Comparison

Virtual Cities vs Life Simulator

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

Head to head
About

Virtual Cities

A game designed for students to learn about the circular economy. Players manage cities, making them more circular by implementing projects and understanding economic principles. It aims to educate on strategies for increasing global circularity.

Highlights
  • Circular economy simulation
  • Resource management
  • City building
  • Educational gameplay
  • Multiplayer mode
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Virtual Cities is a game for high school and university students, about circular economy. Groups of 3-5 players play to make their world as circular as possible by following circular economy principles. Each player has a city that spends and generates resources both natural and man-made, in a linear fashion. The goal is to combine different projects to make their city more circular, and contribute the most to the global circularity, enlightening the players on the way. Virtual Cities aims to educate players on circular economy (CE) principles in cities, and to understand how CE principles can be used as strategies to increase circularity.

About

Life Simulator

Experience a life simulator where every choice has a clear, explained outcome. Make decisions year by year, from education and career to relationships and crime, and see your entire life summarized at the end. Every negative consequence has a documented way to resolve it.

Highlights
  • Causal thread system for explained outcomes
  • Year-by-year life progression
  • Multiple career tracks including organized crime
  • Detailed life summary and legacy card
  • Offline play
  • No ads or randomized purchases
Features
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Fateline is a life simulator where every outcome makes sense. THREADS No event in Fateline can fire without naming its cause. Not one. If an event can't explain itself, the game refuses to show it. And every negative thread has at least one documented way out. Tap it and the game tells you how to close it. You are never stuck in a spiral you can't read. A WHOLE LIFE, 10 TO 25 MINUTES Create a character. Age up one year at a time, making two to four real decisions each year. Education, careers, money, debt, relationships, children, health, fame. Eight career tracks from general work and the trades to software, medicine, law, politics and performance — each with real rungs, real promotion conditions, and real ways to fall off. No ads. There is no ad SDK in the app at all. No losing your saves. Saves are versioned and migrated on update, never replaced. The game keeps automatic backups of your last three completed lives, recovers from a backup if a file is ever damaged, and lets you export your own copy whenever you want. No account, no login, and no internet connection required to play. FATELINE PASS (OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION) Fateline Pass unlocks every scenario pack for as long as it is active: $4.99 per week, auto-renewing weekly until you cancel. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it any time in your App Store settings. You never need it. Everything bought outright — Lifetime, an individual pack, a rewind — stays yours whether or not you subscribe. Terms of Use (EULA): https://fatelinegame.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://fatelinegame.vercel.app/privacy

Screenshots

Virtual Cities4 screens
Life Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Life Simulator at 4.3 against Virtual Cities's 3.0. Life Simulator also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). Virtual Cities's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Life Simulator sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Virtual Cities asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Life Simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 8 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Virtual Cities ships an update every 5 months, Life Simulator every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Virtual Cities versus Life Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVirtual CitiesLife Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.3 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB46 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSerious Games InteractiveLudovic PUAUD

Customer experience

Virtual Cities

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Life Simulator

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Virtual Cities

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Life Simulator

Subscriptions1
  • Fateline Pass Weekly$4.997 Days
One-time7
  • Rewind One Year$0.99
  • Rewind Pack ×10$2.99
  • Rags to Riches Pack$4.99
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  • Hard Roads Scenario Pack$6.99
  • Dynasty Scenario Pack$6.99
  • Lifetime Offer: All Packs$9.99
  • Lifetime: All Scenario Packs$19.99

Questions

Is Virtual Cities free?
Virtual Cities is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Life Simulator free?
Life Simulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Virtual Cities or Life Simulator?
Life Simulator is rated higher. Virtual Cities averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Life Simulator averages 4.3 from 8 ratings.
Do Virtual Cities or Life Simulator have ads?
Neither Virtual Cities nor Life Simulator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Virtual Cities or Life Simulator?
Virtual Cities ships an update every 5 months, and Life Simulator every 9 days. Most recently, Virtual Cities was updated on November 3, 2026 and Life Simulator on November 10, 2026.

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