Rimworld ✅ Not demanding Rimworld A single player, sci-fi survival game, RimWorld has you attempting to keep alive the survivors of an interstellar shipwreck on an alien world, though you might not want to keep some of your fellow survivors alive. Individual personalities are a big part of this game.



You’ll move from basic survival to building a modern colony and protecting it from raiders and the native lifeforms. RimWorld provides an almost overwhelming amount of detail you can tweak and there are multiple approaches you can take. Trade, fight, survive, be destroyed, repeat.

93 Metascore Not demanding No

Motorsport Manager ✅ Not demanding Motorsport Manager Similar to Football Manager but for fans of racing, in Motorsport Manager you take control of a high-performance racing team. Build and customize cars, hire drivers and race teams, and build factories to improve your car technology.



And the decisions don’t stop on race day; tweak your car for current conditions, choose your strategies and tactics, and adjust in-race if you need to. From micromanaging to letting your team do the work, the choice is yours as you try and race your way to the top.

81 Metascore Not demanding No

War Thunder ✅ Not demanding War Thunder While technically an MMO, War Thunder is also an excellent free simulation that includes World War II combat in both air and land operations. With a huge number of available planes, tanks, and even navy vessels, War Thunder offers anything your heart could desire for mid-20th-century combat.



War Thunder features full-scale PvP battles, historical campaigns in PvE, a large number of solo missions, and cooperative multiplayer. Plus it’s cross-platform on MacOS, Windows, Linux, and PS4, and offers true free-to-play with various paid options.

81 Metascore Not demanding Yes

Papers, Please ✅ Not demanding Papers, Please A multiple award-winning indie classic, Papers, Please has you playing as an immigration officer of a communist country following a war. You get to decide who gets in and who doesn’t by inspecting potential immigrants’ documents and using several tools to attempt to weed out terrorists, wanted criminals, and smugglers.



You can also interrogate people and request fingerprints or even a full-body scan. It sounds simple, but trust us, this game sucks you in and spits you out.

85 Metascore Not demanding No

Out of the Park Baseball 19 ✅ Not demanding Out of the Park Baseball 19 The Out of the Park (OOTP) franchise is the baseball equivalent of Football Manager, an incredibly detailed simulation of being the general manager/manager of a Major League Baseball team. Officially licensed, OOTP includes major and minor league teams and players as well as eight international leagues.



This year’s improvements include 3D graphics for simulated games, the Perfect Team online card game, and the usual improvements to the not-so-great interface. But for realism and depth, OOTP is your best chance to manage your favorite team to World Series glory.

NA Metascore Not demanding No

Factorio ✅ Not demanding Factorio If you think Factorio sounds like a factory-building simulation you’d be right. And if all you’re doing is building factories you can bet they’re going to be big, require lots of resources, and attract lots of enemies. Set in an infinite 2D world, you’ll move from basic resource gathering to oil refining, robotics and more.



With cross-platform cooperative multiplayer, modding support, and a map editor, Factorio takes factory building to the next level. If you’re a fan of building big, complex systems that do cool things, Factorio is for you.

NA Metascore Not demanding No

Rocksmith 2014 Edition: Remastered ✅ Not demanding Rocksmith 2014 Edition: Remastered Less a simulation than a way to learn to play an actual guitar, Rocksmith 2014 has been remastered with improved learning curves, training tools, stats, and six new songs. The game is similar Guitar Hero but instead of a simplified plastic guitar, you'll need to use your own real guitar.



Rocksmith adjusts to your level and comes with a huge library of songs. It supports acoustic guitars via a USB microphone connected to your Mac, and non-Steam versions include the Rocksmith Real Tone Cable required to plug your electric guitar.

89 Metascore Not demanding No

Game Dev Tycoon ✅ Not demanding Game Dev Tycoon Not interested in the details of coding your ideal game, but think you could manage a company to do it? Then Game Dev Tycoon is for you. You’ll replay the history of the computer gaming industry, starting in the 80s. Research technologies, create new genres, build your team, unlock achievements and more.



You’ll choose the focus of your games and see if that’s what the people wanted. With modding and Steam Workshop support, you won’t run out of ideas or ways to build your perfect game and game company.

68 Metascore Not demanding No

Evolution ✅ Not demanding Evolution In Evolution, you attempt to create a viable creature by putting together joints, bones, and muscles and then letting the game’s “brain” evolve your creations to see if they can accomplish tasks such as walking, running, jumping and climbing hills.



Sound simple, no? Well if it were simple don’t you think we’d already be doing it? Difficult but mesmerizing and more than a bit addictive, it’s highly recommended you use the help button to grasp the fundamentals if you hope to succeed.

NA Metascore Not demanding Yes

Besiege ✅ Not demanding Besiege Simple and to the point, in Besiege you do indeed construct medieval siege engines and use them to destroy everything from peaceful villages to huge, fortified fortresses. Using real-world physics, choose whether to go for overwhelming might or more nimble but still destructive devices.



From realistic to whimsical-but-still-possible creations, the sky is the limit in Besiege. And don’t forget to defend yourself, because your opponents will fight back. The game has been in Steam Early Access for three years now, but the reviews are "Overwhelmingly Positive".

NA Metascore Not demanding No

TIS-100 ✅ Not demanding TIS-100 If sports isn’t your thing, maybe programming is, at least in a simulation. Featuring a 1980s-style computer manual and style, in TIS-100 your job is to rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock the secrets of this massively parallel computer.



Yes, it’s a game, not a class, and it’s made up of more than 45 puzzles and also includes a level editor and online leaderboards so you can compare your assembly language programming skills to others around the world.

NA Metascore Not demanding No