Comparison

PathLife vs Lifeline

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

PathLife

Experience a life simulator where your decisions shape your career, relationships, wealth, and legacy. Live year by year, make meaningful choices, and create a unique story with every playthrough. Build businesses, start a family, and travel the world.

Highlights
  • Choice-driven life simulation
  • Career and business building
  • Wealth and property management
  • Relationship and family simulation
  • Travel and lifestyle customization
  • Offline play
Features
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What life will you create? PathLife is a life simulator where your choices shape your career, relationships, family, wealth, businesses, and legacy. Live year by year, make meaningful decisions, and create a different story every time you play. Study, find a job, build your career, fall in love, raise a family, buy property, travel the world, grow your wealth, start businesses, and decide what kind of life you want to live. CREATE YOUR STORY • Age up through every stage of life • Make choices with lasting consequences • Complete life goals and unlock achievements • Experience unexpected events and opportunities • Improve your health, happiness, skills, and finances • Create a unique life story every time you play BUILD YOUR CAREER • Attend school and university • Choose from multiple career paths • Develop skills and qualifications • Find jobs and earn promotions • Increase your salary and professional success • Change careers and explore new opportunities BUILD WEALTH • Earn, save, and manage your money • Handle expenses and loans • Buy homes, cars, boats, and other assets • Invest in property and real estate • Grow your net worth over time • Build an inheritance for future generations START & MANAGE BUSINESSES Become an entrepreneur and build your own business empire. Own and manage businesses including: • Cleaning company • Car wash • Gym • Pharmacy • Game studio • Real estate agency • Bank • Airline • Hospital Make business decisions, manage employees and services, set prices, expand operations, and grow your companies. FIND LOVE & BUILD A FAMILY • Make friends and build relationships • Date and fall in love • Get married • Experience breakups and divorce • Have and raise children • Adopt children • Raise twins and triplets • Build a family legacy across generations BUY HOMES & CREATE YOUR LIFESTYLE • Rent or buy property • Own multiple homes • Invest in real estate • Buy cars and bicycles • Own boats and private jets • Upgrade your lifestyle as your wealth grows TRAVEL & EXPLORE • Visit exciting destinations • Take holidays • Enjoy vacation activities • Experience travel events and surprises • Create memories around the world UNLOCK MORE POSSIBILITIES • Earn car, boat, and pilot licences • Improve your fitness and wellbeing • Complete achievements and life goals • Grow your assets and wealth • Discover new opportunities as you age PATHLIFE FEATURES • Deep life simulation gameplay • Choice-driven stories • Education and university systems • Careers, jobs, skills, and promotions • Business ownership and management • Money and wealth management • Property and real estate investment • Homes, renting, and housing • Friendship, dating, romance, and marriage • Family, children, and adoption • Pregnancy, twins, and triplets • Cars, boats, homes, and private jets • Travel and holidays • Goals and achievements • Random life events and surprises • Inheritance and family legacy • Offline play Will you become a successful entrepreneur, a wealthy investor, a devoted parent, a world traveller, or create a completely different path? Your choices. Your story. Your life. Start your PathLife journey today.

About

Lifeline

Experience a life simulation where your choices shape your destiny from birth to death, across generations. Develop skills, pursue careers, and navigate life events to leave a lasting legacy. Each life offers unique challenges and outcomes.

Highlights
  • Generational gameplay
  • Diverse career paths
  • Skill development and traits
  • Meaningful life events
  • Multiple prestige paths
  • Legacy and inheritance system
Features
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LifeLine is a life, one year at a time. You are born somewhere in the world to a family you did not pick, and what you do at eight is still following you at eighty. Press Age. A year happens: money, people, health, and something you did not see coming. Choose what to do about it. Press Age again. Do that until the stone. A CHILDHOOD THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS Most life sims make you tap through the first eighteen years. LifeLine does not. Take up martial arts, boxing, swimming, music, art, coding, drama, debate or chess. Stay with it year after year and it becomes part of who you are, permanently, as a trait your own children can inherit. Behave at school or cause trouble. Both follow you out of the building at eighteen. THEN THE REST OF IT Thirty-six careers, from barista to neurosurgeon. Ask for a raise and your boss remembers the last time you asked. Buy a house on a mortgage and the bank expects its money. Ten prestige paths that are games of their own: found a company that actually trades, launch a coin and decide whether to run, join a family and rise, run a corner and manage the heat, climb from school board to the White House, enlist and deploy, start a cult, wear a badge or a robe, fight for a title, post until the algorithm loves you. Marriage, children, the friends who drift, the parent who asks for money, the coworker you covered for, the will. More than a thousand hand-written events and over three hundred career decisions, each one a real choice with a real cost. EVERY LIFE ENDS When it does you get a verdict: the epitaph you earned, the life goal you chased, and whether you actually reached it. Eighty epithets to win, fifty-nine things on the bucket list, and a headstone that says what you will be remembered for. Then carry on as one of your own children and watch a family line unfold across generations, traits and money and grudges and all. THE TWENTY-THREE PACKS Courtroom, for when a charge lands and you get a say. Landlord, tenants with names who pay or do not. Stage and Studio, a band, a label, records that land or flop. Pro Sports, from a youth pitch to the draft. Hearts, the years between the wedding and the will. Bloodline, a trust, a named heir, feuds that outlive you. Golden Years, retirement as its own game. Passport, the world a stamp at a time. Parenthood, raising each child your way. Campus, four college years with a roommate, a GPA, and a way out if you save up. Heist, a crew of four and a target cased for a year. Crown, born into a royal family in line for the throne. Underworld, crime on your own, and a detective who does not forget. Supernatural, a ghost hunting show, seances, a haunted house bought cheap. Custody and Family Court, mediation or a judge. Homestead, a farm, crops, animals and the fair. First Responders, fire or ambulance and hard calls. Hard Lives, six origins that start you behind. Wardrobe, frames for your avatar and a stone for your grave. High School, a clique, a GPA, the team and prom. Estate Planner, trusts and contested wills. Oval Office, a cabinet, vetoes and impeachment. Family Tree, reunions and old feuds. Every pack is a system, never an advantage, and you can try any one of them for a whole life by watching a short clip. THE STORE, HONESTLY There are no forced ads. Not between years, not on the menus, not anywhere. Every ad in LifeLine is a button you choose to press, for something you already wanted: a year taken back, a second chance, a lucky break, one more year at the end. One optional payment unlocks all of those free, plus the prestige careers, God Mode and the Time Machine. No subscription, no loot boxes, no energy timers. Nothing that is free ever moves behind a pack. No account. No sign-in. Plays offline, in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Dark by design, with a light mode and larger text. Your save stays on your device, syncs through iCloud if you want it to, and you can export a backup whenever you like. A life, one year at a time. See how far it goes.

Screenshots

PathLife4 screens
Lifeline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lifeline at 50% against PathLife's 0%. Lifeline also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PathLife sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lifeline sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lifeline holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lifeline has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of PathLife's written reviews are positive against 50% of Lifeline's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PathLife ships an update every 2 months, Lifeline every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
PathLife versus Lifeline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPathLifeLifeline
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings)4.2 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings215 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size983 MB40 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperMahmood Jabary SahbariSean Lynch

Customer experience

PathLife

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Lifeline

All ratings15 ratings
Positive73.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PathLife

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99
16 purchases

Lifeline

One-time16
  • Hard Lives$2.99
  • Wardrobe$2.99
  • God Mode$3.99
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  • Pro Sports$4.99
  • Parenthood$4.99
  • Welcome Plus$4.99
  • Courtroom$4.99
  • Landlord$4.99
  • Stage & Studio$4.99
  • Bloodline$4.99
  • Hearts$4.99
  • Plus$7.99
  • Plus to Everything Upgrade$11.99
  • Welcome to Everything Upgrade$14.99
  • Everything$19.99
  • Everything Pass, New Player$19.99

Questions

Is PathLife free?
PathLife is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lifeline free?
Lifeline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PathLife or Lifeline?
Lifeline is rated higher. PathLife averages 3.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Lifeline averages 4.2 from 15 ratings.
Do PathLife or Lifeline have ads?
Both PathLife and Lifeline show ads.
Which is updated more often, PathLife or Lifeline?
PathLife ships an update every 2 months, and Lifeline every 2 days. Most recently, PathLife was updated on October 14, 2026 and Lifeline on October 24, 2026.

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