Solipskier vs 30 Second Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Solipskier
Experience a thrilling skiing adventure by drawing your own slopes to gain momentum and perform spectacular jumps. Master tricks and navigate through slalom gates to achieve high scores in this action-packed game.
- Draw custom slopes
- Perform jumps and tricks
- Slalom through gates
- High score challenges
- Fast-paced gameplay
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*** 66% OFF FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! *** Solipskier is a fast paced skiing game where you draw the slopes to pick up speed and do jumps. Paint your own cliffs, do tricks and slalom through gates to get huge scores! Supports iOS4 Retina Display and iPad resolutions.
30 Second Life
Experience a full life from birth to death in just 30 seconds. Your decisions at each stage shape your destiny, leading to countless unique outcomes and professions. Can you achieve extraordinary lives like becoming a cyborg, monk, or tycoon?
- Simulate entire life in 30 seconds
- Choices determine life path
- Over 200 life stages
- 90+ unlockable combos
- Trillions of possible lives
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Live your entire life, from birth to death, in 30 seconds. At every moment, your choices determine where your life will lead. Slack off as a white collar worker, and get laid off. If you work hard as a cat burglar, you'll become a criminal mastermind! Can you find the path to becoming a cyborg? A monk? A tycoon? A messiah? Because life's too long to live just once. + Highly addictive gameplay! + Catchy arcade-style music and sound effects! + More than 200 life stages with unique graphics! + More than 90 unlockable special combos! + Over a trillion possible lives to lead! This is a rerelease of the original "30 Second Life" with 200+ new female sprites, improved interface, and more polish overall.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: 30 Second Life at Free against Solipskier's $0.99. 30 Second Life also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.1). Solipskier's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (5.1.1 vs 16.0). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence 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
30 Second Life is free to download; Solipskier costs $0.99 up front. 30 Second Life sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Solipskier asks for nothing beyond the download.
30 Second Life holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 51 and 128 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of Solipskier's written reviews are positive against 61% of 30 Second Life's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Solipskier ships an update fortnightly, 30 Second Life monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Solipskier | 30 Second Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (51 ratings) | 4.9 (128 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.9% of reviews — better | 61.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 51 | 128 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 5.1.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | aeiowu | Bruce Hill |
Customer experience
Solipskier
30 Second Life
User reviews
Solipskier
From 51 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Awesome game
- 🚀 Smooth gameplay
- 🚀 Addictive
- 👍 Simple but fun
- 👍 Great music
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes/freezes
- 🐛 Unresponsive controls
- 🐛 Graphical issues
- 🔋 Drains battery
- 💰 Overpriced
30 Second Life
From 128 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun time waster
- 💡 Great concept
- 👍 Addictive gameplay
- 👍 Good for killing time
- 👍 Simple and fun
Room to improve
- 🐛 Game doesn't work
- 🐛 Flashing start screen
- 🐛 App crashes
- 🐛 Purchase not recognized
- 🐛 Play button does nothing
Bugs and requests
Solipskier
Reported bugs
4 issues- Restart button not working
- Unresponsive touch input
- Graphical glitches on newer devices
- Crashes on iOS 8 and newer
Requested features
6 requests- Pause button
- Customization options
- Leaderboards/achievements
- Support for larger screens
- Ability to play own music
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- More gameplay modes/levels
30 Second Life
Reported bugs
31 issues- App does not work, just blinks
- Start screen flashes, no actions can be made
- Game is broken
- Doesn't start up anymore
- It's a little buggy, glitches out on combos
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- App is fixed (mentioned by one user)
- Whenever I press play it brings me to the home screen
- This version does not progress past the first screen
- Whenever I touch play nothing happens
- It just flashes to a new screen
- When I press Play it Takes Me To The Home Screen
- Game also won't start
- My game won't start
- The game dose not work
- Full version doesn't give me it, everybody getting it for free
- How do you start the game, can't get out of the lobby
- The game did NOT register that I had bought the full version
- Full version of the game doesn't work
- The in-app purchase that makes the game good doesn't work
- Full game doesn't work
- Bought the full version and nothing changed
- Can't get it to start at all
- The last update said you fixed the issue with it not recognizing the full version being purchased. But it's still having that problem.
- Doesn't work
- Screen goes black and boots me back out to the title screen
- Please make it where I have the full game
- Fix the play button
- Full game purchase does not work
- Doesn't acknowledge the fact I unlocked the full game
- Never gets over the start screen
- When I tap the Play button, nothing happens
Requested features
5 requests- Update game more often
- Add more content
- Get rid of the possible careers bar
- Add more characters (free version)
- Turn off flash and wheel
In-app purchases
Solipskier
No in-app purchases
30 Second Life
- Unlock Main Game$3.99
Questions
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