Woman Simulator is every bit as terrible as you’d expect

How far is too far when it comes to simulator games? Sebasa Games’ Woman Simulator might be the one that’s finally stepped over the line. Delivering what essentially boils down to a misogynistic household management simulator, I feel like the developer had a chance here to make a good commentary on domestic abuse – but in the end it turns out a husband calling his downtrodden wife a “skank” is so much more fun.

With a name like Woman Simulator, I shouldn’t be surprised at what this game is, but curiosity got the better of me. I played in the hope I’d find a hidden depth, whether it be a meaningful narrative or a subversion of your expectations, Moving Houses style. Alas, this really is as bad as you’d expect. Perhaps worse, actually, once you meet your in-game husband, atrociously creepy animations and all.

Woman Simulator is, unsurprisingly, a simulator casting you as a housewife. While your husband is at work, you need to do the laundry, wash the dishes, mop the floors, do the shopping and cook the food. As popular as “cosy” simulators are right now, there’s a market for a tasteful game in a similar vein. The tasks are mindless but strangely entertaining, with mopping the floor reminiscent of the likes of Power Wash Simulator and House Flipper.

But given the presentation of the game – that everything is being done purely for the appraisal of your husband – and he does appraise you when he comes home – Woman Simulator becomes something else entirely. It feels more like domestic abuse simulator once you start playing. I kid you not, within two in-game days my husband had made a “joke” about not needing to hit me because I’d managed to do all the chores. The next day, he called me from work, called me a skank, and told me he’d made a bet with a friend from work as to who had the better housewife at home. I was given two minutes to clean all the dishes.

I did not. I sat on my pixelated butt, surrounded by filth, and waited for him to get home. He was so angry that he swore – given the context of the game, probably worse – but then I was given a game over screen. My husband’s happiness had reached zero, and so I was being relocated. Uh, what?

I can find little commentary from the developer about the game, but on this Reddit thread, they suggest it offers an “interesting plot showing the injustice of marriage” and that there are “different ways of liberation”. Liberation, to me, suggests being freed from this god-awful in-game husband – but displeasing him by staging a revolt resulted in a game over. I’m not going to stick around, being threatened with violence and called sexist slurs, just to see what happens.

Am I surprised by what Woman Simulator offers? Absolutely not, but it’s still disappointing that in the year 2026, there are people out there who think this sort of thing is absolutely fine to create. Part of me wants to give Sebasa Games the benefit of the doubt – surely there must be a meaningful message in here? But if there is, it’s so well hidden underneath multiple layers of misogyny that it’s completely missed the mark. The fact it’s been tagged with a “feminism” hashtag in a post on X is simply the rotten icing on the very bad cake.

Do I feel a little disgusted with myself for even playing this game in the first place? Yes, I do. But playing games is my job, even if they make me a bit uncomfortable. Lots of games do – I don’t always enjoy mindlessly shooting people, or any number of questionable actions that video games make you carry out. But this one is so pointedly offensive that we really must despair, and question why on earth a game like this is made in the first place. By all means, make a cosy game where we have to keep a nice house. But this absolutely is not it.

Woman Simulator is available now on Steam, but you absolutely should not waste your money on it.