Let's Play Simulator 2016!

Let's Play Simulator 2016! turns the increasingly familiar activity of watching and producing online gameplay into a game itself, which is exactly the sort of recursive idea that the internet was always going to produce eventually. Players take on the role of a content creator, managing the various tasks involved in building an audience and keeping the channel moving. The humor comes partly from recognizing how absurdly complicated the process can become when reduced to game mechanics. It is a snapshot of an era when being a YouTuber had already become a recognizable virtual career path. If you ever wondered whether pretending to play games could itself become a game, Let's Play Simulator 2016! has the wonderfully inevitable answer.