Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 03:39 am
Homeless Trader – Simulator – Strategy Game Review
Homeless Trader – Simulator is a Strategy/Simulation/Business game from Chimpanzee, LLC, first launched in 8th April 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,469+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Homeless Trader – Simulator Stand Out
Become a PRO at trading street commodities in this AD FREE trading sim. Race against time for quick flips – buying low and selling high – to cash in! Will you be a millionaire trader?
• Buy low and sell high perfecting your trade
• Hire Tipsters for quick flips and trade intel
• Hire Security to protect your investments
• Accept under the table deals at a discount
• Raise money from fellow hobos in exchange for a cut of the profits!
• Unlock perks and different game modes to keep it interesting!
• 14 street commodities to trade
• Events to keep you on your toes
• Earn rep on your journey to becoming a PRO
• Track your trading statistics
• Global leaderboards
• Simple, quick and TONS of replay-ability
• Fresh content on its way!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Homeless Trader – Simulator is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th October 2021
Recent improvements include:
• Improved Stability
• Minor Content Updates
Download & Availability
Homeless Trader – Simulator is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Homeless Trader – 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:
Its so fun, but they made it when you get to day 30 the game ends. We think they should make it go continuously.
Adding a buy all and a sell all feature would improve the game tremendously. Once you start dealing with big money 100 increments just isnt enough so expanding the buying and selling aspect would be great.
- Make it easier to buy/sell smaller amounts. We like to do things in tens and the pixel precision needed to get that is really annoying.
Great concept. Looks great. Has some serious flaws though. It will let you sell items in the negative. Just keep selling 1 item at a time and it will go negative. There is no way to just sell all of a single product. You have to attempt to get the slider bar as close as possible without going over, and then go to one and keep tapping the sell button until it you have no more. Simple, but huge flaws for us.
When you reopen the app after closing it all your unlocks (we mean like the ability to buy something else) disappear until you buy something else.
We love most of the game, we think its a really awesome idea. However we were getting kind of frustrated with when our stats stopped showing up completely. Another thing that we wish would be improved on is the tips being more appropriate regarding the amount of reputation a player has. Overall, we really enjoy this game.
Let us just say that we love this game, its a mindless time waster, which is what we all need nowadays. We even went ahead and bought the All Access, but shortly after we noticed a bug, like hours after, we dont know why it happens, but every single time we close the app, some glitch with our stats happens, when we tried it just now, it wouldnt register the trades on it, like the numbers all stayed zero. Other times, it registers the trades, like our rep goes up, but it just resets to zero when we leave the app for anything.
Great Game, we think you should have a buy/sell max button, as it is a little annoying buying or selling lots of product when you have millions in the bank.
Enjoyable and fun. More content would be nice.
This is a great game. We started playing a couple days ago and now we cant set our phone down lol.
This game is so good and realistic.
Well made game, overall very appealing im just to stupid to enjoy it.
When we had 3 days left we did the deal maker and now it says 31/30 and we can't start a new game can you fix this.
Even though it took us a bit to figure out what to do, its great once you get the hang of it. Its not overly complicated (thank you), you have to think just enough, which makes it interesting, but its mostly relaxing and easy to play. Some thoughts, and then one suggestion: 1) Thank you for making this a premium game for a very fair price with no ads or IAP promo pop-ups (we wont play games where ads of any kind pop up). We like that you made the IAP here optional and available without bugging the player about them. 2) we love that it saves progress at all times, and is good on battery and storage. This game is perfect for playing here and there when you have a few minutes. 3) our only suggestion is this: the font of the value line in each stock (the bottom line on each stock) is way, way too small. Im glad you made the color palette light on this game, because at least the text can be seen (barely) on the white background. But theres room to make the font bigger. Please dont ever change the design to dark mode because then the small text would be impossible to see. Im fact, we tried another game of yours, but the small text on a dark background made it so impossible to see that we deleted the app. Because the colors on this game are light, we can play, but we really suggest making the tiny fonts bigger or bolder or something. The overall design is great, but if a player has to strain to read something they may give up. We find ourselves playing this only if we feel like squinting a bit. Which isnt the best user experience even though the game itself is really good. Functionality needs to overrule design. Overall this is a great game though, and Im glad we found it. Thank you.
We wish you could buy things or houses.
The global feature scroll through it and every last person has the same amount of money lol.
So the devs have had people complain about the all items dropping to zero and no bug fix. It looks like the issue is probably that the drops and rebounds are done on % va random dollar amounts as a function of a percentage of the established starting value. A 10% drop from $100 takes it to $90, but a 10% increase on $90 goes to $99. The complaints have been ongoing for the last year with nothing done to fix it.
Theres no way to make there be more than 30 days which is really short and we find this a terrible flaw but other than that the game is great.
The thing is we lost randomly and we dont know why or how we rate this a 3.
We dont see a bank at all? We feel like things would be easier and more realistic if you added a bank maybe for a loan or storing money? Additionally you could add a stock market that will also affect the prices that youre able to invest in? Although the game is really good now we feel like a bank would make the game significantly better. Thanks for hearing our feedback.
Although, the game might seem slightly offensive it lacks substance that the framework allows. Hobo Trader should explore and enlighten on theme of a day or night trader. We really expected this game to be about diversifying the characters portfolio. Trying to find something that might be a viral hit on the street market. And show options to ride the wave of SUCCESS from that WIN. This game really was just a mock-up. Our Software Team could transform this app into game a game that actually could shift the way even a hobo looks at Economics of Business and the role an Sole Proprietor plays in Public Commerce. Instead of random items, equipment, and services to barter. How and when does equity come in to play? Whether it be a simulation or reality…What is the job here? Gaming can be mindless activity. As Game Developers we have an opportunity to plant a seed of knowledge by embedding in the program something valuable that didnt expect. Carpe diem.
This game is rigged, it tracks what you buy and if you keep it, it never ever goes up. Junk.
This is not a fake review and this game is really addictive and fun to play for real the game makes us WET.
Let us have more tips for free each game.
We love this game, it brings out the inner Autist in us. But it needs improvement, bug fixes more things to do and it will be even more fun! Thanks Michael One of the bugs is a tip glitch where we cant use tips if we have used it and then did something to spend a day.
We like this game and their other game Hobo capitalist. We think this game can be better with some added complexity and more personalized action options. We really enjoy the random events like you can get robbed, win the lottery, receive some inheritance, etc. We think hobo capitalist could benefit from the addition of such events, and that this game combined with hobo capitalist would add more depth to each game.
We got the game and paid $.99 for the The game in a nutshell: You start with a small amount of money, a limited inventory, and a list of stocks. Buy and sell at the right times and you will make money! Spend that money to up your inventory, buy body guards, and, well, become filthy stinkin rich. #1 recommendation for new players: Once you have enough money and rep, go to the 3rd tab on the bottom and buy the tipster. He will continuously feed you tips. Where we would like to see the game go: Once we were making trillions of dollars per trade, we felt limited by our inventory. Allowing for multiple warehouses, for example, would make the game more exciting. If we could put $750,000,000,000,000 in diamonds it would bring the instant gratification developers shoot for back into the late game. Love the game, good job guys.
The game is fun, but unless you use your tips you have no idea whats going to do well. Maybe it could have weather reports or something like that to help know if jackets and tarps would be worthwhile. Its got a very stylist design which we like too. Reminds us of.
You could make like your own business at one point and choose how much you want to invest Or like real business and they would have to wait for those or something idk just throwing ideas But this game is pretty fun so far and we feel like its a Diamond in the rough.
This game is fun, but it feels a bit too random. We feel like there should be a newspaper or something you can read to get news from that has a good chance of affecting prices. Tips are good, but theyre the only way you can definitely make money. Also we wish there were more things you could spend money on, Im in a 365 day game right now, about halfway through with 200 million dollars and nothing to do with it. Really cool game idea, and we hope you guys take our ideas into consideration.
We played this game extensively and bought the 0.99 premium option. With all the perks it gives you, when we buy Max of anything, it crashes the price. Gold, diamonds, etc all the way down to 0.01. Makes the game entirely pointless. Id suggest setting minimums and maximums for each type of commodity, with extreme deviations only caused by events. Also, we suggest deals and tips being multiple item for added difficulty. With 100k and 500 capacity perks to start with, its really not much of a challenge without some extra flavor somewhere.
Started the game, immediately no idea what to do.
At first glance the UI looks sharp, but its really a buggy mess. It gets a 1 star because the game simply doesnt work. The game has a HUGE problem: Ill buy something when prices are down and hope to sell them the next day when prices are up to make a profit (makes sense right?) but it doesnt work and we somehow lose money..the price of an item goes UP, we sell our stock and some how LOSE money. Also, in the exact same scenario Ive sometimes sold our stock to make exactly $0 profit. Something is seriously wrong. How is it that we buy something at $1.03 per item sell it the next day @$1.23 per item and LOSE money. Garbage game.
Why is there a limit on the time you have we want to become wealthy and not have to only have 30 days.
Ive played the game for about 2 days now, and Ive just realized its a scam. The point of the game is shootout be where you buy items like cans and bottles for cheap and sell them for higher and make money. But really, thats not what it is. On the first day, you will see prices for shoes at $25 or $17. But if you buy a lot of shoes, though the whole 30 days, the price will only drop. One time we bought as many shoes as we could, probably for $25 or something, and skipped to day 30, and the price had dropped to .25. But if you dont buy anything and just skip to the last day, the price will be something like $731. Its designed to make you want to buy tips and advantages for money. And the tips arent even helpful. One tip is letting you know that the online market is booming. When in the game, there is no online market. Dont get the game, its rigged and incredibly unrealistic.
Theres minimal explanation and the game itself is a ripoff of other games of the same sort. Its the same, and even has less features. Please try something new.
Pretty cool game! Multiple options for game length and unlockable content within the game as your character obtains more money. Theme looks cute, too.
Its a good game, and its concept is great. However, it glitches a lot. For example, the buttons dont work sometimes.
We love everything about this game except one thing. Its way too short. Make the number of days longer per game and then it will be better.
We love this game. We even purchased the all access pass, however we run into a small issue every game. We play the game on the 730 day mode and always run into a glitch that makes us not able to use tips anymore when Im a around halfway through that game. Not sure what causes this but nonetheless the game is great.
We love it. But Id like to maybe have different saves. Where we can have multiple games going on and we can switch between them. We mainly want that because we kinda want to have a save where theres a unlimited amount of time. Instead of a deadline. So yes we want a unlimited time mode added as well. This game is very addicting. And so are your others. Great job.
There needs to be more storage available if Im playing 750 mode around day 100 we can buy max storage of almost everything and still have a ton of money just sitting Id like to see either the inventory get way bigger or an option to just get rid of the restriction also the intercepted is just kinda annoying just a nuisance to click run away every 15 days and why are the robbers able to take several trillions from us at a time it take for ever to get that back since at that point in the game there is only one item thats profitable with that kind of money.
We buy items at a low price like gold @ $800 prices will go lower than $100 and never go back above $800 through out the 75 days.
This is a great game and a new experience with fundamentals which can be helpful in buying and trading stock.
We were looking for a game like the really old school Dope Wars and found this today. A few bugs/ideas based on what we've seen so far… -Day to day prices don't fluctuate enough. -Price changes are mostly very slow and seem to get stuck in one direction. There's no reason bicycles should be 6million each while gold is 25 bucks for hundreds of days on end (on the 700+ day mode). You can't flip goods that way. -On that same note, bicycles shouldn't be able to get to 6 million each, that's way over the top. There should be high/low caps with a few percentage based outliers for tips and events. So if the backend data for bikes runs between $30-1000, then random events or tips should jump it up or down by X percentage. It seems like it gets stuck on a +/- path with many items ending the game at under 50 cents. Think surge pricing but with a (hidden) minimum and maximum. -What was fun about dope wars was that some stuff was good for an easy/quick flip, we.e. Cans and bike parts in this game, because they fluctuated often, while others were more of a longer hold and didn't fluctuate as much as others but when they did, it was well worth the hold. -Aesthetically, the empty space scrolling after diamonds make it hard to quickly scroll up and down. -Sometimes we have inventory showing but it's nowhere to be seen or sold. -When you see results of a flee or fight, the X out is on the right side, awkward for lefties. It would be better to allow us to click anywhere outside of that popup to close it. -It would be nice if really high and really low prices highlighted, so you could see that you missed an opportunity to load up on gold a few days ago and now it's popping off, or that prices have bottomed out on something. -Two column option for phone view would be great to get rid of scrolling. Sorry for all of the details but this kind of critique is basically our real world job. This is a clean game with a good start and we'd love to watch it grow.
We think you should make so you can unlock up to one thousands days but have to buy unlimited days because we start doing really good at the end then run out of days and just get frustrated. Also, thank you for getting back to our review so fast last time have a good day.
Ive played the game for a solid hour and so far Im having a really great time. We have a question about the perks. Do we have to gain reputation to unlock them? If we do how much reputation do we need to unlock each one.
Ive only played this game for a bit and we like it. Its fun and makes you feel businessy but we wish there were a version where you had unlimited days.
Anyone else think we should have way longer whats the fun if that switching to BitLife.
We love the concept of this game. It is a fun way to learn about the stock market. For future reference using the concept of your other games, make a life simulator. You should make it similar to bitlife but more appropriate :) besides that we love your great games and we like that you are interactive with fans and you take the time to respond to each and every comment. Good job!! Keep it up!! Edit: to this game we suggest you add commas to the numbers to easily keep track of your money.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.19
- Size: 3.50 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: [Chimpanzee, LLC]()
Last updated: 17th October 2021 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Chimpanzee, LLC