. You seek shelter on the back of a giant, wandering creature called Onbu. It's unusual because as well as building a thriving settlement, you have to...
Distrust
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/11/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Simulation and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Distrust is a survival game where you try to survive after a helicopter crash at an arctic base. Inspired by The Thing film, this is a horror game that initially seems to be about surviving the wild, but soon descends into something darker and...
Don't Starve
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/04/2013, updated in 2014
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Klei
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 6 players online
This is an open-world survival game. Here it’s the environment and enemies, rather than other players, that you work with. You need to find and develop food, weapons and shelter to survive. It’s enjoyable because it’s hard, so repeat-plays to...
Everything
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/03/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @DavidOreilly
Players: This is a single player game
This is an unusual game that simulates a world where you can become any object. It sounds strange and not much fun, but the enjoyment is in discovering how small or how big a thing you can become. From tiny atoms to whole planets and everything in between.
Crossout
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 15/05/2015
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Racing, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @TargemGames
Players: You can play this with 16 players online
Crossout is an online vehicle combat game set in a Mad Max, post-apocalyptic world. Players design modular vehicles combine weapons, armour and engines. As you progress in the game you earn currency to upgrade components and access more powerful parts....
FIFA 21 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/12/1993, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @EA
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
FIFA is one of the two main football video games (the other being Pro Evolution). Each year it's released with improved visuals, more realistic physics and enhanced competitive play. For those that follow the game closely and play it a lot, it offers a...
Shadow Of The Colossus
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 18/10/2005
Platforms: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @SonyJapanStudio
Players: This is a single player game
You play a young man who enters a forbidden land to defeat sixteen massive beings to restore the life of a girl he cares about. It sounds like any other video game, although in fact, Shadow of the Colossus stands apart in many ways.
Quantum League
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 26/05/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @NimbleGiantEnt
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Quantum League is a shooting game where you go back in time when you die, to play through the same loop of the battle. You have three lives and so play through the same short gun-fight three times. But each time you have more knowledge about what the...
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 05/10/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @UbisoftMTL
Players: This is a single player game
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is an action role-playing game set in the years 431–422 BCE during a mythological history of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. You play as a male or female mercenary fighting on both sides and attempting to...
Farm Together
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/02/2018, updated in 0019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Milkstone
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 16 players online
Farm Together is a low-pressure farm simulator. You develop your farm by yourself or cooperate with your friends. Starting with an empty plot you can grow crops, plant trees, take care of the animals, add buildings and facilities, and unlock new items...
Drink More Glurp
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 06/08/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @DrinkMoreGlurp
Players: You can play with 20 players in the same room and up to 1 player online
Drink More Glurp is a wacky sports game where you take turns to play athletic challenges. The twist is that you have to control your over-long arms with a separate joystick and your body is a wheel you can roll along on if you lift your arms right up....
Riders Republic
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/02/2021
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Open World, Racing, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: You can play this with 50 players online
Riders Republic is an extreme sports game. You can mountain bike, ski, snowboard, fly in a wingsuit and rocket-suit. This builds on other spots games with tens of online players competing at once in each event.
Tony Hawk 1 and 2 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 04/09/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World, Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Tony Hawk's is a skateboarding game series. It features the famous skater in 19 different games. From its start in 1999 on PlayStation it is now available on most consoles and has recently been rereleased in updated as Tony Hawk's 1 + 2.
Carrion
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Kroskiewicz
Players: This is a single player game
Carrion is a horror game where you play the amorphous alien as well as human protagonists. This reverse-horror scenario puts you in control of an organic tentacled monster to make your way through the facility, stalking and killing humans in your path.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 29/10/2013
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @UbisoftMTL
Players: This is a single player game
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is an action-adventure game set in a fictional telling of real-world events around the 18th Century Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. You run, jump, climb, explore and fight as a notorious Welsh pirate Edward...
Balance - Power Grid
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/08/2016
Price: Free
Platforms: Android, Mac and iOS
Genres: Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @HyperGames
Players: This is a single player game
Balance - Power Grid is a puzzle game about power grids. You place cables, pylons and power generators to make sure there are no blackouts. Through a series of challenges you build power grids that are functional, and that produce the right amount of...
Surviving Mars
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/03/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @HaemimontGames
Players: This is a single player game
Surviving Mars is a colony simulation game based on the real geography of Mars. You build and maintain a liveable habitat while balancing resources and researching new ways to adapt to the hostile environment. You receive occasional rockets from Earth...
Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 30/01/2014, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @YoungHorses
Players: This is a single player game
Most games design their controls to be easy and accessible. Octodad: Dadliest Catch takes a different approach. Using a combination of sticks and buttons, it creates an awkward, stomach-churning feeling of having too many limbs that you can’t directly...
Dauntless
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 21/05/2019
Price: Free
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @phoenixlabs
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Dauntless is an action fighting video game where you play a monster hunter in a fantasy world. Cataclysmic events have released Behemoth creatures that prey on the surviving humans. You play a monster hunter who hunts and kills large fantasy creatures,...
Go Vacation
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/07/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @BandaiNamcoUS
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
This is a resort exploration game where 50 mini-games can be discovered and played. The mini-golf, skating, surfing, volleyball, car racing, tennis and other games use the Wii and Switch motion-sensitive controllers and are simple fun for youngsters....
The Last Guardian
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 28/10/2016
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @SonyJapanStudio
Players: This is a single player game
The Last Guardian is an adventure, that follows Ico and The Shadow of the Colossus in the Team Ico trilogy. As the other games, it has an artistic look that is unusual for a video game, and a minimalist approach...
Windbound
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/08/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @5LivesStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Windbound is an adventure game where you hunt, explore and craft to survive. But unlike games like Zelda when you die you start over and the world is endlessly changing for each new adventure.
Bad North
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 31/10/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @RawFury
Players: This is a single player game
Bad North is a stylised strategy fighting game. You control an army defending an island and must train and develop your forces efficiently. The simple visuals and knife-edge Viking combat along with the jeopardy of losing precious troops make this a lot...
Unto The End
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 09/12/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @2TonStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Unto The End is a cinematic combat-adventure where the fighting is modelled in a read-and-react style. It requires time to master the unusual system but offers many ways to take on foes. Tactics and intelligent decisions are as important for survival as...
Assassin’s Creed Origins
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 26/10/2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @UbisoftMTL
Players: This is a single player game
Assassin’s Creed Origins is an adventure set in Ancient Egypt near the end of the Ptolemaic period (49–44 BC). This game in the series goes back to the start of the centuries-long conflict between the Assassins (who fight for peace by promoting...
Green Hell
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 05/09/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @Creepy_Jar
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 2 players online
Green Hell is an intentionally hard open-world survival game. You are abandoned in the Amazonian rain forest with no equipment or food, just your wits. In order to survive, you must utilize real-world survival technics to build your shelter; start...
For The King
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 19/04/2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @IronOakGames
Players: You can play with 3 players in the same room and up to 3 players online
For The King is a strategy game where you play an adventurer bringing peace to the kingdom of Fahrul. It's like a table-top board game, with rewards and hits determined by dice rolls, but combines this with more traditional video game fights. You gather...
Cart Life
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 25/04/2019
Price: Free
Platforms: PC
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @RichardHofmeier
Players: This is a single player game
Cart Life is a simulation game where you play one of three street vendors. You attempt to run their shop whilst looking after their health, interests, and families. It has simple visuals, but depicts the realities of the thin-end of life.
Penko Park
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 23/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Adventure and Simulation
Developer: @GhostButter
Players: This is a single player game
Penko Park is an adventure about exploring an abandoned wildlife park, taking photos of the weird and creepy creatures which you find. Like exploring a children's story book world, you collect these snapshots along with fur samples and fossils to add to...
Flower
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 12/02/2009
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Genres: Open World, Racing and Simulation
Developer: @ThatGameCompany
Players: This is a single player game
Control the breeze blowing across fields of grass and blow petals into other flowers to make them bloom. Flower is simple and single-purpose in evoking the feeling of the wind. What starts as an awkward struggle to control the breeze soon turns into a...
Burnout Paradise (Series)
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 16/03/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: GameCube, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Open World, Racing and Simulation
Developer: @CriterionGames
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
The Burnout series is an over-the-top racing game where you’re encouraged to crash, bash and ram other cars. Throughout the series the bravado and crashing increases, but they all have the same novel core gameplay.
The Sims 4 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 04/02/2000
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Narrative and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
The Sims puts you in charge of a world of characters living normal lives. By providing a home, a job, leisure, friendships and even love interest, you work to make them happy. It’s an open-ended game as well, although the altruism is focused on...
Endless Ocean
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/11/2007, updated in 2010
Platforms: Nintendo Wii
Genres: Adventure, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Arika_co_jp
Players: This is a single player game
Endless Ocean (Endless Ocean: Blue World in the US) and its sequel Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep are versions of a diving adventure game where you explore the Manaurai Sea to identify different fish and recover artefacts. As experience is...
Sky Children of the Light
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/07/2019
Price: Free
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Action, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @ThatGameCompany
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 8 players online
Sky Children of the Light (Sky Children of Light) is a huge open-world online game designed to create altruism between players. From the developer of Flower and Journey, it takes you on a social adventure in an ever-expanding world with up to 8 other...
Heave Ho
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @LeCartelStudio
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Heave Ho is a game where up to four players try and swing themselves across a level. But you can only hang on to certain points and must dangle and swing with both arms to progress. The twist is that you can also hold hands with other players and make...
One Hour One Life
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 27/02/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Fighting, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @JasonRohrer
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 100 players online
This is a civilisation survival game where each player lives a whole life in an hour of play and then passes away. Born as a baby into the care of anonymous other online players, you initially depend on them for food. Quickly growing, you can soon fend...
Donut County
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/08/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Torahhorse
Players: This is a single player game
Donut County offers a similarly simple style of play. You drag a hole around the screen; the more things you can make fall in, the bigger the hole gets. You start with bricks, road cones and bushes, but eventually you’re swallowing whole houses.
Terraria
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 25/11/2013, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Platform, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Terraria_Logic
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 8 players online
Terraria looks like a 2D, lesser, version of Minecraft. However, this is a game every bit as complex and creative as the better-known block building game. To the world-crafting and survival it adds hundreds of items to collect, characters to defeat and...
Summer in Mara
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/06/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @ChibigStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Summer in Mara is a farming game with a strong narrative about an adventurous girl called Koa. With a full day-night and season cycle, you can take the challenge on at your own pace as you build your farm and explore the world around you.
QWOP
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/12/2010
Price: Free
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @Bfod
Players: This is a single player game
QWOP is a sports game with a difference. You have to control each limb of your virtual athlete. This changes it from a challenge of hitting buttons to using the touch screen or keyboard to deftly co-ordinate movement to gain forward motion. It's really...
Dishonored (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 09/10/2012, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Puzzle, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @ArkaneStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Dishonored is an adventure game series set in the fictional, plague-ridden industrial city of Dunwall. You play Corvo Attano, bodyguard to the Empress of the Isles. But you are framed for her murder and forced to become an assassin.
Sim City (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 02/02/1989, updated in 2014
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Creative, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @EA
Players: This is a single player game
SimCity is a series of city-building games, created by Will Wright. Since their inception as educational experiences in 1989, the games have enabled players to design ambitious cities. The attraction is the open-ness of play, where you can let your...
Outward
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 26/03/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @NineDotsStudio
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Outward is a fantasy adventure focused on an ordinary character surviving against the odds. There's a focus on realism rather than superpowers or magical abilities. You have to look after your warmth, hunger, fatigue, illness, and thirst as well as the...
Battloon
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/02/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @NonameStudio_jp
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Battloon is a colourful battle game, where each of the four players controls a balloon-like creature. You try and bounce the other players into spikes on the arena walls by puffing out air to propel yourself in a direction.
Wildfire
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 26/05/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @WildfireGame
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Wildfire is a running, jumping and hiding game where you hide from (and distract) enemies to get through levels and complete missions. You have specific powers to start fires, freeze water, and move earth that offer different ways to solve the puzzle of...
Qomp
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 15/11/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @WombatStuff
Players: This is a single player game
Qomp is a bat and ball game with a difference. You control the ball rather than the bat. Trapped in between paddles for decades, you finally escape and start an adventure through a maze of dungeons.
Deep Rock Galactic
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 13/05/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @GhostShip_Games
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Deep Rock Galactic is shooting game where you play a team of dwarves in a totally destructible world. You explore caves and battle enemy hordes that are different each time you play (like Left 4 Dead).
Headliner: NoviNews
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 05/10/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @UnboundCreation
Players: This is a single player game
Headliner: NoviNews is a narrative-driven simulation game where you play as the person in charge of the headlines and stories that are released to the public. Each article you approve from your office has a direct impact of the world outside. Which news...
Playne
Rating: PEGI 3+
Release Date: 22/06/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Creative, Physically Active and Simulation
Developer: @playne
Players: This is a single player game
Playne is a narrative-driven meditation game that helps you build daily meditation habits. With each meditation session, Playne's story begins to unfold and the life on your island begins to grow providing you with more environments to meditate in.
Beat Me!
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 13/11/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @RedLimbStudio
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 6 players online
Beat Me! is a fighting game where comical fantasy characters battle to win. Along with the fun and unusual locations, Beat Me stands out because of its use of real world physics to determine who wins.
Supraland
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 09/03/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @SupraBall
Players: This is a single player game
Supraland is an adventure game that involves exploring, running, jumping, solving puzzles, and fighting monsters. You play a member of the Red Village and you must discover why the Blue Village has sabotaged your water supply. Your character is a...
MO: Astray
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 25/10/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @MOAstrayRayark
Players: This is a single player game
MO:Astray is a puzzle, jumping and exploration game. Rather than control a character who runs, you control an amorphous blob. To get around you have to use the game's unique movement mechanics to take advantage of the cleverly designed levels.
Skater XL
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/07/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Creative, Open World, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @Skater_XL
Players: This is a single player game
Skater XL is a skateboard simulation game. But unlike other skateboarding games, Skater XL steers clear of objectives or narrative. Instead you can explore a variety of maps and locations at your own pace, finding new places to try different tricks.
Evil Genius (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 30/03/2021
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Narrative, Open World, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @Rebellion
Players: This is a single player game
Evil Genius 2 is a tongue-in-cheek strategy game where you play the evil villain. You must build a detailed, functional lair from where you can take control of the world. Similar to Sim City and 2 Point Hospital, you use your resources wisely as you...
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 06/08/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @TriumphStudios
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
This is a turn based strategy game with a large strategic map that lead into multiple turn based battles. You build your empire with one of six unique factions, progress through each faction’s missions using your wits, military strength and diplomacy,...
I Am Bread
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 27/01/2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @BossaStudios
Players: This is a single player game
I Am Bread takes the malleable, real-world physics gameplay and applies it to a slice of bread. By controlling each corner with a different stick or button you make your way around the kitchen and other rooms of the house. Playing a slice of bread is...
Neo Cab
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 03/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @NeocabGame
Players: This is a single player game
This is a narrative adventure from behind the wheel of a cab. You play as Lina, the last human driver-for-hire on the streets of Los Ojos. Your friend and only lifeline has gone missing; with no money and nowhere to stay, your only leads are the...
Crazy Taxi
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/01/1998, updated in 2012
Platforms: Android, GameCube, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and iOS
Genres: Action, Open World, Racing and Simulation
Developer: @SEGA
Players: This is a single player game
Crazy Taxi is a series of games where you take people to different locations in a city, as a taxi driver. It sounds a little dull, but in this brighter and bigger world it's a joy rather than a chore. When you complete a fare you get money based on how...
Beyond Blue
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 22/04/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @ELineMedia
Players: This is a single player game
Beyond Blue is an underwater exploration game where you play Mirai, a deep-sea explorer and scientist. You see, hear, and interact with the ocean and the creatures in it as you discover an untouched world.
Scrap Mechanic
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 20/01/2016
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @AxolotGames
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 5 players online
Scrap Mechanic is an open world-building game. You collect materials that are used to design machines, vehicles and buildings. You start at the site of a crashed spaceship, with just a few items and must hunt for supplies, fuel and food in order to...
Planet Coaster
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 17/11/2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @FrontierDev
Players: This is a single player game
Planet Coaster Console Edition is a pleasure park construction and management game. It draws on games like Theme Park and RollerCoaster Tycoon. You build different theme park rides and roller-coasters in considerable detail, to score design points and...
Beyond Eyes
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 04/08/2015
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Team17Ltd
Players: This is a single player game
Beyond Eyes is game about a blind girl, Rae, who uses her senses to visualize the world around her. As you play, the game only shows you parts of the world you can hear. This means you can see immediately around you, and further away if things are...
Scribblenauts (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/09/2009
Platforms: Android, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Creative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @5THCell
Players: This is a single player game
Scribblenauts is a series of puzzle games where you solve by typing the names of everyday objects so they appear in the game and let you progress. What's surprising is the sheer number of items included in the game. This means you can solve problems in...
Maquette
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 02/03/2021
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @MaquetteGame
Players: This is a single player game
Maquette is a puzzle game played in a series of nested identical worlds. What you do in the larger world effects things in the smaller one, and so on. Every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.
Everwild
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Adventure, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @RareLtd
Players: This is a single player game
Everwild is a fantasy adventure where characters work together to tame the wild and survive the night. Working with the indigenous creature of the land and with the power of ritual and combat you need to subdue nature by working with it.
Fight Crab
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 15/09/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @Crab_Fight
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Fight Crab is an fighting game where you battle with weaponised crabs. But rather than pressing buttons to pull off moves, you have to work with the game’s over-the-top physics. This combines with giant crustaceans, insane weapons and claws to create...
Due Process
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 20/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @EnemyCrabGames
Players: You can play this with 10 players online
Due Process is a tactical shooting game that focuses on both the planning and execution of missions. You are presented with a unique mission where teams of five either have to defend or attack a particular location. Spending time talking through tactics...
Descenders
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/05/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Racing, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @RageSquid
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Descenders is a downhill mountain biking game with a focus on skill. In each downhill run, your goal is to score as many points as possible by completing skill based challenges and executing as many tricks and flips as you can, all while you try to...
Part Time UFO
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/02/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @HALGames
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Part Time UFO is a puzzle game where you use your flying craft and claw to solve various problems. Sort out a farm, support cheerleaders, cook up the ultimate dessert at a restaurant or even build a castle. It's like the sort of coin-operated crane...
Out of Space
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/11/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @BeholdStudios
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Out of Space is a co-operative game about living together on a space ship. You and your cohabitants have to build a sustainable spaceship, as well as making it a cosy home. All is not plane sailing though, as you come across deadly alien infestations, a...
The Good Life
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Swery65
Players: This is a single player game
The Good Life is a narrative adventure, where you experience a slower pace of life in an English town. Although, before long you are drawn into an intriguing web of murder, bodily transformations and photographic tasks. It's an absurdist exploration of...
Radical Relocation
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 31/08/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Puzzle, Racing and Simulation
Developer: @_Winglett
Players: This is a single player game
Radical Relocation is an action-puzzle game about moving house. You load objects onto a vehicle and drive from point A to point B without losing or breaking any. Carefully stack and balance your belongings on top of different vehicles before driving...
Sunlight
Expected Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/01/2021
Platforms: PC
Genres: Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @Krillbite
Players: This is a single player game
Sunlight is a short adventure game where you explore an uncharted forest, guided by harmonised whispers. As you move from tree to tree you discover different voices, genders and dialects, speaking as one. Taking artistic inspiration from expressionist...
Squad
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 14/12/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Open World, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @OffWorldInd
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Squad is an online-only shooting game where you fight in a team of 50 players against an opposing team. It is unusual because of a deep emphasis on teamwork, co-ordination and strategy, as well as being as realistic to real modern day warfare as...
Feather
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 05/04/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Open World and Simulation
Developer: @SamuraiPunk
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
This game brings you, as a bird, to a beautiful island. You can explore freely, collecting items and soaring on the breeze. Often, other players will join you to create a flock of birds to fly together, making music on the wind. Communication is kept to...
Outer Wilds
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 11/12/2018, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Mobius_Games
Players: This is a single player game
Outer Wilds is an exploration space mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time-loop. After 20 minutes of game time, you must start again – but each time brings a new opportunity to learn how you ended up on the planet and solve the...
Gran Turismo (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/01/1997, updated in 2017
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Portable
Genres: Racing, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @TheGranTurismo
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 16 players online
Gran Turismo is a driving simulator that focuses on a photo-realistic driving experience. Players race real-world cars where bodywork and interiors are perfectly modelled. Whether hatchbacks or super cars, this game lets you step into the world of the...
Witch It
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 31/05/2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action and Simulation
Developer: @BarrelRollDev
Players: You can play this with 16 players online
Witch It is a game where you play a witch or a hunter. The witches run and hide in the village and can turn into every-day items. Transforming into these props in such a way as they look like part of the world is key to hiding. Observing the placement...
Good Job!
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/03/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action, Platform and Simulation
Developer: @PaladinStudios
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
You play an office employee with a difference. Together with a friend you must climb the corporate ladder to take over the family business. But rather than starting as tea boy and working up, you have a set of more bizarre office problems: building zen...
KartRider (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 31/05/2020
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Racing, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @Nexon_America
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 16 players online
KartRider is an online kart racing game. You race and customise your kart on a variety of different circuits. Along with the usual fantasy vehicles this includes real cars. It's similar to Mario Kart and has power-ups and drift...
Change: A Homeless Survival Experience
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 01/05/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @DelveInteractiv
Players: This is a single player game
Change is a survival game where you play a homeless person trying to make it against the odds. It's intentionally hard to do well as you explore an endless city that's different every time you play.
Cities Skylines
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 10/03/2015, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Creative, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @ColossalOrder
Players: This is a single player game
Cities: Skylines is a city-building simulation. It rekindled the attention to detail and ambitious city planning of the Sim City games. You zone buildings, place roads, set taxation, provide public services and public...
Tower of Babel No Mercy
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 21/02/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Action and Simulation
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Tower of Babel is a game where you work with friends to build a tower out of buildings. You control the game with a single button (and one more for special abilities) to drop your building on the stack. It swings left and right so you have to time it...
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Series)
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 30/09/2014, updated in 2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @MonolithDev
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and Middle-earth: Shadow of War is an adventure series set in Tolkein's fictional work, between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. You play Talion, a Ranger who sets out to avenge the deaths of his loved one. The...
Spring Falls
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 17/11/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Spring Falls is a puzzle where you erode a geometric landscape to let water flow down the mountain and help plants grow. Along with the low-pressure puzzle play, the game offers a calming experience with soft visuals, ambient music and interactive...
Subdefuge
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 07/03/2017
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Open World, Puzzle, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 10 players online
Subterfuge is a strategy game played with human opponents. The game is designed to be played over a week or so, to give players time to talk between goes. This encourages players to team up, trick or double-cross other players to get them to make the...
Portal Knights
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 25/02/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Fighting, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @KeenSWH
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Portal Knights is an adventure set in a Minecraft-like world, but that focuses much more on role-play and characters. You still have the exploration and building elements, but also more story and monsters to take down.
Orna
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 17/06/2019
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Physically Active, Role-Playing, Simulation and Turn-Based
Players: You can play this with 6 players online
Orna: The GPS RPG, as its longer name suggests, is a combination of role-playing adventure and real-world (geocache-style) treasure hunt. You select a character at the start of the game, and head out on a walk. As you do you can encounter creatures,...
Total War (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 13/06/2000, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Fighting, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @CAGames
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
The Total War series are strategic turn-based war games. Each game has a different historical or fanstasy setting where multiple armies battle and compete for terriotry. You can win by military force, religion, diplomacy, espionage and economics.
DayZ
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 03/07/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @Bohemiainteract
Players: You can play this with 60 players online
Day Z (DayZ) is a post-apocalyptic open world survival game. The population are infected with an unknown virus and you play as one of the few who are immune. You fight other survivors for limited resources and weapons. However If you die there are no...
Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 17/10/2019
Platforms: PC and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Players: This is a single player game
Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind is a storybook strategy game, set in the same world as King of Dragon Pass. Similar to games like HeroQuest, RuneQuest or God Wars but unusual because you make decisions at your leisure then see them play out through static...
Realm Royal
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 05/06/2018
Price: Free
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @RealmRoyale
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Realm Royale is battle royale shooting game, like Fortnite. The game features multiple character classes each with unique abilities. It's a spin off of the the hero-based shooting game Paladins by the same...
Noita
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 05/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World, Platform, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @NollaGames
Players: This is a single player game
Noita is platform adventure game in a world where each and every pixel is physically simulated. This means that the tiny elements that make up the landscape and characters have their own properties that: melt, burn, evapourate, explode, flow, float,...
Deiland Pocket Planet
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 09/08/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @ChibigStudio
Players: This is a single player game
Deiland is an adventure set on a small spherical planet. You farm, craft, and build your own world. Improve your skills, craft tools, cook food, brew potions, and create tools. As you make your home, you will attract merchants to trade materials and...
Endling
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @HerobeatStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Endling is an exploration platform game where you struggle to survive. It's a game about extinction with a strong ecological conscience. You are the last fox on earth, trying to survive a world ravaged by the human race.
Find the Balance
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 28/09/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @DigitalMelodyPl
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online
Find the Balance is a puzzle game where you stack awkwardly shaped objects - stones, boxes, bananas. You place these items to create stable towers by planning, selecting and rotating objects before cutting the line and dropping them gently.
Welcome to Bloxburg
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/11/2014
Price: Free
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @RBX_Coeptus
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Welcome to Bloxburg is a simulation Roblox game where you take on daily activities in a fictional city. Drawing on gameplay from The Sims, you care for your character and keep their mood positive, by building and customizing your house, learning skills...
The Longing
Expected Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 05/03/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @StudioSeufz
Players: This is a single player game
The Longing is a point-and-click adventure about waiting and loneliness. It's an intentionally slow game that takes 400 elapsed days to finish. It draws on the Idle Game genre, where you use minor interactions to incrementally advance. Here though, the...
Bad News
Expected Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/12/2019
Price: Free
Platforms: Web Browser
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing and Simulation
Developer: @GetBadNews
Players: This is a single player game
Bad News is a role-play game about building a news media organisation. It's designed to highlight bias in the news by putting you in charge of a series of decisions to build a profitable company. All you do is answer questions, but as you do the...
Steep
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 02/12/2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Steep is an extreme winter sports game set in a fully explorable Alps. You can ski, snowboard, paraglide or wingsuit (fly) down various mountains, with alternate pathways to explore and create. You gain experience points from performing tricks and...
Castaway Paradise
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/01/2018
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Open World and Simulation
Developer: @StolenCouch
Players: This is a single player game
This game places you on your own tropical island. Make the place your own with decorations and furniture, dress up, collect bugs, fish, grow crops and help your new neighbours. It's an open-world game that offers an Animal Crossing style experience on...
Elite Dangerous
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 15/12/2015, updated in 2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @Frontierdev
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 32 players online
This is a new version of the classic 1980s space game Elite. Like the original it’s a space exploration, trading and combat game that provides a huge and rich universe rather than a specific story. You can trade goods, become a bounty hunter, fight...
This War Of Mine
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 14/11/2014
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @11BitStudios
Players: This is a single player game
Inspired by the 1992–96 Siege of Sarajevo, this is a war game where you play the civilian trying to survive during the fighting. You face tough decisions on how to spend time and resources each day to maintain health, hunger and mood levels until a...
Kids
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 31/05/2019
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Michaelfrei10
Players: This is a single player game
Kids is an unusual game where you tap to interact with groups of monochrome cartoon children. Seeing the little kids run around and respond to each other creates a playful and intriguing game than only lasts half an hour but will be played many times.
Sizzle And Stew
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 22/02/2020
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Sizzle & Stew is a cooking game where you don’t have to follow the rules. It’s a lot of fun and works well in the two-player split-screen mode. Experiment as you explore all the kitchen gadgets to make a meal, or just see what happens when you put a...
Bomber Crew
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/08/2018
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @RunnerDuckGames
Players: This is a single player game
Bomber Crew is a cartoon-styled World War 2 strategic bombing simulator. While it avoids the grim reality of these missions, it connects players to the extreme difficulty and danger of making it out and back again.
Autonauts
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 17/10/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @DenkiGames
Players: This is a single player game
This is an adventure game where you tame new worlds. You start with a blank slate similar to Sim City, but her you must build each dwelling, tool, vehicle yourself. It’s a task that’s too complex for any one person to handle. You are soon forced to...
In Other Waters
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 03/04/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Players: This is a single player game
This is an underwater exploration game where you play an Artificial Intelligence assistance to a stranded xenobiologist in a mysterious alien ocean. The world is not seen except through the instrumentation available to you. This creates a non-violent...
Phogs
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/06/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Coatsink
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Phogs is a game where you control a stretchy dog that has a head at both ends of its body. It sounds a little strange, but is actually an endearing adventure where, on your own or with another person, you control each end of the dog separately to...
SoundSelf: A Technodelic
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/04/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Simulation
Developer: @EnterAndromeda
Players: This is a single player game
SoundSelf is an interactive guided meditation. Using the microphone, and optionally enhanced by VR, the game leads you through a landscape that responds to the sounds of your breath. This encourages you to make the Ujjayi Pranayama sound on your...
Assassin's Creed Discovery Tour
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 10/09/2018, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure and Simulation
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: This is a single player game
Discovery Tour is a special mode that uses the worlds created for the main Assassin’s Creed games to offer an educational exploration experience. It is available both as a free part of the original games and as a...
Skate Story
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Narrative, Rhythm and Simulation
Developer: @BySamEng
Players: This is a single player game
Skate Story is a skateboarding game that focuses on the skill, weight and locomotion of controlling the board. Running through the game is a story where you explore the underworld beneath New York City.
Xenoblade Chronicles (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/01/2010
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @MONOLITHSOFT
Players: This is a single player game
Xenoblade Chronicles is a series of open-world role-play games. They take place on the frozen bodies of two warring titans, the Bionis and the Mechonis. In the first game, during an attack on his colony, protagonist Shulk discovers his ability to wield...
Art Of Rally
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 23/09/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Racing, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @FunSelektor
Players: This is a single player game
Art of Rally is a racing game that focuses on stylised off road motion from the creator of Absolute Drift. Slide through the hand-crafted stages set in Finland, Japan and Spain with varying weather and time of day.
Ete
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Ete (été, which means summer) is a gentle adventure where you discover memories by exploring with your camera, music and paint. The screen starts almost entirely blank, and as you move around and interact you create vivid colourful memories.
Street Power Football
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 25/08/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Rhythm, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @GamajunGames
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Street Power Football (Street Power Soccer) is a rhythm and timing game where you compete in a range of competitions that require timing, quick reactions and finesse. Some of these are a pure rhythm action or aiming challenge while others offer a full...
Opus Magnum
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 08/12/2017
Platforms: PC
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @Zachtronics
Players: This is a single player game
Opus Magnum is a puzzle game about assembling machines to convert spherical chemicals into different compounds. Each challenge can be tackled by creating different machine configurations, and each is awarded points on how compact, quick and efficient...
Elsinore
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/07/2019
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Elsinore is a mystery-adventure set in Shakespeare's Hamlet. You play Elsinore who repeats the same four days as she tries to find a way to avoid the tragedy that lies before her.
Exo One
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @JayWeston
Players: This is a single player game
Exo One is a surreal exploration game where you guide a small transforming object to drift, flow and soar across enigmatic landscapes with a gravity based movement system. The game aims to create an out of body other-worldly experience with atmospheric,...
The Eternal Cylinder
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Creative, Fighting, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @TheACETeam
Players: This is a single player game
The Eternal Cylinder is a strategy game where you survive by evolving your creatures to adapt to the environment. Your herd explore a strange world filled with exotic lifeforms and environments. All the while a menacing firey cylinder rolls towards you.
Bird Alone
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 15/06/2020
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @GeorgeBatch
Players: This is a single player game
Bird Alone is a narrative game where you befriend a bird. Your feathered companion encourages the conversation in the direction of real life worries while you make music, draw pictures and write poetry. It’s a slow game that unfolds in real time with...
Brunch Club
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 29/08/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @FoggyBoxHQ
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Brunch Club is a cooking game where you possess and move food around the kitchen to complete different recipes. This unusual way to cook creates a unique and silly challenge you take on with up to four people.
Drone The Game
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 02/08/2020
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Creative, Racing, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @Drone_The_Game
Players: You can play this with 16 players online
Drone The Game is a shooting battle with a highly controllable drone against other online players in arenas like maps. It's unusual because you build and customize your drone by dragging and dropping functional blocks that affect how the drone will fly....
Titanfall (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 20/10/2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @TitanfallGame
Players: You can play this with 12 players online
Titanfall and Titanfall 2 are a shooting game where players control mechanical Titans and their pilots, who are agile and equipped with a variety of weapons and abilities ranging from wall-running to invisibility. This makes it a game that focuses on...
Rain on Your Parade
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @UnboundCreations
Players: This is a single player game
Rain on Your Parade is a slapstick puzzle game where you play a mischievous cloud ruining everybody’s day. "You are a cloud jerk," says the trailer. In each of the varied levels you have to work out what it is you need to do to make people's lives a...
Unspottable
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle, Rhythm and Simulation
Developer: @GrosChevaux
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Unspottable is a puzzle game where you try and work out which of the identical characters are controlled by other players and which are computers. It's a race to punch your friends before they punch you, but the more times you get it wrong the more...
Ghostrunner
Rating: PEGI 18+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 27/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @Oml_Games
Players: This is a single player game
Ghostrunner is a challenging, fast-paced fighting game with a puzzle solving element. Played from a first-person perspective, you navigate the world using parkour-like skills, running on walls, sliding through gaps or jumping and swinging over them....
Fights in Tight Spaces
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 01/09/2020
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Fighting, Simulation and Turn-Based
Developer: @FightsGame
Players: This is a single player game
Fights in Tight Spaces is a turn based fighting game where you use your deck of cards to win combat battles in small rooms and other locations. As you progress you gain more cards and build a deck tailored to each battle.
HackyZack
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 23/08/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @SpaceboyGames
Players: You can play this with 2 players online
Hack Zack is a running and jumping game where you also have to hit a ball through the level to win. Because the game simulates real physics this can be quite a challenge. It's an unusual game that requires planning as well as careful execution.
Rim World
Expected Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 17/10/2018
Platforms: PC
Genres: Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @LudeonStudios
Players: This is a single player game
RimWorld is a sci-fi strategy game about survival, trading, exploring and developing your colony. You start the game with three survivors of a shipwreck on a distant planet and begin to craft structures, weapons and clothes. The objective of the game is...
Proteus
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 30/01/2013
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita
Genres: Open World and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
This game takes you to a pixelated island. As you explore you discover that your presence changes the seasons and time of day. Delving deeper, there are rudimentary interactions with the creatures that inhabit the land, and rain clouds that blow in from...
Observation
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 21/05/2019
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @_NoCode
Players: This is a single player game
Observation puts you on a space station to solve a power outage and find missing crew. However, here you play the role of the SAM, the System Administration Maintenance artificial intelligence software, rather than human protagonist. Your limited view,...
Kerbal Space Program
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 31/03/2016
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Creative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @SquadDevs
Players: This is a single player game
Kerbal Space Program is a space flight simulation game. You direct a space program, staffed and crewed by aliens. It looks like a cute game for kids, but under its comic exterior is a hugely complex and engaging space simulation.
Football Manager 2020 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 31/12/2019
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Simulation, Sports, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @SIgames
Players: This is a single player game
Football Manager is a football management simulation video game that started back in 1992 and has evolved each year. Now fully licenced for most of the Football Leagues, it offers an intricate way to manage a Football Club of your own.
Jet Set Radio (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 01/01/2000, updated in 2012
Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360 and iOS
Genres: Action, Creative, Open World, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @Sega
Players: This is a single player game
Jet Set Radio is an action game where you play a skating youth traversing Tokyo, spraying graffiti and evading authorities. It was influenced from late 90s Japanese pop culture such as the rhythm game PaRappa the Rapper.
No Heroes Here
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 03/10/2017
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @MadMimic
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
No Heroes Here is a co-operative defend your castle game for up to four players. In simple pixel graphics, you have to work together to prepare your defences and then use them as the armies attack. The key to success is that everyone needs a role,...
#SelfCare
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 29/07/2019
Price: Free
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Simulation
Developer: @LuvTruLuv
Players: This is a single player game
#SelfCare is a companion game that aims to create space for your feelings. Unlike other apps that remind or incentivize you to take a break, breath or even just to stand up, #SelfCare offers interactions and narrative that create a context for you to...
Pine
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 26/11/2019
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Twirlbound
Players: This is a single player game
Pine is an adventure game where you play a primitive young man searching for new land for his tribe. You discover five tribes of anthropomorphic creatures that need to be understood and overcome to enable your tribe to have somewhere to live.
Starlink: Battle for Atlas
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 16/10/2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Starlink is a space exploration and battle game. But unlike Elite, or No Man's Sky the focus is on arcade fun and quirky characters and Pixar-style storytelling for younger players.
Buissons
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 03/02/2021
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @DrGeraud
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Hide and seek game where you control a bush. You move around the screen in the dark during the night. Then, the next day, one of the players tries to spot where the bushes are by observing what has changed. The seeking player stands in the middle with a...
Formula Retro Racing
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/05/2020
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Racing and Simulation
Developer: @Repixel8
Players: This is a single player game
Formula Retro Racing is a retro 90's arcade racing game. This Virtua Racing style combines the simplicity of visuals and racing style with some proper attention to the skill needed to get to the front of the grid.
Space Crew
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 15/10/2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @CurveDigital
Players: This is a single player game
Space Crew is a strategy game where you use a team of characters to control a spaceship and explore the galaxy. Unlike other space flight games, you don't directly control your craft but get your crew to look after different aspects of the mission. It's...
Darwin Project
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 14/01/2020
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @DarwinProject
Players: You can play this with 11 players online
Darwin Project is a battle royale game like Fortnite. Player fight to collect resources to survive and upgrade their character. As well as surviving in extreme conditions you track opponents and set traps. In addition to the ten players is...
Frost
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 25/03/2017
Platforms: iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @KunabiB
Players: This is a single player game
Frost is a puzzle game where you control living particles with gestures to guide them home. Using flocking mechanics the game lets you direct thousands of elements with super simple controls. Each level presents a different scene in which to direct the...
Lifelike
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Mac and iOS
Genres: Simulation
Developer: @KunabiB
Players: This is a single player game
Lifelike: Chapter One is a light-touch simulation game where you interact with flocking particles to create a soothing and meditative experience. It's an exercise in attending to something playful and the pleasure and escape that come from this.
Arma 3 (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB MATURE 17+
Release Date: 12/09/2013
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Creative, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @BohemiaInteract
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 32 players online
Arma 3 is a realistic military simulator. Unlike games such as Call of Duty or Battlefield Arma focuses on realism. Rather than blockbuster effects, it spends time simulating the...
The Endless Forest
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 15/02/2006
Price: Free
Platforms: PC
Genres: Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Taleoftales
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 50 players online
This is a whimsical online multiplayer game where you play deer in a peaceful forest. You freely explore ruins and ponds, and meet other players, communicating in symbols. The world is like a moving painting, but one that players have a strong sense of...
Trials (Series)
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 26/02/2019, updated in 2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Racing, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @Ubisoft
Players: This is a single player game
Trials Rising is a four-player side-on motorbike racing game controlled by pressing ‘accelerate’ or ‘brake’ and using the stick to shift the weight of their riders’ bodies. The game emulates real-world physics, so you have to balance your...
Eco
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 06/02/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Creative, Open World, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @StrangeLoopGame
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 100 players online
Eco extends the resource-collecting and building of Minecraft by introducing environmental implications to your actions. Using resources like trees will erode the soil; mining might pollute the river; and each animal depends on another.
Goat Simulator
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 23/05/2014, updated in 2015
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @Coffee_Stain
Players: This is a single player game
Goat Simulator takes the animal avatar in a cloven-hoofed direction. It’s an open-world third-person action game where you steer your goat to do as much damage as possible. What started as a joke prototype turned into this extremely silly game with a...
Prune
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 15/11/2015
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
Prune involves slicing, but here you must carefully cut off tree branches to encourage the tree to grow in a particular direction. It starts simply but turns into a challenge for parents and young children to work on together.
Starbound
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 20/03/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Platform, Shooting and Simulation
Developer: @ChucklefishLTD
Players: You can play this with 8 players online
Starbound is an action-adventure similar from the same developer as Terraria. It takes place in a two-dimensional, procedurally generated space universe where you can explore and discover new weapons, armour, and items. You can also visit towns and...
Manifold Garden
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 18/10/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Open World, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @WilliamChyr
Players: This is a single player game
Manifold Garden is inspired by Escher drawings and the reality-bending moments in the film Inception. You play from a first-person perspective and explore a beautiful, and what seems to be an abstract world, bereft of colour. It takes time to master and...
Skies of Fury
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 12/04/2018
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch and iOS
Genres: Shooting and Simulation
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
This is a World War I fighter pilot game set during the Bloody April battles. You pilot one of 10 aircraft from WWI era and take on missions as a single player before challenging friends to the multiplayer, split-screen battles.
Spek
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 22/09/2019
Platforms: iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @RAC7Games
Players: This is a single player game
A puzzle game where objects are seen only in outline and you must travel the world with your dot, by manipulating the perspective. You navigate through minimalist yet colourful environments full of challenging puzzles, dangerous inhabitants, and...
Sociable Soccer
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/11/2019
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @JonHare
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 4 players online
Sociable Soccer is a fast-paced, quick to pick-up, slow to master, football game. Unlike the intricated lifelike simulation of FIFA, this game wants to recreate the frantic feel of classic arcade football games. It has its heritage back in Sensible...
Regular Human Basketball
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 01/08/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Fighting, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @Powerhoof
Players: You can play with 10 players in the same room and up to 10 players online
Regular Human Basketball is a very different sports game. You play basketball by jumping around inside the robot players to control their moves. It sounds both strange and hard work, but in reality it's a lot of fun.
No Time to Explain
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 17/06/2015
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @tinyBuild
Players: This is a single player game
No Time to Explain is a running, jumping and shooting game where you play a man chasing his future self through time. As the game evolves you must progress to solve time puzzles and complete platforming challenges.
Skate (Series)
Rating: PEGI 16+, ESRB TEEN
Release Date: 14/09/2007, updated in 2010
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Open World, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @EA
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room and up to 6 players online
Skate is a skateboarding series with innovative controls. One stick is used to control the skater's body and the other his feet. This resulted in the need to quickly motion different patterns to intuitively achieve different tricks - what become coined...
Mountain
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 01/07/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Creative and Simulation
Players: This is a single player game
This is a game from the same developer as Everything that simulates a mountain. You influence how each of the rising land masses turns out by drawing different objects. The game then evolves before you, offer a gentle...
Nira
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 24/04/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Role-Playing, Simulation and Strategy
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Nira is a survival game where pixilated characters explore the primitive world to find resources to survive. It's unusual not only because of its basic art-style but because its simplicity gives rise to emergent and open play. Something like a cross...
12 Orbits
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 27/04/2018
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Action, Simulation and Sports
Players: You can play with 12 players in the same room
12 Orbits is a tactical game where you control a small coloured ball by pressing a single button. When you are over the grey circles you press to orbit that circle, otherwise pressing the button will dodge.
Supermarket Shriek
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/06/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Racing and Simulation
Players: You can play with 8 players in the same room
Supermarket Shriek is a kart racing game where you control a shopping trolley with a goat co-pilot. You have to navigate through obstacles and challenges in a range of shops, boutiques and supermarkets.
Koral
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 16/05/2019
Platforms: Nintendo Switch and PC
Genres: Adventure, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @CarlosGameDev
Players: This is a single player game
Koral is a diving exploration game where you play the sea current. This sounds a little odd, playing a flow of energy, but works brilliantly.
Absolute Drift
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 16/08/2016
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Racing, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @FunSelektor
Players: This is a single player game
Absolute Drift is a skill-based racing game where the focus is on accuracy and elegance rather than just speed. You aim is to use a controlled skid to get around corners with the perfect racing line and score more points.
Ingress Prime
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 14/12/2013
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Physically Active, Role-Playing, Simulation and Strategy
Players: You can play this with 1000 players online
Ingress (also known as Ingress Prime) is an adventure game that uses your smartphone's GPS to locate you in a game world that correlates with reality. You interact with virtual "portals" located near statues, monuments, civic and historic buildings in...
Grand Slam Tennis (Series)
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 08/06/2009, updated in 2009
Platforms: Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Wii U
Genres: Simulation and Sports
Developer: @EA
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Grand Slam Tennis is a tennis game. You choose one of the 23 real tennis players or create your own. You can play either singles or doubles. Unlike other tennis games, this focuses on hitting the ball with a gesture via the Wii Remote. This extends the...
Embr
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 21/05/2020
Platforms: PC and Stadia
Genres: Action, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @EmbrGame
Players: You can play this with 4 players online
Embr, is an action fire-fighting game. You join the Emergency Services Revolution and respond to fires to make money, climbing the ladder of success and score points.
Sloppy Forgeries
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Genres: Creative and Simulation
Developer: @SloppyForgeries
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room
Sloppy Forgeries is a painting game where you race an opponent at copying a famous art piece as quickly and accurately as possible. You win by having the largest percentage of paint in the correct areas. The game randomly selects a painting to copy and...
King of Dragon Pass
Rating: PEGI 7+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 01/01/1999
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Genres: Narrative, Role-Playing, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @kingdragonpass
Players: This is a single player game
King of Dragon Pass is a fantasy strategy game where you control barbarian clans settling in the dangerous frontier region of Dragon Pass.
Universal Paperclips
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 09/10/2017
Platforms: Android, Web Browser and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @flantz
Players: This is a single player game
Universal Paperclips is an adventure game about making paperclips. It sounds simple, but behind the incremental process of clicking a button to create these paperclips is a story about how the desire to make paperclips (or anything) if fully realised...
Williams Pinball
Rating: PEGI 12+, ESRB EVERYONE 10+
Release Date: 09/10/2018
Price: Free-to-start
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Simulation
Developer: @FarSightStudios
Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room
Williams are a renowned designer and manufacturer of pinball machines. Its tables can be played on different systems through games that simulate the original games. This include the physics of the ball, pixel perfect recreation of the play tables and...
Tabletop Simulator
Rating: Not rated by PEGI or ESRB
Release Date: 05/06/2015
Platforms: Mac and PC
Genres: Creative and Simulation
Developer: @BerserkGames
Players: You can play with 10 players in the same room and up to 10 players online
Tabletop Simulator is a way to play classic board and card games on a computer. It is a system that provides a simulated gaming table for you to enjoy as you wish. The game provides you with all the physics, pieces, and table space for you to play on.
Blek
Rating: PEGI 3+, ESRB EVERYONE
Release Date: 01/12/2013
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Wii U and iOS
Genres: Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @KunabiB
Players: This is a single player game
Blek is a puzzle game where you control the repeating motion of a moving line. Your challenge is to pass through coloured dots. However, you can only enter a short motion that repeats. In this way you have to draw in a motion that, as it repeats,...
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