Worth noting, there's quite a pedigree of this sort of game in the Japanese gaming market. There were all sorts of games on the Saturn, Playstation, PC Engine,

Worth noting, there's quite a pedigree of this sort of game in the Japanese gaming market. There were all sorts of games on the Saturn, Playstation, PC Engine, and others that has the player make burgers, cook fries, make ramen, rice bowls, etc. A recent example is the Yoshinoya game for PS2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt_sZwVoQv0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt_sZwVoQv0 In a similar vein to the "dumb" or mundane games are things like truck driving simulators (Euro Truck Simulator), train driving simulators (Densha de Go!), and passport control (Papers, Please).