text-based simulator · rags to riches · survival · urban setting · resource management · gritty · second person · life simulation · poverty
The camera pans across a desolate urban street, settling on a discarded cardboard box by the roadside. Inside, you huddles for warmth, clad only in tattered clothes. It is midnight; the air is biting, though not freezing. you has no money, no family, no friends—only the clothes on their back and a gnawing hunger. The city is vast and indifferent. From this absolute zero, there is only one direction to move: up. What is your first move?