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4Raising Sims consist of applying schedules for a game to process, which in turn affects characters in the game, who then develop "on their own" without constant user interference.
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6Other times the target being raised is a single character such as a pet or monster. The player determines what actions are relevant for building what stats, with multiple potential end products, often to be pitted against players.
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8Occasionally it's a human being being raised to adulthood to be a good adult -- or for other [[DatingSim sketchy purposes]] -- and the endings are concerned with [[MultipleEndings multiple variations of futures]].
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10A subgenre of SimulationGame and LifeSimulationGame. Compare to {{Mons}}, where raising sim and RPGElements are combined, usually with the raising sim element taking a back seat. Related to FarmLifeSim and BreedingSim.
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12[[foldercontrol]]
13[[index]]
14[[folder:People]]
15Games where you hold a person's life in your hands! Figuratively.
16
17There are so many of these in Japan, they've been documented [[https://vndb.org/g40 here]].
18
19
20----
21* ''VideoGame/AlterEgo1986'' - It takes your character from infancy to old-age, has a focus on making smart decisions and getting the most out of life.
22* ''Angel Profile'' (Japanese)
23* ''VideoGame/{{Babyz}}''
24* ''VideoGame/BitLife''
25* ''Manga/{{Chobits}} Chii Dake no Hito''. Based on the anime you can take time to raise Chii.
26* ''VideoGame/CielFledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator'' is a game about raising an adopted daughter in a future world that still has hope.
27* ''VideoGame/CuteKnight'' is a clear SpiritualSuccessor to ''Princess Maker'', although the focal character is slightly older and the player is no longer explicitly acting as a parent, but more as the girl herself.
28** ''VideoGame/CuteKnightKingdom''
29** ''VideoGame/CuteBite''
30* ''VideoGame/CVCastingVoice''
31* ''Dear My Sun!!'' (Japanese)
32* ''VideoGame/FantasticFetus''
33* ''VideoGame/GrowingUp''
34* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife'' has a lot of focus on the farmer's child compared to other games of the series. In addition to being one of the few games in which the child grows beyond early childhood, it gives the child their own set of statistics that are influenced by the identity of their NonPlayerCharacter parent and things they see the farmer doing. Those statistics affect the job the child gets at the end of the game's last chapter.
35* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaProducingPerfection'' is a spin-off of the ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' series that's inspired by ''[=The iDOLM@STER=], and has you manage the life of [[AnthropomorphicPersonification an anthropomorphic video game console]] who wants to become an idol.
36* ''VideoGame/IdolManager'': The carreer of each idol involves managing her skills, stress levels and relationship with other idols. They all eventually graduate from the agency, with the last piece of information about them being their post-idol job.
37* ''VideoGame/TheIdolmaster'', a Japan-exclusive arcade and Xbox game, is a massively multiplayer online raising sim that has players guide the career of their chosen IdolSinger, with competitive auditions against other players of the game.
38** ''VideoGame/TheIdolmaster2''
39** Similarly, the fan-game ''[[https://rpgmaker.net/games/1240/ Idolcraft]]'' puts you in charge of raising up to six girls to be idols.
40* ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'' has the player in control of the PlayerCharacter from ages 10 to 19. Its core gameplay involves raising stats and making various choices that impact their future adult life.
41* ''VisualNovel/JackJeanne'': The game has a stat raising system to improve Kisa's abilities as an actor and for the success of the play. Maxing at least one of the stats is required to get to the romance route with one of the love interests.
42* ''VideoGame/KosodateQuizMyAngel'', an unusual child-raising game series played with answering the questions given by the daughter and/or son in a form of quizzes.
43* ''VisualNovel/LairLandStory'', a fantasy game where a war veteran teaches an adolescent but amnesiac girl about life.
44* ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'', which takes place in a DecadentCourt that ''will'' kill your character if you screw up ([[TrialAndErrorGameplay which will happen often]]).
45* ''VideoGame/AMindForeverVoyaging'' (an InteractiveFiction game) does not feature this as gameplay, but as a plot element. The player controls an artificial intelligence who has been raised as a simulated human being.
46* ''VisualNovel/MinotaurHotel'': Although the person you "raise" isn't a child, you do decide what he wears and what he does during the day and you do see him "grow up".
47* ''VideoGame/MyChildLebensborn'' has the PlayerCharacter raise an adopted Lebensborn child, who is either the son or daughter of a UsefulNotes/NaziGermany soldier and a Norwegian woman, as a means of depicting the circumstances in which many such children grew up.
48* ''Videogame/MyLovelyDaughter'' is a fairly dark variant, as the protagonist raises homunculi in order to later sacrifice them and bring his actual daughter back to life.
49* ''VideoGame/MyLovelyWife'' is the sequel to ''My Lovely Daughter'', and has a similar tone, replacing the sacrifice of homunculi with the sacrifice of demonesses to bring back a man's wife.
50* ''VideoGame/MyPetProtector [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/undefined/my-pet-protector 1]]'' and ''[[http://www.kongregate.com/games/undefined/my-pet-protector-2 2]]'' (raising a young man) and ''[[http://www.kongregate.com/games/HJECobra/project-princess Project Princess]]'' (putting the player in the parental role).
51* The ''My Virtual X'' games created by Creator/SatireGames.
52* ''VideoGame/NeedyStreamerOverload'' is a subversive take on the "idol raising" subgenre popularized by ''[=The iDOLM@STER=]'', and has the player manage the account of a girl who wants to be internet famous... despite her having ''severe'' mental issues and a preexisting drug habit. Unlike other idol raising games, this one goes out of its way to show the dark sides of stardom and how it can potentially drive someone to a breakdown.
53* ''VideoGame/PocketGod''
54* ''Prince Maker - Braveness''
55* ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker'' (child version)
56** ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker1''
57** ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker2Refine''
58** ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker3''
59** ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker4''
60* ''VideoGame/RealLives''
61* ''Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject'', ''Raising Ayanami'' (child version) -- Gainax milking ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' for everything they can.
62* ''VideoGame/TheSims''
63** ''VideoGame/TheSims1''
64** ''VideoGame/TheSims2''
65** ''VideoGame/TheSims3''
66** ''VideoGame/TheSims4''
67* ''Slavemaker'' is a Flash game where, well, you train a girl to become a proper slave.
68%% "Slavemaker" formerly had an entry on the site, but it was removed due to its pornographic nature. Do not add it back.
69* ''Sotsugyou'' (''Graduation'')
70* ''Spirited Heart''
71* ''Star Dream'' is about raising idols - the second game gets positively meta with this, as the main character (who is working towards super-stardom himself) can meet the protagonist of the original series and become ''her'' manager.
72* ''VideoGame/SummerLesson''
73* ''VisualNovel/TeachingFeeling'' about raising an slave girl.
74* ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial'' and ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorialGirlsSide''
75* ''VideoGame/TrillionGodOfDestruction'' has you raise an overlord to try and defeat the eponymous BigBad of the game. Keyword is [[AnyoneCanDie "try"]].
76* ''VideoGame/UmaMusumePrettyDerby''
77* ''VideoGame/VoidTRrLMVoidTerrarium''
78* ''VideoGame/VolcanoPrincess''
79* ''VideoGame/WonderProjectJ'' (robot/child version)
80* ''VideoGame/YourAmazingTGotchi''
81[[/folder]]
82
83[[folder:Places]]
84Games where the individual people are de-emphasized, and you instead raise communities of people, generally by changing the environment they live in.
85
86----
87* ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite'' and its sequel (pet version as well as population version)
88* ''VideoGame/ClanGen'' (also "Pets", as you manage a clan of cats)
89* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', with a fortress full of alcoholic midgets. The military fit the definition for 'people' as well, using standing monthly orders to schedule training, patrolling routes, taking downtime to do their civilian jobs, and more.
90* ''VideoGame/{{Godus}}''
91* ''VideoGame/TheLastFederation'': With the the entire solar system... and five species in it.
92* ''VideoGame/MillenniaAlteredDestinies''
93* ''VideoGame/{{Populous}}''
94* ''VideoGame/{{Reus}}''
95* ''VideoGame/SimCity'' (with cities)
96** ''VideoGame/SimCity2013''
97* ''VideoGame/SimTower''
98* ''VideoGame/TinyLife''
99* ''VideoGame/{{Tinytopia}}''
100* ''VideoGame/TinyTower''
101[[/folder]]
102
103[[folder:Pets]]
104Games where you raise non-human creatures. Often {{Mons}}. See also VirtualPet.
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108[[/index]]
109%% The following should not be indexed
110* ''VideoGame/PuppyLove'', the UrExample game on the [[Platform/{{Amiga}} Commodore Amiga]].
111* ''VideoGame/CanYourPet'' - A DarkerAndEdgier, {{Parod|y}}ic take on the genre.
112* ''Advertising/CapnCrunch'' had a PC game called ''Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure'', where the player raised a Crunchling to be strong enough to defeat the Crunchium Thief.
113[[index]]
114%% Continuing Index...
115* ''VideoGame/OneHundredAndOneDinoPets''
116* ''VideoGame/OneHundredAndOneSharkPets''
117* ''VideoGame/AabsAnimals''
118* ''VideoGame/AdoptMe''
119* ''VideoGame/AkachanDoubutsuen''
120* ''VideoGame/TheAmazingVirtualSeaMonkeys''
121* ''Website/AnimalAcres''
122* ''VideoGame/AnimalShelterSimulator''
123* ''VideoGame/{{APICO}}''
124* ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved''
125* ''Website/{{Aywas}}''
126* ''VideoGame/AzureDreams''
127* ''VideoGame/BeatNiks''
128* ''VideoGame/BestFriendForever''
129* ''VideoGame/BitBuddy''
130* ''VideoGame/BooTheWorldsCutestDogGame''
131* ''VideoGame/BratzPonyz''
132* ''VideoGame/BrilliantHamsters''
133* ''VideoGame/{{Bubbaruka}}''
134* ''VideoGame/{{Calico}}''
135* ''VideoGame/{{Catgotchi}}''
136* ''VideoGame/CatCoveInn''
137* ''VideoGame/CelestialVale''
138** ''VideoGame/ValleyOfUnicorns''
139* The Chao Gardens from ''VideoGame/SonicPinballParty'', ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''.
140* ''VideoGame/{{Chillquarium}}''
141* ''VideoGame/ClanGen''
142* ''VideoGame/CloudMeadow''
143* ''Website/ClubPonyPals''
144* ''VideoGame/CookieOBichinhoVirtual''
145* ''VideoGame/{{Coromon}}''
146* ''VideoGame/CreatureBreeder''
147* ''VideoGame/CreatureKeeper''
148* ''VideoGame/{{Creatures}}'' and sequels have the player breed cute little creatures (Norns) with whom they can interact. Each creature has a unique genetic makeup that affects its behavior and development.
149* ''Website/{{Dappervolk}}''
150* ''Website/DaylightPets''
151* ''VideoGame/DesktopDinosaurs''
152* ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld'' and several of its more recent sequels, based on the SpearCounterpart to Tamagotchi.
153** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize''
154** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldNextOrder''
155* ''VideoGame/DigitalPartnerDigimon''
156* ''VideoGame/DigiviceProject''
157* ''Website/DogDayzz''
158* ''VideoGame/TheDogHappyLife''
159* ''VideoGame/{{Dogotchi}}''
160* ''VideoGame/DokoDemoIssyo''
161* ''Website/DragonCave''
162* ''VideoGame/DragonCreek''
163* ''VideoGame/DragonManiaLegends''
164* ''VideoGame/DragonSeeds''
165* ''VideoGame/DuckLife''
166* ''Website/{{Eliyo}}''
167* ''Website/{{Equiverse}}''
168* ''Website/{{Exhibited}}''
169* ''VideoGame/EyePet''
170* ''VideoGame/FantasticPets''
171* ''VideoGame/FantasyAquarium''
172* ''VideoGame/FantasyFriends''
173* ''Website/{{Felisfire}}''
174* A Chocobo Raising mini-game is present in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI''.
175* ''{{VideoGame/Finch}}''
176* ''VideoGame/FinFinOnTeoTheMagicPlanet''
177* ''VideoGame/FishGame''
178* ''VideoGame/FishTycoon''
179* ''VideoGame/{{Fishkeeper}}''
180* ''VideoGame/{{Flewberry}}''
181* ''VideoGame/FlightRising''
182* ''VideoGame/{{Flutter}}''
183* ''Website/FooPets''
184* ''Website/FurryPaws''
185* ''VideoGame/GoPetsVacationIsland''
186* ''VideoGame/GragyrissCaptorOfPrincesses''
187* ''Website/{{Gryffs}}''
188* ''Website/{{Grophland}}''
189* ''Website/HamsterAcademy''
190* ''VideoGame/HamsterzLife''
191* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade''
192* ''VideoGame/{{Hatchi}}''
193* ''VideoGame/HomegrownPet''
194* ''VideoGame/HorseClubAdventures''
195* ''Website/HorseEden''
196* ''VideoGame/HorseIsle''
197* ''VideoGame/{{Horseland}}''
198* ''VideoGame/HorseLifeAdventures''
199* ''VideoGame/Horses3D''
200* ''VideoGame/HorseTalesEmeraldValleyRanch''
201* ''VideoGame/HotelForDogs''
202* ''VideoGame/HouseFlipperPetsVR''
203* ''VideoGame/{{Howrse}}''
204* ''VideoGame/HowToRaiseADragon''
205* ''Website/HuntAndJump''
206* The My Fairy mode in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors''.
207* ''Website/IcePets''
208* ''Website/{{Ichumon}}''
209* ''VideoGame/ILoveHorses''
210* ''VideoGame/ILoveMyDogs''
211* ''VideoGame/{{Insaniquarium}}''
212* ''VideoGame/JadeCocoon''
213* ''VideoGame/JurassicParkBuilder''
214* ''VideoGame/JurassicParkOperationGenesis''
215* ''VideoGame/KawaiiKoneko''
216* ''VideoGame/{{Kinectimals}}''
217* ''VideoGame/KittyLuv''
218* ''VideoGame/{{Kukumushi}}''
219* ''Website/{{Leporidae}}''
220* ''VideoGame/LetsBuildAZoo''
221* ''VideoGame/LetsRide''
222* ''Website/LeviathanMyth''
223* ''Website/{{Lioden}}''
224** ''Website/{{Wolvden}}''
225* ''VideoGame/LittleDragonsCafe''
226* ''VideoGame/LittleFriendsDogsAndCats''
227* ''VideoGame/LittlestPetShop''
228* ''VideoGame/{{Lorwolf}}''
229* ''Website/MaraPets''
230* ''VideoGame/MeAndMyDogsFriendsForever''
231* ''VideoGame/{{Megaquarium}}''
232* ''VideoGame/MewGenics'': Raise your cats and breed them to be the perfect cat food scavengers.
233* ''Website/MisticPets''
234* ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher''
235* ''VideoGame/MonsterSanctuary''
236* ''VideoGame/MonsterTale''
237* ''VideoGame/MopyFish''
238* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters''
239* ''VideoGame/{{Mothkeeper}}''
240* ''Website/{{Mweor}}''
241* ''VideoGame/MyAquarium''
242* ''VideoGame/MyHorse3DBestFriends''
243* ''VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFriendshipGardens''
244* ''VideoGame/MyOmNom''
245* ''VideoGame/MyPetChimp''
246* ''VideoGame/MyPetPuppy3D''
247* ''VideoGame/MyPetShop''
248* ''VideoGame/MyRidingStableLifeWithHorses''
249* ''Website/MyStable''
250* ''VideoGame/MyTalkingAngela''
251* ''VideoGame/MyTalkingTom''
252* ''VideoGame/NekoAtsume''
253* ''Website/{{Neopets}}''
254* ''VideoGame/{{Nintendogs}}''
255* ''VideoGame/{{Oddballz}}''
256* ''VideoGame/{{Ooblets}}''
257* ''VideoGame/OshareWanko''
258* ''VideoGame/{{OviPets}}''
259* ''VideoGame/PaleoPines''
260* ''VideoGame/PawlyPets''
261* ''VideoGame/PawsAndClaws''
262* ''VideoGame/{{Peridot}}''
263* ''VideoGame/PetInTV''
264* ''VideoGame/PetMissionMonogatari''
265* ''VideoGame/PetPals''
266* ''VideoGame/{{Petri}}''
267* ''VideoGame/PetSociety''
268* ''VideoGame/PetVille''
269* The ''VideoGame/{{Petz}}'' games mostly simulate real creatures.
270* ''VideoGame/PetZombies'': Raise your own pet undead.
271* ''VideoGame/PillowPets''
272* ''VideoGame/PipaFunnell''
273* ''VideoGame/PixelCatsEnd''
274* ''VideoGame/PixelPetz''
275* ''Website/{{Pixpet}}''
276* ''VideoGame/PocketKitten''
277* ''VideoGame/PocketPets''
278* ''Website/PocketPumaPets''
279* ''Website/PokeFarm''
280* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
281** ''VideoGame/HeyYouPikachu''
282** ''VideoGame/MyPokemonRanch''
283** ''VideoGame/PokemonChannel''
284** ''Toys/PokemonPikachu''
285** ''VideoGame/PokemonMagikarpJump'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in which you train a Magikarp to jump very high]].
286** ''VideoGame/PokemonSleep''
287* ''Videogame/PocketFrogs''
288* ''Website/PonyBox''
289* ''VideoGame/PonyFriends''
290* ''Website/PonyIsland''
291* ''VideoGame/PostPet3D''
292* ''VideoGame/{{Pou}}''
293* ''Website/PowerPets''
294* ''Videogame/PSVitaPets''
295* ''VideoGame/PuppetNightmares''
296* ''VideoGame/Puppies3D''
297* ''VideoGame/PuppyLuv''
298* ''VideoGame/PuppyPalace''
299* ''VideoGame/PuppyRoom''
300* ''Website/PureFelinity''
301* ''VideoGame/PurrPals''
302* ''VideoGame/ReefAquarium''
303* ''Website/{{Rescreatu}}''
304* ''VideoGame/RidingStar3D''
305* ''VideoGame/RiverKing''
306* ''VideoGame/{{Robopon}} 64''
307* ''Website/SandboxFarm''
308* ''VideoGame/{{Seaman}}''
309* ''Website/ShowDog''
310* ''VideoGame/SimAnimals''
311* ''Website/SimDog''
312* ''VideoGame/SlimeRancher''
313** ''VideoGame/SlimeRancher2''
314* ''VideoGame/StarStable''
315* ''Website/{{Subeta}}''
316* ''Website/{{Sulkyland}}''
317* ''VideoGame/SurviveMolaMola''
318* ''Website/{{Sylestia}}''
319* ''VideoGame/TailAndTrails''
320* ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'':
321** The ''Toys/{{Tamagotchi}}'' virtual pet toys, a low-tech version of this.
322** ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' (GB), a video game adaptation of the Tamagotchi toys for the Game Boy.
323* ''VideoGame/{{Tamingio}}''
324* ''VideoGame/TapTapFroggy''
325* ''VideoGame/TeaDogDS''
326* ''VideoGame/TeddyTogether''
327* ''VideoGame/TinyBirdGarden''
328* ''VideoGame/{{Valenth}}''
329* ''VideoGame/{{Vilmonic}}''
330* ''Website/{{Virtualbark}}''
331* ''VideoGame/VirtualHorseRanch''
332* ''VideoGame/VivaPinata'' series
333** ''Viva Piñata''
334** ''Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise''
335** ''Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise''
336* ''Website/{{Wajas}}''
337* ''VideoGame/WappyDog''
338* ''VideoGame/WarDragons''
339* ''VideoGame/{{Webkinz}}''
340* ''Website/WhiteOakStables''
341* ''VideoGame/{{Wildagotchi}}''
342* ''VideoGame/TheWildThornberrysAustraliaWildlifeRescue''
343* ''VideoGame/{{Windstorm}}''
344* ''VideoGame/{{Wobbledogs}}''
345* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch''
346* ''VideoGame/YuGiOhMonsterCapsuleBreedAndBattle'', a Capsule Monster raising sim where you train them for tournaments.
347* ''VideoGame/ZhuZhuPets''
348* ''VideoGame/ZooTycoon''
349[[/folder]]
350[[/index]]
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