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Built from your ideas: dozens of things players asked for, from camping trips and pet litters to teen crushes, great-grandkids and skipping ahead years at a time.

Witching Hour

Teen witches can join an old witch's after-school class: lessons on a new Magic tile, an exam every spring and, at graduation, one of her spells and a seat in her coven.
Zombies come to Witching Hour: rush a Resurrection at half the Power and your loved one comes back a gentle zombie, tireless but falling apart a little each season, until the full spell makes them whole. A new life can start as one too.
The Crooked Market has a Creatures stall: buy a dragon egg, a unicorn foal or a phoenix chick, name it and raise it like any pet. A dragon outlives you and passes down as the family dragon, and a phoenix comes back once, as a chick.
Demon blood runs in some families now: start with the Demon Bloodline backstory or have kids with a demon. The horns come in at 13 with a Demon page and a Temptation skill, and every season brings an itch for mischief.
Own two packs? New stories turn up for lives that mix them: a famous crook, a vampire in a gang, a witch in grad school and a famous witch.

Your Room

Your Room has a new Quiet corner style for teens and grown-ups, free for everyone: a little altar, a candle cluster, a carved dove, an offering bowl and a sitting mat. From 13, a new Light a candle tile beside Meditate brings a quiet moment, and after a loss, a candle lit for that person by name.

God Mode

Set anyone's traits from their God Mode page with the same picker as your own, see a partner's traits you haven't learned yet, and check how close your habits are to earning a new trait.
With Life of Crime, God Mode's Simulation page adds two switches: Never get caught, so no crime ends in an arrest and every prison escape gets away, and Crimes always work, so heists, scams and murders go to plan. Anyone you've protected still can't be killed.
God Mode can make someone pregnant: Make pregnant on your own page, your partner's or a lover's starts a pregnancy when you save, and anyone expecting gets a Babies row for one to four babies. When it can't happen, the row says why.
God Mode's person editor has a die beside First name and Surname that rolls a new name for you or anyone else.
Face changes you make to a family member in God Mode now show and save, even right after a new gender or age.

Life of Crime

Life of Crime adds two new traits. Cold-Blooded crooks pull off more crimes but juries acquit them less often, and Squeamish ones are the reverse. Commit crimes in six different seasons to become Cold-Blooded, or back out of two to become Squeamish.
In Life of Crime, every murder now starts with a plan: wear a mask, plan a cleanup or bring a backup, and your Crime skill finally changes the odds. Grown-ups can also Find a stranger, and three clean getaways earn a nickname in the papers you can keep, swap or write yourself. Then a detective starts watching.

Family

Expecting? Family Planning now opens on Your Pregnancy, and the pregnancy icon on Life takes you there: the trimester and due season, an Ultrasound that shows how many babies and whether they're boys or girls, Shop for the baby, Talk about names and a Baby shower.
From the third trimester, a Birth Plan lets you choose a natural birth or a planned C-section. A booked C-section comes on its day instead of labor, costs $3,000 and leaves you a little sore, but never turns into an emergency.
A pregnancy stays a surprise until it's told: your partner shares the news in her second trimester, and Try for a baby greys out with "Not right now" until the baby arrives instead of disappearing.
From 18, the Hospital offers Terminate pregnancy once you know you're expecting.
When a relative, friend or partner is in the hospital or has just had a baby, their page has Visit in the hospital: bring flowers, and they'll remember it. Once someone tells you a baby is on the way, Talk about the baby joins it.
When your parents split up while you're a kid, a judge decides who you live with. From 12 you tell the judge yourself or let the judge decide, and the other parent gets every other weekend.
Families look related: babies get their parents' nose, mouth and eyes again, brothers and sisters share most of their features and coloring, grandparents pass a feature down, and aunts, uncles and in-laws look like the family they join.
Group activities name your family by how they're related, so Sebastian becomes "your dad, Sebastian," while friends keep just their names.
With Dreams & Degrees, private school lasts until you graduate: the School page and Life show your school's name, a family that can't pay another fall lets you ask a grandparent, apply for a scholarship or switch, and Switch to public school leaves whenever you like.
A partner you're close to can now propose to you from 18: never in your first year together, then more and more often, about one season in four once you've been together two years.
A relative's, partner's or friend's page has Give a gift: money in any amount up to your cash, a piece of your collection, a car, or a home nobody lives in. It adds to what they're worth, and the bigger the gift next to what they have, the closer you get.

Fixes

College now has a Change major tile for your first two years: switching is free in your first year and means graduating a year later in your second. Graduates can apply to college again for a second bachelor's in a new major, starting as a junior.
Nursing joins the free job board: start as a Hospital Aide with no degree, go to college to become a Registered Nurse, and rise to Chief Nursing Officer. Doctors stay in Dreams & Degrees.
With Dreams & Degrees, Historian joins the job board as a third Writing career: start as a Tour Guide with a college degree, rise to Renowned Historian, and dig through an archive that keeps turning up your own family.
Fame & Fortune athletes can now pick volleyball, gymnastics, boxing or wrestling, and a Starter can make the national team for the Games every fourth summer and bring home a medal. Kids can sign up for gymnastics, and playing a sport for fun no longer changes a pro's sport.
Around Town neighbor feuds now outlive you: die with one unsettled and your heir inherits a feud with that whole family, with a rival their own age two doors down and stories of their own, until a handshake over the fence or a wedding ends it.
Holidays now go by their real names, like Christmas for Winterfest and Easter for the Flower Festival. Settings › Display › Holiday names brings back the classic Everlife name for any holiday, or lets you type your own.
A new Go camping tile, spring to fall: a free backyard campout, a lakeside campground, a backcountry trail for grown-ups or a guided cave tour, with campfire stories, raccoons, bears and more rain in a rainy season. Your household or friends can come along too.
Two new tiles beside Go to the movies, from 13: Visit the aquarium for the touch tank, the shark tunnel or the sea lion show, and Go to a game for the cheap seats, the good seats or autographs by the players' tunnel. Go alone or bring your child, a friend or your partner, and when a parent, sibling or child of yours plays pro, watch them play for free.
A new Go to the vet tile on every pet's page from 16: a yearly check-up that halves the chance of illness and can catch a problem early, a one-time spay or neuter, and treatment whenever your pet is sick or hurt.
Pets can now have litters: keep an unfixed boy and girl dog, cat, rabbit, guinea pig or hamster and now and then a litter arrives. Keep the runt as a new pet, find the rest good homes or sell them to the neighbors, and a spay or neuter at the vet stops it for good.
Your pets can join group activities: they're listed after the people when you pick who's coming. A dog, mini pig or alpaca can come on Go for a walk, Have a picnic or Go camping, any pet can join house activities like Watch TV or Share a meal, and it gets its own line in the scene and comes home a little happier.
Glasses go with every look from age 6: round or square frames, sunglasses or big shades with lenses in any color, picked in the creator, the makeover or God Mode. A school eye test can give a child their first pair, and some of the people you meet wear them too.
Find a look by its haircut: the creator, the makeover and God Mode have a new Hair row. Tap Short, Long, Curly or Tied up and the look arrows step only through those looks, Hats and hoods can be hidden, and outfit colors and dye still work on whatever you pick.
Gym Squad tournament wins now go into your story, and a teen with a title may meet a college scout offering a full athletic scholarship. With Fame & Fortune, a scouted athlete gets a draft-day card that puts them on a pro team as a Rookie, and a pro who retires as a Starter or higher can coach the high school team or call games on TV. From 32, a pro athlete may be asked whether it's time to hang it up.
After high school, Part-Time Jobs now offers grown-up work: Barista, Deliver Food, Walk Dogs, Tutor, Retail Floor and Babysit, one shift a season for $2,500 to $3,500 and a little skill, with or without a career, and now and then the boss asks you to cover a rush for double pay.
Finishing a skill project now raises its skill like a season's practice, a little more for a hit, so even a burnt dinner makes you a better cook.
In an open relationship, dates, gifts and breakups with a lover read like everyday dating, Leave your spouse steps aside, and Make things official asks before it ends things with your partner.
In an open relationship, a lover can become your steady with Make it steady while your partner or spouse stays, and new stories follow the three of you, from a double-booked Friday to a steady who wants more.
Make love and hookups ask about protection only when a baby could really happen, so two men, two women or an older couple go straight to the evening, with no pregnancy scare.
With Dreams & Degrees, a working Time Machine now opens a short story with your real family: a young ancestor at a lemonade stand, your grandparents' first dance and a visitor from the future.
Family Planning now offers birth control: the pill or an IUD, and a vasectomy or having your tubes tied for anyone done having kids. Try for a baby stops the pill or IUD for you.
Expecting a baby? Family Planning can now place it with another family through an open or closed adoption, and a hard pregnancy brings a counselor to offer it. An open adoption sends a birthday photo every year, and at 18 the child may write to meet you.
When you play a man, a lover or an ex can now be expecting your baby while your partner is too, and a card asks whether to tell your partner or keep it secret. A fling's pregnancy no longer locks Try for a baby, fertility tests or surrogacy.
After a divorce, if you took your spouse's name or hyphenated at the wedding, a card the next season asks whether to keep it or go back to your old one. An ex who took your name goes back to theirs, and the kids keep their names.
An ex you're on good terms with again can become a friend: from 13, Ask to be friends on their page, and a yes moves them to your Friends list. The One That Got Away's Friends at Last ending now does it too.
When an ex you were married to dies, the news names your ex-wife or ex-husband and asks whether to go to the funeral, send flowers or stay home. Your children together remember what you chose, a child still at home gets a card of their own a season later, those who lived with that parent move in with you on a card that says so, and the loss stays with you for a few seasons.
With Fame & Fortune, Find Love adds a Members only list once you're famous or worth a million: film stars, pop singers, athletes, supermodels and heirs, their kids shown up front. Dating one brings photographers, a couple name, devoted fans and maybe a date more interested in your money.
Find Love now shows what each grown-up is worth, and so does your partner's or lover's page, so you can marry for money.
A single teen may realize a friend near their age is more than a friend. Admit it and their row in People reads Crush: drop a hint, leave a note, watch how they react, and ask them out once you're brave enough.
Household activities like Share a meal list each family that lives elsewhere as one row: a tap invites a relative with their spouse and kids under 18, and starting from a relative's page brings their whole family, already picked.
From age 2, a great-grandchild's page has Visit: read a story, look through old photographs, tell family stories or bake together, each written for their age. Great-grandchildren can now join family activities like Share a meal and Play games too.
A grown niece or nephew you're close to may now have a baby, up to three in a life. Your new great-niece or great-nephew joins People beside the grandchildren, and a card lets you visit the baby or send a gift.
With Nightfall, a grown human can join Mrs. Hartwell's vampire watch: a story over several years of stakeouts, false alarms and a real fang or two, and if someone in your family is a vampire, the trail ends at their door.
With Nightfall, a grown vampire can Enthrall any adult they know who isn't a vampire: make them forget your last fight, hand over cash, be your alibi or, with Life of Crime, pull a job for you. Glamour decides whether it holds, it gets harder every time you use it on the same person, and a slip costs their trust and draws the hunters.
Karma is now your reputation: new neighbors, classmates, coworkers and dates start out a little warmer when you're Kind and a little cooler when you're Unkind. Kind lives get asked for help, unkind ones find favors scarce, and a sorry can start to turn it around.
Six new weekly challenges from mid-November try out what's new: a litter of puppies, a nursing career, a Gym Squad title, every part-time job, all four campsites, and a trip to the aquarium and a game with your child.
Bankruptcy is only offered, on its notice or at the Bank, while you owe more than everything you own is worth, your home included.
After college, Buy Properties lists the homes you can take first, so a broke graduate finds a rental with nothing to pay up front at the top of the Rent tab.
A Werewolf Bloodline life no longer makes every later life a werewolf, and leaving a backstory in the creator takes its traits and conditions with it.
A friend, coworker or ex who becomes your partner keeps every trait you already knew, instead of reading "Still getting to know them".
With a partner, Sweethearts' Day offers Write Your Sweetheart a Letter, and the letter goes to them, instead of a stranger writing back as your pen pal.
A relative's engagement party invitation comes while the engagement is news, and wedding toasts come only in the season of the wedding.
The Baby Years, ghosts and family story endings use the right words for a daughter, a mother or a child who goes by they.
While your heirs could still carry on, Start a new life asks first and the creator has a way back to them, and the family you leave stays in Families, so no family goes missing.
The game no longer gets stuck on an empty town after a loading screen, a new season or a card.
The cemetery names the dead from the character you play now, so a father you played reads Father instead of Self, and a great-grandmother reads Great-grandmother.
A pet's goodbye comes the season it dies instead of seasons later, and pets only get the stories their bodies fit, so nobody walks a fish on a leash.
The send-off money at 18 always shows its card, "Your parents send you off into the world with $12,000", instead of only a Journal line.
Staff you hire now fill the Journal's Staff collection, including staff already on your payroll.
Married at college? Ask to move in says your spouse moves in after you graduate, and they do once college is over and you have a home.
Bring a friend to the movies always plays out the night, and the same friend, partner or lover can come along every time.
A character you play again after passing the torch keeps the prenup they signed, so a divorce no longer takes half their money.
Recording an album now makes an album, with its own chart peak and release, and it pays twice what its songs would as singles. Career singers record singles with the new Record a song tile.
A child's skill goals ask for a point a year, so goals like Improve Film can finish before 13.
Work reviews come in the season Coming up names, so promotions that need one arrive on time.
In a big family, the People list and cards with faces open faster.
A fortune too big to count no longer closes the game.
Korean reads more naturally in pet, fame, theater, adoption, birth control and neighbor stories.
While you're deployed overseas, dates, pets, parties, outings and town trips wait for your homecoming. Calls, letters home and money stay open.
Pass the torch now says plainly that it can't be undone, and with real money it can hand your heir a tenth, a quarter or half of your cash with the keys.
Money you give or lend family now really reaches them: it adds to what they're worth, and a loan they pay back comes out of it.
Celebrate birthday is back for kids 1 to 12, under Parties and events on People › Friends.
A new werewolf can now learn Instinct and join the pack, Go on an outing shows only on the pages of pets that can come along, and a wedding toast comes right after the wedding instead of a year later.
Organize an Event now has Never mind and Back, heights no longer change when a spouse's parents turn up, and if you marry while still living in your family home, your spouse's page shows how to live together.
A young child asking for money no longer sees money that never arrives, the Journal's story endings use your child's pronouns, aunts and uncles sit under your grandparents in the family tree, and Pet Breeds shows each breed's own name and picture and only the breeds you've really had.

A new look

Hold Next Season to skip ahead anywhere from two seasons to ten years. Skipped seasons bring only your news and big moments, and no new stories start until you land.
Your energy now shows at the top of People, World, Growth, Journal and every page you open, so you can count what's left without going back to Life.
The Journal's Goals page has a notes box for your own plans. Each family keeps its own notes, your heir picks them up, and after three or more days away they greet you on a welcome-back card.
Gray hair now turns a true silver that follows your natural color: blonde and ginger go snowy white, brown goes silver and dark hair goes pewter, instead of everyone turning the same icy blue.
Projects that need a name, like a podcast, a novel or an album, now open with one that fits what you're making, and a die beside the name rolls another.
Your Story in the Journal now remembers the story cards you answer, with their picture and what you chose, for your whole life. Tap one to see how it ended. Relationship ups and downs still pop up but no longer crowd the list.
Settings now opens with the game's version and links to our Discord, X, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
From 18, the makeover has a Face section: pick new eyes, a nose, lips or freckles and book them at the cosmetic clinic, priced per part like fillers, a nose job or Botox.
The world map's town card says what kind of place a town is and what it costs to live there, like "Beach town · High cost of living", and the creator's town postcard names the kind too.
Buy Properties shows each home's bedrooms under its name.
Settings › Play has a Fading friendship notices switch: turn it off and friendships still fade at high Chaos, just without a notice every season.
The creator's Randomize everything die rolls a backstory too: usually Open life, sometimes one you own that fits your age.
World has a search box: type any action or place, like move, gym or loan, and tap what it finds to open or do it.
Homes & Moving now sits right under your home on World › Home, and Loans stands beside the Bank on Money. Pets, roommates and the Staffing Agency live only on People › Household, Family Planning and Adoption on People › Family, and Audition, stand-up, roasts and Perform live on Fun › Entertainment.
Life shows Lately right under the season's picks, a graduate's School band takes one line, and the Money band reads as cash and take-home pay.

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Patch Notes

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Witching Hour

Witching Hour is out: become a witch, practice magic three ways, trace glowing sigils to cast 47 spells, buy spellbooks at the Crooked Market, join a coven, bind a familiar and summon a devil to write your own contract. Buy it on its own or in the Complete Collection.
Already own the Complete Collection? Witching Hour unlocks the first time you open the game after this update.
Start as a witch from the creator's Witch lineage (Pure, Mixed or Inert) or the Hidden Witch backstory. Two witch parents always pass the gift on; one passes it half the time.
A new Game Guide article explains it all, and the "?" on any Magic page opens it. Settings › Play › Packs has a Witches switch, which also quiets the vampire-meets-witch stories.
All Hallows' Eve may bring a small visitor to a witch's door.
Crown & Court is still coming soon.
Three new Game Center achievements for witches.

Your Room

Every life now has a room of its own, on World › Home. Pick the bed, lamp, rug, walls and more from 14 styles, and paint any piece any of 41 colors.
The room fills in from your life: your town outside the window, your family in the frames, what you've earned on the shelf, your pet on the rug, and holiday decorations after you celebrate.
A lamp's glow now comes from the lamp you placed. New Lights switches can turn your lamp off for even light, or let fairy lights and other string lights fill the room with a soft glow.

God Mode

A bigger God Mode: money to the dollar, romance, Karma and a new Miracles page.
Set your money to the dollar in Stats & wealth: type any amount, even a debt. Under 18, set your family's money.
Clear every debt at once: loans forgiven, Collectors gone, bankruptcy over.
Tap any number in Stats & wealth to type it exactly, and set your Karma there too.
Choose who you're attracted to, and date, get engaged to or marry anyone who isn't family, or break it off.
Set any grown-up's net worth, which is what they leave behind.
New Miracles page: refill your energy, walk free, clean your record, or make everyone adore you.
God Mode saves every time, in the creator and in a life, with no more "Open God Mode first."
Stats & wealth shows Wealth and Work again, and setting Wealth changes your money.
Typing in God Mode no longer freezes or hides the page behind the keyboard.
Hold Wealth no longer takes a teen's pay and allowance away each season, and huge family fortunes no longer crash the game.
Many more God Mode fixes: edits keep the rest of your life in step, from school and jobs to health, family and money.

Fixes

Everlife 2 runs faster and smoother: taps, answers and Next Season no longer stall, the season and time of day change more smoothly, the world map no longer stutters with a town open, switching families is nearly instant, the game loads sooner, and idle screens use less battery.
Fixed a freeze that could lock the game for good when you tapped a tab again while on one of its pages, like Growth on a skill or World in the Pet Shop.
Fixed a rare freeze that could stop the game on a card, a tile or a page.
Fixed crashes on iPhone and iPad when the game opens with a card waiting, when a card first appears and when you age up.
Fixed a crash on Macs with macOS 15, and on older iPhones and iPads, when a menu or sheet opened, like selling a house, treating a friend or choosing a goal.
Passing the torch opens Who carries on? again, so your heir takes over instead of a blank screen.
Settings opened over a card no longer catches your taps once it closes.
Families and End this life in Settings › Data now work while a card is up, so you can always switch families or start over.
Your game reloads exactly where you left it, and Families never opens to a blank town.
Buy Properties never leaves you stuck after moving or graduating: rent the cheapest home on the new Rent tab even with no money, go Back to pick another town after graduating, or Continue when you already have a home there.
Activities with coworkers, classmates, clubs, neighbors, your household and friends no longer send you back to the People tab after the first one each season.
Doing something again in the same season shows its card: a second job interview, date or trip, a resort revisited, a second arrest.
Visiting a grave again in the same season works, Ask for advice included, and Back returns to the list of graves.
Family Planning no longer closes with nothing happening when you use a service twice in a season, like a second IVF round.
Family Planning opened from the Hospital page stays open so you can pick a service, instead of sending you back to the World tab.
Treatments, a doctor's visit or the cosmetic clinic bring you back to the Hospital page instead of sending you out of it.
The Baby Years and stories you choose, like a semester abroad, now arrive on time instead of years late or not at all.
Babies and kids no longer see a second, locked copy of actions like Take a bath beside the one they can use.
Choice menus lock the options you don't qualify for again, so a character who isn't married can't get divorced in a midlife crisis.
Greyed-out tiles say what they need, like "Needs $12,000" on a dorm you can't afford, and vehicle projects in Mechanics wait until you have a car.
Long holiday cards keep their picture answers in full view, and the whole answer takes the tap.
Cards charge real prices instead of a share of your pay, so a rich life no longer pays thousands for a holiday card, and investment payouts and Collectors no longer show up on an unrelated card.
Pay arrives every season with your bills, so the yearly payday card that added no money is gone.
Declaring bankruptcy from its notice clears your debts right away instead of a season later.
Family loans pay your relative back, homes and cars bought on credit settle their loans, and bankruptcy keeps the right things.
Missing a payment plan twice now brings in the Collectors, instead of a new plan holding them off forever.
Trips and the cosmetic clinic check that you can afford them first, and a car you lease leaves the lot.
The Money tab now counts world events like epidemic pay and drought prices, and graves list the events each life lived through.
Leases, the family home, housemates, renovation and staff now do what their cards say.
Firing staff works again: their page shows the Fire button, and their wages stop.
Letting staff go from the Staffing Agency asks first.
College no longer drains your money: room and board is covered by a full scholarship, shared by your parents, or added to your student loan, which waits until you graduate.
After you're accepted to college, the School page shows your college and when classes start, and the Career page says why jobs are locked.
A graduate whose high-school grades went missing gets them back, so colleges stop rejecting everyone.
After a promotion your yearly raises keep coming, and retirees can look for work again.
Work reviews no longer slip for years when other stories fill the season.
Retired characters and anyone between jobs no longer get notices about a boss, a paycheck or office gossip.
A job you just took no longer shows your last job's boss, rival and review.
Your boss and rival on the Career page offer Chat with coworkers and Assist coworkers instead of family actions, and both warm them up.
Coworkers and teammates now show a job at your workplace instead of Unemployed.
Working as the Festival Bunny builds Acting instead of Comedy.
Getting married brings your spouse and their kids home to live with you when you have a place with room for them.
When a family member who lives with you divorces, their ex moves out instead of staying for good.
In an open relationship, a date or hookup with a lover no longer ends with your partner catching you cheating.
In an open relationship, your partner no longer walks out when a lover or ex is expecting your baby, and you won't catch them hiding a second phone.
From 60 on, dates, fights and time with friends, grown children and siblings bring new moments written for later life, and older couples get evenings of their own.
In The Fledgling, a spouse, lover or relative you turned is no longer revealed to be your distant cousin.
Flirting, kissing and the Lovers page wait until 13, and you can flirt with a friend only when you're both teens or both adults.
Every birth plays the delivery and lets you name the baby, however many children you already have.
Winning custody of a baby no longer moves the baby's other parent into your home.
Custody ends when you get back together, teens who live away aren't treated as home, and wills and passing the torch read right.
The family tree no longer shows parents who split up as married, and a stepparent and their kids stay beside the rest of the family.
Feeding, changing and soothing a baby no longer lowers their well-being when it goes badly, and bedtime stories, homework help and time together now raise it.
Childcare now pays off: the higher it is, the more often caring for a child goes well and the more a good moment raises their well-being and your bond, up to twice as much. Even a new parent's care helps a little.
Sick-kid, holiday and parenting stories leave out children who live with your ex, at boarding school or in care.
Hanging out with a grown-up friend or coworker no longer plays out like a kids' playdate.
Grown-up stories like car trouble and loan applications wait until 18, and Space camp opens when your family can pay.
A teen sent to juvie always sees their first night there.
Encouraging a relative no longer makes them Mayor or demotes someone who already works.
An orphaned child's inheritance is kept for them instead of going to their guardian.
An heir is no longer paid back, or chased, for money the previous character lent.
A character you passed the torch from keeps their traits, and returning to them brings back their degrees, skills and career.
After passing the torch, a story about your heir no longer asks them to parent themself.
Ghosts of loved ones and family plot anniversaries say he or she correctly.
Pet trait cards show your own pet instead of a different animal.
Seeing a doctor now diagnoses food, pollen and pet allergies (hives, itchy eyes) and starts their medicine.
Painkiller addiction can now be treated in rehab and at an intervention.
A character carries one curse at a time, so a vampire can no longer also become a werewolf.
Parentless starts like Orphan and Raised by Grandparents show the parents you grow up without, and no longer open with death notices, a year of grief or a card about them.
Changing your stats in the creator, in God Mode or by rolling them with the Orphan backstory, no longer greys out Start my life.
Weekly challenges start even with Vampirism among your starting conditions, and leaving one in the creator drops its backstory, so the age slider moves again.
A new family now starts at generation 1 instead of 3, and its creator has a Families button back to your other families.
The creator no longer offers Menopause to a male character, and a pet's name sticks even if you don't press Return.
After transitioning, the Life tab shows your character's gender instead of the sex they were born with.
Characters who go by they/them read as they/them on cards, and a look you chose no longer resets to the default.
Coming out starts with a card that says what your character has realized before asking who to tell.
On small screens the Life tab reads in full on an iPhone SE and fits in landscape.
On a Mac, the character creator fits a short window, so Live here, Start my life and the tabs stay in reach without going full screen.
On a Mac, the app is called Everlife 2 in the Dock and the menu bar.
Packs unlocked through Everlife 1 stay unlocked on every device, and the Redeem screen shows the unlock when you come back.
Erase All Data starts over in your device's language instead of English.
The Game Guide is up to date, with new articles on your room, weekly challenges, families and sharing, and coming out. Tips and tutorials now point to Growth for Paths, School, Skills and Health.
Many smaller fixes across cards, the Journal, school, careers, money and storylines.

Languages

Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese now translate every line, including the tutorials.
Relationship notices, place tiles, court charges, health and mood words, news lines and more now read fully in every language.
Family tiles like Help out, Call and Buy a toy now read naturally and translate fully in every language.

A new look

On any other tab, the middle tab is your face and takes you back to Life. On Life, it becomes the Next Season button.
Menus, long-press menus and confirmations are now Everlife cards instead of system pop-ups.
Each stat tile has its own color, so Health, Happiness, Popularity and Grades are easy to tell apart and their levels easy to read.
Life's season card drops the Surprise Me and Next Year buttons, and Next Season on the tab bar pulses, faster and brighter as your energy runs low.

iPhone and iPad

Everlife 2 now runs on iOS 17 and iPadOS 17.

Just in time for Halloween: Witching Hour is here, plus a room of your own and a long list of fixes from your bug reports.

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A new way to play

Each season you get energy to spend on as many actions as it covers. Tap Next Season when you're done.
Prefer the old pace? Classic mode in Settings turns energy off and brings back one action a season.
The new Chaos slider sets how dramatic life gets, from Calm to Wild, and how often random events strike.
Each action works once a season, or once per person, so you can compliment Mom and still hang out with her.
Stats move at a steadier pace: everyday moments shift them a little, and only big events swing them hard.
Stories are paced: anything that can wait moves to a quieter season, two random scenarios a year land in your quietest seasons and none when you tap Next Year, and at most two pop-ups come a season.
Stories repeat less, and an heir meets the stories the family hasn't lived yet.
Nearly 70 new storylines play out over seasons and years, across every stage of life.
Journal › Story tracks each storyline chapter by chapter, and keeps the endings of the ones you've finished.
A new life starts quietly: the tutorial, your first card, then a first season that's yours to explore.

A new look

Five tabs: World, People, Life, Growth and Journal, with Life in the middle. Swipe between them, and every action has one home.
The Life tab is your home screen: your portrait and stats in the sky, the season's picks, then your whole life on one sheet.
Your town is the backdrop now, alive with day and night, the seasons and the weather. It replaces the background themes.
Cards are redesigned: the answers sit underneath, so tap one or swipe toward it, and every change flies to where it belongs.
Over 2,500 cards, actions and menus have pictures of their own, and when someone talks, you see who's speaking.
Locked tiles explain themselves: tap one to see what you need, right where you are.
Portraits breathe and blink, achievements throw confetti, and seasons change with birthday balloons and New Year fireworks.
Optional cutscenes for life's big moments: a birth, graduations, a wedding, a first child and retirement.
Cutscenes are now full painted scenes with your family standing in them, and five new ones mark your first love, your engagement, your first car, your first pet and your first job.
A new app icon, a new loading screen, and a world map that lights up its towns at night.

Settings, sound and languages

Settings is redesigned in six tabs, and every switch says what it does.
Separate volumes for music, sound effects, ambience and story jingles, plus haptics set to Off, Soft or Full.
Letter voices: each letter speaks as it types, in Everlife 2's voice or seven cute new ones.
Your town has its own sounds, from waves and wind to birds and rain, and money lands with a cha-ching or a crash.
Day, Night or Auto: Night turns your town and every screen to night.
Turn off vampires, werewolves, crime or God Mode. They stop finding you, and anything you start yourself still works.
Animation speed comes in three styles: Default, Fast and Super.
Play in four new languages: Vietnamese, Thai, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Everything is translated into all 13.
The Game Guide is rewritten for today's game and searchable, and the ? on a page header opens the right article.
Save slots: keep several families going and switch between them in Settings › Data › Families.
Hold your iPhone sideways for a two-column layout. iPad plays in landscape too.
On a Mac or an iPad held sideways, the Life tab sets the season beside your profile, spread across two or three columns, and the Shop shows all eight expansions in one row.
The rest of the game fits wide screens too: pages with a summary set it beside their activities, Settings lists its sections down the side, People shows a person beside the list, and the character creator opens in two panes.
Text grows with your device's text size, and VoiceOver reads more of the game.
VoiceOver works across the whole game: a two-finger scrub goes back or closes, the creator's colors and face parts change with a swipe up or down, and each stat says its full name and how full it is.
Swipe left or right to move between sections in Settings, World, People and Journal. Settings and God Mode's Traits & conditions are now one page you can scroll straight through, with the tabs as shortcuts.
Graphics tune themselves to your device, and the game is much smaller and opens faster.
Settings › Help › Follow Us has Evermyth, our new game: a god life sim from the same creator, set in Everlife's universe.

Weekly challenges

A new challenge every Monday, the same for everyone: a set start and one goal, all in the free game. Start it from Families, the creator or the Journal.
Finish one for 500 Fate (200 more for the bonus), see every week you've played in Journal › Achievements, and earn five new achievements along the way.

Share your life

When a life ends, share its tombstone and story as a picture for your feed or your story.
Share the big moments too: weddings, babies, graduations, achievements, a finished challenge, your dynasty, your family tree, your Town Passport and your new Self.
Every picture is drawn in the game's art with the Everlife 2 logo, in your language.

iCloud sync

Your families, Fate and achievements now follow you across iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Played the same family on two devices? You pick which save to keep, and the other is kept as a backup.
Settings › Data has an iCloud Sync switch with its status and a Sync now button.

Game Center

77 achievements unlock as you play, including ones you've already earned, with progress on the long ones.
Seven leaderboards: longest dynasty, most generations, richest Self, oldest age, biggest brood, weekly challenges, and a weekly richest board.
Find Game Center in Settings › Play and on the Journal's Achievements page.

On the Mac

A full menu bar with every tab and season command, Esc to go back, number and arrow keys for every card, a gold hover glow, right-click to favorite, and tooltips.
Wide Mac windows show your stats and your life log beside the game, and the window remembers its size, place and full screen.
On an iPad keyboard, 1 and 2 answer two-choice cards and the arrow keys move between answers.

Create your life

Start a life at any age from 0 to 70. You begin where someone that age would be: in school, graduated, or with a job and a home.
From 18 you can start married, with children whose ages fit yours.
Choose how your family begins: two parents, two moms or two dads, one parent, or a blended family with a stepparent.
Pick your parents' ages, your older and younger siblings and a family pet, or flip the Twin switch to be born a twin.
See which conditions run in your family, and leave out any of them.
Pick any trait or condition without discovering it first. A condition that starts later in life waits until you're old enough.
Play as a woman, a man, nonbinary or agender, with she, he or they, and pick who you're attracted to.
No more pop-up asking who you're attracted to: you're straight unless you pick otherwise, and Change Sexuality on the Love page changes it anytime.
26 new face parts and five new skin tones.
One shared palette of 66 soft colors, in families of three, for outfits, accessories, hair dye and car paint.
Seven new natural hair colors, from auburn and platinum to chestnut and espresso, passed down in families like the rest.
Everyone has a height now. Kids take after their parents, and Settings shows it in feet or centimeters.
What Create your life hands you no longer earns achievements or Fate. Earn those in play.

Backstories

16 backstories, each with its own challenge and Fate reward, from Silver Spoon and Born With Nothing to Prodigy and Miracle Child.
Your backstory comes back later in life with three stories of its own.
Raised by Grandparents: your parents are gone, and a grandparent raises you.
Newcomers: start life in a new country, learn the language and become a citizen.
Orphan: grow up in a children's home, and maybe a family will choose you.
Pack backstories: Vampire Bloodline and Werewolf Bloodline with Nightfall, Child Star with Fame & Fortune, Crime Family with Life of Crime, and First in the Family with Dreams & Degrees.

Traits and identity

Traits come in 22 opposite pairs where both ends are worth playing, like Workaholic and Slacker or Zen and Dramatic.
Ten new traits: Awkward, Gullible, Serious, Offline, Wallflower, Wholesome, Impatient, Hardy, Picky Eater and Outdoorsy.
Everyone has traits now: babies have one, children two, teens and adults three. Kids take after their parents.
Habits shape you: keep doing something for years and you earn its trait, or turn a trait into its opposite.
People act like their traits: a Romantic partner plans the date, and a Funny friend can't keep a straight face.
Tap a trait to see exactly what it does.
Come out to family and friends when you're ready. Each reacts in their own way, and many come around.
Trans characters: start your life trans, or explore your gender in play and transition at your own pace.
From 13, change your gender identity or pronouns whenever you like.

Growing up

Every card fits the youngest person who can see it, so kids get their own versions of grown-up stories.
No friends before age 6. The kids on your street are your age and grow up alongside you.
15 new childhood stories, from the class hamster to the school play, and 24 that change with your family's money.
Puberty, acne and menopause bring short choice moments of their own.
Some children have an imaginary friend who comes back years later.
Ask your parents for things and get a yes, a no or a deal. Allowance starts at 13.
Being the eldest, the middle child, the youngest or a twin shapes your stories.
A hard childhood leaves marks, and you can choose to do it differently as a parent.

School and college

A teacher follows you through school, and there's an honor roll and a first part-time job.
Perform at school: act, sing or dance, and your skill decides how the show goes.
Join the Cheer Squad, and every club's year brings a competition, a bake sale and a trip.
Bullying follows Popularity: unpopular kids get picked on, and popular kids choose to join in or step in.
Failing grades bring trouble at home: a study plan, a tutor or being grounded. From 14 you can repeat a year.
Students with ADD, ADHD, dyslexia or autism can ask for school accommodations.
Every college major has its own story, and a junior-year internship counts as work experience.
Twenty college clubs: one for every skill, plus an honor society.
Study abroad is a real semester away, and someone you meet there can follow you home.
College is paid for by scholarships first, then your parents, then a student loan.
Your transcript is color-coded by grade, and every degree opens its own framed diploma.

Work and careers

Pay follows real-world careers and ranks, in real dollars.
Every job has a named boss and a work rival, with stories that follow you from job to job.
Yearly reviews: push for a promotion, ask for a raise or ask for flexibility. Slack off and you can be demoted or laid off.
Your job teaches its skill only partway. Practice does the rest.
Headhunters, sabbaticals, early retirement offers, and pensions that grow with every year you worked.
Fame, a relative high up, or your fraternity or sorority can skip the interview and start you higher.
Filter job openings by field, and Shuffle for a fresh list.
Put in a word to get a relative hired where you work.
Three new stories for every career, and new stories for every pack career.
Every holiday has a paid gig, from the mall Giftbringer to the haunted house.
Military careers can deploy for a year, then come home to life as a veteran.
Becoming famous is your choice now: step into the spotlight or stay private.
Retirees can go back to work.

Skills, projects and goals

Skills grow slower and steadier, so mastering one takes real dedication.
At 75, each skill brings an offer: teach a class, mentor a kid or take a side gig. At 100, a mastery story and a lasting perk.
Friends and relatives who are good at their jobs may offer to teach you.
Project pay follows your skill and effort, big hits pay royalties, and a hit app or invention stays yours to sell.
Projects in progress show their odds of success.
Skill, project, promotion and friend goals now come in Easy, Medium and Hard, and harder ones pay more Fate. Pick a focus in Journal › Goals to see its goals first. Life goals and one-tap goals are gone.
33 long-haul achievements, from a 5,000-year dynasty to playing the 50th generation, plus collector and one-life feats.
Achievements that count something show your progress, like 82/100.
67 more achievements and 26 new goals for everything new: money and homes, careers and school, health, family, legacy, the packs and travel.

Money

Wealth is real money now: cash, net worth and a class from Broke to Super rich.
Choices show their price before you pick, and your balance sits under your stats on every card.
Each season brings your pay after tax and one bill: living costs, homes, cars, pets, kids, staff and loans.
The Money tab shows every dollar in and out, season by season.
Loans: personal, student, family, car and mortgage. Buy a home or a car with a down payment.
Ignore your debts and Collectors come for your savings, valuables and cars. Bankruptcy is the last resort.
Invest in savings, index funds, crypto, a business or a hedge fund, and join a gym or a country club.
New shops for jewelry and antiques, and an auction house with fakes to spot. A home safe keeps valuables from burglars.
Pick from 48 paint colors when you buy a new car, bike or plane (used ones come as they are), and repaint it later with painters or your own Mechanics skill.
Your own paintings become collectibles you can sell or pass down.
Lend relatives money and get it back, on time or late.
Divorce splits what you own, but never the home you live in.

Homes

Rent any home, from a slum to a palace, or lease a car. Fall behind and you're evicted, or the car is taken back.
Without a home you're homeless: sleep at a shelter, on a friend's couch or on the street, and the shelter's job program can help.
Every home has bedrooms. New arrivals need a spare bed, and kids complain about sharing.
Buy a home in any town. Homes away from your hometown are vacation homes.
Choose which home you live in, and move family between your homes.
Adults in your household with a job chip in for rent and bills, and a roommate can take the spare room.
Renovate a home you own, with eight new amenities from a basketball court to a private forest.
Staff help all year, and drivers, gardeners and housekeepers join them. A contractor keeps your homes in shape.
Moving to a new town can leave you homesick.
Homes come in 25 color styles. Restyle yours by hiring painters, through your contractor, or yourself with the Mechanics skill.

Towns, travel and holidays

Visit any town's places from the world map. Farther towns cost more energy, and a car, bike or jet cuts the cost.
Every town has its own stories about its landmark and traditions, and a yearly festival.
Eight holidays a year, two each season, with Celebrate tiles instead of pop-ups. Year's End, Sweethearts' Day and Midsummer are new.
40 new holiday stories with family, friends and partners.
Five new trips: a safari, the northern lights, Lantern Harbor, a theme park and a cruise. Bring your partner or kids along.
Road trips can take a second route, the Saltline coast road.
Go to the movies in any town, alone, with a friend or on a date.
Weather stories for snow days, heatwaves and storms, and popped cards burst into your town's weather.
Rare world events, from epidemics and market crashes to great storms, droughts and boom years, shape a life and are remembered by your descendants.

Around Town, free for everyone

The Around Town expansion is free.
Every town has three places to visit, with nightlife from 18.
Six neighbors live on your street, matched to your stage of life. Get close and they become friends, or push too far and start a feud.
Organize an Event: pick from 14 occasions, the guests, the budget and the dress code.
Collect a town's stamps to earn its souvenir, which passes down to your heir.
22 new stories, four storylines and 38 achievements.

Love and marriage

Partner days: cook together, have a movie night, do chores, get away for a weekend or give a massage.
Get to know a new partner slowly, learning their traits as you grow closer.
Admirers and crushes find you while you're single, and a work rival can become a friend or more.
New love stories introduce real people who can become your partner.
Ask to open your relationship, or try again with an ex.
Plan your wedding: theme, outfit, guest list and venue, or let your partner plan it. Keep your names, swap them or hyphenate.
Anniversaries, vow renewals, rough patches and couple's therapy.
A partner who cheats does it only once, and it happens much less often.
Dates with kids from before tell you before the second date, and Find Love shows the kids on each card. Say it's not for you and the dating ends there.

Friends and people

Most interactions now offer a fresh choice instead of the same card every time.
People remember you: insults, help and gifts come back years later as grudges or thanks.
Keep a top friend long enough and they become your best friend.
Popularity follows your real social life: your friends, your hangouts and the groups you join.
33 new stories about the people around you: grown kids move back, teens throw parties, and affairs come out.
Make handmade gifts, treat someone to a makeover you style, or start an activity right from their page.
Encourage family to go back to school, find a job, start dating or start a family.
Some friend groups turn toxic and wear you down until you leave.
Fewer notices about people you barely know.

Family

Your partner's parents become real in-laws at the wedding.
When a parent grows frail, choose: move them in, a care home, or share the care with your siblings.
Divorce with kids brings a custody choice, child support and alimony, and a teen tells the judge who they want to live with.
Step-children can ask you to adopt them.
Choose each baby's surname, and the family follows your custom.
Same-sex couples in your family can adopt or have a baby through a donor or a surrogate.
Relatives announce engagements and pregnancies, and their pages show their health and happiness.
The family tree is redrawn: zoom in, light up anyone's line, and see generations past your grandparents.

Pregnancy and babies

A mid-pregnancy scan shows how many babies are coming. Find out if it's a boy or a girl, or throw a reveal party.
Twins run in families, IVF makes them likelier, and triplets are possible. Name them all on one screen.
New pregnancy moments: tell your kids, take a birth class and get the nursery ready.
A new baby brings sleepless nights, first steps and a daycare choice.
IVF works at real odds for your age, shown before you try.
Pregnancy can bring hard moments too, but never at the calmest Chaos setting.

Raising kids

Every parenting choice shapes your child's wellbeing and personality, and kids inherit half their personality from you.
Sign kids up for sports, music and clubs, hire a tutor, and cheer at their games and recitals.
Buy the toy they're wishing for, or hand down one of your own.
Take sick kids to the doctor. Some kids live with conditions like asthma, ADHD or anxiety.
Choose your child's school: public or a military academy, or private and boarding school with Dreams & Degrees.
Caseworkers step in when a child is neglected, and a parent can earn them back.
A teen pregnancy can get you cut off by your parents.
The Parenting skill is now Childcare, and raising your kids grows it.

The Pets

The new Animal Shelter offers five animals of any age each season.
Vet visits, senior care, a goodbye at the vet and a memorial.
Losing a pet brings real grief, and a child remembers them years later.
Dogs, mini pigs and alpacas can come along on walks, hikes and picnics.
Pick your pet's color at the breeder or pet store. The pet store adds 21 kinds of fish and new color breeds like the Corn Snake and the Copper axolotl.

Health

Treatment matters: therapy, medicine or both make symptoms milder, and medicine blocks a condition's deadly turns.
Health insurance comes from a job, a spouse, your age or a plan you buy. Without it, care costs far more.
Check-ups from 40 can catch hidden conditions, cancer included.
Asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, heart disease and migraines each play out as a story you live with.
Seven mental health conditions get full stories, from bipolar disorder to OCD and trauma.
Cancer you can survive: the diagnosis, treatment choices, hospice or a trial, and milestones for survivors.
Dementia comes in four stages, and treatment slows it.
New allergies, painkillers after an injury, and vapes, each with its own risks.
Injuries ask you to rest, do physio or play through it.
Grief and burnout become choices: take time off or push through.
Quit smoking or drinking cold turkey, with patches, at meetings or through a doctor's program.
Rehab can fail, and a beaten addiction can come back, but interventions and sponsors help.
A cosmetic clinic: Botox, fillers, a nose job, liposuction and facelifts.
Deaths name their real cause.

Later life and legacy

A stage bar under your name tracks your seven stages of life.
A midlife crisis becomes a story: a sports car, a food truck or a garage band.
Retirement homes have resident stories, with friends, rivals and late romances.
Life past 80: falls, hearing aids, 100th birthdays and goodbyes.
Hold a funeral, pick an epitaph, and hear your heir's eulogy.
Write the will: a share for each heir, charity, conditions held in trust, and up to three heirlooms.
The estate splits among your children, and Fate can give your heir a head start in skills and traits.
Pass the torch while you're alive: hand your life to a grown child, grandchild or sibling.
Heirs now come from your direct family line, so nieces and nephews no longer inherit.
Dynasty goals span generations, like three generations in one career.
Visit the graveyard to read each past life's story, even after a New Life.
Lost loved ones may visit as ghosts, and anyone can hold a séance.
A Karma meter: kindness and cruelty come back around.
Rare twists can turn a life upside down: windfalls, mix-ups and strokes of luck.

Politics

Your town elects a mayor every four years, and you can run.
Two parties, the Redpublicans and the Bluemocrats, with elected council seats and a debate before every race.
As mayor, handle budgets, scandals and polls, then run for the state Senate.

Life of Crime expansion

Parole hearings, life after prison, and a record a lawyer can clear.
Escape and you're wanted until you turn yourself in.
Gang ranks up to Boss, with each gang's own decisions, and you can wear a wire.
Teens can be caught, put on probation and sent to juvie.
A prison infirmary, family visits and a cellmate who keeps coming back.
The contract path: big fees, rising heat and time lying low.
New crime stories and storylines, and you can back out of a murder at the last moment.

Nightfall expansion

Werewolves join Nightfall: a full moon every season, a pack to run with and a new skill, Instinct.
Werewolf children can inherit the curse, and two werewolf storylines can end with you leading the pack.
Dark Power splits into two skills: Glamour and Ferocity.
Vampires never die of old age or illness, but hunters can still get them.
60 new vampire stories, four storylines and 10 new activities.
Vampires ask before turning someone, can fall for their sire, and can switch off their emotions.
20 vampire love stories, and vampire answers to everyday dangers like muggers.
Vampires live by night: while you're one, your town is always at night and every screen stays dark.

Fame & Fortune expansion

Sponsorship deals, fame that fades out of the spotlight, and a stalker storyline for big stars.
Island of Strangers: get cast on a reality show, or pitch your own.
Singers release singles, EPs and albums that chart, and go on tour.
Athletes train, sign contracts, get traded and play for the Championship.
A Luxury shop: yachts, a private island, a racehorse, a vineyard and a space flight.
25 new fame stories and new storylines.

Dreams & Degrees expansion

New career: Game Development.
Doctors and engineers pick a specialty, designers can move into animation, and painters can turn to comics.
Private and boarding schools, and space camp.
New college storylines, and late-life stories for every major.

God Mode expansion

God Mode opens from the lightning button on the Life tab.
Set anyone's fertility, and give characters the new skin tones.
God Mode edits no longer earn Fate. Earn it in play.

The Shop

The Shop is redrawn, and Complete Collection buys every expansion you don't own in one tap.
Witching Hour and Crown & Court are coming soon.

Everlife 2 Patch 2.0 is currently for iOS and Mac platforms only.

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No more ads

All ads are removed for every player in version 1.1. No expansion purchase is required.

God Mode: a new expansion

Take control from a new Profile tab: edit your character, stats, traits, conditions, skills, career, education, family, and friends.
Choose who ages, prevent death, stop new health conditions, or pause other characters' careers and births. Adjust stats and skills with + and −, and hold a stat to lock it.
Nothing changes until you tap Save changes. Deaths, revivals, leaving college, and other side effects are shown before you commit. God Mode is fully translated.

Groups and new stories

All 60 group activities have fresh writing and subtitles, with separate childhood outcomes for classmate activities.
Chat and Hang out each have five scenes, with reactions tailored to children, teens, and adults.
Twelve classmate, coworker, gang, and Greek life scenarios now feature a real member of your group by name. Your choices affect your friendship with that person.
Group members have unique names, and each gang has its own name pool.

A new Action Menu

A six-category hub puts more of your life within reach, with shortcuts straight to individual sections. The new A–Z tab lists available actions and where to find them.
Search from every page, including colleges, cars, jobs, and heists inside it. Use Show locked to show or hide actions you cannot take yet.
Money & Property is now under Work & Money, skills sit directly under Learn, and owned vehicles are under Fun → Rides. Opening, closing, and page transitions are smoother.

Smarter Quick Picks

Your three suggested actions now respond to your life: a doctor for unexplained symptoms, marriage when engaged, rehab for addictions, jobs when unemployed, and help when Health or mood is low. The dice still gives random picks.

Profile and Contacts, redesigned

Profile now uses expandable tiles, with Open all / Close all, new Education and Dynasty details, and a Skills tile that fits its list. Traits and conditions have individual icons, and menu icons are now in color.
Search Contacts by name and browse portrait cards grouped by family generation, relationship type, or group and role. Pets have their own Household section. Tap a portrait to expand the full contact view.

Milestones worth pursuing

Goals now focus on life milestones instead of routine actions, with rewards of 100–300 Fate.
Sixteen new goals include reaching the top of your career, getting engaged, becoming a grandparent, owning five properties, beating an addiction, becoming famous, and becoming a vampire.
Thirteen new achievements bring the total to 156, including Ring on It, Grand Title, The Great Escape, Creature of the Night, and Century Club. Project achievements now have distinct names, such as Curtain Up, Gone Viral, and Published Author.

More control over your starting life

Choose an exact birthday and let the date determine your zodiac sign. A new hometown picker shows every town at once.
Teen starts receive 40 skill points at age 13; adult starts receive 80 at age 18. A new Skills tab offers a random childhood influenced by your Backstory traits. Reroll it or assign points yourself; unspent points are applied automatically.

Witness protection

Adults in a gang can join witness protection through the Crime page with Life of Crime. Testify, leave your gang, take a new name, and move to a new town.
Going back to the town you fled can be fatal.

18 background themes

Choose your background in Settings, with 18 options including the four expansion colors, God Mode, Twilight, and a new pastel set.

Changes

Improved menu animations across Profile, Journal, Shop, and Settings, and refreshed baby naming, trait, and condition cards. Item information pills now sit above descriptions without being cut off.
Reduced health-condition stacking: random rolls can add at most one severe condition, and cancers are half as common. Very low Health can still bring more conditions over time.
Relationship-based success chances now match your relationship level. Failed parenting care no longer lowers relationships, bonding always grants +5 relationship, and Give Money now depends on your relationship.
Children keep their childhood home until high school graduation. It cannot be sold or lost, and children cannot buy property. Successors keep their household's home or receive a home in your town.
The housing market changes each season, with occasional booms and slumps affecting home prices.
Vacation homes no longer require Fame & Fortune. Vampire homes now require Nightfall.
Ending a friendship now removes that friend from your life.
Expanded translations for life-event notifications, obituaries, the graveyard, gang names, item notices, and locked-action explanations.
Improved performance.
Improved save speed and reduced save sizes.

Fixes

Fixed the Action Menu failing to appear after seasonal quick actions and flickering after Continue or Skip Year.
Fixed new lives retaining the previous dynasty's generations and years, or starting without a home.
Fixed newborn siblings moving out immediately after birth when their parents were divorced.
Fixed children being prompted to buy property and losing Health and Happiness in the Shabby Shelter.
Fixed missed high school graduation blocking jobs and college. Affected characters now graduate automatically from age 19.
Grades now round to whole numbers, with halves rounded up. Fixed students skipping major selection and graduating without a degree skill. Choosing a major late no longer costs a season.
Fixed move cards showing incorrect text after reopening the game and teen heirs receiving club notices before choosing a club.
Fixed undiagnosed heart attacks occurring too frequently, restoring their seasonal chance from 60% to 2%.
Added an asthma attack card for players without an inhaler. Inhaler text now requires GaspBGone, and epilepsy and bipolar symptom cards match the treatment being used.
Fixed duplicate symptom cards for treated diabetes and heart disease, and psychosis cards repeating the same scenario or using incorrect icons.
Fixed surgery causing infertility or injuries. Injuries now have warning symptoms before diagnosis.
Fixed pets appearing on every Contacts tab.
Fixed classmates and coworkers counting as friends for goals or moving before you had actually befriended them.
Fixed the Move Out goal not completing. Pixel Perfect can now be earned by winning the international gaming championship.
Fixed expansions appearing owned without a purchase and refunded purchases retaining access.
Fixed garbled translations, Korean grammar after names, inconsistent Empire City University naming, and the vampire status typo on Profile.

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Changes

Added household selection when moving, including the family members who accompany each person.
Residents now ask before moving a spouse and dependent family into your own household, but not while you live in your childhood home.
Siblings now leave the childhood home between ages 18 and 20. Invited roommates no longer move out randomly.
Added Timed Cards settings: Default (8 seconds), Slower (12 seconds), and Slowest (16 seconds).
Newly applied hair dye now lasts five in-game years, remaining at full color for the first half before gradually fading.
Added a compact Action Menu category view. Tap Categories again to switch between detailed and compact layouts.
Reorganized Care, Homes, and Vehicles, added useful shortcuts, and clarified locked family planning options.
Improved the Move screen with town names and icons, selection highlights, and property keep/sell labels.
Improved menu layouts, transitions, character labels, and translations.
Reduced repeated names and relationship labels on follow-up cards.
Owned expansions now appear in My Collection instead of the purchase list. Improved pack descriptions, feature cards, and shop presentation.
Improved Sell Assets with clearer names, prices, Wealth totals, and controls.
Start a new life now ends your current life and opens succession to continue your family or start a new dynasty.
Improved the in-game bug report form and submission feedback.
Improved performance.
Improved save speed.

Fixes

Fixed household marriage and move-in cards not swiping, using incorrect family labels, or showing stale text after loading.
Fixed inconsistent relationship shortcuts and missing Find love, Friends, Family, and pet-shopping options.
Fixed household members disappearing from other relationship sections and Prank Call opening the wrong picker.
Fixed overlapping icons and broken text wrapping in Sell Assets.
Fixed a mobile-build issue that could announce a grandchild without adding them to the family.
Fixed first-trimester events appearing before the pregnancy reveal.
Fixed pregnancy and cheating reactions targeting the wrong partner, and birth dialogue incorrectly claiming you rejected the baby.
Fixed breaking up with an engaged partner failing to find an outcome.
Fixed divorce events involving deceased parents or couples who were no longer married.
Fixed incorrect names and pronouns in family, relationship, and pet text, and childhood events displaying adult text.
Fixed graduate-only jobs and moving options appearing for ineligible young characters.
Fixed incorrect age restrictions, duplicate entries, and empty categories in the Action Menu.
Fixed suggested actions confirming the wrong action or person after refreshing.
Fixed swipes submitting an answer before release or after returning the card to the center.
Fixed nightclub results appearing late and Have a drink incorrectly requiring Life of Crime.
Fixed being unable to keep searching after rejecting a sire, and new sire encounters appearing after becoming a vampire.
Fixed being unable to reapply to college after dropping out, and dorm events continuing after leaving college.
Fixed mould effects from hidden homes and hidden childhood homes becoming active again after loading.
Fixed retirement residences being inherited by successors.
Fixed Assign chores targeting the wrong family member.
Fixed automatic speeding encounters repeating too frequently.
Fixed Reduce Motion blocking essential animations, including the death screen and obituary Continue button.
Fixed rabbits displaying alpaca pictures.
Fixed staff and personal settings carrying into a successor's life.
Fixed owned expansions becoming locked after loading older saves. Ownership checks now retry and preserve existing unlocks offline.
Fixed repeated checkout attempts while an expansion purchase was still pending.

05Patch 1.0.217 notes

Changes

Added Japanese, Korean, and Italian.
Improved performance.
Improved translations and text layout, including home details and Settings.
Added clearer household notices explaining who moved in and how they are related to you.
All 21 pet species, their interactions, and stories are included in the base game.
Added an in-app rating prompt and a Rate Everlife option in Settings on iOS.
Improved purchase verification on Android.

Fixes

Fixed an iOS save failure and added protection against incomplete saves.
Fixed getting stuck after purchasing a home, including recovery for affected saves.
Fixed grandchild birth announcements appearing without a baby being added to the family.
Fixed repeated retirement offers after retiring.
Fixed missing paydays, retirement income, and work experience after reloading.
Fixed the Game Over restart button not responding.
Fixed the New Life popup closing immediately after opening.
Fixed becoming or starting as a vampire without Nightfall.
Fixed expansion content being accessible without the required expansion.
Fixed expansion lock buttons and incorrect toy-store restrictions.

06Patch 1.0.110 notes

Changes

Improved performance.
Improved save speed.

Fixes

Fixed missing tutorials for new players.
Fixed some tutorials appearing when tutorials were disabled.
Fixed accidental answers during school questions and job interviews.
Fixed swipes carrying over to the next card.
Fixed question timers running before you could answer or while the game was interrupted.
Fixed loading delays causing questions to time out.
Fixed the Android app icon showing the Unity logo.
Fixed errors caused by closed naming popups.

07Patch 1.01 note

Hi,

I’m Phil, the solo dev behind E1 and E2. Six years ago, I started making Everlife, the life sim I’d always wanted to play. Within months of launch, it had over a million downloads.

Then you started sharing your ideas on Discord, and I wanted to make them happen. So I did! More than fifty free updates later, there’s still nothing better than adding one of your suggestions and getting to reply, “Coming in the next update!” So swing by our Discord or say hi on your favorite social network and tell me what you’d love to see next.

Everlife 2 is much closer to the game I originally imagined. It took a lot of learning and hard work to get here, and I’m so excited for you to explore the new content, mechanics, and systems I’ve built. And rest assured, I’ve got many free updates and expansions planned, too.

Whether you’ve been here for six years or six seconds, thank you for being part of this. If you’re having fun, please tell a friend, share a screenshot, or leave a five-star review. It makes a HUGE difference!

Thanks again, and have fun!

With love,

Phil

08Patch 0.9.2049 notes

Changes

Added five branching Drama storylines across 41 cards: a parent's serious illness, a partner's hidden debt, a friend's betrayal, a secret half-sibling, and a sibling's arrest.
Suggested actions now include at most one character or pet interaction, leaving more room for other activities.
The Character Creator's Randomize button now randomizes starting age and gender as well as name and appearance.
Improved Family Tree spacing and long-name handling. The tree opens centered on your character and remembers your zoom level.
The Action Menu now remembers your scroll position when going back.
Added Apple VoiceOver support for cards, choices, and in-game notifications on iPhone and iPad.
Grandchildren can now marry and have children through story progression. Great-grandchildren appear in the Family Tree and can be selected as successors.
Added species-specific sounds to pet cards and interaction outcomes for all 21 pet types.
Added a fictional-content disclaimer to the startup screen.

Fixes

Fixed missing prison actions by moving the full Prison category into the main Action Menu. Other categories are locked and Quick Actions only use prison actions while incarcerated.
Fixed actions disappearing, locking, or changing order because a selected outcome was unavailable. If no outcome can resolve, the Action Menu now stays open and explains why.
Fixed old gold colors appearing in Family, Friend, Love, and Pet interaction categories.
Fixed the blue background not fading out when closing selection menus, including Major and Sexuality selection.
Fixed a stray green arrow appearing over the Action Menu after transitions.
Fixed duplicate Code Prototypes entries appearing in Recent or Favorites, including saved aliases that remained after removing a favorite.
Fixed Coke and Shrooms production actions opening the wrong drug card.
Fixed family and Contact profiles shrinking, disappearing, or popping into view when opened.
Fixed the ferret icon overlapping the Contact menu tabs.
Fixed the Obituary Continue button appearing partly offscreen on iPad.
Fixed duplicate child graduation cards, incorrect Medical School diploma flashes, and stale confirmation overlays when changing graduation choices.
Fixed misplaced Family Tree relationship lines, reversed couple connectors, and lines overlapping character boxes.
Fixed Puberty remaining after age 18, including after loading a save, and Depression appearing while Happiness is 70 or higher.
Fixed ChemiCure being offered after surgery for non-cancer injuries.
Fixed baby portraits becoming transparent at zero Happiness.
Fixed age-inappropriate interactions, including adult actions for newborns, Parenting for teens, fertility options for children, child cheating scenarios, and children appearing as murder targets.
Fixed Murder losing the selected target after choosing a method, launching an unrelated scenario, or failing to register the attempt.
Fixed Household actions choosing unrelated scenarios, targeting the wrong person, or applying no effects.
Fixed household transitions after bankruptcy, succession, and moving towns leaving minors alone, emptying households, or retaining relatives who should have moved out.
Fixed save repairs and relationship changes misclassifying relatives as Exes, removing valid partners, or allowing remarried parents to have children with former partners.
Fixed failed dates creating partners, Find Love disappearing, and proposal or wedding options missing for eligible partners.
Fixed negative child interactions increasing the relationship instead of lowering it.
Fixed switching gyms after unwanted attention lowering Happiness instead of increasing it.
Fixed long film projects showing events out of chronological order.
Fixed successful teen theft increasing Art instead of Crime.
Fixed single characters being described as “technically taken” because of an unrelated friend’s relationship status.
Fixed cards and popups sometimes becoming permanently stuck after pausing or opening another menu, including the Wine dialogue.
Fixed Start New Life sometimes freezing or restoring old progress, and some saves repeatedly returning to the start-of-season screen.
Fixed purchased toys such as the LittleBake Oven and SnuggleSense Bear not appearing as usable Toy Chest actions.
Fixed the Drinks category being empty or unavailable for infants and toddlers.
Fixed the player sometimes aging faster than NPC relatives.
Fixed inherited adult relatives having a higher job rank than their skills support.
Fixed work emergencies using client-specific wording for unrelated careers.
Fixed Bank Financial Services opening empty when no loan was active.
Fixed incorrect names, pronouns, and labels in several cards, including a classmate being called Dad, nephew dating text, gendered child wording, raw animation tags, a rabbit being called a dragon, and leftover character placeholders when declining to ditch school.
Fixed actions with no available outcome consuming a season, and dating started from an action outcome returning to the wrong phase.
Fixed a delayed notification permission response overriding a newer choice to disable notifications.
Fixed errors in UI updates during loading causing valid saved progress, including career data, to be treated as damaged.
Fixed recovery of a damaged setting rolling back unrelated preferences.
Fixed long Action Menu labels and temporary messages crowding navigation controls.

09Patch 0.9.1931 notes

Important release note: Older saves are no longer migrated and will start fresh under the new save format.

Changes

Completely rebuilt the Action Menu with Search and Categories, Recent, Favorites, and All tabs.
You can now favorite actions for quick access. Recently used actions are tracked automatically.
The Action Menu itself is now ~5% of the size it was before, so it should load much faster on lower-end devices.
Replaced History tab with a new Journal menu featuring Your Story (previously History), Discoveries (previously Codex), Goals (a new system), and Achievements (previously Life Goals).
Added repeatable Goals across three active slots. Completing Goals awards Fate.
Added always-active Achievements that persist across lives and award Fate once.
Pets now die if their Wellbeing reaches zero.
Improved Family Planning: fertility tests are optional, treatment doubles fertility for three years, and outcome cards were rewritten.
Added a new particle effect when Dark Power increases.
Avatar facial animation now uses subtler eye movement while keeping noses and mouths aligned.
Expanded Reduce Motion to suppress more continuous UI animations.
Updated the Game Guide and improved writing across Character Interactions, Trait notifications, and Condition notifications.

Fixes

Fixed Family Planning buttons sometimes starting disabled or not responding.
Fixed child and teen interactions using adult-only work, college, housing, driving, breakup, or alcohol scenarios.
Fixed some interactions using characters outside their intended age range.
Fixed minor saves with missing household data not restoring living parents and siblings.
Fixed breakup and rejection cards reclassifying or permanently deleting saved family members and partners.
Fixed Character Creator and Makeover hiding certain looks.
Fixed tombstones always showing Age 28 instead of the character’s actual age at death.
Fixed proposal ring prices unlocking one Wealth level late.
Fixed mismatched icons across construction, career, crime, addiction, and skill-project cards.
Fixed some drug outcomes rolling addiction twice and making addiction much more likely than intended.
Fixed a severe Alcohol card increasing Nicotine instead of Alcohol.
Fixed family histories using the wrong starting age and giving some NPC couples duplicate or impossible births.
Fixed Hometown randomization not updating its label and sometimes opening the dropdown.
Fixed clearing a starting Trait or Condition shifting other selections or leaving the slot unusable.
Fixed babies speaking during the Cuddle Time interaction.
Fixed obituary text being clipped or positioned outside its scroll area.
Fixed the death background continuing after you successfully switched to a successor.
Fixed the update-required popup appearing repeatedly or opening over another menu.
Fixed jagged spikes and other visual artifacts around rounded UI elements.

10Patch 0.9.1870 notes

Changes

New “Need Failure” System: Reaching zero in any of the five needs now triggers specific, age-appropriate consequences.
You can now build a house.
Added a “Move Out” action that lets you leave your household without moving to another town.
Added hospital Family Planning, including fertility testing and treatment, donor IVF, surrogacy, and adoption.
Characters now have innate fertility levels that affect conception.
Succession now preserves inheritable assets such as property, vehicles, pets, toys, awards, finished projects, and heirlooms, while removing personal items such as degrees and drugs.
Vampirism can now be unlocked as a starting condition for future characters. Selecting it creates an adult vampire.
Romantic interactions are now age-appropriate: flirt at 6–9, kiss at 10–13, and hook up at 14+.
Added teen-specific relationship and pregnancy events.
Teen jobs now require level 5 in a relevant skill and improve that skill.
Expanded Goals to 215, covering careers, skills, crafting, vehicles, awards, graduate degrees, pets, and more.
NPCs are now more proactive and can initiate interactions.
Losing a fight with a vampire hunter while low on Thirst is now fatal.
Added a tattoo chooser with all 34 tattoo styles.
Health now shows an early warning pulse when low.
Condition-spawning events now use clearer, more precise wording.
Starting Trait and Condition dropdowns now show unlocked options first.
You can now remove hair dye during a Makeover.
Improved frame pacing on Android devices.
Improved closing animations across Choice Menus.

Fixes

Fixed save/load issues that could lose progress, restore an outdated save, start a new life, or leave no playable card.
Fixed corrupted settings and incomplete Delete All resets.
Fixed broken family-tree and succession links, including spouses, parents, children, half-siblings, and pregnancies.
Fixed underage successors living alone instead of with their living parents and siblings.
Fixed resurrection costs not resetting after succession.
Fixed childhood homes sometimes becoming hidden after save repairs.
Fixed Family Bond at character creation so parents and siblings begin at the selected relationship level.
Fixed parental divorce household handling. Your chosen parent and siblings will now remain with you.
Fixed parent, sibling, and offspring home-life cards using relatives outside your household.
Fixed a father’s death canceling an ongoing pregnancy.
Fixed pending babies being lost after reload and baby naming completing too early.
Fixed same-sex adoptions recording only one parent.
Fixed newborn sibling cards using the parent instead of the new baby.
Fixed foster parents leaving at age 18 instead of after high school graduation. Living step-parents are now prioritized as caregivers.
Fixed missing or inappropriate move-in and housing interactions involving older adults, vampire sires, teens, college students, and unsuitable housing.
Fixed deceased characters appearing in normal cards or receiving relationship and wellbeing changes.
Fixed some relationship changes being applied more than once.
Fixed Find Love reopening without candidates and the Dating interface failing to appear.
Fixed making a relationship official sometimes leading into divorce.
Fixed former partners being deleted instead of retained as Exes after some breakups.
Fixed prom dates being labeled as lovers.
Fixed Work Overtime and Therapy outcomes affecting the wrong relationships.
Fixed high school graduation cards being skipped and private school locks.
Fixed prison preventing future college applications after release.
Fixed high school and college transcripts overwriting each other or being cleared by prison.
Fixed child college graduation cards showing abbreviated loan and job prompts.
Fixed college admissions, enrollment, graduation rewards, degree skill rewards, and graduate profile labels, including rewards being missed or repeated after reload.
Fixed elective rewards being lost after restarting the game.
Fixed Interview progress not updating and passed interviews sometimes leaving you unemployed.
Fixed promotion requirements not refreshing when reopening the menu.
Fixed the coworker embezzlement scenario appearing after retirement.
Fixed the Quick Action random button choosing unavailable actions.
Fixed Dark Power increases.
Fixed sellable inventory items not appearing correctly in the emergency sell-off menu.
Fixed doctor treatment choices routing incorrectly and treatments such as Therapy appearing under Conditions in Profile.
Fixed cuddle, sibling, and doctor cards displaying placeholder text.
Fixed offspring time-capsule scenarios appearing for vampires.
Fixed reflection cards and Happiness effects after a murdered character’s death.
Fixed Greek Life scenarios appearing before joining Greek Life or using the wrong fraternity or sorority wording.
Fixed Glacier Peaks and Porta Bella vacations forcing the wrong second activity.
Fixed the Murder menu’s Strangle and Sabotage requirements. Hiring a hitman now correctly costs Wealth.
Fixed malformed Wealth icons in the College Housing menu.
Fixed incorrect speaker labels during wedding vows and teen school cards.
Fixed random aging killing the active character outside the normal death flow.
Fixed Infertility and Injury spawning randomly and Heart Disease appearing before age 30.
Fixed adopted pets not aging after reload, duplicate pet death checks, and invalid cat and dog coat colors.
Fixed Character Creator issues involving duplicate starting traits, randomization running twice, family surnames, sibling ages, and inherited facial features.
Fixed saved characters restoring with incorrect age, gender, vampire state, or appearance colors.
Fixed male toddler face alignment, facial animations affecting gameplay randomness or ignoring Reduce Motion, face layers rendering incorrectly, and gray hair updating late or remaining after becoming a vampire.
Fixed seasonal clouds visibly snapping in Quick Actions and music failing to resume after being paused.

11Patch 0.9.174 notes

Changes

Vampiric Power is now called Dark Power and is visible in the Skills panel.

Fixes

Continued fixes for bugs introduced in version 0.9.15.
Fixed male children having female red lips.
Other fixes and improvements.

12Patch 0.9.161 note

Hotfix for an issue that caused action buttons to stop responding properly.

13Patch 0.9.1528 notes

Changes

Improved writing across many cards.
You’ll now get a pop-up warning if your game is out of date.
Removed bug report shortcut in the bottom navigation panel. You can still report bugs via the Settings menu.
Character dialogue now has a subtitle with their name and relationship.
More accurate cards and new choices when your child graduates from high school.
Two new lips added for female characters.
All male mouths were redone. Bottom lip is closer to upper lip so it doesn’t look like a chin.
Job board postings now require both skill and work experience to be fully eligible before showing higher ranks.
If both parents die before you graduate high school, an older relative will move into your household. Foster parents will only be generated if you have no living adult relatives.
Improved action menu spawning animation.
Better recommended “quick” actions.
Added overdose risk and a new overdose death for dangerous 3x drug doses.
Family Bond now affects your starting relationship with parents and siblings only.
Added vampire-safe alternate text to several sunny/daytime cards.

Fixes

Fixed younger siblings.
The Game Guide topic dropdown now scrolls correctly.
Fixed family bond resetting to zero.
Fixed castle wedding copy so pronoun replacement can’t produce “she’re”.
Household tab now shows all household members plus pets.
Pets now age correctly.
Job board postings now require both skill and work experience to be fully eligible before showing higher ranks.
Private school application gates are fixed.
Improved avatar quality so some looks no longer appear pixelated.
Fixed generated item notifications using the wrong or blank item name before a random name was assigned.
Fixed failed Heimlich outcomes completing the hero goal.
Fixed asthma ambulance outcomes and death cards using the wrong active character/age.
Fixed sibling birth copy that could describe the new baby as your mom.
Fixed birthday actions appearing outside your birth season.

14Patch 0.9.1439 notes

Changes

After dying, you can continue playing as any living sibling, niece/nephew, child, or grandchild.
Obituaries are now functional.
Improved tombstone layout, better obituary flow, and new succession menu.
You can disable fame in the Settings menu.
Added “Family Bond” as a 5th starting stat you can customize in the Character Creator.
It’s easier to maintain your relationship with your kids.
You will inherit Wealth once both of your birth parents have passed away. Your spouse will also leave you some money when they die.
Your parents can have more children after you create your character, as long as they’re still married.
Elders will now use more age-appropriate looks.
Move out / kick out now removes the target plus their spouse and kids from the household.
If a household member gets married or has children, those characters are added to the household automatically.
If you continue as someone outside your household, their partner and kids will become your new household.

Fixes

Fixed missing sexuality chooser.
Removed bugged vampire skills from Skills panel in Profile.
Fixed lock button overlay in skill creation menus. Now displays the reason you cannot finalize a project.
Fixed pet age text alignment in Contacts menu.
Restored missing text for some retirement homes.
Cleared overlapping subtitles for Bank Loan and Old Age Home menus in Action Menu.
Restarting the game with a pet card will no longer randomly select another pet upon game reload.
Fixed pleading not guilty for a crime starting a gameplay loop.
Fixed bug with the Sell Drugs action.
Fixed incorrect name in new grandchild announcement.
Fixed wellbeing notifications so only your children can trigger child wellbeing updates.
Fixed the quick action title for kicking out a household member.
Fixed partners who already live with you asking to move in again.
Fixed sibling loan interactions showing the “(Relationship)” placeholder.
Fixed quick relationship actions using the wrong active character, so actions like teaching manners apply to the selected child instead of a previously active friend.
Fixed family outing resolution cards using an unrelated active friend instead of an actual family member.
Fixed quick action Murder appearing for teenagers. Both you and the target now must be 18+.
Fixed adopted children not automatically joining your household.
Fixed action outcomes with no matching card leaving the game stuck.
Fixed amenities from old or sold homes unlocking current Action Menu options.
Fixed Fight Vampires quick action appearing for non-vampires.
Fixed rapid repeated SFX getting dropped.
Fixed completed novels and other named projects using placeholder reward names.
Fixed partnered hookups spawning single-person hookup outcomes.
Fixed death and reflection cards using generic hard-coded relationship words instead of the actual name/relationship.
Fixed the born-with trait notification flow when no starting traits are selected.
Fixed Game Guide loading so unfinished entries should not appear in-game.

15Patch 0.9.1333 notes

Changes

8 new graduate school actions for those enrolled in grad school.
Job postings have been redesigned.
The job postings menu now shows one job for each career path. If a job is inaccessible, it now shows the reason.
Job postings will automatically show the highest available rank, so you can start careers mid-way if you have the skill and job experience required.
A graduate degree is now required to apply for some jobs, rather than requiring a degree to progress past rank 5 of certain careers.
Condition symptoms will occur less often, especially if on recommended treatments.
You can now sell condemned homes and vehicles.
Gangs now require 15 Crime skill before reaching out to recruit you, up from just one.
Might and Dominion skills have been combined into Dark Power. Your Dark Power progresses more slowly than traditional skills, so it takes decades (or even centuries) to become a powerful vampire.
When getting arrested, vampires may now utilize their Dark Power to fight with supernatural strength, flee with supernatural speed, or hypnotize the police to drop the case entirely.
New action that allows vampires to drink blood in prison.
New murder type for vampires: Drain.
Skill point displays are now labeled in the Action Menu.
Scenarios about siblings and other family members now specify the family relationship in the blurb so you have more context.

Fixes

Fixed missing vehicles.
Fixed pet contact items.
Fixed hair dye randomize button.
Fixed creation-menu extras so bottom options, including “Commission Cover,” select the correct add-on.
Fixed project naming so films and other named creations keep the player-entered title instead of using placeholder names.
Fixed Action Menu page switching so only the intended menu page stays active, preventing family/interact options from appearing behind other menus.
Continued Goal cleanup, including new goals and retired/reworked older content.
Fixed Toy Chest availability so it appears from ages 0-12 with no childhood lock.
Fixed rejected sires, friends, lovers, and hookup contacts lingering in the character list after saying no.
Fixed child-in-laws and grandchildren moving into the household correctly while keeping their existing relationship types.
Fixed obituaries opening blank.
Fixed move-in rejection cards causing freezes/side effects.
Fixed the sexuality choice menu so it appears once per life.
Fixed the sexuality confirmation text so attraction is labeled correctly.
Fixed partner move-in requests appearing before high school graduation.
Fixed infertility diagnoses appearing after you have already had children.
Fixed the true crime podcast outcome increasing happiness instead of lowering it.
Fixed the fake ID bar scenario appearing for characters who are already old enough to enter.
Many other bug fixes and improvements.

16Patch 0.9.1230 notes

Changes

Graphics quality settings now also cap FPS and reduce resolution to further improve performance. High = 100% resolution/60 FPS, Balanced = 85% resolution/60 FPS, and Performance = 70% resolution/45 FPS.
If someone in your household dislikes you, they may decide to move out.
If your parents get divorced, you must now choose who to live with.
If you dump or divorce a partner, they will now leave your household.
Choosing “surprise me” for sexuality will now reveal what sexuality was chosen.
Characters can now only become estranged if they are 18 or older.
Adjusted Skip Year to use a strict 4-season counter rather than skipping to the next age-up.
You can now randomize your starting needs.
Family tree now shows all your kids, even if they are from multiple partners.

Fixes

Adding starting traits + conditions now works.
Getting a job is now more secure.
Tombstone now shows name, cause of death, and properly triggers your obituary.
Fixed visit art museum action.
Vampire sire now appears as family.
Fixed puberty continuing into adulthood.
Fixed female characters getting voice-crack puberty cards.
Fixed duplicate trait bug.
Fixed chatting with a bartender at a bar action.
Fixed yoga freezing the game.
You can no longer get both conflicting traits, like Good and Evil.
All adult characters should now have jobs.
Fixed skip year bypassing important notifications.
Fixed contact page popup size bug.
Fixed a bug that could cause you to propose to someone other than your partner.
Fixed prison action bugs.
Bankruptcy can no longer occur while in college.
Fixed pet interactions in quick action menu.
Fixed character move-in issues.
Settings will no longer reset when starting a new life.
Volume sliders should no longer break.

17Patch 0.9.111 note

Fixes

Hotfix for performance issues

18Patch 0.9.1020 notes

Changes

Seasonal action suggestion menu has been expanded to include interactions and menu categories.
Toys are now available until you turn 13, with new age-appropriate outcome variants.
Reorganized action menu. Actions restricted by age will now only appear 5 years before unlocking, cleaning up menu clutter while only providing relevant, upcoming information. If it says you must be an adult, you must also graduate from high school (not just turn 18).
Save system is now more durable, with fewer crashes and new data loss safeguards.
Your fiancé will automatically join your household when you merge your bank accounts before getting married.
Your partner will ask to move in with you if they really like you.
You will now gain Happiness when a character dies that you killed, rather than losing Happiness.

Fixes

Fixed more job starting issues.
Fixed add to household crashes.
Fixed prom event deleting your existing partner.
Fixed music pausing/resuming issue.
Fixed notifications being wiped after restarting the game.
Fixed bug that didn’t add adopted children to the household.
Fixed Heartiva treatment bugs.
Fixed dead characters continuing to age.
Fixed vampires getting health conditions that they’d be immune to, like dementia or cancer.
Fixed grandchild birth announcement card.
Fixed Porta Bella vacation not starting.
Fixed broken marital status on profile.
Fixed text speed not increasing.

19Patch 0.9.911 notes

Changes

New System: Households! The game now distinguishes between who you’re related to and who you actually live with.
New “Ask to Move In”, “Ask to Move Out”, and “Kick Out” interactions. Live with friends, grandparents, hookups… whoever! Spouses will always move together, and children under 18 will always follow their mother. You cannot move others in/out of your home, so move out first to start your own household, then invite whoever you want.
New UI for deceased characters in the Contacts menu.
UI updates and improvements for the Profile and Contacts menus.
You may now adopt pets from birth.

Fixes

Fixed jobs not starting.
Fixed electives not awarding skill points.
Fixed frozen popularity/fame slider.
Fixed skill project extras closing the menu when tapped.
Fixed pet interaction buttons.
Fixed crawl + explore outside actions.

20Patch 0.9.815 notes

Changes

Performance improvements on lower-end devices.
New quality setting. Auto-detects based on device but you can override.
Improved sorting in Contacts menu.
Bunch of new vampire-specific outcomes for actions.
Tutorial intro added. More tutorial cards will be added throughout the beta.
It’s now easier to make friends, even with no charisma skill.

Fixes

Fixed prison menu not allowing you to submit an action.
Fixed pregnancy announcements being skipped.
Fixed some cards referencing the wrong character.
Fixed pet cards referencing humans and not the active pet.
Fixed bug that could prevent college graduation.
Fixed bug with career flow.
Fixed a bug with marriage flow.
Fixed surname selector when naming a new baby.
Various tweaks and fixes.

21Patch 0.9.713 notes

Changes

Thamesbridge Prep entry requirement reduced from 90+ to 70+.
Random pregnancy chance has been dramatically reduced, and all pregnancy rates in the game have been unified and balanced. Expect 1-2 random pregnancies per lifetime rather than 9-10.
All characters are now presented with the choice to use protection or not when hooking up, rather than just male characters.
Successfully using protection when hooking up now prevents pregnancy 100% of the time. However, there is a small chance of it breaking. You’ll be notified if it does.
Fame will now only spawn after graduating high school. Popularity will cap at 100 until after graduation, where increasing it past 100 evolves it into Fame.
Check out the pet store for a bunch of new pets to adopt.

Fixes

Switching from Popularity to Fame and back should now run smoothly.
Some cards no longer mistakenly show “you’re an adult” texts.
Vacation activities are now working properly.
Pregnancies will no longer continue after termination.
Parent and grandparent surnames now automatically update when you get to Family page in Character Creator.
College tuition will now be taken from your Wealth when starting college.
College electives now actually increase your skills.

22Patch 0.9.630 notes

Changes

Your actions, choices, and decisions now shape your traits. This was implemented already for a few traits, but now works across all 41 of them.
New school club: Study Group. Join to improve your grades instead of a skill.
See expanded character information when tapping on a character in the Contacts menu.
You can now reach out to an estranged family member for a chance at reconciliation (or more heartache).
When you go to prison, all pending projects will now be cancelled, and you’ll now be expelled from college or grad school if enrolled.
Prison now has a unique set of addiction withdrawal cards.
New, unique (and sometimes dangerous) outcomes for elders when doing physical activities.
New Toy Store in Town category of Action Menu. You must now purchase toys for them to show up in your Toy Chest.
Town actions now unlock at more appropriate ages, with adult locations requiring adulthood and high school graduation.
Failed murder attempts now lead to attempted murder charges instead of the full murder charge.
Visual overhaul for timed cards (driver’s license, pop quiz, TV interview and job interview).
Fixed and finished menu for Dark Power vampire skill.
Cost of a resurrection is now more clear.
New particle FX for grade changes.

Fixes

When starting college, high school grades should now always be wiped from report card.
Higher Education menu should now appear correctly after high school graduation.
Skill projects that aren’t named no longer have naming UI.
Fixed several arrest, bribe, and prison-sentencing flow bugs.
Death follow-up/reflection cards should now refer to the person who actually died.
Job menus and status text should no longer say you’re unemployed after getting a job.
Trait quantity limits now work more reliably, preventing duplicate copies of the same trait.
Active treatments now show their active overlay when opening the Treatments menu.
Tapping a selected Creation Menu extra now removes it instead of closing the Action Menu.
Relationship placeholders should now replace correctly on cards that use relationship text.
Initial prison sentence notifications should no longer spoil the sentence before the card reveals it.
Rejecting a hookup candidate should no longer break the next card or active character.
Tummy Time, Crawl Around, and Explore Outside actions are now clickable and now unlock at the correct ages.
Decorate Space action should no longer pull unrelated outcomes.
Vampire interaction menus now hide Turn into a Vampire for existing vampires and show Feed Together instead.
Fixed amenities page showing all amenity options rather than just owned amenities.

23Patch 0.9.520 notes

Changes

Significant performance optimizations and improvements.
Previously, mental health conditions only spawned when Happiness was 0-30, and physical health conditions only spawned when Health was 0-30. Now, conditions may spawn at any time. The lower your Health and Happiness, the higher the chance of spawning a new condition is, but now you can get cancer with high Health, for example.
Exes can now get pregnant and have your babies. You can now interact with your ex and try to rekindle your romance.
After a hookup, you can now choose whether to save their contact or not. If, you can still find each other if one of you ends up pregnant.
When you make a new relationship official, you will get a card giving you the option to easily dump all your current hookups. Otherwise, your new partner may find out about your other lovers and dump you.
Particles now have SFX.
The condition of your childhood home can no longer decay.
Action Menu layout further improved and polished.
Bug reporter is no longer limited to ten submissions a day.

Fixes

Fixed being sent to slums.
Fixed Family Outing and Explore Outside actions.
Fixed some broken category links in Action Menu, like the Adoption Agency.
Fixed vacations.
Fixed pregnancy flow for some edge-cases.
Fixed some cards showing (Name) placeholder.
Fixed a bug that prevented second pregnancy from continuing.
Fixed scenario looping bug after adopting a dog.
Fixed obituary failing to start.
Fixed aging up every winter. Now you’ll age up during your birthday season only.
Fixed bug that prevented prison from ending when you completed your sentence.

24Patch 0.9.427 notes

Changes

Reorganized the Action Menu with some new categories.
Removed meta progression menu and EXP. A new currency, Fate, is earned by completing Goals and is used to bring your character back from death.
Game background now changes color depending on card type.
Reduced condition decay. Homes now degrade by 2% per year, while vehicles degrade by 4% per year.
Added low condition warning cards for vehicles and properties.
Updated the career panel in Profile with a streamlined job history and resume view.
Scenarios and actions that grant skill points now award 2–3 points. If you have a trait that boosts that skill, you will gain 3–5 points instead.
Sibling scenarios are now less common.
Telling the father of your child that you are pregnant now triggers an appropriate reaction.
You can now receive a college scholarship if your grades are high enough.
You will now be notified when you become famous or lose your fame.
Mental health conditions can now appear when Happiness is between 0 and 50, up from 0 and 30.
Physical health conditions can now appear when Health is between 0 and 50, up from 0 and 30.
Vampires are now 50% less pale.

Fixes

You will no longer get put in a slum when you’re born rich.
Prison now properly blocks most other content from appearing.
Prison events + release should now spawn correctly.
Career ladder requirements now correctly show whether you meet the required skill and experience levels.
Major selection followup card now displays the proper blurbs.
Thamesbridge Prep now requires Work to be 90+ rather than your GPA to be A-, so you may now apply before high school.
Fixed prom storyline.
Fixed college actions.
Fixed applying for jobs.
Fixed overlapping music tracks.
Fixed many career scenarios not being drawable.
Stability improvements added to many cards.
Will no longer show Feed Together unless you and the person you’re interacting with are both vampires.

25Patch 0.9.328 notes

Changes

You can now access the bottom menu bar from inside the full Action Menu.
Homes, vehicles, and other unique items now have custom Inventory views showing traits, amenities, condition, and selling options.
Increased pregnancy chance when hooking up.
Reduced facial animation intensity to prevent eyes from wandering too far.
You can now close the Start a New Game panel without starting a new game.
Temporarily removed the unfinished Build a Property menu.
Improved genetics.
Improved college acceptance rates. You can no longer be rejected if you meet the grade requirements.
The Work icon is now locked when you are not working or in school.
The Health icon now changes to Thirst if you are a vampire.

Fixes

Fixed graduate school progression.
Fixed vacation booking.
Fixed broken character interactions.
Fixed a crash caused by rejecting a hookup.
Fixed more vampirism conversion bugs.
Fixed arrest and prison flow.
Fixed more dating minigame bugs.
Fixed Make Official interactions with hookups and Make Love interactions with partners.
Fixed Greek Life not appearing in college.
Fixed death notifications not appearing for some characters.
Fixed dead characters appearing in scenarios, Contacts menus, and Interactions menus.
Fixed random career events spawning for the wrong career.
Fixed college progression bugs.
Fixed the Vampire Bar not being clickable.
Fixed puberty extending into adulthood.
Fixed pet store layout.
Fixed blank cards getting players stuck. Blank cards can now be dismissed.
Plus many other miscellaneous fixes and improvements.

26Patch 0.9.231 notes

Changes

Inventory now shows an item's condition if it has one.
Similar History notifications are now grouped automatically to reduce repeat messages.
Discovered starter traits and conditions now unlock their Encyclopedia entries and character creation options.
Skill-related actions now increase the related skill.
Random trait events now only appear after age 18, preventing inappropriate trait events for babies and children.
The dating minigame now lasts 3 rounds as intended, instead of 4.
Improved UI issues in the Game Guide.

Fixes

Fixed the Buy a Home menu after graduating from college.
Fixed successful cop bribes still sending your character to jail.
Fixed grades not showing correctly on report cards, affecting college admissions properly, or failing to display each year.
Fixed housing market pricing affecting non-home items.
Fixed exact-balance purchases being rejected.
Fixed drug production bypassing inventory limits.
Fixed inventory sell/remove flows not refreshing correctly.
Fixed breakup, make-official, lover, and partner pregnancy flows targeting the wrong character.
Fixed baby naming issues, including twin births, repeated naming prompts, placeholder surnames, and panel polish.
Fixed pet aging, shop setup, save timing, and interaction timing issues.
Fixed Game Over, Start New Life, and save/reload handling.
Fixed death flow, obituary flow, resurrection routing, and restarting after death.
Fixed a vampire transformation crash caused by non-death cards using death-flow logic.
Fixed sport actions sometimes spawning both positive and negative outcomes.
Fixed Pop Quiz cards that could show blank text after loading or high quiz rolls.
Fixed cards continuing to spawn or animate after switching away from the Play tab.
Fixed undiscovered Codex entries so they now show the correct faded locked icon instead of appearing blank.
Fixed estranged family rows appearing blank in the Action Menu.
Fixed the broken wedding flow.
Fixed the Propose interaction reappearing after marriage.
Fixed Study Abroad appearing after graduation.
Fixed private school and college scenarios appearing after graduation.
Fixed blank or missing interaction pages. The interactions menu now only shows characters who are actually interactable.
Fixed city housing so characters living in cities now receive apartments instead of houses.

27Patch 0.9.122 notes

Changes

Added a splash screen.
The email address field in the bug reporter is now optional.
The bug reporter now remembers your email address between sessions.
Added a new Reduce Motion accessibility toggle to the Settings menu.
Needs now start at 50 by default, instead of 25.
New characters now start with 0 overflow need points in character creation.
Health can no longer be lowered below 10 during character creation, since doing so could cause instant death.
Estranged family members now remain visible and are labeled as estranged instead of being hidden from the interactions menu. Family members become estranged when your relationship reaches zero.

Fixes

Fixed issues with the death flow.
Fixed No Owned Properties cards appearing when the player already owns a home.
Fixed players getting stuck on the Realty page after a failed home purchase.
Fixed newly created characters sometimes starting with 0 needs and immediately dying.
Fixed babies being able to access vampire bar and blood bank actions.
Fixed a crash caused by rejecting a prom invitation.
Fixed pop quizzes sometimes appearing blank.
Fixed issues with the baby naming screen.
Fixed zodiac text being stuck on Gemini in the Profile menu.
Fixed the Start a New Life button in the Settings menu.
Fixed the spawn chance of some repetitive events.
Fixed age-inappropriate cards appearing for babies.
Fixed How to Play menu spawning and despawning issues.
Fixed avatar faces shaking when changing or randomizing characters.