Comparison

The Life Simulator vs Crisis Line

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

The Life Simulator

Embark on a realistic life simulation journey, from humble beginnings to ultimate success. Make crucial decisions about finances, relationships, and career to achieve your life goals. Experience diverse scenarios and learn valuable life lessons.

Highlights
  • Multiple starting life scenarios
  • Financial investment and trading
  • Career progression and entrepreneurship
  • Relationship and family building
  • Travel and leisure activities
  • Generational gameplay
Features
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Life Simulator is a realistic life simulation game that is both fun and educational! Choose a starting life scenario and see if you can go from rags to riches! Start as an uneducated bum living on a park bench and end as a yacht driving CEO living in a mansion. The game contains subtle lessons about financial investment, relationship, career, time management, and life philosophies. Life is a balancing act between health, happiness, mental sanity, and wealth constrained by our limited lifespan, you get to decide how you want to live your life. There are many ways to win! Features includes: - 15+ starting life scenarios (high school dropout, indebted college student, etc) - 10+ unlockable perks - Travel to different countries - Multiple achievable life goals - Play casino games - Trade stocks and cryptocurrency - Save humanity from a pandemic! - Buy, rent out, and flip properties for profit - Buy a sports car, a private jet, a yacht and more - Take a break, go camping, go to a concert, or go on an international vacation - Meet, date, propose and marry partners with different personalities - Have children and watch them grow to adulthood - Live through many generations and inherit wealth from previous generations - Earn degrees and learn life skills - Spend time with family - Get a job and climb your way to the top, or buy a car and drive for Uber - Start a company, choose between a factory, software company, or a restaurant chain - Produce YouTube videos, make apps, or release tracks as a DJ - Choose the life of crime and work your way to a crime syndicate - Treat your own illnesses or go see a doctor - Eat unhealthy fast food or learn to cook and make healthier meals - Save money, earn interest, or get bank loan - Become a professional athlete and play basketball, football and baseball - Invest your money and play the stock market - Buy lottery tickets and pray for the jackpot - Buy pets and feed them treats - Check your weekly cash flow for a view of your finances - More than 120 random events to make things interesting

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Crisis Line

Features
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You are a crisis negotiator on the night shift for Harbor City PD. A line opens. On the other end is someone holding a room full of people and running out of reasons not to use them. There is no tactical option, no dossier, no second attempt. There is a keyboard, and however many messages they will let you send. THE WORDS ARE YOURS There are no dialogue options. Every subject in Crisis Line is written live by an AI language model with a psychology of their own, and they answer what you actually typed, not the nearest matching choice on a list. Say the wrong thing and they will tell you so. EVERYONE HAS A LEVER. EVERYONE HAS AN ALLERGY. Two meters decide a call. Trust is how close they will let you get. Tension is how close their hands are to something nobody can take back. Being kind keeps them talking, and on its own it will never be enough. Each subject has exactly one thing that genuinely reaches them: a promise made concrete instead of warm, a silence you refuse to fill, a lie owned out loud before you are caught in it. Finding it is the game. They also have something that backfires every time. Sympathy, to a man who has had a whole day of it. Strategy talk, to someone performing for a phone camera. Use it and tension climbs, whatever you meant by it. THE SCENE CAN TURN Once a call, without warning, the situation becomes a different one. A hostage runs. An outside voice gets in their ear. Command moves without telling you. The clock extends, and what was working a minute ago may not any more. There are only two ways to lose: tension reaching ninety-five, or running out of exchanges. Stalling is never free, and neither is a wasted sentence. FIFTEEN CASES, THREE ACTS, ONE AUTHOR A pharmacy robbery that was never about money. A chemist holding the executive who buried her evidence, who detects a lie like a mass spectrometer. Two brothers, only one of whom can end it. A man in a concert hall who can name every technique in your training. Somewhere in the middle of it you understand that the incidents have an author. Someone calling himself the Conductor has been arranging every one of them, listening to your calls, and auditioning you. Every case opens on the same trust, the same tension and the same number of exchanges. Nothing about the fifteenth call is harder than the first. What changes is who picks up. WHAT IS IN IT - Fifteen hand-written cases across three acts, each with its own scene and palette - Subjects who remember what you told them, and test it later in the call - Hidden inner thoughts, kept from you during the call and read back in the debrief - Three difficulty settings, switchable at any time - A skip ahead option, for a case you would rather not beat twice NO ACCOUNT, NO ADVERTISING, NOTHING TO BUY There is nothing to sign up for, no advertising, no analytics and no in-app purchases. Your progress is stored on your device and nowhere else. CRISIS LINE IS A GAME, NOT A CRISIS SERVICE Everyone you speak to is fictional. Nothing you type reaches an emergency service, a counsellor, or any other human being. If you or someone else is in real danger or distress, please contact your local emergency number. In the United States, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline answers 24 hours a day: call or text 988. Crisis Line depicts hostage situations, violence and psychological distress, including references to suicide and self-harm. An internet connection is required, because the characters are written on demand.

Screenshots

The Life Simulator4 screens
Crisis Line4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crisis Line at none against The Life Simulator's 10. The Life Simulator's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. The Life Simulator sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Crisis Line asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
The Life Simulator versus Crisis Line: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Life SimulatorCrisis Line
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (21K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings21K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB23 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperMind Vacation Inc.STEVEN THOMAS BUNTING

Bugs and requests

The Life Simulator

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Game ends when you die
  • I can't earn money
  • Tf happened
  • Erased Progress
  • One annoying bug!
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  • Job Fraud
  • This game is very difficult and annoying.
  • Login screen freezes, Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

13 requests
  • Life scenario ideas
  • Generations
  • Life scenario ideas
  • Generations
  • Sandbox
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  • Generations
  • More sports careers
  • Charity Projects, Affairs, Donations, Free Revives, Create your own scenario, More sport options, More actions with your children, Slightly more realistic pregnancies
  • Adopt kids even if not infertile, Customize appearance and where you live, More things to do with kids and holidays, Planning weddings
  • Graph and more stock options, Real estate with appreciated value and ability to set rent, More business types like oil company and supermarket, Inherit assets/money when you die and play as your child
  • Born at 0, More things to do, Shorter jail time, Have children as teen without marriage, Divorce settlement, Side flings in relationships
  • Side project to start your own company, Detailed tax bill, Specific will, Free sandbox mode
  • Dark mode option, Advanced analytics dashboard

Crisis Line

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

The Life Simulator

One-time10
  • Perk - Fast Learner$0.99
  • Revive$0.99
  • Starter Pack$0.99
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  • Youth Pill$0.99
  • Unlock All Perks$2.99
  • Youth Potion$2.99
  • Unlock Sandbox mode$2.99
  • Mega Pack$4.99
  • Youth Elixir$4.99
  • Unlock All Content$9.99
None

Crisis Line

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Life Simulator free?
The Life Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Crisis Line free?
Crisis Line is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Life Simulator or Crisis Line have ads?
Neither The Life Simulator nor Crisis Line shows ads.

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