Top 10 Games: Simulation
The highest-graded simulation games we have reviewed, best first.
Ace Combat 8: Wings of TheveThe best aerial combat Ace Combat has ever had, wrapped around a war story about a hero who was invented.Read the review
Crusader Kings IIIA strategy game that is really a machine for generating family disasters, and the best one Paradox has built.
SubnauticaA survival game with no combat worth speaking of, which is exactly why swimming into the dark is genuinely frightening.
FactorioThe most addictive engineering problem ever shipped, running on the cleanest simulation code in commercial games.
Sid Meier's Civilization VIFiraxis pulls the city apart across the map and turns six thousand years of turns into an argument about zoning.
The SimsWill Wright turns a dollhouse into the best selling game on PC by simulating hunger, a bladder and the neighbors.
Animal Crossing: New HorizonsThe right game at the exact moment the world was locked indoors, and a genuine redesign underneath the timing.
MewgenicsFourteen years in development hell produced the strangest good tactics game in a long time, and it sold a million in a week.
Pokémon PokopiaA Ditto with a hammer rebuilds Kanto, and it is the best reviewed thing the franchise has ever shipped.
EA Sports UFC 6The best mixed martial arts game anyone has made, and still less than a three year gap between entries should buy.
