Free Career Simulator Games
A whole life
in ten minutes.
Pick a life. 10 minutes. Thousands of possibilities.
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Creator Career Simulator
Sixteen years old, a borrowed camera, and an algorithm that owes you nothing.
- — 16 years old · one camera
- — 6 phases · 15 decisions
- — 6 algorithm eras
Political career simulator
Twenty-five years, a dark party headquarters, and a list you're not on.
- — 25 years old · an empty HQ
- — 6 phases · 15 decisions
- — 6 political climates
Career simulators for a chef, a football manager and a startup founder.
What is ARCADE?
ARCADE is a small collection of career simulator games you can play for free in your browser, with no account and no download. Each run takes about ten minutes and covers a whole working life.
You pick a simulation, draft your starting attributes and then answer a series of decisions. Every choice is an attribute test that can end in a critical success, a plain result or a disaster — and some consequences only come back to you several turns later.
Different careers, different simulations
Right now ARCADE has two career simulations: a creator simulator, where you build an audience online, and a political simulator, where you climb from activism to the presidency. Each game rolls a new era, a new origin and a new rival every time you start, so two runs are never identical.
Free · plays in your browser · no account
Era, origin and rival are drawn at random and shift every number in the run.
You steal eight attributes from eight legends. Toxic legacies hand over worse numbers.
Every decision is an attribute check — crit, success or disaster — plus delayed echoes.