LifeRestart vs Ikigai
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LifeRestart
Explore countless alternate destinies and rewrite your fate in this life simulation game. Witness your life play out automatically, make choices, and discover achievements. Revisit all the lives you've lived and see who you could become.
- Explore alternate destinies
- Auto-play life simulation
- Detailed life summaries
- Achievement collection
- History of past lives
- Simple and replayable
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What would happen if your life could begin again? Life Restart Simulator lets you explore countless alternate destinies, each shaped by a new beginning. Every restart unfolds a completely different story — sometimes brilliant, sometimes strange, sometimes tragic, sometimes unexpectedly beautiful. Your life plays out automatically as you witness choices, events, opportunities, setbacks, and the final outcome. When the journey ends, you’ll see a full summary of your path, discover achievements, and revisit all the lives you’ve lived. A single restart can change everything. A single beginning can lead anywhere. Restart your life. Rewrite your fate. Discover who you could become. After each run, review your life summary, explore the turning points, and collect achievements. Switch to the History tab to revisit all the lives you've experienced and track your long-term progress. Every life is short, unpredictable, and full of possibilities. How far can your talents take you? Features Draw 10 random talents and choose 3 to begin your life Auto-play life simulation with unexpected outcomes Detailed life summary after each run Achievement collection system History page to view all your past lives Simple, fast, and replayable Rewrite your journey—one life at a time.
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 review sentiment: LifeRestart at 100% against Ikigai's 0%. LifeRestart also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LifeRestart holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of LifeRestart's written reviews are positive against 0% of Ikigai's.
| Parameter | LifeRestart | Ikigai |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 焰 胡 | Zakaria Ouhra |
Customer experience
LifeRestart
Ikigai
In-app purchases
LifeRestart
No in-app purchases
Ikigai
No in-app purchases









