Existence Simulator
Have you ever wondered what it's like to EXIST?
Well wonder no more! With the patented Existence Simulator™, you'll get a feel for what it's like to be alive right now.
Includes the February 2022 Major Update!
Development log
- Existence Simulator is now open sourceMar 11, 2022
- The Long Life Update (New Features & Enhancements)Feb 27, 2022
- See what it's like to exist with the new Existence Simulator!Feb 06, 2022
Comments
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Why does buying a house cost more than becoming president
Does buying a house do anything besides upgrading max anxiety? because The Fourth Wall makes anxiety basically impossible to get
55% done uploading my brain
Is there any way to save?
rushes to 1000 anxiety me no cry me no care
i just want to not be homeless anymore... wHY IS IT SO HARD TO AFFORD A HOME IN THIS GAME IT'S ALMOST LIKE REAL LIFE OMGGGGG
Got the house! Just after becoming immortal though, so my age is only an memory estimate of 100-110 years, but I have the house! And room for all the anxiety.
how do i save :(
you can click read and work before you get it
anybody else grinding 'The Fourth Wall'?
because uh i have 23 billion clicks
I got 856 Billion Clicks.
I have 13 Trillion Clicks
game got pretty easy after a while... NOT THE HOUSE, THOUGH.
fun game! just letting you know I got a little stuck bc I didn't realize I needed to do the twitch/youtube streams to unlock the "Do Something" tab so my guy spent a while of their immortality just smoking and reading in the house I finally got, as it goes!
is there a full screen option ? it won't let me use full screen if there is one
I am 100 years old and still cant afford a ouse, just like real life!
Oof thanks for letting me know!
Any chance we could get a compiled downloadable version? I'd love to try this out that way. :)
I hadn't considered building a desktop app for this game. Is it a preference or is it not working for you in the browser?
it's just preference. I like to install some indie idles on my Steam Deck in desktop mode cuz then I can kinda just passively have an idle running.
Doing it this way would let me set up my own controls instead of having to modify the browser control set.
Edit: It also works in browser, but Fullscreen Chrome on the Deck is a little wonky at times. I think it's more Chrome on the deck than the game itself. Figured I'd add this info in, just in case it's useful.
Thank you for taking the time to provide that feedback. That's really helpful — and I've saved it in my notes!
I'm immortal and never got a house lol
If only we could get Universal Income in real life for just $225k!
"Get On Twitter"
Well, that aged like fine wine!
Game suggestion: add "investment" as another form of passive income
needs to be harder. i didnt know autoclickers made anxiety go up faster at first, so i thought the game was pretty hard, then i realized that and the game just became boring and easy, but i think it could be pretty good with some updates
irl or otherwise i will never buy an nft <3
They're just as useful in the game as they are in real life!
thx I was looking for this to figure out if it was worth it (in-game)
Houses are more expensive than passing laws to make sure that people can live normally. Jeebus.
Not a game complaint or anything
reached immortality, no longer cared for my anxiety bar as it seemed to do nothing, and I still couldn't afford the house. maybe I shouldn't have spent all that money on equipment and laws.
brainfuck is part of advanced coding lmao
why isn't there a pause button? I need to walk away sometimes...
"just like in real life..."
we are jesse's games now XD
But what if I don't want to buy an NFT?
I don't either, don't worry.
Thank god.
So things that I noticed and not sure if ment to be.
Anxiety you gain per second increases how fast a day passes, yet isn't countered by the clicker game part of the system, meaning that if you generate any Anxiety after using up all of the options that reset or lower your Anxiety per second, the days will pass quickly regardless.
There really needs to be some more ways to generate "Missed Opportunities" as I see it, it caps at 1.43 no matter what I have bought which, feels low for the need of them over the course of the game, expecially with the above noted.
Also with the idea that the Canabis is the only way to generate Knowledge per second is kinda limiting on the scope of things in my book, it says that the only way to do something is to do drugs, even if its the stuff designed for anxiety, there should be other ways to generate the same result without going to that method.
Also, That House... Need too much money to get it. I mean, why the heck am I working as a Game Dev and only getting 19$ a second? I mean, come on...
When you become a world controlling collective consciousness but you're kinda sad because smoking weed doesn't feel as good as it did because you did it a few times 50 years ago and that was enough to build tolerance.
I got the immortality before turning 50, got the world presidency, and the only thing left to buy is the cann*bis... what else should be there?
I belileve that my post and episodes don't add to my money/s and influence/s. Only the original gain is working.
money/s should be 98$/s. 3 hire of freelancer cost 75$ , and still i'm losing money each second.
Same with the influence, I'm not taking full advantage of the freelancer :(
This new update is AWESOME, way better than the last one (i just die in 1 minutes)
Really need a save system...
I stoped a breakdown at 934 anxiety
What was your anxiety/s?
I don't know, it required ALL the products though.
I think the game tells a story you don't intend it to. Your commentary is, I believe, intended to be on how hard life is as a millenial, etc.
What it comes across as, especially towards the end, is more about the way a progressive society pushes people towards laziness. The government gives more and more handouts, and so the people happily sit at home getting fat and lazy.
found the conservative
Where's W-DarethMortuus1987-aldo?
What?
It's a stupid Where's Waldo reference.
Needs a save feature badly! I just logged in so I could post comments, and I've got from trying to get jerseys, to the start again...
if I can be bothered to get back to that point... I hope a rebirth feature is coming soon!
I feel called out. And seen. Also fuck you.
I've achieved immortality, and yet I still can't buy a house because I don't have the money. This certainly makes me feel like a millennial in America today.
You're doing something wrong then... I got the house easily at that point.
Done with the game. Enjoyed. Thanks.
Is there any way to save your progress? I didn't see anything and assumed it autosaved. I decided to log in to make a comment and the whole game had reset by the time it redirected me back here.
And as for my actual comment, when I have the page active my cash was increasing, but when I had it in the background I found that I had been losing cash when I came back, is there anything intentional in that?
I really like this game, and would be interested in exploring it more, but not if I can't let it idle/reload.
+1 for save system. I lost my save twice today.