life sim

English

Noun

life sim (plural life sims)

1. (video games) Synonym of life simulation.
   • 2003 November, “The Usual Suspects”, in Cube, UK, page 35:

     Although there are other life sims such as Theme Park, Sim City and so on, they've all had a gameplay objective, a purpose for playing.

   • 2005, Sean Carton, 2005 Gamer's Almanac‎^[1], page 282:

     In fact, as far as full-fledged life sims go, The Sims has pretty much been it for most gamers.

   • 2019 November 21, Jack Yarwood, “Leaving Albion: The epic making of Fable”, in Wireframe, page 25:

     Kynseed: The most Fable-y of the games on this list, Kynseed is a life sim currently in early access, from ex-Fable devs PixelCount Studios.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:life sim.