Become a Trader Simulator vs Lifeline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Become a Trader Simulator
Experience the thrill of high-stakes trading from $0 to $100 million. Make critical decisions, manage stress, and climb the ranks of Wall Street. Explore various trading strategies and styles in this simulation.
- High-stakes trading decisions
- Random market events
- Multiple trading strategies
- Trader style customization
- Career progression system
- Bloomberg-inspired UI
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From $0 to $100,000,000. One trade at a time. You start with nothing but ambition and a margin account. Make high-stakes trading decisions, ride market chaos, and climb from broke intern to living legend of Wall Street — or blow up your account trying. MAKE THE CALL Every decision matters. Double down on a winning position or take profits? Chase the meme rally or stick to your thesis? Each choice moves your portfolio, your stress, and your edge — and the market doesn't forgive hesitation. PICK YOUR STRATEGY • Momentum — ride the trend until it bends • Value — buy fear, sell greed • Quant — let the models do the talking • Macro — trade the big picture • Crypto — fortune favors the degens • Arbitrage — free money, if you're fast enough FIND YOUR STYLE Play it disciplined, go full aggressive, move markets like a whale, or fade the crowd as a contrarian. Your style shapes every outcome. MANAGE THE PRESSURE Profits are only half the game. Stress builds with every risky trade — burn out and your performance collapses. Keep your edge sharp to grow your portfolio even while you sleep. And whatever you do, don't get margin called. CLIMB THE RANKS Broke → Intern → Analyst → Associate → VP → Director → Managing Director → Partner → Legend. Nine tiers stand between you and trading immortality. FEATURES • Dozens of high-stakes trading decisions • Random market events that can make or break you • 20+ achievements to unlock • 6 trading strategies × 4 trader styles for unique runs • Sleek Bloomberg-terminal-inspired dark UI • Quick sessions — play a career in minutes No real money. No real risk. All the adrenaline. The market is open. What's your first move?
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.
- Generational gameplay
- Diverse career paths
- Skill development and traits
- Meaningful life events
- Multiple prestige paths
- Legacy and inheritance system
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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 Sixty-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-FOUR 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 and a GPA. 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 and a haunted house. 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. Streamer, a channel with mods and sponsors. 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lifeline at 4.2 against Become a Trader Simulator's 3.0. Lifeline also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 1). Become a Trader Simulator's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 16) and ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Lifeline sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Become a Trader Simulator asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lifeline holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lifeline has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Become a Trader Simulator | Lifeline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.2 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | YDALIR Systems | Sean Lynch |
Customer experience
Become a Trader Simulator
Lifeline
In-app purchases
Become a Trader Simulator
No in-app purchases
Lifeline
- 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
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