The Sims 4 is getting a makeover. Okay it's mostly cosmetic in nature (no not that "cosmetic," well kinda), but it's getting one all the same. The game will sport new box art and some UI changes, including a new loading screen and the optio...

We've gone entirely too long without a new PC game that captures the magic of the original Zoo Tycoon, but with Planet Zoo this year, Frontier Developments is looking to set things right for neglected fans. It's a management sim in which yo...

Cats are assholes. Everyone knows this. Why we keep them around I'll never know. My roommate has a cat, and his favorite thing to do is sneak into my room when I'm asleep and lie horizontally across my face. He'll jump up onto the coffee ta...

Terraria has been around for nearly a decade now, and today at the PC Gaming Show, they unveiled the fourth major update, Journey’s End. According to PC Gamer, it's getting 800 new items, which is roughly a 120% increase on what'...

Zoo Tycoon is dead. Long live Zoo Tycoon. Planet Zoo lives. Long live Planet Zoo. As Jordan said recently, this sort of thing is extremely my jam. Frontier Developments is handling both development and publishing duties, and it's set t...

We've got some Steam copies up for grabs in today's contest for Between the Stars! Space is super big. And super vast. And super scary. It's kind of like the ocean (huge, expansive, terrifying), but like, different. It's so weird! I think I...

Contests are a gamer's best friend: Win a Switch copy of Little Friends: Dogs & Cats! When I said I was Dtoid's Senior Dog and Cat Correspondent, I wasn't kidding. Do you need proof beyond my already stellar resume filled with dogs and ...

Hey, PC players. The Humble Store is giving out Jalopy, a road-trip simulation game about fixing up a hunk of junk and making the trek from East Berlin to Turkey, for free. You should consider getting it! Every road trip has complications, ...

There's nothing like a fan-favorite crossover to boost an aging game into the headlines. Ghostbusters is back, and not just in movie form. The theme park management sim Planet Coaster has recruited Dan Aykroyd and William Atherton to repri...

Navigate the horrors of the intergalactic corporate world and enter our contest for Godly Corp! I will never, ever let the torch go out on weird games. I've covered this one before in Getting Weird with Wes, and now it's back to haunt ...

Folks, I'm back on my House Flipper bullshit. The long-awaited (by me, and other honest-to-goodness human beings, I swear!) Garden Flipper DLC is now out on Steam. The original simulation game tasked players with clearing out nasty homes, s...

Now here's a novel idea for a video game. Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is a defensive city-builder in which you not only have to maintain a steady flow of resources to expand, but you also have to fend off hordes of "weird nightmare creature...

Automachef is basically an episode of How It's Made in video game form, and I'm all about it. The upcoming PC and Nintendo Switch simulation title tasks hopeful food tycoons with devising automated kitchens. This trailer starts out straight...

Smoke the competition in today's contest for a Steam copy of Weedcraft Inc. Ok, I'm going to resist making any more drugs jokes in this post. There have already been like three, and that's just in the title and subheader alone. Anyway, thos...

Most career-based games set out to either emulate a job to a T or build upon their most interesting tasks. For instance, American Truck Simulator sets out to simulate a delivery truck driver's experience as accurately as possible. Game Dev ...

I just can't trust myself with some games, and simulation and strategy titles definitely fall into that category. The open beta for Anno 1800 is up and running on PC, but I'm afraid of what'll happen if I start playing. A "few minutes" turn...

Frontier Developments has released a slew of details pertaining to the next update to their intergalactic sim, Elite Dangerous. Expected to release on April 23, this new update brings all sorts of new content to the ever-growing space adven...

Yesterday, we reported on how noir-fantasy drink-fest VA-11 Hall-A will be making the leap to PS4 and Nintendo Switch next month. But for those of you who prefer Sunday morning to Saturday night, then Coffee Talk might be just your cup of J...

Publisher Ysbryd Games, in conjunction with developer Sukeban, has announced that indie darling and dramatic bartender simulator VA-11 Hall-A will be hitting Nintendo Switch and PS4 in May.Originally released for PC and PS Vita several year...

The early reactions to My Time at Portia weren't convincing enough for me to drop whatever I was playing at the time, but I've left the crop-growing, ruin-exploring, relationship-navigating life sim on my low-priority backlog. I'll get to i...

House Flipper may seem like a throwaway Steam game at first glance, and for many people, that's probably an accurate assessment. But me? I dug it. I really did. House Flipper is a laid-back simulation game in which you buy houses, tidy up d...

After years of wading around on its own hosted website and supporting itself through Patreon, the mother of all rogue simulations Dwarf Fortress is making its way to Steam and Itch.io in the near future. Part-management-sim, part-rogue, Dwa...

Those of you still cruising through the deep reaches of outer space in epic intergalactic adventure Elite Dangerous might have to get comfortable whilst you wait for some new content, as it appears the next major update won't be coming unti...

For a limited time, the otherworldly farming adventure sim Slime Rancher is free to claim from the Epic Games Store. If you're looking for a chill PC game to unwind with, Monomi Park has your back. The developers have continued to expand a...

My only real hangup with Job Simulator is that it had to end. It's a silly game about day-to-day tasks like office work and cooking, but through the lens of robots who don't know the finer details of humanity's distant past. When everything...