Simulation titles, especially life simulators, allow players to experience a whole different world that is different to the one they live in. This includessome life simulatorsallowing players to make a family for themselves in either a world that mimics real life or one that is heavily connected to fantasy.
While some life simulators tend to gift players with immortality, others have been known to allow players to experience life through the various generations of a family they have created. These games, therefore, openly embrace the concept of death. Once a player’s character has reached the end of their life, they will likely pass away, allowing the player to move on to another family member if they hadn’t already. These simulators are some of the best for it.
6Alter Ego
A Text Adventure To Live The Players Life Again
Alter Ego is an interactive text-based title that allows the player to always choose what will happen next. As the name of the game suggests, Alter Ego allows the player to start an entirely new life for themselves, in a choose-your-own-adventure style process with each choice from a player’s childhood leading them down a specific path in the future.
The game always ends withthe player’s death, which then allows them to then start an entirely new game ofAlter Egowhere they may choose different options to live a completely different life.
5Clanfolk
Known To Be A Family Simulator In The Highlands
As an immersive simulator setin the Scottish Highlands, players are encouraged to expand their family and marry off their offspring to other clans in the hope of their generations prospering. While the game does possess survival features such as a player sending off some of their clan members to hunt, fish, or gather supplies, a staple of theClanfolktitle is the creation of families and strengthening these forms.
Naturally, a clan cannot get large without losing som members along the way and therefore dying is another natural part ofClanfolk, be this a family member dying to a rival clan or the eventual passing of an elderly person in the clan.
It wouldn’t be the best life simulator that allows the player to die if it didn’t include at least one Sims game from the franchise.The Sims 4 is a life simulator like no other that encourages players to create families and achieve the goals of their sims as they age up.
With the life spans of sims not being so long, players can play through entire generations of sims in only a few months while gaining a deeper connection to a single family tree. While old age is a natural cause of death, The Sims has also been known for many funnier deaths too. This included the introduction of emotions, which meant players could die from getting too angry or even from a broken heart.
Cozy Farm simulators tend to have players only controlling one character for the entire time they play the game, with creating the perfect farm being the predominant focus of the title. However,Echoes of the Plum Groveis a farming simulator crossed with a life sim that encourages players to make friends as well as farm to hopefully create a bustling community that lasts across the generations.
There are some morbid elements toEchoes of the Plum Grove, as it isn’t all natural deaths andplanting crops. Those that don’t wish to accept the player’s kindness can instead be killed if the feeling suits the player enough.
2Tiny Life
A Pixel Life Simulator Full Of Soul
The Sims 4isn’t the only life simulator title that allows players to create generations of families, as other games in recent years have also attempted to expand into their territory of gaming.
Tiny Lifeis a pixel game where players are able to create their residents – better known as Tinies – and are able to help them take care of their daily needs, build their skills, and even help them form relationships too. Naturally, as a game that tries to be as true to life even in pixels, the Tinies the player controls can grow old and eventually pass away, though it’s even possible to die from accidental causes as well.
Kynseedis a life simulator title that highlights the importance of death as it allows players to experience the world as one of their many heirs they likely created during their adventure. InKynseed, it’s important for players to grow and progress and one of the ways this is done is not only throughbuilding their farm or business, but also how the world around the player begins to change too.
Even the NPCs will die one day during a player’s game with a warning that this will happen soon, so the player can complete any quests that are connected to that person. As mentioned, when the player dies, the game isn’t over as they can either become one of their heirs or, if none are available, they can instead choose an orphan to become.
