A hundred lives, zero names
You’ve lived a hundred lives in BitLife. Some were great. The one where you became a royal, the one where you robbed the bank and got away with it. Then your character dies at 94, the screen shows a gravestone, and you feel nothing. You tap New Life. You don’t remember their name.
That’s the deal, and it’s a good one on a bus. But there’s a version of the same wish, the what-if-I-were-someone-else wish, that wants to go slow.
What BitLife gets right
Being someone you’re not. Making the choice you’d never make. Money, work, romance, and trouble, all of it counting. A whole life in twenty minutes, with jokes, on a phone, and no house to build first.
It’s free with ads. Bitizenship is $9.99 once and unlocks the extras. The packs are $7.99 each.
In LifeSim, one life sticks
A year doesn’t pass when you tap. The clock runs on its own, one day after another, whether you’re watching or not. You live one life, and it doesn’t end on a gravestone so you can roll another. Whatever you build, you keep.
The people around you aren’t names with bars. They have homes on real streets, a job to get to, and things they remember about you. You say what you’d actually say, and they answer. There’s no list of three options.
The world is a real city on a real map. You pick it. You walk it. The bar you go to is on the corner where a bar is, and the same people drink there on Fridays.
And nothing is a random event. What happens to you comes from the people you know and the things they saw you do. It’s slower than BitLife, and it hurts more, because you remember who caused it.
Your first week in LifeSim
You pick a city. Any city, on a real map of Earth. You give your character a name and a reason to be there. Then you step out onto a real street, and there are people on it.
They’re not waiting for you. They have jobs to get to, homes to go back to, friends they see on Fridays. Say hi to one of them, in your own words, and they answer in theirs. Tell them something and they keep it. Tell their friend something and it gets around.
By the end of the week you have a place you go in the mornings, someone you’re avoiding, and someone you’re not. One player once stayed for thirteen hours straight. We checked.
LifeSim is a free game, in the browser and on iPhone. No ads and nothing to buy. Season 1 is in beta.
Stick with BitLife if…
You want the whole arc, fast, and then another one. You play in five-minute bursts. You love the absurd events and the gravestone jokes. You’re on Android. BitLife is built for all of that, and LifeSim isn’t.
If you’ve ever wished one of those hundred lives had lasted, this is the slow one.
Side by side
| BitLife | LifeSim | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free with ads. Bitizenship $9.99 once. | Free |
| Where it runs | iPhone, Android | Any browser |
| The world | Text and menus | The real Earth |
| How time moves | A year per tap | On its own, a day at a time |
| How you act | Pick from a list | Say it in your own words |
| How long a life lasts | Minutes | As long as you want |
Questions
Is LifeSim a game like BitLife?
Both are life sims. BitLife is fast and text. LifeSim is slow and spoken.
Can I die in LifeSim?
Health can drop. There’s no gravestone screen. You live with what happens.
Can I start over?
You can make a new character. The world you leave keeps going without you.
Is it free?
Yes. No in-app purchases.
Android?
Not yet. Vote for Android on the home page.