Simulator Games Online: Jobs, Machines, Tycoons and Animals
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Simulator games online put you in someone else's job or life and let you do it step by step: drive a train, run a supermarket, wash a car or live as a wild horse. Most of them are either about operating something well or about managing money and upgrades. Below are the kinds, what each asks of you and games from the simulation games collection.
What a simulation game is
Wikipedia's article on the simulation video game describes games designed to closely copy real-world activities, often without strictly defined goals, so you control a character or a place freely. One of its subgenres, construction and management, has you build, expand or manage a project with limited resources.
| Kind | What you do | Start with |
|---|---|---|
| Vehicles and machines | Operate one vehicle or machine well | Train Simulator 3D |
| Jobs and shops | Do the daily work of one job | Big Supermarket Simulator |
| Tycoon and idle | Grow a business through upgrades | Monster Café: Idle Tycoon |
| Cleaning | Make something spotless, stage by stage | Car Wash Simulator Summer Edition |
| Animal life | Live as an animal in an open world | Wild Horse Simulator Racing Games |
Vehicle and machine simulators
- Train Simulator 3D drives a series of trains by balancing the accelerator and the brakes. Finding the right speed is the hard part, and it plays with the mouse only.
- Heavy Crane Simulator operates cranes on different jobs, and you also drive heavy trucks that work with the cranes to move containers. Tab opens the machine menu, Y switches the crane on or off and K the hook.
- Taxi Driver Simulator has a Work Mode of 80 levels: follow the blue direction indicators, pick up passengers and deliver them, and earn three yellow stars per level. Slow down before steering, obey red lights, and spend your earnings on 9 more cars. Free mode keeps you serving customers and paying for fuel at gas stations.
- Garbage Sanitation Truck drives to each dustbin, loads the trash and drops it at the processing ground without crashing into traffic.
More driving is in the guides to car games, truck games and bus games, and flying in airplane games.
Job and shop simulators
- Big Supermarket Simulator starts with a small store: restock, work the till, clean and add products. Coins buy upgrades, then coffee and flower shops, staff and automated production lines, and income keeps building while you take a break.
- My Supermarket Simulator 3D runs a grocery store from stocking shelves to managing staff.
- Airport Manager Online switches between roles: run security checks, validate boarding passes, fly planes and help passengers find lost belongings.
- School Stories: Teacher Sim grades papers and catches cheaters with hidden phones or notes, with mini games around the school.
- Referee Simulator 3D puts the whistle in your hands: foul or clean tackle, penalty or free kick, offside or goal, yellow or red card. When unsure, sprint to the VAR monitor and review the incident in slow motion. It covers 13 incident types and a career from a regional league upward.
- Boss Office Life Simulator runs an office by accepting or refusing requests with a click, and you can hire and fire staff.
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Kitchen jobs, from burgers to cakes, are in cooking games.
Tycoon and idle simulators
Tycoon games grow a business through upgrades. Many are idle games, which Wikipedia's article on incremental games describes as games where progress continues with little input from you. It also describes prestige: resetting your progress in exchange for permanent bonuses.
- Monster Café: Idle Tycoon serves slimes, ghosts and vampires. Tap orders, collect tips, upgrade machines and hire monster waiters who serve while you are away. Its Full Moon Move is a prestige reset with a Moon Shop, and its description promises no timers that punish you.
- Real Estate Tycoon buys cheap houses and sells them for more, with 18 mystery achievements to find.
- Crush Yard Tycoon crushes cars in a hydraulic press and upgrades Power, Speed and Value.
- Demolition Tycoon 3D starts with a mini loader and grows to seven machines over 80 contracts in seven districts. Wood, brick, concrete, metal and glass each break differently.
- Pizza Cafe Tycoon is about delivering pizza orders quickly and on time.
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Tycoon habits:
- Buy the upgrade that raises income first. Every later purchase comes sooner.
- Hire help early. Waiters and staff earn while you do something else.
- Read what each upgrade does. Car Wash Simulator Summer Edition's four upgrades each change something different, from cash per car to how often rare cars turn up.
Cleaning simulators
- Car Wash Simulator Summer Edition cleans each car in four stages: hose, sponge, polish and towel. Earnings buy four upgrades: Cash Multiplier, Cars Per Day, Cleaning Speed and Rare Car Chance.
- Tidy Bot drives a robot vacuum around cosy rooms, collecting every speck of dirt and coins, and gets back to the dock before the battery runs out. It has 30 levels, an Endless mode and three difficulties.
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- Wild Horse Simulator Racing Games has four modes: Family, Farm, Racing and Free Roam. Raise a horse family, run a farm or race.
- Sheep Simulator Animal Games builds a sheep family, explores the city and completes missions while avoiding dangerous animals.
- Duck Family Simulator Animal Games raises ducklings and flies across islands: U to fly, J to walk, E to climb and X to drop while flying.
- Bird Simulator is physics-based flight: W and S pitch, A and D turn, Space flaps. To take off, hold Space and S.
Life on a farm, from crops to animals, is in farm games.
Simulator games FAQ
What are simulator games?
Games that copy a real activity, such as driving a train, running a shop or living as an animal, and let you do it your own way. Most have no single goal beyond doing the job better.
Are there life simulation games online?
Yes, in a narrower sense: you live one role at a time. School Stories: Teacher Sim and Boss Office Life Simulator are about a working day, and the animal simulators about raising a family in the wild.
Do simulator games save progress?
Some say so. Tidy Bot saves progress automatically, Demolition Tycoon 3D saves it locally, and Big Supermarket Simulator keeps earning while you are away.
Do I need to download simulator games?
No. You play free, right in the browser, with no install and no registration, on a phone, a tablet or a computer.
The simulation games collection has many more jobs to try.
