Family Life!
Family Life! is a simulation game with an engaging concept of building a family tree, but recent updates and a high volume of unskippable ads significantly detract from the user experience, leading to widespread frustration.
Family Life! is a free-to-play simulation game where players manage a family tree, making life choices for their characters. While many users find the core gameplay fun and addictive, recent updates have introduced bugs and removed features, and the game is heavily criticized for its excessive and long advertisements.
What users like
What users complain about
- Excessive and frequent ads make the game nearly unplayableR6R7R19R30
- High price of $30 to remove ads is considered unreasonableR8R14R20R34
- Recent updates removed features, such as individual choices for multiples (twins, triplets) and separate namingR5R25R44R59
- Game is prone to freezing, crashing, or not loading, especially with larger families or after certain yearsR29R56R64R66
- Game does not accurately reflect its advertisementsR1R27R43R75
- Bugs include characters living unnaturally long, adopted kids being unable to go to school or get jobs, and lack of housingR5R10R17R24
- Lack of diverse representation (LGBTQ+, Black skin tones, non-binary options) and racist ads are concernsR16R37R51R52
- Perceived as abandoned by developers, with updates only addressing bugs rather than adding new contentR4R71
Latest update · v1.51.8
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Bug fixes.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy life simulation games and building a family tree, are willing to tolerate a high volume of ads, or are prepared to pay a premium to remove them R2R8R13R36. It is not for players who expect the game to match its advertisements, dislike frequent interruptions from ads, or are looking for a game with consistent performance and diverse character options R1R27R30.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, primarily due to ad frequency and recent update changes. This contrasts sharply with the lifetime rating of 4.4, suggesting a significant decline in user satisfaction over time. The confidence in the negative themes is high due to the sheer volume of supporting reviews. Evidence for specific bugs like characters living too long or adopted kids being useless is moderately strong, appearing in multiple reviews.
Frequently asked
How much does it cost to remove ads in Family Life!?
Does Family Life! allow individual choices for multiple children?
Are there performance issues or bugs in Family Life!?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R2] Love it!: I think it’s really good cause it expresses you before you can become a mom or a dad and I think it’s really realistic and I think it’s really fun and you do get to create your own family tree so you can see long and long and long long or long so I think it’s a really good game really recommended love it
- [R8] This game is amazing: I am addicted to this game. But the ads are over the top, I would pay for them to be gone. But $30 is WAYYYY too much. If it was $5 that is way more reasonable or even just a tad bit higher. I would rate more of a 3.5/5. I play this everyday. I just dislike the constant ads and I will not pay $30 to remove them.
- [R13] The best game ever made for you by Adriana: This game is so fun and addictive but my family is well worthy and healthy so try this game out
- [R36] I LOVE THIS GAME: this game is beyond fun. i loved it so much that i even payed 30 dollars to remove the ads. the only thing i would want to change is to add new things, because each time it just says the same stuff.
- [R32] I love the idea: I love the idea 💡 about a family tree 🌳
- [R39] This game is really good hello?: This game is not add flooded so you can actually play. There are so many choices and different things to do. It has things you have to pay for and if you don’t pay for it you still have a good experience without any of the perks. Only problem I have is that there’s only 1 smart child in half of the children. If you have quad babies it might be 2 but I have had a gr
- [R6] Ads: good game but gives you a ad every 2 seconds
- [R7] Pay to play: To do anything need to watch a ad
- [R19] Predatory Ads: Disgusting amount of ads with an unreasonable purchase price.
- [R30] So Many ADS: Constantly bombarded by ads. I’ve had 7 ads in the first couple of minutes and spent more time on ads than the game. Not only do you have to do the ads in order to make choices, you have to do them if you don’t do anything.
- [R14] $30 for ad free is nuts: Id give this game 5 stars, but the fact that they’re charging $30 to go without ads insane. It’s a fun game though
- [R20] Game is fine: But $30 to remove ads on a mobile game like this is WILD
- [R34] Too many ads: Cute game but too many ads making it unplayable also to get rid of ads is 30 dollars so
- [R5] Good but needs fixing: I’ve played this game a lot and it’s honestly really fun. However I noticed they change how it works with twins or triplets. You can no longer choose majors or anything for them specifically. They all have to do the same major, same club, and it really messes with the gameplay. Also there is this game stopping bug where some of your kids stop actually doing anything? They do
- [R25] Good game, bad update: Honestly this use to be an amazing game before they updated it. Now when u have twins, triplets, or quadruplets, they all have to do the same thing. Sometimes it doesn’t let you pick their schools, you can’t have them doing different clubs (really threw me off), and you can’t pick their names separately(the worst). I like it when they has the kids as their own. You could pic
- [R44] New update sucks: I honestly feel like the game used to be better . Now when you get twins or triplets they only allow you to choose one major for all of them . It was bett when I was able to choose a major for each person . One more thing , sometimes it sucks having triplets or quads every time it should be more 60% ( single baby’s ) 40% ( twins, triplets, quads..etc)
- [R59] amazing and fun game but one issue…: i absolutely LOVE this game, but there’s one little issue that needs fixing. idk when this update was implemented, but we used to be able to name our twins/triplets/quadruplets individually, but we can’t now… this problem is bad for me because i purposefully like to put the longest name available for my kids and i can’t do that now. a lot of things regarding m
- [R29] It doesn’t not open: I like this game from time to time but recently it doesn’t open or start the game for me so sad
- [R56] Feels Like BitLife but Broken: I was really excited to download this game, but unfortunately it doesn’t work as I expected. Every time I try to open the game it just gives me a blank screen and then my entire phone glitches out. I have only had this phone for about 8 months, and it works great otherwise, so I don’t think it should be glitching out like that so it feels like more of a problem with
- [R64] Endless launching: Since last update it won't even start
- [R66] Not great.: New update is terrible. Game mechanics are bad and glitchy in general but now it’s almost unplayable
- [R1] No: The game is nothing like it looked liked it’s so boring,
- [R27] DONT GET THIS APP!: It’s horrible and honestly not a fun game! It not even like the ads! This game should never has been a thing! By myself-
- [R43] Disappointed and not looking like the ads you lair: I got interested as I saw the ads and It’s looks great, but I downloaded it it’s not look like the ads at all. It’s just a stripped down version of the game and Plus you have to wait for something happened I only put it on theee stars because it has potential Plus please update the game that is literally like the ads
- [R75] Game is promising but…: The issue I have is that the game is nothing like I see in the Ads & there are too many of them to make it playable for very long, I think if they toned down on it a bit then I would probably give it a 4 star!
- [R10] need more houses!: only been playing for a few days, i have 160 members and am already out of homes. i bought all the businesses hoping it would unlock more homes but it didn’t
- [R17] Problem with aging: Love the game but have a problem when someone die it keeps them alive
- [R24] Love this game but there’s 2 things…: I love this game but I’m getting the people never dying bug (being 140+) and I also really don’t like how if you get more than one baby at once you can’t choose different schooling for twins triplets etc…which I used to like to do based on individual stats… but the never dying glitch is really annoying… 5/5 game but the bugs and the new update makes it a 4/5
- [R16] Good but: I think it’s good but I would like if you could be trans or nonbinary but it’s really fun and it is very easy to play, one more suggestion I have is that all the characters have terrible IQ scores so maybe you could fix that? It’s super fun to play and I play it almost everyday!
- [R37] I love this game!: This is generally such a good game and I reminds me so much of bitlife, one thing I hope they add transgender character or maybe affairs and etc.
- [R51] Racist, why?: What is the point of making an ad racial? It’s like you guys can’t help but be nasty to people of color? The ads for this game are disgustingly disrespectful and if I could report the game, I would.
- [R52] Question: I’d like to know if this game allows us to be lbgtq?
- [R4] abandoned?: i paid yall a LOT of money for this game just for yall to abandon it a year later. i don’t appreciate it and i feel taken advantage of.
- [R71] Game with potential but with no leads: The game itself is a great concept. I don’t mind spending for more content, but I’m only hesitant to because it seems like the devs are juggling too many other titles along with those updates, that it seems they are putting this one in the back burner. I mean, just look at the list of “updates” for this game, which are all bug fixes only. There haven’t been a
- [R12] It’s okay…: It’s a very decently fun game. They are just to money hungry! They don’t have 2 to 3 packs. You must pay for everything and there are adds every 60 minutes
- [R22] It’s ok: I like it but it’s kind of a little bit not enough jobs to do
- [R26] Hello, I play your game Family Life! and I love it very much, but I'm having trouble because the game doesn't support Arabic. I hope you will add Arabic language support (menus + text) in future updates, because there are many Arab players who would love support for their language. Thank you, and I hope for a reply. · translated
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store