The Sims
2000Maxis
Will Wright's domestic simulator turned watching a virtual household eat, work, and fall in love into the best-selling PC franchise of its era.
Collection → Strategy & Simulation
Strategy & Simulation
Systems over reflexes. Empires, households, and star federations — games where the interesting decisions are the whole point.
StarCraft
1998Blizzard Entertainment
Three asymmetric armies — human, zerg, protoss — balanced so precisely that the game became a professional sport, especially in South Korea.
MicroProse
One more turn: guide a people from a lone settler to the space age across a map that generates its own history.