An AI life simulator that remembers the life you lived.
Start anywhere: leaving home at eighteen, a second chance at forty, a life in another century. Make the choices in your own words, and the AI writes the years that follow. The jobs you quit, the people you let down and the promises you kept all stay part of your story.
Or start from a first line, no setup:
Free to play in your browser and on Android. The full memory system is on every plan, including free.
A real session, recorded
This is what a life looks like
The salt air clings to your coat as you stand at the edge of the quiet harbor, your duffel bag heavy with the few belongings you managed to pack.
> I skip the scholarship orientation and take a night job washing dishes at a busy restaurant to pay for a room.
The morning fog burned off hours ago, replaced by the persistent, gray smog of the city. You watched the university gates from across the street until the last of the students had filed inside, then turned your back on the path you were expected to take. By evening, the air in the kitchen of the restaurant is thick with steam and the scent of grease.
> A few months later the head chef offers me a real cooking job, but it starts the week of the summer festival. I ask him if I can start a week late.
Three months of sweat, grease, and the relentless clatter of the kitchen have earned you a promotion. The Head Chef stands before you, his apron stained and his brow furrowed, holding out a white coat that signals your move to the line. When you tentatively ask for a week off to attend the summer festival back home, he stops mid-sentence, his eyes narrowing as he considers the empty station. He sighs, rubbing the back of his neck, and finally nods once. "Fine, take your week," he grumbles, his voice raspy, "but don't expect me to be this lenient again. I'm taking a risk on you, so make sure you're worth it."
Recorded on 2026-10-13 on the free-tier model: a fresh account, the first line "a life simulation: I am 18, leaving a small fishing town for the city with 300 dollars, a scholarship I am not sure I want, and a promise to my grandmother that I will come home for the summer festival", then the two actions above typed in. The AI named the story "The Harbor's Final Departure". Three months of dish-washing nights carry into the promotion, and the chef weighs the festival week against the chance he is taking. The Game Master's lines are cut to their first sentences here; the whole exchange, every word, is published as a JSON file.
An AI life simulator is a text-based life sim: you live one life a choice at a time, with an AI writing the years around you. You start with a sentence: who you are, where, and what is about to change. Then you decide what to do in your own words: "turn down the scholarship," "call my brother after six years," "move to the coast and open a bakery." The AI writes what happens next, skips ahead when you want time to pass, and plays everyone in your life.
There are no menus of preset events and no stat bars to grind. Your life goes where your choices take it, and the people in it react to what you did, not to a random roll. That only works if the game remembers your history, which is why memory decides whether an AI life sim feels like one life or a pile of unrelated scenes.
What you can do
How an AI life simulator plays
Any choice, in your words
Change careers, move countries, start a family, walk away from all of it. If you can describe it, the AI plays it out.
Time moves when you want
Live one evening in detail, or say "five years later" and the story picks up with what changed. Auferet keeps a clock for your story, so dates and ages stay consistent.
People who remember you
Auferet keeps characters, places and events in structured libraries, so the friend you abandoned at twenty can still bring it up at fifty.
Any life, any era
A fisherman's daughter in 1890, a programmer in 2040, a farmer on a colony world. The opening sets the world and the AI holds to it.
Your own pace
Play ten minutes a day or a whole evening. Your life is saved where you left it and picks up from the same moment.
Free to start
Live years of a life before you pay anything. Auferet's free tier includes the full memory system and 10 free daily credits, in your browser.
Why memory decides it
A life story falls apart when the AI forgets
Most AI games feed the model one fixed window of recent text each turn. In a life simulation that breaks quickly. Your sister forgets the wedding you skipped, the job you quit offers you a raise, your age drifts by a decade. A life where nothing you did lasts is not a life, it is a list of moments.
That is measurable, so we measured it. Five facts were planted in the first turns of a story on the free model and asked about at turn 20, 40 and 60: once with only recent conversation to read, the way most AI games work, and once with persistent memory, the way Auferet works.
| Asked at | Recent conversation only | Persistent memory |
|---|---|---|
| Turn 20 | 3 of 5 facts | 5 of 5 facts |
| Turn 40 | 1 of 5 facts | 5 of 5 facts |
| Turn 60 | 1 of 5 facts | 5 of 5 facts |
Run on 2026-08-22 and again on 2026-08-27: both runs fell to 1 of 5 by turn 40 on recent conversation and held 5 of 5 with memory. Every question and raw answer is in the result file; the method is on the benchmark page, and how the memory works explains what it stores.
How it compares
AI life simulator vs a tap-through life sim app vs a sandbox life game vs a character chat
| AI life simulator (Auferet) | Tap-through life sim app | Sandbox life game | AI character chat | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How you choose | Anything, in your own words | Preset buttons each year | Controls and menus | Talk to one character |
| What happens | Written around your choices | Random events from a list | Systems and needs bars | The conversation |
| The people in your life | Characters who remember you | Names with stats | Simulated, mostly silent | One character |
| Memory | Persistent across the whole life | Stat history | Save files | Varies, often a short window |
| Setup | One sentence | Tap "new life" | Build a character and a house | Pick a character |
Want a plot with higher stakes? Try an AI story game or a full text RPG.
FAQ
AI life simulators, answered
Is there a free AI life simulator?
Yes. Auferet is free, with 10 daily credits to claim, and the free tier includes the full memory system. It runs in your browser; unlimited actions start at $10/mo.
How does an AI life simulator work?
You describe who you are and where your life starts, in a sentence or with one of the openings above. Then you make choices in your own words, and the AI writes what happens, the people around you and how the years go.
Can I skip ahead years at a time?
Yes. Say how much time passes, a week, a season or ten years, and the story picks up after it. Auferet keeps a clock for your story, so ages and dates stay consistent.
Does the AI remember my past choices?
That is what Auferet is built for. It keeps characters, places and events in dedicated libraries and can search the whole story, so the job you quit, the friend you lost and the promise you kept are still part of your life later.
Can I live a life in another era or another world?
Yes. Start in any time or place, real or invented, and the AI writes the world to match: a 19th-century port, a future city, a colony on another planet.
Can I play online without downloading anything?
Yes. Auferet runs in the browser on desktop and phone, and there is an Android app if you want it on your home screen.
You're eighteen with $300 and a bus ticket. Where do you go?
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