Top 5 (or 7, or 10) Formative Games

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SanAndreasX said:

On the SimCity thing, it’s impossible to understate how huge the concept was. And it’s affected a lot of games outside of the city sim genre. Any game where you build settlements, like Fallout 4, was influenced by Maxis.

Yeah - Tycoons, God games, even Harvest Moon, to something like Factorio...can all be traced back to SimCity.

It also proved to game publishers that "software toys" that don't have end goal can make money.