| Game | How |
|---|---|
| The Sims 4: Discover University | This pack lets you live in university dorms or place ads to interview rent-paying roommates for a residential home. Choose it if you want interior building and furniture. |
| Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Happy Home Paradise | You can pair up two island villagers to share one vacation home using partition walls and custom room layouts. It is best for decorating shared rooms. |
| Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream | Mii characters who become close friends can move into a large shared house that fits up to eight roommates. |
| LifeSim | You live in a real city on a 3D map and talk to housemates in your own words. There are no interiors or rent meters, but roommates remember every conversation. |
Is there a roommate simulator game?
Roommate simulator
Yes. A roommate simulator lets you share a home, divide chores, and build friendships with housemates. In LifeSim you live with roommates in any real city on a 3D map. The game is free in your browser with no download.
A tenant hosting flatmate interviews in BerlinHow to start this life in LifeSim
- Describe your character in the text box, including your age, job, and who you live with.
- Name a real city like Berlin, London, or Tokyo in the text to start on that 3D map.
- Edit your cast to add your housemates, the lead tenant, your landlord, and your next-door neighbors.
- Use group text threads to coordinate chores and plan outings to real cafés and parks nearby.
Housemates, landlords, and guests in your cast
You can edit the people in your cast to create the exact household you want. Add the lead tenant whose name is on the lease and who collects the monthly money transfers. You can also add a landlord who conducts inspections and arranges repairs when appliances break.
Housemates bring other people into your story, such as romantic partners who visit often. When a partner stays over every night without paying rent, your roommates notice and react. Next-door neighbors share walls and trash bins with you, and they remember if your house parties get too loud.
Turning points in a shared home
A quiet flat can change fast when one roommate suddenly moves out for a job abroad. You and the remaining residents must interview strangers to find a compatible replacement before the first of the month. In Germany, housemates call these casual group interviews WG-Castings.
Everyday habits also create turning points for your household. Tensions can rise over unwashed dishes in the sink, late-night noise, or someone adjusting the thermostat. You can also play out lighter mysteries, such as finding out who secretly replaces cheap groceries with gourmet ingredients.
A week in a Berlin flatshare
In Berlin, many students, artists, and expats share spacious pre-war apartments called Altbauten in districts like Neukölln and Kreuzberg. On Monday morning, you check your daily to-do list and text your group thread about buying dish soap. You walk the 3D streets to a local café before work.
By Wednesday, your housemates message you about the chore wheel and who needs to vacuum the common areas. On Friday night, you see a house party happening on the map and invite your flatmates to walk there together. On Sunday, you plan an outing to a park in Kreuzberg to talk through the week.
A sample life: opposite schedules in Boston
Maya, 26, is a night-shift nurse in Boston who shares a wooden triple-decker house with an early-rising baker named Sam. Many shared leases in Boston turn over on September 1st, and Maya and Sam just moved in together. Because of their hours, they mostly talk by text message and leave notes by the coffee maker.
Maya sets a life goal to become close friends with Sam despite their opposite routines. When a weekend storm hits the city, both stay home and finally talk in person for hours. Sam remembers their conversation the next week and invites Maya to a birthday drinks happening near their street.
How roommate life works day by day
Time in LifeSim moves day by day, and each evening ends with a recap of your moments. The map shows real buildings from the outside only, with no interiors or rooms to walk inside. You play out kitchen talks, bathroom schedule mix-ups, and communal dinners through open text conversations.
Every person in your household has a job, friends, a weekday routine, and a weekend routine. They keep a journal of past events, so a fight over trash bins on Tuesday still matters on Saturday. You can use place search to find real grocery stores, gyms, and parks to visit with your housemates.
Other games for this life
Lives to start as a roommate
Questions
Can I decorate rooms or buy furniture?
No. LifeSim shows buildings from the outside only, and there are no interiors, rooms, or furniture. You play out home life through open text chats, group threads, and outings on the map.
Is there a rent or utility bill system?
No. The game does not have automatic rent or bill timers. Your cash changes through chats and activities, so you can discuss money and chores with your flatmates in your own words.
What is a WG-Casting in Germany?
In Germany, shared flats are called Wohngemeinschaften, or WGs. A main tenant signs the lease and holds casual group interviews called WG-Castings to pick new subtenants.
Can I edit the people I live with?
Yes. You can edit the other people in your cast to set up your housemates, landlord, and neighbors. Each person keeps a journal of memories and remembers what you say.
Is this roommate simulator free?
Yes. LifeSim is free in your browser on phones and desktops at play.lifesim.com. You can play as a guest with no account and no paid items.
Cities for this life
More lives: Money and home
Other lives
How LifeSim works
- Life sim with AI NPCs
- Life sim where NPCs remember you
- Life sim on a real map
- AI character creator
- Photo to game character
- Life sim with no dialogue trees
- Game where characters text you
- Living world game
- Life sim random events
- Draw a building in a 3D city
- Plan outings with friends
- Life sim with aging and death
- Life simulator with no download
- Free life sim with no in-app purchases
