Since its emergence in the early 2000s, The Sims series has remained a dominant force in life simulation games, rarely challenged directly outside of Nintendo's Animal Crossing. Recently, however, a ...

From Stardew Valley to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, these are the best low-stress, relaxing, and cozy video games to play ...

Many video games are about larger-than-life concepts. The Mario series features a pair of plumbers who defeat monsters by jumping on them. Even more mature and violent titles, like the Grand Theft ...

Jake Valentine is a Contributor at DualShockers with more than two decades of experience covering the video game industry. Since 2004, he has written about games across news, reviews, guides, lists, ...

As the daily grind becomes “gamified,” players are nostalgic for older, more chaotic versions of the life simulation game By Kim Hew-Low While playing The Sims 4 — the latest iteration of the wildly ...

Adam Braunstein is a Contributor at DualShockers who has been covering games professionally since 2019. He primarily writes lists and features, with a focus on RPGs, JRPGs, action-adventure games, VR, ...

Persona 5, BioShock, Super Mario Bros., Resident Evil 4 — these are some of the titles worthy of being called masterpieces of ...

Racing games are one of the oldest genres that meld with simulators. Gran Turismo 7 isn’t a pure simulation in that sense but is a great balance between realistic physics and handling, with satisfying ...