8 Video Games You Shouldn't Play As An Adult

The Sims may be one of the most influential and iconic games to ever spawn out of the medium and has met with consistent critical and commercial success in the years since, but that doesn’t mean that you should play it as an adult. Not the first game, anyway.

While there’s nothing wrong with whiling away the hours in a digital life simulation where you get to do things you’d never be able to experience in the real world like get married after a single date or own a home, the first release is looking a little worse for wear 24 years on, and that’s us being generous.

There are a handful of games on this list including this one that were once absolute must-plays, but now we’ve moved on so far technologically and creatively as an industry that while the titles will always hold their famed spot in gaming history, they’re pretty unfulfilling to return to.

In this case, the graphics are tricky to stomach, the systems are yet to be refined, and most of the mechanics will have you daydreaming about the game’s sequels that iterated on the most dated features and invented whole new ones which drastically improve your experience in playing the game.

While it’s probably a fair statement that everyone should give The Sims a go at least once in their lifetime, there’s really no need to go all the way back to the beginning. You can just Google the Goth family timeline on YouTube and then you’re pretty much all caught up.