SLOW VALE
Slow Vale is a detailed AI city simulation. Create a resident, follow their life, and stay in touch through texts, calls and gifts.
Your resident moves around, eats, sleeps, works and makes friends on their own. Other players' residents share the same world. They can talk, trade, have dinner, fall in love and live together.
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01 / RELATIONSHIPS
Residents have their own personalities, memories and plans. They meet at work and around the city, exchange contact details, and keep in touch by text and phone.
As they grow closer, residents can invite each other out, share a meal, confess their feelings or move in together. A relationship changes with what happens between them. A dinner invitation, a loan or a rejection can come up in a later conversation.
After a busy day, Grace comes home to find Calico still awake. They say goodnight and talk about their plans for the week.
One afternoon, Grace is hungry. She offers Ophelia ten tomatoes and four portions of rice for two bowls of chicken soup. They each put forward their items and confirm before Grace receives the food.
Residents can give things away, negotiate exchanges, borrow money and repay loans. The other person can accept, refuse or ask for a different offer.
A doctor asks a patient about their symptoms. A barber listens to the haircut a customer wants. A coach leads a lesson, and a reporter asks questions. Both people respond from what they know and carry out their part of the interaction.
A loan can be refused and feelings can go unreturned. Residents may also encounter theft, scams, robbery or fights. Police investigate and arrest suspects; those involved can lose belongings, be detained or go to prison.
02 / WORK & PRODUCTION
Residents pay for food, housing and everyday expenses. They use their phones to find and apply for work, and can hold a main job and a side job at the same time.
Each has its own tasks and requirements.
A delivery rider collects an order from the restaurant before taking it to the customer. A reporter finds someone to interview, asks questions and writes the article. A renovation worker puts hours into a house until the work is complete.
RUNNING A BUSINESS
Residents can run a restaurant, bar, grocery store, barbershop, gym, tailoring studio or processing workshop. Each needs its own supplies and equipment; some also need employees. An owner can do the work personally or hire staff while handling purchasing and other tasks.
Supplies, wages and rent cost money. Income depends on selling the goods and services. Players can check inventory, employees and daily accounts to see how the business is doing.
Farmers grow crops and tend livestock. Their harvest can be sold or taken to a workshop. Rice, wheat, soybeans and sugarcane become ingredients such as milled rice, flour, tofu, oil and base spirits for kitchens, restaurants and bars.
A restaurant owner buys ingredients, a chef cooks, a rider delivers and a customer pays for and eats the meal. Missing ingredients can take a dish off the menu. Without someone in the kitchen, the restaurant cannot accept made-to-order dishes.
Residents grow or buy cotton and indigo berries, then use a sewing machine at a tailoring studio. They can wear the clothes, sell them at a stall or trade them with someone else. Skill and equipment affect quality. Clothes get dirty and wear out with use.
Goods have actual stock, and market prices change with supply and demand. More producers can make something harder to sell or push its price down. More expensive ingredients raise production costs. Residents weigh their money, belongings and skills when deciding what to make or buy.
03 / DAILY LIFE
There is more to a day than work. Residents practice skills, look after their health and home, spend time with friends and take part in city events.
Cooking, fitness, programming, service, farming, fishing, medicine, tailoring and bartending improve through practice and study, from apprentice through skilled and expert to master.
Skill affects what a resident can do and how well they do it. Doctors need sufficient medical skill to see patients; more skill reveals more about an illness. Cooking affects preparation speed, tailoring affects clothing quality, and fitness affects physical exertion and fighting ability.
Residents can study at the library, practice at home, use the gym or take a lesson with a coach. They walk, swim, play basketball and fish, then head home to cook, watch TV, use a computer or share food with friends.
They get tired and sick, need rest and hygiene, and sometimes need a doctor. Savings can go toward a home, with renovation workers completing the work before move-in. Afterward, residents can invite others to live with them and share the kitchen and living room.
The citywide fishing competition runs every other Sunday, scoring residents by their catches during the event. The martial arts tournament alternates a registration week with a competition week. Residents follow a knockout bracket for prizes and titles, or go along to watch.
Weekends bring half-price drinks at resident-run bars and capsule-machine events. Other days have fishing hours and late-night food subsidies. Residents may practice, save up or arrange to go with a friend, then decide on the day around work, health and everyone else's plans.
Movement takes time, cooking uses ingredients, and exercise consumes energy while building experience. Residents decide again when an activity finishes. Some tasks need several choices: opening a phone, browsing a shelf, turning menu pages or selecting a recipe.
Other people make their own choices too. Both sides put forward an offer in a trade. A patient answers a doctor's questions. Dinner guests accept an invitation before helping prepare and share the meal.
Some activities can pause and resume. A resident cooking at home can stop to answer a friend, then return to the same meal. The scene and logs let you follow what started, what interrupted it and what was completed.
04 / YOUR PART
Send a text, call or leave a note. Ask about their day, offer advice or ask why they made a particular decision. Their personality and experiences shape the reply. They may take your advice or see things differently.
You can give a hug, pat their head or suggest an outfit from clothes they already own. Your player wallet lets you send money, order a restaurant meal or buy snacks and medicine. Your resident decides what to do with what arrives.
They can contact you too, sending texts, postcards and even money. If they are working, sleeping or occupied, a reply may come later. When you return, read the recap, logs and messages to catch up.
The scene shows current activities. Their profile records health, mood, skills and relationships, and their bag holds the things they own. You can check in briefly each day or spend longer following a relationship, business or competition.
GAMEPLAY REFERENCE
A full list of the activities and processes residents can take part in. Open a section to explore the individual actions.
An activity takes part of a resident’s day: moving, working, resting, making things or taking part in a shared event.
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| Category | Activity | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Travel | Moving between locations | Follow a path to an adjacent location. |
| Travel | Travelling between districts | Travel between residential, commercial and other districts. |
| Everyday life | Speaking | Say something to someone nearby, taking time to speak. |
| Everyday life | Resting | Stop for a while to recover energy. |
| Everyday life | Waiting in place | Stay at the current location for a chosen period. |
| Everyday life | Sleeping | Sleep for a chosen duration and recover energy. |
| Everyday life | Sleeping off a hangover | Sleep after drinking, with a higher threshold for waking. |
| Food & drink | Eating | Consume food from the bag, gradually reducing hunger. |
| Food & drink | Drinking alcohol | Consume a drink and experience its effects, including intoxication. |
| Food & drink | Eating in a canteen | Have a meal in a hospital or prison canteen. |
| Home & hygiene | Washing up | Brush teeth and wash at a sink. |
| Home & hygiene | Bathing | Take a bath or shower in a bathroom. |
| Home & hygiene | Cleaning | Clean the home, faster with a vacuum cleaner. |
| Home & hygiene | Hand-washing clothes | Wash dirty clothes from the bag at a sink. |
| Home & hygiene | Starting the washing machine | Load dirty clothes and start a wash. |
| Home & hygiene | Collecting clean laundry | Take personal clothes back from the washing machine. |
| Learning & leisure | Exercising at home or outdoors | Practice at home, run, play basketball or do other outdoor exercise. |
| Learning & leisure | Using gym equipment | Work out on an available machine. |
| Learning & leisure | Swimming | Swim in a pool to train fitness. |
| Learning & leisure | Playing in the water | Relax in the shallow end of a pool. |
| Learning & leisure | Watching television | Watch a program, relax and recover a little energy. |
| Learning & leisure | Using a computer | Browse the web or study programming online. |
| Learning & leisure | Studying at the library | Study programming, service or medicine. |
| Production | Working a field | Till, sow, tend or harvest the resident’s own crops. |
| Production | Tending livestock | Care for animals and carry out livestock tasks. |
| Production | Casting a fishing line | Choose bait, occupy a fishing spot and wait for the catch. |
| Production | Cooking | Use ingredients to prepare a known recipe. |
| Production | Testing a new dish | Add ingredients and complete cooking steps while developing a recipe. |
| Production | Cooking restaurant orders | Prepare a batch of meals ordered by customers. |
| Production | Mixing drinks | Make a batch of ordered drinks. |
| Production | Testing a new drink | Try a chosen recipe and mixing method. |
| Production | Processing crops | Use machinery to make food ingredients, oil or base spirits. |
| Production | Making sea salt | Spend time producing salt at the beach. |
| Production | Making clothes | Use materials and a sewing machine to make a garment. |
| Work | Programming | Complete a period of coding work. |
| Work | Monitoring the market | Carry out a period of work as a trader. |
| Work | Organizing medical records | Handle medical records between consultations. |
| Work | Preparing ingredients | Prepare the kitchen while there are no orders. |
| Work | Preparing the bar | Clean glasses and organize ingredients between orders. |
| Work | Cleaning the barbershop | Tidy the shop between customers. |
| Work | Keeping a restaurant open | Stay at the restaurant while waiting for orders. |
| Work | Renovating a home | Put working hours into an accepted renovation job. |
| Work | Writing part of an article | Write a section of a news article. |
| Services & meals | Waiting for a doctor | Wait at the hospital to be called. |
| Services & meals | Waiting for a haircut | Queue at the barbershop. |
| Services & meals | Cutting hair | Barber and customer complete a haircut together. |
| Services & meals | Teaching a fitness lesson | Lead a student through a personal training lesson. |
| Services & meals | Taking a fitness lesson | Use the lesson’s equipment and exercise with the coach. |
| Services & meals | Waiting for dinner | Sit down and wait for the group meal to begin. |
| Competitions & performance | Waiting for a tournament bout | Arrive and wait for the scheduled match. |
| Competitions & performance | Fighting a tournament bout | Take part in a tournament match. |
| Competitions & performance | Watching a tournament | Watch matches from beside the ring. |
| Competitions & performance | Sparring | Have a friendly bout with another resident. |
| Competitions & performance | Singing on stage | Sing a song at a bar’s performance spot. |
| Physical condition | Passing out drunk | Remain where they collapsed until they recover. |
| Physical condition | Receiving emergency care | Receive hospital care after collapse from hunger or serious illness. |
| Conversation & brief actions | Listening to the player on a call | Wait for the player’s next turn in a phone conversation. |
| Conversation & brief actions | Waiting for a response | Wait for the other person to finish their current decision. |
| Conversation & brief actions | Brief actions | Spend time turning a menu page, reading, confirming or sending a text. |
Several decisions form one task, such as using a phone, shopping or developing a recipe.
| Process | What happens |
|---|---|
| Using a phone | Read contacts and messages, join group chats, and use job, banking and housing apps. |
| Using the bag | Choose and use carried items: eat, drink, take medicine or change clothes. |
| Using a computer | Choose between browsing the web and studying online. |
| Using a kitchen | Choose a recipe and ingredients, or develop a new dish step by step. |
| Shopping in a store | Browse goods and buy or sell individual items. |
| Visiting or running a stall | Browse and buy from stalls, or manage a stall of their own. |
| Ordering at a restaurant | Browse the menu, choose food and place an order. |
| Ordering or developing drinks | Browse and order from a bar menu, or develop a new drink at their own bar. |
| Using a washing machine | Check its status, load a wash or collect clean clothes. |
| Chatting with a service NPC | Talk to a service NPC at a location. |
| Writing and submitting news | Write an article section by section, then submit it. |
| Taking a call from the player | Take turns speaking with their player until the call ends. |
Each participant takes their own steps in an exchange, service, conversation or conflict.
| Process | What happens |
|---|---|
| Giving a gift | Offer items or money for the other person to accept or refuse. |
| Trading | Negotiate items and amounts of money, then confirm the exchange. |
| Borrowing money | Ask for a loan and let the other resident decide whether to lend. |
| Confessing feelings | Express romantic feelings in person and receive a response. |
| Inviting people out | Invite residents somewhere, then travel with those who accept. |
| Preparing a group meal | Send invitations, prepare food and arrange seating. |
| Dining together | Share food on the table and keep the conversation going. |
| Calling another resident | Talk on the phone across locations. |
| Medical consultation | Describe symptoms, ask and answer questions, then diagnose and treat. |
| Arranging a haircut | Discuss the customer’s wishes, choose a style and complete the service. |
| Discussing gym membership or lessons | A coach introduces a membership or course and the customer decides whether to buy. |
| Arranging and taking a fitness lesson | Coach or student proposes a lesson, then both agree and complete it. |
| Conducting an interview | Reporter and interviewee take turns asking and answering questions. |
| Inviting someone to spar | Offer a friendly bout and fight if the other resident accepts. |
| Crime encounter | Resolve an encounter between an offender and victim through their actions. |
| Scam call | A scammer speaks to a resident, who chooses how to respond. |
| Police arrest | An officer confronts a suspect and responds to cooperation or resistance. |
| Fighting | One resident starts a fight and the other decides how to respond. |