Pixel games, besides their adorable art style, have managed to spread themselves across various genres of gaming while still remaining popular with a variety of gamers that are still in love with the art style. One genre of games that pixel art has seen itself hand-in-hand with for a while is that of simulator titles.
With the most common pixel games being the likes of farming simulators, pixel graphics have also been seen in other well-received simulator titles that have kept many players returning to them over and over again. With so many simulator titles like this, these are by far the best simulators that players can enjoy that use these incredible pixel graphics.
10 Let's Build A Zoo
As mentioned simulation games cover plenty of different possible jobs or experiences for a player to try, Let's Build a Zoo is a pixel game that allows players to create and expand their own wonderful zoo. From large detail enclosures to the other attractions of the zoo, there is plenty of space to build the perfect attractions for visitors.
Besides, the common features of building enclosures and then choosing from a variety of animals across different biomes, Let's Build a Zoo takes it one step further. Players are able to cross-breed species to make interesting combinations that look hilarious in this adorable pixel art style.
9 Sun Haven
Combining the farming simulator popularity of pixel games with that of fantasy makes Sun Haven a brilliant game for anyone that has been looking for a new title to try after Stardew Valley. Across the four seasons players are free to grow carious crops, search for fish, or just get to know their various neighbors and romance options.
However, players are also able to decide between many mystical races as well as explore a world full of magic that can be integrated into their farming life. In between all this relaxation, there is also an incredible story to follow that travels across three different cities; each having their own farm for the player to take care of.
8 Kingdom Two Crowns
While mainly a side-scrolling strategy game set in the medieval ages, Kingdom Two Crowns also has simulator features to it as the new campaign mode for the game tasks players with building up their own kingdom. It is vital for the campaign that players build a kingdom that will stand proudly over the years as the player hopes to find a way of defeating Freed.
While a pixel title, these modern graphics paint an incredibly detailed landscape that players can explore to find all sorts of secrets such as the many mounts available for the player to use.
7 Songs Of Syx
In a similar strain to Kingdom Two Crowns, Songs of Syx is purely a city-builder title that starts the player off controlling a small unheard of colony. Through building, planning, and making the tough decisions players will be able to expand their cities in a hope of allowing it to thrive in this colony simulator.
The fantasy theme of the game also allows the world to be filled with all sorts of life; from a variety of races, peculiar creatures, and various gods to worship. It isn't so simple to create a successful city in this pixel game as the various weather elements and disasters will attack the player's city making no playthrough the same.
6 Graveyard Keeper
Keeping on the theme of the medieval, Graveyard Keeper is unlike any other simulator on the list that players may have experienced. As the name suggests, Graveyard Keeper tasks the player with building and tending to their own graveyard.
It isn't as simple as it sounds as players will encounter all sorts of problems with how to deal with the dead while keeping the townsfolk happy. There are some incredible, and hilarious quests, that will have the player considering how many corners they wish to cut in the graveyard business.
5 Worldbox - God Simulator
In at least every player's life there has been a thought that they wish they could be a god in a video game; well Worldbox - God Simulator, finally allows that to happen. As a sandbox game, players are free to create the world of their dreams and then destroy it like any merciless god.
If players do take a moment to allow their world to thrive they'll see how the assortment of races will use the resources provided to them to grow their own kingdoms and eventually battle; players can interfere with these conquests or just sit back and be entertained in this vibrant pixel title.
4 VA-11 Hall-A Cyberpunk Bartender Action
If a player has ever wondered what it would be like to be a bartender in a cyberpunk themed universe, then players need to look no further than VA-11 Hall-A Cyberpunk Bartender Action. From inside the bar, nicknamed Valhalla by its patriots; players will learn about the dystopian world they live in while tending to the people that visit that suit nicely with the pixel art style used.
Although a visual novel besides a bartending simulator, players are able to make multiple choices that will change the storyline of the game. However, unlike the usual multiple choice selection, the story is changed through the drinks the player decides to prepare for their customers.
3 Dwarf Fortress
Dwarf Fortress is a classic pixel title that has combined genres over countless years since 2003 and yet it still continues to be not only a much-loved simulation title but also praised for its interesting pixel style. In Dwarf Fortress players are tasked with helping their little Dwarves to build a fortress and survive in the harsh wilderness.
Since making its way to steam Dwarf Fortress has taken on a new pixel style that makes exploring the world even more captivating. As players expand their colony new issues will occur that players will need to prepare accordingly for.
2 Papers, Please
Players take on the role of a Border Control Officer for the communist state of Arstotzka, since the recent war visitors and past residents have been attempting to enter back into of border town of Grestin. It is up to the player to make sure that only the right people make it back into the town with all the right papers and no smugglers make their way in.
Each day Papers, Please will get harder as players are tasked with looking out for different things, as well as an interesting story that will be revealed through talking to those that wish to pass.
1 Stardew Valley
Unsurprisingly, one of the greatest and most loved simulator titles with pixel graphics that many players are still enjoying to this day is Stardew Valley. This incredible farming simulator has everything that players wanted in a relaxing farming title, setting the bar high for many future farming titles.
Besides this, Stardew Valley allows players to freely play the game at their own pace with many smaller things to complete such as completing the Bundles in the Community Center. The pixel art not only makes the world feel livelier but gives each character in the game a detailed portrait, so players can see exactly what residents they live with.