10 BitLife Challenges to Try When a Normal Life Gets Boring

After a few lives, BitLife can start to feel familiar: school, a job, a family, old age. The easiest way to make it exciting again is to give yourself a goal before you press New Life. Here are ten challenges players love, from easy to very hard. None need anything special — just discipline.

1. The Centenarian

Live to 100. It sounds simple until you realise how much Health matters. Exercise every year, avoid anything risky and keep an eye on your bars.

2. Rags to Riches

Start a life and try to end it rich, taking no shortcuts. Study hard, choose a good career and save. Watching your bank balance grow from zero is surprisingly satisfying.

3. The Perfect Student

Keep Smarts as high as possible through every year of school. Study, read and never skip a chance to learn. See where a brilliant education takes you.

4. Family First

Keep every relationship with your family as close as you can for your whole life. Visit, talk and help. It is harder than it sounds when adult life gets busy.

5. The Happiest Life

Keep Happiness at the top for your entire life. Every decision is judged by one question: will this make my character happier?

6. One Career, Whole Life

Choose a career early and stick with it from your first job to retirement. No switching, no quitting.

7. Random Choices

Whenever the game offers you options, pick without reading them properly — or ask a friend to choose. It produces the funniest, most chaotic lives in the game.

8. The Minimalist

Live a full life while owning as little as possible in Assets. Spend your money on experiences instead of things, and see if you end up happier.

9. The Health Nut

Never let Health drop below a high level, at any age. It is a test of patience because you need to act every single year.

10. Perfect Four

The hardest one: try to keep all four stats — Happiness, Health, Smarts and Looks — high at the same time for your whole life. Every year becomes a balancing act.

Tips for any challenge

• Write your goal down so you do not drift away from it.
• Check the bars every year before pressing Age.
• Read the diary — past events often explain current problems.
• Accept failure. If a life goes wrong, a new one is one tap away.

Challenges turn BitLife into a different game every time. Try one, then make up your own and share it with friends who play.