Nominees - Simulation

Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a gamified focus tool, set to a soothing lofi soundtrack. Discover and collect Spirits, customize your cozy virtual space, and facilitate your real-life tasks with a collection of handy features designed to improve concentration and ease stress.

In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures - turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!

A fantasy gladiator strategy RPG with vibrant characters, funny random events, team management mechanics, and emergent relationship-building. Uncover a sinister conspiracy; fight deep turn-based tactical battles; watch your characters grow together!

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits.🔸Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Halve the blocks into two equal parts and solve the unique puzzles in a game with a blueprint visual style and meditative music

R.A.V.E is a multiplayer concert simulator for experiencing livestreamed events. Create the stage, set the lighting, and start the show! Your audience awaits.

Classic RTS gameplay fused with a modern roguelike. Shape your build each run by assembling an evolving arsenal of powerful units and facilities. Harvest resources, build out your base. Raise your army and call down orbital strikes to overcome the forces threatening your survival.

From the developers of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, ZEPHON is a post-apocalyptic 4X strategy game built on Proxy’s unique tactical combat system. Guide survivors through a turbulent future, navigating unexpected disasters, eldritch horror and cyberpunk monstrosities. What will you do to survive?

The engineering roguelike. Construct your own skills by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions.

Blend tea and friendship in the flavourful world of Pekoe, a cozy cat-filled tea-making simulator about taking the time for self-care and connecting with what makes you happy. Build relationships, upgrade your teahouse, and discover new recipes as you work towards creating a place you can call home.

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...

FINAL PROFIT is a story driven shop-sim RPG. Gather products and find customers. Spend your hard-earned profits on upgrades and investments. Make far-reaching choices as you expand your business. And explore a world full of secrets on your quest to defeat capitalism by becoming the best at it!

Esports History is an RPG sim where you start as a regular guy, and work your way up to the very top of esports. Defeat bosses in tournaments, make a name for yourself within the esports community, and become a real pro!

Mythmatch is a community-building sim set in Greek Mythology. Match items to transform them. Match people to unite them. Rebuild Ithaca, create cute creatures, and defy the gods.

Become a wholesome ghost matchmaker and grow relationships between the manor’s residents! Gift items to lift their spirits, set them up on dates, and watch love bloom! Discover cute romances with a unique story between every pair of residents! How will love blossom in your manor?

Solarpunk is a survival game in a technically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.

Experience the excitement of Fortune Avenue, a 3D monopoly game reimagined. Travel via airport, avoid melting ice floes, and spin the Wheel of Fortune. Vote on new game-changing rules and eliminate opponents for bonuses. Fast-paced, and endlessly fun! 🎲 🏨

Midwest 90: Rapid City is a story focused, restaurant- tycoon, survival game. Set in a New Great Depression and amidst an invasion of monsters - you must overcome the struggles of running a midwest restaurant that serves Monster Meat Dishes and also set traps to protect it from monster attacks.

Survive the galaxy's toughest prison and rise to the top of a space gang! Explore, fight, craft, trade and learn convicts' stories to escape the facility. Space Prison is a turn-based tactical survival game with deep strategy and social RPG elements.

Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

The 3D ratformer game you didn't know you wanted; RAT MEMORY is a 3D platformer game with exploration, in which you will have to complete tasks, such as collecting items and coins, and overcome challenges as a rat trying to discover his present and change his future.

A super cute and tasty roguelite-flavored dungeon crawler! Explore a lush world and defeat monsters with your trusty spatula and some boba tea, then gather delicious ingredients and bring them home to cook and serve at your restaurant!

Bubblegum Galaxy is a cozy narrative building game about rebuilding the galaxy tile by tile. Discover and design new planets, complete missions, explore your office and befriend your co-workers... all while trying to find out who deleted the galaxy!

Build and conquer in Kaiserpunk, the ultimate city builder and grand strategy combo set in an alternative 20th century world. Engage in epic battles on land, sea, and air, or use your economic power to emerge as the ultimate victor.

A Webbing Journey is a physics-based sandbox game where you play as a cute little spider. Explore a giant house, create crazy web structures, and complete oversized chores in creative and fun ways.

Reclaim the Sea is a roguelike strategy game set in a steampunk naval world. Fight your way through randomly generated maps and text events. Command your pirate crew, upgrade your ship and make tactical decisions to beat the boss and save the world… or die trying.

Make your way around the shopping center to collect items on your shopping list. But be careful; one slip up and you'll be paying for a broken item! Avoid grumpy shoppers or simply shove them out of the way! Various other obstacles get in your way as you fill your cart and make it to checkout!

Welcome to the perfect vacation getaway: Borgo Marina. Be warned, there’s mysteries around every corner in this Italian paradise. Befriend the locals, find clues, and play your cards right to uncover the town’s secrets in this story-driven adventure.

Lead your new company to success in this industry management game. Blueprint and optimize your production; make ethical choices to influence your worker conditions, ecological impact, automation level, and more. Will you create a simple manuFactory or a beneFactory?

Hack your way out of a prison train and reclaim everything taken away from you. Mend your body and mind after a self induced coma. Manage resources to conquer, build up and upgrade multiple bases. Defend against hordes of enemies. Balance the only dwindling asset you have left: Time.

Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...

CraftCraft is an RPG merchant sim with hands on crafting. Create a necklace for a mermaid princess or a sword made of dragon blood - you choose! Express your creativity in your very own cozy crafting studio and change the lives of quirky locals in the mysterious port town of Windspell.

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

I am Mizu Ren Nanami... As a resident of the land of Ren, the time has come for me to embark on a mission to win the hearts of the people in Rostania, the city to which I’ve been assigned. Here, I’ll uncover secrets I never knew existed.

Crab God is an atmospheric underwater strategy game. Guide your Crabling colony through wild ocean depths, and defend the egg of the next Crab God.Restore and protect diverse coral reefs, making a difference in the real world as you progress in-game. Make waves, praise the claw!

You are a lone Ukrainian military drone operator battling Russian occupation forces. Hidden deep behind enemy lines, you operate your drone to seek and destroy tanks and armored vehicles, shatter communication lines, and recover stolen goods. Slava Ukraini!

DATE, FLIRT & SURVIVE in this Retro-Horror Adventure where you date characters based on REAL Computer VIRUSES. Explore and uncover dark secrets behind each character and make choices that will lead to a ❤️SMOOCH❤️ or your DOOM!

Mow down all who stand in the way of your Crusade. Become a benevolent conqueror, or a brutal oppressor to those you achieve victory over. Your actions decide the fate of the planet. Conquer various factions, fight Slimes, Undead, and meet unexpected allies in this 3D Side scroller!

Drag toys from the shelves and drop them on the table to create a shadow play in this cozy puzzle game. As the shadows you cast uncover past family relationships and the environment around you changes and evolves, the lines between reality and fantasy blur.

Turn around a wrestling promotion and fall in love along the way!

Kohlrabi Starship is a cozy farming game with space travel. Fly your very own greenhouse spacecraft and discover mysterious planets. Put on your gardening gloves, make friends with animals, fall in love, and slowly turn your desert home planet into a thriving ecosystem.

Kick back in the fresh mountain air and craft your ideal haven on the shores of Alpine Lake! Build and decorate your inn to bring joy and prosperity to the community. Welcome guests to your cozy escape in the woods. Farm, cook, and entertain them in your own unique way!

Live the life of a rookie paramedic through frantic minigame action and a wild, funny story. Juggle waves of patients with a battle-like triage system; master dozens of treatment minigames; and win the city's recognition from the rival fire department!

Manage a game studio making the world’s greatest MMORPG. Hire designers, coders, and testers, create a fantasy world, then welcome hundreds of virtual players. If they get bored they will cancel their subscription and your investors will have your head. You can even play the game you create.

Weyrdlets is an idle virtual pet game that harmonizes relaxation with productivity. Collect adorable items, customize your pet and its home, and bring your loving companion to your desktop to boost real-life tasks, enriching your daily routine with a touch of joy and motivation!

The Chef’s Shift is a fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING.

Inspect and dissect parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Examine labels for mistakes, contents for contraband and hone your parcel reviewing skills. Build, upgrade and expand your warehouse to take your parcel inspections to the next level!

A group of non-adventurers is the last hope in defending the castle in this chaotic co-op tower defense game with roguelike features. With up to 4 players, your party must organize the castle, work as a team to craft ammo, and shoot at enemies to protect your kingdom!

Nom Nom: Cozy Forest Café is a cozy and relaxing decoration and rhythm game where you manage a café and befriend cute animals.

Unleash adorable chaos as a mischievous pup! Explore, collect, and smash your way around the house & beyond in this cheeky adventure. Fetch the approval of your feathered friends by digging into a list of fun-filled tasks and earn mischievous badges. It's sure to be a pawsitively unforgettable day!

Manage and decorate your own magical garden as the gardener golem Golembert. Craft potions, make friends and deal with the bureaucratic hurdles of landownership!

Reclaim glory in Magic Inn, a charming tavern life simulator. Take on the role of an exiled wizard-turned-innkeeper, overseeing everything from menus, rooms, guests, and staff in a fully magical customizable inn. Engage in card battles to spark conversations and foster relationships with guests.

A journey of flavors and friendships awaits you in your cozy, customisable food truck! Forage for fresh ingredients to create your own menu, then feed tummies and souls with home-cooked meals. Change the world, one apple at a time.

You've been wandering the seas for years. It's time to think about the future. Trade, improve your settlements, build relationships with the locals. Build your own safe haven!

Explore a cursed Japanese town! Recruit mascot friends and come to the rescue when disaster strikes! Solve the mystery of your exile! Help a living finger work through her many anger issues! Turn Promise Mascot Agency into the best agency in Japan in this open-world narrative adventure!

Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.

Automate a team of robots to gather resources, scale up production, reshape terrain, and expand your colony on a procedurally generated alien world.

Cauldron is an upgrade-heavy, minigame-centric, turn-based RPG. Play minigames to strengthen your party, then fight battles to uncover more map, more heroes, more minigames, more everything! If your favorite plant is an upgrade tree, then this game is for you!

Rebuild the city of Pompeii and climb the social ladder. Roman society is full of intrigues that you have to solve in order to become a powerful ruler.

Clean, Clash, and Collect through 30+ spooky sites in this Single-Player, Clean 'Em Up Rogue-Lite. Spend your meager earnings wisely on both permanent and temporary upgrades, so that even the thriving haunts of cute and creepy creatures can’t stop you from cleaning 'til everything's Spotless!

Lonely Space is a sci-fi immersive sim inspired by System Shock 2, Dead Space and Prey. You find yourself awakened from hibernation in the docking bay of the Cassiopeia Space Station. The rest of the crew vanished a long time ago. You need to find them and unravel the secrets of Cassiopeia Station.

A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Build your 3D wizard school, recruit students and staff, manage your resources, take strategic decisions and solve the mystery of the severe mana shortages at Wizdom Academy.

Make your dreams come true — or crush someone else’s. Take the helm of a major Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema, and guide it through decades of creative achievements and glamor, debauchery and dark deeds, tough choices and unpleasant compromises.

In this narrative-based simulation game, you play as the Son of God. Your mission: Decide, bless or condemn city residents. Uncover the person's story through their items and secrets before making decisions. Your choices alter the city's destiny, and impact your revelation on Judgment Day.

In this cozy farming game, you have to run your own farm shop. Take care of your animals and your farm, sell your goods to the cute Forest Folk, upgrade the island and fulfill small orders from the Harmony Tree to fill the island with life again.

Discover Earth 300 thousand years ago as an alien biologist. Utilize your expertise in botany to survive, grow plants, harvest crops, compose and brew tonics. Reveal hidden powers of unknown plants. Engage with primal humans, leaving your mark on the future of civilization.

A co-op cleaning game where you have to clean and rearrange a dungeon before the next adventurers come to complete it again.

Bunny Clicker is a cozy idle game where you can raise your cute bunnies on a small farm. Breed them, feed and play with them to earn more carrots and improve their quality of life.

Launch into a chaotic spaceship adventure: bend the rules of physics, experiment with unusual gadgets and toss everything around. With each journey, you will have limited time to reveal the mysteries aboard your solar punk spaceship - how much will you discover before you arrive home?

Attain the powers of a God and dominate in this lore-driven 4X game full of unique species. Evolve your units to command diverse armies. Develop magnificent cities. Research and master arcane spellcraft to lay waste to the world itself. Find your own path to power and Ascend above all else.

LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

Treasure Hunters is an intense CO-OP treasure-hunting game set in mysterious dungeons filled with puzzles, platforms, and deadly creatures where your goal is to find and steal the most valuable treasures.

The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.

A fusion between puzzle-solving and music creation awaits you! Craft beats, solve playful puzzles, unlock new sounds, explore a strange overworld, and experiment in a freeform sandbox—to heal a pig? Lose yourself in this creative and synesthetic experience!

Set sail on a cozy farming adventure aboard your boat in Collector's Cove. Explore diverse climate zones with your animal companion and discover a multitude of rare crops and fish. Enjoy cozy solitude while completing your Collector's compendium and rise to the rank of a Named Collector.

Experience the ultimate ecosystem simulator! Equiverse is a hectic simulation game where you care for different species of animals, earn income by keeping them happy, unlock helpful companions, and defend against invading monsters. Can you keep your ecosystem thriving?

"I" make a deal with the witch to give up my heart, in exchange for love— from everyone. Is it worth it if losing my heart means gaining *his*?———————————————————————In this short visual novel, make choices and answer the question: is love a zero-sum game?

Have you ever wondered what flight attendants do on each flight? Let's find out with Cabin Crew Life Simulator, the pioneering flight attendant simulator with variety of aircraft, airports, passenger services, handling emergency situations, in-flight business, teamwork and much more.

Cupiclaw is a roguelike deckbuilding claw machine game. Grab, sell and change prizes in order to take on increasingly expensive new machines, until you manage to recover Morris' lost engagement ring!

Polyaris is a single-player, first-person survival skiing game set in a post-nuclear, procedurally generated Arctic world. Survive the cold, ski through icy wastelands, find essential resources, fight enemies, and uncover the mystery of why you are the last one alive.

With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, and grow the railway into a powerhouse.

Rogue Rollout is a thrilling roguelike deckbuilder where you score points in a classic dice game style, choose powerful artifacts, and face challenging obstacles as you push through endless rounds.

SPIN TO WIN, and move your paddle around to hit blocks to the beat in an all-new simple but stylish rhythm-arcade experience!

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Start as a humble rock and evolve into a rock-digging rock star! Dig for resources, solve ancient puzzles, and uncover hidden secrets after crash-landing on an alien planet. Unearth countless upgrades and gain powerful abilities. Explore mysterious new worlds. Reach the core. Ascend to Rock God!

The Sergeant is back. Ready to turn unqualified recruits into fearless war machines. Manage your camp and prepare your squad with tougher training and new challenges, will they be ready for a real battlefield? New skill tree, more abilities and a reworked battle system. Start you deployment now.

Start small, expand your fleet, rise to power, and eventually command entire factions in this seamless blend of sci-fi space RTS and battle game. With strategic gameplay and evolving challenges, every decision shapes your legacy in the stars.

A Doctor Simulator with a Lovecraftian twist. Diagnose patients by analyzing unsettling symptoms and treat them using your Book of Medicine. Make moral choices — decide who to save or kill, discover whom to trust, and unlock multiple endings! Can you endure 30 days of perilous decisions?

Skatehouse is a small idle game where you manage a skate shop. Manufacture pieces, combine parts, and sell boards.

Master Crony — it’s up to you to buy, craft, strategize, manufacture, and hijack to outperform your rivals and build your empire. In this competitive business builder game, your choices shape the live market. Seize every opportunity to dominate…or get demoted!

lily’s world XD is a psychological horror game where you investigate a young girl’s computer. Channel your inner 2000s teen as you read her old conversations, customize her blog, and look through her embarrassing selfies. That is, until you find messages addressed to you...

Explore, adventure, collect, and experience anecdotes and various interesting characters in a city-based 3D RPG, discovering some beautiful little worlds. Or perhaps wander aimlessly on the streets, relaxing in the shade of trees. Such a wonderful time is not far away.

Relive your childhood and turn every crosswalk, curb, and puddle into an epic adventure with this innovative urban walking simulator.

Become an elite hacker in cyberpunk typing simulator. Infiltrate networks, steal data by typing simple commands. Navigate through pixel art cyberspace, unlocking new abilities as you go deeper. No coding skills needed. How far can you hack before the system catches you?

Adventurers Guild Inc. is a tycoon/management game where you build your Guild from the ground up! Hire staff, post quests, and fulfill the needs of independent adventurers (while taking a cut). Manage your budget, grow your reputation, and become the greatest Guild Master of all!

I chose the most dangerous job in the world. Not because I wanted to, but because someone has to. I’m an Underwater Welder. One meter down – one percent less chance to survive. I live on the edge of life and death. It's not just a job. It's a life... a battle... a fight for survival.

A work simulator set in an old hotel that is definitely not haunted. Clean the rooms and make sure our guests feel at home!

An office point-and-click puzzle game mixed with visual novel-style storytelling set in a noir-fabled world. As you are fired from the job, to save yourself from a collapsing dream, it’s time to investigate, discover the black company’s secrets, and take sweet revenge for the money you deserve.

Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

An 8-Bit arcade-a-thon based around dreaming and seals!

Mobile Idle Managing game. Harvest, brew and throw your drinks to the customers!