A simulation video game defines a various super-category of video games, commonly designed to meticulously simulate real world happenings.

Simulation game efforts to copy various actions from real life in the method of a game for several purposes such as prediction, analysis, or training. Typically, there are no firmly defined goals in the game, with the player in its place allowed to control a character without restrictions. Well-known examples are role play simulation, war games, and business games.

Starting from three basic types of learning exercises, strategic, and planning: case studies, simulations, and games, a number of hybrids may be considered, as well as simulation games that are castoff as case studies.