Can’t speak for other games, but there’s a LOT of former truck drivers who play Snow Runner.
Back when I was working as a forklift driver, when I broke my leg and was stuck at home on the sofa I really enjoyed driving the forklift around in GTA5 and just moving palettes around.
There are current truckers who play Euro Truck Simulator in their trucks. I’ve seen it on r/trucksim
I mean, pilots do similar things, although probably not while in the cockpit.
I work with kids who are seeking vocational education, and I can tell you that it is definitely not just office workers.
A favorite is euro truck sim 2. Weirdest case I’ve met though is farming sim. I’ve talked with 16 year olds who’d play that game for hours daily. Even got a friend of the family who’ll come home from driving a tractor for 14 hours straight, and then play farming sim to wind down.
I know the farming simulator type of people. I think those people simply have a high professional interest in farming economy, management and agricultural technology.
Even more impressing than those who play every FS 20xx for hours I find those who mod for the games. Year after year they photograph, model, program and share their equipment, which is sometimes decades old.
Or just want to drive around in heavy Mashines…
Office work is very important for the most part.
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If you want to check out something related, wierd, and interesting check out German radio controlled truck conventions … lots of people go together and drive their RC stuff in a sensible realistic manner. I find it adorable.
My three year old had an addiction to watching videos of those conventions for about six months.
That sort of thing, but with little trucks, diggers, forklifts, and tractors all by radio control … I guess I never understood the appeal of train sets whereas driving a little truck around looks like fun
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Ugh, these games just seem like so much work, I want to relax.
Sits at computer, pulls out calculator and notepad before opening Satisfactory
I’ve put a ridiculous number of hours into Ship Graveyard Simulator 2. Why am I, a white collar guy from a developed country, spending hours pretending to be a Sri Lankan with one of the worst jobs in the world? It’s bizarre when you think about it.
Who am I to judge? I’ve played several nuclear power plant sims… But come on? Gleisbau? And a sim where you’re paint stripes on roads? Go home Germany, you’re drunk.
I think I’ve played 3 different ones.
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One I bought on steam in alpha, which was a generous way of describing “we’ve managed to get it to compile, now pls give money”,
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another was something online that I can’t find anymore
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and lastly there’s the one I’ve actually spent some time with which was the low defunct nuclearpowersimulatorDOTcom. Luckily it’s still playable on the waybackmachine https://web.archive.org/web/20200221074957/http://www.nuclearpowersimulator.com/
