New Zealand life simulator

Most people work 40 hours a week in informal workplaces and value time outdoors. Families often live in standalone suburban houses and spend weekends at sports fields, beaches, or walking tracks. In LifeSim, you can live in any city or small town across the North Island and South Island.

A full-time work week in New Zealand is 40 hours, from Monday to Friday between 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM. Workplaces are informal, and people use first names with managers. Most families live in suburban houses with yards, and extended family, called whānau, is very important.

Breakfast is often toast with Marmite or Vegemite, and lunch is a sandwich or a warm bakery pie. Dinner, sometimes called tea, is eaten at home in the early evening. In late December and January, many businesses close for two weeks, and families travel to campgrounds or a holiday home called a bach.

Mia, 19, moves into a shared Victorian house in Dunedin to study at the University of Otago. She works part-time at a corner dairy. She sets two life goals: pass her first-year classes and make close friends in her flat.

In week one, Mia searches the 3D map for a local café and walks there with a housemate. In week two, a friend starts a group text to plan a weekend outing to the Otago Peninsula. Each day ends with a recap, and her housemates remember their chats.

Children start primary school at age five, and schooling is compulsory from ages 6 to 16 across 13 year levels. High schools run from Year 9 to Year 13 and use the NCEA qualification across Levels 1, 2, and 3. The country has eight public universities, including the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington.

Major industries include dairy and sheep farming, forestry, horticulture, tourism, construction, film production, and healthcare. Write any school or job into your character text when you start. LifeSim has no career ladder or grades, so your daily goals and conversations shape your work life.

Several games show parts of the country. Reverie is a 2D action-adventure game set on a fictional island where a boy explores bushland and Māori legends. Umurangi Generation is a first-person photography game set in a futuristic version of Tauranga.

For hunting in South Island beech forests, play the Te Awaroa National Park expansion for theHunter: Call of the Wild. For rugby matches with the All Blacks, play Jonah Lomu Rugby or the Rugby Challenge series. LifeSim has no sports mini-games or hunting, but it lets you live an everyday life on the real map.

People buy flaky meat pies filled with minced beef or steak and cheese from local bakeries and corner dairies. On Friday nights, families often eat battered fish and chips wrapped in paper at the beach. On mornings and weekends, people meet at cafés for a flat white coffee and a cheese scone.

Special community events and marae gatherings often serve a hāngī, which is meat and kūmara steamed in an earth oven. In LifeSim, you can search the map for a real bakery, café, or park in your town. You can invite friends on an outing, walk there together, and talk as a group.