10 Times Video Games Were TOO Realistic

There are two kinds of Skylines players: those who want to build the city of their dreams and those who want to unleash the worst possible plagues upon their unsuspecting virtual citizens.

Those in the former category usually enjoy the more realistic aspects of the game, as they want their creations to feel and look like actual places in our world.

However, there is one overly realistic mechanic that the same people have a major gripe with—the problem of depleting resources.

As close to home as this mechanic hits, the fact that resources like coal, oil, and ores can be fully excavated by your city's industries means that the industry districts you spend hours designing will eventually have to be removed.

This is obviously a terrible situation for someone who plays the game to design pretty cities and doesn't want to worry about sustainability. Which is why most city builders usually resort to using mods that allow them to get rid of the resource-depleting mechanic altogether.

Sure, maybe it does closely resemble our real-life issues with resource exploitation, but then again, you don't play an idealized city-building simulator to worry about real-life (unideal) ecological struggles.