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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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Find yourself trapped alone in a room with a ticking time bomb. Your friends have the manual to defuse it, but they can't see the bomb, so you're going to have to talk it out – fast!

Price -65% 5.19€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 Oct 2015
SKYHILL World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 7.6
Release 06 Oct 2015
Prison Architect Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Price -68% 8.13€
Rating 8.8
Release 06 Oct 2015
Game Corp DX Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!

Price -86% 0.42€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Oct 2015
Angels Fall First From commanding the battle standing on the bridge of your flagship all the way down to tactical infantry firefights - AFF brings together all the combat you ever wanted in a rich science fiction setting. Boarding, pilotable capital ships, deep weapon customization and full AI support included!

Price 17.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Oct 2015
Who Is Mike - A Visual Novel You wake up with an aching head and the world out of focus. In front of you is a man accusing you of being “fake”. He looks exactly like you, down to the last scar and pimple, has the same memories, the same voice and the same personality. But who is lying and who is telling the truth? Who is fake and who is real?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Sep 2015
Doodle God Doodle God is an addicting puzzle & world building game where players use logic and ingenuity to create the entire universe. Starting with the basic elements of earth, wind, fire and air players can build a world filled with locomotives, Dragons, skyscrapers, Aliens and more.

Price -92% 1.04€
Rating 7.2
Release 24 Sep 2015
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Sep 2015
Dinosaur Hunt Dinosaur Hunt is an intense action shooter that will take you on an epic journey of hunting the world’s most horrifying animals!

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 17 Sep 2015
Train Simulator Classic The ultimate railway hobby for more than 15 years! From historic steam locomotives to modern high-speed and heavy freight trains, and routes around the world, Train Simulator Classic is the simulation made by railfans for railfans.

Price -97% 1.06€
Rating 7.0
Release 17 Sep 2015
Train Valley Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!

Price -94% 0.64€
Rating 8.6
Release 16 Sep 2015
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 02 Sep 2015
Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition Act of Aggression – Reboot Edition brings the techno-thriller RTS game Act of Aggression to a higher level. The Reboot Edition offers a full gameplay overhaul in skirmish mode against the AI and in your multiplayer battles.

Price -67% 9.93€
Rating 6.5
Release 02 Sep 2015
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence Become a Daimyo of the Warring States period of Japanese history in NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION, a historical simulation game of conquest and domination. It is the 30th anniversary of this series and this current release, NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence, is the crown of the series.

Price -36% 38.53€
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Sep 2015
Painters Guild Painters Guild is a management sim where you control an art academy in the Italian Renaissance. Paint artwork as beautiful as the Mona Lisa. Hire painters like Leonardo da Vinci and millions of randomly generated ones. Expand and customize your guild with furniture and more.

Price -95% 0.50€
Rating 6.5
Release 01 Sep 2015
Dead In Bermuda DEAD IN BERMUDA is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements. Lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash. Assign them to tasks, gain experience, develop your survival skills, research and craft new items, explore the island and solve its mysteries.

Price -97% 0.50€
Rating 7.0
Release 27 Aug 2015
Big Pharma What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

Price -59% 10.22€
Rating 7.5
Release 27 Aug 2015
Crookz - The Big Heist Crookz - The Big Heist is a tactical strategy game set in the funky 1970’s with a slick and groovy atmosphere. Show off the art of thieving by plotting stylish heists and robberies; utilizing espionage and quick-thinking to avoid detection.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 25 Aug 2015
Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients Command armies, manage resources, and build an empire in this real-time strategy wargame from Longbow Games. Will Rome fulfil its destiny to rule the ancient world or will history be rewritten to forge a new Etruscan, Gallic, or Greek hegemony!

Price -92% 2.29€
Rating 7.7
Release 25 Aug 2015
Universe Sandbox Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

Price -65% 10.21€
Rating 9.4
Release 24 Aug 2015
Farm Frenzy Collection Enjoy the farmhouse gems with this solid set of 12 Farm Frenzy titles! Join Scarlett throughout all of her adventures in hundreds of farming challenges. Raise chickens, ostriches, and dolphins. Bake cakes, grow crops, and sell items at markets. It's an all-out farming assault with one of the most enjoyed series ever!

Price -63% 7.46€
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Aug 2015
Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden “Master, Master! I did it!!” "I can hear you, no need to shout! Oh, my! This is a rather firm Kidney." My Organic Garden is an avant-garde organ-clicking game. Whether it’s to get Master’s praise, or to please the customer, click away and ship those organs!

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Aug 2015
Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings Tight controls and a smooth learning curve will have you knocking it out of the park in no time in this awesome arcade baseball simulator. Polygon’s 2014 Sports Game of the Year.

Price -66% 3.77€
Rating 8.5
Release 21 Aug 2015
Egyptian Senet The Mysterious Afterlife Journey And The Favorite Pastime Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Don't Miss The Opportunity To Play The World's Oldest Board Game From Ancient Egypt.

Price -96% 0.46€
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Aug 2015
Viridi Nurture a small pot of succulents that grow in real time. Viridi is a safe haven, a place you can return to for a moment of peace and quiet whenever you need it.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 19 Aug 2015
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

Price -88% 3.14€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Aug 2015
Sakura Beach From the makers of Sakura Spirit, Sakura Angels and Sakura Fantasy this time working together with the artist Inma to bring you this visual novel dating sim on the beach! Seiji is a daydreamer who spends too much time thinking about space.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Aug 2015
Industry Giant 2 Economic booms, stock market crashes, oil crises, upswings, triumphs... Now you can become the greatest power in industry!

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 Aug 2015
Hacknet Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Price -89% 1.11€
Rating 9.2
Release 12 Aug 2015
Mitos.is: The Game Step into the microscopic world of Mitos.is! Eat or be eaten—become the ultimate cell in a highly addictive multiplayer game. Diverse modes, daily tournaments, guilds, and gear await! The BEST game of 2015 is back!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Jul 2015
Absolute Drift Absolute Drift is a racing game about becoming a master at the art of drifting.

Price -95% 0.68€
Rating 8.5
Release 29 Jul 2015
Five Nights at Freddy's 4 In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 Jul 2015
Time Clickers Time Clickers is what's called an 'incremental game'. There's always a fun upgrade to look forward to, and the numbers keep getting bigger! Hire a team to fight for you, even when you're offline!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Jul 2015
Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 is a story-driven RTS that brings to life some of the most brutal battles of the Great War. Each mission showcases the era’s most devastating weaponry — sabotage, stealth, trench warfare, gas attacks, artillery, and mobile infantry. BoE delivers the full WWI experience.

Price 7.39€
Rating 6.7
Release 22 Jul 2015
TIS-100 TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Price -88% 0.86€
Rating 9.3
Release 20 Jul 2015
Axis Football 2015 Axis Football is a 3D American Football Simulation Game that features a unique aimed passing system. Play in a single match, season mode, or local multiplayer! Offers basic mod support for team rosters.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 15 Jul 2015

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