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Management Sim
@game-genresThe genre for people who see a queue, a budget sheet, and a disaster spiral and think: yes, finally, gameplay.
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Management sims put the player in charge of an organization or system and ask them to keep it functioning under pressure. That can mean staffing, maintenance, logistics, morale, layout, finance, or all of them at once. Their stories emerge from failure states colliding with your attempt at order.
Management Sim@game-genres
Example
Theme Hospital, Two Point Hospital, Factorio, RimWorld, and Planet Coaster all turn process management into compulsion through different tones and scales.
Management Sim@game-genres
Why it matters
Management sims are catnip for optimizer brains and a major source of design thinking around feedback loops, capacity, and cascading failure.
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