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Simulator Game Parodies are a series of video games in which the player assumes the role of a bizarre animal or object for humorous affect, including Goat Simulator and Rock Simulator.

Origin

One of the earliest simulators to gain notoriety online was the free game Surgeon Simulator, which was created in late January 2013 by Bossa Studios employees Tom Jackson, James Broadley, Luke Williams and Jack Good as an entry for the annual video game competition Global Game Jam.

Spread

In May 2013, the game Robot Vacuum Simulator was released by Stolidus Simulations, in which the player assumes the role of a household robot vacuum (shown below, left). On April 1st, 2014, the game Goat Simulator was officially released by Bossa Studios for Microsoft Windows systems via the Steam software distribution platform, in which the player roams an open world environment as a wild goat (shown below, right).

In June, the game Rock Simulator was successfully funded on the crowdfunding website IndieGoGo and an official trailer was released on June 27th (shown below, left). That same day, RezineGames released a trailer for the game Grass Simulator (shown below, right).

On July 2nd, YouTuber PewDiePie uploaded a video in which he plays several different simulator parody games (shown below, left). In the first year, the video gained over 10 million views and 11,900 comments. On April 9th, 2015, Bossa Studios released the bread simulation game I am Bread, in which the player controls a slice of bread to turn it into toast (shown below, right).

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