Short answer: BitLife is still the best menu-based life sim. If what you want is BitLife with AI, where you type anything instead of picking from a list, try a life sim on Questner, like Life Simulator: Infinite Life or London Life: Realism. For a mobile app, Infinite Life Simulation is an AI life sim on the App Store.
BitLife made text-based life simulation a hit: 4.8 stars from about 1.8 million ratings on the App Store. You're born, you age year by year, and you pick from menus: study, work, date, commit crimes, have kids.
Its limit is the menu. You can only do what the game offers. AI life simulators remove that limit: you type what you want to do, and the story responds. You can talk your way out of a fine, start a band with your coworkers or move to another country on a whim.
Here are the best options, and when BitLife is still the better choice. Questner is our own platform.
BitLife vs AI life simulators
| BitLife | AI life simulators | |
|---|---|---|
| How you play | Tap choices from menus | Type anything you want to do |
| Story | Short events and random outcomes | Full scenes, conversations and characters |
| Speed | Fast: a whole life in minutes | Slower: you live moments in detail |
| Characters | Names and relationship bars | People who talk, remember and react |
| Price | Free with ads; extras like God Mode cost $9.99 | Varies; usually a message limit or subscription |
| Platforms | iOS and Android | Web, and some apps |
If you love racing through lives and seeing how they end, BitLife is hard to beat. If you wanted the people in your BitLife to actually talk back, an AI life sim is the upgrade.
The best games like BitLife
1. Questner: AI life sims in a dozen flavours
Best for: players who want BitLife's freedom with real conversations and consequences.
Questner is a library of AI text adventures, and life sims are one of its biggest genres. You type what you do, and an AI Game Master runs your life. Popular ones:
- Life Simulator: Infinite Life: "From high school to your dream future, every decision is yours." The closest thing to BitLife (8,700+ plays).
- London Life: Realism: a gritty London life where it's hard to make money, but you get by. One of Questner's top-rated games (9.1, 13,000+ plays).
- Random Life Simulator: start at birth with everything but your name and gender randomly generated. The most BitLife-like start.
- Started from the Bottom: you're 18 with no money, in any city in the world, with realistic living costs.
- College: No Rules 2.0: four years of college, with football, parties, romance, rivalries and secrets.
- The Athlete: pick any sport and follow your career from first training session to retirement, and the life after.
- Concrete Jungle: The Bottoms: street life, where every decision has consequences.
- Price: 40 free messages, a 7-day free trial, then $9.99 a month for 2,000 messages.
- Platforms: in the browser on desktop and mobile; add it to your home screen for an app-like feel.
Where BitLife is better: speed and replayability. A BitLife life takes minutes; a Questner life sim is a longer story. BitLife also has native apps and is free to play with ads.
2. Infinite Life Simulation: an AI life sim app
Best for: mobile players who want an AI life sim in an app.
Infinite Life Simulation is a text-based AI life simulator on the App Store. You play from birth: relationships, family and career, and the listing says the AI remembers your earlier choices.
- Price: free with in-app purchases, including a $4.99 lifetime premium offer.
Where BitLife is better: polish and size. Infinite Life Simulation is a small app without enough App Store ratings to show a score yet.
3. Build your own with ChatGPT or another chatbot
Best for: players who want a free, fully custom life sim.
Paste this into ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude:
Run a text-based life simulator like BitLife.
- Start me at birth in a random country and family. Tell me my stats: Health, Happiness, Smarts, Looks, Money.
- Each turn, advance one year (or stop for important moments) and describe what happens in 3-5 sentences.
- Then ask what I do. Let me type anything. Never decide for me.
- Actions have realistic consequences, and luck matters. I can fail, get sick, go broke or die.
- Show my stats in one line at the end of every reply.
Where BitLife is better: you have to keep the AI on track, and long lives drift.
4. BitLife itself, with expansions
Best for: fast, replayable lives on your phone.
If you're looking for more of BitLife, its expansion packs (Landlord, Investor, C.U.L.T.) add new careers and storylines for $7.99 each. God Mode ($9.99) lets you edit your character, and Boss Mode is $20.99.
How to choose
- You want BitLife but with real conversations: Questner's Life Simulator: Infinite Life.
- You want a gritty, realistic life: London Life: Realism or Started from the Bottom.
- You want a random start, BitLife-style: Random Life Simulator.
- You want an app on your phone: Infinite Life Simulation, or BitLife.
- You want it free and custom: a chatbot with the prompt above.
