Immigrant simulator

When you arrive in a new country, small daily tasks become important milestones. In LifeSim, you set life goals and write a daily to-do list to guide your days. You can set a life goal to pass a local licensing exam or make three close friends.

Your daily to-do list holds practical steps. Write tasks like "apply for a government tax number" or "open a local bank account". You can also add "find a specialty grocery store with spices from home" or "call parents before work".

Daily life in a new country mixes small worries with new joys. You might translate labels at a grocery store or practice phrases before a phone call. Speaking a second language at work all day often leaves you tired. You also schedule early morning or late night calls across time zones to reach family back home.

Newcomers also navigate practical systems. Most countries require a government number, such as a Social Insurance Number, to work or open a bank account. Some countries let you swap a home driver's license, while others require written and road exams. Over time, you find joy in sharing homemade dishes with coworkers and feeling the city become home.

Priya, 29, arrives in Toronto, Canada, with nursing experience from home. She writes her goal: pass her local nursing bridging course and find ingredients for her grandmother's recipe. She uses place search to find a public library with a settlement program.

At the library, she meets a settlement caseworker and a fellow newcomer named Mateo. Mateo invites Priya to a group text with classmates from their language support group. On Saturday, they plan an outing and walk to a grocer in Little India together. Priya finds the spices she needs and invites her new friends to a birthday drinks happening.

Name any city in your character description, and the game places you on its real streets. Toronto has historic neighborhoods like Chinatown, Greektown, and Little India, plus public libraries with settlement programs. In New York City, boroughs like Queens and Brooklyn have long cultural roots and wide public transit.

Melbourne is known for multicultural suburbs like Footscray, Box Hill, and Carlton, where newcomers run grocers and social clubs. London offers specialty food markets and global flight and rail links. Berlin has many language schools and international networks, while Singapore runs with four official languages: English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil.

You start as Tariq, 38, living in Melbourne with his partner and young son. On Monday, you walk to a local school so your son can take a language placement check. On Tuesday, your neighbor texts you to explain the neighborhood recycling rules.

By Thursday, your son picks up local slang at school and helps translate at a shop in Footscray. On Friday evening, a house party happening appears on the map near Carlton. You go with your partner, introduce your coworkers to a homemade dish, and read your daily recap.