Last updated on December 12th, 2025 at 07:45 pm
Hobo – Real Life Simulator – Strategy Game Review
Hobo – Real Life Simulator is a Strategy/Word game from Chimpanzee, LLC, first launched in 2nd March 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 38,325+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Hobo – Real Life Simulator Stand Out
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RECENT 5-STAR REVIEWS
"I downloaded this game expecting it to be like bitlife but then it took me by storm."
"Not flooded with ads!"
"The realism aspect of it is amazing!"
"I'm stunned. Every other game I had on my phone I just YEETED straight out the window. I love it."
"Best game in its category!"
"Hard but ADDICTING!"
"My new favorite game!"
Not everyone makes it off the streets – will you?
Hobo Capitalist is an AD FREE, CHALLENGING, REALISTIC, take on the classic LIFE SIMULATOR.*
Enter the world as a homeless hobo, beg on the streets or get hired for graffiti, go to university, invest in the market, sell real estate, buy businesses, become a tycoon and more!
• Buy and sell items on the daily market
• Invest in real estate, take out a mortgage or bring in rental income
• Buy businesses and build your empire from the ground up
• Give back to the community
• Beg, dumpster dive, play music and more
• Global leaderboards
• Take out a student loan to pay for university
• Apply to jobs to launch your career, earn raises and promotions
• Build your credit
• Set investing for retirement
• Eat healthy and increase your life expectancy
• Grow your net worth
• Take vacations
• 75+ random events to keep you on your toes
• Frequent content updates
Will you make it off the streets and become a millionaire?
*Although there are no video ads or any ads for other games, there are in-game IAP's that pop up occasionally.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Hobo – Real Life Simulator is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd January 2024
Recent improvements include:
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• Improved stability
• Minor content updates
Download & Availability
Hobo – Real Life Simulator is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Hobo – Real Life Simulator on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We think the graphics could be more intuitive but we love the idea! Still addicted anyways.
This game helped us with real life and now we are more successful in life! If you are struggling with this game, you can look at our tutorials on YouTube! The channel is @HoboBusinessman.
Challenging enough to keep you going trying to find a way to survive.
Its entertaining to try different strategies to reach the top.
Absolutely love the game, we do wish you could just hold down the button instead of tapping it over and over.
This game is very interesting. We love it so far.
We are severely addicted to this game.
Can you win the lottery jackpot? Im wondering very much. Developers could yall please answer this for us.
We almost never write reviews for the apps in the App Store. This game stands alone. It is truly brilliant successfully finishing this game made us realize that we might be financially living our life in real life incorrectly. Ha ha. The mechanics are incredibly simple. Our only suggestion is to fix the specialists at the bottom of the market because it says its a one time purchase, but you can actually buy them multiple times. This game is masterfully done and we hope everyone gets a chance to play it.
We got this game and could not get off.
This game reminds us of dope wars from back in the day. You manage your life then you die. Pretty straight forward. Better than doom scrolling.
This game really is fun it is challenging and is different from any other game Ive ever seen. You have to build yourself up from poverty and rise to the top but you have to be careful because you trying to rise could be your fall. Thank you for making this beautiful game it is amazing.
If youre looking for an app thatll challenge your way of thinking strategically & give you a different perspective on your life choices this is for you.
Im still giving this game 5 stars but cmon guys maybe make the game a little visually pleasant.
The reviews from years ago seems inaccurate. The game has a lot of information (possibly too much) to start with and youre immediately thrown in with what feels like 0 to little help. Maybe its because we have a bad strategy, or maybe the game is just insanely hard. Either way, its semi-enjoyable at best. Our only compliment is how fleshed out the game is. We would only recommend this to our most boring friends.
We think the game has lots of potential its really cool bc theres lots of different routes you can start on.
We just started the game and its really easy. Beg for money and buy puppy upgrade twice. Dont buy market membership yet. Dont buy any other jobs. Save a couple hundred dollars and win the lottery. We had around $200 and won $1200 from lottery. Increase your Ged rate to 50%, took us 2 attempts. Get your bus pass, drivers license and phone then work fast food. Get insurance and go on the first 3 vacations(increases your life expectancy). Buy a car, work in real estate, get lucky make $6000. Work until you get $11k. Then auto-click lottery until you win a 1 mil+ dollars. Pretty much do anything you want after or keep buying lottery tickets lol.
Its hard at first when you start the game, but after a couple of failed attempts we got the hang of it. Its fun once you figure out the game.
We just started and so far it seems like an intriguing strategy game.
Am speechless is sooo great the hype is finally right.
This a really good game. It helps you learn how to save money and invest.
Fun to play no internet required. But if you have changed something as of July 22 2024 , Ive noticed the busness we bought it cash and it put our profit in the negative and its giving us items from a diffrent bussness we dont own. Also we Dont know if this is on purpose but if you have daily expenses as profit instead lets say 4K a day you can just hang out with your boss for 1200 days and make like a trillion dollars idk if that affects the leaderboard or not. Also might help to know what our scholarship rate is the same way it give a chance percentage for ged.
Love this game made it to the top 1000 people at 50 billion only 97 years old.
Its a very good game, very realistic and that makes it so good but very difficult.
We were expecting it to be a mindless game with little to no strategy. This game is quite the opposite.
People saying this game is hard are just not good at it. Thats the point. You're a hobo trying to become a millionaire. It takes time but we already have a net worth of like 10 million after two days of having the game. Gotta use the market and retirement. And the gambling helps too. We like it.
This game was absolutely amazing but it has a lot of room for improvement and the game was really hard so if you could make it a bit easier that would be great.
Its hard at the start, and more if you dont know how to play it, but while the time pass you start understanding and the game is easier. We love this kind of game, we can be quiet playing without getting bored fast. 5 stars because yes and we like the game.
Just writing a review as it asks for us to receive a reward, havent played enough to know if we like it.
Ive never written a review for an app, let alone a game. This is probably our favorite app. It teaches you how to manage money efficiently by making the most amount of money you can with the least amount of expenses. We wish we had this app coming out of high school considering they dont really teach anything about life and money and taxes. Not that Ive ever been a hobo, but we have been pretty low on money and high in debt, and this puts you in the mindset of figuring out how to make more money instead of just saving it. And we think thats our favorite part. We would highly recommend this app to anybody coming out of high school, and everyone in college.
Once you have a good job, start, accumulating, jewelry shops.
We really like this game. It keeps us thinking.
The game is great just got get the hang of things but overall great.
Havent been able to get past 26 yrs.
Shows you how this economy is really set up.
Fun and educational, love this game.
We really enjoy the game, but its only available in English, which makes it hard for non-English speakers to fully understand and enjoy. Adding support for other languages, like French, would make the experience much better for many players. We hope this feature will be added soon.
We love this game and we are constantly on it, but so many times we lose the will to play because sometimes we spend multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars on career coaches just to not get the promotion with a 100% guarantee. You cant get promoted as a resident its just awful. Despite that the game is still so fun and we feel like it has great replay-ability as long as we dont pursue the medical job.
Really fun game, love the concept of strategy behind it. Its just really buggy. $$ will go negative out of nowhere and force you to restart the game or pay $4. Likes if we kiss up to our boss, it will deduct 100s of dollars.
This game is so fun !! Im addicted cus we want to get rich so bad but ngl its kinda hard and we honestly think its fairly realistic for a mobile game.
We need to understand the negatives when we keep beggings.
Game is fun and we think its set up pretty well, but the ability to SCREW your game up entirely because you misclick a button is crazy. Please either introduce a system for us to lock and unlock buttons OR a confirmation system for when youre about to spend a lot of money so that we dont just get railed because we accidentally spent 64 days on something we didnt mean to. It ruins the fun and ruins runs entirely.
Itd be nice to have some restrict on spending days no years for %, they just lie there like a trap. While we need to rapidly click the work button, we often mistakenly press those accursed % instead and immediately ruin the game (pressing 10 times to learn GED when ive finished master, 10 times for promotion when its already 100%).
This game is sooo awesome. Some things we love -Its addicting! -Simple easy to use layout -No ads!! And then our main problem: it wont let us get a car! Even after Ive met the requirements (get a phone and auto insurance) it still wont let us get one! Why.
Fun but when you get to the billion range not much to do.
We like this game we were looking for a real life sim then we found this.
This app is super good. Butits a bit hard. Anyways we really like it because it really shows how hard life is. Anyways super good you should get it.
Wish it had more career ands things to do.
This game is okay to play but its hard to survive. But after a couple times you get used to it we got all the way up to being a relater but then didnt make any money so we dont not suggest being that. This game is addictive but not fun. Do. Not. Suggest.
Alot of reading to understand what your clicking.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.50
- Size: 10.89 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling
- Developer: Chimpanzee, LLC
Last updated: 23rd January 2024 | Genre: Strategy, Word | Developer: Chimpanzee, LLC