Life is a game.
You cannot argue with this.
No matter how you look at it, it's a game.
Everything we can or cannot do are governed by rules. Rules that we call 'laws'. Be it laws of nature or the laws that we have made ourselves.
These are the so called rules of this game.
Break the laws made by us, for us, and you'll get punished. Break the laws of nature, and you've just won the game, by cheating, but still won, no one will care, no one can care.
The only way you can win is by cheating, otherwise you'll lose, which can only result in your death.
And this can only happen if we aren't in a simulation. If we are, we might just be seen as a bug and get eliminate, deleted so to say.
I like to believe that we live in the 'real' world, but even if we live in a simulation, what makes it any less real?
The very simulation we have been living in would be our reality, and the 'true' reality wouldn't be reality to us.
We may never know.