life sim
English
Noun
life sim (plural life sims)
- (video games) Synonym of life simulation.
- 2003, "The Usual Suspects", Cube (UK), November 2003, 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, page 282:
- In fact, as far as full-fledged life sims go, The Sims has pretty much been it for most gamers.
- 2019, Jack Yarwood, "Leaving Albion: The epic making of Fable", Wireframe, 21 November 2019, 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.
- 2003, "The Usual Suspects", Cube (UK), November 2003, page 35: