My Life Simulation vs Gens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Life Simulation
Experience a full life from childhood to death. Make choices about education, career, family, and lifestyle that shape your journey. See how your decisions influence your happiness, wealth, and lifespan in this engaging simulation.
- Childhood to death progression
- Decision-making impacts life
- Career and education paths
- Family and relationship simulation
- Lifestyle and health choices
- Happiness and well-being tracking
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A fun life simulator game. In My Life, you begin as a child and play your way through to your death. The choices and decisions you make along the way will impact how your life plays out. Will you go to school? How much school will you go to? This will impact what kind of jobs you can work and what kind of living you will make. Will you spend time with your family? Start a family of your own? This will impact your happiness and well being. What kind of diet will you eat? Where will you live? Will you get married? How much money will you save? All if these decisions will impact how long you live and how your life turns out!
Gens
Experience a swipe-based life simulator that spans five generations, from Boomer to Gen Z. Make critical choices that impact wealth, health, and relationships, shaping your family's legacy through unique events and challenges.
- Swipe-based life simulation
- Multi-generational gameplay
- Build a family legacy
- Unlock DNA cards and boosters
- Survive risky events and mini-games
- Upgrade lifestyle and room
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Swipe through life, survive each generation, and build a legacy from Boomer to Gen Z. GENS is a swipe-based life simulator where every decision changes your story. Choose your path through money, career, love, health, status, family drama, risky opportunities, and unexpected setbacks. Start in the Boomer era and continue through Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. Each generation brings different events, pressures, culture, and survival challenges. MAKE LIFE CHOICES Swipe left or right on story cards. Your choices affect wealth, health, relationships, charisma, coolness, aura, and your future outcomes. BUILD A FAMILY LEGACY Your actions shape what carries into the next generation. Strong choices can create momentum. Bad choices can leave problems behind. USE BOOSTERS Unlock boosters to help recover, survive difficult moments, and push your story further when life gets chaotic. UNLOCK DNA CARDS Earn DNA cards based on how each generation lived. These cards can carry traits, boosts, and effects into the next part of your legacy. SURVIVE RISKY EVENTS Face mini-games, gambles, crisis moments, and surprise choices where one decision can change everything. UPGRADE YOUR ROOM Watch your lifestyle grow as your legacy improves, from humble beginnings to better rooms and stronger progress. REPLAY DIFFERENT LIVES Try new choices, discover different outcomes, and see how far your family story can go. GENS is free to play and includes optional rewarded ads. How far can your legacy survive? Download GENS and start your story today. Terms of Use: https://metatensor.net/gens/terms Privacy Policy: https://metatensor.net/gens/ppolicy Join Our Community: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GensApp TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gensapp
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gens at 3.0 against My Life Simulation's 2.3. Gens also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months). My Life Simulation's advantage is review sentiment (29% vs 0%) and ratings volume (49 vs 2). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. My Life Simulation sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gens asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gens holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Life Simulation has 49 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 29% of My Life Simulation's written reviews are positive against 0% of Gens's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
My Life Simulation ships an update every 5 months, Gens weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Life Simulation | Gens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (49 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 49 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Brandon Stecklein | MetaTensor |
Customer experience
My Life Simulation
Gens
In-app purchases
My Life Simulation
- My Life Premium$1.99
Gens
No in-app purchases
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