Developers please read!
Wed Nov 29 2023 Unicorn8639This game is absolutely amazing to play though there is a couple major details that bother me when I play. I do really wish when selecting someone to stay at a house or work place that there is some kind of icon that tells you that they don’t have a home or they can have a selection where only people who are homeless show up, because every time I try to get homeless people to have a home; I always end up selecting someone that has a home and they basically switch houses. It’s really annoying and I hope the developers can fix/update that. Also I would enjoy if there were new options that could be put in. I just got this game so I don’t know how recently they put new options in. But new decisions etc. for the characters and names for them would be nice. But thank you developers for the hard work you’ve put into the game so far, it’s a really amazing game.
This is actually a decent game, but…
Mon Dec 04 2023 ReedearThis is a decent game. It’s simple, how BitLife used to be (before it got bloated with too many features), but the cost is actually outrageous. I have full video games that cost less than it costs to get rid of ads in this game. It costs $30 to get rid of ads and that’s crazy. I thought it was a lot when I saw a game asking for 15 to get rid of ads, but then this game asks twice as much.
I get it MIGHT be to cover costs of the game, but it’s just simply too much. And I’m someone who will pay for a game if I really enjoy it and it’s reasonable. $30 for a mobile game isn’t reasonable. I guess it could be worse. They could want $30 a month, like another mobile game I was playing and ended up quitting. The ads were overwhelming (to get you to pay to remove ads, of course), but there was no way I’m forking out that much. Not even just once. Maybe lower the cost and I’d think about it. It’s just crazy because I see two other things that can be purchased and they’re reasonable (one thing is $6 and the other is $10), so I’m confused why getting rid of ads is so expensive. And, of course, there’s a million ads to really do anything in the game. If a game is forcing me to make a purchase by bombarding me with ads, that’s telling me they’re a greedy game and I don’t support those.
Too bad, because this is actually a charming little game. Oh well.
Game Review
Mon Feb 12 2024 J.D.BradleyHonestly, the game is tons of fun. You are allowed to try many different things and the game progresses very fast. The developers have many different aspects that allow to you to try many things. I went down the path of a family restaurant, when someone could t find a job they were put in the restaurant. The game also slightly catered a couple people to me to help support the restaurant. If family members couldn’t work there you are able to hire people, which is great.
The more you play you start to unlock other career paths, like lawyers, presidency and I’m sure many more.
The things I kept noticing is lawyers would go down a career path; law cleric, assistant lawyer, to lawyer. But, by the time your person became a lawyer they would be in their 50’s. Retirement age is 60 in the game.
The issue with this game lies in the ads. When you first start playing you don’t have ads for like the first ten minutes but after that they keep coming ever few minutes, to hire people there’s an ad you have to watch. The developers do allow in store purchase of $30. To stop the ads. They also have other bundles you can purchase to unlock “cool” professions like, hitman. They also have a royal bundle that lets you run a kingdom.
All around the game is fun, but feeling like I’m watching ads in the middle of each decision for every family member makes gets frustrating.
Needs improvement + the rewards are not worth
Mon Feb 12 2024 villlimahI’m giving this game one star because of how ridiculous the costs are for this game and because they falsely advertise the costs of the packs. $30 to remove all ads is the highest cost I’ve ever seen for a mobile app. And this isn’t even the best life simulation game available! Also when I went to buy the reward pack that doubles your income it was marked as costing $5.99 before taxes. If you buy the life pass too you still get pop ups to remove ads even though you removed ads through the life pass. I bought it then I get a notification that I was charged $20. There’s little to no directions when you start the game and all of the good rewards from event pop ups you need to watch an ad to get almost anything worthwhile. And not all the characters get jobs throughout their lifetime so they just bring down the whole families income. There should be a way to manually apply for jobs and not just have people waiting for a job to randomly pop up. This game is fun don’t get me wrong and I’m still going to play it (mostly because of the money I’ve unfortunately sunken into it) but there NEEDS to be changes made to the game if they’re going to be charging this much with all of the packs.
Developers please read!
Sun Mar 10 2024 cherish marie sabottaFirst, I want to say, this game is absolutely adorable, and I love that you can see your family tree and descendants. Unlike Bitlife, where you’re stuck going down only one line and not being able to see the others. However, I am giving this game 3 stars, purely because of the price you guys want me to pay to eliminate ads. I mean I think a reasonable price is like $5 or $10 even, but $30?! That is outrageous. Do you realize how much food I could buy with that kind of money? That would give me, if I’m careful, at least a weeks worth. I could see if you added some other stuff to it. Like maybe putting the house bundle and ad free gaming together. Or even just work packs and the ad free gaming. But just paying that for no ads, makes me not want to play this game anymore. And I don’t want it to come to that, because I love the style and quick pace of it all. But I think, if you continue to have the ad free gaming as expensive as it is, people will stop playing all together, and never play your game again.
Love game but need improvements
Sat Nov 04 2023 cool monkey girl🙊So I wasn’t planning on writing a review but here I am, so I love this game for a long car rides or if you’re just really bored at home. But it does need a lot of improvement like so when I am playing the game sometimes a thing would come up and be like job improvement 599 and I feel like nobody would pay 599 for a mobile game that just let you go through life and that’s just my opinion but maybe they can switch it to $.99 or 199 I know that’s how games like make money, but I feel like they can find a better way. But of course, I do really love this game and I do recommend it. That’s all I hope you guys take my Feedback and find ways to lower the prices
really enjoy but,, has some issues..
Sat Sep 23 2023 p4ssionfru1tI really love this game!!! just doing it to pass the time is great, but after the recent update unfortunately my family was gone :(
getting to my proper review, the gameplay issues I have is that there’s not enough interactions. it’s always same 4 and I wish it was more dependent on the personality of the person and there was just more interactions overall for more randomness. for example an “intelligent” person would have a special interaction pertaining to them, while an “idiot” person would have a different one.
I also really dislike how the only good interaction that wont hurt you is ALWAYS hidden behind an ad, especially when your family member is contemplating s*icide. I’m not against ads in games especially because they keep them going, but maybe space them out a bit instead of them being there every time? it’s just really annoying especially when there’s no ad blocker option to pay for either :/
overall my current complaints about the game aren’t gonna make me stop playing it on purpose, but I will eventually get sick of how redundant it is and I’ll find a new game to play when the time comes, even if I DO love this game and don’t wanna leave it.
Ads are too much
Sat Jan 27 2024 Rose_PhantomAs the title suggests, I gave up on this game after an hour or two of playtime because the ads just got to me. I thought that you could get away with it by not clicking yes to any of the options to save a rich man or even starring in a movie or something. HOWEVER, the ads still make their way to you regardless. When you’re idle, or even when you’re about to make an important decision such as marriage or job, an ad will suddenly appear. And twice have these ads been un-exitable. What I mean is that the ad glitches and I can press the x, which causes me to restart the game and the important decision went away — I lost my chance. If you’ve played this game, you would know marriage prospects or even jobs are valuable since some people stay unemployed/unmarried for a long time. Anyway, it was fun only if there weren’t ads 24/7
very fun game! but..
Tue Apr 02 2024 bunnixpi love this game, it is very easy to spend hours playing. i understand the developers need to make a living, but the number of ads in this game is outrageous. i purchased the life pass, which i was completely okay doing, but i believe that should also remove the ad barrier for all the choices in this game. it is a bit absurd that even after paying for this game, i have to watch an ad to prevent my player from killing themselves.. or watch 2 to be able to hire a worker after one of my elder characters died. i see this is a common criticism, so i hope this aspect of the game gets changed. one 15 dollar life pass makes sense, but an additional 30 dollar ad removal purchase does not, nor does the other additional “fun jobs” pack. this isn’t the sims 4.. this is a mobile game, and these paywalls only make me want to uninstall the app.
despite the cute nature of the app as well, it does feel a bit barren, i feel like i get bored eventually as there is only so much you can do, which is an issue with any life simulator game, but i think some added content that isn’t locked behind a paywall would be nice as well.
Way too many ads!!!
Mon Jan 01 2024 Alex BocarFirst I want to say that the game itself and the idea behind the game is good. However, amount of ads are ridiculous, I’ve spent more time watching ads than actually playing the game. I understand that developers have to make their money, but it makes the game not enjoyable when you have to see a 30 second pop up ad (that you can’t skip) every 3 minutes. I didn’t even mention that if you want to pay for no ads it cost $30… that’s outrageous for a mobile game. It’s crazy because you feel like you’re being taken advantage of. Honestly I’m the type of person that is willing to spend $5-$10 on an ad free game, but $30 will fill up my gas tank. That being said, if they were to change the pricing or lower the ad frequency I’d give them a higher rating, but I don’t enjoy companies taking advantage of their consumers.
