10 Video Games With Incredibly Steep Learning Curves
1. Sim City
The first SimCity game was published in 1989, and it was immediately popular. Since then, there have been dozens of updates, spinoffs, sequels, and remastered editions. The game offers players the opportunity to build and manage a city, which may seem like a simple prospect, but this game is far from simple.
The player starts out with an empty landscape and a fixed amount of funds. The first thing you will need to do is establish a power plant, lay wires, build roads, build pipes for sewage, and designate zones. Just as in real life, you can't build a warehouse in a residential district, and the game has similar limitations.
The way you plot out and plan your city is incredibly important, so the only people who can pick up this game right away would have to be city planners in real life. It's that complex, and while the game does feature a helpful (and immersive) tutorial to show you the ropes, that only adds to its complexity.
Like many of the games on this list, there are numerous ways to play SimCity, but no matter how you choose to play it, you will have to pay careful attention to every building, every electric line, every school, and every... well, everything, or your city will fail, and you will lose the game.