Games like BitLife: 6 text life simulators on Android compared
The closest games to BitLife on Android are AltLife by QmzApps, Bloodline, Verdant, Lifespan, AltLife Sim by Bountiful Games and our own Heirlines. Bloodline and AltLife keep BitLife's play-on-as-your-child loop; Heirlines is built around it and adds medieval lives; AltLife Sim lets you type your own choices.
BitLife made the text life simulator popular: you are born, a year passes with each tap, and the choices you make decide who you become. Plenty of games now play that way. Here are six on Google Play, from one with a million downloads to one made by a single developer, with BitLife in the table to compare against. We make one of them, Heirlines, and say so where it comes up.
Downloads and listing details were read from each game’s Google Play page on 7 November 2026. What we say about how BitLife plays comes from our own free play of it on 3 November 2026.
| Game | Maker | Downloads on Play | What its listing leads with | Play on as your child |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BitLife - Life Simulator | Candywriter | 50M+ | Choices from model citizen to crime | Yes |
| AltLife - Life Simulator | QmzApps | 1M+ | Prison, fighting, a video channel | Yes |
| AltLife Sim - Life Simulator | Bountiful Games | 100K+ | Type your own choices | Not stated |
| Verdant - Life Simulation | 6k.shaney | 10K+ | A random family, country and decade | Not stated |
| Lifespan - Life Simulator | Lifespangames | 10K+ | Money, business and investing | Not stated |
| Bloodline - Life Simulator | VertexInteractive | 5K+ | 96 countries, supernatural lives | Yes |
| Heirlines: Life Simulator | Comet Barn (us) | New in 2026 | Heirs, and medieval lives | Yes, built around it |
The ones closest to BitLife
AltLife by QmzApps is the nearest to BitLife in feel: one whole life, a year at a time, and when you die you carry on as your child. Its listing puts its systems first: training as a boxer or MMA fighter and throwing the punches yourself, prison crews and escapes, and a video channel you grow. If you played BitLife for the wild lives, start here.
AltLife Sim by Bountiful Games has a similar name but a different idea. Where most text simulators give you a fixed set of buttons, it lets you type a choice of your own, and the story follows it. That suits players who always wanted an option BitLife didn’t offer.
For long family lines
Bloodline is small (5,000-plus downloads) but its listing promises a great deal: 96 countries that shape wages, school and laws, 96 careers with ladders, and a dynasty that outlives you, with a family House that has a rank and a history. It also has supernatural lives, such as vampires and werewolves.
Heirlines is ours. It is built around the family line rather than having it as a feature: when a life ends you pick the heir from the living family, children and grandchildren first, then nieces and nephews, then brothers and sisters. They inherit the house and its payments, a share of the savings after the era’s tax, and the family’s name. How the hand-over works is in our guide to heirs and inheritance.
What sets it apart from BitLife:
- Medieval lives in England, France, Italy and Spain, as well as modern lives in four countries. Each place has events written for it. BitLife’s lives are all in the present day, and in our play its countries changed the setting more than the events.
- More than 2,300 written events, each with its own choices.
- No forced ads. No banners and no full-screen ads; an ad plays only when you tap a row that offers one. BitLife, played free, showed both.
- No account, and it plays offline. Paid unlocks are one-time payments with no subscription or coins; what’s free and what the Heirloom adds lists them.
Where BitLife is ahead, and it is a long way ahead: things to do. BitLife has around 160 activities from its menu, a dozen actions with every person, small games and owned items with their own upkeep. Heirlines is a story game with fewer moves. If you play BitLife for the activities, Heirlines will feel thin; if you play it for the story of a life and a family, it is worth a try. Heirlines on Google Play, or the game’s page.
For money and careers
Lifespan, made by one developer, leans toward wealth: careers, businesses, a company portfolio, stocks and crypto, homes and cars. Verdant starts you in a random family, country and decade, with more than 20 careers and finances deep enough for a property portfolio. Its listing says your children grow up and have children of their own; it doesn’t say whether you can play as them.
Which to try
- Wild lives, prison and fights: AltLife by QmzApps.
- Choices that aren’t on the screen: AltLife Sim.
- A dynasty, with supernatural lives: Bloodline.
- A family line through the centuries, without forced ads: Heirlines.
- Getting rich: Lifespan or Verdant.
All of them are free to download. Check a game’s own Play page for what it asks for and what it sells before you start a long family line in it.
Questions
- What is the best game like BitLife?
- It depends on what you liked in BitLife. For the same year-by-year text play with prison and careers, AltLife by QmzApps is the closest. For a family that carries on for generations, Bloodline and Heirlines. For lives outside the present day, Heirlines has medieval England, France, Italy and Spain.
- Is there a life simulator like BitLife where you play as your children?
- Yes. BitLife, AltLife by QmzApps, Bloodline and Heirlines all let you carry on as your child when a life ends. In Heirlines the heir can also be a niece, nephew, brother or sister when there are no children, and they take over the house, savings and debts.
- Is there a medieval life simulator like BitLife?
- Heirlines has medieval lives in England, France, Italy and Spain, each with its own written events, alongside modern lives. BitLife's lives are set in the present day.
- Is there a game like BitLife without forced ads?
- Heirlines shows no banners and no full-screen ads. An ad plays only when you tap a row that offers one, such as a second chance after a death. When we played BitLife free on 3 November 2026 it showed full-screen ads and a banner on every screen.
- Is there a game like BitLife where you type your own choices?
- AltLife Sim by Bountiful Games lets you type a choice when the ones on screen are not what you want, and the story follows what you typed.