About Start a Life
A rich, text-driven browser life simulator where every choice shapes your destiny from birth to death.
What is Start a Life?
Start a Life is a free, web-based life simulation game hosted at https://startalife.app. It gives you complete freedom over your virtual lifespan. Born into procedural parents with randomized attributes (Health, Happiness, Smarts, and Looks), you navigate key life milestones year by year.
Whether you aspire to become a corporate CEO, run a multi-million dollar business, join an elite syndicate, collect luxury properties, or simply live a quiet family life, your choices determine your net worth, reputation, and legacy.
What You Can Do in the Game
Explore all the interactive features and systems available in your virtual lifetime.
Customize your avatar appearance, traits, and gender, or use procedural generation. Shape your core stats (Health, Happiness, Smarts, Looks) through annual decisions.
Study hard in school, apply for university majors (Computer Science, Business, Psychology, Pre-Med), or attend graduate programs to unlock high-paying corporate roles.
Work part-time jobs, climb specialized career tracks (Retail, Tech, Trades, Fire Service, Law), or pursue special paths including Mafia organizations and high-stakes occupations.
Incorporate your own companies, choose suppliers, adjust employee headcounts, set pricing strategies, accept venture capital investments, and sell your business for profit.
Buy, renovate, and sell residential properties. Manage tenants, screen applicants, collect monthly rent, pay mortgages, and own luxury vehicles & fine jewelry.
Build deep connections with parents, siblings, partners, and children. Date, marry, plan custom weddings, arrange funerals, and leave inheritances to future generations.
Invest in volatile stock markets, high-yield savings accounts, and crypto tokens. Monitor annual market changes to build generational wealth.
Test your luck with casino games (Blackjack, Roulette, Slots) or enter the underground world with burglaries, heists, court arraignments, and prison management.
Cloud Saves & Local Storage
Play immediately in Guest Mode with automated local browser saving, or sign in with your account for secure Cloud Save synchronization across multiple devices. Use the Time Machine feature to rewind key age decisions or branch into new save slots anytime.