Woman Simulator Game

[Etherial Cat]

So, there's this video game going viral that lets men experience life as Nina, a housewife, through a simulator.

It has an interesting plot twist, and I thought I'd share it here in case anyone feels like giving it a try.

No gender wars, no debates. My only takeaway from the reactions and Twitch streams I've seen is that most men wouldn't enjoy being in the position of a financially dependent homemaker.

Anyone curious enough to give it a go? Who is gonna kill it at being a housewive ?

Free demo (Steam):

Link

Full game (Steam):
Link

The demo is free, supports English and is available for Windows.

Edited 17 hours ago by Etherial Cat

[aurum]

Nice empathy trainer.

Homemaking is really its own job, especially with children involved.

[Etherial Cat]

1 hour ago, aurum said:

Nice empathy trainer.

Homemaking is really its own job, especially with children involved.

Yes, I hope to see more of these simulations game coming up for all kinds of experience. They are great for learning as a video game are damn good to create emotions while dealing with diverse problematic and being put in someone's shoes.

It's really though, and for years I didn't even realize it myself. In my country, many women are incredible homemakers. Houses are often maintained like 5* hotels.Needless to say, I've never felt like I had the ability or stamina to do so.

I hate repetitive tasks, especially the ones that do not last. I was the youngest child in my generation, and my family has a very high ratio of woman to man (my granny birthed 6/6 girls, and most of them also got girls ), so I escaped a lot of the pressure.

Also I remember being 5 years old and thinking " I am not going to do any of that unpaid work shit for others, we girls are being stupid for doing that ". 

What I do: take care of my own stuff, and leave common areas just like I've found it before after each use! 

I never participate more to tasks than the common standard, and never take a leadership role in maintaining the house. I guess I protect my time by earning the reputation of being no house maker.

I still do take care of house design, buy stuff, will cook when I feel like it. Will also do extra if circumstances need it, but the message is clear: I am investing my time and energy somewhere else. The maths are also clear: better outsource house tasks to a professional, and work instead.

I can't even imagine how hard it is with children.

[aurum]

2 hours ago, Etherial Cat said:

I can't even imagine how hard it is with children.

Really people do it because of children.

Division of labor.

Without children, it makes less sense. You don’t necessarily need that much specialization.

[LordFall]

They should've built it around being single woman instead, it has more potential for exciting quest lines. 

 

[Etherial Cat]

7 minutes ago, LordFall said:

They should've built it around being single woman instead, it has more potential for exciting quest lines. 

 

Are your idea of an interesting side quest drinking booze, and spending time with one of these?

Better stay home with some tea and some good book. 

[Jirh]

I read somewhere or saw a video talking about Einstein and how he cheated on his wife who was as smart as him and with academic credentials similar to his at the time, but had to become a housewife cuz of marriage and children. She couldn't continue her academic pursuits as a result of how her lifestyle evolved.

It's never been easy being a woman.

Edited 11 hours ago by Jirh

[Etherial Cat]

31 minutes ago, aurum said:

Really people do it because of children.

Division of labor.

Without children, it makes less sense. You don’t necessarily need that much specialization.

I think it makes sense for women to stay at home until the kids are all in school. I would want that.

But once they reach that time, spending time with their father becomes really important too to develop more masculine principled skills.

In my last relationship, I pictured myself dropping the kids in his office so they could learn from pops.

Generally speaking, i also feel the need for creating projects, contribute to society and earning money for the family so I wouldn't want to go for being a full time stay at home mom.

[Etherial Cat]

7 minutes ago, Jirh said:

I read somewhere or saw a video talking about Einstein and how he cheated on his wife who was as smart as him and with academic credentials similar to his at the time, but had to become a housewife cuz of marriage and children. She couldn't continue her academic pursuits as a result of how her lifestyle evolved.

It's never been easy being a woman.

I never heard of that story before.

Other times. Millennial men in my country tend to tell they don't want to reproduce the same experiences as their pops with their kids. 

More time spent with them is what they want. Which I find really good.

[Basman]

My mom used to tell of how her aunt, who was a housewife, would cook really amazing meals. The advantage of that kind of division of labor is that you can really lock in. Homecooked meals used to mean something. Now we only have time for frozen pizzas and ready made al dente. 

Keep in mind that my mom is someone who likes to and is good at cooking, but you can't compete with the logistic of a stay at home. 

[Basman]

Traditional gender roles is just division of labor that aligns with biology. The harder survival is, the more you need to lock in into certain roles. In comparison, clocking into the "gen z and a mini" factory is almost fake as far as work goes. 

[Etherial Cat]

10 minutes ago, Basman said:

My mom used to tell of how her aunt, who was a housewife, would cook really amazing meals. The advantage of that kind of division of labor is that you can really lock in. Homecooked meals used to mean something. Now we only have time for frozen pizzas and ready made al dente. 

Keep in mind that my mom is someone who likes to and is good at cooking, but you can't compete with the logistic of a stay at home. 

I still do manage to cook wholesome, fresh food in very little time.

As an exemple, yesterday I tossed vegetables in my air fryer after wrapping them in tin foil and it's ready in 15mn.

Or If I want something fancier, I'll use the thermomix.

I am a decent cook, and there was a time I enjoyed backing. But I currently have little time and energy for that due to focusing on my professional life.

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One of my aunt maintain her house and cooks really good, but she has barely no money of her own and keeps going thanks to her benzo addiction. Behind the scene, her mariage is a catastrophy.

[Etherial Cat]

1 minute ago, Basman said:

Traditional gender roles is just division of labor that aligns with biology. The harder survival is, the more you need to lock in into certain roles. In comparison, clocking into the "gen z and a mini" factory is almost fake as far as work goes. 

Environment and labour changes have occurred so much that the division of labor is in need for reorganization.

Also, no way that I am not earning my own money and not doing stuff with my 2Blaws and my Mlaws.

Plus I am ingenious and can create way too much value to stay at home.

It would be a waste of resources.

Plus, as I said earlier I don't like it.

[trenton]

 

7:08:00 shows one of the good endings. The other good ending is somewhere in here.

Basically this guy is a criminal laundering money. You need to use real money to buy a ticket while securing outside contacts as this man tries to isolate you. Keep the facade of the blissfully ignorant woman, and then one night you need to still the bag and use it to bribe someone so they don't snitch on you. You then have a path to escape.

This isn't really a woman simulator. This is a domestic servant simulator. Domestic servitude is a form of human trafficking, often involving underaged girls. This "woman" is actually a girl and she has an accent because immigrants are commonly targeted for the purposes of child marriage due to their fear of contacting the authorities. This girl was kidnapped, taken prisoner, turned into a slave, and treated like a "skank." Notice that she weighs about 60 pounds. She is a child, not an adult.

The reason the majority of the endings are bad is because you are dealing with organized criminals. In real life, most girls would never escape this situation. Many of them would kill themselves. The few who do escape are rare. The good ending would be the rare 1 percent who survived situations like these. Most of them lie to themselves and convince themselves it is fine to stay because they are afraid of the risks of trying to leave.

The reason your husband gives you money at all is because he likely offered you a job which you accepted out of desperation. The job is a common trap that gets people into modern slavery such as in this woman simulator which is really human trafficking simulator in the form of domestic servitude.

5 hours ago, aurum said:

Nice empathy trainer.

Homemaking is really its own job, especially with children involved.

It is much, much worse than you think in terms of empathy training. This is a slavery simulator.

[Jirh]

44 minutes ago, Etherial Cat said:

I never heard of that story before.

I double checked with AI. Gemini says it's true.

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Other times. Millennial men in my country tend to tell they don't want to reproduce the same experiences as their pops with their kids. 

More time spent with them is what they want. Which I find really good.

Yeah, I see this more like an aspect of emotional availability, not necessarily a full-on stay-at-home dad. The trend you described highlights awareness of unmet needs and speaks to mental health ideals.

More on topic, I can't imagine the pain women have to go through to give birth. And I don't even want to imagine it. I just know it's so bad that no simulation can truly translate it into comprehension.

Edited 11 hours ago by Jirh

[aurum]

55 minutes ago, Etherial Cat said:

Generally speaking, i also feel the need for creating projects, contribute to society and earning money for the family so I wouldn't want to go for being a full time stay at home mom.

Curious, do you think if you could fulfill your contributions and projects without the financial aspect you'd be happy with that?

Or are you against financial dependence in principle?

I ask because this is something I see a lot of modern women trying to balance: the tension of being a mother, without letting it consuming your entire identity.

[Basman]

7 hours ago, Etherial Cat said:

Environment and labour changes have occurred so much that the division of labor is in need for reorganization.

Because we live in luxury. Ukraine shows that when life becomes more capricious, people revert to more traditional forms of labor division. Its a matter of survival.

6 hours ago, aurum said:

I ask because this is something I see a lot of modern women trying to balance: the tension of being a mother, without letting it consuming your entire identity.

Being a mother and being away from home all the time are incompatible. Women needing to earn a salary directly undermines fertility. Its hard to raise kids that are not relationally starved in some way and even harder to raise more than a couple. 

[aurum]

7 hours ago, trenton said:

It is much, much worse than you think in terms of empathy training. This is a slavery simulator.

Fair enough, if that’s how they designed it.

Being a homemaker in a good home is not equivalent to slavery though. That’s a stretch.

[Bjorn K Holmstrom]

7 hours ago, aurum said:

Curious, do you think if you could fulfill your contributions and projects without the financial aspect you'd be happy with that?

Or are you against financial dependence in principle?

I ask because this is something I see a lot of modern women trying to balance: the tension of being a mother, without letting it consuming your entire identity.

I wonder whether Universal Basic Income could help resolve some of this tension.

Homemaking, raising children, and caring for others can be genuinely valuable contributions, but they often come with financial dependence on a partner, lost career opportunities, and reduced pension security.

What if everyone had an individual, unconditional income floor, independently of whether they're employed, studying, caring for children, or doing something else? That could make homemaking a more viable choice for either partner without requiring complete financial dependence on the other.

We could also explore additional support for intensive caregiving, though there's a danger of turning human relationships into bureaucratically measured work.

Of course, UBI wouldn't solve everything. It could even reinforce traditional gender roles if women disproportionately withdraw from paid employment, and a modest payment wouldn't necessarily provide genuine financial independence.

But perhaps the goal shouldn't be to get everyone into paid employment, or back into traditional homemaking roles. Maybe it should be to give people more freedom to choose how they live and contribute.

Would that change how you think about homemaking?

[Etherial Cat]

9 hours ago, trenton said:

 

7:08:00 shows one of the good endings. The other good ending is somewhere in here.

Basically this guy is a criminal laundering money. You need to use real money to buy a ticket while securing outside contacts as this man tries to isolate you. Keep the facade of the blissfully ignorant woman, and then one night you need to still the bag and use it to bribe someone so they don't snitch on you. You then have a path to escape.

This isn't really a woman simulator. This is a domestic servant simulator. Domestic servitude is a form of human trafficking, often involving underaged girls. This "woman" is actually a girl and she has an accent because immigrants are commonly targeted for the purposes of child marriage due to their fear of contacting the authorities. This girl was kidnapped, taken prisoner, turned into a slave, and treated like a "skank." Notice that she weighs about 60 pounds. She is a child, not an adult.

The reason the majority of the endings are bad is because you are dealing with organized criminals. In real life, most girls would never escape this situation. Many of them would kill themselves. The few who do escape are rare. The good ending would be the rare 1 percent who survived situations like these. Most of them lie to themselves and convince themselves it is fine to stay because they are afraid of the risks of trying to leave.

The reason your husband gives you money at all is because he likely offered you a job which you accepted out of desperation. The job is a common trap that gets people into modern slavery such as in this woman simulator which is really human trafficking simulator in the form of domestic servitude.

It is much, much worse than you think in terms of empathy training. This is a slavery simulator.

The game was created by Russians, so it uses kilograms, not pounds. And the character isn't an underage girl.

The game is designed so that you gradually realize this particular husband is a real asshole and that you're trapped in a Groundhog Day-like situation, with no money and the same chores to do over and over again.

I read it as a way of putting the player in the shoes of someone who slowly realizes they don't want to be there anymore, doing endless chores in a relationship they no longer want to be in, especially once they understand just how bad the situation actually is.

This design speeds up the emotional process of really not wanting to be there anymore, and feeling trapped. That's much more common, unfortunately.