Best Simulation Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated simulation games.

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Ambition: A Minuet in Power 18th century Paris - a city of love, lies and revolution. You are a woman of fashion trying to survive the political turmoil. Date a cast of unforgettable characters. Amass the wealth and respect you deserve. Engage in gossip that can alter the course of history, or lead you to the guillotine.

Price -96% 0.91€
Rating 7.9
Release 18 Aug 2021
Sunshine Heavy Industries Welcome to Sunshine Heavy Industries! As the new spaceship engineer, solve increasingly tricky design puzzles with your own personal style. Manage customer demands, juggle budget and ship performance, and survive the questionable decision making skills of your business partner.

Price 12.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Aug 2021
HUMANKIND™ Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.

Price 49.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 17 Aug 2021
The Doors of Trithius The Doors of Trithius is an open-world RPG roguelike. Engage in tactical turn-based combat in a living world of warring factions, wandering behemoths, and ancient magic. Level your skills, cook, craft, and explore dungeons. Will you follow the story, or let adventure be your guide?

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Aug 2021
Life is Hard Life is Hard is a godsim town simulator game developed by a two-man-team. Your main aim here is to manage your town. Expand your domain, prevent famine, make war, trade with others, attract new people. Make history!

Price -10% 8.17€
Rating 6.1
Release 14 Aug 2021
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.

Price -90% 2.45€
Rating 9.4
Release 11 Aug 2021
Dust to the End Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.

Price -91% 0.95€
Rating 7.6
Release 11 Aug 2021
My Garage MY GARAGE is a car simulation game with main focus being simulating real car repair, maintenance and physics.

Price 19.90€
Rating 8.8
Release 10 Aug 2021
Patron Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Price -98% 0.41€
Rating 7.1
Release 10 Aug 2021
Carrier Command 2 Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!

Price 28.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Aug 2021
Lawn Mowing Simulator Experience the beauty and detail of mowing the Great British countryside in Lawn Mowing Simulator, the only simulator that allows you to ride an authentic and expansive roster of real-world licensed lawn mowers from prestigious manufacturers; Toro, SCAG and STIGA as you manage your business.

Price -98% 0.51€
Rating 6.9
Release 10 Aug 2021
Star Chef 2: Cooking Game Kitchen Simulation | Learn Cuisines | Cook Delicious Food | Become A Chef

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 09 Aug 2021
City of Gangsters In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.

Price -92% 2.36€
Rating 7.1
Release 09 Aug 2021
Vtuber Simulator : Vtuber模擬器 Customize your own character, streaming, training, and become a famous Vtuber!

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Aug 2021
Simple Fish Adventure Simple Fish Adventure is an unusual short physics-based platformer. Jump like a fish, think like a fish, be a fish! Overcome obstacles and suffer. Also includes co-op for up to 4 players.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 06 Aug 2021
Lifeslide Embark on a daring journey through life and master the skill of paper plane flight. Explore colorful worlds with unique challenges, find secrets and unlock your full potential!

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Aug 2021
SHIPS AT WAR Sink player-made battleships, aircraft carriers and submarines in this physics-based game. Use pre-built ships and sink the enemy by deploying aircraft, torpedoes, depth charges or shells. Or built your own ships in the extensive ship-editor.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.2
Release 05 Aug 2021
Starmancer From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Price 14.79€
Rating 6.4
Release 05 Aug 2021
Stellar Warfare Space RTS with base building and ship customization. Personal passion project. More than 200 available ships, weapons and modules to design your fleet with. Contains a small campaign, several single and multiplayer game modes and a coop game mode. Also contains Wave defense!

Price -69% 6.25€
Rating 8.0
Release 04 Aug 2021
The Ramp A digital toy for skateboard loving people. Pure flow, no extra fluff.

Price -65% 1.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Aug 2021
Big Farm Story Build your dream farm with your friends & animals in Big Farm Story. Grow crops, tend your fields, craft and explore the world in this farming adventure. Meet new friends around each corner, shape your own community and have fun writing your own story.

Price -67% 6.60€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Aug 2021
inbento A cooking puzzle game about arranging beautiful bento lunches! Solve 120+ recipes, play with food, think inside the box and enjoy a heartwarming story in this culinary brain-teaser!

Price -84% 0.81€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Jul 2021
BUSTAFELLOWS A new visual novel from the legendary eXtend! Mixing dangerous romance with murder mystery, BUSTAFELLOWS is a steamy noir mystery that will make you shiver but ask for more!

Price -8% 36.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Jul 2021
Cooking Simulator VR Step into VR kitchen and become supreme Chef. Master realistic cooking with lifelike physics, 100+ recipes, 140+ ingredients and natural VR controls — or embrace chaos with fires, explosions, and sandbox freedom.

Price -46% 10.38€
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Jul 2021
Fuga: Melodies of Steel Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.

Price -62% 15.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Jul 2021
Chernobylite Complete Edition Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.

Price -97% 1.05€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Jul 2021
Beside Myself You have to play as the historian-journalist Michael, plunge into the atmosphere of darkness of an abandoned hospital, where you will need to unravel the secrets of the past and try to get out in order to tell the whole world about those terrible events.

Price -51% 2.44€
Rating 6.5
Release 27 Jul 2021
HighFleet Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?

Price -36% 16.19€
Rating 8.6
Release 27 Jul 2021
Hell Let Loose Join the ever expanding experience of Hell Let Loose - a hardcore World War Two first person shooter with epic battles of 100 players with infantry, tanks, artillery, a dynamically shifting front line and a unique resource based RTS-inspired meta-game.

Price -82% 9.22€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Jul 2021
Vermillion - VR Painting It’s time to discover your inner artist! With Vermillion, you get a fully equipped oil painting studio in your home, without any of the mess. Ready for the unrivaled sense of accomplishment from creating your first painting?

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 26 Jul 2021
Intravenous Teeth-clenching stealth, followed by tactical hardcore gunplay for those not looking for a quiet way in. Intravenous redefines challenging stealth-action and will keep you on the edge of your seat!

Price -96% 0.83€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Jul 2021
Idol Manager Idol Manager is a business sim about conquering the entertainment industry using any means you deem necessary.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Jul 2021
Metro Sim Hustle Take control of an underground commuter train and rise to the top in a bustling metropolis filled with cheap thrills, prime real estate, and a diverse community of unique characters.

Price -80% 1.95€
Rating 7.4
Release 24 Jul 2021
Summer of '58 In the summer of 2008. The main character, at the request of followers, goes to Russia to explore the abandoned camp "Yunost". Locals say that this place is inhabited by restless souls. This will need to be checked.

Price 7.39€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jul 2021
Song of Farca Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.

Price -98% 0.51€
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Jul 2021
Mini Motorways Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.4
Release 20 Jul 2021

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