Ice Age Life
One prehistoric life at a time
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
One Stone Age life, start to finish - hunt, love, raise kids, make rivals, earn a name. Then winter takes you, and your soul starts over as someone new. All text. Free.
One Stone Age life, start to finish. Then you die and do it again as someone new.
You're born into a band of hunter-gatherers on the Ice Age steppe. The game doesn't skip the boring parts and it doesn't skip the hard ones. You live the whole thing, from a kid underfoot to the elder the young ones stop listening to.
What kind of life is yours? You find out by living it.
Hunt mammoth until the band can't eat without you. Fall hard for someone two camps over. Raise three kids through a winter that was only meant to take one. Take in a half-wild wolf. Cross the wrong man and spend the next twenty years squaring it. Do something worth remembering, and hear your name long after you're gone.
Then winter takes you too. It takes everyone.
But your soul doesn't stop. It starts over - new body, new family, a new corner of a hard and beautiful world - and something of who you were comes with it.
No graphics here, and that's the point. It's all words, so the steppe looks like whatever your head makes of it. Nothing is scripted. Every life grows out of the choices you actually make, so no two ever land the same way.
Two worlds so far: the Mammoth Steppe of the late Ice Age, and the East Wind Plains beyond it. More are coming.
Free to play. Ads keep it that way, and there are a few things to buy if you want them, but the whole game is yours for nothing. Firekeeper membership turns the ads off.
Optional Firekeeper membership is an auto-renewable subscription, available as Ember ($3.99 / month) or Hearth ($19.99 / year). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. (Eternal Flame is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.)
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Ratings & Reviews
A second homeland, and a long pass over the encounter board.
- East Wind Plains: a new land to live a life in, open once you carry your line down the Steppe Kin Road.
- The encounter board is honest now. A seat shows what it will actually do, and nothing shifts under your thumb.
- Keyword Arcs in the Codex: tap any keyword to see the whole ladder it belongs to.
- Firekeepers can claim their daily shells in one tap.
- Dozens of smaller fixes found by playing it on a real phone.
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Information
- Seller
- Sunlit Game Studio LLC
- Size
- 203.8 MB
- Category
- Simulation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Realistic Violence
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Sexual Content or Nudity
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
Loot Boxes
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Elder's Legacy $49.99
- Ancestor's Cache $9.99
- Hearth Offering $4.99
- Firekeeper's Kindling $1.99
- Saturday Feast $4.99
- Amber Friday $1.99
- Shinestone Thursday $2.99
- Bloodstone Wednesday $2.99
- Sunstone Tuesday $2.99
- Flintbearer's Pack $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Sunlit Game Studio LLC