The Best Life simulation Games for Android

Update : Hard Time III added at rank #7.
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Chinese Parents (2018)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Android IOS iPhone

Chinese Parents is a life sim game about growing up in a Chinese household and juggling parental expectations while dealing with immense academic stress. It offers an accurate and detailed representation of the quirks, joys, and tribulations of childhood. Players must collect coloured gems to upgrade their stats and purchase skills in order to ace their exams and fulfill the ultimate goal of passing the annual university entrance exam known as the gaokao.

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What we like:
  • Accurate portrayal of Chinese parenting
  • Humorous storytelling
  • Resource management challenge
  • Unlocking hidden skills to boost stats
  • Random events with multiple choice questions
  • "face" stat that affects social standing
What could be improved:
  • English localization may miss out on some nuances of jokes or instructions for puzzles may be unclear

  • simulation
  • life
  • memes
  • psychological
  • casual
  • horror

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My Child Lebensborn (2018)

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PC Windows Android IOS iPhone Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Experience the emotional and challenging journey of raising an adopted child in post-WWII Norway in My Child Lebensborn. Balance your time and resources to provide for your child's needs while navigating a world filled with hate and bullying. This BAFTA-award winning game offers a genuine and immersive nurturing simulation that will tug at your heartstrings.

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What we like:
  • Impactful story
  • Emotional journey
  • Realistic characters
  • Meaningful choices
  • Good replay value
What could be improved:
  • Fairly linear gameplay
  • Some may find it too emotionally taxing

  • simulation
  • war
  • emotional
  • time-management
  • choices
  • life
  • hand-drawn
  • story
  • social
  • historical
  • casual
  • crafting
  • atmospheric
  • management

3

My Child Lebensborn Remastered (2023)

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My Child Lebensborn is a story-driven nurture game based on real events. Play as the adoptive parent of Karin or Klaus, and experience the struggles they go through alongside them. Balance your time and resources wisely, while helping your child cope with the effects of hatred.

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  • simulation
  • life
  • emotional
  • immersive
  • story
  • choices
  • war

4

Cafe Master Story (2023)

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Serve up food, drinks, and smiles in this retro cafe management sim!

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  • simulation
  • colony
  • life
  • cooking
  • city-building
  • 2d
  • sandbox
  • pixel
  • casual
  • table
  • top-down
  • building

5

My Time At Sandrock (2023)

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Step into the boots of a visionary builder in My Time at Sandrock! Rebuild a desert town, craft ingenious machines, forge friendships, and battle foes. Your creativity fuels this charming life-sim RPG, where every crafted item tells a story and every friendship opens new adventures. Dive in and transform Sandrock into a thriving community!

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What we like:
  • Engaging crafting and building mechanics
  • Rich character interactions and storylines
  • Improved graphics and world design
  • Variety of activities and side quests
  • Refined resource gathering and farming systems
What could be improved:
  • Simplistic combat system

  • farming
  • simulation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • life
  • crafting
  • city-state
  • rpg
  • building
  • sandbox
  • dungeon

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Zoo Park Story (2023)

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j Playstation 4 Android IOS iPhone PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Well, what are you waiting for? Build a top-ranking zoo, set social media ablaze, and show the world your wild side!

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  • simulation
  • colony
  • zoo
  • zoo-goers
  • top-ranking
  • nature
  • life
  • city-building
  • pixel
  • casual
  • top-down
  • building
  • snow
  • romance
  • 2d

7

Hard Time III (2024)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows Nintendo Switch

The toughest prison sim in the yard is back to serve its 3rd consecutive sentence - combining classic moments from the OG with the best aspects of 2D, while putting out a few hits of its own! Tackle crime from either side of the prison fence, while a larger world beyond it makes life worth living.

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  • crime
  • humor
  • wrestling
  • simulation
  • customization
  • life
  • character
  • gun
  • sentence-combining
  • investigation
  • conversation
  • dark
  • crafting
  • choices
  • open-world

8

Cabin Fever (2021)

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Android Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

An off-grid cabin. A tech-savvy loner. One ray of sunshine in a bleak, ruined world. Cabin Fever is a slice-of-life visual novel with meaningful player choices, multiple endings to explore, and a story that will touch your heart.

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  • dating-sim
  • romance
  • visual-novel
  • simulation
  • life
  • immersive
  • fiction
  • narrative
  • off-grid
  • story
  • interactive
  • linear
  • explore
  • single-player
  • cute

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Aquarist (2022)

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A relaxing sandbox casual simulation game where you perform various, even strange, aquarium-related tasks on very diverse levels. As an Aquarist you must create and manage a home to amazing fish🐟, sea turtles🐢, sharks🦈, octopuses🐙, and more🐬. Aquarium is their world and life. Make it worth...

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  • simulation
  • fishing
  • underwater
  • relaxing
  • immersive
  • nature
  • education
  • building
  • family-friendly
  • naval
  • life
  • collector
  • creature
  • casual
  • tanks

10

Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099 (2023)

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Android Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Step into the hilariously absurd and retro-futuristic world of Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099. Spy on subjects, manage hidden cameras, and even manipulate their lives. With its combination of narrative, investigation, surveillance, and resource management, this game will immerse you into a dystopian dreamland.

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What we like:
  • Unique and perfect captures the spirit of Hitchcock's Rear window
  • Incredible atmosphere
  • Resource management
  • Sci-Fi setting
  • Incredible soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Needs more cages

  • dystopian
  • simulation
  • sequel
  • resource-management
  • life
  • humor
  • investigation
  • management
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • dark
  • sci-fi
  • funny
  • story
  • pixel

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