I remember flying VOR radials in Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1, released in 1995. It came with a printed Pilot's Handbook [1] that included IFR procedures, explained how navaids work, and included various sectional charts.
At this point, full global navaid and aerodrome databases are almost at the table-stakes level for hardcore flight simuation. You might well have a fully-functioning flight planning system that has all the approaches and an autopilot that will fly them in coupled mode.
The simbrief and navigraph integrations directly into the working title Garmin avionics is amazing. I can link my flight plan easily and see charts on the screen in the glass cockpit in VR. And if I'm flying steam gauge I can have a VR overlay located near my lap that is like having an iPad with Foreflight on my kneeboard.
And, of course, you can actually take it to the next level and have the sim send data to a real iPad with Foreflight in simulation mode.
That's why it's so rewarding to learn how to do all this the manual way. I started playing with the G1000 which basically did everything via GPS, then I tried some older planes which required the use of separate charts and VOR.
Also, the sims can introduce error and distance matters (too far away and you won't receive the VORs signal --- mountain in the way, you won't get the signal). Like in a real plane.