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The best Sims game turns 20 today, calling forth a wave of warm nostalgia in the face of the franchise's uncertain future (www.vg247.com)
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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are several projects trying to do their own life sim. One that was supposed to be published by Paradox was cancelled recently, shortly before planned release, and to the surprise of the dev team apparently.

This is not an easy genre to develop for, lots of things can go wrong and it might be hard to find a good balance between boring and unmanageable feature creep.

Even Cities Skyline devs had a headstart, they already had a successful transport sim before they tried to fill the smoking crater left by EA SimCity's explosion.