A life simulator onlinebuilt around the UK

There are 37 jobs to apply for, each with a real advertised salary — from an apprentice plumber on £15,600 to a junior doctor on £38,000. Some pay weekly, some monthly; some are 20-hour part-time, some are 48-hour nights. Most want qualifications, and a few need a licence, an SIA badge or a food hygiene certificate before they'll look at you.

Getting in is only the start. Every job has a ladder of four or five rungs — Barista to Shift Lead to Café Manager to Area Manager, Junior Dev to Developer to Senior Dev to Tech Lead to CTO — and you climb it by working shifts and keeping your performance up. Miss your interviews, phone it in, or let your motivation drop and the promotion goes to someone else.

Over 40 courses and qualifications sit between you and the better jobs: apprenticeships, college courses, degrees and masters. Studying costs money and time, and it pushes your starting age up — so the question is always whether the pay rise is worth the years.

There are 16 property types, and they are a genuine ladder rather than a cosmetic choice. A room in a shared house is cheap and cramped. A mansion has eight bedrooms and sixteen rooms — and rent at seven times the going rate.

• Room in a shared house£326–£1,208 pcm
• Studio or 1-bed flat£544–£2,314 pcm
• 2-bed flat or terraced house£734–£2,919 pcm
• Semi, bungalow or townhouse£870–£4,226 pcm
• Detached or luxury apartment£1,306–£5,232 pcm
• Penthouse or country house£1,958–£8,050 pcm
• Mansion (8 bedrooms, 16 rooms)£3,808–£14,087 pcm

Renting means passing the landlord's affordability check — they want income of 2.5× the rent, or a year's rent saved up. Buying means a deposit, £1,500 in fees and removals, and a mortgage over 10 to 35 years that lenders only approve if you have a job, a decent credit score and income of at least the loan divided by 4.5. Own or rent, you also pay council tax by band (A to H), heating, and contents or buildings insurance — and when the boiler packs in you choose: pay a trader or spend your evening on a DIY fix that might not hold.

Homes come with gardens to mow, plant and tidy, pets to feed, furniture to buy and place room by room, and a party size — because the flat that fits six friends will not fit twenty.

People are the part of the simulation that pushes hardest on your numbers. Your Social need drops if you go too long without speaking to anyone, and loneliness shows up in your mood before it shows up in your bank balance.

• Message real players one to one, or start a group chat of up to twelve friends.
• Invite friends round to your home — or set it to invite-only so strangers can't walk in.
• Send gifts, visit other players' homes, and see who is online and in which city.
• Dating runs on affinity: Matched, Talking, Dating, Exclusive, then In a relationship. Coffee costs £8, a dinner £45, and if you haven't got much in common yet, roughly a third of dates end up awkward.
• Hide your character from other players' maps any time you want, and turn it back on when you fancy company.

Friendships, relationships and a home of your own are also goals you claim for money, Crowns and XP — so the people in your life move your progression forward, not just your mood.

One real minute is ten game minutes, so a game day passes in about two and a half real hours. Shops, pubs, hospitals and stations all keep opening hours against that clock: the supermarket runs 6am to 11pm, the nightclub opens at 7pm and closes at 6am, and a hospital stays open all night. Turn up at closing time and you have a thirty-minute grace to finish what you were doing.

Meanwhile eight needs tick down all day and all night — hunger, energy, happiness, social, hygiene, toilet, health and motivation. Eat, sleep, shower, rest, see friends and stay active, or your character starts saying no to the good opportunities.

• 🍽
  Hunger
• ⚡
  Energy
• 😊
  Happiness
• 💬
  Social
• 🫧
  Hygiene
• 🚽
  Toilet
• ❤️
  Health
• 💼
  Motivation

Everything runs through the phone on your screen: Jobs, Property, Bank, Bills, Shop, Food, Cars, Education, Travel, Ride, Health, Entertainment, Tickets, Football, Benefits, Dating, Games, Business, Insurance, Clothes, Hangouts, Social, Contacts, Messages, Friends, Progress, Alerts and My Story. Book a bus or a taxi to a venue, take out a loan, apply for a mortgage, run a delivery round, sit a pub quiz, or check whether the gym is open before you walk there.

Twenty goals sit in three tiers. The first tier is getting a place, working ten shifts, furnishing a home and reaching level 5. The second needs a promotion, a qualification, a car, a relationship and £10,000 in the bank. The third is for homeowners, landlords and level-20 BritLife legends. Each tier stays locked until you've claimed three goals from the one before, so nothing arrives before you've done the work — and every level up pays out money, with Crowns every fifth level and a new title to match.

Pick where your life starts. Rent, wages, travel costs, transport and weather all differ, so Newcastle is cheap and cold while London pays 35% more and charges you £1,750 for the privilege.

• Liverpool£780
• Manchester£950
• Leeds£850
• Sheffield£700
• Newcastle£680
• Birmingham£880
• London£1,750
• Bristol£1,100
• Cardiff£860
• Edinburgh£1,150
• Glasgow£900
• Belfast£720

What a studio flat costs in each city — a bigger home costs more.