From ‘The Sims’ to ‘Animal Crossing’: how life simulation games provide an escape from reality
From ‘The Sims’ to ‘Animal Crossing’: how life simulation games provide an escape from reality
From ‘The Sims’ to ‘Animal Crossing’: how life simulation games provide an escape from reality
By Sam Wareing
May 28, 2022
Summary
Relax at the same time? Welcome to the pixelated world of life simulation, the video game genre that lets you live out your best life in cyberspace.
Life simulations are a genre of video games that replicate the everyday activities performed in real life.
From buying a house and raising a family to tending to a farm and going fishing, these games aim to provide all the different aspects of life but make them a relaxing.
One of the best and most well-known examples is The Sims., a now-vast series of life sim games published by Electronic Arts.
All of these seemingly-mundane life tasks that we'd sigh heavily at in real life are magically transformed into tasks we can't get enough of.
How exactly do life sims help us evade the real world?
'The Sims' by EA. As one of the most well-known and popular life sim games, The Sims lets you essentially play god as you create your own character and then set about constructing their life as you see fit..
Reference
Wareing, S. (2022, May 28). From ‘The Sims’ to ‘Animal Crossing’: How life simulation games provide an escape from reality. Retrieved June 6, 2022, from https://screenshot-media.com/the-future/trends/life-sim-games/