There's a million of these things. SimFarm, SimCity, SimTown, SimHealth, SimSandwich, SimAnt, SimEarth, SimCopter, SimOilRefinery, Transport Tycoon , etc.
What's the best one?
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There's a million of these things.
Sims
SimCity 4. To this day no one has created a city building sim that has come close.
One of my sadness of life is SimCity series never tried to top it. With plugins and extensions its a so complete simulator.
Which is better, 3000 or 4? I only played Classic and 2000
It's a straight evolution. Classic<2000<3000<4. 3000 is a lot like 2000, except it adds in waste management, neighbor deals, and four buildings that can generate revenue at a cost of pollution or crime increasing in the local area. The biggest upgrade is graphics and terrain having more smooth corners instead of sharp edges everywhere. I also found it a bit easier than 2000 to get a huge high-tech industry city that was stupidly profitable.
4 is a whole new ballgame, and easily the hardest Simcity game to get into. It adds in fine-grain control, allowing you to set the individual funding for each school, police department, power plant, etc. Set-it-and-forget-it rarely works, since your city's population ages and grows, shifting demographics and demands on different government services. Stuff like airports and seaports start to become required once your city reaches a certain size in order to keep commercial and industrial demand up. A well setup bus system isn't just neat or an extra thing, it's important to keep traffic down and earn more income from the fare fees. Just trying to manage traffic is the biggest hurdle for new players, because the old tricks don't work anymore. You can't just ignore 2 hour commute times, since now it will lead to people abandoning town.
4's the best in the genre, but the learning curve can be a bit tough. As a kid I had map-filling cities in Simcity and 3000, both turning big profits(never played 2000 until way later). It took me many attempts to get a city in Simcity 4 that wouldn't self-destruct and go bankrupt before I reached 200,000 people. I recommend playing 3000 then 4. That way you can get used to ideas like the deals, garbage management, curvy roads, and all that stuff before getting into 4. Plus 3000 had some great tunes.
sim city, sim city 2000, sim ant
sim earth was too much for my kid brain
sim tower was pretty addicting back then
Oh frick. I forgot about Simtower. That game ruled.
There's a 'sequel' by the co-creator called Yoot Tower. It works on windows 10/11. Arguably better than ST. Check it out.
It also had sequels(ports?) on gba and i think ps1.
Simtower was on GBA?
Not as SimTower, but yes.
My favorite Sim game
Sim ant cured me of buying anything with the word sim on it because I liked sim city
SimFarm is underrated.
Theme Park.
dun dun dananana dun dun dun dun
Sim vs Theme vs Tycoon.
Were all Theme games lighter on the stats but had quirky humor?
Sim had pretty quirky humour too. Especially SimCopter with that gay naked men dance party cheat
That was snuck in by an activist group (the yes men, I think) to protest treatment of gays or something like that
>The game gained controversy when it was discovered that designer Jacques Servin inserted an Easter egg that generated shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other and appear in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. The egg was caught shortly after release and removed from future copies of the game. He cited his actions as a response to the intolerable working conditions he allegedly suffered at Maxis, particularly working 60-hour weeks and being denied time off.[1][2] He also reported that he added the "studs", as he called them, after a heterosexual programmer programmed "bimbo" female characters into the game, and that he wanted to highlight the "implicit heterosexuality" of many games.[3][4] Although he had initially planned for the characters to appear only occasionally, the random number generator he had created malfunctioned, leading them to appear frequently.[4] Servin was fired as a result, with Maxis reporting that his dismissal was due only to his addition of unauthorized content.[4]
Bimbos plus a funny easter egg sounds like the best of both worlds.
Was this also related to the rainbow nipples or was that something else?
Based as frick. That's how you make history. Still have to take away some points for fricking up an RNG of all things.
based
cringe
The theme games were developed by cheeky british people who liked monty python and shit.
Like literally because, it's the truth.
SimEarths a bit outdated for my tastes. Are there any modern day equivalents
Ecosystem / Tyto Ecology
Closest thing is Black & White 2 and that's not close.
Transport Tycoon was my go to game. It's been greatly improved with OpenTTD and even more so with JGR's Patchpack. There is no better transport game that I know of.
https://github.com/JGRennison/OpenTTD-patches
SimOilRefinery is real. Exxon or some oil conglom commissioned Maxis to make it. It wasn't released commercially but it should be up on archive.org.
>OpenTTD
Oh shit, thanks for reminding me that existed.
SimGolf (2002)
Comfy as frick.
achievement unlocked: max comfy
riveting
Is that better than the Zoo Tycoons?
Dude, I wanted to like SimGolf. I really did, but I just thought it was boring as shit (probably doesn't help I think real life golf is boring as shit as well).
It's worse than Zoo Tycoon by a very large margin. Zoo Tycoon is a business game with educational elements, SimPark is an educational game with (marginal) business elements
Sim Ant. I mean, I know the game sucks but I like the idea of it best. Taking over the whole yard and getting inside the house.
SC2K + SimCopter + Streets of SimCity for me.
I fricking love Streets of Sim City. That game had style.
Your agent has been sent back to base in several boxes
>agent is doing nothing
>6 unskilled labor
>making heavy machinery in the middle of a pristine jungle island
VGH... colonial resource extraction sovl...
Can't go wrong with SimCity SNES.
SimCity2000 is where I spent the most time. The music was great. The gameplay wasn't too complicated but I built dozens of cities.
Nobody has ever seen the earth curve like that. Gay concept art and brainwashing. Was pretty kino when they used to make the different Sim games though, even if in retrospect they were all propaganda games for how society "should" be ran.
SimTower was the best for me, but most were good. Except SimCopter. Hands down the worst game I have ever played, possibly the worst that has ever been made. Obtuse design and execution in every regard, maliciously un-optimized, unfun to play even when it wasn't straight up crashing (which, as play time increased, reached a near certainty). Couldn't even import your SC2k cities properly.
I was able to import my own city.
Worked on my machine.
you've got to install the official/fan patches to alleviate the crashing and other game breaking bugs. This is a given for a majority of Windows games from the 9x/Me era.
>(which, as play time increased, reached a near certainty)
isn't that true for any vidya ever made?
>Couldn't even import your SC2k cities properly.
??? always worked for me
>possibly the worst that has ever been made
There's far worse games out there. Streets of Simcity is one of them.
This website seems obsessed with SimWoman
underrated comment
They're all pretty neat
SimCity 3 unlimited is pretty ace
The Urbz
Wtf is the woman saying in sim city 2000 when u start a new city?
reticulating splines
The fuk does that mean?
the phrase doesn't actually mean anything, it's just an in-joke at Maxis that found its way into the game(s)
Pretty sure this one isn't remembered too fondly but I liked it as a kid
Sim Sandwich
Wtf, when did Chunsoft make a sim game?
why do amerimutts always use Mercury's caduceus to represent medicine even though it represents trade and commerce when the actual symbol they should want to use is the asclepius which represents medicine and healing
You misunderstand something very fundamental about "medicine and healing" in the US
looool.
capitalism moment
simEarth was the only one ported to all the 16-bit systems (snes, pce cd, sega cd, amiga)
This game was so fun when I was a little chitlin. It's still "neat" but 5-7 is the prime years to play this in the computer lab at school in the 90s, right after you finished typing practice and playing math blaster.
sims2 bustin out on ps2. so fricken comf.
Was that fine playing on a PS2 controller?
it was a great experience, but I'm biased towards the PS2 controller. always been my favorite. the soundtrack in bustin' out is one of my all-time video game soundtracks, too.
I received this as a secret santa present in grade 5, in a blank israeliteel case with no instructions.
I could never make my farm survive but I always grew a lot of sorghum