# Life Simulator - Time is Money — user reviews > 32 indexed App Store user reviews of Life Simulator by Chimpanzee, LLC, rated 4.80/5 from 233 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/life-simulator-time-is-money/id1557591657/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/life-simulator-time-is-money/id1557591657.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 201 · 4★ 17 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 4 ## What do users think of Life Simulator? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Great game concept - 💡 Fun and entertaining - 🌟 Addictive gameplay - 🚀 Rewarding to figure out - ✨ Creative ideas **Cons** - 🤔 Very confusing - ❓ Hard to grasp - 😵 Ambiguous mechanics - ⏳ Difficult to gain time - 📉 Time decreases rapidly **Commonly reported bugs** - Meal canister not working - Energy canister creation crashes app - Cannot buy meal or capsule kits - Founder job crashes app - Bug with merchant (can't buy all options) - Bug in keeper job - Bug with selling homes - Sold stock and got negative shares - Lottery seems rigged **Most requested features** - Politics feature - More zones - More content - More updates - More comprehensive guide/tutorial - Increase rate of Entries sold - Add more zones ## Newest reviews (10 of 32) ### 4/5 — Fun but confusing *2021-07-20* It took a while but after I got the hang of it the game is pretty fun. It just really confused me at the beginning, maybe an update to make a more in depth guide at the beginning would help out ### 4/5 — Love it *2021-05-21* Need more content!!! Just download it today and I’m addicted. Fun game! ### 4/5 — Fun but buggy *2021-04-26, version 1.0.14* Very fun game! As the app is fairly new there are plenty of bugs left to deal with. ### 4/5 — Great, except... *2021-04-17* PLEASE increase the rate at which Entries are sold. I’m at Timezone 3, have 3 years straight of time saved up, and yet Entries take so long to come on the market that I have no real use for the time/money. I did get a few hundred Entries from grinding Thievery to 50, but had bad luck on that attempt. With the current rate, I see no real way to get enough Entries to have a reasonable chance of advancing save getting carpal tunnel syndrome from spamming Thievery a few hundred (few thousand?) times more. I’m really enjoying the game otherwise, but that’s a hard gate on progression. Doesn’t seem to be IAP bait either, because the IAPs would give nowhere near enough to stand a reasonable chance of winning the lottery. Very odd. **Developer response:** Hey Magic, Added in “bribes” which let you bribe your way through each zone - might tweak the costs, let me know what you think! Jon ### 5/5 — The game is great *2021-04-11* I’ve been playing this for a while now and I love it. This game definitely needs more content and does have some bugs. Like for example, when I try to pick the founder job it just crashes which is annoying but still love the game. It has lots of content and with more it could be one of my favorite games. **Developer response:** Hey Nergamer! Thanks for the review! Founder job should be fixed in the update that was released yesterday! Great to hear you’ve enjoyed it! Jon ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2021-04-10* Well done **Developer response:** Thanks for playing :) - Jon ### 4/5 — Fun game *2021-04-09* Fun game, but have noticed a couple of bugs with merchant (can’t buy all options) **Developer response:** Hey there! Thanks for the review and for playing the game! Added some more context in the next update, not all items can be bought due to buying power! You can increase buying power as you gain more time or level up! Jon ### 5/5 — Great *2021-04-08* Good game **Developer response:** Thanks for trying it out! :) Jon ### 3/5 — Cool concept but very confusing *2021-03-21, version 1.0.3* It is an interesting idea but the game is very confusing and difficult to grasp. ### 4/5 — Awesome concept *2021-03-16* Really cool game. Some bugs in the keeper job, and with selling homes, but I’m excited to see the game evolve **Developer response:** Hey cwh! Thanks for the review! Selling homes and time keeper bugs should be fixed in the next update! If you come across anything else, send me an email at jon@chimpanzee.io - Jon ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Confusing *2024-07-19, version 1.0.14* Love this company’s games but this one’s far too confusing and hard to grasp. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2021-08-31, version 1.0.14* The game was awful you get confused straight away the time system is stupid because you but stuff with the time when it’s what you need to live if terrible quality ### 1/5 — 🥴 *2021-03-22* Game is very confusing **Developer response:** Hey! Thanks for the feedback - working on making things more clear! - Jon ### 2/5 — Where is capital? *2021-09-13* There should be an option where it clearly shows how much money you have in order to buy ### 2/5 — A few bugs *2021-04-28, version 1.0.14* I find it’s too hard to gain more time. How do you do it? I’m just spending time buying things such as entries. And for some reason I can’t buy meal or capsule kits. ### 3/5 — Repo *2022-11-29, version 1.0.14* Cool beans ### 3/5 — Hoping for new content *2022-01-04, version 1.0.14* Hoping for update ### 3/5 — Good in concept but needs better application *2021-05-27* Something I noticed about this developer is that they really enjoy ambiguity. Maybe that’s just their nerd brain, but the average person is pretty dumb, ha. Would be great if the developer(s) could make things more clear and have explanations for things because as of now, it’s incredibly blanketed and not that helpful. I would love to learn in the process of playing, but it seems I’m just left confused and dumbfounded on what things mean and what to do. Maybe that’s their intent in creating these games? To have already knowledgeable people play rather than educating/teaching those who have no clue what they’re doing? It’d be great if these apps could have a more comprehensive guide if they want to reach a wider audience. ### 3/5 — Why is the lottery rigged bro *2021-04-14* I swear trying to save lottery tickets and then losing all of them for nothing and having to spend another hour glued to the screen to get another hundred is infuriating. I’ve entered my name three times in the lottery with like 50% and 60% and then just did 75% and lost. The only way to progress I think it to save up your tickets for 100% to be sure cus I’m not lucky at all. **Developer response:** Hey Jared, There was a an error with the math (incorrectly calculating odds) that was fixed around the time of your review in an update. Also adding back in "bribe" which will allow you to use time to pay your way into the next zone! Sorry for the frustration! Jon ### 3/5 — This game needs a tutorial. *2021-04-04* I don't think I'm normally this confused but I guess I took a dumb pill. I just don't understand how to earn time. No matter what I do I lose it. And I can't figure out the jobs. Every button costs time. I tried to earn money through jobs but my time still decreases. Better explanation to what needs to be done will help dumbs like me enjoy the game. This game seams like fun because it reminds me of the movie In Time that I loved. Hopefully there is a tutorial or something in the future. Edit: also for some reason I sold ten of the third stock and got -94 shares. And could never get it fixed. That may also be why I never could get ahead and lost 5 days in ten minutes. **Developer response:** Hey there! Thanks for bearing with me as the game recently launched and their were a few bugs that have been fixed - the merchant being one of them! You’ll want to apply for a job that has a great return on your hours worked! Once you start leveling up Worker, you’ll earn more pay. You can also keep an eye out for new pay rates or increase your traits! Hope you’ll try it out again soon! Jon ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good game *2026-05-09, version 1.0.14* Good game ### 5/5 — Request and a problem *2025-08-17, version 1.0.14* OK, still waiting for that politics feature plus the meal cannister isn’t working under merchant ### 5/5 — Amazing *2024-02-04* Haven't played a game this great in years! I'm in love and I don't even have a heart! Yay! ### 5/5 — Great game but some bugs *2022-02-20* It’s a great game and very entertaining the most annoying bug I’ve encountered is when I try to create energy canisters it kicks me off the app I’ve even restarted my phone and it just won’t let me click on it Other than that it’s worked great ### 5/5 — Good game for people who like challenging systema *2022-01-29* I understood how to play i think my 3rd time and after like 2 or 3 hours i figured out how to get infinite years Also please dont force ppl to see a tutorial when they start playng figuring out the game so is rewarding and fun snd theres very few games that give me the joy of doing something hard and succeeding ### 5/5 — You should add more zones. *2021-10-03* Amazing game but it gets boring once you reach zone 4 so you should add more. ### 5/5 — Great Foundation *2021-09-24, version 1.0.14* Some really fun and creative ideas. Please continue to work on this. Could be huge imho. ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2021-07-29* Fun and enjoyable to play ### 5/5 — Nice Game *2021-07-26, version 1.0.14* How to unlock timezone 2? ### 5/5 — Great game *2021-05-27* Love the game just waiting for more updates --- *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 2026-09-02.*