Current Events > HELP:Recommend Sim-type games on Steam that are fun and engrossing and simple

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In the vein of Sim City, Roller Coaster Tycoon, The Sims, etc...I already have Two Point Hospital and beaten it. It's a blast - so anything in that same category would be awesome.

PLEASE RECOMMEND I wanna buy my GF something and she's nearly beat Two Point Hospital.

Oh, I prefer no Civilization recommendations please.

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Cities Skylines is the best city building game out there now.

Planet Coaster is the best theme park building game imo. It has very good tools for creating your own things from shops to coasters and everything in between. People have literally made entire cities and created James Bond movies on rides (well, they're 7 minute long rides that follow the plot of the movies, with animatronics and stuff). Many of the folks who worked on this worked on RCT.

Parkitect is a good theme park building game, too. It plays more like classic Rollercoaster Tycoon; it has an isometric view and simpler ride building mechanics, but it does have some cool management features that aren't in Planet Coaster.

Frontier (the Planet Coaster people) also made Jurassic World Evolution (basically, you build your own Jurassic Park) and recently released Planet Zoo (a zoo building and management game that is more indepth but somehow more easily accessible than Planet Coaster lol).


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Kerbal Space Program is also awesome. It's a sandbox game where you build your own space ships and complete missions (testing parts in the atmosphere, putting things into orbit, rescuing astronauts, exploring other planets). It is really difficult without mods imo but it is so rewarding when you complete these different milestones like making it into space or putting something into a stable orbit.

You might look into the Anno series.

Or Tropico (2, 4 and 6 are the only worthwhile ones imo); you play the role of a Caribbean island "president" and try to build an economy while juggling the needs of various political factions; or you just have a military and you throw everyone in jail or assassinate them.

And Transport Fever has good reviews, the second one also just came out.

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