Other games you might want to recommend, as they include good fluid simulations: From Dust and Cities: Skylines (although not a huge part of the game).

Oh she is well aware of Cities: Skylines.

How about Timberborn? The whole game revolves around water management.

I'm an accountant. I really /really/ want to play an accounting game.

(I'm not an accountant, although I have partially trained as one)

May I introduce you to spreadsheets in space: https://www.eveonline.com/

It's got big corps and large money management, etc. You can scratch that itch for sure.

I'm bad at managing my own money, I'm wondering though if a game that sneakily teaches budgeting etc might be good, maybe call it 'the American dream' and it's basically the Sims but with real expectations on how life will play out with random tragedies etc.... car breaks down. it could even include wages from statistical sites and mortgages and rent pegged to the national average, as well as healthcare.

This is a fantastic idea. I would buy it for my kids so they could learn to manage money.

Oh, you want to gamify managing your money?

1- Install GnuCash.

2- Import your checking account into it.

3- Another account will automatically be created called "imbalance". The goal of the game is to manipulate other accounts so that the imbalance account eventually reaches 0.

4- did you have fun and want to keep playing? Import more accounts. Your credit card account, your mortgage account, your brokerage account, etc.

5- You can play in different difficulties. Do you have a tax account? Is it broken down into federal and state taxes? If so, does it match what the state/IRS thinks you paid?

Keep doing this and you'll become as good as any accountant.

Did you enjoy the game? Support the developers at gnucash.org/donate.phtml (no affiliation, just a happy gamer)

where are you from? im sure someone could suggest a good website for managing money.

from the sounds of it you know what the problem is, and judging by the site this is posted on you have the skills/intelligence so open up a spreadsheet and get to work.

i found the mr money mustache site quite useful on the motivation front fwiw.

Beware that Accounting+, however similar in name, won't fit the bill.