One of my fondest memories as a child is playing on my old PS2. There were two different games, The Dog Island and Petz Dogz 2 (I was nearly obsessed with dogs as a kid) that had fishing and bug-catching mechanics. I devoted numerous hours to collecting every bug and fish I could get my paws on and …

Pokemon is like the ultimate game for this!!! When I first discovered iNat, I thought of it as a real like Pokedex!

The Pokémon Snap games might help scratch the iNat itch in inclement weather, without the emphasis on combat that the rest of the series has. That said, I think we’re still missing a “true” naturalist game (ie not a side activity like in for instance Animal Crossing or fishing in the Breath of Fire…

Oh yes of course, how could I forget pokemon lol! They definitely are similar in some ways.

Aquanaut’s Holiday, a very rare PS3 game that was never released outside of Asia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CCSk1I4wtw You play as the pilot of a tiny, adorable looking submarine and explore the fictional Kisira atoll, where all marine biomes converge. The story focuses on the disappearance…

When I’ve played games like Fallout or Far Cry and I see junk on the ground like corrugated metal, I often wish I could lift it up and look for snakes and bugs.

“The Warblers” podcast by Birds Canada just had an episode about just this sort of thing. It is entitled “Bird Gaming for Conservation” and you can find it here - https://www.birdscanada.org/warblerspodcast

That would be great, I love the monster design in Fallout, especially the Mirelurks

Encountering banana yucca in Fallout: New Vegas helped me identify my first one in the field .

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pisum March 14, 2023, 8:16pm 4

here’s an old thread that is sort of related: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/computer-games-based-on-real-ecosystems/866.

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