Best Simulation Games on Steam

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Democracy 3 Africa Democracy 3: Africa is the new standalone 're-imagining' of the hit political strategy game 'Democracy 3'. Set entirely in countries on the continent of Africa, D3:A puts you in charge of these countries and challenges you to stay in power whilst fixing each country's problems, improving the quality of life for your electorate, and...

Price 16.49€
Rating 6.9
Release 12 Apr 2016
Ascent - The Space Game Ascent is a PVE sandbox space MMO with 270 BILLION star systems and an emphasis on strong Sci Fi. It encourages Exploration, Colonization, Research, Asteroid mining, Farming, Trading, and Combat. Outside the tutorial sector, everything in-game has been built by players.

Price -97% 0.64€
Rating 6.5
Release 11 Apr 2016
MXGP2 - The Official Motocross Videogame MXGP2 - The Official Motocross Videogame is the evolution of the previous Milestone’s Motocross game MXGP. The game is based on the 2015 FIM Motocross World Championship license.

Price -62% 5.74€
Rating 7.2
Release 07 Apr 2016
Domino Sky Domino Sky is a physics based game where you place and topple domino pieces to solve puzzles. Free build mode also available.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 05 Apr 2016
Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet The Medic Surgeon Simulator VR: Meet the Medic – be the Medic and operate on the Heavy in this free and exclusive teaser for the HTC Vive!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 05 Apr 2016
The Cubicle. The Cubicle is a short VR experience about your regular everyday job in an office, or is it?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Apr 2016
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Do you like hot dogs? How about horseshoes? Hand grenades? (everyone likes hand grenades) Anyway, we've got all that, and guns. SO MANY GUNS. So if you like ordnance, meat, and far too many groan-worthy puns, this is the VR sandbox game for you.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 05 Apr 2016
The Lab Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Apr 2016
Job Simulator In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Apr 2016
Holopoint Holopoint is pure archery madness. Fight your way through waves of responsive targets, samurai, and highly dangerous ninjas - all while drawing, nocking, and shooting your arrows as quickly as possible.

Price 10.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Apr 2016
IKEA VR Experience Explore and interact with an IKEA Kitchen in Virtual Reality! Walk around freely, open drawers and put your vegetable peelings in the waste sorting station. You can even enjoy the visual impact of different material finishes and experience things from a child’s point of view.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 04 Apr 2016
HunieCam Studio In HunieCam Studio players take control of a sleazy cam girl operation. Rake in stacks of filthy internet money and attract as many disgusting fans as you can in this fast paced, click happy and thoroughly perverted take on the business tycoon / management sim genre!

Price -93% 0.55€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Apr 2016
Final Approach Take control of the skies like never before in a full Virtual Reality world! Airplanes on fire, commuter aircraft low on fuel, mid-air collisions, emergency helicopter rescues, military exercises and so much more!

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 04 Apr 2016
Apollo 11 VR Apollo 11 VR is the story of the greatest journey ever taken by humankind. This VR experience is a recreation of the events which took place between July 16th and July 24th 1969. Now for the first time ever you get to experience this historic event through the eyes of those who lived through it.

Price 9.69€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Apr 2016
CHKN Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Apr 2016
A Chair in a Room : Greenwater Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.

Price 22.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 Mar 2016
STAR WARS™: Rogue Squadron 3D It is a time of great rejoicing in the galaxy. Luke Skywalker, with the help of Wedge Antilles, has blown up the Death Star. But there is little time to celebrate. The mighty Empire is gathering strength for a determined, all-out assault on the Rebel forces.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.0
Release 29 Mar 2016
MachineCraft The main purpose of this game is showing and watching machines made out of blocks. Some of the game-modes allow you to battle or race against other players. (testing phase) You can create your original machine with ease by reassembling those machines that are distributed, or by using the automatic control block.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Mar 2016
Paws - A Shelter 2 Game Traverse a vast world as a young lynx cub. Paws – A Shelter 2 Game is a standalone, single player, adventure game with loss and friendship as its central themes. Venture out in the world and make your way home.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Mar 2016
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence - Ascension In the simulation game series "Nobunaga's Ambition", players aim to unify Japan in the troubled times of the Warring States era. In this release we include "Officer Play" for the first time in the series, allowing players to advance from retainer to Castle Lord and then on to Daimyo.

Price 59.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 23 Mar 2016
Polaris Sector Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.

Price -11% 34.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Mar 2016
Sophie's Curse You got a job, which is to take care of an old man during the night in a recently purchased house; this house does not have electricity and you have to rely on some kind of hand crank generators to light the place up, but there is something in the darkness draining their power, don’t let it happen!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Mar 2016
Sheltered Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Price -94% 0.78€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Mar 2016
There's Poop In My Soup Created by solo developer Nikola Kostic - Have you ever wanted to poop on people but were too shy to just go for it? There's poop in my soup lets you do just that, poop in soups, poop on people, poop on poodles, poop anywhere you please, from the streets of New York to Paris to Beijing.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Mar 2016

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