Franchises like Farming Simulator have grown in stature over the past five or so years, and we’re big fans of titles like Train Sim World 2 as well. It’s not massively surprising to see Nacon recognise the potential of this fledgling category, then – and announce an entire suite of software that it’s putting under the umbrella of “life simulators”.
The game’s – due out in 2021 and 2022 – include: Train Life, Hotel Life, Chef Life, Surgeon Life, and Architect Life. Various developers have been signed up to lead the projects, and we’re going to include the blurbs from each title from the press release below:
- Train Life – A Railway Simulator (Simteract): As well as an ultra-realistic train driving experience, for the first time in a railway simulator you also manage the development of your company: hire conductors, buy locomotives, choose contracts to take on, and roll out your network across Europe.
- Hotel Life – A Resort Simulator (RingZero Game Studio): Hotel Life is a hotel simulator that takes you behind the scenes of an idyllic holiday destination. Players manage the day-to-day running of the hotel, increase its reputation, and support guests as expertly as possible from check-in to checkout, while ensuring they are kept entertained through a variety of daily activities.
- Chef Life - A Restaurant Simulator (Cyanide Studio): Chef Life puts you in total control of all aspects of a restaurant. From buying ingredients to plating dishes, you must serve the best food while supervising your teams, designing the decor, and managing the service.
- Surgeon Life – A Hospital Simulator (RingZero Game Studio): Players become managers of a private clinic. In addition to performing surgical procedures, you must also manage the care teams and attract new patients.
- Architect Life – A Building Simulator (SimFabric): In Architect Life, you work on all stages of the construction and design of your dream home (and those of your clients). This includes drawing up plans, budgeting, and hiring labourers, among other tasks. More than a simple design game, you must ensure the smooth running of the site to meet the contractual specifications.
These kinds of titles are curiously popular right now, so it’ll be interesting to see how they perform. Obviously it’s got competition in the rail and construction spaces, but the likes of Hotel Life and Chef Life should bring something entirely new to PlayStation 5 and PS4. Are you intrigued by these projects, or do you just not get the appeal at all? Unwind from a busy day of work with more work in the comments section below.
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I feel like these have @Anti-Matter written all over them.
... don't forget "Publisher Life" where the goal is to rip off your developers, illegally pirate their game and then try to sell it on Steam... 10/10
I feel like this could be a stepping stone into remotely operating these sorts of tasks.. unless that’s what’s already happening and we don’t know it yet.
Either way the thing I enjoy most with simulation games is seeing how much I can break everything.
@Boon520 call center simulator will require internet, because you will give offerings to other psn users.
Nacon - isn't it that company, that produces cheap but crappy console accessories?
Totally misread the headline at first and thought for a second that a "Suite Life of Zack and Cody" game was releasing after all these years xD
All joking aside I live in Surry Virginia we have to take a ferry to get to civilization. So I’m all for Ferry simulator...You take control of the Jamestown Scotland ferry and make it a lot better than what it is now LOL
It's bad enough working 8:30am to 5pm and look after 2 kids in the evening, let alone simulating another job when I get some time to play the PS5!
Very excited for Hotel Life, I'm hoping it's basically just a new version of Hotel Giant, the first PC game I played.
@OneManDroid have you even been following the story? At first I thought Frogwares was right too, but with more and more news that comes out, everything's pointing towards Nacon being in the right.
Regarding the pirated version, a court ordered Frogwares to stop impeding the sale of the game (i.e. put it back on sale), but they didn't provide a version to put back in Steam (so disobeying the order). The contract they signed has a provision that if they don't provide a working version of the game, Nacon can have someone else modify another version of the game as needed (i.e. Nacon is legally allowed to sell a "modded pirated" version of the game on steam if Frogwares fails to deliver). Frogwares then further disobeys the court order by DMCA'ing it.
This isn't the first time Frogwares has had problems their publisher. The evidence is really pointing to Frogwares being in the wrong/they're signing bad contracts that they probably don't understand with their publishers. They need to learn to understand what the contracts they're signing means for them, beyond "yay money upfront"
@Milktastrophe I have followed it and respectfully completely disagree with you
@OneManDroid then can you enlighten me as to what parts of this case paints Frogwares in the right?
My favorite sim game was Hoyle Casino Empire by Sierra Games. I LOVED that game. You can even download it free nowadays on myabandonware’s website. Anyway, I’m interested in what Nacom does with their sim games, and I hope they decide to put together a casino sim game. There was so much potential there, and it still remains largely untapped.
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