Let’s talk about “Walking Simulators” for a second
Walking Simulators. A colloquial gamer term for a game where you spend the grand majority of your time walking around and looking at stuff. The games that fall into this category are often not even thought of as “games”, or rather the traditional sense of what constitutes something being a game. I’ve written about this subject many moons ago on a website far far away, but I’ve been seeing a bit of a spike in the Walking Simulator market. Games such as Firewatch, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Abzu have rekindled my desire to discuss this strange genre of gaming in more detail.
