For most players, lore is the last thing that comes to mind when it comes to simulation games. Because most of the time, titles under this genre are mere digital recreations of real-world activities or scenarios. Whether it’s washing a car or scrambling a surgery patient’s guts, most simulation games don’t care about world-building.That doesn’t mean world-building in simulation games doesn’t exist. Some of them were awesome enough to combine fantasy, slice-of-life, or parody elements into their simulation gameplay. Consequently, such games also managed to build up their own lore or add more context to their game world so that it’s easy to get lost in them.
When it comes to simulation games, the genre can be a bit hard to define as few games are pure simulators. Instead, multiple other video game genres are combined to draw in all types of players. This includes management and construction games to grand strategy and even sports games, but the themes and settings are just as varied. As such, the number of simulation games with great world-building is surprisingly high, and in a few of these games, the world-building has been done so seamlessly that players barely even notice the hard and creative work that has been put in.
