France life simulator

Daily life in France follows a steady rhythm with a 35-hour workweek and a strict lunch break between 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM. People greet shopkeepers with Bonjour, buy fresh bread at the local boulangerie, and gather with friends for an evening drink called l'apéro. Sundays are quiet across the country, when most shops close and families eat a long midday meal together.

Claire, 20, rents a tiny sixth-floor walk-up apartment called a chambre de bonne in Paris. She sets two life goals: pass her art classes and make friends along the Canal Saint-Martin. In the morning, she searches the 3D map for a local boulangerie and walks there.

On Wednesday, a classmate texts Claire to plan an outing to a café terrace. They walk to the spot together and talk in a group thread. On Friday evening, a house party appears on the map, and everyone remembers what Claire says there.

French children start preschool, called école maternelle, at age three, then attend elementary school and middle school. High school, called lycée, ends with a national exam called the Baccalauréat, or le Bac. Higher education splits between public universities and selective institutions called Grandes Écoles.

Common jobs are in tourism, winemaking, aerospace, fashion, pharmaceuticals, and teaching. The standard workweek is 35 hours, and a right to disconnect protects workers from after-hours emails. Write any school or job into your character box, as LifeSim has no salary or career ladder.

Type any town in your prompt to start on its real streets. Choose Paris for compact stone apartments, street markets, and le Métro. Pick Lyon to live near the Rhône and Saône rivers, historic traboules passageways, and traditional bouchons bistros.

If you want the sunny Mediterranean coast, pick Marseille for the Old Port fish market and limestone calanques. Choose Toulouse for aerospace jobs and rugby, or Bordeaux for cycling and vineyards. For rural life, start in a Provence town to play pétanque, or a Brittany fishing port.

People buy a fresh baguette de tradition or croissant at a neighborhood boulangerie. At lunch, many workers eat a jambon-beurre sandwich on a park bench or steak-frites at a bistro. In Brittany, locals eat buckwheat galettes and sweet wheat crêpes at sit-down crêperies.

Before dinner at 8:00 PM, friends meet at a café or home for a drink and snacks called l'apéro. In LifeSim, you search the map for a real brasserie or park and invite friends on an outing. Buildings show from the outside only, so you meet and talk on the street.