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Great work! Is there a place I can checkout for good quality non spammy "business simulation" games?

My favourite is AirWay Sim [0], a massively-multiplayer online airline simulation. Incredibly detailed business sim financially — with full financial statement generation - as well as operationally. One must decide on hubs, airplane types, fuel hedging, scheduling.. the list is endless.

I’ve spent a non-trivial portion of my free time in university building airlines in this game. Highly recommended.

[0] https://www.airwaysim.com/

I'll refer one that I don't see mentioned very often, that is my favorite business simulation game: Capitalism / Capitalism Lab (latest version). It has been around for about 25 years, the author keeps working on the concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_(video_game)

https://www.capitalismlab.com/

This is a really amazing sim, and I'm surprised how under-the-radar it is. It's kind of Dwarf-Fortress-esque in how it has this slightly antiquated presentation, but hiding behind it is an incredibly deep sim, where the author keeps on adding new features.

Here are some interesting business simulation games from MIT Sloan: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/Pages/Over...

My personal favorite is: Platform Wars (https://mitsloan.mit.edu/LearningEdge/simulations/platform-w...)

Thanks! Platform Wars is excellent. Took a few runs to beat my competitor

I really enjoyed the Aerobiz games on SNES.

I asked a similar question on the previous thread about SimRefinery. For my criterion of a ‘more serious’ simulation, the answers were Capsim and Capitalism Plus.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23241152

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