Play This Life User Reviews

Name: Play This Life: Legacy Edition
Rating: 4 (70 reviews)

Play This Life: Legacy Edition

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Customer Experience

Positive experience65.9% of reviews

Neutral18.7% of reviews

Negative experience15.4% of reviews

~ Based on 91 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Play This Life. Based on 70 reviews and a 4.0/5 average, it highlights the 10 positives and 14 negatives reviewers mention most about this game.

Positive things

🎮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

Negative things

⏰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

Is Play This Life Safe?

Play This Life: Legacy Edition appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Play This Life is 78/100.

This assessment is based on 70 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4/5.

Safety Analysis

75.7% of ratings point to a safe experience

10.0% of ratings suggest some concerns

14.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 70 App Store ratings for Play This Life.

Is Play This Life Legit?

Play This Life: Legacy Edition appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Play This Life is 68/100.

Based on 68 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Depressing and kinda horrible

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.

cybells

5 days ago

Would like customization at start and keep our wealth

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.)

NightimeOwl-Girl

13 days ago

Response from developer

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 😉

Love this game, amazing

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

Browniepoints38

17 days ago

Game is amazing!

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

justinbiebersmaingf123

19 days ago

Response from developer

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! 🤓

Question and disapointed

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

HOX99

a month ago

Response from developer

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! 🤓

Male based game

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.

Lindseyhunny

a month ago

Great game

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.

Little :-) :-) emoji

2 months ago

Response from developer

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

Need help!

I love this game! I’m always looking forward to your updates!! I can’t find where to go to perform criminal actions? I need some help haha :)

jejsjwjqjaha

3 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for loving Play This Life, J! To be a criminal, either you have to be rebellious enough to know where to go look for illegal jobs to apply for, or, in the latest update, you can just go out and commit crimes on your own whenever. Hope that helps 🤓

Suggestions

I really love the game. I be on top of every update. There’s nothing wrong with the game, however, would you guys add like loans? Sometimes I don’t be having enough money saved up for my kids and I can’t pay for their education. It would be nice to have loans to help out with the money situation and you can scruze up that idea and make it fun for the game. Other than that, the game is perfect

Skye Taylor123

3 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for loving Play This Life, Skye! Yes, we can add loans one day. In the meantime, how about some crime for that extra cash? We've added more crime options in the latest update 😉

amazing game!!

it is absolutely wonderful, but I look like the option for us to be singers or Olympic athletes I feel that could be very fun. Very good game. Keep up the great work.

looanQrcg

3 months ago

Problems faced by Arab players

Hello it is a good game and I enjoy it very much but there is a problem facing me which kills the fun and it is not Arabic language for the application and I hope that the game developer adds the Arabic language And thank you for this game

عراقي …

4 months ago

Pass down to children directly

I loveee this game, it’s one of my favorite life sims out and I’ve been playing since the beginning. The only thing I wish for and have been wishing for is being able to pass on to my child and not my grandchildren, it’s impossible to keep and pass on wealth that way and I hate having to constantly restart my wealth or hope I get a good inheritance from the money I made in my last life .

KKKK161202

5 months ago

Response from developer

Hi KKKK161202, thanks for loving Play This Life! We have noted your feedback, have reduced how much time it takes to make friends and work in the latest update, and will continue to try to add more time in the game in future updates. In the meantime, your play people can visit or hire time-saving services like fast food joints, laundromats, nannies, etc to get more time as it is. Hope that helps!

Promising game!

Keep up the good work and I bet this will be something really neat! Also you may want to change the name of the app, “legacy edition” usually implies that this is an older or discontinued version of the app in English, it kind of confused me when I was buying it. Otherwise it’s been a fun game so far!

SeanCody69

6 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for loving Play This Life, Sean! And thank you for your feedback! It will be kinda hard to change the game name right now but we will certainly keep your comment in mind for future games 🤓

Retiro o que eu disse!!

Muito bom, está melhorando a cada atualização.
Tem alguns bugs é claro, por exemplo:
Quando eu vou curar um personagem de alguma doença, por algum motivo ele começa a falar que eu traí ele? Aconteceu umas 3 vezes.
Quando eu me mudo para algum lugar fora do país, as crianças não vêm junto por algum motivo? Depois elas me odeiam e eu nem sei como arrumar isso.
Outra coisa, dando ideias:
Queria poder viajar ou fazer intercâmbio, sem ter que se mudar completamente pra outro lugar.
Também queria poder virar um policial ou ate mesmo ladrão ou assassino, mas só to passando uma ideia.
O jogo grátis é bom, mas incompleto e muito difícil, principalmente por causa do sistema de tempo, que o jogo pago tem a opção de desabilitar, o que faz sentido. No fim, esse jogo é muito bom e graças às atualizações constantes, está ficando cada vez melhor. Outra coisa importante: eu sei falar e entender inglês, mas muitas pessoas do Brasil não sabem e para conseguir atrair mais jogadores, é necessário ter mais acessibilidade. Seria possível colocar uma tradução automática e ir melhorando aos poucos? Estou torcendo por seu sucesso.

English Version: It’s a good game and it’s getting better with each update.

There are some bugs of course, for example:

When I’m going to cure a character of some disease, for some reason he starts saying that I betrayed him? It happened about 3 times.

When I move somewhere out of the country, the children don’t come along for some reason? Then they hate me and I don’t even know how to fix it.

Another thing, giving ideas:

I wish I could travel or do an exchange, without having to move completely to another place.

I also wish I could become a policeman or even a thief or murderer, but I’m just passing on an idea.

The free game is good, but incomplete and very difficult, mainly because of the time system, which the paid game has the option to disable, which makes sense. In the end, this game is very good and thanks to the constant updates, it is getting better and better. Another important thing: I can speak and understand English, but many people from Brazil don’t know and to be able to attract more players, it is necessary to have more accessibility. Would it be possible to put an automatic translation and improve it little by little? I’m rooting for your success.

LaBelleEpok

6 months ago

Response from developer

Olá LaBelleEpok, obrigado por jogar Play This Life! Infelizmente, as coisas são muito caras onde moramos, então é difícil encontrar algo mais barato. No entanto, certamente faremos o possível para que valha cada centavo! Para saber mais sobre como jogar Play This Life, você pode conferir nossas postagens nas redes sociais ou perguntar para nós ou para seus colegas jogadores lá. Tentaremos responder a todas as suas perguntas sempre que pudermos, então pergunte! 😉

Things i’d love to see

I love this game , and all the recent updates have been amazing. However I do wish we could start businesses , and remodel houses of just improve them in general
or work as an adult film
start and in general have more ways to become famous. Or the ability to end up in jail. Or even to be royalty

janv333

7 months ago

Response from developer

Hi janv333, in the last update, we've added a Dollhouse mode option in settings that turns off auto-ageing. Hopefully that helps! We've also noted your other wishes for consideration during future updates. Thanks for loving Play This Life!

Amazing just needs a little improvement

Half of Everything about the game is good but when I’m a actor it’s super hard for me to get good roles other then that the game is great better then BitLife that’s for sure keep it up

Go yk her h jhdhffhM

7 months ago

Don’t sell out!

We may have lost Instlife , We ain’t losing this one!

ShadoW chas3r

7 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your support, ShadoW chas3r! Please help tell all your friends about us too 😊

Won’t allow generations :(:(

Great game, though a bit more difficult than I’d expected. Surviving is quite hard and when I try to continue as my child it won’t let me and will create a whole new random life. Aside from that though it’s a good game.

Spoonz&forx

7 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for playing Play This Life, Spoonz&forx! After your previous life ends, it is actually your next parent that you are selecting to be born to. Thus you get born as their child, not them, which is why it is always a whole new life. You can still play with the same family for generations that way 🤓

Legal

Vale a pena!

Jessica S. Cassorla

8 months ago

Response from developer

Obrigada por adorar Play This Life, Jessica! Conte para todos os seus amigos! 🤓

Wow.

you know I never give reviews, but you’ve guys recently have given great updates on the game and I love the realism and description in detail and everything!! keep up the good work!

Reahanna-01