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Samsara
By Max Muffinz
A life simulation about daily choices, karma and repeated rebirth, with a life journal and a record of 31 realms.
Samsara is Max Muffinz's life simulation built around rebirth inspired by Theravada Buddhist cosmology. Players choose a starting life, advance time and respond to events while tracking their character's health, wealth, wisdom and karma.
Daily choices leave a record
In the opening life tested by GameSlash, listening to a merchant's teachings increased wisdom and unlocked a listening-to-teachings daily activity. Studying, caring for family and other routines affect the life recorded in the journal. Time can be accelerated or paused to read events.
A record across 31 realms
The realm map groups the realms and counts the character's past births. The creator describes repeated rebirth leading toward nirvana as the goal. GameSlash tested the opening life and choice consequences, not a completed lifetime. The game explicitly presents numerical karma as a gameplay interpretation rather than direct religious teaching.
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