Lacuna Games

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Every game drops you into a real situation with real constraints — a month of money, a job offer on the table, twelve pages of tenancy agreement. You make the calls, you live with them, and the moment you answer it tells you what that one cost you, and the rule underneath it.

Part 1 free — no account $1 unlocks the rest, forever Rules are earned, not read
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First of the Month

One paycheque, thirty days, and something expensive waiting where you can't see it.

Part 1 free 17 min 2 parts 16 rules to earn No prior knowledge

$1 unlocks every part, permanently — games aren’t part of All-Access.

How a Lacuna game works

  1. 01

    You get a real situation

    Something with a clock on it and less room than you’d like. Every term you might not know is explained the moment it appears — there is nothing to read first.

  2. 02

    You make the call

    A handful of options and consequences that stack. Get one wrong early and the move you wanted later may not be open to you at all.

  3. 03

    You earn the rule

    Get it right and the rule is yours, with the reasoning in full. Get it wrong and you find out what it cost. Reading it doesn’t count.

All games

1 game
$1 Unlocked Money First of the Month One paycheque, thirty days, and something expensive waiting where you can't see it. 17 min · 16 rules · Part 1 free
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Each one takes a single thing school skipped and makes you do it — a job offer, a tenancy agreement, an inbox that’s trying to rob you.

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How games are priced

$1 each, bought once

The first part of every game is free and needs no account. $1 unlocks the rest permanently, spent from your Lacuna balance — including parts we add later. Games are sold separately from written topics and are not included in All-Access, so a subscription never quietly becomes the only way in. Whatever you’ve unlocked is marked right here on this page.

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