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AdventureSimulationThird person

The game revolves around Boku, a 9 year old boy sent to his aunt and uncle in Japan's wooded countryside and the daily adventures he encounters there. Boku is there because his Mother is in her final month of pregnancy. The player controls

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SimulationStrategyFirst personIndieEducational

PC Building Simulator lets players get to grips and experiment with building their very own gaming PC, without the associated risks and costs. With tutorials to help master the basics and an array of accurate and lifelike components that fu

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SimulationStrategyBird view / Isometric4XScience fiction

Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game. The

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SimulationStrategyBird view / IsometricManagementFictional currencies

SimCity (also known as the retronyms Micropolis or SimCity Classic) is a city-building simulation video game developed by Will Wright, and released for several platforms from 1989 to 1991. SimCity features two-dimensional graphics and an ov

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SimulationStrategyBird view / IsometricManagementCity builder

SimCity Deluxe was a mobile entry in the long-running city building franchise, based on the earlier SimCity 3000 for PC and Mac.

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SimulationStrategySandboxBird view / IsometricCity-building

Create and manage your own city without restrictions. Offering a deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: Skylines II will challenge your decision-making skills and allow you to build the cities of your dreams. Get ready for a new epic

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StrategyPuzzle

The Nintendo DS variation of the ancient ‘Chinese Moving Puzzle’ will captivate players of all ages! Solve 100 puzzles in 10 different themed levels and watch them roar to life on your screen! Improve perception skills, logical thinking, an

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Role-playingSimulationStrategyComedySandbox

The Sims FreePlay is a strategic life simulation game developed by EA Mobile and later with Firemonkeys Studios. It is a freemium version of the The Sims for mobile devices. In the game, players build houses, control virtual people called S

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SimulationStrategyCity-building

In January 2008, the SimCity source code was released as free software under the GPL-3.0-or-later license, renamed Micropolis (the game's original working title) for trademark reasons, and developed by Don Hopkins. Since Micropolis is licen

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AdventureRole-playingSimulationStrategySandbox

The Escapists 2 is the forthcoming sequel to the sandbox prison-escape game which will include, in a first for the series, drop in/drop out play for up to four players in both local and online play.

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SimulationStrategyBird view / IsometricLife simulationManagement

In The Sims Life Stories, you'll get to lead your Sim through a new set of life adventures. You create your Sims, design their dream homes, fulfill their desires or dash their hopes, and tell their stories as they experience life’s biggest

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SimulationThird personRacing

With a nod towards GT2, Sega tosses in their entry in the race-career-category, meaning that this game is all about racing. Racing to win competitions, cars, money and other prizes (such as licenses for bigger cars), buying new cars to race

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Kudos 2 is the life-simulation strategy game from Positech Games (makers of Kudos, Democracy and Rock Legend). Kudos is the original inspiration for the game SimSocial by EA (also known as the myspace sims game). Kudos is a turn-based game

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SimulationFirst personRacing

Speed Challenge: Jacques Villeneuve's Racing Vision is a racing game published in 2002 by Ubi Soft in Europe and Canada. It was released for PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Microsoft Windows.

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SimulationStrategyBird view / IsometricSurvivalLife simulation

Help your Sims thrive and survive when they wash ashore on an uncharted island. Create your Sims and guide them through an even deeper, directed Story mode, taking on a variety of challenges as you help them build their new life from scratc

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Role-playingSimulationStrategyFantasyComedy

The Dungeon Lord is back – and this time he’s serious! In Dungeons 2, fulfil the Dungeon Lord’s insatiable quest for vengeance by recruiting fearsome new monsters from all corners of the underworld in order to undertake his evil bidding. Ta

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SimulationStrategyBird view / IsometricCity-buildingLife simulation

SimCity Creator follows the basic SimCity formula that sees players managing a city and placing residential, commercial, and industrial zones for buildings in addition to facilities such as police stations, hospitals, seaports, and stadiums

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SimulationStrategySandboxBusiness simulationTycoon

Welcome to the building simulation game SimTower, which offers the chance to build and manage all the complex, interconnected operations of a modern skycraper. You build your empire from nothing and become the engineer and general manager o

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Role-playingSimulationStrategySandboxThird person

The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history an

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SimulationStrategyComedyBird view / IsometricBusiness simulation

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits.

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SimulationStrategySandboxBird view / IsometricBusiness simulation

Cities in Motion 2 (CIM2) is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. Cities in Motion 2 introduces new fea

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SimulationIndieLife simulation

Kudos is a life sim letting you explore the life of a 20 year old with a dead end job and no education to speak of. It has the gameplay of a flash life sim, and is generaly well developed and addictive.

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SimulationDating sim

Live the delightful or spiteful life you have always wanted in this groundbreaking social simulation game. Create a new you in the colorful backdrop of Miami, where your ultimate goal is to become a rich and famous model, singer or actor.

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SimulationStrategyBird view / IsometricCity-buildingReal-time strategy

The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici is a real-time strategy computer game, released by Blue Byte Software in 1996. Its gameplay is very similar to that of its predecessor, The Settlers, albeit with a Roman theme and improved graphics. It is t

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AdventureSimulationStrategyBird view / IsometricLife simulation

Castaway is the third console spin-off of the video game The Sims 2. The Sims Castaway Stories is a similar game created for personal computers. It is the final game in the series released for the PlayStation 2 and the final game in the Sim

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SimulationStrategyBird view / IsometricLife simulationPets

Your Sims are leaving the suburbs for the hustle and bustle of apartment life! They're moving into a apartment building full of interesting neighbors and a wide variety of pets. Your Sim can adopt pets of their own to play with and care for

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AdventureFantasyThird personAction-adventureHistorical

The plot centers around Indy's search for the Staff of Moses. The game is mostly about a quest which takes you around the world on various quests, fighting Nazis, Panamanian hunters, and Tong thugs, and trying to find artifacts which will u

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SimulationStrategyComedyThird personBird view / Isometric

A New Chapter to the MySims Kingdom Story - Help King Roland defeat the plans of Evil in a far flung corner of the Kingdom. Play 9 new minigames and do your best to show your worth!

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AdventureRole-playingStrategyBird view / IsometricIndie

By playing as either a Warrior, a Wizard, a Assassin or a Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive. You can learn new skills in Tomes you find along the way and buy/sell items at s

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Bird view / IsometricSportsSoccerCharacter creation

Backyard Soccer continues the 2-D style that the backyard sports games are known for. It also includes MLS players as kids.

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SimulationFirst personFirst-person shooterShooterSports

Carnivores 2 is a first-person hunting game, in which the player's quarry is various species of dinosaur. A sequel to Carnivores, it expands on the original with new maps, new dinos, and new weapons, as well as improved audio and visuals.

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SimulationAdultLife simulationAuditory

Singles: Flirt Up Your Life is a video game developed by German studio Rotobee and published by Deep Silver in 2003. It is similar to The Sims in that the player is responsible for characters who have to be taken care of, such as by orderin

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AdventureThird personPuzzleDinosaursAction

In this survival puzzle action set deep below Tokyo, clear thinking and split-second decisions could mean the difference between life and death.

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SimulationStrategyBird view / IsometricBusiness simulationTycoon

Zoo Tycoon 2 is the sequel to Zoo Tycoon. The sequel updates the graphics, but keeps much of the original gameplay the same. You start with an open field and must build it up into a zoo. Create exhibits and populate them with animals. Buil

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SimulationStrategyBird view / IsometricBusiness simulationTycoon

Zoo Tycoon 2 is the sequel to Zoo Tycoon. The sequel updates the graphics, but keeps much of the original gameplay the same. You start with an open field and must build it up into a zoo. Create exhibits and populate them with animals. Buil

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AdventureRole-playingFantasyThird personBird view / Isometric

In this sequel to Anodyne, traverse a moody, 3D world and surreal 2D spaces, with PSX and 16-bit-influenced art styles. Play as Nova, the Nano Cleaner, and collect dangerous Nano Dust for the mysterious entity, "The Center".

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Role-playingAdventureFantasyThird personBird view / Isometric

In this sequel to Anodyne, traverse a moody, 3D world and surreal 2D spaces, with PSX and 16-bit-influenced art styles. Play as Nova, the Nano Cleaner, and collect dangerous Nano Dust for the mysterious entity, "The Center".

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SimulationFirst personThird personFirst-person shooterShooter

Hidden and Dangerous 2, like its predecessor, focuses on the British Special Air Service during the Second World War. It follows the same concept as the original tactical first/third person shooter. The game's LS3D engine was used by the ga

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AdventureStrategyBird view / IsometricCyberpunkIndie

"Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life."

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Role-playingFantasyBird view / IsometricBased on - bookSword & sorcery

The gameplay is similar to that of the first game. The game is an RPG wherein the player controls multiple characters from the book. It uses a top-down perspective. The game takes place slightly before its predecessor ends: at the dark fore

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SimulationSandboxThird personRacingDrawbridge

Midtown Madness 2 is a free roam racing/arcade sequel to Midtown Madness, part of the Midtown Madness series, developed by Angel Studios (now Rockstar San Diego) and published by Microsoft, which features a range of vehicles that can be dri

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SimulationFirst personDs microphone useNintendo ds tag mode

Nintendogs is a realtime pet simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan, and was later released in North America, Australia, Europe, and other re

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SimulationFirst personDs microphone useNintendo ds tag mode

Nintendogs is a realtime pet simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan, and was later released in North America, Australia, Europe, and other re

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Role-playingSimulationSandboxBird view / IsometricNinja

This game is the sixth numbered entry, and the second one for the PlayStation 2, of the role-playing game construction kit. Assemble your own custom 3D RPG using a tile-based map editor, set events, quests, and story elements, and make it a

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SimulationStrategySandboxBird view / IsometricLife simulation

The Sims Social brings all the freedom, fun, and creativity of The Sims to Facebook! Create customized Sims with their own unique characters, ambitions, and friends. Your Sim's friends - and enemies - are your real friends and the deeper yo

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Bird view / IsometricSportsSoccerRetroCompetitive

Return to the soccer field with your favorite Backyard athletes! The original Backyard Soccer 1998 is back and now enhanced to run on Steam. Build your roster from among the iconic Backyard Kids. Kick, pass, and score in this classic game t

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StrategyChessIndieSportsAsymmetric gameplay

Chess 2: The Sequel is the next step in the evolution of chess tuned for more viable options, strategic interest, and years and years of expert play.

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Bird view / IsometricAction-adventureCyberpunkRacingShooter

Grand Theft Auto 2 is an open world action-adventure video game. It is the sequel to Grand Theft Auto, part of the Grand Theft Auto series. The open world design lets players freely roam Anywhere City, the setting of the game.

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