App Profile: Modern Life

Abby and Alex

Rating: 5/5

I adore this game. It’s definitely one of the better life sims out there and the graphics are really nice. I really like all the different mini games and trivia involved in school and work. It makes playing more engaging. The pets are also really fun to play with and you can even go fishing. However, there are a few issues, such as the lack of job options and iffy transition. One other suggestion would be the ability to have same gender relationships. I don’t know the rules where the developers are from, so maybe that’s not possible, but it would still be nice. Another idea is to add crime to spice things up a bit. Overall, I love this game and have spent way too many hours playing.

IBAWLY

Rating: 4/5

This is a great game, wonderful for passing time. I like it for the most part, enough to buy the no ads IAP, but there are a few things that bother me. >>>>It would be great to have some sort of official platform for international players. There is a QQ number in game, but I don’t use QQ and I can’t imagine that a lot of international players do. >>>>There are a few typos or even mistakes/wrong answers in tests or life prompts in general. This leads me to the next problem. >>>>There is a feedback system, but there is a character limit to what you type in the feedback box. I believe the limit is 60 characters. For players like me who use English, this limit isn’t even enough for an entire detailed sentence. Every time I want to make notice of a typo, I can’t really fit it all into one message. >>>>The home system is extremely bad, or I’m just doing something wrong. If you are clueless, it is possible for you to marry and have children in this game. It seems that I’m stuck at only one child though, which makes absolutely no sense considering I’ve checked the rented house multiple times (some of these houses have 6 rooms and space for 15 working people!) But every time I try to have a second child, I get the notice saying there is not enough room for another child. I tried putting this in the feedback box (to no avail). >>>>Do player feedback even get looked at?

birdn4t0r

Rating: 4/5

I enjoy the game and it is a good game overall. The main issue is with the poor translation, as it is difficult in some places to understand and appears to have been machine translated, with numerous errors in pronouns that appear to be due to a poor machine translation algorithm, and it actually has a negative effect on gameplay; some of the questions for the entrance exams and "Smart Brains" minigame are completely incoherent, or include Chinese characters in the English version, and some of the "correct" answers are actually incorrect, or the one that is correct in reality is absent (e.g. the mass of the Pyramid of Khufu is 5.9 metric tonnes, but that is not an option). Additionally, it does suffer from some bugs (my entire game froze if I opened the profession tab when my character was an archaeologist, and the game does not appear to correctly consider the number of rooms in a rented property when trying for a baby), and things like the farm mechanic could have more information included about how it works, and I think the Trading Coop shouldn't have orders that are impossible to fulfill in a given village. I would also like to see more professions eventually, too. Overall though, I definitely enjoy it.