Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 09:47 am
Life Simulator – Hobo CEO – Strategy Game Review
Life Simulator – Hobo CEO is a Strategy/Finance/Word game from Chimpanzee, LLC, first launched in 3rd October 2021.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 8,916+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Life Simulator – Hobo CEO Stand Out
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As an 18 year old, life starts on the streets. Who will you become?
Race against the clock in one of the most realistic, financial management games. Your financial decisions influence your life and who you will become. Do you have what it takes?
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• Start dating, get married and leave your wealth to your children
• Choose character traits to get different boosts
• Invest in property, find renters to earn income or flip it for gains
• Trade commodities in the daily market or invest in crypto, technology, or genomics
• Climb the ranks of the criminal underworld
• Become a magician, a nurse, an investment banker and more
• Win scholarships and declare your major
• Take out student loans and climb the corporate ladder
• Live a healthy lifestyle to prolong your life
• Manage your daily expenses
• Try your hand at blackjack and win big
• Global leaderboards
• Random events to keep you on your toes
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*Ad free is defined as no video ads or advertisements for alternative games. However, there are in-game ads for IAP's that pop up occasionally.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Life Simulator – Hobo CEO is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd May 2024
Recent improvements include:
• Performance improvements
• Minor content
Download & Availability
Life Simulator – Hobo CEO is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Life Simulator – Hobo CEO 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:
But we just got one request can you add away that we can start a business or be a entrepreneur.
Ok, we hope whoever you are, youre reading this. First off, great job with this game, we have spent hours and probably hundreds of thousands of clicks on this game. That leads us to a couple of VERY HELPFUL things that could be added or changed 1. PLEASE install some form of auto clicker. Nothing crazy, but maybe hold down on an action button like going to work for a couple of seconds, then allow one click every second or .5 seconds. Our thumbs will love you. 2. We have loved the real estate aspect and renting properties to tenants. Please update with a way to remove tenants and add new ones. Also still having trouble changing our primary residence unless we sell it and buy something else. Please make it easier to switch your primary residence. It would also be AWESOME to see an option to change your offer price / financing terms on properties instead of just leaving it up to luck. 3. When declaring a major, there isnt a scroll list really visible. We learned that if we slowly scroll we can manage the majors and select the one we want, but this is more of a quality of like improvement. 4. SPOUSAL DEBT AND INCOME. Please add a way for us to see our spouses debt easier and to pay it off quickly. We would also love to see some more expansion on the decision for our spouse to stay home with an option of going back to work etc. Overall, love the game, but there are a couple of improvements that could make this go a long way. Well done.
Ive played almost every simulator out there and this one is different which is refreshing! We love the focus on finances and how you dont have to manage energy, etc. Its an interesting concept and we cant wait to play some more – the beginning is hard tho, we havent been able to get past the second year.
The description says its ad free but its not. Theres an in game sale ad that pops up every few in game days which is every few clicks. So youre constantly closing this out while trying to play the actual game. Would be a fun game but this makes it unplayable.
The game is great and all but.. Its hard to stay alive its very difficult to stay alive.
This is without a doubt the worst experience Ive had on a mobile life simulator. No matter what options/strategy we try, we lose more money. If we purchase anything to try and help get a job, Im going to run out of money in 20 days. The beg option is useless, robbing has a 0% chance to help. Any market trading is 0% effective. The only way we see to have a chance is to pay RL money, and within 4 minutes of gameplay we see we have achieved nothing, no strategy works and its easier to just uninstall than try, why would we ever pay for that in a premium version? A game isnt fun if its hopeless to try.
We had sent a thing in the feedback and bugs from the in game aspect but Im not sure which one of these is more looked at so we decided to come do this as well. This game is a solid 9/10 for us especially for mobile and we really enjoy it, Ive had hours fly bye by just simply clicking go to work and doing taxes. But we were thinking of adding a lottery ticket idea or even owning a business that you could hire/fire people and keep track of how well theyre doing in their own. And depending on the decisions you make for the business the better it does. Obviously the small things like seeing how people are doing could be added in a separate update since it would be hard to code. Maybe you could own more businesses kinda like the housing system? You can check the upkeeping on it, the price/worth the income etc. We think it would be a good update to the game since some people can get really good lives and have a lot of money, like the #1 player right now which we think is like 9 septillion dollars! And it would be really cool to see things like this be added. We understand that you guys have quite a bit of games so it might be hard to do with the team you guys have since we dont know how big it is but Id be really grateful if you guys took this into consideration. If you do good luck on it.
Its an interesting game, but its just way too easy to die. And when you do die, its a complete game over and you start from the beginning, theres no progression. Its just a bit too frustrating for us.
This game is so incredibly confusing and thats basically all to it. It's so hard to get anything and buy anything.
We can live our life do a lot of different things its a fun game.
We like starting a business from the ground up and this game provides our needs.
The game is actually really fun. It takes some time to figure out how to monuver everything around. But then your good.
Game honestly wasnt that hard, we dont understand the bad reviews saying they cant make it through the first two years. We never felt like we were racing against the clock, once we realized you can just buy investments at ~$10 and they only go up from there, and real estate is easy to rent out, it was easy to get the $200 million net worth that we have.
Overall an amazing game but when we died the will said that it would take 150k or more to raise our 46 year more old son to 18 so we assume that thats just a bug.
Hugeeee learning curve. We really liked the way the game looked so we kept retrying over and over. After a while we got the hang of it though (without any IAP!) Obviously its still a work in progress, so Im so excited to see what else they incorporate.
Love this game. Its an improvement over Hobo Capitalist, which we also like a lot. However, the job board seems fatally buggedit only offers fast food worker jobs for $9.25, and they nevertheless hire you. Looking forward to updates, though. We assume stock is coming, along with more college majors and jobs. Should expand nicely.
The reason for the 4 stars is no auto click. Or at least no free one. We would love if you implemented some type of auto click cause our fingers hurt. Otherwise, the game is great and it may take a bit to understand it but we really enjoy it.
This game would be and absolutely perfect gem if it werent for the progression ending bug. Every play through the jobs get stuck on Fast Food Worker at $9.45 /hr and wont allow you to change. So whatever you have, youre stuck with. Otherwise, this game is great! We really like the concept of it and the ability for free play. Wonderful idea and excellent game.
We think that our game is glitched, when we want to study for the GED, write essay, or pick a major we cannot find these options. We scrolled through and clicked on every single thing that we can click on and we see none of these options, but when we take GED and fail, it tells us that we need to study to raise our chances of passing. Can someone help us.
The game is fun but there are a lot of glitches one of which literally makes it so that you have to start over each time instead of being able to play as your child when you die so you cant really play this game continuously. Other glitches include that info on real estate will be inaccurate, blank text occasionally. There are also some impractical limitations of the game, you can only buy 10 stock at a time which costs you 1 day. It would be cooler if you could upgrade your dating chances same as career chances.
Hello, The game is very fun and challenging. We ended up purchasing 3 properties, however when we go to the real estate section the screen to either sale, rent, or manage the properties is not coming up. Please fix.
How do we get to the personal menu.
We cant really find the personal tab for the needs button so we can buy a laptop can anyone help.
How am we supposed to study to get our ged.
We think this game need better jobs. If Im going to college and picking a major then when we finish college we should find a job that we went to school for. Because it only have the same jobs on this game. Example: Going to college to be a doctor once we graduate their should be jobs for a doctor instead of an accountant job which doesnt make sense.
Id love this game but its entirely too hard to become established. We cant even take out a personal loan to get on our feet. The jobs are underpaying and its extremely too challenging. We cant downgrade from an apartment back to a bedroom.
We bought a $1.99 speed up with $25000 for the game and it didnt give it to us cant get a refund from a dumb game.
Yes. After 5 hours worth of building up wealth, gone in seconds because of the last will glitch. Nice, you dont even care about your products, and Im suppose to buy crap from this game.
Bought a couple things in the game, got all except one.
We did two in-game purchases and didnt receive either. Our person still died! Rip-off, dont pay for the promos when they pop up, go through the store.
Fwck this game Ive tried for like an hour and die every fwcking time before the age of 21 it takes like 20 different tries just to make over a grand.
Make a pay all bills button and fix the property income things glitching out.
Starting off is the hardest thing ever.
Its a great game, but it could use some improvement. End game stage gets really repetitive, there should be a way to buy / sell 100 or more quantity of investments because it needs so much tapping to buy and sell only 10 at a time. Other than that, it is fun and enjoyable.
This game is difficult at the beginning but gets easier as you carry on your generations. The only thing we recommend for a change is the option to buy higher quantities of buying power at a time in increments of 100, 1000 and 10000.
Pls fix the bugs that you are being the primary residence at every houses and make sure we can move in which we want to.
Ive really enjoyed your other games and we think this one improves on our favorite parts of those games. However, we wanted to report some bugs but we didnt know how else to reach out to you so here goes: – The left/right buttons on the real estate screen dont do anything and it skips a day – we cant sell a specific home. We can only sell the last one we bought, and then all of the homes we have are sold for the value of the last home we bought. – Trying to sell a home that still has a mortgage always removes the profit you made from the sale instead of adding the profit. For example, selling a house valued at $100,000 with a $90,000 remaining mortgage and $5,000 fees removes $5,000 from our account instead of adding $5,000. If we pay the mortgage off then selling the house nets the full value of the home – Getting a degree doesnt offer a choice. Its always business degree but then Ill get job offers for teacher. Thats all Ive got. Keep it up! We love where its going and Im going to keep playing it in the meantime.
Excessive pricing without an unlimited option via one time payment.
Good game overall but bugs hinder it. When in the middle of a game if the phone screen locks or the app gets shut down, when the game is resumed the job board gets stuck on the three same jobs at $9.25 an hour. Also would be nice to behave other jobs than a sales person. Earning a degree is nice early on for higher pay but then it takes for every to earn a promotion or raise. Also, what am we working towards? What is the point of the game.
Cannot remove expenses you no longer need. Cannot change deductibles like it says you can. Is hard to maintain a relationship on low income. Takes a few tries to make a decent amount of income. Taxes takes a lot of money and you dont get a return. Can get repetitive between working and paying expenses/taxes (sometimes the expenses outweigh the income) and you dont have a chance at moving up. Is kinda boring because there isnt much you can do. When you get a promotion, there isnt an increase and the only thing that changes is the percentages for the promotion and raise (both decrease). Also, if you do not buy anything for a while, you will get robbed.
Have transportation but cannot make delivery.
We love the game, but there is a bug on the medical career, when you are promoted to a head of department the pay is only $8-$9 an hour, which is a big step down from $50+ earned before the promotion.
Love the game like the last one but much better and we cant wait to see all the new things you add soon it really has a learning curve but once you figure out the tactic theres a way to make it so you are inevitable to skyrocket eventually in networth with the stocks if you guys can figure it out like we did its really fun climbing the leaderboards we got to number 2 today and Im coming close for that number 1 spot cant wait for businesses and equity.
We always play the original version of this game (hobo capitalist) and Id just like to say this version is so much better its a little more challenging which we like, takes a good amount of brain power and thinking, its a true rags to riches game for sure keep it up!! Love the new updates.
Ive enjoyed a lot of your games including this one but Ive been trying the criminal career and we feel like the XP takes way too long to get. If there was at least more ways to upgrade your chances each level we dont think it would be a problem. We think its also worth mentioning that the life expectancy bar needs a number next to it because at the moment its not legible and Ill randomly end up dying for no reason because we couldnt tell how much longer we have left.
Okay.. This is the worst way to start a life sim game ever. Difficult and not enjoyable at all. You cant even make a profit max Charisma status and get a job correctly. Too much effort. Maybe rethink your math calculations.
The 2 year limit is kind of ridiculous. It takes so long just to save up for a bike to do deliveries and then you only have a few months left when you do reach the goal to get a phone, laptop and then you need to wait 30 days for a job??? Um no. Great game. Just bad idea with the 2 year age limit because it goes quick.
We want to like this game but it always makes us die out of nowhere for no reason. Dont waste your time.
This is such a great sequel to the original. We love the mechanics and added depth to this like the different real estate and college majors. Im a little sad youve given up on this type of game and have instead made several variations of the exact same game but career specific. Those games are fine, but theres not much variety within those games. Are you ever going to add equity? Its said coming soon for years now.
We saw all the negative reviews the ones that said you couldnt succeed without paying actual money. The thing is you can. It is possible to earn enough to get a minimum wage job and work your way up from there. Eventually, we did purchase because we wanted to speed everything up. Our character was working her buns off and was engaged before that. Had a decent sized bank account and was rolling before paying a penny. It was not easy. We must have restarted the game 10 times! Now, our character has over 500K and 3 kids. She is also now in her sixties. The secret? Beg until you have $50 over what you need for a bike. Then, start doing deliveries. The money floods in after all that. Keep going until you have enough to get your GED, a phone and a computer. Start doing small things under the health tab to get healthier. (This is the only spot where real money comes in handy. Depending on the pack it bumps your character life expectancy up significantly. And currently their packs are discounted.) Then start applying for jobs. And keep doing deliveries. Check the financial tab on occasion to check when taxes are due and how much you have to pay. If you can afford it, pay it all off early. Try to get into college and do more and more job searches. Student loans help a lot. Just be aware they have attached fees. Hope the tips help somebody else.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.14
- Size: 13.38 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: [Chimpanzee, LLC]()
Last updated: 22nd May 2024 | Genre: Strategy, Finance | Developer: Chimpanzee, LLC