Top 5 Unknown Sim Games 2018–2019 with huge potential

Derail Valley is a highly immersive train driving simulator, letting you truly be in a train cab and operate controls with your own hands. Choose jobs and deliver a variety of cargo between industries in a vast open world, using a diesel-electric shunter or a heavy steam locomotive. Explore the beautiful landscape of 256 km² filled with railways, industries and maybe even some secrets!

Freely choose step-by-step jobs found in offices of every industry. They include (un)loading, shunting and hauling, involving dozens of cargo types modeled after a realistic industry chain. Use the hard-earned money to refuel and service locomotives, or even buy new ones! Finally, try to stay on the tracks!

Flight simulators are a difficult proposition. Most are content to court a dedicated niche audience who are happy with esoteric controls and complex systems, so this one was a real treat, but casual gamers find something attractive in it as well.

The technical term for your ship is a rotatey cool thrust jet thingy, and you use this to fly about an alien planet, build bases, ferrying goods and passengers between human colonies for money and fun. Gravity and inertia and wind are big factors, making much of the challenge in taking off and landing without embarrassing yourself too much. I’ve complained before about trading games of this ilk being just a grind, but Frontier Pilot Simulator solves that problem by making the flight itself rewarding and satisfying. The flight controls are straightforward, though the trade menus need work and there’s a lot of confusing clutter on the screen, all of which needs some configuration options. Hopefully, this will all be ironed out during the Early Access period, as there’s certainly a lot of potential here.

FlyInside Flight Simulator is a flight simulator built for virtual reality. It ships with ten beautiful aircraft and scenery covering the entire continental United States. Fly high-speed jets, hover helicopters, and enjoy general aviation aircraft around a variety of locations and weather types. A custom flight simulation engine provides unparalleled performance, even under load with dense scenery and realistic weather.

Reentry is a space flight simulator based on real-life spacecraft. You create a new astronaut, gain levels and experience for every move you make by completing missions in space. You will have access to missions similar to what happened in real life, or fictional missions designed to challenge you as an astronaut.

Spacecraft are highly complicated machines with the primary task of exploring and understanding what’s outside the atmosphere of Earth while keeping the astronauts alive for long periods. This is achieved by hundreds of individual systems and backup systems working together. With the help from the in-game Space Flight Academy, the provided flight manual for each spacecraft, and checklists, you will learn how to fly and operate these machines, and explore space in a high resolution and realistic environment.

Players mention that Vector 36 (about $25) has a steep learning curve, but once you get things figured out, it’s a ton of fun. Mars has been terraformed, and the best thing to do on the red planet is racing a Skimmer against other Martians.

Your Skimmer can be completely customized, and there are a number of different tracks and race types to complete. Vector 36 is officially available for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive but doesn’t seem to be working with WMR.