Comparison

Alter Ego vs My Life Simulation

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

Head to head
About

Alter Ego

Experience a text-based life simulation where your choices shape your destiny from birth to death. Navigate over a thousand multiple-choice questions to determine your path, relationships, and career. Play as male or female in this deeply engaging interactive fiction.

Highlights
  • Text-based interactive fiction
  • Branching narrative choices
  • Life simulation from birth to death
  • Male and female character paths
  • Over 1000 multiple-choice questions
  • Updated interface
Features
Currently charting
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What if you could live your life over again? In this text-based interactive fiction, you choose what happens next. It's in the style of pick-a-path gamebooks, but with over a thousand multiple-choice questions, it's much longer and deeper than traditional gamebooks. Alter Ego starts at birth and ends at death, including two substantially different versions, depending on whether you choose to be male or female. Will you grow up to be confident and happy? Will you fight with bullies, or befriend them? Will you find a date to the senior prom? Will you marry and have kids, or start your own business and become a millionaire? The choice is yours. This game will change your life. (Alter Ego was originally published in 1986 for the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Apple II, and Macintosh. The current edition of the Alter Ego game is a production of Choose Multiple LLC. This edition includes an updated interface and fixes bugs in the original version of the game, but the content of the game hasn't changed from the original 1986 version of the game.)

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Alter Ego4 screens
My Life Simulation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Alter Ego at 78% against My Life Simulation's 29%. Alter Ego also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). My Life Simulation's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 17 months). On 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

My Life Simulation is free to download; Alter Ego costs $4.99 up front. My Life Simulation sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Alter Ego asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Alter Ego holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 185 and 49 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Alter Ego's written reviews are positive against 29% of My Life Simulation's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alter Ego ships an update every 17 months, My Life Simulation every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Alter Ego versus My Life Simulation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlter EgoMy Life Simulation
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (185 ratings) — better2.3 (49 ratings)
Positive reviews78.0% of reviews — better28.6% of reviews
Number of ratings185 — better49
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#199 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB10 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperChoose Multiple LLCBrandon Stecklein

Customer experience

Alter Ego

All ratings185 ratings
Positive82.7%
Neutral8.6%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews141 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral12.1%
Negative9.9%

My Life Simulation

All ratings49 ratings
Positive26.5%
Neutral12.2%
Negative61.2%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral21.4%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Alter Ego

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inconsistent character and relationship progression
  • Glitches with certain life events and outcomes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more diverse life paths and events
  • Introduce LGBTQ+ relationship options
  • Expand gameplay length and stages of life
  • Modernize the user interface and visuals
  • Implement regular content updates

My Life Simulation

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Alter Ego

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

My Life Simulation

One-time1
  • My Life Premium$1.99

Questions

Is Alter Ego free?
Alter Ego costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Life Simulation free?
My Life Simulation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Alter Ego or My Life Simulation?
Alter Ego is rated higher. Alter Ego averages 4.4 out of 5 from 185 ratings, while My Life Simulation averages 2.3 from 49 ratings.
Do Alter Ego or My Life Simulation have ads?
Both Alter Ego and My Life Simulation show ads.
Which is updated more often, Alter Ego or My Life Simulation?
Alter Ego ships an update every 17 months, and My Life Simulation every 5 months. Most recently, Alter Ego was updated on October 19, 2026 and My Life Simulation on October 21, 2026.

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