There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns. I believe Mars colonisation is today 95% unknown unknowns, so there is no way we get any valuable insight from a

There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns. I believe Mars colonisation is today 95% unknown unknowns, so there is no way we get any valuable insight from a simulation that misses 95% of the point. E.g. a moon landing simulation in 1969 (with todays software and hardware) would not have taught us that moon dust is very sticky due to electrostatic charges, and that it heavily impact operations on lunar surface. Any simulation game that did not take that into account would be heavily biased and misrepresent reality.