Short simulation games on Steam

Simulators people give a weekend to.

184 simulation games on Steam where half of the reviewers had played 8 hours or less when they gave their verdict, MiSide, Buckshot Roulette and How to Fish among them.

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And 64 more: Never Split the Party (3 hours), Buddy Simulator 1984 (6.5 hours), Receiver (2 hours), Google Earth VR (2 hours), 60 Parsecs! (5 hours), I Am Fish (5 hours), OTXO (5.5 hours), Squirrel with a Gun (5.5 hours), Just Die Already (4.5 hours), Everything (3 hours), Despotism 3k (3 hours), Funnel Runners (3.5 hours), MyVoiceZoo (1.5 hours), Oh...Sir! The Insult Simulator (3.5 hours), STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™ (4.5 hours), SUMMERHOUSE (1.5 hours), Sledding Game (3.5 hours), Snake Pass (4 hours), Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip (5 hours), Card Shark (6 hours), Bigscreen Beta (5 hours), Space Crew: Legendary Edition (6.5 hours), Happy's Humble Burger Farm (6.5 hours), UNDERDOGS (3.5 hours), Galaxy Burger (6.5 hours), Will You Snail? (6 hours), THE GAME OF LIFE (2.5 hours), House Builder (8 hours), Crash Time 2 (1 hour), Bus Driver (2 hours), Moving Out (4.5 hours), Paragnosia (2.5 hours), Creed: Rise to Glory™ (2 hours), Embr (4 hours), Solar 2 (4.5 hours), Station to Station (4 hours), Q.U.B.E. 2 (6.5 hours), Cooking Simulator VR (2 hours), SIMULACRA 2 (5.5 hours), Strike Suit Zero (5 hours), Demolish & Build 2018 (5 hours), Unholy Heights (7.5 hours), SpyParty (4 hours), Trolley Problem, Inc. (1.5 hours), FACEMINER (3.5 hours), The Ramp (50 minutes), Beyond Blue (4 hours), The Magic Circle (5 hours), Mind Scanners (4.5 hours), Bee Simulator (3 hours), Wordle (4 hours), Hiveswap Friendsim (5 hours), Tin Can (4 hours), Arma: Gold Edition (4 hours), Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut (3.5 hours), AX:EL (2 hours), Polyball (1 hour), Through The Darkest of Times (5.5 hours), SEGA Bass Fishing (1 hour), Tools Up! (4 hours), Godlike Burger (6 hours), Q.U.B.E. (3.5 hours), Vacation Simulator (5.5 hours), Accounting+ (1.5 hours).

How this list is made

The sticker on a case is the hours its own page leads with: half of the game's Steam reviewers had played that long or less when they gave their verdict. A game is here when that is 8 hours or less, three in four of those reviewers had played 16 hours or less, it has 1,000 Steam reviews or more, and at least 80% of the reviewers past Steam's two-hour refund window recommend it. Simulation is a genre Steam's store files it under. The most reviewed come first.

The hours are not a time to beat. Most of these games are short; a few are ones most players put down early, and a game's own page shows which, hour by hour. Nothing is placed by hand, and more games are read every night.