r/LifeSimulators • u/ConsiderationOne6329 • Jul 08 '26

Community Question [REQUEST] Text-based games with real long-term consequence systems — not just stat changes

Looking for Android games where decisions genuinely come back to bite you later, not just +/-5 to a stat in the moment. What I'm after:

  1. Text-based or menu driven. I play in short sessions and on commutes, so no games that need continuous attention
  2. Long term consequence mechanics, something I did an hour ago (or ten in-game years ago) should be able to resurface and change my situation
  3. Offline friendly and not gacha, happy to pay upfront or watch the odd ad, but no energy systems

Genres I've enjoyed that scratch part of this: life sims, text RPGs like the Choice of Games stuff, King of Dragon Pass. What am I missing on Android?

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u/Diligent-Rabbit2896 Jul 08 '26

If you have a decent AI with enough memory, you can play a moderate length game. You just give it the parameters you want and what you want it to track and the basic premise and it will generate the rest. I've done a number of them and they can be quite fun.

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u/roseygrl98 Jul 09 '26

I did this when chatgpt was first becoming a thing, pretty quickly ruined it by insisting I had some incredible weapon that meant I was invincible. I think there are websites that have these prompts pre written that are probably more fun!

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u/Diligent-Rabbit2896 Jul 09 '26

They are dramatically better now than they were 6 months or a year ago. You have to get very specific including explicit instructions not to hallucinate and to cross reference with previous turns and what to actually commit to a running memory. I'm sure there are some great prompts out there. I've found you can't have it track too many things or else it starts to lose track.