EMERGENT - DEMO

Your life is not scripted. It emerges.

EMERGENT is a strategic life simulation. You start at sixteen — or later — and you live, month by month, with fifteen points of time to share between work, studies, the people who matter, your network and your rest. You will never have enough for everything. What you give to one, you take from another, and some of those choices come back fifteen years later.

A world that lives without you

The people around you have their own lives. A friend changes jobs, a colleague becomes a rival, a mentor retires, your parents grow old. They remember what you did for them — and what you didn't. Companies are founded and fail. Forty countries run their own economies, each with its own cycles, currency and rules. A fictional stock market moves whether you invest or not.

Consequences you can read

Every refused promotion, every employee who resigns, every share that falls comes with a Why. No hidden dice. When a decision made at 23 catches up with you at 37, the game shows you the thread.

Many lives worth living

Doctor, engineer, artist, parent, founder of an international group. EMERGENT does not decide what success means. Running a company is one path among others, not the definition of a good life.

What you can do

• Study, work, change industries, go through real recruitment — interviews, offers, negotiation — or be let go
• Flirt, date, fall in love, move in, raise children, or drift apart
• Save, invest, buy property, carry debt
• Found a company, hire, choose how you manage people, grow into a group across borders
• Live abroad, with residency, taxes, labour law and healthcare that differ by country
• Build an audience, canvass clients, meet people through apps — or through life

Where it stands

EMERGENT is in active development and plays in your browser — no download, nothing to install. This demo covers the first three years of a life. Your game is saved on your device only.

Every recent version came from what playtesters told us. If you try it, the single most useful thing you can tell us is: when did you stop wanting to play? There is a short feedback form at the end.

Made by ALBEUS, an independent studio in France.