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.
Tiny Glade and the entire diorama building genre are already mentioned. Do you have any interest in the P&C adventure genre?
Postal 2 immediately comes to mind for me. Just some dude trying to do mundane errands around town. Definitely a lot of killing tho…
Untitled Goose Game?
Shoo! Shoo away from my garden, bird!!! SHOO!
My feeling, that I’ve learned after many years of doing it wrong, is that ‘taking out’ your stress with violent or aggressive acts, even virtual ones, isn’t a healthy way to deal with it. It reinforces it rather than releasing it. Calming exercises, deep breathing and letting stress go is a much more useful way to deal with it.
In that vein, I recommend Tiny Glade for stress relief. Or any so called ‘cosy’ game.
No, going to disagree here.
We’ve had this discussion many times over about what violent video games does with people. We’ve had it in the form of what the media decides to twist and falsely blame from the actions the individual does when there are other things at play.
Broken people are the ones who take the violence out from the digital realm of video games and apply it to real world. They are the ones who can’t manage their stress and anger levels regardless playing a game or handling a problem in person.
I’m not saying violent video games make you violent. I’m saying if you use those things, and it’s not just video games - punching a pillow, for example - as a way to deal with stress, then that’s going to become a habitual response to stressful situations.
Check out the Youtube channel Let’s Game It Out. Josh is very creative in finding ways to torment the NPCs of various simulator and tycoon games.
Because Postal already exists.
And postal 2, 3, and 4What’s Postal 3?
Was after Postal 2
No, it was be4 Postal 4.
Naw, thats a blank. Don’t remember that one.
People Playground is the closest thing I can think of.
It’s interesting how simulators do tend to draw in people who also do the same thing as their IRL job.
Lots of farmers play Farming Simulator. Lots of truckers play Euro/American Truck Simulator. Lots of pilots play MS Flight Simulator.
I guess getting to do the thing you know without all the bullshit is relaxing.
So you want a game where you can go… postal?
There’s already like hundreds and thousands of games where I can kill people in.
Bro there’s people who play Skyrim for 100hrs never leaving the first village or picking up a weapon.
There might not be a game tailored to what you want, but I’m sure a game exists where you can do what you want to, especially if on PC and with mods.
Like, you can just play a super market simulator, and instead of caring about score do what you get enjoyment from.
What do you think the minigun is for in GTA5?
Have a mother Cluckin’ Day!!
I saw an ad a few days ago for a game called Roadside Research.
It’s a gas station management sim where you play as an alien disguised as a human, running a gas station and “researching” humanity.
It looks pretty fun.
Umm, you mean like The Sims?
Not satisfying enough.
A lot of VR titles let you do that. Job simulator, vacation simulator, and more erm, viscerally, surgeon simulator.
being a very disgruntled worker in a very annoyingly noisy environment with shitty customers.
That sounds like pure stress to me instead of stress relief. Dont know about other people but I wouldnt want to spend my free time simulating a shitty job.
The idea is to play a simulator where you can cause chaos from that.
Why’d you even bother to snip that line, to make yourself sound smart?
But that’s the point, the only reason you would need to ‘cause chaos’ is because you’re willfully subjecting yourself to a shitty environment. That’s like getting yourself thrown in jail just because it would be super satisfying to break out. Just leave the bullshit in the outside world, don’t take it home with you and concoct weird revenge fantasies about it.
