BitLifeEver wanted to play SIMS but without all the graphics? Ever miss the days of text based games like Legend of the Red Dragon? This incredibly fun and addictive game allows you to take control of lives immediately after birth and make all of their important life decisions leading up to their inevitable death. Rinse and repeat...
I'm not entirely sure why I downloaded this initially. I'd never heard anything about it but when I saw it in the app store the idea of a text based game intrigued me. I used to love text based games back in the 1990s. I certainly was not let down with this one.
The app has actually been updated a couple times since about a month ago when I first downloaded it, so a few of these screen shots are already out of date! the app developers are sure on top of their game. I really enjoy loading it up and seeing what new options they've added in.
The app is really simple. Users press the New Life button to begin a new journey and boom! Instant origin story. The app gives you a random set of parents (Or sometimes a single parent), a place of birth, a gender, siblings (Or sometimes no siblings) etc. Your parents and siblings have their own characteristics such as how religious or generous they are, how much money they earn, their occupation, etc. The app even tells you exactly how you were conceived which can often be quite funny.
Every year you can make several choices and interact with your family (And later with people you enter a relationship with), but the first few years have very limited choice making as you are still a baby. I would very much encourage you to avoid fighting anyone before age 10 if possible. The amount of times I have died in my youth by engaging in simple squabbling with my siblings, I can not even tell you. I even got murdered at age 7 by my two year old brother... Murdered by a two year old! this game really throws some curve balls...
You have to abide by the laws of your country of origin unless you move. Sometimes this means not being able to buy a car or drive until later years or not being allowed to date people of the same sex. One character I decided to make a homosexual woman but I was born into a country where I could not marry the same gender so I and my girlfriend emigrated to France so we could get married. In another life I was a gay man and I kept being arrested and put in jail for dating other men, even years after we had broken up. I was in and out of jail a lot in that life.Speaking of jail... avoid it if you intend to try earning a lot of money. Once you go to jail, for any reason or no matter how short the sentence, you will automatically not be allowed to get hired for a ton of different occupations. You'll either have to do really low wage jobs that aren't really interesting or you'll have to lead a life of crime... I generally turn to the life of crime. It's just more fun.
Characters can begin a life of petty crime at a fairly young age, even before they can drive sometimes. Stealing cars, pick pocketing and even murder are on the table. Recently they added burglarising a house to the options. This one requires you to play a short mini game to determine what you steal and whether or not you get caught. As for the others, it's random but i find the more you do crime the less a chance you run of getting caught. this could just have been my luck though.Stealing cars can save money and you can always sell them on the black market to earn money. Just remember any crime you commit runs the chance of you going to jail.
A fun story was one life I had where I lived a fairly uneventful life aside from stealing over 60 cars over my lifetime. However, as I got closer to age 100 years I decided that for my 100th Birthday I would celebrate by committing murder. Age 100 came and I went out to murder a random rabbi. I tried pushing him down the stairs but he didn't die and called the police. I bought the best lawyers and was found not guilty... No jail for me. But I did say i would celebrate my 100th Birthday by committing murder... so I went out again and tried to murder my ex. He fought back and beat me up pretty bad... He escaped. Third time's the charm! I tried to kill another ex of mine and I succeeded! Finally finishing celebrating my murderous Birthday I went to jail. I got an 80 year sentence. I didn't feel like trying to escape (Which you can do when you go to jail), so I just aged up. Year 101 of my life I died peacefully in my sleep. Life well lived.
Users can lead great lives, successful lives, horrible lives, etc. I once lived a life where I had almost 20 children and we all lived together in a 1 bedroom trailer.Users can purchase houses and cars, go on holidays to other countries or on cruises. There are tons of occupations to choose from as well. You can emigrate, get plastic surgery (Even a sex change), go to the spa, sign up for a dating app, go to the gym, donate sperm, go to the club, gamble at casinos and horse tracks, play the lottery, etc. there are so many options available you just have to keep playing to see how many combinations you can get.
The game has achievements you can earn as well as special ribbons awarded at the end of a life on the tombstone. the ribbons are related to the type of life lived, 'Jailbird', 'Geriatric', 'Mediocre' and 'Unlucky' are just a few ribbons users can get. It is fun to try to collect them all.Find your real life boring? This application allows you to live hundreds of more interesting lives. I find myself really enjoying this and laughing at some of the silly things that end up happening. I love sharing my stories with other people who play the app. and comparing my lives to theirs. I highly recommend this app. I even paid to remove the ads. The ads are a minor inconvenience and don't hinder the play at all. They aren't excessive like some apps. I paid to remove them purely because I enjoyed the app and wanted to support the creators.
Rating: 5/5
- Free
- Seller: Candywriter, LLC
- Category: Games
- Size: 67.3 MB
- Languages: English
- Copyright: © 2018 Candywriter, LLC
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