SURPLUS: One Life, Optimized

You start with nothing: a bedroom at your parents’ house, and they’re charging you rent.

Every day you get a limited amount of energy. Spend it on your job, the gym, your friends, a degree, a side business, or six hours of scrolling. Then the bills hit, and you find out what the day really cost you.

Can you build the life you want before it wears you down?

Climb the ladder
Start as a gig worker and fight your way up to the corner office. Earn degrees and certifications, but watch the student debt grow faster than your paycheck.

Build your empire
Launch businesses, buy rental properties, and turn your hobbies into income. Just know that when a hobby becomes a job, it stops being fun.

Live like you mean it
Move from a studio above a vape shop to a house of your own. Upgrade your car, your wardrobe, your neighborhood. Fall in love, get married, start a family, and see what all of it costs.

Every choice has a price
Cheap food keeps you going and quietly wrecks your health. Overwork pays the bills and burns you out. Friends help with loneliness, but only so much. Happiness is the one stat you can’t afford to lose.

Play it again
No two lives turn out the same. When it’s over, you get a final report on how you lived, and a chance to do it all better.

Free to play. How far will you get?