Try Job Simulator on VR

For the record, the science shows that Destruction Therapy is not effective at actually managing anger, and may actually cause more harm long term, as you're normalizing that behavior in your brain.

But as for why we don't see more games along those lines, I don't know. It does seem like a genre that would sell well right now. I remember there was a series of desktop games when I was a kid called Stress Reducer that would give you a set of animated weapons to "destroy" your windows desktop (an image of it).

We do have these, they're just not super popular or are not intended to be played that way.

Like your first example of causing chaos in a shop? You can do that in Supermarket Simulator. It just isn't what you're meant to do unless you're Josh from Let's Game it Out. 🤷‍♂️

If you want to shoot Nazis and klan members there are Wolfenstein games.

I bought just for some cathartic relief. Unfortunately the first person camera jostled around too much and gave me too much motion sickness.

Damn. Really needed that.

https://youtu.be/JWfD4geJm2Q

Here is a cool video from a small time creator about why we don't get Nazi-killing games anymore.

I had similar idea a while ago but admittedly more political than mundane.

You're a boss in your corporation. game's objective is to be annoying and mess around with your worker. But somehow through your abuse you also have to keep your corporation alive financially.

It's a mix of sandbox & tycoon. but the gameplay should be more sandboxed to really allow player create mess, and not very pressured by the goals created by the tycoon aspect.

I had an idea for a mobile game.

The premise. Circus/carnival games with gop theme.

So one would be where 3 orange clown heads move and you have to throw a baseball at, and knock off the crowns.

Another was like wack a mole but with ice agents and protestors. So make sure you only wack the ices.

The old game with the water gun filling up a balloon. But it's just faces of Trump's cabinet expanding until they pop.

Maybe something with those toy horse races.

The bulls eye one that dunks someone.

Ring toss

Ski ball

And letter boards with your friends.

So many possibilities here. But I don't know how to design games. So.

Untitled Goose Game is what you are looking for :)

Reminds me of why I like driving games so much. Sure it's nice to be in the driver's seat on a street or racetrack in a way where it feels like I'm really there taking a hairpin turn in Times Square without any personal risk.

But there's nothing quite like doing literally what my mind can come up with in a game with arcade physics, keeping just enough realism to give feedback on collision damage without breaking immersion.

My stress relief game is fallout 4. You get so OP so quickly that it's like "ok, I don't like you, or your whole crew. I'm going to wipe you out of existence like Im a Mr clean magic erase sponge."

It's just satisfying release.

Dynasty Warriors has been my stress relief game. I just love jumping into a hoard of enemies and just start swinging.

Tiny Glade and the entire diorama building genre are already mentioned. Do you have any interest in the P&C adventure genre?

Postal 2 immediately comes to mind for me. Just some dude trying to do mundane errands around town. Definitely a lot of killing tho..

Untitled Goose Game?

Job Simulator? It's VR only though.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/448280/Job_Simulator/

My feeling, that I've learned after many years of doing it wrong, is that 'taking out' your stress with violent or aggressive acts, even virtual ones, isn't a healthy way to deal with it. It reinforces it rather than releasing it. Calming exercises, deep breathing and letting stress go is a much more useful way to deal with it.

In that vein, I recommend Tiny Glade for stress relief. Or any so called 'cosy' game.

Check out the Youtube channel Let's Game It Out. Josh is very creative in finding ways to torment the NPCs of various simulator and tycoon games.

Because Postal already exists.
And postal 2, 3, and 4

So you want a game where you can go… postal?

I like Mini Motorways in creative mode for this purpose. You design road systems to connect houses with businesses using limited resources. The music is very peaceful and the pastel colours are very pleasant on the eye. While the other modes are a bit more stressful, creative mode is like a simplified city builder.

And of course the perennial favourite, Stardew Valley.

It’s interesting how simulators do tend to draw in people who also do the same thing as their IRL job.

Lots of farmers play Farming Simulator. Lots of truckers play Euro/American Truck Simulator. Lots of pilots play MS Flight Simulator.

I saw an ad a few days ago for a game called Roadside Research.

It's a gas station management sim where you play as an alien disguised as a human, running a gas station and "researching" humanity.

It looks pretty fun.

What do you think the minigun is for in GTA5?

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Umm, you mean like The Sims?

A lot of VR titles let you do that. Job simulator, vacation simulator, and more erm, viscerally, surgeon simulator.

being a very disgruntled worker in a very annoyingly noisy environment with shitty customers.

That sounds like pure stress to me instead of stress relief. Dont know about other people but I wouldnt want to spend my free time simulating a shitty job.

People Playground is the closest thing I can think of.

japan has an arcade game where you flip your dinner table as hard as you can and the more stuff you break, the higher the score

I've been playing supermarket together, a supermarket management game where you can smack people with a broom;

Walking Dead Saints and Sinners is pretty therapeutic at times.

Not an exact fit, but check out Night of the Consumers

From what I know about simulator games, they don't usually simulate asshole customers, and it's fairly easy to be successful compared to real life. Kinda its own form of stress relief, though I'd assume that the target audience isn't people who have the simulated job in real life.