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I have a suspicion most of the people playing these are office workers, wondering what it would feel like to contribute something tangible to society.
Can't speak for other games, but there's a LOT of former truck drivers who play Snow Runner.
Back when I was working as a forklift driver, when I broke my leg and was stuck at home on the sofa I really enjoyed driving the forklift around in GTA5 and just moving palettes around.
There are current truckers who play Euro Truck Simulator in their trucks. I've seen it on r/trucksim
Sometimes you just want to do your job without annoying dispatchers, clients or managers, and drivers that actually follow the speed limit.
I mean, pilots do similar things, although probably not while in the cockpit.
I think it's fantastic. I love it.
Human being can be oddly obsessive. In other news, I wish American Truck Simulator was available for PS4 :-/
I choose to believe the only people who play Euro Train simulator are German train conductors who want to pretend to operate a train while eating pretzels and drinking a responsible amount of beer.
I work with kids who are seeking vocational education, and I can tell you that it is definitely not just office workers.
A favorite is euro truck sim 2. Weirdest case I've met though is farming sim. I've talked with 16 year olds who'd play that game for hours daily. Even got a friend of the family who'll come home from driving a tractor for 14 hours straight, and then play farming sim to wind down.
I know the farming simulator type of people. I think those people simply have a high professional interest in farming economy, management and agricultural technology.
Even more impressing than those who play every FS 20xx for hours I find those who mod for the games. Year after year they photograph, model, program and share their equipment, which is sometimes decades old.
Playing ETS2 is just something you do while listening to the radio, the long highway stretches of not having to reverse a trailer into the eye of a needle are superbly relaxing.
Can confirm, I’m an it worker and love the farming/trucking/construction/other sims