Best Immersive Sim Games on Steam
Systems-driven games where stealth, combat, physics, and tools support creative solutions.
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1Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Oct 12, 2012
In this game, you can…
- practice alley-docking so much in-game that it carries over to real CDL-style trailer backing tests.
- join online convoys where a small bump can turn into a cross-country chase, or into a friendly honk-and-wave road trip with strangers.
- install major map mods and end up convoying through places like Iceland on custom roads with new physics and navigation.
- start with quick jobs, buy your first truck, take out loans, hire drivers, and grow into a multi-garage fleet that earns while you're out hauling.
- hammer down the highway with the speed limiter off, then sweat every speed camera and fine as you try to keep the delivery on time.
- reverse a full trailer into a tight loading bay and park it cleanly.
- cross a border and immediately deal with new road rules, new signage, and suddenly driving on the opposite side in the UK.
- haul everything from fuel and chemicals to oversized machinery and vehicles, then adjust how you drive to keep the cargo intact.
- tune in to live local radio stations as you drive and switch countries until the music and traffic rhythm sync up with the route.
2American Truck Simulator - Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
Feb 2, 2016
In this game, you can…
- get stuck in a traffic jam because there's a small plane sitting on the highway behind cones and a cop car.
- neglect your truck and have it get worse mid-trip, like the engine starting to fail or the gearbox losing high gears.
- start as a hired driver, buy your first truck, then build garages and hire drivers until your fleet's income covers your tickets and repairs.
- choose a hard backing-in, an easy pull-in, or skip parking at the end of every delivery.
- back a long trailer into a loading dock using only your mirrors, with handling that can feel real enough to train the skill.
- roll into a delivery yard at night with a double load, thread tight turns without clipping anything, then inch the trailer into place a few feet at a time.
- hit the brakes and downshift an 18-speed in fog and rain when a car blows a stop sign, then still make the dock, grab a new trailer, and keep hauling.
- run convoys with friends, drive side by side, refuel together, and deal with the same chaotic merges while everyone watches it happen.
3Kenshi - A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Dec 6, 2018
In this game, you can…
- throw someone into acid to melt their legs off, then install bionic scout legs so they can outrun everyone and steal dinosaur eggs.
- leave a shop door open, watch a camel wander in, and trigger a chain fight where shopkeepers, guards, and caravans brawl across town.
- get enslaved for stealing food, train lockpicking and stealth at night, free other slaves, and sprint into the wilderness with guards chasing you.
- get beaten unconscious by bandits, wake up, and come back tougher because taking hits raises your durability.
- lose an arm or leg, crawl across the desert to safety, then replace it with a metal limb and come back faster and stronger.
- start as an escaped slave, build a drug-running business, hire an army, and turn your grudge into a full war against a government.
- turn prison time into training by repeatedly breaking out, getting caught, healing up, and leveling skills from inside a cage.
- build a base with one bad gap, then watch bandits and cannibals pile into your storage building together while you scramble to survive the pileup.
4House Flipper - House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!
May 17, 2018
In this game, you can…
- turn a 350-square-foot wreck into an open-concept home with a kitchen, full bath, and a bedroom that fits a double bed.
- place a single toilet in the middle of a room, or fill a house with only bathtubs, just to see which buyer prefers it.
- mow lawns, plant gardens, enter a garden competition, then auction the house on Saturdays.
- take a cleanup job, haul out trash, mop filth, paint walls, install heaters and showers, then fully furnish the place for the client.
- smash out walls, rip out windows and doors, and sell the pieces while you redesign the whole house layout.
- build a house with no kitchen and two bathrooms, then still sell it to whatever bizarre buyer shows up for it.
- shuffle objects until the game re-labels a room, like making a living room suddenly count as a kitchen to satisfy buyers.
- buy your first trashed house, gut it, remodel and stage it, then list it and hope the right buyer pays for your choices.
- find a hidden room on the minimap, then smash through a wall to reveal it and rebuild the space around it.
5Supermarket Together - The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Aug 9, 2024
In this game, you can…
- use a fire extinguisher to blast people across the floor and launch them into the supermarket.
- chase shoplifters down the street with a broom, beat them up, and make them drop what they stole.
- expand the supermarket enough to stock up to 49,000 products on shelves, forcing real choices about space and storage.
- spawn in with friends and start broom-fighting everyone outside before the store even opens.
- set up anti-theft gates and CCTV, spot thieves in the act, then run them down and stop them from escaping.
- run the store as a co-op assembly line where one person cashiers, one restocks, one cleans, and one hunts thieves.
- watch the shop go from empty shelves to a packed operation where everything sells out fast and you sprint to restock before it collapses.
- set ridiculous prices for basic groceries and still have customers sometimes buy them anyway.
6Farming Simulator 22 - Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.
Nov 21, 2021
In this game, you can…
- tell an AI driver to travel anywhere, load at a silo, deliver to a sell point or railroad, and repeat until it's done.
- set a real crop calendar with seasons, then shorten months to one day or fast-forward a whole year at x360.
- sink a 60-foot trailer into a river and watch millions of free-range eggs float away downstream.
- build production buildings, own them, and turn your harvest into a multi-step goods chain that keeps expanding.
- run co-op where friends share one farm or run separate farms on the same map, with shared equipment and money transfers.
- grow grapes and olives with dedicated equipment, adding a whole new style of farming alongside regular crops.
- watch the map change with the months, from summer barbecues to Halloween decor to snowmen and Christmas lights.
7Dishonored - Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
Oct 8, 2012
In this game, you can…
- stop time, disable an alarm, toss a grenade into the air, shoot it mid-flight, and let it detonate when time restarts.
- possess a guard or an animal to slip into restricted areas and bypass security from the inside.
- finish the whole game without killing anyone, including major encounters, by choking guards out and staying unseen.
- teleport onto rooftops, through windows, or behind guards, then drop straight down for a takedown.
- stop time, fire three arrows into guards, blink, fire three more, then drop-assassinate someone as time begins again.
- pull a whale-oil tank to drop a barrier, grab another tank, throw it, stop time, and shoot it midair to wipe out the area.
- summon a swarm of rats and have them tear enemies apart while you keep moving.
- peek through keyholes and listen through doors to learn what guards and targets are about to do.
8Supermarket Simulator - Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.
Jun 19, 2025
In this game, you can…
- drive around town to different shops and buy stock for half price.
- take a tiny purchase paid with a $100 bill and count out a huge pile of change.
- watch customers camp in front of an empty shelf until you restock it.
- put up a 5% sale and actually pull in more customers and profit.
- grab delivery boxes at the door, open them, and hand-place every item on shelves.
- expand and customize the whole store by painting walls, changing floors, naming it, and rearranging furniture.
- order goods when market prices dip, then set prices to keep customers happy while staying profitable.
9The Planet Crafter - A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Apr 10, 2024
In this game, you can…
- build too low and slowly watch the rising waterline flood your entire starter base into a lake.
- turn a dead red planet into blue skies, lakes, grass, and forests.
- launch rockets to boost terraforming, and watch them crash into each other if you fire too many.
- upgrade from hand-built survival gear to drones, auto-crafters, and production lines that run the planet for you.
- place grass spreaders, tree spreaders, and butterfly or frog setups to grow specific patches of life exactly where you want.
- explore wrecks and hidden ship interiors, read logs, and piece together an eerie subplot from what you find.
- reach the point where the planet is breathable, oxygen stops mattering, and drones start sorting crates while you travel by portals.
10Dishonored 2 - Reprise your role as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2. Declared a “masterpiece” by Eurogamer and hailed “a must-play revenge tale” by Game Informer, Dishonored 2 is the follow up to Arkane’s 1st-person action blockbuster & winner of 100+ 'Game of the Year' awards, Dishonored.
Nov 11, 2016
In this game, you can…
- pull levers to reconfigure an entire mansion, turning rooms and hallways into a shifting mechanical puzzle box.
- move through the same mansion in two different time periods and change the past to alter what's waiting in the present.
- make choices that let you skip entire levels, even in a story-driven campaign.
- pick one protagonist, then replay as the other with a completely different set of supernatural powers.
- mix both protagonists' powers together in New Game+ and build combinations the campaign wasn't originally balanced for.
- link multiple enemies together so one takedown or one shot drops everyone connected to the chain.
- possess a rat to slip through tiny cracks, then hop bodies to bypass defenses from the inside.
- drop from a huge height, stab someone mid-fall, survive the landing, slow time, detonate an explosive tank, then finish the survivors with a summoned rat swarm.
