It really blows that the developers went overboard on the freemium shit and started charging you to undo deaths and rewind years, because this is a game I would have been content to pay twenty to thirty dollars for and move on. Obviously, you have to ask yourself what child is going to have that kind of cash. But is it anymore ethical for that kid to keep asking their mother to open her wallet because the game pressures them into it when their character dies?

Otherwise, this is an inoffensive time waster that you can easily blow time off on. Mini-games aren't more than novel gimmicks, and nine times out-of-ten, you're praying to the RNG gods. But if you asked for a version of The Sims on your phone made for the platform instead of trying to accommodate for it, this is fine. It's satisfactory; it does the job.

It's fascinating to me that these developers bought out the team behind InstLife, because in some ways, it almost feels like a spiritual successor of sorts. Unfortunately, the most plausible case scenario I can think of is that they footed the bill because they wanted less competition. Knocked a star off for that bullshit.