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Play Overview
Cart Life (2019) is a simulation game where you play one of three street vendors. You attempt to run their shop whilst looking after their health, interests, and families. It has simple visuals but depicts the realities of the thin-end of life.
Each character has a different stall. Vinny sells bagels, Andrus runs a newspaper stand, and Melanie sells coffee from a cart. You interact with customers to sell them items and can manage stock and set prices. You also need to look after your daily chores like shopping, cooking and sleep.
What starts as a technical challenge soon becomes more personal. You have unique situations to cope with. Melanie, for example, is a single mother of a daughter. She yearns to bond more with her daughter and because of work and life struggles to find time to walk her daughter to and from school each day.
It's a game that is challenging and difficult. But this is not to make you feel like a hero when you win. Instead, it aims to illustrate how hard life is when you don't have enough money, time or other people to help you. You can access Cart Life here.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Cart Life 4 years ago. It was re-examined by Ellen Robertson and updated 3 months ago.
Each character has a different stall. Vinny sells bagels, Andrus runs a newspaper stand, and Melanie sells coffee from a cart. You interact with customers to sell them items and can manage stock and set prices. You also need to look after your daily chores like shopping, cooking and sleep.
What starts as a technical challenge soon becomes more personal. You have unique situations to cope with. Melanie, for example, is a single mother of a daughter. She yearns to bond more with her daughter and because of work and life struggles to find time to walk her daughter to and from school each day.
It's a game that is challenging and difficult. But this is not to make you feel like a hero when you win. Instead, it aims to illustrate how hard life is when you don't have enough money, time or other people to help you. You can access Cart Life here.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Cart Life 4 years ago. It was re-examined by Ellen Robertson and updated 3 months ago.
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This is a Simulation and Strategy game with Collecting, Narrative and Role-Play elements. This is a single-player game.
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Cart Life
This game is free to play, but there are other costs associated with this game:
- In-Game Purchases: Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience.
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Game Details
Release Date: 25/04/2019
Out Now: PC and iOS
Players: 1
Genres: Simulation, Strategy (Collecting, Narrative and Role-Play)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 2D Side-On, Pixels and Text
Developer: Richard Hofmeier (@RichardHofmeier)
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