Deep Life Simulator vs Ikigai
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
Ikigai
Experience a full life simulation, making choices about career, family, and relationships year by year. Your decisions impact your character's well-being and the world around them. Relive your journey through an event log and see your character age in a stylized portrait.
- Year-by-year life simulation
- Career and relationship choices
- Character stats management
- Dynamic family and world events
- Life event log and memoir
- Stylized character portraits
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Ikigai is a Japanese idea: the reason you get up in the morning. This is a whole life, built one year at a time, and yours to find. Create a character and press Age Up. Every year brings new choices: who to date, what job to take, whether to save or spend, how to raise your kids. Some years are quiet. Some change everything. Your happiness, health, smarts, and looks respond to what you choose, and so does everyone around you. You're not raising this character alone. Grandparents, parents, siblings, a pet: they age and change alongside you, and when they're gone, they're remembered, not deleted. The wider world moves too. The economy has good years and bad ones, prices creep up like they do in real life, and a storm or a festival might shape the year for everyone around you, not just you. Look back on your life through a full event log, chapter by chapter, and share it as a memoir when it's over. Your portrait grows with you, from childhood to old age, styled to the era you're living through. THE WHOLE GAME, FREE No forced ads. No energy timers. Nothing locked behind a currency. Everything above is in the free game from the start. Optional content packs add new stories later, but they never take anything away from what's already yours. NO CRIME, NO GORE This is a life sim built for a wider audience. No crime storylines, no drugs, no graphic violence. Just an honest, well-told life. Career, relationships, money, health. It's all here, and it's all yours to shape. Download Ikigai and see how you'd live.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ikigai at none against Deep Life Simulator's 10. Deep Life Simulator's advantage is review sentiment (27% vs 0%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Ikigai asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Deep Life Simulator against 4.0 for Ikigai. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 27% of Deep Life Simulator's written reviews are positive against 0% of Ikigai's.
Deep Life Simulator ships an update every 8 days, Ikigai weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deep Life Simulator | Ikigai |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Isac Molin | Zakaria Ouhra |
Customer experience
Deep Life Simulator
Ikigai
In-app purchases
Deep Life Simulator
- DeepLife+ Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- DeepLife+7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Work Pay Boost$1.49
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Revival Pack$2.99
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- Financial Planning Service$2.99
- Premium Credit Card$4.99
- Unlock All Perks - Bundle$6.99
- Money Boost$7.99
- Starter Pack$9.99
Ikigai
No in-app purchases







