Everlife 12+

This game is fun. It’s a slightly more child-appropriate version of bitlife. The art is super cute. There’s a lot you can do with your life. However, it is kind of repetitive, as the same things happen in different lives, and, in almost all cases, have the same results. I’ve pretty much memorized how to have my stats all the way up by now. There’s also a few bugs; for example, different ages can do different things, for example in recreation, babies can drink milk, sleep, etc, children can cuddle teddy bears, draw, make up imaginary friends, etc, teens can go to parties, adults can go to the mall, dine out, etc, and old people can play bingo, go to an art museum, etc. well, when I’m a baby, I either see the things that elderly people do or the things adults do. This happens in other categories too, like productivity. How can I clean my house before I have one? Another bug is the transition from past lives to your current ones. Let’s say in my last life I was “Bob” and now I was “Steve.” Well, it would still say bob, and it would say my old parent’s names too, and my children. Last and final bug is the stats, I’d have to stop my playing to go do something, come back and play again, and suddenly all my stats are depleted and in the bottom of the red. It would be nice if you could update these things, thanks and overall great game.

Everlife is fun, replayable, and wholesome. The choices you can make for your little character are interesting and dynamic. The game hints at things your character might be interested in, giving you gentle suggestions but not blocking you in. It’s endlessly replayable with so many options and paths you can take. It’s also very cute! The art is so adorable.

However, the game in its current state has been riddled with bugs. Replayable? Yes. Only because I haven’t been able to get through one life without encountering a game breaking bug that forces me to start over. Bugs like the same event that replays over and over, not allowing you to progress through the year. Autoselecting ‘continue’ ruining the potential for a good year. And a few more here and there. Happening once? Hey, it happens once in a while! But it has happened to me every playthrough. It’s forced me to put the game down until this issue is fixed. Which again, is a shame, because it’s a fun game with great replayability. I hope these issues are fixed in the near future!

I love the game. I even purchased the available deck and am looking forward to the next ones. The UI is beautiful, and the game is mostly easy to navigate but could be simplified with some collapsible menus. A few suggestions I have are the ability to set certain actions automated for a certain financial cost so you can do more things each year things like building skills, as getting wealth high seems somewhat pointless once you max it out. I do like the idea of only being able to focus on certain things in your life but managing real estate even if you don’t perform an action takes up a year. Also a reliable way to build skills as a child. The social media career and followers was also a bit jarring and didn’t seem to correlate to eachother. Graduate school and more immersive careers would be interesting as well.

A cool idea for wealth may be to have it set up the way grades are, so you have different tiers of wealth. The same system for costs, maybe rebalanced but with a larger pool, so you own multiple properties and make use your wealth for investments and other things.

Really great game and you can tell a lot of work has been put into it. Keep up the great work.