Make it to the top of the corporate ladder, or leave school with a diploma and not much else. Every year, the choice is yours.

It starts the moment you're born. Pick your era, 1985 or today, your country, your name, and a trait you'll carry from your first breath, such as brave, cunning, honest, or curious. No two lives begin the same.

Every year throws something at you. A friend holds out a cigarette. A wallet sits on the pavement, fat with cash. The schoolyard bully wants what's in your pockets. You choose, and the choice sticks, and some options are only ever open to the kind of person you are. The brave stand their ground. The cunning talk their way out of trouble.

Go to school. See it through or sit it out, and decide whether university is worth your time. Build skills, earn the qualifications that get you hired, then work the job board for a role that'll have you. Land it and climb. Team Leader, Manager, Director, all the way up. When a promotion lands on your desk, will you take it or turn it down?

Meet a new family every game, parents, siblings, the friends you make along the way, and the first crush you never quite forget.  Will you run into them again, years later? Watch the money come in, and the bills stack up. Pass your driving test. Fall out with people, or put things right.

Then live, until you don't, and read the obituary your choices wrote.

Lives. One year at a time, from your first breath to your last. 

Play on S&box

https://sbox.game/earthmelon/lives

Changelog

🎁Added

• Yearly aging
• Diary feed logging every event and milestone
• Branching life events
• Choices that have consequences
• Death (randomised at the moment)
• An obituary Wikipedia-style page shows on death
• Five core stats: Intelligence, Attractiveness, Fitness, Happiness and Reputation, plus a hidden Health stat
• Traits
• Skills grown through jobs and activities, shown as tiers from Novice to Master
• Jobs
• Properties to buy or rent
• Corporate career ladder of 7 ranks from Team Leader to CEO, with yearly promotion rolls
• 20+ jobs across corporate, trades, healthcare, hospitality, transport and tech
• Qualifications covering diplomas, degrees and licences earned through schooling
• The finances page shows wealth, income, recurring costs and a per-year transaction ledger
• Activities page covering school, university, gym, doctor check-ups and socialising
• Driving lessons and a driving test that award a driving licence
• Relationships page grouping parents, siblings, friends and partners
• Platonic relationship system
• NPCs that age and can die alongside the player
• Achievements
• 2 countries to play in

🧼Improved

• A diary line now shows when a skill crosses into a new tier
• Promotions are yours to accept or turn down, not automatic
• Money is displayed in your country's currency
• Driving test results are now in their own result window
• Qualifications can build on earlier ones, as shown by "Builds on…".
• Reputation now runs −100 to 100 — you can be disliked or outright notorious, not just unknown
• Annual health check-ups are free in countries with public healthcare
• Event choices can be locked behind a trait, stat or skill

🪛Fixed

• First crush is named in the events that call back to them
• Stray highlight tags showing on ordinary event choices
• Off-centre text on activity Start/Stop buttons
• The jobs page content cut off at the bottom of the screen

⚠️Known Issues

• The Nurse, Police Officer and Truck Driver jobs can't be applied for yet as they need qualifications (nursing licence, police certification, commercial driver's licence) that are unobtainable