Have You Played… Real Lives?

In Real Lives, you play an on a regular basis individual. Perhaps you’ll be a Bangladeshi stone mason. Perhaps you’ll dwell as a Brazilian scholar. Perhaps you’ll work in a Chinese language manufacturing facility. However whoever you’re, you’ll get an entire simulated life, from child tooth to dentures. That’s, if you happen to dwell lengthy sufficient.

However that additionally means all the issues of existence scattered in between. Sick dad and mom, corrupt bosses, pure disasters. However there’s additionally the occasional breakthrough. A second baby, a greater job, a brand new life in a foreign country.

As simulations go, it’s a thinker, even when it does have its personal flaws. At RPS, we as soon as every played a life and recorded what happened to us. Trace: a whole lot of dangerous issues occurred. It appears a bit heavy-handed at occasions, however is sensible. It’s designed as an academic recreation. You’re alleged to play this and realise that there are people on the earth, perhaps only one nation east of you, one nation south, who don’t dwell as simply and comfortably as you do.

It’s a ‘reminder’ recreation, a ‘preserve some perspective’ recreation. Everybody ought to play it not less than as soon as in their very own lives.