Rap Sheet: Crime Life Sim

One life, start to finish, and every choice on it is a crime. This is a text life simulator. You are born, you age one year at a time, and the file gets longer until you die or the sentence outlasts you.

Each year two to four things happen to you and you choose how you answer. Then you act, from a menu that grows as you do: a job, a hustle, a person, a crime. Everything you did that year rolls against the police, and the answer is nothing, a stop, a charge or a warrant. If you are charged there is a lawyer, a plea, a trial and a sentence, and prison has its own years, its own work and its own parole date. One run is thirty to fifty minutes.

- A whole criminal life, birth to the end, in about forty minutes
- Every charge stays on your rap sheet and closes doors for the rest of the run
- Arrest, lawyer, plea bargain, trial, sentence and parole, all of it played out
- Prison is a game inside the game, with its own years to survive
- People remember: your family, your crew, the officer who has your file
- Dozens of endings, most of them bad, a few of them quiet
- Heat is the clock. Every score raises it, and heat is what ends the run

The game is you learning how much you can take before the year you get stopped. A player who never offends dies old and poor. A player who never stops dies at thirty or does forty years. The sheet you finish with is the reason you start again and try it a different way, and the prose stays flat about all of it. It reads like somebody's file, because that is what it is.

Plays offline. No account, no idle progress, nothing earning while the app is shut. Free, with two optional rewarded offers at the end of a life and an interstitial on every third year rollover. No in-app purchases.

Read the file.