The Sims™ FreePlay vs BitLife

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.

1. [R2] The Sims™ FreePlay 4/5 · US To make it 5 stars this app needs…: Realistic Life • 🧍 Different body types and heights. • 😊 A deeper emotions system (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, jealousy, boredom, etc.). • 🧠 Unique personalities for every Sim (social, shy, lazy, generous, intelligent, hot-tempered, etc.). • 🥶 Sims reacting to weather by feeling hot or cold and dressing appropriately. • ☔ Automatic umbrella use when it rain
2. [R27] The Sims™ FreePlay 3/5 · US Annoying: I feel like you guys are greedy. Just let us be able to enjoy the game with all the customizations instead of having to earn things. It’d be so much better. Most frustration comes from limited initial options. And paying to get money out? Like cmon.
3. [R63] BitLife 3/5 · US This game is amazing, but gets so boring, so fast.: I love bitlife, I’ve loved it for years. But, at some time it just go so much more boring. The story telling is boring, relationships with family is boring, all the “new stuff,” boring. I wish there was more character customization, family dynamics, school systems, crime systems, months instead of years, interactions with other people. Its just g
4. [R64] BitLife 1/5 · US Pay to play: I remember when this game was fun, not ad infested and out behind a huge paywall, just redownloaded the game and it’s completely infested with ads, everything is behind pay walls, which is unbelievable and unfortunate. Never thought it would come to this
5. [R12] The Sims™ FreePlay 3/5 · US Building supplies take to long: There needs to be a better way for a player to get building supplies than the painstaking long process of getting them ever so often from the community garden. This slows the game down WAY to much
6. [R40] The Sims™ FreePlay 1/5 · US Keep glitching out: I like this game so much but I always have to stop playing it because every time I get deeply into it the game begins to glitch like now. I’m in the middle of a 14 day development and now because of the game is glitching out. I’m not going to be able to finish it and the thing that irritates The most is how much money I’ve actually invested into this game because I really like
7. [R66] BitLife 3/5 · US Fun but can be disappointing and costly: I’ve played this game since the very beginning. I adore it and I’ve always been super dedicated. Unfortunately over the last few years the game has become costly to enjoy. DO NOT waste your money on the pass. I paid for it and have yet to be able to use it. I have to click restore purchase every time I get back on the game. And I can even use most of the co
8. [R72] BitLife 3/5 · US It’s good but…: The game is good and fun to play, like everyone else said, can be repetitive, lot of stuff is only accessible by paying for it. And I took two stars off because genuinely WAY TOO MANY ADS. If they could reduce the ads then the game would be so much more enjoyable. Mind you I still think it’s fun now. Please devs less ads.
9. [R7] The Sims™ FreePlay 1/5 · US Cannot Resume Game: I have been playing for a year and a few weeks ago I got the Living Teddy from the market, but it has a bug that does not allow you to return it to inventory. Support apparently fixed it, but I could only return it to inventory once and, then, it bugged again. So, I decided to save game and delete and reinstall. Now, I cannot load my saved game; I get up to 100% / 99% downloade
10. [R25] The Sims™ FreePlay 1/5 · US Please stop: This is the second time my game has crashed during several challenges going on, and when it comes back on, I lose all progress. All of my sims were busy doing long tasks, and when the game finally loaded all my sims had stopped what they were doing. I’ve spent tons of money on this games and it keeps cheating me.
11. [R43] The Sims™ FreePlay 1/5 · US Won’t download: I’ve had this game for years. I go to play and it’s forcing an update but it won’t go through and I have room for it. It’s happening on my iPad and on my phone. I’ve spent a lot of money on this app as well. I keep being directed to articles but not getting any real help.
12. [R19] The Sims™ FreePlay 1/5 · US High Track: Fun game, there are too many advertisements!
13. [R67] BitLife 1/5 · US The greed is disgusting: I used to have BitLife a couple years ago on my old phone, and I bought the job pack and bitzen for like 10 dollars and enjoyed the game because it was fun. Now you have to pay 5 dollars for EACH job??? Or a pack for $55. Mind you, they didn’t update it or add content, they just up charged it for no reason. This game is just a greedy scam that overcharges for everything. D
14. [R106] BitLife 1/5 · US P2W and boring: This game has so much potential that is locked behind countless DLCs that you have to pay for, also, if your doing Free to Play, your extremely limited to what you can do. And the ads, they are literally anywhere you look if you play with Wi-fi
15. [R4] The Sims™ FreePlay 1/5 · US Not what Sims is about: The game will require to setup neighbors and if you don’t have social media you won’t be able to pass that quest and then there is no storyline. They essentially force you to connect your accounts to keep playing. That’s the first red flag. Updates would never download on WiFi or cellular. I restarted, tried other games, and it still wouldn’t download. Also it tries to make
16. [R55] The Sims™ FreePlay 1/5 · US Fix the game: It just keeps saying download error. I tried eveything. It’s your servers. Please fix them asap. Then I’ll change the rating.
17. [R71] BitLife 5/5 · US NOT RESTORING MY PURCHASE.: Give me a refund if you’re it going to restore my purchase that I’ve already made in the past.
18. [R82] BitLife 1/5 · US Don’t spend money: Everytime I have spent money on this game it always some how just randomly gets rid of the stuff I’ve probably spent 70$ on this game on different accounts and I always lose my progress