Deep Life Simulator vs Ambition
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deep Life Simulator
Experience a realistic life simulation where strategic decisions in careers, business, and finance shape your destiny. Build wealth, manage debt, and navigate a dynamic economy with no guaranteed outcomes. This game emphasizes long-term planning and cause-and-effect gameplay.
- Deep life simulation with careers, business, and reputation
- Realistic economy with income, expenses, loans, and bankruptcy
- Business and investment gameplay
- Idle or active play options
- Premium UI for strategic focus
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Every life starts the same way: no money, no job, no plan. What happens next is entirely yours. Deep Life Simulator is a life sim with a real economy underneath it. Wages are taxed. Loans charge interest. Rent is due whether or not you can pay. Markets move on their own and do not care that you are in them. Every choice compounds, for decades, until you die and hand what is left to an heir. BUILD A CAREER, OR DON'T • 20+ career ladders, from courier to surgeon to CEO • Go to university, or skip it and start earning at 16 • Or take the other road: street work, the dark web, and the chance of prison GO LIVE AND GET FAMOUS • Stream live, upload videos and grow a following from zero • Hype trains, personal bests and a recap after every broadcast • Level up Life Skills that make every career and goal easier MAKE REAL MONEY MOVES • A live stock market with sectors that rotate • Crypto you can trade or mine • Property to rent out, businesses to found, staff to hire • Loans, credit scores, arrears and the very real possibility of bankruptcy LIVE AN ACTUAL LIFE • Date, marry, argue, divorce • Raise children who inherit your looks and your money • Keep your health, your friends and your reputation alive • Buy the watch, the car, the house — or don't, and retire early THEN DO IT ALL AGAIN When you die, your heir takes over. They keep the fortune you built, the family name you made, and the mess you left behind. Prestige across generations, unlock permanent advantages, and find out how far a dynasty can go. WHY THIS ONE AND NOT ANOTHER LIFE SIM Most life sims resolve a choice with a dice roll and a line of text. Here the economy keeps running between your decisions and pushes back on them. Nothing waits for you to look at it. You can be a surgeon who never breaks the law, or a courier who ends up running a dark web operation out of a rented room. Both are real routes through the same economy, and neither is the "correct" one. HOW IT TREATS YOU • Plays offline — your save lives on your device • Full-screen ads only at year-end breaks, never in your first two years, and one purchase removes them permanently • No real-time energy bar standing between you and the next week A life runs for decades and every week is a decision you make. Most people start a second one. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wrexist.github.io/DeepLifeSimulator/privacy.html
Ambition
Embark on a realistic life simulation where your choices dictate your destiny. Build a career, create businesses, invest wisely, and manage your personal life. Experience dynamic events and a living economy that rewards strategic decisions.
- Career progression
- Business management
- Investment trading
- Personal life simulation
- Dynamic events
- Realistic economy
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One life. Every choice is yours. Ambition is a life simulator. You start as a baby and decide everything: school, friends, love, money, and how far you want to go. Tap Age to live one month at a time and see what happens. NO ADS. EVER. Ambition 2.0 has no ads. Play as long as you want with no breaks. BUILD A CAREER Go to school, pass exams, and get into college. Get a job and work your way to the top. Become a famous actor, a pro football player, or a doctor. START A BUSINESS Run a factory, a farm, a shop, or a crypto mine. Hire staff, sign contracts, and take your company public on the stock market. MAKE MONEY WORK Buy stocks and crypto. Buy houses and rent them out. Take a loan from the bank, but pay it back on time. GO INTO POLITICS Run for office, win elections, and become president. Make deals with other countries, or go to war. LIVE ON THE WRONG SIDE Commit crimes, build a mafia crew, and wash your dirty money. If you get caught, survive prison, join a gang, or try to escape. LOVE AND FAMILY Date, get married, and have kids. When you die, choose one of your children and keep playing as them. They get what you leave behind, and they pay what you owe. AND MUCH MORE Hobbies, sports, social media fame, cars, the lottery, health, looks, and hundreds of random events. VIP (OPTIONAL) VIP gives a monthly cash bonus, faster progress, and VIP-only perks. VIP is an auto-renewing subscription. You can cancel any time in your store account settings. Privacy policy: https://ambitionlifesimulator.lovable.app/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ambition at 4.5 against Deep Life Simulator's 3.9. Ambition also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (46% vs 27%). Deep Life Simulator's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Deep Life Simulator sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Ambition sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ambition holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ambition has 78 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Deep Life Simulator's written reviews are positive against 46% of Ambition's.
Deep Life Simulator ships an update every 8 days, Ambition every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Deep Life Simulator | Ambition |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 4.5 (78 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews | 46.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 78 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 350 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Isac Molin | O.D. MOBTECH SARAJEVO |
Customer experience
Deep Life Simulator
Ambition
In-app purchases
Deep Life Simulator
- DeepLife+ Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- DeepLife+7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- 100 Gems$0.99
- Work Pay Boost$1.49
- Remove Ads$2.99
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- Revival Pack$2.99
- Financial Planning Service$2.99
- Skill Boost$2.99
- Business Banking Package$3.99
- 500 Gems$4.99
- Premium Credit Card$4.99
- Unlock All Perks - Bundle$6.99
- Money Boost$7.99
- Starter Pack$9.99
- 1,000 Gems$9.99
- 5,000 Gems$19.99
- 50,000 Gems$99.99
Ambition
- Ad-Free Monthly$2.991 Month
- VIP Monthly$9.991 Month
- Ad-Free Yearly$17.991 Year
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- VIP Yearly$59.991 Year
- Starter Cash$0.49
- Basic Cash$0.89
- Premium Cash$1.49
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- Tycoon Cash$2.99








