Life Crush Story 4+

Update: The many updates this studio has made have really improved the game. They obviously do care about the quality and I keep coming back to this game. I would love a section where the mini games can be practiced seperately!

Old review: This studio’s other games had a lot of charm and a similarly cynical outlook. This game is better with the recent update, but still ultimately boring and frustrating. The most fun part of this game is the “candy crush” gameplay and I wish the developers had made that part more sophisticated. Instead, this game is really about matching blocks and then playing difficult minigames (they are still hard after the update and just not very fun) to collect endings. I pick it up every once in a while and then remember why I don’t play it anymore. One thing that would greatly improve the experience is to make it possible to get several of the endings in one playthrough —just like real life, you can be poor, but fall in love, and still have a passion outside of work. I would prefer the mingames disappear or at least provide a way to practice them. I dread them. 2 stars for the game plus one star because they haven’t given up on it.

I agree with a lot of the reviews on that the mini games are basically impossible. The execution of everything is very clever, but the difficulty of this one aspect makes the game to repetitive and boring. It’s not so much of a challenge as it is a wall. The mini game where you have to spin a wheel for things like friends and pets feels really clever to me. It really plays on the whole idea of relationships being a gamble, and it’s not as impossible as the work related ones. If you were afraid people would have too easy of a time if you make the mini games easier don’t! I’ve failed to even take the tests plenty of times, and I feel like the tests being more rewarding would only be an improvement.
Otherwise I think this is one of your best games! I’ve checked out your other mobile games and they are both very fun, but this one has the best pacing and artwork of them all. The game show esque music is both relaxing and fills you with tension, and it’s sets the mood super well. I think this game has incredible potential, but the mini games need some improvement.

This is a wonderful game and well executed. However, I have 2 somewhat negative things to say about it.
1: Like everyone else, I agree that the mini games are nearly impossible to beat, and while I get that that can be a metaphor about how without the right resources, even with the right opportunities things rarely work out (even you’re poor), the way it is now the mini games just makes the game not fun.
2: They give you a warning when you start the game that it evolves heavy topics. While I don’t think the topics are heavy, it’s still not a game for people with depression. The futility of trying to get *anywhere* in the game yet failing again and again and again and again and again, really isn’t good for my depression. For that reason I had to uninstall or I end up a news article.