life sim

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Noun[edit]

life sim (plural life sims)

  1. (video games) Synonym of life simulation.
    • 2003 November, “The Usual Suspects”, in Cube, UK, page 35:
      Although there are other life sims such as Theme Park, Sim City and so on, they've all had a gameplay objective, a purpose for playing.
    • 2005, Sean Carton, 2005 Gamer's Almanac[1], page 282:
      In fact, as far as full-fledged life sims go, The Sims has pretty much been it for most gamers.
    • 2019 November 21, Jack Yarwood, “Leaving Albion: The epic making of Fable”, in Wireframe, page 25:
      Kynseed: The most Fable-y of the games on this list, Kynseed is a life sim currently in early access, from ex-Fable devs PixelCount Studios.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:life sim.