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Life Simulator – Time is Money – Word Game Review
Life Simulator – Time is Money is a Word/Strategy game from Chimpanzee, LLC, first launched in 13th March 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 226+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Life Simulator – Time is Money Stand Out
Over the last 100 years, an excess amount of currency was injected into the global economy, resulting in the collapse of the financial system as we knew it. On the eve of a new technological frontier, time became the global currency and society slowly split into different timezones…
Time is Money is a unique, creative, life simulator that explores what life would look like if time was the dominate currency. Start at the bottom and work your way up to the highest levels of society – fighting for survival until your last minute!
• 4 timezones that unlock new skills, items and bonuses
• 15+ traits to improve your skillsets
• 7 skills including TimeKeeper, Founder, Merchant, Thief and more
• Risk it all at the community lottery to advance timezones
• Become a loan shark as you loan out surplus time
• Balance your basic needs strategically
• Invest in businesses that provide steady income
• Buy houses that provide a safe haven
• Save time with various modes of transportation
• Invest and trade items in a daily market
• Gamble away your time or win big
• Manage energy and hunger against dwindling time
• Global leaderboards
This Word game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Life Simulator – Time is Money is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th April 2021
Recent improvements include:
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• Buying your way into a zone with time is back
• Experience bug is fixed for thieving.
• Minor content updates.
Download & Availability
Life Simulator – Time is Money is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Life Simulator – Time is Money 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:
Fun game, but have noticed a couple of bugs with merchant (cant buy all options).
We don't think we're normally this confused but we guess we took a dumb pill. We just don't understand how to earn time. No matter what we do we lose it. And we can't figure out the jobs. Every button costs time. We tried to earn money through jobs but our time still decreases. Better explanation to what needs to be done will help dumbs like us enjoy the game. This game seams like fun because it reminds us of the movie In Time that we loved. Hopefully there is a tutorial or something in the future. Edit: also for some reason we sold ten of the third stock and got -94 shares. And could never get it fixed. That may also be why we never could get ahead and lost 5 days in ten minutes.
Really cool game. Some bugs in the keeper job, and with selling homes, but Im excited to see the game evolve.
Its a great game and there was a bug in the game and we emailed the developer. He fixed it right away great service from him.
Haven't played a game this great in years! We're in love and we don't even have a heart! Yay.
Its a great game and very entertaining the most annoying bug Ive encountered is when we try to create energy canisters it kicks us off the app Ive even restarted our phone and it just wont let us click on it Other than that its worked great.
We understood how to play we think our 3rd time and after like 2 or 3 hours we figured out how to get infinite years Also please dont force ppl to see a tutorial when they start playng figuring out the game so is rewarding and fun snd theres very few games that give us the joy of doing something hard and succeeding.
Amazing game but it gets boring once you reach zone 4 so you should add more.
It took a while but after we got the hang of it the game is pretty fun. It just really confused us at the beginning, maybe an update to make a more in depth guide at the beginning would help out.
Need more content!!! Just download it today and Im addicted. Fun game.
Something we noticed about this developer is that they really enjoy ambiguity. Maybe thats just their nerd brain, but the average person is pretty dumb, ha. Would be great if the developer(s) could make things more clear and have explanations for things because as of now, its incredibly blanketed and not that helpful. We would love to learn in the process of playing, but it seems Im just left confused and dumbfounded on what things mean and what to do. Maybe thats their intent in creating these games? To have already knowledgeable people play rather than educating/teaching those who have no clue what theyre doing? Itd be great if these apps could have a more comprehensive guide if they want to reach a wider audience.
There should be an option where it clearly shows how much money you have in order to buy.
PLEASE increase the rate at which Entries are sold. Im at Timezone 3, have 3 years straight of time saved up, and yet Entries take so long to come on the market that we have no real use for the time/money. We did get a few hundred Entries from grinding Thievery to 50, but had bad luck on that attempt. With the current rate, we see no real way to get enough Entries to have a reasonable chance of advancing save getting carpal tunnel syndrome from spamming Thievery a few hundred (few thousand?) times more. Im really enjoying the game otherwise, but thats a hard gate on progression. Doesnt seem to be IAP bait either, because the IAPs would give nowhere near enough to stand a reasonable chance of winning the lottery. Very odd.
We swear trying to save lottery tickets and then losing all of them for nothing and having to spend another hour glued to the screen to get another hundred is infuriating. Ive entered our name three times in the lottery with like 50% and 60% and then just did 75% and lost. The only way to progress we think it to save up your tickets for 100% to be sure cus Im not lucky at all.
Ive been playing this for a while now and we love it. This game definitely needs more content and does have some bugs. Like for example, when we try to pick the founder job it just crashes which is annoying but still love the game. It has lots of content and with more it could be one of our favorite games.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.14
- Size: 6.33 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: 18th April 2021 | Genre: Word, Strategy | Developer: Chimpanzee, LLC