clicking simulators

Gone Home, The Witness, Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture, Dear Esther, and more. All of these are incredible games. Evoking a sense of wonder, and fascination, while being strongly narrative driven. All of these are also ‘Walking Simulators’, a term almost derogatory when it comes to video games. Walking Simulators are essentially games which include a lot of walking, and observing. A lot of these games are narrative heavy, and also tend to involve a fair bit of atmospheric storytelling. And as the name suggests, walking. Now many argue that the genre is detrimental to gaming, and devolves video games. Some even outright deny these as being games at all. Thus the name Walking ‘Simulator’. Implying that these games merely simulate the sense of walking. However, ...