I was just browsing the Google Play Store and I am getting frustrated seeing games being tagged with the genre, but aren’t actually simulating anything. E.g. Idle Miner/Mining Tycoon (can’t remember name). Nothing in the game is accurate or even tries to represent real life. It even has cartoon graphics. Now I’m not getting mad about the games themselves, just the fact that they are being labelled as sims. Anyone else annoyed by this?
Are there any good mobile games out there?
Technically a simulation is some mathematical model that captures some but not all aspects of a system. (A model that captures every aspect is the system itself)
So like “Idle Miner” models the basic concept of buying capital then putting it to work extracting value. Yeah it’s an ultra-simple model, but it is a model.
Wait. Are you telling me Goat Simulator isn’t accurate?
Goat Simulator suffers from the same issue. It’s not a SIMULATOR. Sure, they put in the effort to make it seem like one, but in the background they just attach a camera to a real goat that you control remotely via wires into it’s brain.
It’s just lazy programming really.
I HATE idle games with all my heart and soul. I love management games and those shitty excuse for a game are everywhere.
If you like management and friendly strategy games look for Kairosoft they are the only ones I know are not Idle shit. Also they are mainly pay once so most of them (except dream house story) don’t have in game stores.
FYI: Reddit has a good Kairosoft community if anyone is interested in going there
I think that, in theory, idle games wouldn’t be TOO bad on their own. However, they happen to encourage/allow developers to add tons of microtransactions and because of the simple gameplay: many devs make clones of existing games or games with the same game loop. This leads to a shit show of shitty games in the genre. So I believe the concept is meh, but in practice they are all terrible.
Also, most albums tagged with shoegaze on Bandcamp are not shoegaze. It’s a travesty.
