Simulation 2013 — top best games in the Simulation genre / Page 3

Disney Magical World - a game in the Simulation genre

Simulation, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 1 August 2013

Metacritic: 71/100

This life simulation is set in the Disney worlds of Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Aladdin, and Winnie the Pooh, where players can meet more than 60 characters...

Democracy 3

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Turn-based, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 14 October 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A political simulation about governing an industrialized Western nation. The player takes the role of a president or prime minister and seeks solutions to crime...

Crusader Kings 2: Sons of Abraham

Strategy, DLC, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Simulation

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 18 November 2013

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Crusader Kings 2: Sons of Abraham is an addition to the global real-time strategy game, where the gameplay is focused on the Abrahamic religions &mdash...

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...

Reel Fishing Pocket

Arcade, Simulation, Hunting / Fishing

Game released: iOS → 19 July 2013

Reel Fishing Pocket is an arcade game with a mixture of simulator and hunting / fishing simulator from the studio Natsume, Inc.. The game is published by Natsume...

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...

MechWarrior Online

Online, Simulation, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Free game

Game released: PC → 10 December 2015

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This tactical online shooter is set in the BattleTech universe and centers on battles between piloted BattleMechs. Players take the role of MechWarriors and fight...

Tropico 4: The Academy

Simulation, Action, Strategy, DLC, Business / Management, Isometric

Game released: PC, Xbox 360 → 19 September 2013

Steam: 60/100

An expansion for Tropico 4 in which the remote island of Isla Guerra revolts against El Presidente’s regime while a foreign army prepares to invade. To defend the...

Zoo Tycoon

Simulation, Business / Management, Isometric, Tactics

Game released: Xbox 360, Xbox One → 20 March 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

A zoo management simulator in which the player develops and runs a zoo. Zoo Tycoon combines business management and tactical elements, with an isometric...

Professional Farmer 2014

Simulation, Farm Simulator

Game released: PC → 28 November 2013

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 45/100

This farming simulator takes place in the countryside, where the player develops a small farm and handles day-to-day agricultural work. The tasks include...

X³: Reunion (Collector's Edition)

Simulation, Action, Flight Simulator, Business / Management, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Space, Strategy

Game released: PC, Linux → 22 November 2005

Steam: 73/100

X³: Reunion (Collector's Edition) is a first-person simulator with elements of action, flight simulator and business simulator from the masters from the...

Rise of Venice

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Simulation, Historical

Game released: PC → 27 September 2013

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Rise of Venice is a real-time management strategy game with an isometric camera view. You have to build a Venetian trading empire during the extremely interesting...

Wii Fit U

Arcade, Simulation, Educational game (Education)

Game released: Wii U → 6 December 2013

Metacritic: 72/100

This fitness game combines exercise with game activities and continues the Wii Fit series. Wii Fit U introduces new exercises and activities, and incorporates the...

TownCraft

Indie, Simulation, Strategy

Game released: iOS, PC → 10 September 2013

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A surreal city-building and crafting game set in a medieval world where kingdoms vie for control. The player begins alone in the wilderness and establishes a town...

Zafehouse: Diaries

Strategy, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 September 2013

Steam: 67/100

A strategy game with simulation and survival-horror elements, Zafehouse: Diaries follows five survivors trying to escape an abandoned town overrun by the undead...

Nameless ~The one thing you must recall~

Visual novel, Simulation, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC, Mac → 11 November 2013

Steam: 92/100

This visual novel for a female audience follows Eri, a high school student who collects ball-jointed dolls and treats them as family. After her grandfather dies...

World Rally Championship 2

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

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 → 16 February 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 65/100

World Rally Championship 2 — The single player mode includes many options such as single stage mode, single rally mode, championship mode, time attack mode...

World War 2: Panzer Claws

Simulation, Strategy, Business / Management, Third-person view, Historical, Sandbox, Tanks

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 12 November 2002

Players: 1/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 61/100

A real-time strategy game about World War II battles in Europe, where the player commands Allied, German, Russian, or French Resistance forces. Its campaigns span...

Pandora: First Contact

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Science fiction, Simulation

Game released: PC → 14 November 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This turn-based science-fiction 4X strategy game follows Earth’s factions as they compete for control of Pandora, an Earth-like planet targeted by an expedition...

Kinetic Void

Simulation, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 20 March 2013

Steam: 17/100

Kinetic Void is a space simulation game with action elements, focused on exploring a procedurally generated galaxy. There is no main storyline: the player chooses...

Agricultural Simulator 2013 - Steam Edition

Farm Simulator, Simulation, Casual game

Game released: PC → 7 June 2013

Steam: 22/100

A farming simulator set in the landscapes of Tuscany, the Alps and the USA, where players manage a farm and take on the daily work of a professional farmer. Tasks...

Smooth Operators

Simulation, Strategy, Indie

Game released: PC → 14 January 2013

Steam: 70/100

A management simulation about running a call center company and building it into a financially successful business. The player hires employees and arranges offices...

Finders

Casual game, Strategy, Simulation

Game released: PC, Mac → 15 August 2013

Steam: 78/100

This strategy adventure follows an expedition searching for the hero Altair after his disappearance leaves Earth beset by disasters. When the team’s plane crashes...

Takedown: Red Sabre

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Tactics, Simulation

Game released: PC, Xbox 360 → 20 September 2013

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 36/100

Metacritic: 34/100

This first-person tactical shooter focuses on close-quarters operations, where success depends on planning and squad coordination. Before a mission, the player...

Symmetrain

Simulation, Puzzle, Top-down view, Arcade, Logic, Trains

Game released: iOS → 31 October 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Symmetrain is an interesting hybrid of a driver simulator and a puzzle game for mobile platforms. In the game you have to find differences in the images, with each...

Receiver

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Simulation, Indie, Roguelike

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 18 June 2012

Steam: 86/100

A first-person shooter with roguelike elements, Receiver follows a player exploring a building complex overrun by automated turrets and hovering shock drones while...

Mobile FC - Football Manager

Simulation, Football, Business / Management, Sports game, Free game

Game released: Android, iOS → 17 April 2015

Mobile FC — Football Manager is a shareware simulator of a football team manager for mobile platforms. You have to demonstrate all the best qualities of a...

Skyward Collapse

Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 23 May 2013

Steam: 49/100

A turn-based strategy game in the god-game genre, Skyward Collapse casts the player as the Creator, tasked with keeping two warring factions in balance on the...

OMSI 2

Simulation, First-person view

Game released: PC → 11 December 2013

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 82/100

This bus-driving simulator is set in Spandau and follows changes to the district between 1986 and 1994. The player operates city routes, including line 5 from...

Sinking Simulator

Free game, Indie, Simulation, Side view, Arcade, Sandbox

Game released: PC → 10 May 2013

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Sinking Simulator is an unusual arcade simulator with a side view, in which you can arrange a variety of shipwrecks and then watch how they happen. Realistic...

Civil War 2

Strategy, Top-down view, Historical, Turn-based, Simulation

Game released: PC → 17 September 2013

Steam: 78/100

Sims 3: Into the Future

Strategy, DLC, God Simulator, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Simulation

Game released: PC, Mac → 24 October 2013

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 80/100

An expansion for The Sims 3, it sends Sims through a time portal to a world hundreds of years in the future. There they can develop the Advanced Technology skill...

Xbox Fitness

Arcade, Simulation, Educational game (Education)

Game released: Xbox One → 22 November 2013

Xbox Fitness is an arcade with a mixture of simulator and educational game from the masters from the Sumo Digital studio. The game is published by Microsoft Game...

Episode ft. Pitch Perfect

Simulation, Adventure, Visual novel

Game released: Android, iOS → 26 February 2014

Episode ft. Pitch Perfect is a simulator with a mixture of adventure and visual novel from developers from the Pocket Gems studio. The game is published by Pocket...

Rugby Challenge 2

Simulation, Rugby, Third-person view, Isometric, Sports game

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 → 24 July 2013

Rugby Challenge 2 is a third-person simulator with a touch of rugby simulator and sports game from the developers of Sidhe Interactive and Sidhe studios. The game...

Rescue: Everyday Heroes

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view

Game released: PC → 15 July 2013

Rescue: Everyday Heroes is a top-down simulator with strategy and business simulator elements from the developers of the Fragment Production studio. The game is...

Zigfrak

Arcade, Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 1 November 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 71/100

This space-based action RPG is set amid a human civil war on a galactic scale, complicated by the invasion of technologically superior aliens. During the campaign...

Monster Loves You!

Role-playing game, Adventure, Side view, Casual game, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4 → 18 March 2013

Steam: 78/100

Monster Loves You! — a fun adventure with role-playing elements and a side view. Become a monster born in a slime-covered vat. Grow up and turn into a...

Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator

Simulation, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC, iOS → 17 September 2013

Steam: 89/100

Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator is a simulator with action and indie game elements from developers from Incandescent Imaging studio. The game is published by...

Cabela's Big Game Hunter (2007)

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

Game released: PlayStation 2, Wii, Xbox 360, iOS, Android → 26 November 2002

Metacritic: 59/100

Simulation

Best Games in the Simulation genre of 2013 (Game released)