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[rawr359]

I'm looking for games like Alter Ego or The Sims, where you start as a baby or child and make decisions as you age. Anyone know of any?

Free hug if it's free.

[ToonyMan]

Harvest Moon is kinda like that for some games I believe.

[ChairmanPoo]

This?

[rawr359]

This?

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Hopefully I don't really need to clarify, but I meant games where you age.

[Hugehead]

Real Lives.

[Reelyanoob]

Not quite 100% what you asked for but...

Little Computer People (kind of a primitive 8-bit sims with 1 character, no aging though but has "graphics" unlike Alter Ego).

Princess Maker II (the English beta version which is abadonware, never released in US, more raising the child, choosing jobs, training, adventures/combat, huge number of endings and high repeatability.) You can identify with the character quite a bit if you wish (you never see the "father" character on screen)

Kudos, though I don't have a copy. It's more a life-sim like Alter Ego, but you're an adult. Supposed to be good.

I really enjoyed Alter Ego btw.

[Tilla]

Fallout 3?

[nenjin]

Nope. It's like Fable. You get 10 minutes and like 5 decisions to make as an adolescent, and then you enter that magical, heroic stage of adulthood.

[Virtz]

Real Lives 2010 - an edutainment game that basically demonstrates how you're most likely to end up being born in some poor family in an overpopulated country and how you'll have limited possibilities or die of some disease. Not really that many decisions, but it's sort of interesting to play a few times. From what I recall, the shareware version of the earlier edition (2007 I think it was) is less limited and sort of better looking.

[rawr359]

Fallout 3?

Yeah that's really not what I'm looking for. I mean a whole game about it, Fallout 3 had it as a gimmick.

[Reelyanoob]

I always wanted a copy of Sims Castaways, that would have been fun, and a bit of a change.

[rawr359]

My friend has it, I've played it. Not all that great.

also off topic

[Reelyanoob]

Well it's a game in which you can age, and not the main series "Sims", though probably very close, but TOO close since you've obviously got all the sims stuff you want, just mentioned it because there's not a whole lot around, other than the Japanese child-raising simulations. There's a million of those.

Laugh if you like, but Princess Maker 2 is actually a pretty good game and worth a look. The US distributor freaked out coz of anime "loli" content, not quality issues. And, they didn't understand how to market it to 14 y/o boys, their main target demographic for everything ever made it appears.

You can play up to PM version 6 or 7, if you know Japanese or Cantonese. English speakers are stuck with pt II though. There's some seriously dark and screwed-up endings possible here (back street prosutute married to a demon etc) but it is very responsive to how you treat the child, so you won't get that sort of ending if you don't want it without screwing up badly.

Endings range from "Bad" - bandit, evil sorceress, prostitutes and/or concubine, through normal (e.g anything from housewife, artists, writers, poets etc) to "good" (Queen in her own right, princess, General, soldier, court magician, or street magician). This only skims the surface of possible endings, there's hundreds of combinations and stuff I don't even remember.

[ChairmanPoo]

Sid Meier's pirates?

[nenjin]

Barely qualifies. It's more of a "Why are you doing what you're doing?" question, and then you're a pirate.