Caregiver simulator

LifeSim has no career ladder, promotions, or job performance scores. You start the job by writing it in your character description box. You can write that you are a Certified Nursing Assistant, a home health aide, or a family carer.

You shape your work life through the people in your cast, your daily to-do list, and your life goals. You can edit your boss, your coworkers, and the clients you visit. Every person remembers what you say and keeps a journal of past events.

Real caregivers help clients with personal hygiene, bathing, dressing, meal preparation, and medication reminders. They use gait belts, Hoyer lifts, rollators, and pill organizers in private homes, nursing homes, and memory care units. The work brings physical strain and compassion fatigue, yet it builds deep human connections and preserves client dignity.

Training rules depend on the country. In the United States, Certified Nursing Assistants complete at least 75 hours of state-approved training and pass an exam. In the United Kingdom, new workers pass a background check and complete the 16 standards of the Care Certificate. In Japan, beginners take the 130-hour Kaigo Shokuin Shoninsha Kenshu course, while national certification requires further study and an exam.

Several games focus on specific parts of care work. Spiritfarer is a management game where you cook meals and tend to the emotional needs of dying spirits. That Dragon, Cancer is an autobiographical narrative game about parents caring for their young son during cancer treatment.

The Caregiver by Chilla's Art is a first-person horror game about doing chores for an elderly client in Japan. Project Hospital lets you manage hospital staff and patient care nurses on inpatient wards. Those games offer structured stories, clinical management, or chore mechanics, while LifeSim focuses on open-ended conversations in real cities.

Haruka, 29, starts work at a home-visit care station, or homon kaigo, in the Sugamo district of Tokyo. Her client is a grumpy widower near Jizo-dori shopping street who refuses to let her touch his kitchen. Haruka sets a life goal to earn his trust and adds daily check-ins to her to-do list.

On Thursday, his arthritis flares up, and he texts Haruka for help. In their chat, he coaches her step by step through cooking his late wife's Sunday stew. He remembers her patience the next week and invites her to walk with him to a local park.

You play Elena, a caregiver in Sun City, Arizona, the famous active adult retirement community. In the morning, you check your to-do list for your split-shift home visits and medication reminders. You use place search to find Banner Boswell Medical Center and walk there on the 3D map.

At 4:00 PM, a client who worked as a train conductor gets confused, a pattern called sundowning. In your chat, you sit with him and talk about train routes until he calms down. Later, you text your night-shift coworker to share notes for the bedside charting binder before the day recap runs.