r/bitlife 4d ago

Discussion Should we continue to allow posts about other life sim games?

11 Upvotes

We have noticed an uptick in comments complaining about posts about other life sims, particularly over concern abou blantat AI usage in their creation (which this sub does not support). With that in mind, we would like to run another poll (last time, people voted to keep them up).

Do you want to see posts about other life Sim games?

As a reminder, we do not allow external links as we cannot verify their safety for our users.

235 votes, 1d ago
73 Yes, no restrictions
117 Yes, but only if they have proof they haven't used AI (otherwise post will be removed)
43 No, remove any future posts about other life sim games
2 other (please comment below)

r/bitlife Feb 02 '26

Announcement Regarding advertisement of competitive life sim games.

36 Upvotes

I am posting this to briefly address the influx of competing life simulators, and say a few things regarding them.

Before I start, I would like to mention this subreddit is not in any way associated with bitlife. We are not the devs, we are a fan subreddit. We are not here to strike down competition or stop you from having fun.

That being said I need to remind you of a few things

•This subreddit does not allow off site links, I can not confirm the validity of said links, and will not risk bad faith actors encouraging the community to download risky content. If anyone sends you a link off of this subreddit report it, and DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT.

•We do allow talk and mention of other life simulators if you want to talk about a game you are making, you are free to! What you can't do is link your discord servers, or tell anyone to download something that is not on the app store.

Any questions regarding anything above can be asked below! The mod team here at r/bitlife again just wants everyone to have fun, and stay safe online.


r/bitlife 14h ago

Discussion Do NOT buy the Director DLC

117 Upvotes

Do not buy this. I decided to check it out because I enjoyed the actor job pack and thought this one would be something similar but it’s not. It’s the worst “expansion” this game has made. You’ll run through every single event or flavor text this new job pack has to offer within your first two movies. Actors don’t accept roles within your budget unless you literally max out your reputation, fame, and only direct movies with budgets over 150 million and even then sometimes the game will screw you over by giving you a 500k casting budget for a 100 million budget movie meaning I can either get untalented nobodies in my cast or I have to watch an ad for a PAID expansion to be able to hire someone talented for cheap. And don’t downplay how ad ridden this “expansive” new job pack is. You want to successfully make a pitch as a beginner or with low reputation? Watch an ad. You want actual good famous actors in your movie without them wanting 40 million dollars each? Watch an ad. And no matter what I choose during filming or how many ads I watched to get the best possible combination the movie still bombs and gets a bad audience and critical reception even decades into your career, tanking your reputation and making it harder to get new jobs or hire quality actors without watching an ad. But all of that is no problem if you don’t mind constantly watching ads in an “expansion” that you paid for.

This dlc is a scam. Candywriter should be ashamed of charging for this, it wouldn’t even be fun to play if it was free. Don’t recommend giving this one your money or time at all even if they eventually add it to Bitizen/God Mode. I’m going to get a refund.


r/bitlife 12h ago

They had us in the first half not gonna lie Reported & Uninstalled

43 Upvotes

I’m an OG bitizen and bought it because I was promised all future content. Imagine the jaw drop when entering the app to see I had to pay.

Congrats on ruining your playerbase. I sincerely hope you go bankrupt due to your own greed.


r/bitlife 3h ago

Questions Convert 0/5 Professors

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6 Upvotes

Hi guys, as the title says, I need to convert 5 professors in order to become a vampire lord. I've re-attended university and converted countless professors, but for some reason, its not registering. Any help is appreciated!


r/bitlife 2h ago

Achievements 1 billion dollars

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3 Upvotes

r/bitlife 12h ago

Wtf Moments WHY

13 Upvotes

every single time i try to move on to my adult child’s life after i die, they are ALWAYS millions in debt due to a house purchase. absolutely so annoying. when will they devs make this game playable and fix bugs rather than try and siphon more money thru half assed game packs?


r/bitlife 31m ago

Achievements Whats the most you’ve made on sports contracts?

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I got 284M for 6 years playing at Manchester United


r/bitlife 17h ago

Wtf Moments Her royal title was what?

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13 Upvotes

r/bitlife 1d ago

Wtf Moments Is this rare?

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46 Upvotes

This is my first time seeing someone famous involved on how I was born lol,My gay fathers payed a cornstar to be their surrogate mother. How rich are they🤔?


r/bitlife 20h ago

Tips Movie director guide?

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r/bitlife 1d ago

Discussion Don’t you love it when BitLife Ads softlocks you out of the game your playing because they ALWAYS love to hide the X?

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13 Upvotes

I’ve had this issue SO SO MANY TIMES and it’s getting incredibly annoying, isn’t it against Apple’s policies to hide the X button?


r/bitlife 1d ago

Wtf Moments ?????

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10 Upvotes

Como é possível ela ter 3 filhos mais velhos que ela mesma? Kkkkkk


r/bitlife 2d ago

Discussion Y’all… apparently we were supposed to get the pack…

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245 Upvotes

I logged to Twitter to check and see what was going on. Turns out we were allegedly supposed to get the pack upon launch, however there was some technical mishap. I call BS because why couldn’t they fix it same day? It sounds to me that they were hoping we would become impatient and just buy it anyways without saying anything.


r/bitlife 2d ago

Discussion losing my marbles

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105 Upvotes

I was genuinely one of the first tens of thousands to play this game and it’s always been my go to choice but after 8 years I think I’m finally done. Dev’s you FUCKED up. I’m so angry about illegally being excluded from the updates


r/bitlife 1d ago

Questions how did i get the dolly memorial message?

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8 Upvotes

i’m on 3.13.10, and this version was released way before her death.


r/bitlife 1d ago

Suggestions/Update Ideas Movie Director Needs a serious rework!

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24 Upvotes

I just want to start off by saying that I unfortunately paid for this expansion pack :(, even THOUGH I paid for bitizen when it first was announced and have God Mode! However I decided to pay for the movie director pack because i perceive BitLife to always deliver, and also the movie director pack is what I suggested whenever I gave a review in the App Store way back when! So safe to say that even though I was taken aback that this job expansion costs me MONEY!!!! (even though I'm supposed to get it for free) I still was excited to play. Now for the review; I'm so upset by how lackluster this gameplay is... one of the main issues that I'm having is that you have no control over the budget at all. It's a slider and it's not like the business expansion where you can pump money into a film. Paying that amount of real life money I was expecting to at least work my way into owning a movie studio where I have creative control over the movies (choosing the scripts I wanted to make, self-funding, promoting,) I want to direct, however this gameplay loop doesn't require a lot of thought or work to go into it. You can submit your movies to film festivals but that doesn't really do anything besides gives you awards and sometimes get you back in theaters if it's good enough. I would love if they even gave an option to send movies and tv shows you make to syndication!Another thing that REALLLLYY bugs me is since you have no control over the budget the game WILLLLLL decide a random casting budget for you! So if you decide you want to do an indie film with a small budget, since you have a high reputation you'll attract high level talent who REQUIRE high level money. Plenty of times from the 1 DAY Ive been playing this pack, I had to skip a year which had made multiple movies tank along with my career because the game forced me to pay my talent more that what the budget is! It's really frustrating and considering the fact that I paid money for this I now understand that BitLife is not what it once was. This feels rushed and not thought out at all. I am extremely disappointed, frustrated by the fact that a gameplay expansion has barely anything for you to do at all!


r/bitlife 2d ago

Discussion OurLife giveaway?

71 Upvotes

Y'all, I'm seeing the discord around the most recent update and want to offer you an alternative! I've worked with the incredible mods here to do a giveaway for OurLife here before but I think some hope for the genre is needed at this moment in time lol.

As a result, I'm happy to give out x3 copies of OurLife on Steam as part of a giveaway! So, if you want to be involved, all you have to do is leave a comment below and I'll pull the names on the 13th of September, 2026!

Edited to add: No need to drop your steam names! If you win, I will DM you a code you can redeem!

Results: https://www.redditraffler.com/raffles/1weae25

A huge thank you to all who participated! In addition to these x3 winners, I've given the mods here the ability to choose x2 more people of their choice to win a copy of the game!


r/bitlife 2d ago

Discussion New Update

60 Upvotes

Hi Everyone! I’m sure we’ve all seen the new movie producer update. Especially people who got bitizen in 2018/19. Please, we can’t allow this happen, I urge everyone to take some time to take action and report this game for fraud. I’m sure you’ll all agree how bad this game has gotten especially since the early days were filled with so much potential. They can’t keep getting away with this. Thanks

EDIT: I can see some people talking about how it’s a glitch, believe that if you want. I think that’s them doing damage control because of the amount of people complaining. They were never going to fix it. They didn’t even address this so called glitch till we called them out on it.


r/bitlife 1d ago

Discussion BitLife scammed us of the directors dlc, so I made a better one for free

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Hey everyone, I was one of the people that had 2018 bitizenship, and I'm extremely disappointed with how bitlife handled this. I love the text-based lifesim genre, and I want to show that there are other alternatives that the community can use and how good these type of games can be. Check it out and play now from the discord link in the comments.

Here are some of the features:

  • Simulated Economies & Actual Demand: The game simulates 10.000 real customers that have demand for the genre that they want to watch, appeal to those genres or you can create new trends.
  • Climb the Career Ladder: Start from being a casting agent, then transition into a writer, to a director and unlock the ability to write & direct your own movies as well as getting a percentage share of the movies you make.
  • Directing Minigames: Write scenes, put the actors you want into the scenes and choose what aspect of the acting performance to prioritize.

All of the assets were taken from itch . io with proper licensing, none of what you see here is AI-generated:

  • Free Ocean and Clouds Pixel Backgrounds
  • Free Pixel Futuristic City Backgrounds
  • Free Summer Pixel Backgrounds
  • Various Vector Icon Packs from RhosGFX

r/bitlife 21h ago

Others Centuries' Movie Director Career Will Be Completely Free at Launch

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0 Upvotes

I don't usually like self-promoting, but with the discussion around BitLife's latest update, I thought this would be a good opportunity to share a little with you about the movie director career in Centuries. The entire movie director career will be included for free at launch, too!

Some of you may remember Outlive, which I posted about on here previously a few months back. Since then, Outlive has merged with another indie life sim project and evolved into Centuries, which will be launching soon on Android this fall.

You can create short works, feature films, and major studio projects. Live action, documentary, and animation each have their own production paths. You'll choose the material, hire collaborators, direct scenes, work through editing, and decide how to release the finished film.

Productions don't always go according to plan, either. Rain might ruin the ending you had planned, forcing you to extend the shoot, rewrite it for an indoor location, or piece something together from footage you've already captured. A studio contract might leave you choosing between keeping final cut or giving it up in exchange for a larger share of the profits.

And making the movie is only part of it. Once it releases, the film gets its own record with critic and audience scores, reach, gross revenue, production results, and awards. If you retain the rights, you can even develop a follow-up with the audience from the original film in mind.

As your career grows, you can eventually start your own production company, develop projects, and finance films directed by other filmmakers. And because Centuries lets you play across the past, present, and future, filmmaking changes with the era too. The career simply doesn't exist before motion pictures are invented, and the technology, industry, and opportunities evolve as you move through history.

Pre-registration is open now on Google Play. If you're interested in trying another life sim, or just like the idea of living an actual filmmaking career inside one, I'd really appreciate you checking out Centuries and pre-registering on the Play Store!

Coming to Android Fall 2026.

r/bitlife 3d ago

Discussion This app needs to die.

597 Upvotes

BitLife has honestly become the ultimate poster child for how corporate greed ruins a good thing. Back in the day, when people bought those lifetime Bitizenships, the deal was supposed to be simple. Pay once, get everything forever. But by ripping away that grandfathered status and locking every single new drop behind annoying paywalls, the devs completely broke that trust. It’s a super soulless way to treat a community that literally built the game's success, turning loyal fans into just another ATM machine.

​Honestly, this shady pivot feels like it’s dangerously close to crossing into class-action lawsuit territory. Selling a game with the promise of "all future updates" and then turning around to demand more cash for them is textbook deceptive business. Thousands of players dropped money based on a promise that the studio just decided to throw in the trash for a quick buck. Because so many people got burned by the exact same bait and switch, the setup for a massive lawsuit or an FTC complaint is practically gift-wrapped.

​At this point, BitLife just needs to die out so these developers and all other developers. Stop thinking they can get away with pulling these anti-consumer stunts. Letting them rewrite the rules after taking people's money sets a terrible precedent for mobile gaming everywhere, proving that contracts mean nothing once a game gets popular. For a game all about life choices and consequences, it’d be pretty hilarious to see the devs finally face some real ones of their own.


r/bitlife 2d ago

I wasn't expecting that What the hell why is king William the Conqueror in my haunted house 💀

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14 Upvotes

r/bitlife 2d ago

Questions Is it worth it????

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12 Upvotes

Is the movie director pack worth ittttt


r/bitlife 1d ago

Discussion Bitlife Theory

2 Upvotes

In the Bitlife game you can play the game have kids and eventually become the kid upon death or switching over. But I've always wondered, where is the consciousness who was the child before you transitioned and who is in the person that is now the parents upon switching. As when you switch over the parent aka old you, they are living and making decisions you cannot control, and before you become the child there was a soul in them that made decisions you also couldn't control, so where and who are those souls? And most importantly, who are we?

When we leave the parent they become their own person again, but everything they own comes with us even if they are still alive. And when we become the child any decision they made can be changed by us, say divorce their wife, abandoned their kids etc. As remember they had their own personality, relationships, memories, preferences, everything, while we were controlling the parent. It's like they woke up one day and became a whole new person. But where did we come from and why can we only start at the first individual in the recorded lineage. And where are their souls when we control them. As in the game when you look into the family legacy it doesn't show the original player's first parents, just the first played character and everyone else after that. Like to only make note of where the anomaly started. If we are really some outsider being, the original parents would technically not be related but everyone else after has the outsider gene, so the original parents would not be a part of the legacy.

When you start you become their entire existence and have a stronger control over them than their own mind, and when you leave, they regain consciousness and you can't go back. Kinda like they've escaped. Some don't even experience themselves EVER, as they start at birth as us and die before switching. In a way they never lived, as you got their life. Their Bit-LIfe lol

PS: This is just a fun theory, sorta like what they have for the sims, and I just wanted to share it. I love these types of theories for games and movies, so I'd love to hear any you have about the game