management sim

English

Noun
Screenshot of OpenTTD, a free, open-source management game.

management sim (plural management sims)

  1. (video games) A simulation game focusing on the management of a business, institution, sports team, etc.
    Synonym: tycoon game
    • 1990 June, “World Championship Boxing Manager”, in Amstrad Action, page 54:
      These touches take WCBM into a different league to your average, run of the mill, ho-hum everyday kind of management sim.
    • 1999 January, Chas Davies, “NBA Live 99”, in Arcade, page 122:
      Guide your chosen team through not just one season, but a decade of play, making all the selection and transfer decisions in the manner of a simplified management sim.
    • 2016 January, Rick Lane, “Prison Architect”, in Custom PC, page 80:
      Introversion has officially updated Prison Architect to the hallowed version 1.0, and the result is one of the most distinctive and fascinating management sims since Theme Hospital.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:management sim.

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