Simulators are one of the earliest PC game genres, and remain compelling experiences to this day, even if they’re not as popular as they used to be.

I like all kinds of combat flight sims; the MS Combat Flight Simulator from 1998 was something special, and I’ve had some similar fun in IL-2 Sturmovik. The newest civil air sims are pretty great too, I’ll pop on a podcast and make a flight. They’re particularly cool in VR.

I’ve also found the MechWarrior games to be fun, but I’ve only played 2 and 5. I got to play a bit of Steel Battalion with the full crazy controller at a con a few years back, and that’s got to be a lot of fun once you really know what you’re doing.

So what’s your favorite sim?

  • gorkur@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    My parents got me a copy of Harrier Jump Jet by Microprose one christmas. I can’t even begin to imagine how many hours I spent on that game, both actually playing it and studying the manual for it. Still have the manual actually but the floppies are long gone.

    After that I got every Microprose sim I could get my hands on, F14 Fleet Defender was probably my favorite after Harrier.

    Then I kinda lost interest in simulators until Arma came along, spent years where I hardly played anything else.

    Nowadays though ETS is pretty much the only sim I play.