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Here are our 10 Best Life simulation Games for Nintendo Switch: 1Disney Dreamlight Valley (2022)
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Play Video: Disney Dreamlight Valley 
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Immerse yourself in the magical world of Disney Dreamlight Valley. Restore the memories of beloved Disney and Pixar characters, and rebuild a vibrant neighborhood in your unique style. Experience thrilling adventures, solve captivating puzzles, and enjoy the endless customization options. With new content continuously added, there's always a fresh adventure waiting for you!
What we like:- Immersive magical world with beloved Disney characters
- Nonlinear gameplay with a variety of quests
- Extensive customization options for character and town
- Engaging storyline with mysteries to uncover
- Regular updates with fresh content
- Gameplay can be repetitive over time
- Limited space for town customization
- High time investment needed for progression
- Occasional technical glitches and crashes
- simulation
- farming
- crafting
- life-sim
- life
- fishing
- cooking
- adventure
- sandbox
- immersive
- character
- relaxing
- customization
- exploration
Good match + 142 Bad match - 244
2Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation - The Endless Seven-Day Journey (2021)
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Play Video: Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation - The Endless Seven-Day Journey 
Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4
Shin-Chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation -The Endless Seven-Day Journey- is an adventure game with a heartfelt summer vacation vibe. Join Shin-Chan and his family as they explore Japan, meet unique characters, collect bugs and plants, and help the mad scientist bring dinosaurs to life. Experience a peaceful world filled with stunning scenery, funny dialogue, and time travel.
What we like:- Fun dialogue
- Beautiful scenery
- Engaging side quests and activities
- Time travel elements
- Repetitive tasks at times
- Not all lines of dialogue are voiced
- simulation
- 2.5d
- collector
- creature
- anime
- 3d
- cartoony
- life
- dinosaurs
- farming
- immersive
- battler
- atmospheric
- adventure
- story
Good match + 79 Bad match - 206
3My Child Lebensborn (2018)
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Play Video: My Child Lebensborn 
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Experience the emotional and challenging journey of raising an adopted child in post-WWII Norway in My Child Lebensborn. Balance your time and resources to provide for your child's needs while navigating a world filled with hate and bullying. This BAFTA-award winning game offers a genuine and immersive nurturing simulation that will tug at your heartstrings.
What we like:- Impactful story
- Emotional journey
- Realistic characters
- Meaningful choices
- Good replay value
- Fairly linear gameplay
- Some may find it too emotionally taxing
- simulation
- war
- emotional
- time-management
- choices
- life
- hand-drawn
- story
- social
- historical
- casual
- crafting
- atmospheric
- management
Good match + 142 Bad match - 245
4PC Building Simulator (2019)
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Play Video: PC Building Simulator 
PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One
PC Building Simulator allows you to build your dream PC without the physical constraints. With licensed components, customizable LED and cabling colors, and step-by-step instructions, you'll enjoy experimenting with different configurations, completing repair jobs or entire system builds while balancing your books to ensure a profit. From novice to expert, this simulator is perfect for PC enthusiasts at all levels. Start building your marketable skills now!
What we like:- Accurate representation of building PCs
- For the hardcore PC enthusiasts
- No story
- simulation
- immersive
- education
- hardware
- management
- building
- life
- modern
- real-world
- empire
- fully-fledged
Good match + 95 Bad match - 201
5Chinese Parents (2018)
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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Android IOS iPhone
Chinese Parents is a life sim game about growing up in a Chinese household and juggling parental expectations while dealing with immense academic stress. It offers an accurate and detailed representation of the quirks, joys, and tribulations of childhood. Players must collect coloured gems to upgrade their stats and purchase skills in order to ace their exams and fulfill the ultimate goal of passing the annual university entrance exam known as the gaokao.
What we like:- Accurate portrayal of Chinese parenting
- Humorous storytelling
- Resource management challenge
- Unlocking hidden skills to boost stats
- Random events with multiple choice questions
- "face" stat that affects social standing
- English localization may miss out on some nuances of jokes or instructions for puzzles may be unclear
- simulation
- life
- memes
- psychological
- casual
- horror
Good match + 27 Bad match - 75
6My Child Lebensborn Remastered (2023)
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Play Video: My Child Lebensborn Remastered 
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My Child Lebensborn is a story-driven nurture game based on real events. Play as the adoptive parent of Karin or Klaus, and experience the struggles they go through alongside them. Balance your time and resources wisely, while helping your child cope with the effects of hatred.
- simulation
- life
- emotional
- immersive
- story
- choices
- war
Good match + 2 Bad match
7Cafe Master Story (2023)
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Nintendo Switch PC Windows IOS iPhone Android
Serve up food, drinks, and smiles in this retro cafe management sim!
- simulation
- colony
- life
- cooking
- city-building
- 2d
- sandbox
- pixel
- casual
- table
- top-down
- building
Good match + 2 Bad match
8Zoo Park Story (2023)
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Nintendo Switch PC Windows IOS iPhone Android
Well, what are you waiting for? Build a top-ranking zoo, set social media ablaze, and show the world your wild side!
- simulation
- colony
- zoo
- zoo-goers
- top-ranking
- nature
- life
- city-building
- pixel
- casual
- top-down
- building
- snow
- romance
- 2d
Good match + 4 Bad match
9Grow: Song of The Evertree (2021)
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Play Video: Grow: Song of The Evertree 
Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4
Grow: Song of the Evertree is an awe-inducing experience firmly planted between an adventure game and a sweet casual farm game. The game is beautiful with opportunities to explore the world around you and keep it casual with the gameplay, whilst feeding you the story. You get to customize your character and go on a journey to save the Evertree and nurture the world back to health from the Withering. You even get your very own sweet dragon companion!
What we like:- Beautiful art style & music
- Customizable character
- Relaxed gameplay
- Dragon companion
- Non-binary characters supported
- No punishment or rush for doing things wrong
- Slow going
- Not strictly accessible in terms of customization options
- farming
- simulation
- city-building
- wholesome
- open-world
- management
- sandbox
- exploration
- agriculture
- cute
- life
- world-crafting
- colourful
- relaxing
- nature
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10Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator (2022)
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Play Video: Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator 
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Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator is a thoughtful, intelligent crafting title that offers a deeply-robust gameplay experience. Players take on the role of an alchemist in Medieval times, gathering herbs for recipes, forming bonds with merchants and experimenting with potion combinations to create the Philosopher's Stone. Interacting with ingredients to see what combinations are most effective is at the heart of the crafting system and failure is rewarded as players learn from their mistakes.
What we like:- Unique crafting system
- No punishment for failure
- Thoughtful and intelligent game design
- Visually appealing artistry and cozy atmosphere
- Limited access to ingredients due to limited resources and money-management
- Haggling can affect shop reputation over time
- simulation
- crafting
- relaxing
- medieval
- life
- management
- resource-management
- sandbox
- table
- investigation
- hand-drawn
- farming
- casual
- book
Good match + 39 Bad match - 112
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