Assassinations aside, Hitman has loads of ways to mess with people.

I want eat the rich the game

What do you think the minigun is for in GTA5?

It’s interesting how simulators do tend to draw in people who also do the same thing as their IRL job.

Lots of farmers play Farming Simulator. Lots of truckers play Euro/American Truck Simulator. Lots of pilots play MS Flight Simulator.

Postal 2 immediately comes to mind for me. Just some dude trying to do mundane errands around town. Definitely a lot of killing tho..

A lot of VR titles let you do that. Job simulator, vacation simulator, and more erm, viscerally, surgeon simulator.

being a very disgruntled worker in a very annoyingly noisy environment with shitty customers.

That sounds like pure stress to me instead of stress relief. Dont know about other people but I wouldnt want to spend my free time simulating a shitty job.

Reminds me of why I like driving games so much. Sure it's nice to be in the driver's seat on a street or racetrack in a way where it feels like I'm really there taking a hairpin turn in Times Square without any personal risk.

But there's nothing quite like doing literally what my mind can come up with in a game with arcade physics, keeping just enough realism to give feedback on collision damage without breaking immersion.

I had similar idea a while ago but admittedly more political than mundane.

You're a boss in your corporation. game's objective is to be annoying and mess around with your worker. But somehow through your abuse you also have to keep your corporation alive financially.

It's a mix of sandbox & tycoon. but the gameplay should be more sandboxed to really allow player create mess, and not very pressured by the goals created by the tycoon aspect.

We do have these, they're just not super popular or are not intended to be played that way.

Like your first example of causing chaos in a shop? You can do that in Supermarket Simulator. It just isn't what you're meant to do unless you're Josh from Let's Game it Out. 🤷‍♂️

Dynasty Warriors has been my stress relief game. I just love jumping into a hoard of enemies and just start swinging.

japan has an arcade game where you flip your dinner table as hard as you can and the more stuff you break, the higher the score

Umm, you mean like The Sims?

My stress relief game is fallout 4. You get so OP so quickly that it's like "ok, I don't like you, or your whole crew. I'm going to wipe you out of existence like Im a Mr clean magic erase sponge."

It's just satisfying release.

I've been playing supermarket together, a supermarket management game where you can smack people with a broom;

Walking Dead Saints and Sinners is pretty therapeutic at times.

Not an exact fit, but check out Night of the Consumers

That's what casual gaming is about.

I used to dig a large room with stone pickaxes in Minecraft. With "large" meaning I could not see the ends in the long direction.

Try Job Simulator on VR

From what I know about simulator games, they don't usually simulate asshole customers, and it's fairly easy to be successful compared to real life. Kinda its own form of stress relief, though I'd assume that the target audience isn't people who have the simulated job in real life.