Lagos Life tips and tricks

Short, practical tips that make the early game far less stressful.

• Treat Saturday rent as the only hard deadline - plan backwards from it.
• Match your career to your trait, not to the pay table.
• Do not buy a fridge before you own a generator.
• Eat cheap: party jollof is the best Hunger per naira.
• Learn venue opening hours before planning evening Fun or Social.
• Check the governor's active policy before big purchases or long commutes.
• Top up Bladder before long shifts and cross-city trips - it drains fastest.
• Do the daily hunt every day for free income and map knowledge.
• Stay in the cheapest housing longer than feels right.
• Play on desktop for long grinding sessions.
• Grind one trait-matched skill instead of spreading thin.
• Skip furniture early; a foam mattress is worth it for Energy.
• Move house only when weekly income exceeds about 3x the new rent.
• Never play inside an in-app browser.

The one rule that matters

Everything else is optional. Rent is not.