The Game of Life 2 Reviews

by Ken_zi21

I love playing Life. It was my favorite board game growing up and I even like the Life app that they came out with. Similar to the board game but had a few cool things added. So I see the advertisement for Life 2 and I’m excited thinking its like the new board game. So I thought. No it’s just a hyped up 3D bore fest! It was a waste of $4 and I’d like a refund. The game is boring. The choices are limited when picking a career or house, etc. And it’s always the same options. Which was always a really exciting part of playing life was choosing from the cool different jobs and houses, etc. Also it is really short game time and so dramatic and extra for no reason. And I know it seems weird for a game to dramatic but if you’ve played it you would understand. I dont recommend anyone whom enjoys the board game or orignal app to buy this cause it was defiantly a waste of time and money.

by MijaVioleta

Really disappointed with this game. I used to play the really old version where you could customize your family (windows 98 on cd or something like that). I knew this one wasn’t going to be exactly like that, but it had good reviews so I downloaded it. I was excited for the new updates but gameplay isn’t great. Game is too short and you don’t get chances to do the traditional gameplay ‘Stops.’ Hard to get married, have kids, and if you miss your chance you kinda miss your chance. It differs too much from the original gameplay to be nostalgic and fun, and it tries too many new things and isn’t A) cohesive as a whole or B) worth the payout. Maybe some new updates to TheGameofLife2 would help. There’s other maps you can buy, but it adds up quickly. I do like that you can have pets in the game, I just think it needs a lot more work before it’s a solid playable game.

by Ytpeacht

In the description of TheGameofLife2 , it describes how everything is available upon purchase and that access to more content can be purchased with a season pass. That’s what I expected. What I didn’t expect was the game to be so wanting. I remember enjoying the first Life app. I was excited for its sequel especially since they seemed to have added other ways of winning besides having the most money. During the game, players try to gain investment points, career points, and happiness points on top of money. The entire board is literally made up of spaces you can land on to increase any of one of these. The only spaces that are different are action spaces and tax spaces.. On action spaces you spin for any one of these (including the possibility of getting taxed/losing money). So… there really isn’t that much to the game as it claims. That’s it.. that’s literally it to the game. Plus, I think TheGameofLife2 might be a little buggy? At one point when I got the marriage event my partner choices wouldn’t disappear from the screen. So I had to continue playing with 3 large squares blocking me from seeing anything. I couldn’t close out of TheGameofLife2 because then it would’ve ended the game for everyone. It was really distracting and made this game even less enjoyable.

by +bak

I love this game so much, it gives me a nostalgic feeling while playing. After reading other reviews I see I am not the only person who feels the game needs to be more versatile and spontaneous. This game is fun but almost every game feels the same. The job choices are always the same, I wish I could pick from a wider selection besides, pop start, robot designer and astronomer. Also it doesn’t feel like it matters what paths I choose when it comes to family or education. I hardly ever get the option to choose housing or families. When I do get to pick a family it’s not fun because I can’t pick twins or get a spontaneous tile that says “you had triplets”. It just feels like I’m constantly playing to get the little icons which isn’t a very interactive experience. I don’t mind how short the games are because they shouldn’t be that long but at the same time, I paid for TheGameofLife2 and yet I don’t have any options to play different maps. The options for the different maps if you are going to make me pay for them, should just be separate games. This game would be so much more fun if the puzzle pieces I collected would lead to me unlocking other maps. I understand that the company needs to make money but I still think it’s ridiculous that I pay for the game and there isn’t any actual progress I can make in the game.

by Herhhd Hi Jdhhdhhdjhdhhd

The game is fine as it faithfully recreates a version of Life. Keep in mind that this version is fairly simplistic and lacks the elements of the older, more classic gameplay. That may or may not be a good thing.

So, keep in mind that this is a $3.99 game, so lower your expectations...

Graphics are nice enough, albeit repetitive. The music and sound effects are mediocre at best.

Multiplayer didn’t connect well for me. Other games I have played generally connect quickly. Therefore, I’m blaming this game.

Gameplay, as mentioned, is a simplified (but faithful) version of Life. It moves SLOWLY, however, even when placing it at 5X speed. The reason for this is the many transitions between play, which cannot be fast forward.

There’s a surprising number of microtransactions for this game. Of course, they are for cosmetic items; however, the cost of $30 for a “season” is a bit steep. Other games that use a season framework generally charge $10 or less and give you much more. You can, of course, buy bundles for $5.99 which give you limited cosmetics.

Worth the money? If you REALLY like these type of board games, sure. Otherwise you’ll likely unlock the achievements and not play it again.

by Leelee8080

I really enjoy the original game Life 1, and based off the reviews for this new Life 2, I was a bit apprehensive . I have to say that the earning of puzzle pieces, gives an incentive and feel of accomplishment when the game ends, rather then in the original game, if I won, there was no real feel of victory and felt anticlimactic. There is still non stop action in this new version , just like the original , however, the one MAJOR flaw and disappointment I have is they did away with ALL the “player vs player “ competitive games that were such a big and more importantly , FUN component in the original version.
How and why they would take out those mini player on player games, I’ll never understand. Those were a major part of the game. Now it’s just spinning the spinner. Really shot themselves In the foot making what could have been a Awesome new game into a decent game. Although, I can’t say I like it more or less, it’s just a coin toss at this point.
If they added the competition games to version 2, then that game would have everything I wanted from day 1 in the first game. I always said they should keep score on players to add incentive to want to keep playing, and the puzzle pieces do it.
Hope they add the side games to the second version, and I’m a 40 year old female saying this and I love playing. Just sayin.

by A_chasse

This game is definitely a bit underwhelming, which would be okay if it was a free app but unfortunately its not. I feel as though it lacks a lot of opportunity to land on spaces that I actually want to land on, like getting married, having kids, going to school, etc., the big life events. Because of that, the board also feels a little too short. If you spin anything higher than a 5 it feels like you miss a lot of those big opportunities. I wish there were different boards for different intensities of playing.
I do like that the game now has different attributes, and that collecting those can rank you higher than you thought. There are also lots of ways to make money through the action spots even if you don’t land on them.

by Revinstant

I bought this game about a month ago to play with my family and while we had a ton of fun with it initially, lately it’s been impossible to finish a match. We’ve had errors where one player will buy a house and the options overlay on another players screen making it impossible to continue. We had another situation occur multiple times where one player will wind up with multiple marriage marriage partners bugging the vehicle and causing the game to freeze for everyone.

Honestly I’m not sure why these started. It worked fine for a few weeks and then, all of this. I’m not sure how possible it’d be to implement but allowing someone to rejoin after dropping out or reconnecting could potentially fix the overlay issues.

by PandaLover242424

This game is a really fun version of life, but I have a few issues with it.
1- The original game has the equivalent number of paydays amongst the different tracks; not so this game.
2- The taxes are too high (most are over 90% of a payday) which is especially moronic when the tracks are inconsistent with the number of paydays. In addition, there are “fate spots” on the board which involves spinning the wheel in order to possibly buy a house, have a baby, get a raise, win $100,000, or pay taxes (which has the highest probability of being spun).
3- It freezes up for which the only fix is restarting the game. This, obviously, is the most irritating aspect of the game. Spending additional funds to buy different variations of the game board doesn’t help.

by 187282

I love the game of life and was excited to try this one but I was disappointed in a couple of things, mostly the lack of children. In the four games I have played so far, I have landed on a child spot one time. I think if you didn’t want to develop the maps further and make them longer, which I do recommend it takes like 10 minutes to play one game and I spend 90% of it watching my opponent take their turn, you should add a if you roll 1-3 you get 1 child or pet 4-7 twins or one kid and a pet or two pets, 8-10 triplets at the end of the family path or could customize with 2 kids and a pet or something along those lines. I go down the family path to have kids and I haven’t gotten a child once. Also more career options, let us choose the cards like in the actual board game and lastly houses. I haven’t landed on a house spot one time, partly because I have been trying desperately for kids but that is an essential part of life considering our pegs would die if they lived on the street for their entire lives. If I was able to have kids, I would probably enjoy the game a lot more because it is fun other than those few criticisms

by Jayson Rivest

I bought the original The Game of Life from Marmalade Studios and really enjoyed that. It was pretty close to the classic board game experience, but with the convenience of being digital. Was looking for the option to play Online with Friends, but the only option was to be matched with other players via Facebook. I wanted to play with my family on the other side of the country, we currently do that with Marmalade’s Monopoly app.

When I saw that this game offered that functionality, I was excited... until I downloaded and started to play it. It is advertised as a sequel to The Game of Life. I know that I shouldn’t have expected the same experience but I didn’t enjoy the new gamification of the action cards with the different attributes. The graphics also were a turn off for me as they seemed overly simplified and geared towards children. I recognize this is a game and therefore should appeal to children, but I liked the graphics from the original version better. Still bright and colorful but not in an elementary school way.

I really wish that they would just add the Online with Friends (in a custom private room) function to the first game.

by TT49347373373

I really love this game, i downloaded it because I’m in love with the first one. It’s a great game, however, it’s way too glitchy for me. And it’s not even the fact that it happens every so often. It happens SEVERAL time throughout the game to where i have to exit TheGameofLife2 out several times or quit and save progress. And what makes the frustrating even more is, when I’m towards the end of the game by the time everyone retires and it starts doing that it won’t even give me the option to pick back up where i left off. Once i exit the game towards the end the game is gone. I have to start over a new one. Extremely frustrating when you’re the winner, and you lose all your attributes, points, etc. i hope this gets fixed soon

by The Panda Pack

I honestly LOVE the game of life 2 but I’m starting to get really bored of it. Here’s why, I have been playing the classic world for ages and it gets really boring after like a year and I’m a person who doesn’t spend money on games so there really was nothing I could do about it. And now I feel like it is really getting boring with about nothing free. I mean, TheGameofLife2 isn’t free, the worlds aren’t free, the only thing that is free is the cars and like outfits you get from playing a lot but honestly, those take some time to get. The only thing I’m asking of this game is to add some more free stuff, in my opinion everything else is great so I think if you are someone who is fine with using money on games and plan to play a lot, this is worth it.

by 💩🪒🚿

I love the game. But I wish I could report players for being away the whole time. I played a few games where one of the other players takes until it’s about to kick them out to spin the wheel. Even then, when they land on a spot, they take forever to pick their choice or spin again.

I just wish there was a way to report players that are making games super long.
This is the second argument I got into with my girlfriend because of this because it makes games so much longer, and I can’t keep covering for myself about this. I’m really about to have to delete this game, but I really don’t want to because I like it a lot.

by Kay0126hsjdb

I absolutely love this game although I do still really love the classic game of life and life vacations but life 2 is much better the game teaches you about real life like taxes and jobs and other things but I do have a problem when I was playing the game I have noticed that the game board is long but for some reason the game goes by fast yes I do know that it’s something you can’t fix but I do recommend making the game board longer and adding more cars,outfits for the game ,and more maps I know that the game just came out but I still do recommend that but overall the game
Quality is really good and the physics are to and overall overall I really do like it

by 9 Year Old Dog Lover

I love
Life 1 so when I saw there was a life 2 I begged my parents to buy it. I play this really often but I think there could be a couple improvements…
Like when you get a pet you should be able to get a hamster or bird…. And I think that your pets should have genders! Two more things if you get married I think you should pick the outfit of your bride instead of them staying in the wedding outfit the hole time. And at the end of the game can you see you children/pet go to collage or if it’s your pet like on a car driving with you and your bride/other pets
Also I’m sorry all I’m talking about is improving it but I do realy love it I just have lots to say lol🤣

by JBone87

Love the animations and the wheel and this new fresh take of a familiar friendly game we all can enjoy! However; when I bought a bundle pack board and invite a friend to play they don’t enjoy playing and experiencing the same board. Total Bummer!! :/ So note.. unless the person you invite also has the board or board bundles they will get the starting board while playing... I really wish this were changed.

Keep up the great work Team!

This edition is awesome. (I also have The Game of Life “Vacations” that could use some new options as well).

by Seamouse2.0

Hi I love your guys games. I am like the king of monopoly. I love this game as well but I have a few suggestions about how to make the game better. I wish you can trade with people like money for hearts. Also you guys should make like crews where you can create and join on. And like each week is like a separate challenge. One week can see what crew can get the most hearts. The cap for the amount of crew members should be either 10 or 15. All your friends can join your crew. The last suggestion is that I wish you could add the computer in online with friends mode. You can do it in monopoly but not in this game. Also add more houses cars outfits and action cards. Thanks for considering my thoughts. I really a appreciate it. You guys are the best. Keep up the good work on making game of life 2 better.

by Spiral Nautilus

I really like this game and think it’s an improvement over the first life game because it doesn’t tell you to do real life things like tell another player your favorite book (which, when you’re playing by yourself, was irrelevant and impossible). I also find the transgender option interesting (even though I’m not).

The only problem I have is that the game tells you that you have to pay back loans before the end of the game or you will get points taken away (and you do)...but I can’t find any way to actually pay them back, even if I do have the money. I would think that they would have put in a button (like the mortgage button in monopoly) where you can take or pay back loans at will. If anyone can tell me how, I would be grateful!

by The Real Nyla

This game is fun and I think it is the best of the game of life games. All though I do recommend getting the other game of life games too! But if you can only get one I suggest getting this one it is the best one you can control your character way more. And this is also a good gift to give to someone or just buy it for yourself. You can give it to a loved one and they will Enjoy it very much like a virtual stocking to put little gifts in. Plus this is a great game to stay close without putting your safety to risk. If you like games like Monopoly online or clue you will probably like this game.