1.24.1
2022-07-04
This update introduces the following tweaks and bug fixes:
- Fix progress bar for voice over
- Fix voice over for badges
- Fix bug where the 'wife' label is missing from certain actions
- Fix bug where taking a loan when there is a money in the bank will immediately pay back the loan
- Fix bug where true age for next generation is not correct
- Fix text for Real Estate Empire to say 10 instead of 30 properties
- Fix bug where you can rent out a house that you are living in
- Add repair and heart icon to progress bars
- Add new life outcome: Fixer Upper
1.24
2022-07-02
Thanks fan for the patience, its been awhile since we updated with new features, here is a well deserved update!
The Generations Update is here!
- Become your children and inherit wealth when you die so you can continue to live on!
- See your family tree from past generations
- New relationships: Siblings and Grandparents
- New interactions: Prank, Ask for Advice, Study Together
- New Life Goal: Epic Lineage
- New Perk: Favorite Child
- New badges to acquire: Second Chance, You Can't Kill Me
- New Game Center achievements and leaderboard
- New option for supporters who bought Sandbox Mode: You can now edit people's first names in the person page if you have unlocked Sandbox mode!
Bug Fixes
- Fix bug where Court Appeal doesn't work when you are in jail
- Fix bug where the app crashes if the stock price is too high
- Fix bug where Life Summary screen text overflows the gravestone
1.23.2
2021-04-27
- Fix bug with the app crashing for certain users owning stocks with very high prices
1.22.1
2020-11-21
Bug Fixes
- Fix bug with stock state not loading upon game restart
- Fix bug where stock price can drop to zero
- Fix crashing issue when selling stocks
1.22
2020-11-20
The Stock Market Update is here!
- You can now trade individual stocks and cryptocurrencies!
- 11 stocks to trade, including Tesla, S&P500, and Krusty Krab
- 4 cryptocurrencies to trade, including Bitcoin and Dogecoin
- Week by week graph of stock performance
- New Life Goal: Pro Trader
- New Life Scenario: Amateur Trader
- Realistic stock movements, serves as a great educational tool for learning about stock investing!
1.21.1
2020-07-02
Bug Fix update for 1.21
- Fix bug where ads are no longer working
- Fix bug where you can be longer ask friends out after your partner dies
- Fix bug where failing to make revive purchase still you to live on
- Fix bug where old state upgrade causes lover state to be incorrect
- Fix pandemic scenario actions
- Fix bug where new degree enrollment alert shows non-stop
1.21
2020-06-27
The Interactions Update is here!
- New relationship type: Friend
- Party and socialize with your friends, or ask them out if you like them!
- New additional interaction options, interactions will show activity name
- Give gifts to parents, friends, and lovers
- Many new profile image avatars
- Ability to ask your parents and children for money
- Revamp of romantic relationships, lovers now have stats that affect their benefit
- Lovers will now contribute income to you when you are married
- Asset is split when you divorce
- Certain interactions now have cooldown
- New family cemetery option to show deceased loved ones
- New life goals: Social Butterfly and Dream Spouse
- New perk: Astute
- New traits: Extrovert and Introvert
1.19.1
2020-03-30
Bug Fixes:
- Fix bug where bacteria emoji is not shown currently on iOS 10
- Fix bug where family action doesn't work
- Fix bug where side hustle cannot be resumed
- Lower price for pandemic donate
- Lower subscription prices
- Fix crash caused by stock price dropping to 0 during pandemic
- Remove Business worker/store cap based on player feedback
- Fix bug where alerts are no longer showing one at a time
- Make prison riot event outcomes show up as an alert instead of banner
- Fix bug where if player is in jail when they turn 18, they will go back to parent's house instead of being kicked out
- Fix progress bar UI when user has reached max level
- Fix bug where button text is sometimes truncated
1.19
2020-03-27
The Pandemic Update is here!
- Save humanity from pandemics in 2 new specially designed pandemic life scenarios!
- New Bat Flu Outbreak & Spanish Flu Outbreak scenarios
- Watch as the virus spreads to hundreds of countries around the world
- Check news feed for new quarantine policies around the world
- Discover a vaccine to defeat the virus before its too late!
- As virus spreads, quarantine policy will restrict what you are allowed to do
- New achievement and perk related to the pandemic scenarios
- New GameCenter leaderboard and achievements
- Life Scenarios now have specific life goals
- Check life scenario completion status from Settings
Other Improvements
- New Leisure: Watch TV
- New music track
- Sandbox mode cash now goes up to $200M
- Performance improvements, the app now launches 50% faster
- Cash flow items has been moved to Profile tab for easier access
- Many other improvements and tweaks
- Number of employees and stores from business is now capped
1.18.2
2019-11-10
Bug Fixes:
- Fix bug where save slot where users cannot start a new life
- Fix bug where users can dismiss the death alert and cheat death
- Fix bug where the UI is not updating after dismissing certain dialogs
- Fix bug where High Achiever achievement wasn't being completed even when the conditions are met
1.18.1
2019-11-10
Bug fixes:
- Fix UI issues with dark mode for iOS 13
- Performance improvements
- Fix bug with save slot unlocked from achievement from being unusable
- Fix UI issues with navigation buttons on iOS 13
- Fix crashing issues
- Add haptic feedback to menu buttons
1.17.1
2019-09-30
This release is primarily bug fixes and tweaks from the feedback we have heard from you.
What's new:
- New Mystery Box daily reward
- New skill: Financial Literacy which increases interest rate
Bug Fixes:
- Strong immune system trait and Hygiene expert skill now works correctly for diseases
- Fix bug where your diet and housing isn't initialized correctly for sandbox mode when you are young
- Fix bug where tooltip in Customize Game screen doesn't dismiss after you leave the screen
- You will encounter different diseases based on your age, with mild diseases when you are younger and more severe disease when you are older
- Diseases now happen a lot less frequently, the rate of contracting diseases is also related to your age
- Add minimum age for love events such as going to the club
- Fix bug where you get an empty background income alert even if you don't have a job
- Fix bug where sandbox mode wasn't initializing education correctly
- In-app purchase optimizations
- Prevent daily reward and background income abuse by using server time instead of device time, you will now need an internet connection to claim these rewards
- Reduce Health event cost and Play Video game cost
- Fix bug where Sweet Freedom getting out of jail alert won't dismiss
- STD is no longer a random disease, you will only contract it if you are trying to meet a lover
- Visual and formatting improvements
- Add information for how to make cancer curable in Disease detail screen
- Turn off Bill Pay as a default
- Fix various crash issues
1.17
2019-09-26
The Disease Update is here!
- You can now randomly contract 25 different diseases
- New health actions to treat these diseases
- You can now contract STDs from love events
- You can now revive past lives via In-App Purchase
- You can now select your gender independently from your sex
- New non-binary gender
- You can now see your weekly attribute modifiers in the Profile tab
- Bankruptcy now gives you warning alerts before you die
- Pets can now die too with realistic life expectancies
- Improved VoiceOver support: Better status bar VoiceOver ordering, attribute names are now announced on labels
- New achievement: Cancer Survivor
- New badge: Got Catch'em All
Bug Fixes
- Fix VoiceOver bug not being able to change sex and gender when starting a new game
- Fix bug where you can visit the Casino while in jail
1.16
2019-09-03
The Casino Update is here!
- Play casino games: Coin Flip, Blackjack, and Slots
- Random events now show up as a banner at the bottom to reduce gameplay interruptions
- Option to buy and sell all properties at once
- New In-App Purchase: Make It Rain and Whale Pack
- Improved lottery odds and winning amount
- Added 'True Age' property that tracks your age ignoring elixir of youth age reductions
- New GameCenter leaderboard for 'True Age'
- Added additional death reasons
- Added random events for health actions
Bug Fixes
- Fix bug that resets your education and skill progress when you have certain traits
- Fix issue with certain sports championships not being winnable
- Fix some crashing issues for older iPhones
1.15
2019-07-10
The Game Saves Update is here!
- You can now have multiple saves so you can start new lives without erasing your current progress
- New achievement: High Achiever to unlock a third save slot
- New In-App Purchase to unlock 3 additional save slots
- Bill Pay is now turned on by default
- New Life Scenarios: Football Captain and Basketball Pro
- New Trait: Athletic
- Improved VoiceOver support for visually impaired users - thanks for the patience!
- Added player avatar to the Profile section
Bug Fixes
- Fix bug causing users to be bankrupted even if they have money
- Fix bug where drafting to a team make you pay twice
- Improve sport winning odds for championship games
1.14.1
2019-05-21
Bug Fixes:
- Fix bug causing the game to crash when playing minor or major league sport games
- Fix bug where the game doesn't auto-save when playing sports
- Fix bug where perk state was being overwritten
1.14
2019-05-16
The Sports Update is here!
- Play basketball, football and baseball!
- Practice your skills and become a professional athlete
- Get drafted on a professional team
- Play to win a Super Bowl, World Series Title or NBA Title
- Earn money through championships and endorsements
- New Life Goal, Badges, and Game Center leadership for sports
- Vacation section is now divided to Vacation and Travel
- Skills section is now divided to Skills and Languages
Bug Fixes
- Fix bug that causes Game Center banner to show repeatedly
- Impose drinking age limit based on country
- Fix minor spelling issues
- Minimum age decreased to 8
1.13
2019-04-30
The Business Update 2 is here!
- 2 new businesses: Farm and Real Estate Company
- New Item: Rocket
- New Housing Option: Space Hotel
- Link to Discord channel in Settings
- New destinations: United Kingdom and China
- New Pet: Duck
1.12
2019-02-26
The Philanthropy Update is here!
- Cure cancer, stop global warming, colonize mars, you can now change the world if you have massive wealth!
- 7 types of philanthropic projects to invest in
- 2 new achievements: True Legacy, Savior of Humanity
- 2 new life scenarios: Crazy Cat Lady, Against the Odds
- New perk: Angelic
- New badge: Philanthropist
- New trait: Authority Figure
- New skill: Self Improvement - Earn an additional positive trait
- Businesses can now be sold
- Maximum business level has been raised to 12
- New menu option to allow you to watch ads at any time to earn double income bonus
- Added multiple easter eggs to the game, see if you can discover them all! Hint: name your pet, company, or character something particular ;)
- New Pet: Parrot
- New subscription: Bill Pay - Allow you to pay for recurring expenses directly from your bank
- New In App Purchase that unlocks all content
- You can now have children even if you are not married, go wild :)
- You will now be widowed after your spouse dies
- You can now attend your dead children's funeral
Bug Fixes
- Fix crash when stock value gets too large
- Fix bug causing business related badges to not complete
- Fix bug with after achievement completion, the 'New Game' button does nothing
- Fix bug where Pet relationship cannot reach maximum
- Fix bug where if you are in debt and have a prison riot, your debt will get cleared
1.11
2019-02-14
The Pets Update is here!
- You can now buy pets: Dog, Cat, Guinea Pig, and Fish!
- Pet your new friends and give them treats
- Added new Cemetery option in Settings to view past lives
- Created Reddit community for the game, Reddit option added in social section of Settings
- New Share option in game menu
- New travel destination: Spain
- New language: Spanish
- Added more random events
- Partners now also get relationship boost for family vacation
- Rebalance crime to reduce jail time
- Increased salary for Pan Handler and Burger Flipper
- New health option when in prison: Contraband Pills
- New property: Skyscraper
- You can no longer move to Apartment Complex or Skyscraper as they are investment properties
- Additional death reasons upon death
- Added a lot more money amount descriptors for users with absurd amounts of money
Bug Fixes:
- Fix ordering of Army career promotional ladder
- Fix issue with Sandbox mode degree selection resetting when scrolling
- Fix various typos
- Fix issue causing users to not be able to switch tabs during tutorial mode
1.10
2019-02-06
The International Update is here!
- You can now travel to other countries: Japan, France, Canada
- Unique jobs, vacation options, and food options for each country
- Learn languages such as French and Japanese
- New Perk for Polymath achievement: Natural Genius
- Sharing is now easier than ever. You can share to Instagram directly from alerts and from the home page
- General tweaks such as reduced time for education and increase wage for earlier jobs to make the game easier for beginners
- Infertile characters can now adopt children
Bug fixes:
- Fix crash when buying Elixir of Youth while having lots of money
- Fix crash when investing in stocks while having lots of money
- Fix bug where scrolling while on Custom Game and Perk Selection screen resets values
- Fix truncation issues in Cash Flow screen for smaller devices
- Fix bug with withdrawal not withdrawing all the money if Direct Deposit is turned on
- Fix bug where family members can die multiple times
1.9
2019-01-27
The Badge update is here!
- 3 new careers: Army, Lawyer, and Military
- 3 new education options: Law School, Police Academy, Military Academy
- 1 new scenario: Army Private
- You can now earn badges upon death, see Settings -> Badges for badges you have collected!
- Cars, Jet, and Yacht now have mandatory maintenance cost
- You can now sell you Car, Jet, and Yacht
- New subscription options: Direct Deposit, Massage Service
- Direct Deposit allows you to auto-deposit earnings in the bank
- Stock market now randomly crash
- New death reasons when family or children dies
- Pregnancy now results in miscarriage, twins, or triplets!
- Abortion is now a option
Bugs fixed:
- Crashing issue when visiting the business page while having a lot of money
- Fix issue when money stolen actually debit you
1.8
2019-01-22
The Subscription Update is here!
- Added subscriptions to provide weekly boost to various stats
- Added ability to customize sexuality
- Added ability to adopt children for same gender parents
- 2 new side hustles: Author and Actor
- 2 new degrees: Literature and Theater
- 1 new career path: Teacher
- New achievement: Polymath
- New GameCenter leaderboards
Bug Fixes:
- *Fix crashing issue caused by money or net worth exceeding 9.2Qui
- Fix incorrect cost of Laptop, Recording Equipment, and Turntable
- Release from prison now restores diet and housing choice
- Fix bug where side hustle specific life scenarios does not start off with their equipments
- Update parents last name when last name is customized
- Fix issue with the Orphan scenario starting with parents
- Allow double income ad reward effect business income as well
1.7
2019-01-15
The Business Update is here!
- You can now start your own business! Choose between a factory, software company, or a restaurant chain
- Start your business as a tiny startup and grow it into an international corporation with thousands of employees!
- You can now customize your name, gender, and your children's name
- Notification tweaks, reduced recurring notifications
- Crime now shows chance of success
- Turntable, Laptop, and Recording Equipments are now upgradable for increased revenue
- New achievement: Business Magnet
- New GameCenter leaderboards and achievements
- 2 new traits: Charismatic and Persuasive
- 2 new scenarios: Small Restaurant Owner and Small Software Studio
- Additional achievement ribbons
Fixed bugs:
- Fix bug causing some high debt scenario to lose on first turn
- Family vacation cost is now proportional to the number of children
- Fix bug where your spouse never dies
- Add funeral option after your spouse dies
- Sandbox mode min age lowered, starting cash max raised
- Fix bug where parent actions are still enabled when they are deceased
- Fix issue where if you have completed a life goal, it doesn’t let you complete another scenario with the same life goal
- Fix bug where Trust Fund Baby applies starting money twice
- Fix some alert strings that have inaccurate descriptions
- Fix stock price format issue when its value gets too large
- Fix bug where a week passes if you try to breakup and cancel
- Fix bug where the Orphan Child scenario has parents
1.6
2019-01-08
The Children Update is here!
- You asked, we delivered! You can now can children in the game!
- Followup your child's life from pregnancy to adulthood
- Multiple interactions for each life stage of your child
- New Perk and Achievement, and GameCenter leaderboard relating to children
- New scenarios: Single Parent and Infertile Parents (unlockable)
- Additional life outcome ribbons
- Fixed many reported bugs, keep the bug reports and suggestions coming!
1.5
2019-01-03
The Personality Update is here!
- Added many positive and negative personal Traits, which is randomly assigned when you start a new game
- Added new skill, 'Self Help' to acquire additional positive personal Trait
- Added Computer Science career path
- Lovers now have an age, gender, and name
- Romantic relationships now works like parental relationships, your partner will break up with you if your relationship becomes too distant!
- Engagement and Marriage now shows informational alerts
- This update paves the way for the next update, having children!
- Added option in Settings to report a bug. Report a bug can also be triggered by shaking your device or taking a screenshot
- Sandbox money slider now has discrete values
- Added additional steps for in game tutorial
- Fixed various bugs around daily reward
- Various other bug fixes
1.4
2018-12-18
The Fun Update is here!
- Added in game tutorial system for new users
- Daily rewards to unlock new scenarios and perks
- You now have a name and gender, foreshadowing features to come in future updates!
- Added sound effects and music track
- Added age to status bar
- Refreshed menu UI
- Fixed bug that prevents users from accessing side hustle project list
- Fixed bug that prevented iOS 10 users from accessing the Bank tab functionalities
- Various other bug fixes
1.3
2018-12-11
The Crime Update is here!
- Choose the life of crime and work your way up to grander thefts!
- Pay for your crimes with jail time, serve your time like a good citizen or risk an escape
- New unlockable sandbox mode that lets you set your starting age and cash amount
- Added confirmation alert for breakup and divorce
- Additional random events
- Fix bug where alerts stop showing
- New real estate option: Apartment complex
- Completed Life Scenario now shows a check mark next to the difficulty
- Additional in-app purchases to reduce your age
- Improved help page navigation and added additional content
- Improved death summary page with life outcomes
- Various other bug fixes
1.2
2018-12-05
Big update with tons of new features!
- Work on side hustles such as an app developer, YouTube star, or DJ. Make apps, videos or tracks to generate recurring revenue!
- You now have parents! At a young age, you can live at home rent free. Get close to your parents for extra allowance
- You now make money while in the background! Enable Push Notifications to get notified!
- 6 new Life Scenarios that are unlocked over time, register for notifications to get unlock notifications!
- Properties can now be sold
- You can now see your life summary after death as well as a way to share it
- 3 new items to purchase
- New degree: Computer Science
- Tons of new Game Center leaderboards and achievements
- Ability to display large money amounts up to trillions
- New Life Goal: Filial Piety
- Increase compatibility with smaller devices
- Other bug fixes
1.1
2018-11-25
Thanks for making Life Simulator a trending app on the App Store! We have listened to your feedback and made many tweaks, bug fixes, as well as new features in this release.
- Game Center integration, there are now multiple leaderboards and achievements
- Push notifications: allow push notification to get notified about in game giveaways such as bonus money, items, etc
- Added a new life scenario: Uber driver
- New degrees: College Science, PHD
- New career path: Researcher
- Haptic feedback for work buttons
- Add cash flow summary in Profile page
- Added difficulty label for each life scenario
- Various balancing tweaks to make the game a bit easier but still challenging: Lower diet health penalty, double pan handler income, reduce skill time requirement, tweaks to random events
- Other bug fixes