GameStack

Simulation

Everspace 2
Indie

Everspace 2

Apr 6, 2023
ActionSimulationIndie

It is a single-player space shooter featuring exploration, loot collection, and RPG elements. Core gameplay revolves around fast-paced combat, ship customization, and completing missions in a handcrafted open world. The story follows a player character seeking to regain humanity while uncovering mysteries and battling hostile factions.

Too early to review
Contraband Police
Indie

Contraband Police

Mar 8, 2023
SimulationIndie
Too early to review
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
Indie

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator

Dec 4, 2017
SimulationIndie

This game is a simulation title set in the *Five Nights at Freddy's* universe. Players manage a pizzeria by designing pizzas, serving customers, and maintaining operations while avoiding animatronic threats. The setting blends lighthearted management with the series' signature horror elements.

Too early to review
Omerta - City of Gangsters
48Metacritic

Omerta - City of Gangsters

Jan 31, 2013
RPGStrategySimulation

This game is a strategy simulation with turn-based tactical combat and RPG elements. Players assume the role of an immigrant in 1920s Atlantic City, building a criminal empire through territory control, recruitment, and progression. The setting includes historically accurate locations and features both single-player and multiplayer modes with persistent gang progression.

68 reviews · Metacritic
Farming Simulator 17
AAA
69Metacritic

Farming Simulator 17

Oct 24, 2016
Simulation

This simulation game allows players to manage a farm in an open-world environment. Core mechanics include cultivating crops, raising livestock, operating farming machinery, and selling goods, with added options for forestry and transportation. The setting takes place in a North American landscape, offering both single-player and multiplayer modes with community-driven mod support.

82 reviews · Metacritic
Clicker Heroes
Indie

Clicker Heroes

May 13, 2015
AdventureRPGStrategy

Clicker Heroes is an idle game where players repeatedly defeat enemies to accumulate gold and upgrade characters. The core mechanic involves using hero souls, earned from bosses, to purchase Ancients that provide permanent stat bonuses, requiring players to reset progress to optimize upgrades. The game features a campaign mode with missions and an online multiplayer mode, but lacks a narrative-driven storyline.

Too early to review
Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Indie

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Dec 18, 2014
Simulation

This flight simulation game allows players to pilot various aircraft from over 24,000 airports worldwide. Core gameplay includes selecting aircraft, weather, and time, with additional modes like racing, missions, and multiplayer roles such as air-traffic control. The setting is a realistic, globally scaled environment with dynamic elements like AI-controlled ground services.

Too early to review
STAR WARS: Rogue Squadron 3D

STAR WARS: Rogue Squadron 3D

Dec 1, 1998
ActionSimulation

This is a flight combat game where players control starfighters in missions against the Galactic Empire. Core gameplay involves dogfights, bombing runs, and other aerial and ground assaults using various Rebel ships. The setting follows the Rebel Alliance's efforts to counter Imperial forces after the destruction of the Death Star.

Too early to review
American Truck Simulator
Indie
76Metacritic

American Truck Simulator

Feb 2, 2016
SimulationIndie

This simulation game puts players in the driver's seat of licensed trucks, transporting various cargoes across states like California, Nevada, and Arizona. Core mechanics involve vehicle customization, realistic driving controls, and route management while adhering to traffic laws and delivery schedules. The game emphasizes gradual progression from hired driver to fleet owner within a detailed, open-world environment.

254 reviews · Metacritic
EA SPORTS UFC
71Metacritic

EA SPORTS UFC

Jun 17, 2014
SimulationSportsFighting

This is a mixed martial arts fighting simulation game. Players engage in combat using striking, grappling, and submission techniques within an octagonal cage. The game features real UFC fighters, licensed matches, and optional online multiplayer.

169 reviews · Metacritic
Black & White 2
75Metacritic

Black & White 2

Oct 4, 2005
StrategySimulation

This is a strategy and simulation game where players assume the role of a deity, choosing between benevolent or malevolent actions in a warring 3D world. Core gameplay involves influencing tribes to either coexist peacefully or wage war, commanding creatures that learn abilities and lead armies, and using miracles like rivers of fire or earthquakes. The setting features evolving landscapes, structures, and ecosystems that dynamically change based on the player's moral decisions and actions.

123 reviews · Metacritic
Sid Meier's Railroads!
77Metacritic

Sid Meier's Railroads!

Oct 17, 2006
StrategySimulation

This is a 3D economic real-time strategy game focused on railroad management. Players build and maintain rail networks while competing in auctions for technologies and factories, with scenarios based on historical railroad magnates. The game supports multiplayer with up to four players via LAN or online.

61 reviews · Metacritic
The Guild II
Indie
61Metacritic

The Guild II

Jun 24, 2010
StrategySimulation

This strategy-simulation game allows players to establish a merchant dynasty in medieval Europe, blending economic management with life simulation. Set in 1400 within historical regions of modern-day Germany, players create a character and choose from professions like Patron, Craftsman, Scholar, or Rogue to guide their dynasty. The game features four modes—Extinction, Dynasty, Mission, and Time Limit—with adjustable difficulty and an economy based on supply and demand, alongside single-player and multiplayer options.

99 reviews · Metacritic
My Time At Portia
AAA
73Metacritic

My Time At Portia

Jan 14, 2019
RPGSimulationCasual

This is a simulation open-world RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world where players rebuild a workshop in the town of Portia. Core gameplay involves gathering resources, crafting items, completing commissions, and exploring diverse environments like deserts and islands, while also interacting with NPCs through friendships, romance, and family dynamics. The story explores themes of rebuilding society, with choices that influence factions like the Church of the Light or the Research Lab.

284 reviews · Metacritic
Freelancer
Indie

Freelancer

Feb 4, 2003
SimulationArcade

A space trading and combat simulator with arcade-style flight mechanics, *Freelancer* allows players to engage in ship-to-ship battles, trade goods, and complete missions. Set in a futuristic universe, the game follows players as they navigate political conflicts and economic opportunities across multiple star systems. The narrative centers on rebuilding a faction’s influence while uncovering conspiracies in a persistent online or single-player experience.

Too early to review
Slime Rancher
Indie
81Metacritic

Slime Rancher

Jan 14, 2016
ActionAdventureSimulation

A first-person simulation game, *Slime Rancher* involves managing a ranch on an alien planet where the player raises and breeds various slimes. Core mechanics include feeding slimes specific foods to produce plorts, which are then sold for in-game currency to expand facilities and explore new areas. The story follows Beatrix LeBeau, a rancher traveling to the Far, Far Range to establish her business, uncovering lore through environmental notes and communications with a friend back on Earth.

579 reviews · Metacritic
Tomodachi Life
Indie
71Metacritic

Tomodachi Life

Jun 6, 2014
SimulationCasual

This simulation game focuses on creating and managing Mii characters who live on an island. Players customize their Miis' appearances, personalities, and relationships, then observe their daily activities, interactions, and life events. The setting is a casual, open-ended environment where characters form friendships, pursue careers, and engage in various activities.

52 reviews · Metacritic
80 Days
Indie
84Metacritic

80 Days

Jul 30, 2014
AdventureRPGStrategy

In *80 Days*, players assume the role of Passepartout, valet to Phileas Fogg, as he attempts to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days under a steampunk-inspired 1872 setting. The game blends adventure, strategy, and simulation, requiring players to manage time, finances, and health while choosing routes, modes of transport, and interactions in a dynamic world with 170 cities. The narrative unfolds through interactive choices, with each playthrough offering unique events, challenges, and opportunities to uncover secrets or face disasters.

92 reviews · Metacritic
The Howler
Indie

The Howler

Apr 22, 2013
ActionAdventureRPG

*The Howler* is a steampunk-themed puzzle platformer where players control a balloon using physics-based mechanics. The game features a murder investigation narrative set in an alternate 20th-century Lithuania, with steampunk elements like airships and alchemy. Players navigate obstacles by inflating the balloon via mouse or microphone, manipulating wind direction, and utilizing interactive elements like chimneys for speed and elevation.

Too early to review
FAR: Lone Sails
Indie
84Metacritic

FAR: Lone Sails

May 16, 2018
ActionAdventureSimulation

This is a vehicle adventure game where players navigate a lone sail-powered vessel across a dried-up ocean. The core gameplay involves maintaining and upgrading the vehicle to overcome environmental obstacles and hazards. The setting is a post-apocalyptic world where players follow remnants of a lost civilization while exploring a desolate, dried seabed.

330 reviews · Metacritic
IXION
Indie

IXION

Dec 6, 2022
StrategySimulationIndie

You manage the Tiqqun space station, a vessel tasked with finding a new home for humanity after Earth becomes uninhabitable. The game blends city-building, survival, and strategy mechanics, requiring you to maintain station integrity, allocate resources, and research new technologies while navigating crises like hull breaches and crew mutiny. The narrative unfolds through episodic chapters, where you encounter other survivors, make moral choices, and adapt the station to survive the journey through space.

Too early to review
Mini Motorways
Indie
83Metacritic

Mini Motorways

Jul 20, 2021
StrategySimulationCasual

This is a strategy simulation game where players design and manage road networks for growing cities. Core gameplay involves drawing roads to connect buildings, manage traffic flow, and expand infrastructure as the city develops. The game features dynamically generated cities inspired by real-world locations and includes various visual and accessibility options.

132 reviews · Metacritic
Hard Truck 2: King of the Road
Indie

Hard Truck 2: King of the Road

Apr 17, 2001
ActionSimulationRacing

This game is a truck driving simulation with action elements, where players compete to deliver cargo while managing finances and avoiding law enforcement. Core gameplay involves bidding on jobs, driving various trucks across over 70 miles of roads, and participating in races or time trials. The setting is a realistic road network with dynamic day-night cycles, weather effects, and police pursuits.

Too early to review
The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
Indie

The Hat Man: Shadow Ward

Jun 10, 2016
ActionAdventureRPG

This is a first-person horror game where the player searches for a missing daughter in a haunted asylum. Gameplay focuses on stealth and evasion, using light sources like a flashlight to avoid supernatural enemies such as the Hat Man and Shadow People. The story follows the protagonist's attempt to escape the asylum after electricity, communication, and sanity collapse.

Too early to review