Vietnam life simulator

Daily life in Vietnam starts around 5:30 AM with park exercises and busy fresh markets called chợ. People commute on motorbikes, eat noodles at sidewalk stalls, and gather with multi-generational families for dinner. In LifeSim, you can live in any city or village on a real 3D map.

Daily routines in Vietnam start around 5:30 AM to beat the tropical heat. People fill public parks for tai chi and badminton while wet markets, called chợ, get busy. Standard workdays run from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with a midday break for lunch and a short nap, called ngủ trưa.

Multi-generational households are common, with grandparents helping raise children. Most homes keep an ancestral altar and burn incense on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month. During Tết Nguyên Đán, the Lunar New Year, millions leave the cities for a week of family feasts. You can edit your family cast in LifeSim to reflect these households.

Minh, 23, lives in Ho Chi Minh City and runs a morning coffee and bánh mì cart in a residential hẻm. Minh sets a life goal to build a regular crowd and save money. Each morning, commuters and neighbors stop by the cart on the 3D map.

You talk to customers in your own words, with no dialogue menus. A delivery driver starts to text Minh on his own to order cà phê sữa đá. On Saturday, a neighbor invites Minh to a birthday drink happening at a nearby spot. Every day ends with a recap, and the neighbors remember what Minh said.

General education in Vietnam follows five years of primary, four years of lower secondary, and three years of high school. Students often attend evening tutoring classes called học thêm before the National High School Graduation Examination. Major universities sit in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hue, and Da Nang.

Millions work in agriculture, electronics assembly, garments, software outsourcing, and small family shops. Write any school or job into your character box to start. LifeSim has no salary system, career ladder, or cooking mini-games, so your chats and activities shape your work life.

You do not have to live in a big city. Any named town in Vietnam works on the 3D map. You can start in the pine hills of Da Lat, where residents farm coffee and flowers.

You can also pick a river town in the Mekong Delta or a valley in Ha Giang. In the northern highlands, Hmong, Tay, and Dao communities farm steep terraced fields and meet at weekly markets. Use the place search to find real local markets, stations, and parks.

Breakfast is often a hot dish eaten at a sidewalk stall, called a quán vỉa hè, on low plastic stools. People eat phở noodle soup, bánh mì baguettes, Hanoi bún chả, spicy bún bò Huế, or southern cơm tấm. At lunch, workers visit cơm bình dân spots to pick pre-cooked dishes over rice.

In the evening, friends gather at open-air quán nhậu spots to share hotpots, grilled seafood, and beer. In LifeSim, you can plan an outing, pick a real café or restaurant on the map, and walk there together.