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From pocket money to payroll to the will that hands it on. One tap is one year. Birth to death to the heir who takes over — and every salary, tax bill, funding round, debt, diagnosis and school report in between.
No waiting list, no download
The game is live and free at game.magnateworld.space — in the browser on the phone you're holding. An email address to save your lives, a password, and the first year is yours.
Free. No ads, nothing to buy. Your lives are saved to your account, so a phone can hand over to a desktop mid-life.
What it is
A life simulator where the money is the story — not a business mode bolted onto a life game, and not a spreadsheet wearing a face. You are born in a real city to parents with jobs of their own, and everything after that is what you did with it.
A country, a city, a family that is comfortable or isn't, siblings, a talent you can't see yet. Everything the game rolls at birth is load-bearing for the next eighty years — including how much there will be to inherit.
Grades matter, choices narrow, and the degree that raises your ceiling costs money you don't have yet. Seventeen skills grow toward caps your talent set at birth — studying moves them, and so does neglect.
Eleven ordinary careers pay wages the state taxes before you see them. Or you found a company in one of eight sectors, raise capital round by round, and ride it to a unicorn or into bankruptcy — which is a state here, not a game over.
What you built passes to your family, and you continue as one of your children — a full person the simulation has tracked since birth, not a fresh save with your surname. The ladder remembers where the family got to.
The life
Born in one of twelve countries, to parents with jobs, in a family that is getting by or isn't. A talent number you'll spend a lifetime discovering. The ladder starts at zero for everyone — the first generation, anyway.
School reports that matter later, friendships that come and go, an allowance that teaches you what a euro is. The skills are already moving, whether or not anyone is watching them.
The degree raises your ceiling and costs money you don't have; the job pays today and caps tomorrow. The game does not tell you which is right — it bills you either way and lets the decades keep the score.
A first job with a plausible wage, a state that taxes it before you see it, rent that doesn't care how your year went. The first rung of the ladder — €1k to your name — arrives like a trophy.
A partner, children who cost money and become people, promotions with standing to defend. Or the jump: found something in one of eight sectors, raise a round, make payroll. Debt compounds against you, equity for you, and the difference is the whole game.
Migraines, backs, worse. Illness in Magnate costs momentum and the treatment costs money, stress reads 100 when the debt does, and the years you didn't insure against are the ones that arrive.
What's left passes to your family, and one of your children — schooling, skills, grudges and all — becomes the life you play next. Dying is not the end of the game. It is the handover.
Under the hood
Every number below is a system that runs every year of every life, whether or not you are looking at it.
Progress is net worth on a logarithmic ladder: each rung is ten times the one below, from €1k to €1T, with «in debt» as its own honest state. Skills stay 0–100, but they are inputs — the ladder is the score, and it measures orders of magnitude, not effort.
Strategy, finance, people, execution. Each skill grows toward a cap your talent rolled before you could walk — school moves them, work moves them, neglect moves them backwards. What you're paid follows what you can actually do.
Salaries are plausible, the state's cut is visible on every payslip, living costs arrive whether you earned or not, and debt compounds with the patience of a thing that always wins. Bankruptcy is a state, not a game over.
Ailments arrive, linger and — sometimes — leave. They cost momentum, the treatment costs money, stress feeds them, and a bad decade of health can do to a fortune what no market ever did.
Parents with jobs and bonds that fray or hold, siblings, a partner, children the simulation tracks from birth — because one of them will be you. Every relationship has a number, and the numbers move.
Found something in manufacturing, marketplaces, property, finance and four more. Raise capital from bootstrap to seed to growth, and every round is a trade: runway for ownership. The engine owns every number — payroll, loan rates, tax — and 2,391 written event cards give the years their words without ever touching the maths. The top rungs of the ladder are built for founders, because a salary alone was never going to reach €1T.
The honest part
Each rung is ten times the one below, so the ladder measures orders of magnitude — not effort, and not luck alone. The gap between drifting and deciding is the game.
rungs between €1k and €1T. Ten years of salary won't cross one of the late ones.
«In debt» is a rung of its own. Plenty of lives visit.years in a life, give or take — and every one of them billed.
Illness, interest and neglect are the usual thieves.languages, written by hand — the engine writes numbers, never prose.
English, Español, Italiano. The preference follows your account.what it costs. No ads, no unlocks, nothing to subscribe to.
In your browser, on any device, right now.The client
A near-neutral base, teal doing the structural work, and orange rationed to what moves money. These are real captures from the live game, not mockups — and they follow the toggle, dark and light.
@you is yours. We've just emailed your address — one link, and it drops you straight into the game. Nothing else to fill in.
That same address is on the Android test list — nothing else to click. Your invite is on its way; once it lands, you accept it at play.google.com/apps/testing — the page only opens for invited addresses.
One more thing for Android: we've written to your Google address too, and that one needs its own click. Nobody has proved that mailbox yet, so it gets its own link.
Questions
A life simulator lets you live a whole life from birth to death, a year at a time, making a handful of decisions each year. A business life simulator makes money the spine of that life: school and university as investments, salaries and taxes simulated rather than narrated, debt with real interest, and an estate that outlives you. Magnate is money-native from the first screen — not a general life game with a business mode attached.
The one-tap-per-year loop will feel instantly familiar. What's different is what the loop is pointed at: in BitLife business is a paid add-on inside a life that can be anything; in Magnate the money is the game, progress is a wealth ladder from €1k to €1T, and death hands the estate to an heir you then play.
We wrote a longer, honest comparison: seven games like BitLife, and where the business one fits.
Nothing. The game is free in your browser, with no ads and nothing to buy. An account — an email and a password — exists so your lives are saved and can follow you between devices.
Yes. A company in one of eight sectors, capital raised round by round — bootstrap, seed, growth — and an ending the simulation decides with you: a unicorn, a quiet exit, or bankruptcy, which is a state here, not a game over. The eleven ordinary careers are still underneath it all, because somebody has to pay rent while the dream loads. More in the FAQ.
English, Spanish and Italian — all written by hand, none run through a translator. The engine writes numbers, never prose, which is what makes three real languages possible. The preference follows your account.
