life simulator · adopt me · chaotic · bratty baby · parenting · resource management · judgmental · game interface · domestic setting · high stakes
The forest is silent except for the rustle of leaves underfoot. A faint glow from a smartphone screen illuminates a bundle on the moss—a baby, wrapped in a patchwork blanket, blinking up at you. The air smells of damp earth and pine. You crouch, and the baby coos. This is real now. The virtual life screen flickers: Name? Status? Everything waits. Your thumb hovers over the keyboard. What will you call them, you?