Alter Ego vs My Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.)
My Life
Simulate your ideal life by interacting with virtual characters. Build relationships, get married, and start a family to create your unique social network. Enjoy a life of your own design.
- Chat with virtual characters
- Expand social network
- Build friendships and romantic relationships
- Simulate marriage and family
- Develop your life story
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Chat with different people and expand your social network! In this game, you simulate the life you desire. Each year, you will meet different strangers, converse with them, and build friendships or romantic relationships, leading to marriage and starting a family. Strive to develop your life and build your unique social network! Enjoy it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: My Life at Free against Alter Ego's $4.99. My Life also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 17 months). Alter Ego's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.6) and review sentiment (78% vs 41%). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
My Life is free to download; Alter Ego costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Alter Ego holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alter Ego has 186 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Alter Ego's written reviews are positive against 41% of My Life's.
Alter Ego ships an update every 17 months, My Life monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alter Ego | My Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (186 ratings) — better | 3.6 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews — better | 40.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 186 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Best chart rank | #196 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 220 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Choose Multiple LLC | 国新 夏 |
Customer experience
Alter Ego
My Life
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
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Alter Ego
No in-app purchases
My Life
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Alter Ego free?
Is My Life free?
Which has better reviews, Alter Ego or My Life?
Do Alter Ego or My Life have ads?
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