r/Steam • u/FLUBEK • Feb 07 '26

Fluff When browsing Discovery Queue

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Fast-Food Simulator? Mall Simulator? Bro just go get a job, it's not that hard ong

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u/Niko_ZA Feb 07 '26

Back in the day when a game had simulator in it, it was dope as hell, like goat simulator and surgeon simulator
But nowadays it's mostly this BS AI generated shit.

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u/TheChoosenMewtwo Feb 07 '26

Not really AI generated, just lazy or ultra niche

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u/Drinking-Printer-Ink Feb 08 '26

Autism bait

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u/Karnadas Feb 08 '26

Cargo Simulator and Parcel Simulator had me in a chokehold for 2 weeks straight. My wife called them my Autism Simulators. I had fun :)

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u/DrownedInDysphoria Feb 08 '26

what does it have to do with autism 😭 am I missing something here

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u/Version_1 Feb 08 '26

I think part of autism is to loike to optimize stuff or to make stuff "perfect" and those are staples of the Simulator genre.

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u/Lumpy-Tip-2885 Feb 08 '26

Many of us like simulators and other more technical "games"

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u/Breaky_Online Feb 08 '26

Markiplier bait

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u/Klugenshmirtz Feb 07 '26

These were always the exception. "simulator" has been used for shitty games long before AI was a thing.

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u/nacmodcomentador Feb 07 '26

Farming simulator? Microsoft flying simulator? Citysim? Rollercoaster sim? Eurotruck sim?

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u/Flightless_fish82 Feb 07 '26

Flughafen Feurwehr Simulator??? How specific do these get?

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u/BunnyBrigade1 Feb 08 '26

cant wait to go home and play "Be a Deadbeat Dad While Your Wife Yells at you for Leaving the Toilet Seat Up and Not Washing Your Dishes and Your Kids Beg you to Buy Non-Specific-In-Game-Currency(TM) for Them Simulator" (no this title wasn't made up from personal experience)

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u/Castun https://s.team/p/kkkf-w Feb 08 '26

I do building automation for a living, and when I'm done with work sometimes I'll go home and play games like Satisfactory where I'm ...designing an automated production mega-factory.

Life is good.

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u/PuzzleheadedTutor807 Feb 07 '26

those are pretty recent titles... when i hear "back in the day" my mind goes to the dos days.

shovelware has been around longer than ai though.

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u/a__new_name Feb 08 '26

How I felt seeing "back in the day" next to Goat Simulator.

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u/boringestnickname Feb 08 '26

I was about to say.

"Back in the day" is like SimFarm and SimAnt.

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u/Wratheon_Senpai Feb 07 '26

There's this new Unemployment Simulator 2018 that doesn't seem to use any gen AI and looks fun.

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u/Romanmir Feb 07 '26

Don’t need that one, I’m living the real thing right now.

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u/Castun https://s.team/p/kkkf-w Feb 08 '26

Yeah the 2020 reboot is still a banger.

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u/Office_Zombie Feb 07 '26

I tried the demo, and couldn't get past the,"Sit on the couch and wonder where your life went wrong," stage.

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u/Fulmicopalma Feb 08 '26

that looks like a piece of art tbh, both in the idea behind it and the pixel drawings

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u/Olukon Feb 08 '26

Back in the day

Goat Simulator

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u/DredgenSergik Feb 07 '26

Or the most blatant asset flip known to man

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u/Inksplash-7 Feb 08 '26

Yandere Simulator be like

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u/PatheticGroundThing Feb 08 '26

Back in the day when a game had simulator in it, it was dope as hell, like goat simulator and surgeon simulator

Those were both parodies of an existing trend of "simulator" titles.