Lifer: a corporate survival simulator
A free, text-based office and life simulator you play in the browser. No account, no download: pick a tower, make a call every month, and live with the consequences.
What is Lifer?
Lifer is a text-based career and life simulator set in the fictional Republic of Valdora in 2089. Each month you choose a focus, read the memo on your desk and decide: please the boss, sabotage the rival, take the bribe or blow the whistle. Your choices come back months, sometimes years later. Read the how-to-play guide for the full loop.
Two towers
Start as an intern at OBSIDYNE Corporation, Valdora's most powerful megacorp, and climb nine ranks to the board, through KPI screens, calibration meetings and a succession war. Or join the Valdora Civil Service as a probationary clerk and rise to undersecretary across eight ministries: lower pay, longer-lived enemies.
A whole life
Outside the office you rent or buy a home, pick a car, date, marry, raise children, keep friends and parents close, invest, start a side business, take holidays and look after your health. Get fired and you move to a job hunt; end up in prison and there is a playable prison chapter. With children, the story can carry on into the next generation. Discover the Republic of Valdora and its capital, Nerith.
What's inside
- Two career paths, eighteen departments and ministries, nine ranks on each path.
- More than four hundred handwritten events and hundreds of generated scenes with recurring colleagues.
- Story chains, office factions, schemes, affairs and a succession war.
- University, job-hunt and prison chapters; life goals, achievements and a shareable career card.
- Fully playable with a keyboard and screen readers; light and dark themes.
Start playing
A career lasts from about half an hour to a few hours, and every one is different. Start your first career, or learn more about Lifer.
Last updated: 2026-11-09