Best Life Sim Games on Steam
Games about daily routines, relationships, homes, needs, jobs, and personal growth.
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1Stardew Valley - You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Feb 26, 2016
In this game, you can…
- marry someone with the exact salad you found in a trash can.
- build an 8-player farm together and even tweak the group profit split for a harder run.
- spam bombs in a monster-filled cavern to blast straight through floors for loot.
- run the mines in co-op, with one person fighting monsters while the other grabs ore and bolts.
- restore a run-down community center to reshape the whole town, or buy into a big corporation instead.
- ignore farming and still build a whole life by fishing, mining, foraging, cooking, and specializing into different work paths.
- befriend townspeople by learning their schedules, catching them at dawn, and steadily unlocking personal cutscenes and secrets.
- turn an overgrown inherited farm into a working homestead by clearing debris, planting crops, upgrading tools, and expanding your setup.
2Crusader Kings III - Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Sep 1, 2020
In this game, you can…
- make the pope your vassal, imprison him over a feast insult, seize Rome, force-convert him, and banish him.
- create a custom religion with rules like forced nudity or ritual cannibalism, then use conversion to control and humiliate rivals.
- start as a two-year-old empress, face near-total revolt, then grow into a famous conqueror and reformer.
- play a dynasty where you die, then keep ruling as your heir.
- lose your wife to concubinage, rescue her decades later, then adopt a feral "wolf-boy" and raise him into a kingdom-building heir.
- turn a rumor into a chain of spying, blackmail, secret murders, and a land-claim war that drags the whole realm into marching armies.
- breed a "perfect heir" through dynasty genetics until your family tree becomes strategically useful and completely tangled.
- revoke an empire's election laws with a single decision, then deal with powerful nobles resisting the change and testing your rule.
3Supermarket 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.
4Supermarket 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.
5WorldBox - God Simulator - WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
Dec 2, 2021
In this game, you can…
- give grasshoppers sapience with monoliths, watch them churn through a hundred kingdoms in a year, then somehow invent agriculture and windmills.
- curse the world so every death leaves a wandering wraith haunting the land for the rest of history.
- drop a landlocked orc tribe into a mountain bowl and watch them still research boats and set up maritime trade routes.
- watch cats become a shoreline empire so influential that other species start naming their children and cities in catlike words.
- build a wall between two civilizations, fast-forward time, then smash it down and trigger instant mass slaughter.
- give a single person immortality and every trait, make them king, and watch them conquer a 78x53 landmass while surviving plagues and gods.
- edit the genes of an entire species at once, then watch them develop their own building style and start conquering other civilizations.
6PC Building Simulator - Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.
Jan 29, 2019
In this game, you can…
- get scam emails from a fake prince, ship him parts, then build his benchmark PC for a promised payout.
- swap customer parts for cheaper ones, sell the originals, and still get paid if they don't notice.
- design and install custom water-cooling loops, then test the build under load.
- run a repair shop where you take email jobs and get rated by customers.
- take a mystery PC, boot it up, trace what's wrong, replace the failed part, and send it back working.
- build a PC from scratch, power it on, and jump straight into a benchmark to see if it actually performs.
- tweak BIOS settings to hit a customer's exact benchmark score without breaking the system.
- import your own music into the in-game workshop while you work through jobs and upgrades.
7Volcano Princess - Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!
Apr 20, 2023
In this game, you can…
- raise the same kid into a warrior, a researcher, a courtesan, a mafia boss, or a world-ending demon on different runs.
- send her to etiquette school and have her come back with a sword, two boyfriends, and an existential crisis.
- date almost everyone, including girls, and even end up in a poly marriage with multiple partners at once.
- choose what kind of father you are and watch it branch into duels, dice gambling, horse racing, taming, and multiple endings.
- capture horses, train them, race them, and enter them in beauty contests as a whole progression path.
- pledge her to one of three lords, complete their tasks, climb noble fame, and then show it all off at the Birdie Festival.
- debate or fight people you challenge, with rhetorical debates as their own mini-game.
- finish a run, take permanent bonuses into the next one, and use that to chase secret endings across playthroughs.
8TCG Card Shop Simulator - Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.
Sep 15, 2024
In this game, you can…
- spray smelly customers with deodorant until their stink aura disappears.
- take a bent card and a warm bologna sandwich as a trade for a $90 booster box.
- buy a card from a customer, mark it up, and watch them come back later to buy it from your display.
- pull a $1,000 card, then decide whether to keep it as a trophy or cash it out.
- hire employees to run checkout and restocking, then disappear into the back room to rip packs while customers line up outside.
- open packs in the front window after closing so people outside can watch.
- box every card worth $5 or less into mystery boxes and resell them to clear inventory.
- turn your shop into a bigger operation with more shelves, tables, and a whole second area for stock and storage.
9Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator - Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
Dec 13, 2022
In this game, you can…
- turn your shop into a magnet for necromancers, assassins, and terrorists by building a bad reputation.
- decide whether to refuse a poison request or sell it anyway for extra coins.
- swap the potion base to oil, water, or wine, then navigate an entirely different map layout to reach new effects.
- grind ingredients to change how far they travel on the alchemy map.
- push a potion through fog-of-war to uncover effects, then plot weird routes around obstacles to hit a specific node.
- get customer orders with multiple effects and weird restrictions, then decode what they're actually asking for.
- discover a new effect by throwing random ingredients into the cauldron, then save the recipe to instantly remake it later.
- design custom potion bottles and labels, then arrange your shelves to show off your creations.
10My Time at Portia - Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Jan 15, 2019
In this game, you can…
- build the town's fast-travel network by placing Dee-Dee stops yourself, and watch other workshops put their own stops around town too.
- scan ancient ruins for buried relics, dig your own tunnels, find secret rooms with chests, and assemble artifact pieces into museum donations.
- rebuild a whole town by taking builder commissions that permanently add bridges, elevators, street lights, and new routes.
- hand-assemble big inventions at an assembly station by slotting crafted parts together until the full machine or structure takes shape.
- go on real dates and playdates with townsfolk, then bring them into dungeons as companions and get new quests from a spouse.
- turn your workshop into an automated factory where machines make parts that feed other machines in a full production line.
- ride around on mounts like horses and llamas, including a sunglasses-wearing alpaca/llama you can actually use as transportation.
