Job Simulator

Players participate in simulated jobs in a job museum run by robots resembling floating CRT computer monitors with faces. The jobs are represented as tongue-in-cheek approximations of real occupations: "Office Worker", "Gourmet Chef", "Store Clerk", and "Auto Mechanic". Accompanied by a computer character who provides exposition and instructions, players perform tasks associated with that occupation, some of them realistic and others comical. For example, in the "Office Worker" simulation, players engage in activities like evaluating new employees and transferring calls, but are also called upon to eat doughnuts, share photos at the water cooler, and participate in other office tasks.

Using the motion controllers of the HTC Vive, Oculus Touch, PlayStation Move, Windows Mixed Reality headsets, Valve Index, PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers, or depending on the platform, to represent their hands, players interact with the virtual environment similarly to how they would in real life. Most objects within the player's reach can be interacted with - many can be picked up and manipulated, while fixed objects such as keyboards and appliances will have buttons, levers, or dials that the player can utilize. After completing a certain amount of tasks, the player is offered to go back to the museum or continue interacting with the environment. Once the player completes all four job simulations, they're offered a variety of modifiers that change the physics of the gameplay.

Job Simulator was the first game announced for the SteamVR device. The game was also included with the HTC Vive at its launch on April 5, 2016. The developers later lowered the game's price in response to customer reviews. The developers created a "smaller human mode" for players who could not reach objects placed higher in the virtual reality environment. The game uses the Unity game engine.

Polygon wrote that the game's spectator mode, in which the player can move a floating camera in the virtual space, was the perfect way to stream and spectate within virtual reality. Kotaku wrote that Job Simulator was one of the few games that felt like complete experiences at the HTC Vive's launch.

Job Simulator won the Best VR/AR Game award at the 17th Game Developers Choice Awards. During the 20th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Job Simulator for "Immersive Reality Game of the Year" and "Immersive Reality Technical Achievement". The Official UK PlayStation Magazine listed it as the thirteenth best PS VR game.