pretend I'm talking about the game.) It's important to realise that there is no real 'right' choice to make in any given situation. After all, most of us don't come with a set of numbers that tells us when we're low on gentleness. For the best, most 'realistic' experience, only spare your statistics a glance every once in a while and instead just concentrate on experiencing the game. There's an entire page given over to your various statistics (accessed by clicking the graph icon), but trying to micro-manage them can be incredibly frustrating. everything from aspects of your personality, to your life, to your intellect, and so forth. You'll be presented with a bit of text that details what the outcome was, and that will effect your statistics. You're given a choice of how you feel about what's happening, and how you'll react to it simply choose a feeling and an action, and click 'next'. Clicking on one presents you with an opportunity opportunities detail formative events in your life, and could be anything from your first kiss to time spent with a family member. Rather than detailing every single thing that happens to you (nobody wants to know how many hours you really spent updating the Transformers Wikipedia), you're presented with a branching tree of icons, each representing a different experience social, physical, emotional, family, and, later, vocational. The game takes you through seven stages of life, beginning with infancy, and progressing to the next once you've had a certain number of experiences.

Please note that to save your progress, you need to sign in with a Google account. Alter Ego is a text-based rpg-like life simulation, originally published way back in 1986 for some very old computers, and now available to play online for free. Have you ever really stopped to think about the choices you've made, and why you made them? Well, you just might after giving this a try.

Not the life you have right now, but the one you could have had.

Free version of alter ego game