Mundane Games

Games allow you to interact with fantastical worlds that you'd never experience in everyday life. In video games you can be buzzing through a warzone in a helicopter or fighting aliens or managing a full-scale invasion of another country! However games can also be mundane. For instance, for a solid decade, my little sister has played 'The Sims 2' on and off, a game in which you micromanage a family of people, ordering them to use the loo when they need to pee, to cook when they need to eat, and sending them off to work when they run out of money. It's sort of like a virtual dollhouse.

In a similar vein, my girlfriend and I have invested way too much of our time into Minecraft, a game in which you are plopped into a blocky wilderness:

and allowed to mine, craft and build almost anything you can think of. So far we've assembled a field of crops:

and animals for food.

Also, we live in an empty house:

and occasionally dig for coal to light torches to scare monsters away.

What are your favourite games about mundane topics? Let us know in the comments below!!

- Olly