Egypt life simulator

Daily life in Egypt follows a Sunday-to-Thursday workweek, a late afternoon family lunch called ghada, and social nights at open-air coffeehouses. People cross cities on 14-seater microbuses, the Cairo Metro, Alexandria trams, and Nile river ferries. A life here can be an engineering student in Giza or a tour guide in Luxor.

Tarek, 29, inherits a small neighborhood coffeehouse, called an ahwa, in Cairo. He writes this into the character box and sets a goal to make friends with his neighbors. In the morning, he searches the 3D map for a bakery and walks there.

In the evening, neighbors sit outside the ahwa to drink shai, or tea, and play backgammon, called tawla. Tarek talks to a regular customer in his own words, and the man remembers the chat the next day. A birthday drinks happening appears on the map nearby, and Tarek joins.

On Friday, a friend starts a group text to plan an outing by the Nile in Giza. Tarek invites two neighbors, and they walk to the spot together. Each day ends with a recap of its moments, and his cash changes with his activities and chats.

Breakfast starts early with ful medames, mashed fava beans, and ta'ameya, green falafel made from fava beans. People buy them in aish baladi pocket bread from street carts, called arabiyat ful. For a quick lunch, people visit fast-paced koshary restaurants for bowls of rice, lentils, macaroni, and spiced tomato sauce.

At night, street stalls sell hawawshi, spiced beef baked in bread, and kebda, spicy beef liver in small baguettes. Because of the daytime heat, social life moves into the late evening. Streets, markets, and open-air ahwas stay active past midnight.

In LifeSim, you can search the map for a real restaurant, café, or park in your city. You can plan an outing there, invite friends, and talk as a group. Buildings show from the outside only, with no interiors.

Public school is free and compulsory for nine years, followed by three years of secondary school. General high school ends with the Thanaweya Amma, a series of national exams. Families pay for private tutoring, called duroos khususiya, so students can reach top faculties like Medicine, Engineering, or Pharmacy at Cairo University or Alexandria University.

Major industries include agriculture in the Nile Delta, textiles, construction, tourism, and shipping along the Suez Canal. Many people work as civil servants, teachers, engineers, pharmacists, shopkeepers, and tour guides. People also give small tips, called baksheesh, to building doormen, called bawab, and parking attendants.

You can play any of these roles by writing them into your character prompt. LifeSim has no exam mini-games, career ladders, or salaries. Your job shapes how people talk to you, your daily to-do list, and your life goals.

The workweek runs from Sunday to Thursday, and the official weekend is Friday and Saturday. Public sector workers finish around 3:00 PM, while private offices close at 5:00 PM. Families gather between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM for ghada, the main afternoon lunch, and eat a light dinner, asha, around 10:00 PM.

Extended families often live in the same neighborhood or in one family apartment building. Young adults usually live with their parents until marriage, and Fridays are for big family lunches with molokhia soup and stuffed mahshi vegetables. When you visit a home, you bring pastries, called halawiyat, and take off your shoes.

During Ramadan, people hang fanoos lanterns in the streets and set up charity tables at sunset. People also celebrate Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Coptic Christmas on January 7, and the spring festival of Sham El-Nessim. In LifeSim, you can edit your family members in your cast and plan weekend outings together.