Sim Games for the missus

07-04-2014 06:52PM #1

As per title she asked me to post this;

Can somebody recommend a PC sim game other than the below (she already owns them)
There not my cup of tea so would not play this type of game at all.

Sim City
The Sims 1 / 2/ 3
Theme Hospital

She bought some Farm Simulator game but the thing keeps crashing after 10 mins on her XP laptop, support for the game is non-existent so need to try get her something else.

Thanks.

Polar101 · 07-04-2014 06:57PM

There was a similar thread last week, that had plenty of good recommendations.

whiskeyman · 07-04-2014 06:58PM

I loved theme hosp!
Roller coaster Tycoon is similar and fun I think.
Zoo tycoon might be worth a shot. Haven't played it myself.

Railroad Tycoon games were classic back in the day also.

07-04-2014 07:06PM

Polar101 wrote: »

There was a similar thread last week, that had plenty of good recommendations.

Apologies I searched sim games in the search bar,
I see there are a few in 'Good PC Games' which must be the one your talking about.

07-04-2014 07:07PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

I loved theme hosp!
Roller coaster Tycoon is similar and fun I think.
Zoo tycoon might be worth a shot. Haven't played it myself.

Railroad Tycoon games were classic back in the day also.

Thanks, I will check GOG.com out for those, she is quite picky though.

ShadowHearth · 07-04-2014 09:39PM

Settlers 7
Tropico 4

Potential-Monke · 07-04-2014 09:54PM

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 with the Soaked and Wild expansion packs. You will thank me later.

07-04-2014 10:53PM

Thanks guys, I will get one of them later in the week and set it up for her. Will let Uz know how I get on. Friday will be her chill out night...I can get some Titanfall in while shes busy :P

SeantheMan · 08-04-2014 01:31AM

The Movies

I enjoyed it when it first came out, not played it in years though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mHUSV2lATE

Taylor365 · 08-04-2014 08:27AM

Sally's Salon.

:pac:

ShadowHearth · 08-04-2014 10:22AM

I know my post was a bit bad...

So here, settlers 7 is really really good game. It has lovely art design and atmosphere. Sound and music is just plain good.
Very good campaign mode, which will teach everything from basics and each mission will have a totally different play style. The bit I really like, is that you can achieve victory in a lot of different ways.
I have a feeling that she would really love it.

Tropico 4 is just legendary. Very very fun sim game. Will take a bit to get use to, but then you flying. Again, campaign mode is just plain great. Very funny and very well done with voice acting. A very cool and deep sim game, but at the same time it is very light hearted and like to make fun of it self.

08-04-2014 10:44AM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I know my post was a bit bad...

So here, settlers 7 is really really good game. It has lovely art design and atmosphere. Sound and music is just plain good.
Very good campaign mode, which will teach everything from basics and each mission will have a totally different play style. The bit I really like, is that you can achieve victory in a lot of different ways.
I have a feeling that she would really love it.

Tropico 4 is just legendary. Very very fun sim game. Will take a bit to get use to, but then you flying. Again, campaign mode is just plain great. Very funny and very well done with voice acting. A very cool and deep sim game, but at the same time it is very light hearted and like to make fun of it self.

Thanks man,

She loves the whole 'management aspect' of the games if that makes sense.
Story would not necessarily concern her all that much but you never know it might provide interest.

I remember Settlers 3 being all about correct planning of your building, ensuring you can access them easily and had resources nearby all that kinda gud stuff she enjoys.

ShadowHearth · 08-04-2014 10:52AM

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Thanks man,

She loves the whole 'management aspect' of the games if that makes sense.
Story would not necessarily concern her all that much but you never know it might provide interest.

I remember Settlers 3 being all about correct planning of your building, ensuring you can access them easily and had resources nearby all that kinda gud stuff she enjoys.

Story mode in both games won't win any rewards, but both do a great job to make sense and implement game mechanics. It gives you a challenge and something to achieve. It always makes you try out different tactics and adopt to one or another situation.
The origonal 3 and 4 were amazing. Settlers went down the hill with 5 and 6, but then 7 Came out and blew my mind. I wish more people would give it a chance

.

gaynorvader · 08-04-2014 11:03AM

Impossible creatures. It does have quite a short lifespan though. Spore maybe?

ShadowHearth · 08-04-2014 11:09AM

gaynorvader wrote: »

Impossible creatures. It does have quite a short lifespan though. Spore maybe?

Spore?! Get out! I would not even give it to my worst enemy.

08-04-2014 11:14AM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Spore?! Get out! I would not even give it to my worst enemy.

Ewww she already tried Spore and hated it.

DoctorEdgeWild · 08-04-2014 03:57PM

Aw man, now I really want to get Spore as it sounds so terrible!

Taylor365 · 08-04-2014 06:09PM

DoctorEdgeWild wrote: »

Aw man, now I really want to get Spore as it sounds so terrible!

Think of the perfect Aliens game.

Then think of colonial marines.

It's even worse than that.

ShadowHearth · 08-04-2014 06:44PM

The only positive thing about Spore is that Game Grumps doing a play on it. Its freaking stupidly funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPPm-TnnOrU

Skerries · 09-04-2014 08:38AM

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Potatoeman · 09-04-2014 12:40PM

Dungeon keeper. :v

Banjo · 09-04-2014 01:21PM

+1 for Roller Coaster Tycoon and The Movies

Although, with the movies what made it so much fun was making the movies, getting community members to work on voice-overs or props or effects overlays, then hyping the crap out of it to get lots of views on TMO. Or creating bogus Tech Demos. I was very proud of my Grass Growing tech demo. You'll believe that grass can grow! Anyway, that community folded a long time ago, not sure how much fun the game is without it.

To qualify this, I liked Spore....

Don't see the Sims mentioned. At it's heart it's a resource juggling game, just on a very small scale, if you play it the right way - ie. You start with no house, limited money and try to build and support a family while turning your one room ToiKitBedSit into the home of your dreams and taking care of your needs. And from Sims 2 up you can add in the thrill of giving your Sim a grossly exagerated facial feature, then screwing as many neighbours as you can and watching that deformity as it takes over the neighbourhood in a handful of generations. Hank Hawkface, you dog you!

Civilisation is at the other end of the scale - shape your tribe over millennia. I'm sure it doesn't need an intro from me. If millennia is too long, Colonization and Alpha Centauri offer shorter time frames. Turn based may not be her thing though.

Faster Than Light is the Rogue of management games. In space. The reliance on luck and repetition might get her down though. There's a current thread about it that sells it better than I can.

Personally I'm a huge fan of Sid Meier's Railroads! (the ! Is part of the title, I'm not shouting). It's a fairly shallow management game combined with a big fun train-set. You have a small map filled with towns, you build train tracks to link the towns to eachother and to resources, then try to come up with profitable routes to make more money to buy more track and trains. Like Transport Tycoon but more recent and less involved. Leveraging yourself to the hilt to buy businesses in towns your opponents' trains are servicing so you can buy them out of their own companies, then selling those companies to buy your own back at the last second rocks.

imitation · 09-04-2014 01:34PM

What about branching out and trying a god game or two as well ? From dust is a really good recent example, Black and White 2 was decent as well.

09-04-2014 01:42PM

Banjo wrote: »

+1 for Roller Coaster Tycoon and The Movies

Although, with the movies what made it so much fun was making the movies, getting community members to work on voice-overs or props or effects overlays, then hyping the crap out of it to get lots of views on TMO. Or creating bogus Tech Demos. I was very proud of my Grass Growing tech demo. You'll believe that grass can grow! Anyway, that community folded a long time ago, not sure how much fun the game is without it.

To qualify this, I liked Spore....

Don't see the Sims mentioned. At it's heart it's a resource juggling game, just on a very small scale, if you play it the right way - ie. You start with no house, limited money and try to build and support a family while turning your one room ToiKitBedSit into the home of your dreams and taking care of your needs. And from Sims 2 up you can add in the thrill of giving your Sim a grossly exagerated facial feature, then screwing as many neighbours as you can and watching that deformity as it takes over the neighbourhood in a handful of generations. Hank Hawkface, you dog you!

Civilisation is at the other end of the scale - shape your tribe over millennia. I'm sure it doesn't need an intro from me. If millennia is too long, Colonization and Alpha Centauri offer shorter time frames. Turn based may not be her thing though.

Faster Than Light is the Rogue of management games. In space. The reliance on luck and repetition might get her down though. There's a current thread about it that sells it better than I can.

Personally I'm a huge fan of Sid Meier's Railroads! (the ! Is part of the title, I'm not shouting). It's a fairly shallow management game combined with a big fun train-set. You have a small map filled with towns, you build train tracks to link the towns to eachother and to resources, then try to come up with profitable routes to make more money to buy more track and trains. Like Transport Tycoon but more recent and less involved. Leveraging yourself to the hilt to buy businesses in towns your opponents' trains are servicing so you can buy them out of their own companies, then selling those companies to buy your own back at the last second rocks.

imitation wrote: »

What about branching out and trying a god game or two as well ? From dust is a really good recent example, Black and White 2 was decent as well.

Thanks for the Feedback but as per my OP she has all 'The Sims' games already.

From Dust & Black and White 2 are again worth a try, just convincing her to branch out and try something different is an issue.

The Governor · 09-04-2014 01:43PM

Just a quick note on the Farm simulator crashing OP, it may be the machine specs aren't up to scratch. If it's a thing she isn't sure whether her machine can handle the specs of games she's thinking of getting I find this site handy

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

It justs analyses your system and checks it against the minimum and recommended specs to see if it will run ok.

Also make sure to check if the video as well as sound cards have there latest drivers.

You may be techy enough to know all this already but just throwing in my little bit of advice in case

09-04-2014 01:46PM

The Governor wrote: »

Just a quick note on the Farm simulator crashing OP, it may be the machine specs aren't up to scratch. If it's a thing she isn't sure whether her machine can handle the specs of games she's thinking of getting I find this site handy

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

It justs analyses your system and checks it against the minimum and recommended specs to see if it will run ok.

Also make sure to check if the video as well as sound cards have there latest drivers.

You may be techy enough to know all this already but just throwing in my little bit of advice in case

Thanks Man.
Yes I am near cert it's a compatibility issue, I'm going to install a copy of Windows 7 on her laptop so hoping this will sort the issue out.
Little or no tech support for the game online it seems.

gaynorvader · 09-04-2014 01:53PM

Rust is basically a sim game, right? You build houses and feed your sim.

meoklmrk91 · 09-04-2014 01:58PM

I like all these games, many that have been mentioned are great, the movies, zoo tycoon 1 and 2, I always preferred one personally, tropico etc. Theme Park World was another one I loved back in the day. She could also try prison architect, it's still in Alpha but it's perfectly playable in its current form with new features being added every month.

Cravez · 09-04-2014 02:01PM

gaynorvader wrote: »

Rust is basically a sim game, right? You build houses and feed your sim.

It's more of a survival sandbox game but I guess it has Sim elements to it. Not for the faint of heart at times though :P

C14N · 15-04-2014 04:28AM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

The only positive thing about Spore is that Game Grumps doing a play on it. Its freaking stupidly funny.

It really wasn't that bad, it just didn't live up to the hype. The creature creator was very good in it too.

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