VibeGameDB lists 12 games in this group, 55% of the 22 games on the Life Simulation page. Each one has a source for how it was made. 11 are free or free to play and 1 is paid; 2 can be played in a browser. The most recently added is Otherlife (November 2026).
Ordered by editorial score, then player rating, then release date. Open a game for its sources.
A text-based xianxia life sim: cultivate, join a sect and climb toward immortality one year at a time.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
Mow lawns in the hills west of Tokyo in the summer of 1973, in a quiet job sim where the sun drains you and the shade recharges you.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
Be born at random somewhere in Chinese history, then live that life one year at a time.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — official site
Rise from a workshop to the mayor's chair in a German free city around 1400.
No download needed
View on itch.io
A Chinese-language pixel life sim with branching timelines, mostly coded with Codex.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — official site
An open-source ASCII life sim where you age, marry, run a business and play on as your heirs.
Download required
View on itch.io
A dark-comedy household management game on a fake retro family computer: feed the family, chase reward points, outrun the debt.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
Live a commoner's life in a medieval kingdom, from famine to a bid for the crown.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A gacha pull decides your birth year, prefecture and family; then you live through postwar Japan.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A 3D life sim about surviving on the streets of Kyrgyzstan, coded with ChatGPT.
Download required
View on itch.io
A Korean life sim: be born into a random family and live a whole life, from starting school and the college entrance exam to retirement.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A stick-figure town life sim whose page says an AI agent designed and coded it.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io