Simulation 2016 for PC — top best games in the Simulation genre

No Man's Sky - a game in the Simulation genre

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Survival, Open world, Space, Exploration

Game released: PC → 12 August 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 75/100

No Man's Sky is an adventure simulator with a first-person view set in a futuristic environment. You will embark on a journey to explore space and planets, some of...

Stardew Valley

Role-playing game, Simulation, Online, Business / Management, Indie, Farm Simulator

Game released: PC → 26 February 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Stardew Valley is a farming simulator with role-playing elements, an open-world sandbox with an isometric camera and the visual style of 90s arcade games. After...

My Summer Car

Arcade, Racing, Adventure, Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Open world, Survival

Early Access: PC → 24 October 2016; Game released: PC → 8 January 2025

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Hot Finnish cocktail of a third-person survival simulator and car arcade. The player is given complete freedom of action in a large open world of rural Finland, and...

City Car Driving

Racing, Simulation, Educational game (Education), Third-person view, Open world, Online

Game released: PC → 3 November 2016

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 73/100

City Car Driving is a realistic car driving simulator with a third-person view that will help you understand the basic conditions of driving a vehicle in various...

American Truck Simulator

Simulation, First-person view, Third-person view, Open world, Exploration

Game released: PC → 2 February 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 76/100

American Truck Simulator is a truck driver simulator in which we have to travel around the United States in various trucks. Your career as a truck driver begins...

Starbound

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival, Sandbox, Space

Game released: PC → 22 July 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship. Fleeing from...

Beholder

Strategy, Adventure, Stealth, Logic, Side view, Simulation, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 9 November 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Beholder is a side-scrolling adventure strategy game where you have to spy on people. The story of the game will tell us about Karl Stein, a citizen of a...

Scrap Mechanic

Simulation, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Construction, Sandbox, Survival

Early Access: PC → 20 January 2016; Game released: PC → 24 July 2026

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

A simulator with elements of survival and sandbox, where construction and engineering creativity become the main tools for exploring the world. After a shipwreck...

Forza Horizon 3

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

Game released: PC → 27 September 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Forza Horizon 3 is the continuation of the popular racing car simulator with first and third-person views. The events of the new part will take you to the expanses...

Pro Evolution Soccer 2017

Simulation, Football, Third-person view, Sports game

Game released: PC → 13 September 2016

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 is a popular sports football simulator. PES 2017 features a training mode, friendly matches and the ability to compete on the same field...

Kingspray Graffiti

Online, Simulation, Action, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PC → 7 December 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Kingspray Graffiti is a co-op simulator dedicated to the art of graffiti for virtual reality devices HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. In the game you can join teams of up...

Job Simulator

Arcade, Simulation, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Virtual Reality (VR), Horror

Game released: PC → 5 April 2016

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Job Simulator is an arcade physics-based simulator for Oculus Rift, SteamVR and PlayStation VR virtual reality devices. Players will have to take the place of an...

How to Survive 2

Simulation, Action, Horror, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Zombies, Online

Game released: PC → 8 September 2016

Players: 5.8/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 67/100

How to Survive 2 is an isometric survival simulator with elements of horror and action in a post-apocalyptic setting. The world is filled with the living dead. You...

Total War: Warhammer

Strategy, In real time, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Role-playing game, Simulation

Game released: PC → 24 May 2016

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Total War: Warhammer is a fantasy strategy game with turn-based movement on the world map and real-time battles. The dreams of all Warhammer fans have finally...

Big Buck Hunter Arcade

Hunting / Fishing, First-person view, Sports game, Action, Simulation

Game released: PC → 25 October 2016

Steam: 67/100

Big Buck Hunter Arcade is a sport hunting simulator with a first-person view. You will have to go on a big deer hunt and practice shooting. The game provides a...

This War of Mine: The Little Ones

Strategy, Adventure, DLC, Business / Management, Roguelike, Simulation, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 June 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 80/100

This War of Mine: The Little Ones is an expansion to the side-scrolling management strategy adventure This War of Mine. The addition tells the story of young...

Shadows of Kurgansk

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Simulation, Survival, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Shadows of Kurgansk is an action shooter with a first-person view and horror elements in a post-apocalyptic world. You have to survive in a Zone where zombies live...

The Sims 4: City Living

Strategy, DLC, God Simulator, In real time, Business / Management, Third-person view, Simulation

Game released: PC → 30 September 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Players can move into a new apartment and plunge into the crazy life of the coastal city of San Myshuno. An apartment has significant differences compared to a...

Golf With Your Friends

Arcade, Golf, Sports game, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Simulation, Online, Casual game

Early Access: PC → 30 January 2016; Game released: PC → 19 May 2020

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Golf With Your Friends is a fun sports arcade game dedicated to golf. Exciting matches await you, designed for cooperative play by up to 12 people. You will find 7...

Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front

Strategy, In real time, Historical, Tactics, Simulation, Tanks

Game released: PC → 4 March 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 89/100

Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front is a tactical historical strategy in real time. The events of the game will take you to the summer of 1943, when extensive fighting...

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Simulation

Game released: PC → 10 November 2016

Players: 4.8/10

Steam: 78/100

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation is a futuristic real-time strategy game with an isometric camera view. The human race expanded across the galaxy thanks to the...

Feed and Grow: Fish

Arcade, Action, Simulation, Third-person view, Indie, Survival, Online

Early Access: PC → 8 January 2016; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 80/100

Feed and Grow: Fish is a dynamic action game with a third-person view and elements of a survival simulator. In the game you have to go to conquer the endless water...

Planet Coaster

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Simulation, Construction

Game released: PC → 17 November 2016

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Planet Coaster is a real-time management strategy from the creators of Elite: Dangerous. The game offers you to become the manager of a large amusement park. All...

NBA 2K17

Simulation, Basketball, Sports game, Online

Game released: PC → 20 September 2016

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 54/100

Metacritic: 89/100

NBA 2K17 is a basketball sports simulator in the popular NBA 2K series. The game has undergone positive changes in terms of gameplay and well-developed mechanics...

Sims 4: Dine Out

Strategy, DLC, God Simulator, In real time, Business / Management, Third-person view, Simulation, Casual game

Game released: PC → 7 June 2016

Steam: 34/100

Sims 4: Dine Out is an add-on to the real-time life management simulator Sims 4. The add-on brings a lot of new content to all lovers of restaurants and the...

SHENZHEN I/O

Simulation, Educational game (Education), Puzzle, Logic

Game released: PC → 17 November 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 95/100

SHENZHEN I/O is a programmer simulator with elements of an educational game. You have to get a job in a large Chinese company and develop software code for...

FIFA 17

Simulation, Football, Third-person view, Sports game

Game released: PC → 27 September 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 84/100

FIFA 17 is a popular football simulator from the Canadian studio EA Sports. The next part of the sports franchise was developed on the Frostbite engine, which is...

Plague Inc: Evolved

Strategy, Futurism (Future), Indie, Business / Management, Simulation

Game released: PC → 18 February 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Plague Inc: Evolved is an updated version of an unusual simulator with elements of management strategy for modern platforms. The game will give you the opportunity...

House of the Dying Sun

Action, Simulation, Space

Game released: PC → 1 November 2016

Steam: 89/100

House of the Dying Sun is a tactical space shooter about a fading empire at war with its enemies. The player pilots an Executor Mk II interceptor and commands the...

Street Legal Racing: Redline

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

Game released: PC → 7 May 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 88/100

This car mechanic simulator combines vehicle building and tuning with street races and closed-course events. In Street Legal Racing: Redline, players assemble cars...

Assault Squad 2: Men of War Origins

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Tactics, Action, Simulation

Game released: PC → 25 August 2016

Players: 8/10

Assault 2: Behind enemy lines. Inception is a remake of the popular real-time tactical strategy game Behind Enemy Lines 2. The game offers better graphics, improved...

Farming Simulator 17

Simulation, Business / Management, Third-person view, Farm Simulator, Online

Game released: PC → 24 October 2016

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Farming Simulator 17 is a continuation of the popular farmer simulator with a third-person view. In the game you will have the opportunity to become a real farmer...

Force of Nature

Simulation, Action, Top-down view, Adventure, Role-playing game, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Business / Management, Survival, Crafting, Open world

Game released: PC → 13 December 2016

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 67/100

Force of Nature is an action-adventure sandbox with elements of a survival simulator and a top-down view. You have to explore more than 10 locations, each of which...

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

Shooter, Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Sandbox

Early Access: PC → 5 April 2016; Game released: PC → 4 July 2026

Steam: 97/100

Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades is a fun weapon simulator with a first-person view for HTC Vive virtual reality devices. You have to go on an ordinary boring...

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Simulation

Game released: PC → 27 October 2016

Players: 8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You is a first-person puzzle adventure game based on George Orwell's novel 1984. You have to take on the role of Big Brother and monitor...

Little King's Story

Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Simulation

Game released: PC → 5 August 2016

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This real-time fantasy strategy game follows a timid boy who finds a magical crown and becomes ruler of the kingdom of Alpoko. With Liam, Verde, and Howser the Bull...

Motorsport Manager

Simulation, Racing, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 9 November 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Motorsport Manager is a racing simulator with management elements. You will become the manager of a racing team. Of course, your goal is to lead her to the top. To...

Zeus + Poseidon

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Isometric, City Building, Old school

Game released: PC → 15 December 2016

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 96/100

A classic city-building collection that combines two games about the ancient world and its myths. At its core is the construction of a full-fledged city: from...

Idling to Rule the Gods

Free game, Text quest, Casual game, Clicker, Fantasy, Role-playing game, Mysticism / Supernatural, Indie, Simulation

Game released: PC → 28 May 2016

Steam: 84/100

The game takes place in the year 9001, where people have destroyed all the inhabited planets in the universe. On the last planet, they managed to create a device...

Tower Unite

Arcade, Online, Simulation, Shooter, MMO, Golf, First-person view, Third-person view, Top-down view, Sports game, Indie, Casual game

Early Access: PC → 9 April 2016; Game released: PC → 19 April 2025

Steam: 89/100

A multiplayer sandbox with an emphasis on online interaction and a variety of mini-games. At the core is a living world that develops together with the community of...

Simulation

Best Games in the Simulation genre of 2016 for PC