The Life Restart Game

You're a gaming streamer.

You've been streaming for three years, but your channel has never taken off, and you can barely make ends meet. Your gaming streams aren't particularly entertaining, and you aren't great at interacting with viewers. You're nothing like the top-ranked streamers, who are always coming up with quotable lines. You decide to try streaming a different game.

The latest hit is a full-dive game called Life Restart. It randomly assigns players one of seven lives: extremely wealthy, moderately wealthy, somewhat wealthy, average, somewhat poor, moderately poor, or extremely poor. Each branch has thousands of possible endings, and the game offers an incredible amount of freedom. You decide to test it out and start streaming on launch day.

Before you know it, you reach the somewhat wealthy ending. Satisfied, and pleased that the chat has been lively, you casually start a new save and roll for another life. This time, you get the extremely poor life. Someone in chat tells you to roll again. The extremely poor route is notoriously hard to clear, and a lot of streamers have already died dozens of times.

Is it really that bad? You refuse to believe it.

So you open the save and start playing.

Then you realize.

You can't get out.

.

You wake up.

A foul stench fills the air. It's dim and damp.

Why can you faintly hear a toilet flushing?

...This can't be right, can it, God?

Theme: Treasure life and fight to survive