Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 03:20 am
The Game of Life 2 – Board Game Review
The Game of Life 2 is a Board/Family/Entertainment game from Marmalade Game Studio Limited, first launched in 15th July 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 31,218+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes The Game of Life 2 Stand Out
Prepare to live a thousand lives in The Game of Life 2, the award-winning official sequel to the classic board game played by millions around the world. Gather your friends and family and dive into a bright, fun 3D world bursting with adventure!
The Game of Life 2 base game has everything you need to get started:
The Classic World board
3 x outfits unlocked
3 x avatars unlocked
2 x vehicles unlocked
3 x additional outfits to unlock
3 x additional avatars to unlock
2 x additional vehicles to unlock
Spin the iconic spinner and set off on your life journey. You’ll be presented with decisions at every turn, altering your life path. Will you go to college immediately or drive straight into a career? Will you get married or stay single? Have kids or adopt a pet? Buy a house? Make a career change? It’s up to you!
Earn points for choices that bring you Knowledge, Wealth and Happiness. Win rich, maximise your Knowledge or Happiness, or go for a healthy mix of all three and come out on top!
HOW TO PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE 2:
- When it’s your turn, spin the spinner to travel along your life path.
- Depending on the space you land on, you’ll experience different life events and choices, such as buying a house, collecting your salary, or drawing an Action card!
- At crossroads, you’ll have to make big life decisions, so choose wisely!
- Your turn ends; it’s the next player’s chance to spin the spinner!
FEATURES
- CUSTOMISE YOUR CHARACTER – Choose between the pink, blue or the purple peg. Select an outfit and make your peg your own. Browse a selection of cars, bikes and scooters and find a ride to suit your style.
- NEW WORLDS – Live life in enchanted worlds! Every new world features new outfits, vehicles, jobs, properties and more! Buy worlds separately in-game, or buy the Ultimate Life Collection to unlock them all!
- UNLOCK NEW ITEMS – Unlock new outfits and vehicles by playing the game and earning rewards!
- CROSS-PLATFORM – Join your friends and family, whichever platform they play on!
Live every life you’ve ever dreamed of in The Game of Life 2 – play today!
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, The Game of Life 2 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bugfixing and improvements
Download & Availability
The Game of Life 2 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get The Game of Life 2 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 a really good game. Just like the board game. It also has a pass n play mode and an online multiplayer mode. They both work pretty good. The first one isnt as good as this one, its more of an older version but there both worth the money.
There are no ads and its the most fun its amazing for kids and we got this for Christmas BEST GIFT EVER Im very happy.
We wish the game was longer but its fun.
The game is repetitive but still pretty fun solo or online. Makes getting the rewards fun. You do have to buy the other worlds to get the most outta the game unfortunately and to see a different layout and jobs so you dont get bored. But its worth it to pass the time. Just get it! Ive had no issues with glitches so thats great since it was last updated.
We have a problem: before when we were playing the game, we were able to change our name when we made an account on it using the pencil icon but now, the icon is gone, and we cant change our name at all. Its just stuck as Player and even though we made an account, it wont let us change our name and we think the account we made got removed or something bc our name is stuck as Player. Please fix this.
We have fun playing, but it gets redundant pretty fast. It would be fun if you could play different versions of the game – like Generations or Twists & Turns. Also, we wish the rules/options were customizable. Itd be nice to select whether or not youd like to play with attributes or revert to Classic mode (aka, getting to earn extra money when other players land on your career spaces, etc).
We love playing Life (1) with family!! So, just having Game of Life 2 on our phone is the best thing ever.
Does this game even have sound we see that the sound is on but there is no sound what do we do.
Ive missed this game. Thank you for making it great.
We love this game. You did such a great job. There are no problems and we are enjoying playing it. The only thing we would change is the ability to name the other players when you are playing pass and play. But we are enjoying it a lot.
This game is really fun to play.
Very cool can wait to unlock more levels Only thing … Please can we have a chat or emoji reaction area like life vacations. (Life vacations by the way is so slow) Please.
We love the game of life so much.
We love the game but one time a paid for something and the next time we played it our payment was GONE!!!! Please fix the problem.
Some day Ill learn to listen to learn not to listen.
This game is super fun to play as you get to choose more paths & have more things that can happen. This game can keep you, your kids/parents/family entertained for hours. Keep up the good work Marmalade Game Studio Limited.
Love this game so much. Its so exciting and fun. Definitely a 5 stars.
We played this game with our friend and had so much time if your looking for a fun game family game this is it. It cost money but its so worth it Im not a bot we actually played this and had so much fun so hope you do to if you want to and if you can bye.
We really enjoyed this app along with our girlfriend and her little brother. However, Im a bit skeptical if other kids will like this app because our GFs little brother got bored 3 minutes in and decided to play fortnite instead. It made us upset that a kid didnt want to play a kids game since you would think they would Enjoy it the most. Oh well…. We guess we just dont know what kids like anymore.
This game has amazing animation. The choices are expanded. It is perfect! . But when is each update? We need to know. Thanks.
This game is super awesome even though there are some app purchases you should totally buy it. You can finish puzzles and 79 purchases are really cool like new skins like this super cool princess outfits.
This a good game , very different than the other game. We do like the some of the jobs and that there no little games like in the first the games where replace our the fate we like the fate but there should more of a of like bad stuff. We like the game tho.
Best game ever we totally recommend it so play it a warning costs 3 dollars.
This is the best game Ive ever played well one of the best good job.
Wish for game of life 3 and thats it.
This game has it all! The music is awesome and with new jobs, its like youre living a brand life! Happiness, wealth, knowledge, it is up to you! Great fun for everyone, just like the first.
Very real modern twist on a classic.
We love all the Life bundle games.
Ok so Life has always been our fav board but the game of life 2 beats them all we just love it lol in their virtual game you could always be a girl or boy and marry either as well ( even the wedding videos change according to ur choice) but u had to get married and almost always had kids. Now theyve have really created the game of life lol it lets you be pink purple or blue also lets u choose pets or kids and u can stay single the whole game if u want lol like most of all the computers randomize too with all the options and names. Anyways we like the game and u should play it too lol.
Hi we love your guys games. We are like the king of monopoly. We love this game as well but we have a few suggestions about how to make the game better. We wish you can trade with people like money for hearts. Also you guys should make like crews where you can create and join on. And like each week is like a separate challenge. One week can see what crew can get the most hearts. The cap for the amount of crew members should be either 10 or 15. All your friends can join your crew. The last suggestion is that we wish you could add the computer in online with friends mode. You can do it in monopoly but not in this game. Also add more houses cars outfits and action cards. Thanks for considering our thoughts. We really a appreciate it. You guys are the best. Keep up the good work on making game of life 2 better.
We really like this game and think its an improvement over the first life game because it doesnt tell you to do real life things like tell another player your favorite book (which, when youre playing by yourself, was irrelevant and impossible). We also find the transgender option interesting (even though Im not). The only problem we have is that the game tells you that you have to pay back loans before the end of the game or you will get points taken away (and you do)…but we cant find any way to actually pay them back, even if we do have the money. We would think that they would have put in a button (like the mortgage button in monopoly) where you can take or pay back loans at will. If anyone can tell us how, we would be grateful.
We normally dont write reviews, but we just wanted to say that this is a pretty fun reimagining of the classic board game. Ive already played this more than we care to admit. There are some personal issues, thought. First of all, the games are often way too short. On one hand, shorter games is good, since we can get in multiple quick rounds throughout our day. On the flip-side, however, shorter games means that we often get to the end of the game with no additional family members (besides a spouse) and no houses, since it is far too easy to simply just roll past those events so they never come up. We find ourselves wishing these events were much easier to trigger, especially because each of these adds to the Attributes you accumulate that affect your total score at the end of the game. Speaking of additional family members, we were disappointed that when we finally got a game where we could get a pet, the game automatically chose a cat for us. We dont mind cats, but we are much more of a dog person. The game touts itself as being all about choice, yet seems all too happy to randomly chose which pet you get with no player input. When we played another game, the A.we got a dog and we felt a little cheated. Yep. We were jealous of a computer, if you can believe it. In real life (which this game is meant to emulate!), choosing a pet is such a personal thing, that we would have liked to have been able to chose our own pet rather than have the game chose it for us. You are able to chose your own spouse, why not be able to chose your own pet?? At the end of the day, however, these are really just nitpicks and our own personal issues that probably dont really matter or affect much of anything else. Overall, its still a pretty fun little game, even just playing against the A.we. : ).
We need emojis! And more lands. Already done collecting everything so it has become a bit boring.
This is definitely worth the price really cool concept on how they did it.
Although we love the game we have noticed that the pay may have a glitch when playing the single user against the cpu. For example: when selecting a career, the other choice is indeed chosen. When selecting college the second time the cpu will select a lower salary, and then given 200K salary. But overall, we enjoy playing.
We love this game sooooo much. The only thing is….we need more action card choices because we are tired of the same thing every time. Some action cards are the fired action card or great uncle Maxs birthday or lawsuit against the other player or just some more choices please. Another thing is could you please give us more jobs to choose from bc Im tired of only choosing from App developer, chef, YouTuber, Popstar, and the others. You could give us a . Just give us some more choices for a job. And more avatars. It would be nice to have more houses to choose from,instead of the same thing every time.And please cut down on the price . Overall we love this game. But please give us more choices. Thank you.
We like the game but, it consistently freezes and then we have to exit the game. We enjoy playing it with our sibling especially in this time with quarantine/lock down being very prevalent.
We bought this game for our family and we to play, and we would recommend it! The only thing we dont like about it is you can only buy a house if you land on the house squares. We like in the real game how you have to purchase a home every time. Just our personal preference tho, go ahead and buy the game.
We love the game of life 2, but we think it can be better. We think you should be able to pay taxes whenever. Like we lose games because we didnt repay our taxes. We should be able to pay taxes whenever. But overall pretty good game.
We like the app but it keeps freezing in the middle of the games we start to play. Need to please fix this problem. We would understand if it was a free game but we paid money and this game shouldnt be doing this everytime we play it.
We always enjoyed playing the game of life games. But we do have two problems with it, one the cost of having expansion packs (fairytale) is kinda ridiculous considering we bought the game from the start. If there was a way we could earn points from wining games to unlock these things that would be great. Second it would be cool if there was a timer when your playing online. Some players take there sweet time if there was a countdown we can avoid making the game longer then it has to be.
Dont like the new characters or game options. We like the original game better.
We like the game but at the end when you sell your house it says you can pick a different offer if you dont like the first one but it did not give us an option to change.
Great game but at times the game gets stuck. Also they favor the computer to win.
Great app is lacking in baby spaces and we feel overall the game needs to be longer.
We bought this game about a month ago to play with our family and while we had a ton of fun with it initially, lately its been impossible to finish a match. Weve had errors where one player will buy a house and the options overlay on another players screen making it impossible to continue. We had another situation occur multiple times where one player will wind up with multiple marriage marriage partners bugging the vehicle and causing the game to freeze for everyone. Honestly Im not sure why these started. It worked fine for a few weeks and then, all of this. Im not sure how possible itd be to implement but allowing someone to rejoin after dropping out or reconnecting could potentially fix the overlay issues.
We really like this game, its fun and keeps us entertained with all the new things to do, plus the purple peg option is really cool! But, there are NOT enough jobs whatsoever. Im always stuck between the same two for both going to college once and then getting the masters degree. Wheres the job diversity of the original? It makes it feel very repetitive when you can only pick between the same two jobs every single game.
Its a great game, but the biggest flaw is there is no timer for the spinner. People can wait and wait and wait and you just have to sit and wait for them to spin. A timer is for sure needed. Also like in monopoly, add comments we think that would be fun.
Wish you could add computers when you play along with a friend.
We really enjoy the original game Life 1, and based off the reviews for this new Life 2, we were a bit apprehensive . We have to say that the earning of puzzle pieces, gives an incentive and feel of accomplishment when the game ends, rather then in the original game, if we won, there was no real feel of victory and felt anticlimactic. There is still non stop action in this new version , just like the original , however, the one MAJOR flaw and disappointment we have is they did away with ALL the player vs player competitive games that were such a big and more importantly , FUN component in the original version. How and why they would take out those mini player on player games, Ill never understand. Those were a major part of the game. Now its just spinning the spinner. Really shot themselves In the foot making what could have been a Awesome new game into a decent game. Although, we cant say we like it more or less, its just a coin toss at this point. If they added the competition games to version 2, then that game would have everything we wanted from day 1 in the first game. We always said they should keep score on players to add incentive to want to keep playing, and the puzzle pieces do it. Hope they add the side games to the second version, and Im a 40 year old female saying this and we love playing. Just sayin.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.5
- Size: 1,013.39 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Marmalade Game Studio Limited
Last updated: 22nd October 2025 | Genre: Board, Family | Developer: Marmalade Game Studio Limited