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The Game of Life 2

Choose Your Own Life Story!

Ratings

Age

4+

Category

Board

Languages

English

THE GAME OF LIFE 2 brings the classic board game into the modern era. Featuring a 3D animated world, players navigate life's big decisions with more choices than ever before. Pick new careers like Video Blogger or Robotics Engineer, choose to get married or stay single, and adopt pets! With new ways to win based on Happiness and Knowledge as well as Wealth, it's a deep and engaging strategy game for the whole family.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

88/100

The Game of Life 2 is everything a digital board game port should be. It takes the core DNA of the original—spin the wheel, choose a career, start a family—and injects it with modern sensibilities and vastly improved strategic depth. The introduction of 'Success Points' (Knowledge, Happiness, and Wealth) means you no longer win just by being the richest; a character who chooses to be an artist and focuses on happiness can legitimately beat a high-rolling CEO.

The visual world is bright, poppy, and infinitely more customizable than the first game. The addition of themed worlds, like the Frozen Kingdom or Age of Giants, adds a layer of variety that keeps the gameplay from feeling repetitive. The multiplayer is snappy with cross-platform support, making it incredibly easy to jump into a game with friends. It’s a joyful, polished, and surprisingly strategic evolution of a family classic.

Dinsun reviewed on: Thu Feb 26 2026

Features

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Modern careers and life choices

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Stunning 3D animated game board

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Cross-platform online multiplayer

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Unique themed worlds and expansions

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

Yes, you can play solo against AI with adjustable difficulty levels, or pass-and-play with up to four people on one device.

Ratings & Reviews

Amazing game
Sat Nov 19 2022 aohvei

I love this game it’s awesome the second I downloaded it. I played with my brother. It’s good on mobile. It’s fair it’s randomized. It’s hard and you need good strategy but overall, it’s an equally balanced game. you can’t pay to win, and the only stuff that you can pay for is maps and cosmetics. I seriously think that this is a good game. it doesn’t take up too much storage and is fun to play. Overall, it’s a good game, but there is one thing that I have to complain about the fact that you cannot lose money when using action, I’ve played for two days now, but it won’t let me lose money while doing action in the first game. Sometimes you would have to pay the bank or you would get a cinema and you would have to pay the bank not in this game in this game. You stay with so much money that it’s starting to lose its flare compared to the first game which is worth five dollars well, this one is worth three. I would definitely like it if they could make it possible to lose money while on action.

Good game, needs more
Fri May 21 2021 +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 the app 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.

I’m actually surprised .....
Sat Aug 22 2020 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.

Not as described
Wed Aug 25 2021 ytpeacht

In the description of the app, 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 the app 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 the app because then it would’ve ended the game for everyone. It was really distracting and made this game even less enjoyable.

Fun update to the classic game
Sun Oct 11 2020 Hi-chan

I normally don’t write reviews, but I just wanted to say that this is a pretty fun reimagining of the classic board game. I’ve already played this more than I care to admit. There are some personal issues, thought. First of all, the games are often way too short. On one hand, shorter games is good, since I can get in multiple quick rounds throughout my day. On the flip-side, however, shorter games means that I often get to the end of the game with no additional family members (besides a spouse) and no houses, since it is far too easy to simply just roll past those events so they never come up. I find myself wishing these events were much easier to trigger, especially because each of these adds to the Attributes you accumulate that affect your total score at the end of the game. Speaking of additional family members, I was disappointed that when I finally got a game where I could get a pet, the game automatically chose a cat for me. I don’t mind cats, but I am much more of a dog person. The game touts itself as being all about “choice”, yet seems all too happy to randomly chose which pet you get with no player input. When I played another game, the A.I got a dog and I felt a little cheated. Yep. I was jealous of a “computer”, if you can believe it. In real life (which this game is meant to emulate!), choosing a pet is such a personal thing, that I would have liked to have been able to chose my own pet rather than have the game chose it for me. You are able to chose your own spouse, why not be able to chose your own pet?? At the end of the day, however, these are really just nitpicks and my own personal issues that probably don’t really matter or affect much of anything else. Overall, it’s still a pretty fun little game, even just playing against the A.I. : )

Stupid Game
Sun Sep 03 2023 NitafromJAX

At first I thought this game was fun, then the more I played, the more I realized how dumb any annoying this game really is. First, the attributes are fine, but they are not worth $100,000. $100,000 for ordering takeout, really. The taxes. $120,000 salary and $110,000 taxes. Bet they thought that was funny. Its not, just stupid. Who in there right mind would accept a job like that. The game is too short. After you spend $100,000 on the on-line course you really dont have time to get the income from it because Retirement is the next stop. Why the gap between arriving at the get married stop and actually getting married? Not enough chances to by houses on the family side. Investors aren't the only ones who buy houses and even when I get a chance, most of the time I get the cheap homes, even though i have the money for a more expensive home, $50,000 fee for spinning someones else's number. $10,000 is more than enough. $100,000 fee to your opponent. I can count on my hands how many times I have won this. This one and the other one everybody plays for $200,000. I rarely win most of the time when I spin I usually get a low number. I couldn't even beat someone when they spun a two. I was hoping this game would be more like the original board game or some of the games I played from the past, but its nothing like that. No trade your salary card with any player, no you're fired start a new career, no mid-life crisis, no getting paid when someone lands on a space that is designated for your career, for example someone landing on take tennis lessons and the athlete being paid. These things are things that more like what I think a game about life is supposed to be about . Not this idiot game, where all they want to do is pay big for everything.

Fun, but replayability and low value
Sun Nov 12 2023 My Dog Kona

I played this game so much with my kids growing up, and my daughter and I played the original Game of Life app many times. We were thrilled to see Life 2, especially with the great reviews. The game was fun the first time, but on the second game, you could already see just how little variety there was. There are maybe five careers to choose from in each side (college versus job). True to the board game, you only get a couple to choose from each time, but after one game with two people, we’d pretty much seen it all. Why not modernize the game and add oodles of careers and a bigger variety of action cards? We love the game, but it was same-ol’-same-ol’ in under an hour. There’s so much potential here. Slso, $4.99 for a new map feels steep, especially if you experience all the options in under an hour. The art and animations are great and expensive to produce, but as a player, I’m more about do I want to play this again? A huge database of careers, action cards, items to buy, classes to take, etc. would go a long way in enticing us to play longer, and since the careers and action cards don’t have animations, it wouldn’t be as labor intensive as creating new maps.

Could be improved
Tue Jan 05 2021 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

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