The More Crime Update: Street crimes, petty crimes, burglaries, carjacking, shoplifting and begging have been added! Plus you may now buy and use weapons and home security systems, or even squat in uninhabited houses. As always, there are surprises and bug fixes. Update now for more crime!

The Crime & Prisons Update: Crime and prisons are finally here! Be a gangster, drug lord, hacker, scammer and more. Evade law enforcement or get your lawyer to do it for you. Experience jail. Experience having family members in jail. Experience having a criminal record. Plus many other surprises and bug fixes. Update now for crime and prisons!

The Community Service Update: More community service jobs have been added. Players may now work in prisons, orphanages, nursing homes, therapy and museums! We have also added psychologists, life coaches and village/town chiefs who give advice—for you to consult during struggles with life. In response to players’ feedback, bugs have also been fixed, partners cheat less and you may now choose to pay/care for underaged kids only. Plus there are surprises. Update now for more community service!

People of the World Update (Part 6): 24 new countries have been added—Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Georgia, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Romania, Scotland, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, The Bahamas, Uganda, South Africa—along with the option to sleep less or skip meals. Plus we’ve fixed more bugs and made dating less difficult! Update now for new countries and game improvements.

The Habits Update: With this update, you may now drink coffee/tea, smoke/vape, eat fattening snacks or healthy veggies/fruits, buy cleaning/cooking appliances, visit coffee shops/tea houses or simply live like a slob and deal with the consequences! While at it, we also re-designed how assets are presented, made sure loving parents could take their sick kids to the doctor, and fixed bugs. Update now for new habits!

Quick Fix Update: This quick update fixes the highly deadly malnutrition/dehydration bug from the last update, and also the “Go to work” error some players have experienced.

The Lifestyle Update: In this update, we’ve added diets and their consequences, cooking/farming/survival skills, utilities costs, ambitions, actually enjoyable jobs, employable farm hands, new NPC wants, new tech objects, gendered clothing, influenceable gender identities, new causes of death; plus we’ve made body weight and overall health really matter, improved interactions dramatically, improved the game in many ways and fixed bugs! Update now for a whole new lifestyle experience.

The Better Deaths Update: In this update, we’ve improved how dying works in the game; added symptoms, GPs, A&Es, specialist doctors, psychiatrists, treatments, disease cures, the ability to save lives, antidepressants, happy herbs, healing rituals, non-deadly diseases, activity-related deaths, miscarriages, avoidable miscarriages, perimenopause, menopause and, of course, more surprises! A ton of bugs have also been fixed. Update now to get a better death experience!

The T Update: Happy 2026, dear Players! For our very first update for the year, play people and NPCs may now experience being transgender, go through gender-change procedures and take on new gender identities! On top of that, we’ve added more trans-themed media to venues and devices, fixed bugs and sprinkled a dash of new surprises. Update now for the full transformation!

The Future-Customisation Update: Want to have even more control over your next life? In this update, we added laboratories, job assignments and genetic specialists to let you genetically modify play people. On top of that, you may now suggest life choices to NPCs to influence their children’s names, marital status, educational qualifications, careers and more! Also, bugs have been fixed and some player requests have been inserted. Update now to customise your future!

The Self-Customisation Update: Many players have been asking for customisation, so here’s customisation! Play people may now use coloured contacts, dye their hair, tan and whiten their skins, go for anti-ageing procedures, and even do plastic surgery. Legacy Edition players may also gift dyes and contacts to NPCs to change their looks too. On top of that bugs have been fixed and surprises are in store. Update now to begin customising!

The Gifts Update: Play people may now receive surprise gifts from their parents and spouses beyond childhood. Legacy Edition players may ask NPCs for stuff, vehicles and even property. Jewellery and rings have been added to shops. And rich play people may now use bling to persuade reluctant NPCs to date and marry them! Also, lots of bug-fixes and improvement tweaks are in here, plus the usual surprises. Update now to get Gifts!

The Gifting Update With this update, your play person may now gift money, objects, vehicles and property to the NPCs in their lives… which may, depending on the gift, change where those NPCs live, how they commute, what they do for a living and even how they look/behave/think! We have also given NPCs material desires on top of that, tweaked the UI for certain features, made functional improvements, added São Paulo and other surprises, and fixed a whole lot of player-reported bugs. Update now to get gifting!

The Love Game Update: Play people will catch a case of feelings with this update… meaning there will now be more proposals, anniversary celebrations, dissatisfaction, “the one that got away”, open relationships, adulterers, drama and, of course, brand new consequences! There’s also a sweet bunch of bug fixes for you in here too.

People of the World Update (Part 5): 22 new countries have been added—Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, New Zealand, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay—along with height and weight averages for every country, to have play people be born with typical body shapes for their country. We have also added new features to the work experience, fixed all bugs reported by players, plus made it way easier to become famous!

The Fame Feels Update: We’ve added more realism to the fame experience in this one—with unattainable celebs, crazy fans, fake friends, clout chasers, trusty bodyguards and many surprises! In response to players’ feedback, we’ve also made it slightly easier to get famous, and fixed a bunch of bugs affecting migration, break ups and part-time employment, among others. Update now to feel it all!

The Drama Professionals Update:
 Introducing… media and theatre industry careers! Play people may now become directors, scriptwriters, cinematographers, stage designers, etc… and also actors! Get arts degrees and diplomas for these new careers. Search for acting gigs on devices or hire an agent to score the juicy roles. Win awards, meet famous actors at work, grow in fame and earn millions while at it! Many bugs have also been fixed, including the one where grandchildren stop growing when their parents die. In response to players’ feedback, we have also made jobs and childcare even less time-consuming. Update now for all that drama!

The Fame Game Update: Happy 2025, dear players! In this update, we introduce the concept of fame to the game, so that play people and NPCs can now be famous, super famous or even somewhat known. Along with it comes the concept of celebrities, which means famous play people will now be recognised and talked about within their communities, and the truly famous will remain famous even in future games! And as always, there are the usual bug fixes and surprises sprinkled in.

The Job Perks Update: Play people now have perks when they hold certain jobs or certs, or have spouses or parents with those jobs or certs (e.g. Lawyers get free law services, Hairstylists give free haircuts, etc). For added perks, we have added an aesthetic clinic, private jets, extracurricular activity perks, and a bunch of surprises! In response to players’ feedback, we have also made it easier for play people to get jobs in the industries that they graduated for, and fixed bugs.

The More Jobs Update Yes, we’ve added a ton of new jobs (doctor, nurse, lawyer, judge, policeman, fireman, teacher, pilot, banker, hairstylist, chef, yoga instructor, etc) to Play This Life, as well as the necessary courses and certifications required for them! While at it, we also made improvements to its tertiary education and job hunting segments, fixed some bugs, added our very first sponsor and threw in a couple of surprises.

The Dollhouse Update: In response to players’ feedback, we’ve reduced the time it takes to apply for jobs and go out AND added a Dollhouse Mode in Game Settings which turns off auto-ageing, among other things. While at it, we also added more faces and hairdos, did game optimisation, and also fixed bugs!

The Migration Update (Part 2): Play people may now move to other countries by getting work visas, student visas or citizenship! Language schools have also been set up and some bugs have been fixed!

The Migration Update (Part 1): Play people may now move to different cities, towns and villages for more opportunities, and players can now add custom cities, towns and village to their game! We’ve also added hotels, hostels, imaginary friends and, as always, some surprises and fixes in response to feedback from our players!

People of the World Update (Part 4): We have added the people of Bhutan, Brazil, Indonesia, Myanmar, Peru and Venezuela to Play This Life — and also country names! You can now see which country your play person lives in. In response to players’ feedback, we have also made dating easier and jobs less time-consuming.

People of the World Update (Part 3): We’ve added the people of Chad, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania, Yemen and Zambia to Play This Life! Plus more bugs have been fixed. Thank you for playing!