# AltLife - Life Simulator — user reviews > 122 indexed App Store user reviews of AltLife by Mark Benyei, rated 4.70/5 from 1,119 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/altlife-life-simulator/id1567044511/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/altlife-life-simulator/id1567044511.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 901 · 4★ 144 · 3★ 53 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 14 ## What do users think of AltLife? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Unique and detailed game - 🚀 Lots of features and customization - 💡 Potential to surpass similar games **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches - 💡 Requests for more realistic features **Commonly reported bugs** - Freezing issues on login screen - Compatibility problems on older devices **Most requested features** - Add sports like basketball, football, and baseball - Implement music career and business creation - Allow fighting and arguing with other characters - Introduce new weapons and hair styling options - Add more social media and real-life simulation elements ## Newest reviews (14 of 122) ### 3/5 — Great work, still needs improvement *2026-08-22, version 48 (819.8)* So this app is made by one person and already shows great potential. I honestly feel my rating is too low, but I feel that right now I can’t rate it much higher. I feel that game needs more things to do, for example I haven’t figured out how to commit crimes. Job searching is also far more stringent, I think some of the degree requirements should be lifted. I also feel romancing or even befriending someone in general takes too long even when spamming interactions. I also could never sell my car. Apart from that, I feel this is a great alternative to BitLife and is something I was looking for since I only have bitizen on Android and BitLife is really restricted without it. Keep improving, and good luck! ### 4/5 — Room for improvement but overall great *2026-08-12, version 48 (819.8)* It’s like BitLife without the crazy AI. Definitely have faith that with more updates it will be awesome ### 4/5 — More jobs *2026-07-28, version 48 (819.8)* I think this game would be a five star if their was more jobs like sport team jobs singing careers where you can actually win Grammys and have concerts and stuff like that ### 4/5 — Overall not bad *2026-07-26, version 48 (819.8)* As the title says, not bad. Definitely not as many adds as BitLife which is why I started playing this game. The actual scale is kinda off - like it looks too big for the screen degrading the experience. Also, there’s not as many automated actions. For example, having more pop-up experiences such as going on dates, proposals for marriage, hang out sessions with friends, finding random animals, etc. would improve the experience. Other automated actions that is better in BitLife is the auto-spend time with all which removes all of the repetitiveness. I also wish there was a way to add school classmates or work peers to the “friends” category because there currently is no way to do so. On the same note, it doesn’t list all of the people you spent time with which loses the value in the relationship building process. On the other hand, I’m not sure if it’s a bug, how the game is, or the luck of the draw but I became an apprentice chiropractor when I saw a chiropractor position (which is odd that I could apply for because the game is not realistic in that I can choose to specialize as you do in medical school). So I was an apprentice for 13 years, no promotion option, and a regular “chiropractor” position never appeared again. It’s also odd how the only “careers” available are not actual careers - like it’s become an influencer or you can go down the criminal “career” but the pathway to being a nursing manager is not considered a “career”. Odd. So while these are all of the things that are negative, and trust me there are some other nit-picky things I could list, it’s not overly glitchy and not overloaded with adds. Some of the “events” that happen are interesting. Graphics aren’t horrible. So yeah.. could be better could be worse. 3.5-4 stars it is ### 4/5 — School friends *2026-07-13, version 48 (819.8)* This game is awesome so far. The only thing that I wish could be done, Is you spend time making friends at school but then as soon as you’re out of school, those friends are gone. It’d be cool if you could move those friends to outside of school like in real life you continue to be friends. ### 3/5 — Need new content asap *2026-07-10, version 48 (819.8)* Great game overall ### 4/5 — Properties/ money *2026-06-06, version 43 (812)* Needs fresh properties to sublet and such every year up and needs more ways to use the money like give your kids money and such ### 3/5 — Really Good Game *2026-06-04, version 43 (812)* So I enjoyed playing and thought it was a great game but I wish you could actually fight people and the fighting went more in depth. And I think it would be a lot better if you added a dating up or hook ups along with the ability to cheat on ur girl. Lastly you should be able to communicate with ur coworkers at Jobs. ### 5/5 — This game has extreme potential *2026-05-30, version 43 (812)* I absolutely love this game. Just needs a bit more details because I love it but get bored easily ### 3/5 — Some Suggestions *2026-05-26, version 43 (812)* I enjoy the game a lot. There’s a lot of options. My only suggestions are one: have some more options for starting countries, such as Japan. My second suggestion is to allow my children to do more than gain skills and jobs, such as marry and have children on their own or give me a prompt to encourage them to or allow me to name their children. My character would love to be a grandma before she dies! ### 3/5 — A few things that can stand to be fixed *2026-05-25, version 43 (812)* An option to switch lives to the younger generation, more opportunities to make money in the game, maybe pre made text boxes for the social media posts, as well as the option to go back in time ### 5/5 — Yh *2026-04-27, version 43 (812)* I don’t how to leave a suggestion but make it so you can read all the books in your inventory at once. ### 3/5 — Alt life simulator review *2026-04-09, version 43 (812)* It’s ok not horrible but it ain’t as good as BitLife in my opinion, I think it needs more crime options instead of just the 2 very boring in that matter. ### 5/5 — It kid BitLife but less monetized *2026-04-06, version 43 (812)* That real is what I have to say ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Quite boring and tried to steal my info *2026-06-18, version 43 (812)* I clicked on the privacy policy and it took me to a sites.google.com. Which is rlly sketchy because those sites are easily manipulatable. Minutes later my xfinity wifi told me the website was trying to get in to my internet and infect it. Luckily it was blocked by my wifi company. ### 1/5 — Don’t download *2026-06-06, version 43 (812)* The game is abandoned. Don’t download and don’t buy IAP ### 1/5 — Abandoned by Dev *2026-05-16, version 43 (812)* This game was abandoned by the developer and doesn’t provide much. 🤷‍♂️ ### 1/5 — Ads and P2U *2026-04-21, version 43 (812)* Please remove the ads and pay to use I would’ve reached it five stars if it didn’t have all the ads ### 1/5 — Fun but Abandoned. *2026-01-26, version 43 (812)* Fun game but developer basically disappeared and hasn’t updated in a very long time and it’s clear they weren’t done with it when they stopped working on it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t even fit the resolution for my phone anymore so I can’t see my bank balance, which is kind of a big deal. ### 1/5 — A problem *2025-11-12, version 43 (812)* My game crashes out when I start playing. ### 1/5 — Scammed! *2025-11-05, version 43 (812)* I purchased the premium membership on my old phone with the same account and it won’t transfer over. I sent them an email and got no response ### 2/5 — Horrible name options *2026-06-16, version 43 (812)* The game only has about five different last names for characters. Children do not take the more creative last name I come up with… :( No option to pick their last name it’s just automatically the spouses. What’s with that? Seems like a very basic first step in making a game like this would be to give basic name options. ### 2/5 — Great Game With Huge Issues *2026-04-16, version 43 (812)* When this game works, it's the best life sim game on the App Store hands down. Much more to do than BitLife, much less ads on the free version, and personally I think the UI is much better. With all those things being said, the game crashes, A LOT. I can hardly make it past the changelog without it crashing. Even if I do I get maybe 2 or 3 minutes of gameplay before it crashes. It's really disappointing since I bought the $25 bundle and the issue seemed to get worse afterwards. I'm not sure if the items somehow contribute to the issue in any way but it's very annoying and has made me stop playing the game very shortly after buying the bundle. I'm not sure if the dev has access to crash logs or anything like that but i'm playing on an iPhone 15 Pro Max if that matters, any updates or fixes would be much appreciated. Edit: It has now been over a year since the last update. Still tons of glitches and crashes, game seems abandoned at this point. Wouldn't recommend. ### 2/5 — Update the game *2026-03-06, version 43 (812)* It’s a good game there’s just a lot of things that are dumb and old. There is no way to reverse years on a life is upsetting I ruined a life and spent $5 to get out of jail just to still have a record and nothing returning years of artwork gone that’s nuts. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — alt life review *2026-08-27, version 48 (819.8)* i like altlife but i dotn love the color scheme but overall pretty great game ### 5/5 — Good *2026-07-30, version 48 (819.8)* Good but please add more like multiple partners and Christian stuff ### 5/5 — Fhhb *2026-07-09, version 48 (819.8)* Good game ### 5/5 — Great game! *2026-06-29, version 43 (812)* It’s honestly better than BitLife. Please never discontinue it I’ll literally kms ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-06-26, version 43 (812)* This game is like bitlife but so much better and improved in so many ways it has less add, more realism, and so much more download to find out! ### 5/5 — Super realistic *2026-06-21, version 43 (812)* I love it ### 5/5 — W Game *2026-06-17, version 43 (812)* On par with BitLife ### 5/5 — cool concept! *2026-06-14, version 43 (812)* i can tell ur trying ur best to stray away from being a bitlife ripoff and it’s working! but i would love some more activities to do in game ### 5/5 — Good game *2026-06-10, version 43 (812)* I’d love some gambling mechanics were added. Maybe some other minigames as well for various skills. I’d also like a warning button on the hacking that tells you you’ll get put in jail. Fun game, thanks for making it! ### 5/5 — The best life games to compete BitLife *2026-05-31, version 43 (812)* I love this game and BitLife and I love the what year and date you was born could you also add sports jobs as well but other than that I love this game --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-10.*