Simulation 2012 — top best games in the Simulation genre / Page 2

Home Tycoon - a game in the Simulation genre

Arcade, Simulation, Business / Management

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 12 September 2012

Home Tycoon is an arcade game with simulation and business simulator elements from developers from the Hellfire Games studio. The main publisher of the game is Sony...

Sims 3: Seasons

Strategy, DLC, God Simulator, Isometric, Simulation

Game released: PC, Mac → 16 November 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 73/100

The Sims 3: Seasons is an expansion to the real-time life management simulator Sims 3. The update adds seasons and a ton of new content to the game. Along with the...

Armored Core 5

Simulation

Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 → 16 January 2012

Players: 6.1/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Armored Core 5 is a mech action game built around battles between combat machines, combining one-on-one duels with large team engagements. Players customize their...

Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters

Arcade, Simulation

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 → 18 October 2011

Steam: 36/100

Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters is an arcade game from the masters from the Trickstar Games studio. The game is published by Evolved Games and Koch...

Airline Tycoon Deluxe

Simulation, Strategy, Flight Simulator, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: iPad, iPhone, Linux, Mac, PC → 1 June 2012

Steam: 84/100

This real-time economic simulation in a comic style puts the player in charge of an airline. Responsibilities include buying and outfitting aircraft, planning...

Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders

Arcade, Action, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Simulation, Indie

Game released: iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Linux → 29 November 2012

Steam: 79/100

This arcade flight simulator centers on aerial combat during World War II, with battles set at Pearl Harbor, the Coast of Dover, Midway and other historical...

Scania Truck Driving Simulator

Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 July 2012

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 81/100

This truck-driving simulator features Scania R-series vehicles and challenges focused on manoeuvring and freight transport in realistic conditions. Practical tests...

Dogfight 1942

Arcade, Flight Simulator, Simulation, Action

Game released: Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 3 → 5 September 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 59/100

This arcade flight game features aerial combat and fighter missions across the major theaters of World War II. Players pilot historically accurate aircraft in...

DiRT 3: Complete Edition

Simulation, Racing, First-person view, Third-person view, Collection

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360 → 9 March 2012

Players: 7.6/10

DiRT 3: Complete Edition is a complete edition of the rally racing simulator with third and first person views. The edition adds 12 roads in two locations, new cars...

Imperium Galactica 2: Alliances

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Space

Game released: iPad, PC → 30 March 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

Imperium Galactica 2: Alliances — in the spirit of global strategies, the game provides full control over the empire from the very beginning. All actions take place...

Port Royale 3: Pirates & Merchants

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 → 4 May 2012

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 55/100

A strategy and business simulation about maritime trade and the struggle for influence in the Caribbean during the 17th century. Players take the role of a young...

Governor of Poker

Strategy, Simulation, Online, Card game

Game released: Nintendo 3DS, iOS, PC, Mac → 10 April 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 64/100

Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WWII

Shooter, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Historical, Action, Simulation

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 → 28 August 2012

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 49/100

This flight-combat game with shooter elements is set in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Players pilot fighters, dive bombers, and torpedo bombers in battles...

Puddle (2012)

Action, Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Simulation

Game released: Android, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Xbox 360, Amazon Fire TV, Wii U, iOS, PlayStation 4, PC, Mac → 27 June 2012

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This physics-based puzzle platformer challenges the player to guide a puddle of fluid to its destination by tilting the game world. Friction, momentum, and the...

WRC 3: FIA World Rally Championship

Simulation, Racing

Game released: PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PC, Xbox 360 → 12 October 2012

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 62/100

A racing simulator based on the 2012 FIA World Rally Championship, featuring its official teams, cars, and locations. The game also includes additional content such...

Tropico 4: Gold Edition

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Collection, Tactics, City Building, Simulation

Game released: PC, Xbox 360 → 28 November 2012

Steam: 91/100

A strategy and city-building simulation about ruling an island nation, where El Presidente develops the economy and seeks public support amid shifts in global...

Battleship: The Video Game

Simulation, Warships / Submarines

Game released: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Wii → 15 May 2012

Players: 10/10

Battleship: The Video Game is a simulator with elements of a warship simulator from the studios Double Helix Games and Magic Pockets. The main publisher of the game...

SimCity Social

Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Mini-game / browser-based, Free game

Game released: PC → 25 June 2012

Players: 9/10

SimCity Social is a simulator with an isometric view with a mixture of business simulator, browser or mini-game and shareware game from the masters from the studios...

Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers

Arcade, Flight Simulator, Action, Simulation

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Linux → 1 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 58/100

This arcade flight simulator focuses on aerial battles of the Pacific War. Players take part in historical engagements and fly aircraft recreated in detail. The...

Cabela's Hunting Expeditions

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Sports game

Game released: PC, Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 → 23 October 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Cabela's Hunting Expeditions is an exciting hunting simulator where you will travel to the vast expanses of North America and Africa to fully experience all the...

Cafeteria Nipponica

Arcade, Simulation, Isometric, Strategy, Casual game, Role-playing game, City Building

Game released: Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, PC → 5 April 2012

Steam: 86/100

A restaurant management sim in which the player finds ingredients, plans menus, and develops an establishment. Research unlocks new recipes, while the restaurant’s...

Gratuitous Tank Battles

Strategy, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC, Mac → 17 May 2012

Players: 1/10

Steam: 55/100

Metacritic: 69/100

This strategy game combines tower defense and RTS elements in an alternate history where World War I continues until 2114. Across European battlefields, infantry...

The Sims 3: Supernatural

Simulation, Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Isometric, Fantasy, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC, Mac → 20 November 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 74/100

The Sims 3: Supernatural is an addition to the real-time management simulator of life Sims 3. The addition adds werewolves, zombies and other “spawn of darkness...

Kinectimals

Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Xbox 360 → 10 April 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 74/100

A virtual pet simulator in which players raise more than 20 types of cats. The animals include cheetahs, lions, and tigers, and interaction is based on motion...

Otometeki Koi Kakumei Love Revo!!

Simulation, Anime / Manga, Visual novel

Game released: PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, PC, PSP → 26 January 2006

Otometeki Koi Kakumei Love Revo!! is a simulator with an admixture of an anime or manga game and a visual novel from developers from the studio HuneX Co., Ltd.. The...

Graviteam Tactics: Operation Star

Strategy, Tanks, Simulation

Game released: PC → 22 March 2012

Steam: 82/100

A tactical strategy game about battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, where the player commands forces fighting for Kharkov. Commanders deploy tanks, guns...

KartSim

Simulation, Racing, First-person view

Game released: PC → Q1 2012

KartSim is a first-person simulator with a dash of racing from developers from the Maschine Simulations studio. The main publisher of the game is Maschine...

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013

Simulation, Action, Shooter, Hunting / Fishing, First-person view

Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC, Wii U → 23 October 2012

Players: 9.2/10

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 — The game begins with young brothers Jacob and Luke Marshall going hunting in Alaska with their father, a park ranger. The...

Nascar The Game: Inside Line

Racing, Third-person view, First-person view, Simulation

Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii → 6 November 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

A racing simulator based on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the game lets players compete on the track behind the wheel of series cars alongside its drivers and...

Order Up!

Simulation, Action, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: Wii, PlayStation 3, Nintendo 3DS, iOS → 22 July 2008

Metacritic: 76/100

An action-tinged cooking simulator about an aspiring chef honing culinary skills and testing their ability to prepare food quickly. The player runs a kitchen and...

Sims FreePlay

Arcade, Strategy, Business / Management, Free game, Action, Sandbox, Isometric, In real time, Simulation

Game released: iOS, Android → 15 December 2011

Players: 5.9/10

The Sims FreePlay is a real-time arcade strategy game with business elements and an isometric view. From head to toe—and floor to ceiling—you can customize every...

Reef Aquarium

Arcade, Simulation

Game released: PSP → 29 April 2010

Reef Aquarium is an arcade game with simulator elements from developers from Biart Studio. The game is published by Biart Studio. It's possible that Reef Aquarium...

Ace Combat 3D

Simulation

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 14 March 2012

Ace Combat 3D is a simulator from the masters from the Namco studio. The main publisher of the game is Namco Bandai Games. Perhaps Ace Combat 3D is being developed...

Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy

Simulation

Game released: iOS → 15 March 2012

Metacritic: 86/100

An air combat game featuring a single-player campaign and online modes, with missions over deserts, oceans, mountains, and cities. More than 40 jet configurations...

Incredipede

Arcade, Platformer, Logic, Construction, Action, Simulation

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS → 25 October 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Incredipede is a physics-based puzzle game about Quozzle, a creature who can grow arms and legs wherever needed. By changing her body, she takes the form of...

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Arcade, Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 → 9 October 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

This arcade restaurant-management simulator follows the growth of a small café into a five-star establishment. The player builds a menu from 30 types of food and...

Lunar Flight

Simulation, Virtual Reality (VR), Space

Game released: PC, Mac → 15 January 2012

Steam: 84/100

This space flight simulator centers on piloting a lunar module and completing missions on the Moon. The player transports cargo to bases, gathers data at survey...

Microsoft Flight

Simulation, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 29 February 2012

Metacritic: 64/100

Microsoft Flight - the player's task is to complete missions, as well as create their own routes. At the moment, 2 territories are available for flights, not...

JASF: Jane's Advance Strike Fighters

Simulation, Action, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360 → 31 October 2011

Metacritic: 41/100

JASF: Jane's Advance Strike Fighters is an action flight simulator focused on modern military aviation. The game can be played from either a first- or third-person...

F1 2012

Simulation, Racing, First-person view, Third-person view, Sports game

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 → 17 September 2012

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

F1 2012 is a simulator of one of the most spectacular and dangerous forms of motorsport — F1 car racing, in which all the main teams, drivers and F1 tracks...

Simulation

Best Games in the Simulation genre of 2012 (Game released)