Submitted 1 month ago by Ryoae@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
I’m talking more along the lines of, having simulator games where you work in a supermarket and you get to cause as much mayhem as possible. Not in terms of just simply killing, but more like, being a very disgruntled worker in a very annoyingly noisy environment with shitty customers. That game doesn’t exist to me and I wish it would.
Instead, we get more simulator games where you’re at the service of the people. That’s going backwards, if you ask me.
We do have these, they’re just not super popular or are not intended to be played that way.
Like your first example of causing chaos in a shop? You can do that in Supermarket Simulator. It just isn’t what you’re meant to do. 🤷♂️
I am watching Let’s Game It Out and Josh makes things a lot more creatively entertaining than I think I could do in the games he plays.
It’s probably not entertaining to actually make those videos is my bet. He has to torture himself with insanely grindy tasks for many hours to get such unintended outcomes. Some videos, the payoff isn’t very good. I imagine there’s a lot of games he plays for days trying to break things and nothing comes of it worthy of a new video.
I’ve been playing supermarket together, a supermarket management game where you can smack people with a broom;
Walking Dead Saints and Sinners is pretty therapeutic at times.
Not an exact fit, but check out Night of the Consumers
Seems like the trend games are going in is “disney, family friendly, no controversy, safe for China.”
I’m playing Postal 2, I think this is kind of what you’re looking for lol
Played it, beaten it. Gets a bit samey at times.
Yeah, I’m not even sure I’m enjoying it honestly lol
My stress relief game is fallout 4. You get so OP so quickly that it’s like “ok, I don’t like you, or your whole crew. I’m going to wipe you out of existence like Im a Mr clean magic erase sponge.”
It’s just satisfying release.
Job Simulator? It’s VR only though.
From what I know about simulator games, they don’t usually simulate asshole customers, and it’s fairly easy to be successful compared to real life. Kinda its own form of stress relief, though I’d assume that the target audience isn’t people who have the simulated job in real life.
That’s what casual gaming is about.
I used to dig a large room with stone pickaxes in Minecraft. With “large” meaning I could not see the ends in the long direction.
Try Job Simulator on VR
I had an idea for a mobile game.
The premise. Circus/carnival games with gop theme.
So one would be where 3 orange clown heads move and you have to throw a baseball up knock off the crowns.
Another was like wack a mole but with ice agents and protestors. So make sure you only wack the ices.
The old game with the water gun filling up a balloon. But it’s just faces of Trump’s cabinet expanding until they pop.
So many possibilities here. But I don’t know how to design games. So.
I like Mini Motorways in creative mode for this purpose. You design road systems to connect houses with businesses using limited resources. The music is very peaceful and the pastel colours are very pleasant on the eye. While the other modes are a bit more stressful, creative mode is like a simplified city builder.
And of course the perennial favourite, Stardew Valley.
It always bothers me that red houses only ever want to go to red buildings and that you can just leave a lot of the houses completely unconnected to the road system you built. But making a slightly more realistic traffic simulator would probably be a lot more complicated and a lot less fun.
People’s Playground is the closest thing I can think of.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
You might want to play Red Faction Guerilla or Just Cause 2/3, though the former does take a while to open up your choices of destruction.
Hmm, maybe a “Just Cause <workplace> edition” would be a fun game. Or just “you found the keys to the depot forklift”. The physics simulation would make your computer scream
riversmoke@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Haha, nice game idea, call it “For Cause”!