# Play This Life: Legacy Edition — Life Simulator

> Generational life simulator game focused on legacy building and consequence. (iPhone/iPad app by LUCK-IT.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/play-this-life-legacy-edition/id1633869557 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [LUCK-IT](https://appshunter.io/developer/1633869559)
- Category: Games, Books, Role Playing, Simulation
- Price: $4.99
- Rating: 4.00/5 from 71 App Store ratings · 94 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: +12
- Requires: iOS 13.0 · 75 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2022-07-10
- Data updated: 2026-09-08
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/play-this-life-legacy-edition/id1633869557/reviews.md

## What is Play This Life?

Build a family legacy spanning unlimited generations! Grow your family’s wealth and assets, watch what happens to your children and relatives after you die, experience how an individual’s life choices can impact their descendants across centuries!

This premium version of the Play This Life simulation game will allow you to transcend death and live on (and on, and on, and on) as the children of your children. 

Make your previous lives mean so much more! 

Have more backstory for your future lives. 

Experience the karma of having children you raised (or left out of your will) as your next parents!

Possibly benefit from the money you accumulated in your previous life. 

Also, unlock the full set of Play This Life’s legacy features! Add custom names, places, biotechnology and more to your game. Have more control over your play person and NPCs. Treat disease, save lives, murder, commit crimes… and the list goes on and on!

No missed childhoods. No unknown ancestry. Just life as it is in your wildest dreams—and nightmares. In Play This Life: Legacy Edition, you have so much more than just one generation to live.

## Key features

- Unlimited generational gameplay
- Family wealth and asset management
- Observe descendant's lives
- Impact of life choices on future generations
- Experience karma from previous lives
- Customizable names for game and NPCs

## What do users think of Play This Life?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🎮 Engaging life simulation gameplay with high replayability
- ✨ Detailed and realistic character descriptions
- 🔄 Frequent updates adding new content and features
- 🏠 Unique multi-generational legacy system
- 🌍 Diverse location-based gameplay mechanics
- 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family and relationship building mechanics
- ♿ Accessibility features for visually impaired users
- 🎨 Creative character portrait system
- 📱 Better than comparable games like BitLife
- 🎪 Dollhouse freeplay mode for experimentation

**Cons**

- ⏰ Time system moves too quickly, limiting actions per year
- 💰 Housing and property costs are prohibitively expensive
- 😞 High difficulty curve leading to frequent early deaths
- 👶 Children frequently taken away by social services
- 💔 Extremely difficult to find romantic partners and marry
- 👨‍💼 Limited job options and difficult job acquisition
- 🎓 Unclear requirements for education and career progression
- 🚫 Cannot customize character appearance at game start
- 💸 Premium version lacks promised features over free version
- 🔄 Generational skip forces restart instead of continuing as child
- 😔 High suicide and depression rates in gameplay
- 🏚️ Characters frequently become homeless despite efforts
- 🐛 Frequent glitches and technical issues
- 🔊 No audio settings or mute option available

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Children not accompanying parent when moving internationally
- Disease cure triggering false betrayal accusations
- Characters not graduating university despite attending classes
- Job purchase error - money deducted but house not obtained
- Donor egg/sperm feature causing errors preventing generation continuation
- Game progressing time automatically without user input
- Expulsion from school without clear reason or instructions
- Children disappearing from home tab after age 6
- Game not saving progress properly
- Glitchy character portrait generation
- Inconsistent relationship status with parents
- Missing siblings not appearing in family tree
- Unclear gift-giving mechanic
- Job application system not functioning properly
- Inheritance system not working as intended

**Most requested features**

- Ability to pass wealth directly to children instead of grandchildren
- Loan system for financial assistance
- Character customization at game start (appearance, gender, wealth)
- Crime career paths (thief, assassin, police officer)
- Business ownership and entrepreneurship mechanics
- House remodeling and improvement features
- Travel and exchange programs without permanent relocation
- Royalty and nobility career paths
- Pet ownership and breeding system
- Modeling and acting career options
- Dating app for easier partner matching
- Adoption center feature
- More mental health conditions (autism, ADHD, anxiety, trauma)
- Therapy and mental health treatment options
- Ability to see nieces and nephews
- Private and elite school options
- More time per year or unlimited time for premium version
- Year-skip button for faster progression
- Action counter showing remaining actions per year
- Clearer profile pictures with eye color details
- More diverse career options beyond science-focused jobs
- Easier fitness and health improvement mechanics
- Better age-appropriate social event matching
- Improved inheritance system from grandparents
- War and country conflict mechanics
- Custom life creation mode
- Automatic translation for non-English speakers
- Settings menu for music and sound control

## Recent user reviews (10 of 94)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/play-this-life-legacy-edition/id1633869557/reviews.md

### 3/5 — Love the idea!

*2026-08-20*

This game is great and the art style is really good! I just wish we had more time each year to do more things. It feels so difficult to develop a great relationship with your whole family without sacrificing school time. Also it feels basically impossible to find a partner that doesn’t end up leaving you as soon as you date them. I’ve played so many times and I’ve never succeeded at romantic relationships. Maybe it’s just a me issue but other than that I love the way the game looks and the updates that are being added to the game. :)

**Developer response:** Thanks for playing Play This Life, halibcat! As with real life, there's always someone out there who truly loves you, who will never leave you, no matter what. You just have to find them first and not waste time with those who don't care. Hope this helps 😉

### 5/5 — Some things I would like to see

*2026-08-18*

The game is great and while I do enjoy the bully update, I feel like nobody ever protects me, but when I do it people protect others from me. I might just not have a strong enough relationship with people. But I feel like there should be a relationship update where other people can ask you to be their friends or we should be able to talk to classmates/coworkers before deciding to make them our friend. Parents in countries where arranged marriages are common should also try to give us a marriage, especially if we’re in a village where everyone knows everyone. I also wish fame was easier to attain and there were more ways to get famous. Modeling, doing sports, and making getting an acting job easier. It is a little annoying when you have the exact skill sets for a job and it just doesn’t show up in the job menu. I feel like at least 2 jobs should show up every year with your skill set, but this doesn’t mean they have to have good pay or good hours or even accept us. Just would make applying for the job we want easier.

**Developer response:** Thanks for loving Play This Life, justinbiebersmaingf123! We have tried to fix the bug you mentioned in the latest update. Kindly update to see if that stops it. And an adoption update will be here soon so stay tuned! 🤓

### 5/5 — Great example of a mobile life sim

*2026-08-14*

I don’t usually write reviews, but I felt I needed to for this game, I have had this game since 2023 and can confidently say it’s only gotten better. There are a few bugs here and there, but it’s still a great game I adore the mechanics and being able to be born in nearly any country, my experiences are never the exact same and I love that!

**Developer response:** Wow, since 2023? Thanks for loving Play This Life so much, Joey! We can promise you it will only get even better, so stay tuned 🤓

### 1/5 — Depressing and kinda horrible

*2026-08-09*

Every single character I have played as has gotten sick and died or become depressed and end themselves. If I knew that this would happen in 98% of the games played I would’ve never purchased the bonus pack. No matter how rich they become, no matter how well they do in school, EVERY SINGLE GAME HAS SOMEONE TRAUMATIZE MY PLAYER AND THEN THEY’RE JUST UNHAPPY FOR THE REST OF IT. It’s frustrating and I keep having them do fun things like concerts, socializing, eating fine dining, going to therapy, etc. and none of it ever matters because they just get depressed and die.

### 3/5 — Would like customization at start and keep our wealth

*2026-08-01*

1. I don’t want to start over on wealth when character dies, sure we pick their children to live next as but even then getting it back is not likely due to less chance of inheriting it back, having to get all that money back is a hassle would prefer all of our money was given to our pick of who to continue our life as. 2. We need slots to have multiple saves of our lives. 3. The character’s face/customization needs an update which is possible now if you all hire an artist or use AI. 4. We also need a guide book or article that explains everything in game/how to fix something. 5. Would love to pick our starting funds, etc. at start of game as well not randomized as people who like this genre loved customization(what family we are born into rich or poor or inbetween, what country, etc.)

**Developer response:** Thanks for playing Play This Life, NightimeOwl-Girl! Yes, we will be adding customisation of physical attributes in the next update. For wealth level and country of birth, you can make the play people of your previous lives work towards become wealthy and move them to the country you desire to make all your dreams come true 😉

### 4/5 — Love this game, amazing

*2026-07-28*

I really enjoy playing this game daily, I just wish the last update was better like the better deaths update and the love game update those were amazing. I wish we could have more faces and hairstyles also more knowledge into backgrounds is cool, also more dialogue and surprises

### 5/5 — Game is amazing!

*2026-07-26*

Just wanted to start off with the fact your game is great and I love the difficulty of it. Makes it feel like I’m actually playing with life. However, there is this small bug that I only run into sometimes. It stops me from gaining money and losing money, but labels me as dirt poor even if I have a lot of money. My yearly expenditures are replaced with NaN$ I’m not sure what that means. That’s the only issue I really run into. Everything is great though! I wish we could adopt children though. I hate paying 200k for a surrogate and it just doesn’t work out lol

**Developer response:** Thanks for loving Play This Life, justinbiebersmaingf123! We have tried to fix the bug you mentioned in the latest update. Kindly update to see if that stops it. And an adoption update will be here soon so stay tuned! 🤓

### 2/5 — Question and disapointed

*2026-07-02*

Why you Said you could Create your own lineage, i cant even do that we dont even get to choose the country or anything.

**Developer response:** Hi HOX99, don't fret, you can choose your country in your next life by moving to it in your previous life. Basically anything you want in your next life, you will have to work for it in your previous life by moving, suggesting names, marrying people with a certain look, becoming wealthy, etc. Hope that helps! 🤓

### 3/5 — Male based game

*2026-07-01, version 1.0.39*

This app is soo good but you should add to at least be able to be a female since we paid for the game, I just feel like every time I get a character it’s a male and the females are never very wealthy. I just feel like it’s male based it’s a very good game tho I just hate having to be on the game for hours tryna be a very wealthy girl.

### 4/5 — Great game

*2026-06-21*

Oh my gosh words can’t explain how obsessed I am with this game. Y’all are so creative with these updates and adding new things to this life simulator game the other games don’t include. And I love how y’all aren’t money hungry please don’t you ever become money hungry, like you guys added  ed, the new update with the NPC’s may become blind deaf, physically disabled, and our characters can end up that way and we can also become caregivers to those who are like, I just love that you guys add things that people actually go through instead of making the whole game a freaking fairytale because a lot of life simulators do that and I don’t like that. I’m like “please be realistic with this stuff. Don’t try to make it a freaking fairytale.” But I do have one thing I think you guys should suggest us being allowed to pass down to our child instead of passing down to our child’s child after death because like one day I got a bunch of money and then I die but before I died, I chose who’s gonna inherit my will, and then I choose my child, but then I move onto the child’s child then I look at the status of the wealth that my child’s child parent, which would be my child. The wealth literally goes from High to low and I get so confused like how much has changed since my character was dead to the point that you spent all my money and all of a sudden we’re poor like I literally built you up from the trenches and you got back to the trenches, so I would really appreciate if y’all could like maybe fix that cause it’s really confusing sometimes. I mean, yes it can be realistic because some people do inherit their parents money and then later on they end up spending it on a bunch of stupid stuff, but I would really like if y’all would allow us to just pass down or like at least have the option to pass down just to your child and not your child’s child just for that reason.

**Developer response:** Thanks for loving Play This Life so much, Little emoji! We have noted your suggestion and will keep it in mind for future updates 😊🥰

## Frequently asked questions about Play This Life

### What is Play This Life: Legacy Edition?

Play This Life: Legacy Edition is a premium life simulation game where you build a family legacy across unlimited generations. You manage your family's wealth, observe the lives of your descendants, and experience how your choices impact future generations.

### What are the key features of this game?

Key features include unlimited generational gameplay, managing family wealth and assets, observing the lives of your children and relatives after your character dies, and experiencing the karma of your past life choices on your next generation.

### How much does Play This Life: Legacy Edition cost?

This is a premium version of the game, indicating it is a paid application. There are no in-app purchases or ads mentioned, suggesting a one-time purchase for the full experience.

### Can I customize my game experience?

Yes, the game allows you to add custom names to your game and its non-player characters (NPCs). This feature enhances personalization and immersion in your simulated life.

### What makes this version different from other life simulators?

The Legacy Edition focuses on building a family legacy across unlimited generations, allowing you to transcend death and continue playing as your descendants. It emphasizes the long-term impact of life choices and the interconnectedness of family history.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.43 — 2026-08-25

The Adoption Update:
Play people may now adopt orphaned family members and other orphans, and regain custody of children taken away by social services! They may also solve mysteries involving the origins of their adopted children, or hunt down children they lost custody of a long time ago! While at it, we revamped the Consult professional section and fixed many bugs, including the report missing person bug, the endless death reports and all issues related to frozen reproductive supplies. Update now to adopt these today!

### 1.0.42 — 2026-08-09

The Better Social Services Update:
Pensions, disability benefits, unemployment benefits and more realistic medical costs have been added! And there are other surprises plus a tweak to NPC behaviour in response to being bullied. Update now for better social services!

### 1.0.41 — 2026-08-03

The Bullies & Protectors Update: 
Play people may now bully and be bullied, protect and be protected, traumatise and be traumatised! They may also report missing people and other crimes, wreck more havoc, suffer from nightmares and be all the more affected by your choices. More bugs and player requests have also been fixed and attended to. And there are surprises. Update now for bullies and protectors!

### 1.0.40 — 2026-07-13

The Murder Mystery Update: 
With this update, play people may now plot murders, murder, accidentally murder, hire hitmen, hide bodies, discover bodies, solve murder mysteries and cover up crimes! They may also be psychopaths, go missing, be murdered, murder each other or get executed because of some death penalty. There are lots more surprises and big bug fixes in this one. Update now for murders and mysteries!

### 1.0.39 — 2026-06-20

The Disabilities Update:
Play people and NPCs may now become blind, deaf, physically disabled and disfigured, or end up as the caregivers to those who are! Experience what those with disabilities in their lives go through. Make miracles happen. Enjoy bug fixes, including the ones that made objects vanish and rendered overseas family members unreachable! Lots of surprises in this one. Update now for disabilities and so much more!

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All apps by LUCK-IT: https://appshunter.io/developer/1633869559

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