I Recreated My Dad’s Real-Life Company in Construction Simulator 2022
Before I wrote about video games from the comfort of a computer screen, I worked for my father at his real-life construction company, so playing the upcoming Construction Simulator 2022 was something of a surreal experience. Just when I thought I’d left the yellow hard hat and demanding physical labor in the tractor’s rearview, it all came flooding back to me in this beautifully detailed and incredibly fun simulation game that had me giddy with nostalgia before I was done with the tutorial. It’s not too often that one gets the opportunity to walk the path not taken, but strapping that toolbelt back on as I drove painstakingly detailed roller machines and excavators, completed repair jobs, and pushed around dirt felt like peering through a window into what could have been, and that’s just about the highest compliment I could give a game that prides itself on a realistic depiction of the trade.
Given my personal connection to the construction industry, I decided to put Construction Simulator 2022 through its paces by seeing how accurately I could recreate my father’s actual company. After creating an avatar that looked shockingly close to my actual dad, naming my company after the family business, and choosing one of Construction Simulator’s two open-world locales , I was ready to begin resharpening my skills as a builder. I started out with simple jobs at first, like replacing a broken pipe and compacting some gravel in a parking lot. You might not expect these straightforward chores to be particularly fun, but you’d be mistaken – like many good simulation games, it’s oddly satisfying to see the fruits of your virtual labor.
But when I was introduced to more complicated jobs involving incredibly heavy and complex pieces of
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