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FIFA 19
FIFA 19 is EA Sports' 2018 football simulation for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch, adding the UEFA Champions League, Timed Finishing, Active Touch, and Dynamic Tactics; Metacritic 83 critics, 3.1 users.
FIFA 21
FIFA 21, also styled EA SPORTS FIFA 21, is EA's football simulation released October 9, 2020, with PS5/Xbox Series X|S versions December 4, 2020; Frostbite engine, Kylian Mbappé cover star, revamped Career Mode, Metacritic 72, UK's best-selling 2020 game.
FIFA 22
FIFA 22, EA Sports' 2021 football simulation (released October 1, 2021), introduced HyperMotion technology on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Stadia, with 8.7 million mocap frames, 4,000+ animations, Create a Club, and FUT Heroes; Mbappé cover star.
Football Manager
Football Manager (FM): football club-management simulation series by Sports Interactive, published by SEGA Europe; descended from Championship Manager. FM25 was cancelled, FM26 launched 4 November 2025 on Unity; distinct from EA Sports FC career modes.
Forge of Empires
Forge of Empires (FoE) is InnoGames' free-to-play strategy city-builder, released 2012 for browsers, later iOS and Android, guiding a city from the Stone Age to the future; it passed EUR 1 billion lifetime revenue in 2023.
Forza Horizon
Forza Horizon is Playground Games' open-world action racing series for Xbox Game Studios, launched 2012 in Colorado; six entries through Forza Horizon 6 (Japan, May 2026), sharing Forza Motorsport's 360 fps physics engine and Drivatar AI.
Forza Horizon 3
Forza Horizon 3 is a 2016 open-world racing game by Playground Games and Microsoft Studios, set in Australia with 350+ cars, first Forza cross-play, Metacritic 91, delisted September 27, 2020.
Friendslop
Friendslop is internet slang for cheap, chaotic co-op indie games like Lethal Company, R.E.P.O., and PEAK, coined on X in March 2025; the fun comes from friends, proximity voice chat, and physics-driven chaos rather than deep mechanics.
Frostpunk
Frostpunk is a 2018 survival city-builder by Poland's 11 bit studios, set in a frozen 1880s world around a coal generator, with Hope/Discontent meters, a Book of Laws, and three expansions; sequel Frostpunk 2 arrived in 2024.
Garry's Mod
Garry's Mod (GMod) is Facepunch Studios' 2006 physics sandbox published by Valve, built on Source, with no goals, 25 million copies sold, 97% positive Steam reviews, and the Source 2 successor S&box launched April 2026.
Goat Simulator
Goat Simulator is a third-person physics sandbox video game by Swedish studio Coffee Stain Studios, released in 2014, where players control a goat causing destruction with broken physics.
Godus
Godus is a free-to-play god game by Peter Molyneux's studio 22cans, funded on Kickstarter in 2012 (£526,563 from 17,184 backers), released in Steam early access in 2013 and on iOS in 2014, and widely criticized for unfulfilled promises.
Government simulation game
A government simulation game, also known as a political simulation, is a video game genre in which the player governs, balancing budgets, interest groups, and elections.
Gran Turismo (series)
Gran Turismo (グランツーリスモ) is Sony's PlayStation-exclusive racing simulation series by Polyphony Digital and Kazunori Yamauchi, first released in 1997, known as "The Real Driving Simulator," with over 50 million copies sold and Gran Turismo 7 as its latest mainline entry.
Gran Turismo 4
Gran Turismo 4 is a sim racing game developed by Polyphony Digital and released for the PlayStation 2 in December 2004, the fourth entry in the Gran Turismo series, with more than 700 cars.
Harvest Moon (video game)
Harvest Moon (Bokujō Monogatari, 牧場物語) is the 1996 Super Famicom farming sim by Yasuhiro Wada, released as Harvest Moon on SNES in North America in June 1997; not to be confused with Natsume's later Harvest Moon games after the 2014 Story of Seasons split.
Immersive sim
Immersive sim (immersive simulation): a video game design tradition from Looking Glass Studios (Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Thief) defined by systemic gameplay, emergence, and player agency; term coined by Warren Spector in the 2000 Deus Ex postmortem.
IMVU
IMVU (Instant Messaging within a Virtual Universe) is a 3D avatar-based social platform launched in 2004, with 7 million monthly active users, 400,000+ chat rooms, a 60-million-item catalog, and a user creator economy.
Jurassic World Evolution
Jurassic World Evolution is a 2018 dinosaur theme-park management sim by Frontier Developments for PC and consoles, set on Isla Nublar and the Muertes Archipelago, with Science, Entertainment, and Security divisions; over 4 million sold, followed by Evolution 2 (2021) and 3 (2025).
Kerbal Space Program
Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is a physics-based spaceflight simulation by Squad, first released 2011, sold to Take-Two in 2017; uses patched-conic orbital physics, three game modes, over two million units sold by 2017.
Life simulation game
A life simulation game, also called an artificial life game, is a video game genre where players manage characters' daily lives, usually without defined goals.
List of Roblox games
List of Roblox games: user-created 3D experiences on the Roblox platform (launched 2006), with over 40 million titles. Top games include Brookhaven RP (80.6B visits), Adopt Me!, and Blox Fruits (60.7B visits).
List of Sim video games
List of Sim video games: the Maxis/Electronic Arts simulation family from SimCity (1989) through SimAnt, SimEarth, SimTower, and The Sims series (2000-2014), plus Project Rene and The Sims Hub.
List of skateboarding video games
List of skateboarding video games, also covering Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Skate, Skater XL, and Session: Skate Sim. Chronological survey from Atari's 720° (1986) through EA's Skate series to skate. (2025) and Skate Story.
List of Story of Seasons video games
List of Story of Seasons video games, the English name since 2014 for Marvelous's Bokujō Monogatari (formerly Harvest Moon) farming sims, covering Story of Seasons (2014), Friends of Mineral Town, Pioneers of Olive Town, A Wonderful Life, Doraemon crossovers, and Grand Bazaar (2025).
List of The Sims video games
List of The Sims video games: EA's life-sim franchise, mainline games The Sims (2000), The Sims 2 (2004), The Sims 3 (2009), The Sims 4 (2014), plus spin-offs like The Sims Medieval, MySims, Castaway, and mobile titles FreePlay and Mobile.
List of vehicular combat games
The list of vehicular combat games covers video games in which players fight from armed vehicles, spanning 1970s origins to Twisted Metal, Carmageddon, and Vigilante 8.
Masters of Albion
Masters of Albion is a god game by Peter Molyneux's studio 22cans, in Steam Early Access on PC since 22 April 2026. Players build towns by day with the God Hand and defend them at night; set in Fable's Albion universe but not a Fable game.
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries (Piranha Games, December 2019) is an open-world BattleTech mech simulation where players run a mercenary company from 3015 through the Clan Invasion, with nine DLC packs, 4-player co-op, and Steam Workshop mod support.
Metaverse
Metaverse: persistent shared 3D virtual worlds accessed via VR, AR, or screens; term coined in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992); Meta rebrand 2021; applications in healthcare, education, gaming; interoperability and identity standards remain unsolved.