Economic simulation game
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Economic simulation games simulating an economy. Most city-building games, like SimCity, are specialised economic simulator games. Most Tycoon games, like Railroad Tycoon and Pizza Tycoon, are economic simulator games. Economic simulator games are principally always strategy games and never wargames.
In economic simulator games you seldom interact with units (like subjects, individuals or vehicles) in the game, but rather lay or determine the foundations for their situation. Thus, all effects on the populace will be indirect, similar to god games.
One of the most pure examples of economic simulator games is Capitalism, a business simulator in which you build an industrial and financial empire. Another highly ambitious business simulator is Transport Tycoon, a game similar in appearance to SimCity 2000 but where you design a transport infrastructure and business for several cities.
Example titles
- Capitalism, capitalism/economics/business simulator.
- [perfectcompetition.net Business Game], an online multiplayer capitalism/economics/business simulator built on game theoretic principles.
- [Informatist - Open economics game], free online massive multiplayer economy simulator, highly relying on Supply-and-demand and interactions between players
- Harvest Moon series, a farm simulation with RPG and life simulator aspects
- Railroad Tycoon, a simulation of railroad companies. Sequels include Railroad Tycoon 2 and Railroad Tycoon 3. The genre was so successful that it sparked the development of other such "Tycoon" simulations, the most notable being Roller Coaster Tycoon, Transport Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon, in which the player takes control of an amusement park, the transportation elements of a city, and a zoo, respectively.
- SimFarm, where the player controls a rural American farm
- SimIsle, where the player controls a caribbean island
- SimTower, where the player constructs a simulated building complex
- Industryplayer, where the player controls an industry holding.