How to play
Life starts at age 0 in a real city, in a family the game picks for you, with four stats: Body, Mood, Wits and Bonds. Each tap of Age up moves you one year on, and the years bring events, many with choices. Your answers shift your stats and your money, and early ones shape later ones: exam results decide which job offers you get, and learning a trade or earning a degree adds more. Your story stops when old age catches up or your health runs out.
- Play the life you were dealt, or press Choose name and city to make your own.
- Press Age up to live the next year.
- When a question appears, tap an answer. Some cost money.
- At the end, read your card: a title for your life, your jobs, your savings and your best moment.
Controls
- Age up lives the next year. It hides while a question waits.
- Answer buttons: a choice with a price shows the cost and stays greyed out until you can pay.
- New random life starts over. Past age 0 it asks Yes, a new random life or Keep this life.
- Choose name and city: type a name, pick a city, press Be born. Leave a name blank for a random one.
- At the end: Copy link to my life, Share where your device has a share menu, and Play again.
Tips
- Look after Body once you're grown up. A weak Body is what ends lives early, and it slips a little each year from middle age on.
- Some answers are a gamble, and the matching stat improves your odds. Wits helps on the final exams near the end of school.
- Keep a friend or a partner: adults with nobody close lose a bit of Bonds every year.
- A pet adds a little Mood every year it's with you.
- With friends or in class, everyone plays one life, then compare end cards: who lived longest, saved most or earned the best title.
FAQ
Is Text Life Sim free?
Yes. No purchases, no account, and you can start as many lives as you want.
Will my life be saved?
Usually, on this device. Your current life is kept in this browser, not in an account, so a reload brings it back. Private windows and some privacy settings forget it once the browser closes.
Can I play it at school or on a Chromebook?
It's plain text and buttons, with no download, install or account, so even an older school Chromebook runs it. Your school's network still decides what loads, and only its IT team can unblock a site.
Is this BitLife?
No. Everything in it, from the events to the four stats and the end-of-life titles, was written for this game, and it has no tie to that app or the company behind it.