Why jobs more fun when game?... They just are? Also, click here to support and check out Train Sim World 5 now: bit.ly/TSW5-GamerZakh [ad] Thanks to Dovetail Games for sponsoring.
I'm not a big "simulator" player, but occasionally just chilling with a round of Derail Valley (one of the many train simulators of course) is, well, relaxing. And at least not like I can actually drive a train irl, so not the "job after the job" vibe for me, at least.
This genre is not much of my forte. But I enjoy your videos very much. Happy to let you know you taught me about rock crawling simulator. And somehow house flipper 2 tickles a fancy somewhat 🙂
Like I don't even know what to say, it's a supermarket simulator that tens of thousands of people love. It's bizarre that 3 of them have taken off (4 if you count TCG), you'd think people would pick one haha.
@@GamerZakh People actually like doing jobs if they can make decisions themselves, do them without the real physical tedium, without the real financial risk and get a sense of progression.
Im not gonna lie, this video felt like you sorted the list in steam by popular simulators and made a video about it. I also didn't feel that a sponsor counts because I've never known anyone to be honest about their sponsors, not...1. It's like if EA sponsored you to talk about sims, it would be nice to feel like the review is from your experience, instead i couldve went on steam myself to see how positive the reviews are. Constructively I mean to say I would like to see a list of simulators that you played yourself and to see what you feel and think about the game. I actually really like your content, I'm new to it, and I'm gonna sub and I really appreciate how hard you must work on your videos, I look forward to binge watching your videos which I hope has more simulators!
Thanks for your honesty. I can point out a few things but you can take them as you like. If you sort the list on Steam by popular simulators, you wouldn't get this list. You can always try it, see what you get. For example, if I go to 'New & Trending' I get Fast Food Sim, Rocksmith 2014 Remastered, MiSide, Farming Sim 25, NBA 2K25, Flight Sim 24, OHV, Kaiju Princess 2, Planet Coaster 2, Taiwan Love Story... Yeah some of the games I listed here are there but Steam's curation is way broader and seemingly random. I have much stricter definitions of genres to keep things cleaner as I don't think anyone looking for simulation games are expecting to find the 'Physchological Horror', 'Cute', and 'Story Rich' game... MiSide. As for the sponsor, you don't think it counts because it's sponsored but whether you think it's honest or not, the way I accept sponsors for list videos is that I only accept games that I had on my curation already anyway. The sponsorship is for position on the list, timing of publishing the video, and they can ask for a few key points to be mentioned. You can not believe the content of what I say and all that, but this sponsor is a realistic simulator game that has good Steam reviews and a solid playerbase. It fits the curation set for this video and if you think something is inconsistent point that out. Does the inclusion or exclusion of another game contradict with the sponsor's inclusion? That would be a problem and mistake on my part because that is something specific I work on. As for my personal experience with the games for review purposes, that's just impossible. I listed 500 games through 2024. Five hundred. I'm 1 person. I don't even have an editor. I play what I can but I can't meaningfully play 2 games every day and still do my job. I do however have 13 years of content creation experience and I have worked in the game design industry. I was trained in interactive media and spend a lot of time analysing and studying. I also worked for years as a school teacher. I bring what I have to the table and after making these lists for over a decade many seem to find my insights useful, but I keep trying to be better. I consistently make accurate predictions, communicate what most people need to know to make decisions, and these lists talk about each game for like 2 minutes. These aren't meant to be reviews, but to share select picks that a lot of people can't find or keep up with because of the thousands of games being made.
@GamerZakh I see, so my mistake was in believing that when you say top 25 for example, is that you meant top 25 by personal experience. Like if I give the top food places as like McDonald's, Burger King, chick fil a, Hardee's and IHOP yet I hadn't actually eaten at these places then the viewer doesn't understand by what standards were these the best simulators, and it's the standards that was missing or that I didn't see. I was simply curious why these were considered top for you, what you liked about them. I'm sorry if you felt I was judging your work or questioning your qualifications on the matter, definitely not my intention. You also bring about good points, again as a first time viewer this was just my opinion on what I saw, some content creators offer for us to share below how we felt about the video and so I was doing that.
@@Kitanaoren Oh that's not your mistake, it's my job to communicate so if the message wasn't delivered it's my job to communicate better. You sharing honest thoughts and feelings is useful and it goes into future videos I make. For the criteria when it comes to curating these videos, I have varying personal experience with the games. Some games I've played a lot, some just a bit, but these lists are meant to be comprehensive so being objective I have to include many games I don't personally enjoy myself. That doesn't mean they're bad games, everyone has preferences, so I try to treat every game I list with the same level of scrutiny and detail. All sorts of things go into determining 'best' when I do a 'best of' list. Steam review percentage is a factor on player consensus. Along with the difference between total and recent review percentage. Concurrent players in the past month is also a consideration, as a game might've been a viral hit but has since died. I also check comments, opinions, and thoughts from varying platforms about the game to understand varying perspectives. Developer updates and official communication give away a lot. Then I can personally assess visuals whether I have play time with the game or not, as I have plenty of experience and skills regarding visual communication, design, and art. Game design is something that I can assess with minimal time as the fundamentals and gameplay loop can be extrapolated quickly if you're experienced enough. I've made countless mistakes and wrong assessments over the last decade of making these lists and each one tweaks things in the next list, so to list them all out would be an impossibly long list. After so long talking about so many games and discussing them through thousands of comments, at this point really you could boil it all down into a 'pile of vibes' when I talk about a game haha. But it's a reduction of so much stuff and if you pick out any specific thing I say I could expand a sentence into an essay as to why I said that. The main problem is there is an impossible amount of information to communicate for every game, not to mention the premise and context of the video itself, and to communicate everything leads to people complaining about me talking too much but to communicate too little leads people to complain about me not saying enough. Finding that fine line is not just practically impossible, but where that line is changes with every audience, every genre, and every year as viewer preferences shift over time, so it's a constant tug of war between how much I should be explaining and breaking down with how much I should be summarising and wrapping up. As you can see with my writing, I personally like to go on lol, but a balancing act is required for the video itself.
@@GamerZakh Actually it's refreshing that youre so professional about all this with still a very down to earth approach and explanation! I also take the responsibility that before posting my comment I should have went through your videos a bit just to get more information on your direction and get to know specifically you, as I scroll through the comments youre beloved in this community and as I go through your older videos I can see why. May I ask what your next project would be?
@@Kitanaoren Thanks! I appreciate that you're understanding of it all. I'm currently working on the best upcoming city-builders to keep an eye on for 2025. Hopefully I can get that finished by tomorrow.
When you will make a video about games about kingdom managment, please take a look at "King of Hearts." It's a very unique title with a fairly extensive demo. There aren’t many reviews, but the ones it has are very warm. Thanks :D
I love all of your content been watching you for a while but just wanted to ask if maybe you had any elder scrolls content in the works? I enjoy what you do with it and it seems to have been a minute 😅
Thanks! I have an idea but not sure if I'm gonna do it yet. I also have a new thing that I wanna work on with someone, but waiting for schedules to align.
@@Lex_Koncord Yeah, they sometimes use stock assets or basic designs, or it's just the go-to style, but that doesn't seem to matter because people love it and it sells.
Ha Everyone, I play farm Sim25 it's a very good game as a child me and my dad before passing I was working with him on the FARM so I'm pretty good with the game
I would highly recommend the free demo before spending money. Besides that, buy what you want to buy. People buy all of The Sims which is even more expensive, it's not up to me how people spend their cash.
Because we feel obsolete, we know we're training our replacement and there's nothing we can do about it, because one day there won't be a human making your burger, no love will be put into the finer details of human to human connection. But also it's good to feel useful, we wear so many masks in life, especially at work or in social situations, so there's games where you can do the same thing you'd do in real life, or things you never got to do in real life, and the difference is you can do these things as yourself and not the mask And lastly some just enjoy it because its mundane, peaceful and fun.
Why jobs more fun when game?... They just are? Also, click here to support and check out Train Sim World 5 now: bit.ly/TSW5-GamerZakh [ad] Thanks to Dovetail Games for sponsoring.
We need people play city building games shop simulator soon 😂😂
I'm not a big "simulator" player, but occasionally just chilling with a round of Derail Valley (one of the many train simulators of course) is, well, relaxing. And at least not like I can actually drive a train irl, so not the "job after the job" vibe for me, at least.
I work as a cleaner, I love this game to play as a cleaner again 😂😂
This genre is not much of my forte. But I enjoy your videos very much.
Happy to let you know you taught me about rock crawling simulator.
And somehow house flipper 2 tickles a fancy somewhat 🙂
When the guy sprayed Deodorant on a stinky player I laughed so loud. Maybe I should give TCG Card Shop Simulator a try :)
What about UA-cam game presenter sim ? :D
@@RemusKingOfRome Well there have been 'UA-camr Simulator' kind of games, so it's a thing lol
Ranch Simulator is my favourite. Thanks for adding it.
I love how by the time the THIRD supermarket simulator comes around Zakh is barely keeping it together lol.
Like I don't even know what to say, it's a supermarket simulator that tens of thousands of people love. It's bizarre that 3 of them have taken off (4 if you count TCG), you'd think people would pick one haha.
@@GamerZakh People actually like doing jobs if they can make decisions themselves, do them without the real physical tedium, without the real financial risk and get a sense of progression.
@@Robbedem Yeah I get that, but normally when there are 3 extremely similar games, people pick one of them. Super rare that all 3 blow up.
Super market sim is fun but once you get far enough it starts taking over an hour to restock. need employees in the full version.
the closest I've gotten to this type of game has been the Sims and the starfield outpost builder mechanic
Great video
Love farm sim 22 and 25 play them every day, great graphics awesome mods
Fizzicks is definitely one of the most important things about stimalater games. 2024 mikrow sawft flite stimalater will get better.
Im not gonna lie, this video felt like you sorted the list in steam by popular simulators and made a video about it.
I also didn't feel that a sponsor counts because I've never known anyone to be honest about their sponsors, not...1.
It's like if EA sponsored you to talk about sims, it would be nice to feel like the review is from your experience, instead i couldve went on steam myself to see how positive the reviews are.
Constructively I mean to say I would like to see a list of simulators that you played yourself and to see what you feel and think about the game.
I actually really like your content, I'm new to it, and I'm gonna sub and I really appreciate how hard you must work on your videos, I look forward to binge watching your videos which I hope has more simulators!
Thanks for your honesty. I can point out a few things but you can take them as you like. If you sort the list on Steam by popular simulators, you wouldn't get this list. You can always try it, see what you get. For example, if I go to 'New & Trending' I get Fast Food Sim, Rocksmith 2014 Remastered, MiSide, Farming Sim 25, NBA 2K25, Flight Sim 24, OHV, Kaiju Princess 2, Planet Coaster 2, Taiwan Love Story...
Yeah some of the games I listed here are there but Steam's curation is way broader and seemingly random. I have much stricter definitions of genres to keep things cleaner as I don't think anyone looking for simulation games are expecting to find the 'Physchological Horror', 'Cute', and 'Story Rich' game... MiSide.
As for the sponsor, you don't think it counts because it's sponsored but whether you think it's honest or not, the way I accept sponsors for list videos is that I only accept games that I had on my curation already anyway. The sponsorship is for position on the list, timing of publishing the video, and they can ask for a few key points to be mentioned. You can not believe the content of what I say and all that, but this sponsor is a realistic simulator game that has good Steam reviews and a solid playerbase. It fits the curation set for this video and if you think something is inconsistent point that out. Does the inclusion or exclusion of another game contradict with the sponsor's inclusion? That would be a problem and mistake on my part because that is something specific I work on.
As for my personal experience with the games for review purposes, that's just impossible. I listed 500 games through 2024. Five hundred. I'm 1 person. I don't even have an editor. I play what I can but I can't meaningfully play 2 games every day and still do my job. I do however have 13 years of content creation experience and I have worked in the game design industry. I was trained in interactive media and spend a lot of time analysing and studying. I also worked for years as a school teacher. I bring what I have to the table and after making these lists for over a decade many seem to find my insights useful, but I keep trying to be better. I consistently make accurate predictions, communicate what most people need to know to make decisions, and these lists talk about each game for like 2 minutes. These aren't meant to be reviews, but to share select picks that a lot of people can't find or keep up with because of the thousands of games being made.
@GamerZakh I see, so my mistake was in believing that when you say top 25 for example, is that you meant top 25 by personal experience.
Like if I give the top food places as like McDonald's, Burger King, chick fil a, Hardee's and IHOP yet I hadn't actually eaten at these places then the viewer doesn't understand by what standards were these the best simulators, and it's the standards that was missing or that I didn't see.
I was simply curious why these were considered top for you, what you liked about them.
I'm sorry if you felt I was judging your work or questioning your qualifications on the matter, definitely not my intention.
You also bring about good points, again as a first time viewer this was just my opinion on what I saw, some content creators offer for us to share below how we felt about the video and so I was doing that.
@@Kitanaoren Oh that's not your mistake, it's my job to communicate so if the message wasn't delivered it's my job to communicate better. You sharing honest thoughts and feelings is useful and it goes into future videos I make. For the criteria when it comes to curating these videos, I have varying personal experience with the games. Some games I've played a lot, some just a bit, but these lists are meant to be comprehensive so being objective I have to include many games I don't personally enjoy myself. That doesn't mean they're bad games, everyone has preferences, so I try to treat every game I list with the same level of scrutiny and detail.
All sorts of things go into determining 'best' when I do a 'best of' list. Steam review percentage is a factor on player consensus. Along with the difference between total and recent review percentage. Concurrent players in the past month is also a consideration, as a game might've been a viral hit but has since died. I also check comments, opinions, and thoughts from varying platforms about the game to understand varying perspectives. Developer updates and official communication give away a lot. Then I can personally assess visuals whether I have play time with the game or not, as I have plenty of experience and skills regarding visual communication, design, and art. Game design is something that I can assess with minimal time as the fundamentals and gameplay loop can be extrapolated quickly if you're experienced enough.
I've made countless mistakes and wrong assessments over the last decade of making these lists and each one tweaks things in the next list, so to list them all out would be an impossibly long list. After so long talking about so many games and discussing them through thousands of comments, at this point really you could boil it all down into a 'pile of vibes' when I talk about a game haha. But it's a reduction of so much stuff and if you pick out any specific thing I say I could expand a sentence into an essay as to why I said that.
The main problem is there is an impossible amount of information to communicate for every game, not to mention the premise and context of the video itself, and to communicate everything leads to people complaining about me talking too much but to communicate too little leads people to complain about me not saying enough. Finding that fine line is not just practically impossible, but where that line is changes with every audience, every genre, and every year as viewer preferences shift over time, so it's a constant tug of war between how much I should be explaining and breaking down with how much I should be summarising and wrapping up.
As you can see with my writing, I personally like to go on lol, but a balancing act is required for the video itself.
@@GamerZakh Actually it's refreshing that youre so professional about all this with still a very down to earth approach and explanation!
I also take the responsibility that before posting my comment I should have went through your videos a bit just to get more information on your direction and get to know specifically you, as I scroll through the comments youre beloved in this community and as I go through your older videos I can see why.
May I ask what your next project would be?
@@Kitanaoren Thanks! I appreciate that you're understanding of it all. I'm currently working on the best upcoming city-builders to keep an eye on for 2025. Hopefully I can get that finished by tomorrow.
Would like to see some CEO simulators which incorporate realistic end-game crises
Ultimate FPS.
When you will make a video about games about kingdom managment, please take a look at "King of Hearts." It's a very unique title with a fairly extensive demo. There aren’t many reviews, but the ones it has are very warm. Thanks :D
I love all of your content been watching you for a while but just wanted to ask if maybe you had any elder scrolls content in the works? I enjoy what you do with it and it seems to have been a minute 😅
Thanks! I have an idea but not sure if I'm gonna do it yet. I also have a new thing that I wanna work on with someone, but waiting for schedules to align.
@GamerZakh Thank you so much for the response! 🤞 It works out but I know you can't stay away for long outlander 😅
I've played Supermarket Sim. for a few good hours but it is so grindy. I'm surprised by its popularity tbh.
Choo Choo! 🚂
So many of the games have the same UI, money tills, etc, but are different designers?
@@Lex_Koncord Yeah, they sometimes use stock assets or basic designs, or it's just the go-to style, but that doesn't seem to matter because people love it and it sells.
Wait, there's a game where you can trade a city in India, in the state of Chhattisgarh? How oddly specific :P
Ha Everyone, I play farm Sim25 it's a very good game as a child me and my dad before passing I was working with him on the FARM so I'm pretty good with the game
*independent pharmaceutical field rep* simulator.
Why isn't there a simulator game to simulate making simulator games?
Not meta enough. It should be a simulator game where you play as a youtuber playing simulator games.
Hahaha other than the pure rock crawling, the rest are like job you like simulator.
It's what people like haha, like it's crazy how popular some of these are. 98% positive is almost unheard of on Steam.
You can grab all of the TrainSim DLCs and the game right now for only £1,062.26 which is craxy cheap compared to the £2200.00 full price...🤑
I would highly recommend the free demo before spending money. Besides that, buy what you want to buy. People buy all of The Sims which is even more expensive, it's not up to me how people spend their cash.
@@GamerZakh Not at all, I just thought it may be a point of interest for some.
why do people want to play menial labor games?!
People have their reasons, but whatever they are it seems like a ton of people have them.
Because we feel obsolete, we know we're training our replacement and there's nothing we can do about it, because one day there won't be a human making your burger, no love will be put into the finer details of human to human connection.
But also it's good to feel useful, we wear so many masks in life, especially at work or in social situations, so there's games where you can do the same thing you'd do in real life, or things you never got to do in real life, and the difference is you can do these things as yourself and not the mask
And lastly some just enjoy it because its mundane, peaceful and fun.