Simulated games are, as the name implies games that simulate aspects of either a
fictional or nonfiction reality. Whilst you may be aware of such simulators as
Farming, Euro Truck, Forklift or Tow Truck; you may not be quite so aware of some of the
lesser-known absolutely ludicrous and downright strange ones.
Here's a Top 20 of the Strangest Game Simulators.
All of which you could play right now if you really have the desire to.
Corporate Lifestyle Simulator is an isometric
action game set in an office.
It's a rather misleading title, as the game decides not to bother with the
ordinary office tasks of photocopying, team building exercises and focus group
meetings; but instead focuses on surviving a corporate management zombie apocalypse.
Corporate Lifestyle Simulator may not be the most technically accurate
of simulation games but it's certainly one of the more entertaining.
It has a strange story line, destructive environments and excellent chiptune
soundtrack and buckets of pixelated violence.
Despite its wierdness, you will get some good fun out of this game.
This is a game where you play as a Frenchman named Julian. You're in the
middle of the ocean; and your friend Charles has a problem with a boat
and a pole hits you which sends you flying into the ocean.
Charles isn't able to turn the boat around and you become stranded at sea.
So how do you play this game? you scroll up to survive.
That's really it. The game is all in video so after a period of time you
die no matter what. The game was made to support wearing life jackets out at sea.
Desert Bus is a very simple game, that tasks you just to drive a bus
from Arizona to Nevada.
Unfortunately to actually finish this game,
you're going to have to sit for about 8 hours through nothing but barren
desert wilderness.
Oh and you're also completely unable to pause the game.
So if you're thinking of maybe just sitting the controller down and letting
the game do its thing..
think again. The bus automatically veers to the right and if you go off the road..
you'll get towed back to Arizona in REAL time.
Viscera Cleanup Detail is a simulator game
where you play the role of a space janitor who's job it is to cleanup the
horrid remains of scientific disasters and destroyed bases.
So this will involve; mopping up blood stains, burn marks, disposing of limbs and
intestine and repairing bullet holes. At first you think, well this is gonna be easy!
You choose one of the game's 7 scenarios and you proceeded down the blood splattered
corridors; ready to mop away the body fluids; and for a few sweeps
that works fine. Then your mop gets soaked in gore, then you're suddenly making the
problem worse and then you're splashing mess wider and wider with every stroke.
A natural sort of puzzle mechanic that forces you to work out the best order of
things. Despite the overall weirdness of the game it boasts some fantastic graphics
and is one of Tats' favorite games of all time.
The Way Of Life is a walking simulator published by Chubby Pixels,
where you walk from one end of the small map to another.
Not much else to be said about the game as it's in early access on Steam and is currently free to the public.
The characters in the game have no face and
the game itself can be finished in under 10 minutes.
One of the most popular simulators of all time,
Hatoful Boyfriend is a dating simulator where you take control of a human
schoolgirl that goes to a high school for pigeons.
Yes, the main aspect of this entire game is to date and fall in love with pigeons.
Not only could you call this in some way
bestiality, but the game itself is just bird brain weird. All the pigeons that
you meet have some anime style human avatars to go with their pigeon avatars;
making it seem like the girl you're playing as is somehow mistaken up for
humans.
I don't know how it works maybe it's just some anime fan service, it's possible.
The usual in typical high school drama, is also in this game with a healthy side
of strange comedy.
Not one to miss
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a world-class surgeon?
This game certainly isn't the one to give you any sort of training for it,
still, it manages to make a serious situation into something strangely
laughable; as you fumble around with the convoluted and complicated controls and
most likely you'll end up doing more harm than good.
More often than not you'll end up knocking an item off of the table and
out of the games boundaries; and your curse in frustration at the crazy
amount of glitches that are present; and then laugh it all off and realize that
Bossa Studios did a remarkably good job
with this strange little simulator. Once you realize that everything was intentional.
The life of the robot vacuum cleaner,
isn't as luxurious as it seems. A lot of hard work goes into it
and you get to experience it with this simulator. The game gives an incredible
insight into the world of robot vacuum cleaning, while jazz music plays for your
pleasure.
The aim of the game is to pick up bits of popcorn; actually its litter with the Robot Vacuum Cleaner.
Rock Simulator is of course a simulator game
and it's still being developed by Strange Panthers. In this game you play the
fascinating life of a rock.
The camera is just fixed on said rock, like some grand architectural monument
of a David Attenborough Nature Documentary. The scenery around the rock
consists of trees, a river, house and a jeep in the background; but that doesn't
move either. except for the swaying of the grass.
Rock simulator is pretty much that, it's just to simulate a game that has no plot
and not a lot of stuff to do.
The developer calls the game "A rock enthusiasts dream," and then in the future
people will be able to participate in several Rock related activities;
including sitting on and rolling down a hill.
This game is a unique and quirky treat straight from Japan. The story and the
concept are pure genius. Watching a little mosquito torment a family is very entertaining.
Each stage of the game, pits you as a mosquito in a room of the Amada family house.
You need to suck figurative tanks of blood from indicated points of their bodies
to pass the level. Of course the mission isn't so simple.
You'll have to dodge such hazards as bug zappers, an insecticide and distract the
Amadas' in order to hit the sweet spots.
Sometimes they'll get so annoyed, they'll start fighting back in a godzilla-like
manner.
Following you with loud stomps and striking with kicks, slaps, punches, flips
and other techniques when they get close.
When this happens you'll need to perform acupuncture, by hitting certain points in
their body and calming them down.
One of the more simpler titles on this list, Tree Simulator is a
simulation game, set in a forest. Once you start the game, you'll notice that
you're not painting or planting trees
you are in fact a tree.
The game has you set in a first-person perspective fix in a one spot and you're
unable to move.
You're free to look around the forest and the game does have a day-night cycle.
Other than that, it's pretty much it; you are a tree and you do trees things like being a tree.
Totally Accurate Toilet Simulator is an atmospheric game,
that totally and accurately simulates the
experience of sitting on a toilet.
that's all that you do. While on the toilet you can press 1 for number one
press 2 for number two, press escape to flush the toilet; and there are some
hilarities at hand especially when spamming the number 2 key, makes it
sound like your character ate something rather strange for breakfast.
It doesn't get any simpler or wierder than this.
Wait what? There aren't exactly words to describe how odd and weird Ceiling Fan
Simulator is. The camera is in a fixed position the entire time and you watch
time go by through a set of windows while the ceiling fan spins non stop in an empty room.
According to the story, you somehow have the ability to control the ceiling fan with your MIND.
You get more powerful as you change the speed from one to two; and something
amazing happens when you put the fan at full speed.
It's Ceiling Fan Simulator! that's all that needs to be said.
Rock Petting Simulator is a game where you go around
petting rocks from a first-person perspective. When you first start the game,
you'll notice a line of dialogue text at the top of the screen reading
"Man I feel like petting a rock!" When you walk up to said rock to pet it, you'll
notice there isn't an action button available.
Instead the player has his hands sticking out in front of him like a
drunk man
fumbling around the dark for an elusive doorknob; so your only option is to brush
up against it, simulating clumsy stroking movements. Once you finish
petting the rock, you'll notice a small shack at the end of the field. When you
enter the shack it finishes the game; prompting you to wonder if the
protagonist has enough meth in there to start pondering about petting yet more rocks.
With one of the worse graphics on this list, Duck Simulator is a
simulator game where you're just controlling the limited movements of a
badly drawn duck. The duck only stays in one place and can't move around the pond.
It never changes direction, never makes a single sound and there are no enemies, no
hazards and no instructions.
The only audio of the game, is an upbeat background music.
Developed by Coffee Stain Studio, Goat Simulator is a third-person
simulator where you take control of a goat running around town, trying to cause as
much MASS DESTRUCTION as possible.
The game is usually compared to such skateboarding games, as Skate 3. The crazy
and weird things you can get up to a Goat Simulator include: Riding a jetpack,
being abducted by aliens and going into space, becoming king of the goats and
gaining demonic powers: just to name a few.
Footage of the game its alpha state was posted to Youtube by Coffee Stain, where
it received more than a million views in 2 days and a large response from fans
requesting an immediate full release of the game in part due to the
various glitches in the prototype engine. Wisely recognizing that the glitching
was passed the games appeal, the developers sought to fix only software
bugs that might cause the game to crash, leaving in the other glitches and bugs
associated with the physics engine as a result of these were considered really
hilarious.
One of the more popular simulators out there as of late.
I Am Bread is a simulator, where you take control of a slice of bread and the goal is to
try and get to the toaster to become toast. Problem is the toaster is on the
other side of the room.
it's your job to grab onto ledges, walls, and other items to try and make it to
the other side; while avoiding other hazards such as floor, ants, water
spilled items, garbage and many other hazards.
Everything is out to make it so you don't become toast. The game has a
definite learning curve to it; and it's not the easiest to play. Many people are
straight up raging by the end.
Soda Drinker Pro is a game where you just drink soda.
That's really about it. You walk around very low poly small and very weird areas
and just drink a soda.
You can collect "Bonus Sodas" on the ground and when you do so you'll hear a
sound effect that screams "Bonus Soda!"
It's almost like a walking simulator for the most part, but with soda. Soda Drinker Pro
has been featured on big-time video gaming sites like Game Informer, Kotaku
and Giant Bomb.
The self-proclaimed first person soda,
was also a big hit at this year's past penny arcade expo, where gamers
all clamoring out to test out the game. Soda Drinker Pro is not free though and is
available though for a fee.
This game is the perfect epitome of a "what the hell kind of game."
LSD dream emulator is a game based off a 10-year dream journal from a Japanese
woman named Hiroko Nishikawa, who is an employee of the company that
published the game Asmik Ace Entertainment.
The entire point of the game according to the creators is to confuse you,
battle you,
mind screw you and complex you. There is no logic involved in this ps1 title.
Every time you play this game, everything changes and makes it even more random
than the last time.
Obviously the result of this is that every experience is different from the last.
You can run into anything from floating heads, levitating cows, giant
deformed faces and interdimensional walls.
LSD Dream Emulator is probably the wierdiest PS1 game,
maybe even the weirdest console game ever.
I'm unsure I even pronounce that right.
The newest of the simulators on this list yet somehow the weirdest one.
Yandere Simulator has you taking control of a young japanese schoolgirl, (oh boy)
who wants a boy at school she calls Senpai (oh my) to notice her, she wants Senpai to notice her.
But there are other girls at the school so you need to get rid of them
so you go around the school, befriending these girls and when Senpai isn't looking...
that's when you strike and kill the girls one by one
you can go do stuff like burning the dead bodies alive in a furnace, put the
girls to sleep with a tranquilizer, change your panties, learn special skills
and bring other girls back to your house and forcefully tie them up in the basement.
But you cannot allow Senpai to notice these actions that you're doing.
This is also a game where there's a learning curve to it, but it will make
you feel bad very quickly for the actions that you're taking.
There are also many references in the game like Attack On Titan, a mode dedicated
to the new controversial game Hatred; and even a mode where your character becomes
Big Boss from Metal Gear Solid 5:
The Phantom Pain