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Creating your Sim

What it is

Create your Sim in five steps: Look → Personality → Dream → Birth lottery → Home.

How to create your Sim

  1. Look: Choose Woman or Man, then choose a hairstyle and outfit. For a Man, open Hair → Facial hair to choose a beard style. Choose fabric, skin tone and colours. Drag to spin your Sim, or tap 🔀 to randomise. If you switch to Woman, facial hair is removed.
  2. Personality: Choose exactly 2 traits.
  3. Dream: Pick a lifetime aspiration.
  4. Birth lottery: Roll for Nepo Baby or LAPO Baby.
  5. Home: Pick a starting home. Each card shows your starting cash and weekly rent. Tap Move in.

Rules & numbers

TraitEffect
💼 HustlerHustle ×1.5; work +20%
🍲 FoodieCooking ×1.6; food is more fun
🎉 Owambe SpiritFun drains ×1.3; parties give big fun
💪 Gym RatFitness ×1.6
😏 Smooth TalkerCharisma ×1.5; better socials
😴 Lazy BoneEnergy drains ×0.7; work −15%
🧼 Clean PikinHygiene drains ×0.65
🌙 Night CrawlerEnergy drains ×0.85, less at night; loves nightlife
💻 Tech Bro or SisCoding ×1.6
🎶 MusicalMusic ×1.6

Achieving your Dream gives you 🏆 and +20 ✨. You can change your Dream once a week for free.

  • Oga at the Top: Reach the top of any career.
  • Lekki Landlord: Reach a net worth of ₦1,000,000.
  • Afrobeats Star: Reach Music 10.
  • Everybody's Padi: Become best friends with 4 people.
  • Yaba Unicorn: Get funded at CcHub.

The birth lottery is rolled once per account. Starting a new life does not change your result. Your chance of being a Nepo Baby is 1 in 5.

  • Nepo Baby: Start with ₦500,000, Daddy's car and a furnished flat with rent paid by Daddy. You also get a connected job: Branch Manager in Lagos.
  • LAPO Baby: Start with a ₦60,000 loan, repaid at ₦12,000 a week for a total of ₦72,000. Hustle starts at 2, and every skill grows 25% faster.

Lagos starter homes (rent is due on Saturdays):

HomeStarting cashRent per week
Mushin face-me-I-face-you₦16,000₦2,400
Yaba self-contain₦36,000₦6,000
Lekki mini-flat (Nepo only)₦104,000₦17,000

UNILAG student start: Start with ₦14,000 and a hall bunk costing ₦1,200 a week. You get a ₦3,000 allowance every Monday, and your first fees are paid.

Tips

  • A 7-step tour starts after you move in. Replay it from Phone → Help & guide.
  • Start a new life on the title screen replaces your life for good. The game asks you to confirm first.

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Last updated 14 Nov 2026 · Handbook version 67 · Applies to the game as of 14 Nov 2026 (build 1794693678)