The Cost: Crime Life Sim

You're born with nothing but a name and a neighborhood. From your first words to your last breath, every year is a choice — go straight or take the corner, protect your family or use them, get rich or get even. The Cost is a gritty life-simulation where the streets keep score and nothing comes for free.

HOW IT WORKS
🎂 Age up one year at a time, from birth to the grave
🎭 React to hundreds of life events — crime, family, love, loss
⚖️ Every choice shifts your stats, your money, and your future
🔥 Build Health, Happiness, Smarts and Nerve — or watch them slip
💵 Chase money on the street or off it; debt and heat are real
⚰️ Push too hard and the life catches up — death isn't game over, it's a scene

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
🧬 No two lives are the same — events, people and outcomes shift every run
👥 Relationships remember. People who love you can turn. The dead stay gone.
🎯 Chase Ambitions and fill a permanent Legacy Board across every life you live
🏙️ Pick your origin — country, family, and the neighborhood that shapes your start

FEATURES
• Cradle-to-grave life simulation with real consequences
• Hundreds of hand-written events across every life stage
• Persistent relationships, hidden loyalty, and betrayal
• Crime, money, heat and survival systems that interlock
• 10 distinct ways your story can end
• Cross-run Legacy Board and "play as your child" continuation
• Built for quick sessions — one more year, one more choice
• Free to play, offline, no account required

How far will you rise before the life takes its cost?