When you sit down at your PC for a quick game to unwind after a day of slaving away at work, the last thing you want to do is spend hours on end driving a bus. Or building a toilet. Or paving a road. Or parking a garbage truck. Or would you?

Over the past year, there’s been a strange trend growing that sees gamers dipping their toes into the weird and the odd and the extremely boring because, somehow, these have suddenly become cool.