Life Simulation

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Inzoi begins its fight for The Sims' crown with a time-limited character creator trial on August 20th

Make your own zoi

Aug. 15, 2024 Graham Smith

19 comments

A few couples in The Sims 4 go on a date in a bar, with one or two of them looking awkward and uncomfortable.

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The Sims 4 now lets you set how jealous Sims will get when they catch their partner flirting

Stop kissing the pool boy please, Sally

July 24, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

13 comments

A stats screen for a mushroom girl in Mushroom Musume, represented in green pixelart

News

This weekend I grew a fungus daughter in eerie narrative RPG Mushroom Musume, which has a demo

The morel the merrier

July 8, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

7 comments

A banner for the Steam Summer Sale advertises discounts while showing a sunny beach and a woman wearing a silly sun costume.

News

The Steam Summer Sale is due this week and promises "deep discounts", whatever that means

Goodbye pounds and pence

June 25, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

31 comments

Serafin and Juni work with the player to enter a derelict spaceship.

Feature

Can you guess which Australian TV sci-fi of the early 2000s inspired Citizen Sleeper 2?

Through a wormhole, darkly

June 12, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

19 comments

A moustachio'd chef compliments his own product in Chef RPG

News

Chef RPG is a foodie Stardew Valley where you brew your own drinks and try to keep the critics happy

Fry-nal fantasy

June 10, 2024 Nic Reuben

4 comments

Two characters flirt in life sim Life By You

News

Sims contender Life By You gets delayed once again, this time indefinitely

Work-life balance

May 21, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

19 comments

A shelf of books from the rearranging game A Little To The Left. They are all out of height order and this needs to be addressed.

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Supporters only | I need someone to make a video game for me, specifically, about prioritising my pile of unread books

On the shelf

May 13, 2024 Alice Bell

11 comments

The pilot in Little-Known Galaxy growing some early crops in the first part of the game

News

This sweet life sim is Stardew meets Star Trek, and you can try the demo now

To boldly grow

May 13, 2024 Alice Bell

7 comments

A young girl runs through a magical forest in Reka.

News

Here's a demo for Reka, the bewitching forest fantasy game with the chicken-legged house

Check out all those lovely silverbirch

May 10, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

8 comments

News

Innkeep satisfies my craving for a fantasy game that's just a grim drudgery simulator

Something need doing?

April 23, 2024 Alice Bell

10 comments

A composite image of screenshots from Stardew Valley, Roots Of Pacha, Coral Island, Fae Farm and Slime Rancher

Feature

The best farming games like Stardew Valley on PC

The cream of the crop

April 19, 2024 Alice Bell

32 comments

Adventurers looking at a castle under constructions in concept art for Gameloft's D&D game.

News

Dungeons & Dragons survive-o-life sim coming from Disney Dreamlight Valley studio

Drizzt Dreamlight Valley

March 14, 2024 Alice O'Connor

29 comments

A woman waters a plant in her garden in Life By You

Guide

Life By You early access release date, gameplay and more

All the latest details on the upcoming rival to The Sims

Feb. 6, 2024 Rebecca Jones

The key art for Citizen Sleeper 2, showing a sleeper repairing a space ship against a yellow background

News

Citizen Sleeper 2 still has "around a year of development left", likely coming in 2025

The Helion Dispatches newsletter will also resume in the summer

Feb. 2, 2024 Katharine Castle

10 comments

A street scene in Sunkissed City, showing a relatively run-down commercial area with boarded up stores and litter

News

Former Stardew Valley dev reveals urban life sim Sunkissed City

Come for the cafes, stay for the monsters

Jan. 26, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

10 comments

Feature

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Cutting through the crypto spam

I go on Twitter so you don't have to

Jan. 22, 2024 Alice O'Connor

9 comments

A tea brewing station in Loose Leaf: A Tea Witch Simulator

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Supporters only | All sim games have been ruined forever now by my new hot chocolate maker

A mean bean machine

Jan. 12, 2024 Katharine Castle

16 comments

A woman sits on a bench in a pixel city in a life sim being developed by a former Stardew Valley contributor, Mr. Podunkian.

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Former Stardew Valley developer's new life sim set in a city looks ambitious

But you can still farm

Jan. 6, 2024 Graham Smith

8 comments

Artwork from Avowed, Leximan, Hades II, Phoenix Springs and Frostpunk 2

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Our 75 most anticipated PC games of 2024

What we're most excited about playing this year

Jan. 4, 2024 Katharine Castle

99 comments

The witch protagonist of Reka performing a spell involving candles and a floating curled-up ghostlike figure.

News

Slavic witch adventure Reka, aka the one with the chicken-legged house, is coming 2024 and just got a new trailer

Fowl play in a wonderful procedural forest

Dec. 11, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

7 comments

News

All 20 game announcements from Day Of The Devs: The Game Awards Edition

Meet your indie wishlist for 2024

Dec. 6, 2023 Katharine Castle

14 comments

A person recites a poem about a frog inside a coffee shop in Kind Words 2

News

Kind Words 2 brings a touch of Animal Crossing to its chill letter writing

Room for one more?

Dec. 6, 2023 Katharine Castle

9 comments

News

Dauntless and Fae Farm devs lay off 34 people but insist DLC plans and unannounced games unaffected

Phoenix Labs makes another round of job cuts

Dec. 4, 2023 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

1 comment

A warrior stands before the giant figure of Death in Mariachi Legends.

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Screenshot Saturday Tuesday: Big head, big laser

I go on Twitter so you don't have to

Nov. 14, 2023 Alice O'Connor

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