N-OS: Desktop Story
Think the N stands for Nostalgia? It doesn’t. N-OS is my personal story inside a retro desktop.
$1.97
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Did LifeSimOS leave you in a story-driven and emotional frame of mind? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.
N-OS: Desktop Story
Think the N stands for Nostalgia? It doesn’t. N-OS is my personal story inside a retro desktop. Explore logs, chat with digital voices, run weird applications, fix broken code and piece together a Neuro-OS before my deadline hits.
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
$1.97Terranova
A nostalgic interactive fiction game set in the early 2000's. Chat with your friends, update your LimeJournal, and discover yourself through a rich world of storytelling, love and friendship.
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
97% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$20.04Emily is Away Too
It is 2006, senior year, and two girls are waiting for your reply. A story told entirely through an old instant messenger, with branching chats, multiple endings and a soundtrack that hits the nostalgia nerve. Short, sincere and surprisingly emotional.
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
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Grow up in 1990s America, from first steps to high school graduation. Pick what you learn, who you befriend and who you fall for, then watch every choice steer your career and your child's life. A hand-drawn, heartfelt life sim with 42 careers and multiple endings.
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
87% of 3,493 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$14.99StarOS
Tired of only seeing text on your personal computer? Get ready to make the leap to the graphic dimension with this new OS, the future is now!
Relaxing, Retro, Atmospheric
93% of 121 Steam reviews are positiveFreeEmily is Away
A chat window, a crush, and five years of typing the wrong thing. Emily is Away recreates the era of away messages and dial-up, then uses it to tell a quiet story about growing up and growing apart.
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
88% of 32,359 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10FreeOur Life: Beginnings & Always
A visual novel about growing up next to the beach with Cove, the lonely boy next door. Design your character down to their drink of choice, shape a fifteen-year friendship or romance, and let the story remember every choice. Warm, funny and low-pressure, with 397,000 words across four stages of life.
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
98% of 13,889 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 135FreeRadiotext
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
96% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Little Sim World
Little Sim World hands you the keys to a fixer-upper in Little London, a cute 2D city where you can romance the locals, learn to cook, fish, paint or write, and rebuild a house corner by corner. Play alone at your own pace or share the neighborhood with up to 4 friends in online co-op.
Relaxing
79% of 681 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$12.59Anachronism\>
It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
66% of 56 Steam reviews are positiveFreeAlter Ego
What if you could live your life over again?
Story-driven, Emotional, Replayable
66% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$7.99OurLife
OurLife is a text-forward life simulator game filled with immersive, choice-driven systems that impact more than just the character you're playing. Live any life, make any choice: OurLife.
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
81% of 53 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
Cheaper than LifeSimOS
Emily is Away Too
Message Emily and Evelyn through a 2006 instant messenger and steer your senior year toward one of several endings.
93% of 5,363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$0.99
Emily is Away <3
Type every message yourself and steer a teenage romance toward one of its many endings, in a short, funny and quietly painful story.
91% of 6,075 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$0.99
OurLife
OurLife is a text-forward life simulator game filled with immersive, choice-driven systems that impact more than just the character you're playing.
81% of 53 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
My Little Life
Guide a little person from an empty room to a cozy home and a career, checking in now and then while the rest plays out on its own.
89% of 1,058 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$3.89
Anime And Your Life
This is more than a game. This is your whole life!
66% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Secret Little Haven
An adventure game about old computers, community, creativity, fandom, gender, and the internet.
98% of 469 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Desktop Pet
Desktop Pet is a life simulation game where you can take care of cute creatures while working or playing on your computer.
81% of 26 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Life Choices
Shape Your Life, Shape Their Stories!Life Choices is a fun and thought-provoking social simulation game where every decision you make shapes the…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Parenting Simulator
This is a story where you do something more terrifying than entering a haunted house, more dangerous than assaulting an alien horde, and more…
88% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Progressbar95
Fill progress bars, swat pop-ups and unlock dozens of old systems in a funny retro tribute to 90s computing.
96% of 3,514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.99
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Desktop Explorer
Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.
95% of 2,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$17.99
I Wanna Be A Game Dev!
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
95% of 237 Steam reviews are positiveFree
My Little Life
Guide a little person from an empty room to a cozy home and a career, checking in now and then while the rest plays out on its own.
89% of 1,058 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$3.89
Little Sim World
Renovate your corner of a cute 2D Little London, pick up hobbies and friendships, and play at your own pace with friends.
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S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH
Play Miki, a part-time online mouthpiece in a pixel-art city, and decide whose words you type and which memories you keep.
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Rock Star Life Simulator
Rock Star Life Simulator is an extensive fame simulation game. Start this adventure by playing the guitar on the street, form your own band.
85% of 500 Steam reviews are positive$12.49
VIDEOVERSE
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social…
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StarOS
Tired of only seeing text on your personal computer? Get ready to make the leap to the graphic dimension with this new OS, the future is now!
93% of 121 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Tiny Life
In Tiny Life, you control a set of people that live together in a household.
88% of 340 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$11.24
To Pixelia
Start over in a colorful pixel city, pick a career from dozens of paths, and shape each day at your own pace, with a farm waiting if you need quiet.
74% of 1,211 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$14.99
Little Lives
Little Lives is a fun, casual life-sim game. Balance your time between your career, education and relationships as you explore an exciting town…
81% of 246 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
//TODO: today
A visual novel about figuring out life with the help of an AI.
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Newest games like LifeSimOS
IncrementalOS
An incremental love letter to the 90s desktop. Start with a blank desktop and one icon, unlock programs, systems and minigames, make more money, and…
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Radiotext
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
96% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Little Sim World
Renovate your corner of a cute 2D Little London, pick up hobbies and friendships, and play at your own pace with friends.
79% of 681 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$12.59
ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs
Repair consoles and phones at your own pace while the people behind them share where their lives went wrong.
95% of 11,587 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,791$19.99
Desktop Explorer
Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.
95% of 2,602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 61$17.99
OurLife
OurLife is a text-forward life simulator game filled with immersive, choice-driven systems that impact more than just the character you're playing.
81% of 53 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
Walk of Life
Balance work, health and a very decorated apartment while racing your friends up the ladder of life.
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No Players Online
you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.
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Life Choices
Shape Your Life, Shape Their Stories!Life Choices is a fun and thought-provoking social simulation game where every decision you make shapes the…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
My Desktop Sister
My Desktop Sister is a computer desktop companion. Experience the love and kindness from My Desktop Sister.
79% of 113 Steam reviews are positiveFree
To Pixelia
Start over in a colorful pixel city, pick a career from dozens of paths, and shape each day at your own pace, with a farm waiting if you need quiet.
74% of 1,211 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$14.99
My Virtual Friend
Feeling lonely? Not anymore with My Virtual Friend, a desktop pet/idler where different characters can keep you company.
87% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$3.99