Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 01:55 pm
Play This Life: Legacy Edition – Simulation Game Review
Play This Life: Legacy Edition is a Simulation/Roleplaying/Books game from LUCK-IT, first launched in 10th July 2022.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 58+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Play This Life: Legacy Edition Stand Out
Build a family legacy spanning unlimited generations! Grow your family’s wealth and assets, watch what happens to your children and relatives after you die, experience how an individual’s life choices can impact their descendants across centuries!
This premium version of the Play This Life simulation game will allow you to transcend death and live on (and on, and on, and on) as the children of your children.
Make your previous lives mean so much more!
Have more backstory for your future lives.
Experience the karma of having children you raised (or left out of your will) as your next parents!
Possibly benefit from the money you accumulated in your previous life.
Also, add custom names to your game and its NPCs!
No missed childhoods. No unknown ancestry. Just life as it is in your wildest dreams—and nightmares. In Play This Life: Legacy Edition, you have so much more than just one generation to live.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Play This Life: Legacy Edition is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
The Future-Customisation Update:
Want to have even more control over your next life? In this update, we added laboratories, job assignments and genetic specialists to let you genetically modify play people. On top of that, you may now suggest life choices to NPCs to influence their children’s names, marital status, educational qualifications, careers and more! Also, bugs have been fixed and some player requests have been inserted. Update now to customise your future!
Download & Availability
Play This Life: Legacy Edition is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Play This Life: Legacy Edition 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:
You know we never give reviews, but youve guys recently have given great updates on the game and we love the realism and description in detail and everything!! Keep up the good work.
We really feel as if yall should add pets ! A pet store like dogs cats etc and have them to where you can build relationships with r hen and they can breed to have puppies.
It would be nice if we could customize our characters and spouses skin and hair and eyes at anytime in game, and customize wealth we are born into as a included feature for those who paid premium, oh and what country we are born into as well. Please consider adding it as a feature, thank you for listening and enjoy your day.
We love it but can we choose our own genetics ??? Maybe a little more time in the lifespan ??? Other than that Im addicted we find ourselves locked in for hours.
Its pretty good it just need a few more updates and things in the game and it would be perfect. Start adding things like Bitlife not fully like Bitlife but like them and dont make it where you got to pay for the things.
We should be able to see nieces and nephews too but other than that this is definitely worth the purchase.
ITS definitely a good game we play it for hours and somehow dont get bored, but you should add where you can customize ur own character when u first start and where to live and choose if ur gonna be wealthy or not, that would be fun im actually kinda tired of being homeless and struggling our whole life lol, but you could also add where you can make money from ur fame you make, and WHAT we want the most is a adoption center, that would be lovely !!! But overall this game is super cool and has so much potential.
This is a good game, but we have a couple questions to ask. Every time its difficult to get jobs we look at the suggestions we need to get and we try to do those things but its very hard to get the part-time and the full-time jobs we want, even if we get the required education And even if we have a part-time job, it says we still need one year or a degree but it doesnt specify what degree and what job we need for a certain amount of years. Also, its very very hard to find partners and to get married and to have children. The game is always showing all the things. Our closest character friends are doing, but we always end up homeless or poor and if not that then just mostly end up focusing on our career, even if we try to find partners, even if we try to be more extroverted, it doesnt help because we always end up an introvert so what suggestions would you have? Also, it doesnt help that the house is for property sale and for rent are quite expensive and it takes a lot of time just to get one apartment so what do you think we should do.
Good game we would like to see crime added tho sometime in the future.
We love the concept of this game, but we cannot figure out how to gift items.
We absolutely love this game, and Ive been playing it for a few years but Im wondering how you become famous in the new update? Ive been born to famous npcs and encountered some but Im not sure how to become famous ourselves.
So we started playing this game a couple days ago and Im loving it so far. But Im having a problem with keeping our kids. We spend time with them by hanging out and we make sure they go to school.. And somehow they still get taken away from us. Ive only been able to keep our kid until age 6. After that. Gone. All we get is updates on paying for their school fees or if theyre doing something with us. But that whole time we cant find them in our home tab or anywhere. Other than that we love the game so far.
We love this game only thing we wish if we didnt skip a generation we would love to play it generation by generation and we would love for the housing to get an update. Our player who do have a small amount of money cant even find a nice 1 bed house or a studio type of place. Im tired of our player being homeless then huge amounts of money are taken from them for sleeping on the streets. Can you please lower the cost for housing or have it where they can be roommates and pay equal share. Other then that we love playing this game.
So, we brought premium after hearing we could customize how they look we dont know how the premium works cause its not working for us? (we dont know how to customize our character or choose their gender at birth).
This game offers a distinctive life simulation experience, and we appreciate how it incorporates real-life issues into the gameplay. The ability to be born in a city, town, or village adds an interesting layer to the experience. We did encounter a few glitches while trying to find a job after completing medical school, but they didnt significantly impact playability, which is crucial. Im also pleased to see that the developers are actively providing updates, which shows their commitment to improving the game. Overall, its a worthwhile experience.
We absolutely love this game! Every update is amazing, the dollhouse feature is our favorite! Two things we can think of that we personally would like to see is if it says our mom has one kid and our dad has two, where is the other kid? Also maybe parents not staying together forever. Also, maybe clearer profile pictures for people, Id like to see an eye color maybe.
Its a good game maybe a editor for when you start the game or more options like becoming a artist or something but over all its good.
We LOVE this game BUT we wish we had a chance to like be royalty bc we wanna see what that would look and feel like for this EXTREMELY realistic game and we wish we had more mental illnesses like being neurodivergent or autistic or adhd or ADD or borderline personality disorder or anxiety and trauma and murder options and other mental illnesses and disabilities probably we feel like that would be incredible maybe our countries to deal with war and things like that Yk we feel like all those things would make such a difference and maybe add therapy for the mental illnesses or trauma or the unhappy and more description about people and their personalities and how you feel/felt about them when they are alive or dead as well as your relationship with them we feel like the game would be so much more worthwhile and fun if it had these features and also a chance to choose your life like not having it always be random but have a custom made life if we had that we feel like it would be so much more worth it and enjoyable.
For some unknown reason we always die, hope there are more tips to know how to play this game.
Sad that theres no royals we extremely want to have a chance to become a royal through birth or marriage Guess we will have to keep waiting.
So we love the game and yes we do wish we had more time to do things in life and that it was easier to become fit or get a high paying job. However we really wish that when you continue as a child or parents that you continue as the age that they were when the previous characters died and maybe even continue as the spouses but really just fixing the age so instead of starting as a baby you start at whatever age that character was left off.
We love this game and we find ourselves playing it a lot more than other mobile life sims we have. However, we wish we could have the option to customize our character when we begin a new life, at least stats/traits/backstory-wise. We understand this not being a feature in the free version, but we think it should be a feature in the paid version! Our only other suggestions are similar to other reviewers, like more time or some UI adjustments (maybe this is just us, but theres often a bit of a delay between submitting an action and the next year beginning). Overall, we really enjoy this game and think it has amazing potential! :).
There is though, an issue in which we are continuously expelled from school for failure to follow instructions. There are never any instructions the game gives us, we attend class, we join an extracurricular, we attend our extracurricular, we do our homework. We really struggle to understand what Im doing to get expelled, and its very frustrating. In every game so far Ive been expelled. We really dont know if Im doing something wrong, or if there is a glitch in the game.
This game is absolutely amazing, The potential this game has is incredible. The only thing is we find almost every life hard to live in. To start off the first generation you either are born poor or dirt poor; we never can seem to be born rich or average, other than that the game is amazing.
We love this game, all the options it has, the style of it, and most of the gameplay, but we have been getting frustrated as we never know how many times we can press something before we age up. We get that its part of gameplay so at least maybe could there be a counter somewhere that lets us know how many actions we can complete? (for example, you have 4 actions left and it decreases as you do an action such as attend classes but not for actions such as do school as that isnt a final one). Alternatively, an age up button would be more fun to play and more convenient. We also saw someone else say that for legacy edition we should get more time anyway before aging up, which we thought was a good idea, (we feel like the benefits arent as much compared to the other game, but we understand you cannot make unlimited changes!) Thanks so much and good job on the game! With some potential improvements it could become our favorite mobile game <3.
Love the game, it is kinda difficult and the life you play is either good or bad but besides that its still fun to play. We kinda dont like that you only have a certain amount of things you can do within the year. One thing we would change tho is the price of housing, its too expensive and only possible if youre super rich.
We loveee this game, its one of our favorite life sims out. We bought the legacy version because we thought we would have more time to do more life options but thats not the case esp when your character is sad, sick or poor then you only have enough time to do one or two options and then the life is over. People who have paid for the full version should get unlimited time, it makes the game less fun when you only have enough time to work and thats it.
This game use to be hard to play, but as the creators started to update it got way more easier. We never chose to delete this game because we saw potential! You guys proved us right and we love this game now. Please keep updating and dont ever stop.
Im amazed by the detail in the game and we get excited when theres a new update adding more features -ps keep up the good work.
We like using it for Sims family ideas alongside BitLife and Family Tree. Only problem is that trying to use the donor eggs or sperm throws an error so theres never a way to get to the next generation.
We enjoy playing this game. Im just wondering when is the next update.
We mean they like us, we got the money and the properties, we got a car, Im fit but it is absolutely impossible to get in a relationship let alone the fact it takes 20 attempts to get a decent shot at a long life. You end up dying with no decedents every time.
Please let it be easier having a spouse! It is such a beautiful game with challenging design, BUT the chance you get a baby is just ridiculously low especially every date is just bad, bad and bad we wonder if the communication books we buy really work Please make it easier, for we have played 10 rounds, have survived to 60s, but no children at all! What is the point of playing legacy edition if we cannot procure even one generation.
We love how detailed the game is and reminds us of RealLives before they turned it into what it is now and InstLife as well, who started the text simulation market on here but this game is so good, our favorite one so far out of BitLife, and Another Life.
Love the game. Probably our favorite life sim. But there needs to be more transparency in what things do. Like (this might increase x, y, or z). Also in developing technology, is this intended to be able to be monetized? Have not seen reward for doing this. We like the entrepreneurial aspect of the game, but should be improved beyond real estate in our opinion.
We absolutely love this game and think it has so much potential, but we wish that it either didnt have a timer or the time didnt decrease so fast, we feel like we never get to accomplish anything.
This is probably the simulator game with the most potential. We like how living in a third world country has genuine effects. However, the game is extremly hard to play, you can never inherit anything from your grandparents and it seems like if you begin with a difficult relationship with your parents you can never bring it back. Only 3 stars because it certainly needs some work but it has lots of potential. Most important detail right now is to add a way to turn off the music.
We like how realistic this game is but we bought this version so that we could pass down our wealth. Unfortunately for us its so hard to date in this game so there was really no point in buying it.
GAME IS ABSOLUTELY TRASH, DOESNT MAKE SENSE MOST OF THE TIME, we RECOMMEND PUTTING YOUR MONEY TOWARDS BITLIFE BECAUSE AT LEAST ITS MORE FUN AND UNDERSTANDABLE! THEY DONT EVEN HAVE A SETTINGS SO YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE TRASHY INTRO MUSIC, we WOULD RATHER POUR BLEECH INTO MY EARS THEN LISTEN TO IT AGAIN.
We like this game but when it comes to death its so random and out of no where yall should fix that because this is a downside and Im dying from the most random reason ever.
Make the attribute-building more transparent and make it easier to make good friends please. :).
This is probably the simulator game with the most potential. We like how living in a third world country has genuine effects. However, the game is extremly hard to play, you can never inherit anything from your grandparents and it seems like if you begin with a difficult relationship with your parents you can never bring it back. Only 3 stars because it certainly needs some work but it has lots of potential.
Impossibly hard and nothing good will ever happen to you in this game. No matter how hard you work you will never get the scholarship, a job or have any success ever. To the developers we say who hurt you.
This game is very detailed, so that in itself deserves a star. While Id like to say its amazing, all in all, it compares to most of the other life similators out there. Our main issue is dying before Im 30 in the game, whether it be from a dust storm, an unknown disease, or pneumonia. Please let us make it to 100 at least once in a lifetime! Another issue Im running into is making connections with people, more than friends to start a life. Getting a job is challenging too, so not only am we about to die young, we also am homeless, and poor too. We get it, it takes place in a third world country, but might our characters get to see a lavish lifestyle at least once.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.29
- Size: 74.71 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: LUCK-IT
Last updated: 13th December 2025 | Genre: Simulation, Roleplaying | Developer: LUCK-IT