The Cost: Crime Life Sim

You're born with nothing but a name and a neighborhood. From your first words to your last breath, every year is a choice — go straight or take the corner, protect your family or use them, get rich or get even. The Cost is a gritty life-simulation where the streets keep score and nothing comes for free. HOW IT WORKS 🎂 Age up one year at a time, from birth to the grave 🎭 React to hundreds of life events — crime, family, love, loss ⚖️ Every choice shifts your stats, your money, and your future 🔥 Build Health, Happiness, Smarts and Nerve — or watch them slip 💵 Chase money on the street or off it; debt and heat are real ⚰️ Push too hard and the life catches up — death isn't game over, it's a scene WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT 🧬 No two lives are the same — events, people and outcomes shift every run 👥 Relationships remember. People who love you can turn. The dead stay gone. 🎯 Chase Ambitions and fill a permanent Legacy Board across every life you live 🏙️ Pick your origin — country, family, and the neighborhood that shapes your start FEATURES • Cradle-to-grave life simulation with real consequences • Hundreds of hand-written events across every life stage • Persistent relationships, hidden loyalty, and betrayal • Crime, money, heat and survival systems that interlock • 10 distinct ways your story can end • Cross-run Legacy Board and "play as your child" continuation • Built for quick sessions — one more year, one more choice • Free to play, offline, no account required How far will you rise before the life takes its cost?