Big Rig 
This 80s text-based game driving sim is as detailed as it is intermittently dull. That’s no coincidence.
Category: Simulation
Big Rig
Biosys 
Biosys is an environmental simulation in the form of an adventure game, a bold combination that stretches both parts.
Capitalism
Big on profits, light on ethics, and lavishly excessive in detail, the business simulator Capitalism is, for better or worse, an accurate look at what it’s like to run a big corporation.
Defcon 5 
Combining first-person shooters and strategic simulation around a specific location is a brilliant concept. Defcon 5 implements it in an extremely flawed way, though enough that you can see what works.
Executive Suite
To excel in Executive Suite‘s cutthroat business satire, you have to act like a cutthroat businessperson. Getting into that role is a different kind of challenge.
Factory: The Industrial Devolution 
If you can handle it, the chaotic factory management in Factory gets funnier when it goes wrong.
Farewell, Maxis: a look back and some Sim obscurities 
With the closing of Sim developer Maxis, take a look back at a few of Maxis’s least-known games that aren’t available to play.
John Hiles, unapologetic, reflects on SimHealth, what games can learn about cognition, and where Will Wright was wrong 
John Hiles, head of Maxis Business Simulations and Thinking Tools, shares his perspective on the foundational theories of the simulation genre and responds to criticism of the value of predictive simulation games.
Kaze no NOTAM – NOTAM of Wind 
Artdink’s hot air balloon game is a whirlwind of laid-back energy, where the control is taken out of your hands and there’s no wrong way to reach your destination.
Life & Death
Life & Death accurately simulates the stress and challenge of hospital work. Not for the faint of heart or those easily deterred by a steep challenge.