What's New

Pushing away someone who is dating or connected to a family member removes them from your Bonds only. They stay the same person, keep that family relationship, and Add Partner can bring them back.

The Relationships screen no longer crashes when you push someone away while their card is still open.

When a co-parent goes to prison, children can move into your care. After release, that parent can ask for them back, with custody decisions and court challenges shaping what happens next.

A child in placement can be given up for adoption. Years later, that grown child may come looking, opening the door to contact, an invitation and a reunion shaped by your response.

Relationship changes now distinguish how someone feels about you from how you feel about them. Managing your own feelings shows its costs, and people reaching out have more room to take turns.

Flirting back can build feelings without silently starting a relationship. Dating invitations respect whether the other person is still willing, and repeated invitations no longer apply the same outcome twice.

Adding a relative’s partner now names the person and asks for confirmation. Children keep their own Add option, and pursuing an affair with an in-law warns you about the possible family fallout.

The response you choose when an affair is discovered now determines who leaves, keeping the breakup tied to what you actually said.

Bank accounts have refreshed cards and clearer deposit, withdrawal, transfer and overdraft controls. Overdue bills are grouped together with a single payment action, and banking and pension results appear as brief notifications.

Savings accounts no longer stop you after six outgoing transactions in a year. Discretionary withdrawals instead reduce the balance used to calculate that year’s interest; bills and committed obligations do not count toward that reduction.

Shop items now have a much wider illustrated catalogue. The same artwork follows items through gifts, rewards, travel, bills and result popups, making what you bought or received easier to recognise.

Inventory category filters and a tile-based consumable picker make belongings easier to browse. Using an item shows a clearer result, while sale previews use the item’s catalogue details.

Sentence accounting and inmate records now keep better continuity across older lives and later years. Inmate relationships read the right person’s feelings, and family arrests can reach you as news.

Crime empire screens now share a consistent layout for territory, crew and recruitment. Lieutenants and recruits use matching cards, duplicate lieutenant entries are corrected, and the guide can be reopened from the hub.

The birthday overlay stays visible while the new year finishes, with other popups waiting behind it. World news no longer blocks taps on the game below the visible banner.

Amateur fight damage now matches the health bar, and rank-test examiners scale by tier. Completed MMA fight results preserve and display the gym preparation actually applied to that bout.

Medical incidents no longer fail because unrelated parts of your life contain temporary action data. Cloud restores retry temporary failures and can recover verified backups without replacing newer local progress.

A partner can now rarely die during childbirth after the newborn is safely registered and named. The aftermath changes for spouses, dating partners, estranged parents and secret relationships, while custody and inheritance follow the family that remains.

During pregnancy, prenatal care is offered only when it fits the situation, shows its price, charges the correct payer and can reduce the risk without guaranteeing a safe delivery.

Support, remembrance and grief events can return in later years, allowing the surviving family to seek comfort, remember their partner or struggle with a loss that still matters.

The newborn's name now appears correctly throughout the birth and loss story. Hidden parentage revelations also identify the mother correctly, even when another parent was presumed or kept secret.

Martial arts classes now charge the correct payer, spend the stated energy and award fitness, discipline and martial art XP. A session receipt shows exactly what the class cost and improved.

A rank-test opponent now remains the same person in the world and survives a save, so the fight cannot quietly swap or disappear when play continues.

Choose clothing colours, buy what you want and wear it straight away. Purchases stay in your wardrobe, each outfit respects its equipment limits, and light and mid-coloured clothes now have outlines as clear as dark ones.

A belt names the tournament, season and division where you won it. Clothing and accessories record whether they came from a sponsor, proposal, bank or surprise gift, and the source line never says Unknown.

The tattoo chair previews an adult character in underwear so you can see the placement, category tabs swipe cleanly on smaller screens, and face and neck tattoos now sit above the head instead of disappearing behind it.

People around town can now own wardrobes, change outfits and carry tattoos of their own, making familiar faces feel less like copies frozen in the clothes they first appeared in.

First-date consent is remembered from the moment you ask. A refusal stays refused instead of turning into a completed date later, and accepted dates keep the relationship result they actually earned.

Older relationships whose feelings did not match on both sides now display and progress consistently, so affection, friendship and distance no longer depend on which person happened to be checked first.

A pregnancy reaction now follows each partner's family plan, so someone who wanted children responds differently from someone who did not, and the story respects what both people had already said.

An absent parent no longer counts as present when the family decides who supports a child or takes part in a family moment. The people who stayed are the people the story now asks.

Your full-bout style commitment now survives every round, the first fight briefing explains what you chose, and Skip All remains available after the opening punch while following the same plan to the result.

A profitable bout with contract travel coverage now pays the correct take-home amount, so support from your gym helps with the journey without quietly swallowing money you earned in the cage.

The training screen shows your current tennis training level, rival profiles agree with their league rankings, and older careers with a missing category can open and continue instead of trapping the save.

Active tennis and mixed martial arts professionals can now use Celebrity Networking, giving successful athletes a direct way to build the public connections that come with a life in the spotlight.

Ten new crossover stories connect an active sporting career with a creator career, including leaked training clips, crowd chants, fan mobs, national campaigns, award clashes and the pressure to go live.

Creator profiles now fill the screen and organise relationship building, collaborations and drama into clear sections, with energy costs shown before an action and a readable result after it.

A legendary streamer looking to help someone smaller now chooses a genuinely smaller creator, so the raid feels like a boost instead of accidentally sending an audience to an equal or larger channel.

Newly adopted pets now age when the next year passes, while an interest announces its discovery once and stops creating a duplicate yearly discovery for something you already know you enjoy.

People entering careers without special qualifications now spread across a wider range of available work, so the town no longer fills the same handful of ordinary jobs again and again.

When an asset sale cannot go through, the reason is shown and the rejected sale leaves your property and ownership details untouched. Adults can also browse luxury assets without arbitrary age gates.

Salary day no longer stops an age-up while tax is being withheld, so your pay, deductions and the rest of the year can finish together instead of leaving the birthday stuck halfway through.

The app now starts more reliably on iOS, restores cloud saves after signing in, and keeps older lives available when opening offline or after signing in. Interrupted revisions and older tennis records also repair cleanly.

Date payment, the result, Love Task progress, affair discovery and the relationship change now settle together. Starting a real relationship also announces itself exactly once, while refusals remain quiet and honest.

Found a charity foundation, manage its work and make further donations after it opens. New foundation stories can follow, and giving uses an affordable personal bank account when your wallet cannot cover it.

New people arrive with more natural combinations of skin tone, hair and eye colour, while children and parents inherit recognisable family traits and every valid hair colour now renders correctly.

Children can arrange university while you are in prison, retiring teachers are replaced, injuries respond to health and means, known deaths reach you, and an affair partner who leaves gets a proper farewell.

A newly visible spouse or family member now appears with the relationship already connected. Dating-app introductions stay labelled, connection tasks respect current feelings, and marriages no longer drift like ordinary acquaintances.

Each year of a gang career now records territory, income, crew size, campaign results and police attention in a permanent history, with a plain-English account of what changed.

Potential lieutenants can now make recruitment demands before they join your organisation, giving trust, status and the strength of your criminal operation more weight in the negotiation.

Multi-Talented Prodigy still grants three distinct talents, but it no longer selects Martial Arts without starting a playable fighting style, so every rewarded skill can genuinely be developed.

When a saved character has more than one career, each career label is centred consistently on the character card so sporting, creative and criminal paths are easier to scan.

Most dating-app matches now appear within ten years of your age unless you set your own range, and the yacht party recognises the luxury yacht sold in the game.

Older saves no longer invent a spouse for an absent parent whose relationship was never established, keeping family trees faithful to the people who were actually part of the story.

The Investments screen has a clearer portfolio overview, six focused sections, better empty-state actions and risk colours that stay meaningful, with every surface designed for both light and dark themes.

A dedicated activity view records investment purchases and sales, annual reports open through the normal event flow, and outgoing amounts show in red while money coming back stays green.

Investments now recognise every active personal bank account, including an empty one, select a funded account when possible and show Bank balance instead of Wallet without claiming your account is missing.

Portfolio history now uses theme-aware labels and grid lines, trims crowded markers on long lives and shows one clear endpoint value instead of repeating confusing zero-value labels.

Rivalry and streaming-drama choices no longer preview the reward, reaction or fallout beneath the button. Descriptions remain only when they explain a real cost, duration or choice tier.

Personal loans now reach borrowers and can be repaid or taken to court, NPC student loans progress with their lives, and child support and inherited obligations respect imprisonment and succession.

Selling a business now rounds gains, tax and proceeds consistently before recording the receipt, so the amount deposited and the amount shown in your financial history always agree.

Queued Year Summary items from older lives now open the correct event or finance details, while stale repeated interest discoveries are removed instead of appearing as broken or duplicate rows.

If a cloud repair cannot be saved during loading, it waits for the next successful gameplay save instead of repeatedly spending the retries needed to protect your current progress.

Street-fight consequence choices now reach their own result before broader event handling can intercept them, and deceased lieutenants reliably leave the active roster without breaking its history.

If you clear a shop quantity and immediately tap a step button, the field now moves to the expected amount instead of jumping to an incorrect minimum value.

Walk into the tattoo parlour and get inked. Pieces land on real body spots, stack into full sleeves and leg pieces, stay on the limb you chose, and show or hide with what you are wearing.

Fighters get a fight kit and a gym locker to keep it in. Sponsor gear you earn goes into your collectibles to keep, wardrobe pieces show up with your things, and rival fighters arrive with kits of their own.

The karma of a life well lived can now be spent on the heir who follows you. Pick a blessing while inspecting an heir and it is theirs on the day they take over, not anyone else's.

The Health tab now shows your caffeine and sugar level, so a diet of energy drinks and sweets is visible before it becomes a problem.

A gym membership and a fitness tracker support your fitness for as long as you keep using them, and juice boxes and healthy meals now come in multipacks.

A new Hide Crime switch on the Activities screen tucks lawbreaking out of sight, and your phone remembers the choice between sessions.

Pet insurance is billed once a year, discounts every vet charge, and is never billed for an animal it cannot help. A child's animal is paid for by the household, and an adult's pet bills come from the account set aside for them.

A playful cat really does bond fastest through play, pet minigames pay by how well you did and fill the whole screen, an inherited pet keeps aging, and a treated condition stays treated. Caring for animals also grows a real interest in them.

Rematches now build genuine rivalries that carry between fights, a new season opens with a January bout, and the fight card reads January to December in order.

Every rung quotes an age that respects how long the schooling takes, no senior rung asks for a younger age than the rung below it, and the first tap on a career track opens it instead of bouncing back. School activity cards now say what they improve before you commit.

The care provider you pick, from community clinic to private specialist, is remembered and shapes the care you get on every visit after.

A recession is now announced the same year it starts costing jobs, so the warning and the hiring freeze finally tell one story instead of the news arriving a year late.

Your life story counts the siblings you can actually meet, milestone recaps remember who is living and who is gone, births are only announced for people you know, a spouse's death is felt the year it happens, and nobody past their childbearing years falls pregnant.

A paternity kit now delivers its result, the choice to keep it private or tell people is spelled out before you decide, and what the test reveals genuinely changes how the family feels about it.

Closing the app mid-ceremony no longer loses the bequests and blessings you picked. The inheritance story names what an heir cannot yet spend, a given-up share passes to family instead of vanishing, and taking over as an heir survives even a damaged save, streaming career included.

Manual loan payments stopped throwing an error on older saves, the net worth card counts your traded portfolio, and the Mood Analysis panel speaks one accounting language instead of two.

A bug that could leave the app dead on launch is gone, older saves quietly mend themselves as they load, tennis draws know their players and international cities keep their names, skipping a university minigame pays half credits at a C instead of nothing, an answered event stops reopening every year, and a personality clash can sour a hangout but never turns kindness into harm. Minigame boards also stopped shifting under your thumb, and the font you pick in Settings now applies everywhere it should.

The bout has been rebuilt. It fills the screen, every strike you throw is animated on the fighters themselves, damage builds where it landed, and a pinned log keeps the last exchange in view while the action pad stays under your thumb.

When the bell ends a round, a scorecard turns over and shows you how it was judged. It plays once, it never blocks the next round, and you can read both corners just as easily.

Before the first bell you get a proper head to head with your opponent, side by side at any screen size, nothing clipped, and a clear way back out if you are not ready.

The gym doctor is now someone you can go and see between fights instead of only after you are hurt. Your contract sets what treatment costs you, never whether you are allowed it.

A parent who walked out before you knew them can now come looking, years later. They might turn up at your work, write once you have made something of yourself, or come out of prison ready to try. A half brother or sister you never knew about might find you first. You can meet them, turn them away, or take the number and decide nothing at all. It does not happen to everyone, and it is never on a schedule.

Your gear locker shows what things cost rather than what you have, asks before it spends, and names the account the money is coming out of so you choose where gear is paid from.

A season of fights is spread across the calendar it belongs to instead of being stacked into December, the league table remembers each season's record, and a card only offers you bouts that fit the year you are in.

If a parent who comes back has other children, you are introduced to them once and choose what happens rather than finding strangers added to your family. Whatever you decide, you can add them yourself later.

Fighter names are no longer cut off, the bell waits for the punch to land, a fighter never plays two animations over each other, tapping quickly no longer cuts a swing off mid air, every miss stays visible before the next action, and Defend actually blocks instead of attacking.

Every fighter enters with 400 health and 25 base moves. Professional rounds allow 15 actions per round across three rounds, street fights allow 30, and rank tests allow 25. The professional TKO line is the final 40 health, and there is no damage cap on a powerful hit.

Closing a season now commits all at once, and a season interrupted part way is picked back up rather than making you fight it again.

A parent you never met no longer announces an engagement, appears in your life story as though they raised you, leaves you money, or is mourned as family. Saves that already had that happen are quietly put right as they load, including any partner or step family that parent gained while out of sight.

The Life Story counts the siblings you can actually see, a mother's card offers the button to add her other children, and you can support a young relative rather than only your own child.

The family planning talk no longer takes the condom away, a friend who fancies you does not ask you out over and over, and a pregnancy that was due now actually arrives on the birthday it was due.

Your transcript stopped inventing a failed exam you never sat, and the credit receipt now shows the arithmetic it actually did.

Rescue animals come in genuinely varied ages instead of the same handful, young birds and rabbits appear again, and no animal is advertised at three quarters of a year old.

The game stopped blaming the economy for a limit you set yourself, an activity no longer turns you away when you can clearly afford it, and a nutrition plan stopped billing you every month forever.

Blessings are no longer buried on the heir screen, and it remembers where inherited items came from.

A failed treatment headline is readable in dark mode, and a first aid kit now heals the fighter rather than only the chart.

A crash that struck while saving now reports exactly what it choked on instead of failing silently, character creation fits properly on narrow Android screens, and more old saves repair themselves quietly as they load.

The buttons along the bottom now sit in a rounded bar that floats above the page instead of being glued to the edge, and whatever scrolls beneath it gently fades away so the page never fights the buttons under your thumb.

You and your opponent now show the same kind of Combat Power. Starting professional ratings can no longer erase stronger abilities you already earned, and age, injuries and preparation still shape the matchup honestly. Skip All also resolves every legal turn through the same fight rules you play.

Opponents now develop real specialist styles instead of all feeling like Hybrid fighters. A first-time opponent comes with useful style-based scouting, while a rematch adds what you learned from meeting them before.

The fight plan compares Hybrid, specialist and Basic Fighting before the bell and tells you exactly which moves each choice unlocks. Hybrid fighters can switch between All, Basic and trained move groups, with every legal attack available in a sideways list.

Preparation now lists your latest five gym sessions, explains which session leaves next, and clearly handles empty spots and tied choices. The collapsible guide tells you what to train and whether the matchup gives plus 6 percent, no change or minus 6 percent.

Every gym contract states its cut and travel help before you sign. Budget gyms pay 0 percent of travel, Standard gyms pay 25 percent and Elite gyms pay 50 percent, while the fighter still keeps at least 15 percent of fight pay.

Gym offers now reward you with real signing cash, an energy refill or useful gear instead of numbers that never reached fight pay. You can hold two sponsors, compare replacements clearly, and nobody quietly takes travel support back when a contract ends.

Gym and insurance medical coverage now apply the same way every time, and the treatment screen tells you who is paying before money leaves your account. Treating the same condition no longer switches between covered and full price without an explanation.

Career wins now build account-wide achievements at 500, 1,000 and 5,000 victories across all your characters. The harder achievements for 100 and 150 wins in a row still belong to one fighter, because a true undefeated streak cannot be handed to the next generation.

Street fights no longer end with a vague legal label. The result records how badly the other person was hurt, whether anyone reported you, what evidence exists and what happens next.

A brutal attack can now fracture bones, cause blindness or make someone lose a limb. Permanent harm stays with that person, and aids such as a white cane or prosthetic arm appear in their medical care.

Depending on what happened and who they are, the victim or a witness may report the fight to the police. A forgiving victim may stay quiet, but a witness can still speak up.

Minor harm can lead to an assault charge, while permanent injury or death brings a far more serious case. If convicted, you may face a fine, community service or prison, and unpaid fines remain owed.

Medical help arrives before the legal follow-up. The hospital report explains the real injury, then the police event shows who reported you and why the case was opened without exposing a raw evidence score.

Health, energy, injuries, relationships, fighting progress, hospital events and police follow-up are saved together. Reloading or tapping again cannot be applied twice, and older saves keep working.

Breakups and divorces now say who ended it, show the right scene and keep the memory with the person who made the choice. An ex also says whether you left, they left or it was mutual.

Divorce now settles custody, child support and pension division using the family that actually exists. The warning explains what is at stake before you file, and both parents remain visible afterward.

Ending a relationship no longer makes an expected baby disappear. The pregnancy remains part of both parents' story, and the baby still arrives when the due birthday comes.

Births, deaths, custody and children now stay tied to the same family records you can see. A child relationship no longer drifts away after a birth or a death is processed.

Tennis careers retire cleanly, NPC names stop ending in Unknown, school and child-investment screens use current data, dark-mode cards stay readable, and money actions follow the account you chose.

Bouts now land on real dates spread through the year instead of all resolving at your birthday. Accepting a fight moves the season to fight night, offers arrive in the order the calendar would deliver them, and a year of fighting reads like a year.

Carrying an injury handicaps a fight whether you play it or skip it, and only a critical injury actually stops you competing. Fighting hurt or training through the pain can make the injury worse, and when it does, the game tells you instead of quietly moving the date.

Every screen now describes an injury with the same severity words and the same recovery weeks, and the fight card says how you will feel on fight night. Older saves are brought along, so nothing you already survived changes its story.

Turning down every bout now ends the season properly instead of freezing the league, and sitting a year out costs standing rather than time. A bout you declined is not a loss on your record, and the decline button tells you what it will cost before you press it.

Treating the same illness at a pharmacy, a clinic, a specialist or a hospital now genuinely changes the chance it works, and the number you see before paying is the number the treatment actually rolls. Cheap care is a real gamble, expensive care is a real edge.

A short course of treatment finishes the moment you pay for it, a year-long plan is reviewed at your next birthday, and healing keeps pace with the fight season instead of waiting for it. The game never again claims a treatment finished while it was still blocking you.

The headline on a medical receipt now matches what happened at the counter, and treatment options say when results actually arrive instead of quoting day counts the game never tracks.

A condition already under active care opens unticked and labeled as covered, so checking out a new injury cannot double-bill the care you are already paying for. The consultation also stopped crashing when a treatment healed the very thing it was bought for.

Being friendly to someone with an opposite personality used to quietly make them resent you, even your own mother, and trying harder made it worse. Personality differences now slow bonding instead of poisoning it, apologies and support genuinely heal, and any relationship damaged by the old rule recovers through normal play. Fair is fair the other way too: insulting your perfect match is no longer free.

A divorced partner can be dated and married again, ex-spouse and late-partner cards keep the titles that explain who they were, and the subtitle names past partners only. A parent's finished romance no longer haunts their next one, and gift progress toward a deep connection stops going missing.

Matches now play out in sets, and a slam final can go the distance. Defending champions see which points are on the line and how this run compares to last year, ranking moves explain themselves, and winning a title now builds your skills. Tournaments frozen mid-draw by an old update finish properly.

Your pension keeps a 15 percent contribution when you set one. Equipped item names are legible on phones and stop breaking mid-word. Asset category cards stop swapping positions. The chat popup in the block breaker minigame stays off your controls. Life Stories stopped writing "Your dating" for a date, and a new half-sibling is family from the first line. The app download also got smaller.

Signing a tennis sponsor hands over their kit, and it now really arrives. If you signed a deal before this worked, the bag is waiting when your save loads, dated to the season you signed. It sits in your Assets on its own Sponsorships shelf, and the racquet counts toward the skill number on your career page for as long as the contract runs.

Brands used to differ only in name. Now each one guarantees a different slice of what your ranking is worth and pays a different rate for every title, so a safe deal and a deal betting on you are genuinely different choices. Some brands also watch a result: hold a ranking or reach a level of fame, and the season pays accordingly. The offer tells you the condition before you sign, and the season recap tells you what it did.

A ranking point is earned for the round you finish on, so your number genuinely cannot move while you are still in the draw. It used to sit there looking stuck while a new opponent rank appeared every round. Now your card says where losing your next match would leave you, and updates properly when you claim the result.

The world rankings seat a thousand professionals but could only ever build a few hundred names, so the same person turned up at two different positions. Every player on the ladder now has their own name, existing saves are repaired without touching anyone you have already played, and an opponent reads the same rank in a draw as they do in the table.

Playing on a surface now builds your feel for it, not just training on it. The gain is far slower than a practice block, so a surface identity earned by competing takes years, and it never steals progress from the surface you chose to work on. A withdrawal is not a match played and teaches nothing.

Tour expenses used to bill a flat rate per event, so a year played at home cost the same as a year crossing three continents. Now a home tournament is cheap, a long-haul trip is not, and entering a second long-haul event without going home first bills the surcharge a badly planned schedule really pays.

Prize money was filed under the season you won it while sponsor money was filed under the season after, because sponsors pay at the end of the year. Your income line was adding one season of prizes to the previous season of sponsor money. One season now answers to one year, and the recap shows what was guaranteed apart from what you won.

Climbing the fighting sponsor tiers used to post you the same shorts and wraps again with every promotion, because a bigger deal repeats everything the smaller ones covered. Each piece is now sent once, and the message tells you only what actually arrived.

Illness, injury and lasting change all live in one record that follows you from birth to death. A diagnosis has a name, a treatment, a result, and something left over when the treatment cannot fix everything. What your body can and cannot do is read from the body itself, so the game stops contradicting itself about what you are living with.

Character creation has a Body at Birth section where you can pick one difference or several, or let Random surprise you. The story you start with says what body arrived rather than sticking a label beside your name, and your parents, siblings and classmates know about it from the first year.

A missing arm, leg, hand or eye now draws on your character instead of sitting in a list. A blind eye reads as blind rather than hidden behind sunglasses, a prosthetic looks like a prosthetic, and the same body shows up wherever your character appears, including profile pictures. NPCs are drawn the same way, so someone with a wheelchair is in one.

Manual, sport and powered wheelchairs, underarm crutches, a walking cane, basic and everyday prosthetic legs, a running blade, a myoelectric arm, a body-powered hook, a cosmetic hand, dark glasses and a white cane, an eye patch and a prosthetic eye. Each one says what it gives back, what it costs to buy and to keep, and what it does not fix. As a child you can ask your family to help pay, and if you are going without something you need, the offer comes to you.

A disabled childhood is written as childhood: the sports day nobody planned for you, the classmate who asks the blunt question, the school trip with a bus that does not fit. The teenage years are about independence instead, from getting yourself somewhere on your own to the first time a form asks a question about your body.

The world now reacts to the body you are actually in. A step nobody mentioned, a lift out of service, a room that turns out to be fine, a stranger who asks instead of grabbing. Mobility and sight are handled separately, so a story about kerbs never lands on a blind character and a story about signage never lands on a wheelchair user.

Some things are genuinely refused now, for the reason they are refused in real life. You turn up for the driving test and are told your sight does not meet the standard. Seven jobs, including driving, nursing and the trades, hold you to a medical standard. A gym will train you when a competition licence still will not clear you. Every refusal explains itself, and points at what you can do instead.

Martial arts now cost your body something honest. One arm, one leg or no sight makes progress slower in the arts where that part matters most, anchored to what real fighters with those bodies actually compete in. No body is more than about twice as slow as an unimpaired one, and every body has at least one art it is barely behind in, so a hard road stays a road.

A wheelchair user can start tennis and go all the way, with the same club, ranking, tournaments, slams, titles and hall of fame as anyone else, on a tour of players who are also wheelchair users. Prize money is smaller and honest about it, a ranking-based programme grant makes the season survivable, and a Paralympic year comes round every four years with selection for the top of the ladder.

If your body changes mid career, the game stops and asks. A tennis player is offered the wheelchair tour or retirement, told in plain terms what each one does to their ranking, titles and prize money, and has to choose. A fighter whose kicks are not coming back is offered the ground game or a clean retirement, and choosing to retire actually retires the career instead of only saying so.

A serious injury is followed year to year: it settles, it worsens, or it leaves something permanent. Time on the road carries real risk once you drive, scaled to how much driving you do. Cancer is handled as one of these conditions rather than a separate system, and care has to be arranged, quoted and paid for before it counts.

Your blood family carries risks that make some conditions more likely for you, and your health history is summarised into your legacy so an heir inherits a believable family rather than a blank one.

Trips now have stories written for the body you brought, with enough of them that a frequent traveller keeps meeting new ones instead of the same complaint twice. The passport book keeps the pages your travels actually write, so a trip leaves a record you can turn back to.

Food, retail, trades and transport dilemmas were repeating with the same wording. Each one is now its own situation, so a long career at the same job keeps finding new decisions.

Simulate to the end no longer throws away the games you already won or produces a score that could not happen, and the match tells you how much of the final score it played for you. Returning a power shot volley no longer leaves you unable to act. The court stopped repainting itself on every frame, which is what made matches lag while your phone was screen recording. Tournaments pay out what they say they do.

A millionaire seventeen year old with a licence can buy a car. The shop quantity box can be cleared instead of needing a type-then-erase workaround. A twin, triplet or quadruplet birth is described as what it was. Interacting with a friend's baby no longer throws you into another tab. Streak bonus naps can be lost like everything else, and the badge counts them properly. Duplicated children in a long save are cleaned up on load, and a save conflict resolves without leaving you stuck.

Each career has its own events, so a mechanic, a cafe owner, a streamer and a fighter live different working lives. Colleagues exist, move on, and get replaced. Choices you make at work come back to you later instead of disappearing the moment you tap them.

The countdown is gone. A shift lasts as long as you can keep it going and ends when you lose both hearts. The old clock shrank as you levelled up, from a minute down to thirty seconds, so getting better actually lowered your score.

Scoring 29 points was worth 87 percent. Scoring 30 was worth 30 percent, below what you got for skipping the game entirely. Every point now counts for more than the one before it.

Four games could not be failed. Code Debug was one always-correct button. Now broken and clean code arrive mixed together, the most urgent job has to come first, a weak argument gets you nowhere, and wasting your last number costs you.

Daily and weekly boards showed your all time best, so you topped today without playing today. Each board now records the level you reached in runs you actually played. All time still keeps your highest ever.

The leaderboard listed fifteen games out of sixty, so most of what you play was missing. Every game is now there, with the ones you have levels in gathered at the top and everything untried sitting below.

Yard Shuffle replaces Dock Master with a real trailer reverse and a hint that shows direction. Crossroads swapped its hatched blocks for boom gates that visibly rise and fall, and the fuel gauge is gone.

Exams, lessons and revision now share one look instead of feeling like different apps. They fill the screen properly, and a fast double tap can no longer score twice. Signing up for a new course can no longer delete the degree you were partway through.

A promotion rebuilt your job from scratch and left twelve things behind, crashing work activities and breaking stock options, a milestone and your next promotion. It now keeps everything.

Leaving your job for something new told you that you had been sacked for poor performance, and banned you from that employer for four years.

Six of the nine career tracks used to fall through to generic office questions, so a nurse was told the office coffee was decent and a line cook was asked why they wanted to work for the company. Every track now has its own questions, written separately for entry, mid and senior roles.

MMA has one way to retire instead of several, and injuries genuinely sideline you. Turning down an offer you never accepted now costs you nothing, while pulling out of a fight you had already taken is a forfeit. Tennis handles mandatory retirement, heals injuries at the year boundary, and a ranked player stops being paid twice. Both have far more events along the way.

Your business stopped charging for adverts it never ran, and staff coverage and marketing targets now affect what it earns. Your portfolio stopped reporting returns that never happened.

An overdraft you never clear now has consequences, and arrears show up before they cost you. Every payment runs through one place, so the money log stops reporting things that never happened, and your income stops when the career does.

Closing the tab no longer loses the session you were in the middle of, and progress can no longer be lost quietly with nothing said. Saving now runs through one place, storage errors are surfaced instead of swallowed, and a long dynasty save stopped hauling around megabytes of text nothing reads.

When an event said you bought something, you now actually own it. Losing fame no longer reads as gaining it, choices you never answered are kept rather than dropped, and family moments happen out in the world instead of only inside the popup that raised them.

Every company you inherit keeps its own bank account and its own money instead of pooling them. Investment profits count towards your life earnings, and a pension only credits a year you actually paid into.

Help Them now carries out the favour on the spot instead of leaving you wondering. Offers turn up and expire on their own, a refusal tells you why, and the thanks you get is no longer swallowed by the anti-spam guard. A surprise gift from someone now actually hands you something.

An engagement ring bought from the shop was never used up, so one ring could propose forever. Breakups have one ending instead of several, cooldowns run on birthdays, and a spouse now absorbs more neglect than a second date does.

Parental leave is now a proper year in your life and arrives with every newborn. Births resolve one way instead of three, shared custody has its own controls, and child support stops the year your youngest turns eighteen. A parent expecting a baby always has one, people in the background properly live out their years, and the Relationships screen stopped crashing.

Flights are priced by how far they are from your home airport, you are never quietly left out of pocket, and bringing a big family is a decision you make rather than a surprise bill. Overtime is paid once, and inflation finally reaches the shelf.

Cats now age through their whole life instead of stalling, cat owners can insure them, companion insurance comes back with your cloud save, and you stop being quoted yearly care costs that were never actually charged.

Meals out count towards what you have eaten, sharing a table charges your energy once rather than twice, and someone you met and accepted stays in Bonds instead of disappearing.

Zero health no longer reads as perfect health. Rehab you paid for actually happens, a year to live means a year, and a serious illness now shows up in your work review.

Technology, business, medicine, education, food and trade roles now have deeper pools of events written for the work they actually do. A quiet spell can no longer leave you going year after year without a workplace story.

Compare local providers, see country-aware prices and success chances, select several conditions, and choose treatment for each one. The complete plan, consultation fee and payment choice are reviewed together before your care begins.

Health Actions now shows what is being treated, whether care is active, what it cost and whether it will renew. You get a clear answer when no single account can afford a plan, and you can cancel ongoing treatment after confirming that money already paid is not refunded.

Your health review now compares this year with last year and explains what changed. Housing, diagnosed conditions, treatment results, habits and ageing can all appear as clear reasons instead of leaving you to guess why your health moved.

The Sell Items screen has been rebuilt around the figures that matter: original value, current market value, appreciation or depreciation, quantities, maintenance deductions and the exact amount you will receive.

Selling your final home now warns that you will become homeless and updates your housing status as soon as the sale completes. Older saves that still called you a homeowner after the property was gone repair themselves when they load.

Adults living in the background no longer lose or miss their career state as the years pass. Older saves also repair missing career details so the people around you keep believable working lives.

Keys Out replaces Route Riddle with a fleet-management shift. Match vehicles to jobs, keep the operation moving and prove you can run the whole yard cleanly.

The year-end finance report opens in its own popup. Black clothes stopped disappearing in dark mode. Skills no longer show their internal names, and a bonus nap says what it actually does.

Tapping Bonds now shows the full list immediately. Every card appears with the person's portrait, name, relationship, age, home, job, and savings already visible, and the mood meter and their quote settle in with a soft shimmer a blink later. No more blank gaps while scrolling fast, and no more pause before the screen appears.

Tapping any bottom tab used to yank the screen you were on up to the top, then swap with a flicker. The screen you're leaving now holds perfectly still, and the new screen arrives already at the top in one clean motion. Screens also start loading the instant your finger touches the button, so they're ready sooner.

If a character's save file is ever damaged, the game no longer shows a misleading "check your connection" message with no way forward. You now get a clear explanation of what actually happened and working buttons to restore from your cloud backup or a local backup, from anywhere you open a character, not just at app start.

You can now open and play your existing characters with no internet connection. The game uses the save on your device and syncs up safely the next time you're online. Aeroplane mode, the underground, a dead spot on the bus: your lives are always available.

Long-lived saves quietly retire people and old records the game no longer needs, the moment the save loads. Saves get smaller and faster the deeper into a life you are instead of heavier, and this also fixes a crash that could happen when opening Bonds on a very long-running character.

A living dating partner or co-parent could quietly stop aging while the rest of the world moved on. Everyone in your life now ages together, every year, no exceptions.

Love Tasks started from one screen could vanish when you looked for them somewhere else. They now persist properly wherever you check.

A rare bug could list the same child twice in your family. Existing saves now heal themselves on load, and it can't happen again.

Fixed a crash that could hit when an affair was discovered mid-navigation. Cloud sync no longer asks you to resolve the same conflict twice. Age-up transition text stays neatly on screen. Choosing a username now works offline, and US states are available in settings. Fighters with the gender "other" are now placed correctly in fight classes.

Report a Bug now carries a complete snapshot of your game with it: your save, what recently went wrong, and what your screen looked like at the time. Describe the problem in a sentence, attach screenshots if you have them, and I get everything I need to fix it. Each report also gives you a short code, so if you record a clip afterwards you can post it in Discord with that code and I will match it to your report.

The game now checks its own health. If it crashes, or notices something wrong inside your save, it quietly sends me a report describing exactly what it found, so problems get fixed before you even notice them. The report even writes its own plain English summary of what is wrong. You can turn all automatic reporting off with the Auto-Send Crash Reports switch in Settings.

Switching screens could sometimes leave the new screen half shown or scrolled partway down, especially with big families. The cause is found and fixed, screens now reliably open at the top.

Tapping around and moving between screens now only redraws what actually changed, so the whole game feels quicker and lighter, especially the longer you've been playing the same character.

Opening Bonds now brings cards in gently with a soft placeholder instead of a jarring pop-in, the list lands right at the top when you open it, and loading now shows you honestly what's happening instead of guessing.

Your save file can no longer be left half-written, even if the app closes at exactly the wrong moment. Saves that haven't changed are skipped entirely, larger saves are broken into pieces so saving never causes a stutter, and everything written to the cloud is kept properly in order.

Parents, grandparents, and the rest of your extended family now grow old and pass away following a realistic life expectancy, instead of by arbitrary chance, so losing an elder in your family finally feels like it fits the years they've lived.

Matchmaking and the everyday lives of the people around you now scale smoothly even in very large families. People far removed from your daily life quietly tick along in the background at almost no cost, so your world stays snappy no matter how big your family tree grows.

Paying off a loan in full no longer crashes the game.

The organised crime and empire systems are nearly finished and are now moving into deeper testing. Everything around them has been steadied so the rest of your life holds firm while the crime world gets its final checks before it fully opens up.

Friendships, romances, and the bonds you hold now move on your character's real life clock instead of a background calendar. Relationships you neglect genuinely drift over the years, the people in your life age in step with you, and older saves carry over to the new timeline cleanly.

The characters around you hold together better than ever. Their careers now survive a reload, everyone carries a believable age, a death is recorded with the age it happened, and teenagers with part-time jobs are finally paid their wages.

The fight world now runs proper divisional seasons, with contenders facing each other through the year, a season that ends on a clear podium, and fighters who retire and move on so the division around you always feels alive.

Your streaming numbers now tell one honest story. Followers follow a single consistent ceiling, viral views count toward your true totals, and view history stays accurate so your reach always reconciles.

A struggling student is now warned before being dropped from school, choosing to leave high school no longer loops back on itself, and your years of education are counted properly from your character's age.

Opening Bonds no longer crashes when you have a child who has passed away, franchise owners can pick a supplier again instead of hitting a blank screen, opening and closing a life event on iPhone behaves cleanly, and a batch of rare crashes around events and menus are resolved.

Moving between screens no longer stutters, and age-up, energy, and loading spinners behave the way they should for a snappier feel throughout.

Several new save upgrades run invisibly as your file loads, repairing older MMA and fight contract history and settling health-based retirement, so a long life from an earlier version carries forward without a hitch.

New arrivals and parent histories hold together more reliably, and family surnames now follow the blood line the way you would expect.

Restored the proper header styling across game menus in dark mode, so screens read clearly and richly instead of looking washed out.

The skill progress popup no longer barges in over more important messages, so ageing up feels less cluttered and the moments that matter stand out.

A save meant for one character can no longer be written against another after a switch, so every life is kept cleanly to its own file.

A round of internal cleanup and stability work keeps the game responsive and load times quick as more of the world is added.

The arrival of a new child is now recorded in your life story, so the moment a family grows becomes a lasting part of the tale.

Relationships now hold on to their real history. Your feelings carry through marriage, proposals read your true standing with a partner, and break-ups soften when you are genuinely committed and unfold at a believable pace. Affairs stay hidden until they naturally come to light and remember who found out, and divorce and alimony now follow who actually earns what.

Your streaming life feels more like a real creator's. Equipment now wears down over the years and can be maintained, older uploads gradually lose their reach, platforms you neglect cool off at their own pace, and every year of creator earnings is reconciled so your income always adds up.

The fight game is tighter and more consistent. Preparation and in-cage power now line up, rivalries build fame the way they should across rematches, retirement is a clean and permanent chapter with its own income, and completing a fight is a single reliable moment with no double counting.

Tennis plays and reads better throughout. Amateur serves and power shots are clearer to follow, early tournaments lean toward players from your own country, sponsorships and ranking rewards are told apart, and the parental permission step only appears once a young player is genuinely heading for the tour.

Trips have more to them. Souvenir hunts now know what you have already collected, destination stays and short breaks are priced to match, only eligible companions can join you, and a trip you leave part-way through resumes exactly where you left it.

The markets behave more like the real thing. Day trades settle cleanly in one step, companies follow their own dividend policies, annual investment income is handled on its own, and inherited portfolios carry over as the true, authoritative record.

Households with lots of relationships now scroll smoothly and stay responsive, the page keeps its place instead of jumping around, and interaction panels sit right where you expect them.

When you continue as an heir, hard-won specialist careers and milestones now carry across the generations, so a family legacy in a profession genuinely endures.

Taking over as a child heir now saves reliably, so the game no longer stops with a could not continue message when you step into the next generation.

A grandfather's wife is no longer labelled Grandpa, pushing away an uncle's partner now removes them from the family, newly added family members come with varied ages and looks, a remarrying grandfather's new wife is recorded correctly, and the newborn involvement prompt no longer appears twice.

Switching characters, deleting a character, and saving right after a switch are all more dependable, cloud sync recovers cleanly from matching-version conflicts, and a stray event from one character can no longer write into another character's save.

Fixed a crash that could strike during Extra Chores, the daily login streak no longer clings to an already-claimed reward, clothing colour variants are told apart in your wardrobe, sprites read clearly in dark mode, checkboxes in game menus show their state plainly, gym memberships are no longer offered to young children, criminal organisations can recruit lieutenants again, and signing out and back in on your device recovers gracefully.

The full tennis career is now open to all players, complete with a childhood discovery moment that can spark a lifelong path to the professional tour.

Hairstyles now follow you through every life stage, with gradual greying in later years and a personal chance of balding, and older characters around you now wear styles that fit their age.

Ageing up now confirms your year is safely saved before the celebration appears. If anything goes wrong mid-birthday, the game rolls back cleanly and tells you what happened once, so a reload can never lose the year.

Your save files now upgrade themselves through a versioned migration pipeline on every load path, including switching characters and returning from the background. If a save cannot be read you get clear recovery options, and a save from a newer version of the app shows a calm Update Needed screen instead of an error.

Cloud sync retries recover properly instead of getting stuck, switching characters no longer lets the previous character's pending saves interfere, and crash recovery replays your recent progress more faithfully.

Babies can no longer knock back energy drinks, under-16s no longer see adult restaurant challenges, ten-year-olds are not offered gym memberships to buy, school classmates are now genuinely your age, and a 13-year-old fresh out of middle school is treated like one.

Teen-parent beginnings now start with believable parents and no impossible college history, twins born to your mother and step-father are linked to the right family, an uncle's new girlfriend joins the family tree correctly, custody records point at real people, and tidying up departed characters can no longer erase one of your children.

Bike Delivery Run and every other activity that promises a cash reward now actually pays it into your pocket.

Quick Learner training gains now save the moment you earn them, and streak experience is counted correctly on the way to your next belt.

The daily login streak toast now stays on screen longer and can be swiped away, and daily challenge reminders stop nagging once you have seen them.

A Log Out button now lives in Game Settings under Profile. Your progress is saved automatically before you sign out, so you can switch accounts with confidence.

Cancelling an Apple sign-in is now treated as a simple change of mind rather than an error, and Google Play Games sign-in problems fail gracefully with a clear message.

Fixed a rare crash on game launch, skipping school now involves the right classmates, random activity encounters introduce people who actually exist in your world, character creation sections can be collapsed individually after using Expand all, and a handful of typos and mislabelled family members were corrected.

Getting arrested now ends every outside commitment at once through one consistent path: jobs, businesses, stock options, pension enrolments, streaming income and sponsors, MMA, tennis and other sports careers, and schooling all stop, so nothing keeps paying you while you serve.

Prison education shortens your sentence with tapering returns, repeated yard activities build streaks that matter, exercise lowers fight and altercation risk, and you earn a reputation from how you serve your time.

Parole hearings now weigh your real behaviour, time served, activities, and solitary history, can be swayed by genuine good conduct, explain their reasoning, and correctly block automatic hearings after a denied appeal.

On release your housing, location, juvenile-record sealing, gang history, rivalries, and surviving street-organisation heat are restored or carried forward correctly, and paused businesses resume properly.

A boss behind bars now comes back to a changed world: rival crews keep growing and clashing, your organisation can weaken, and minor businesses left to a trustee keep running.

Black-market stings, caught shoplifting, and target crimes now open real, detailed police cases with evidence and likely sentences, save immediately so a force-close cannot undo them, and the kill-to-court flow is coherent and cannot be gamed.

Criminal jobs roll a fresh arrest chance on each attempt, big cases name the operations and turf behind them, and your legal defence, character witnesses, and community-service records all behave honestly.

Fighter aging, injuries and recovery, contract renewals, sponsorships, rivalries, and matchmaking now evolve year to year. Injuries visibly cut readiness, gym base salaries pay out, sponsorships end when you leave, and season history reads correctly.

Your tennis achievements now live in a trophy cabinet and champion archive so you can look back on the titles you won.

Device and equipment rules, sponsor obligations, content-library aging, monetisation and policy events, collaboration followers, and income reporting all behave correctly, and prison properly pauses new content while old uploads are handled fairly.

Secret affairs, presumed-father concealment, ask-or-demand paternity tests, exposure risk that grows from private to public, claim-the-child flows, and family-wide fallout when the wronged partner is your own blood relative.

Compatibility now reflects your shared history, breakups and divorces are classified and applied honestly, cooldowns use your character age instead of real-world days, and family planning follows the age of the childbearing partner.

A full adoption flow: browse and match with children by appearance preference, run an interview, and bring them into your family with everything wired through the family and school systems.

Player children now age correctly, custody keys off where a child actually lives, age-eighteen outcomes reflect the real relationship you built, same-year grandchildren each get their milestone, and step-child inheritance is handled fairly.

The people around you arrive fully formed, take jobs driven by the economy, get promoted, change careers, lose work, and go bankrupt, and now surface believable yearly updates about their money and lives.

A hands-on Trades career path arrives with four work minigames and honest counter-offers.

Workplace events reflect your coworker relationships and name real colleagues, promotions keep the reputation you earned and gate on readiness, negotiated work arrangements affect wellbeing, and annual performance bonuses pay out.

Salaries, raises, and hiring now respond to booms and recessions, downturns can bring layoffs, and capital-gains, estate, and pension taxes are actually collected.

Annual credit reviews, fees charged to the account that incurred them, savings withdrawal limits with a visible counter, honest loan applications that add real debt, premium minimum-balance rules, and clearer summaries showing interest, APY, and unpaid arrears.

Real-estate investments can be bought, sold, and actively managed with hands-on upkeep, analyst coverage evaluates them alongside stocks and crypto, day-trading and all sale proceeds route to the account you choose, and portfolio totals stay current between birthdays.

Medical treatment now weighs illness severity and duration, addictions show on your character, cancer and injury panels show trajectory and health drain, and family medical costs use the correct payment path.

Travel now features an interactive trip sequence with market souvenirs and rare legendary relics, destination-specific events, companion consequences, and trips that leave lasting memories in your story.

Evictions now use disposable income and pet-policy pressure, and rent increases react to the world economy.

Night school, GED, and dropout interventions behave correctly, school activities are no longer hidden by real-world seasons, and transfers carry your record forward.

Pets age with health alerts, show staged illness symptoms before a crisis, and stud-service and pet-sitting income route correctly, including for cat-only and companion-only households.

Expanded hairstyles, hats and head coverings, salon styling, a wardrobe modal, and clothing that shows on your real character and in a full-figure fitting mirror.

New scenes and minigames, a deeper pub with multi-turn patron chat and a drink-to-blackout progression, nightclub and cafe activities, people-watching, and richer blind-date and location meetups with contextual conversation.

Hydration repairs are written back and surfaced, legacy and malformed data is rejected at load, crash-recovery data loss is shown instead of hidden, and several boot and app-startup crashes are fixed.

The yearly life story no longer claims things your character cannot have, and narrative and financial copy respect your real situation, including players with no bank account.

Your mood is now calculated from one consistent set of sources for health, happiness, and work stress, so it reflects what is actually happening in your life.

Death now plays out as a proper ceremony, with a life recap, weather, a clearer estate step, and a smoother path into continuing as the next generation.

You can inspect possible heirs, sort them more clearly, choose cash bequests, and see more of what each child would carry forward before you decide who continues the family story.

Heirs can carry over more of the life that came before them, including useful skills, belts, conditions, career advantages, guardianship support, and trust-funded tuition where it applies.

Pregnancies can now result in triplets or quadruplets, with family events, parent records, custody, school, sports, and relationship screens all keeping those children connected properly.

Character creation now understands different birth-family sizes and origin stories more consistently, with a Family Architect karma perk for players who want more control over the household they begin with.

Streaming now depends on what you actually own. A phone, tablet, laptop, or PC can get you started, full studio gear needs the right setup, and losing access to devices or housing can pause new content until you recover.

Live streams can now feature four puzzles that level up across sessions: Blueprint, an endless symmetry puzzle; Light Mirror, where you tap mirrors to bend a laser through every bulb; FlowConnect, where you link matching dots and cover the whole board; and Spot the Change, a fast memory game.

The streaming puzzles now build a combo as you chain correct moves, with satisfying pops and effects along the way. A strong combo lifts your stream score, which posts to the daily, weekly, and all-time leaderboards for your niche.

Light Mirror gives you just enough moves that precise play pays off, FlowConnect numbers every dot so colour is never a barrier, and Spot the Change gives you ten seconds to memorise, then all the time you need to find every change across three tries, with an optional hint if you get stuck.

The streaming studio now shows phone, tablet, laptop, and full desk setups more honestly, including locked gear, setup requirements, and why a piece of equipment is or is not available.

New players now start with the same light or dark mode as their device, and you can still change the viewing mode in settings whenever you prefer.

A one-time privacy notice now appears before you enter your character list, so the game is clearer about how reports and app data are handled.

Startup, character selection, cloud restores, and save repair are more dependable, with stronger recovery when a restore fails or an older snapshot cannot be opened safely.

While you are serving time, outside events now stay out of the way so prison life can use its own events, investigations, education rules, and consequences.

The death recap now shows karma sources more clearly, mission karma counts in the total, heir sprites render properly, and the estate screen no longer crowds bank-account details.

Graduate admissions prep is visible when it should be, fugitives no longer see college Apply Now buttons they cannot use, K-12 certificates choose the right badge, and school-tier labels no longer crash on special tiers.

Bulk buys now buy the full amount, health consumables land in the right inventory, selling from an asset card opens the right item, duplicate stackable items sell cleanly, and a handheld console now unlocks gaming with friends.

Paid streaming income now appears in annual tax records, merchandise payouts count properly, creator collaboration followers are protected, rival reconciliation names the right creator, and streaming mood reads from the streaming career.

Crime investigations now keep stable case details through prison, reloads, same-age arrests, and court follow-ups, so a pending investigation no longer reopens or loses its real duration.

Health insurance now follows the active subscription, parent rent stops charging after the right move-out point, and arrears popups clear without quietly taking money later.

Pushing away one person no longer removes someone else with the same name, friend pregnancy stories stay distinct, new neighbors get sensible homes, and Life Story openings no longer name a deceased parent as present.

The Peak Viewers stat on the stream results screen no longer shows as a blank white box. Every result now reads clearly against the screen.

If a save cannot be fully restored after an interruption, the game now tells you and reports it for fixing, instead of quietly carrying on with missing data.

A fighter who has only just joined a match no longer shows a win they never fought for.

A round of prison fixes: inmates you served time with are handled correctly through release and each new year, loyal gang members are no longer wrongly recruitable, incarcerated minors no longer draw an allowance, and prison populations refill sensibly as inmates are released or move on.

Friends you meet through Outside Play no longer stay permanently unemployed.

Login streak rewards wait for the native game service, the shared payment picker fits on smaller screens, skateboard activities count as workouts, achievement color tiles map correctly, and minigame low-energy warnings fit better on mobile.

Get in serious trouble before eighteen and you now go to juvenile detention rather than adult prison, with its own facilities, events, a parent visiting day, and a release that fits your age. When you come of age, anyone you served time with grows up alongside you.

A petty crime as a minor is now met with community service instead of detention. You track your sessions right in Activities, just like chores, and finishing them clears your conviction. Leave it unfinished past your next birthday and a bench warrant catches up with you.

A juvenile record may make it harder to get into a professional school, rent a place, borrow money, or land a job built on trust. Stay on the straight and narrow and the record seals once you grow up.

Shoplifting is now a choice of which aisle to work, each with its own risk and its own reward. Walk out with the goods, come away empty handed, or get caught and face the consequences.

Keep what you steal, stock up on tools and gear from a shop that respects where you live, and earn your way into a black market as your reputation grows. Rare stolen goods can be fenced for cash, and what you are holding now counts toward your worth.

You can now equip up to five of your belongings to boost your skills, managed from a clear panel in your Assets. An Auto-pick option finds your best gear for you.

You can fund a new business with your personal money, with clearer valuations and a more honest path through hard times when things do not go to plan.

If something goes wrong, a recovery screen now catches it and lets you save a report, so your character stays safe and you can pick up where you left off.

A guilty verdict for a small offence now reads clearly as community service, with the real outcome shown, instead of a confusing empty prison sentence.

Pickpocketing replaces the old schoolyard shakedown, a stolen bike might actually become yours to keep, and the whole teen crime path reads more clearly with sensible age limits.

Trade in what you already own when you upgrade and pay only the difference, buy everyday goods again whenever you like, and browse a fresh set of items aimed at younger players.

Step-siblings and step-children are now named and treated as step throughout the family tab, life events, and inheritance, so your estate goes to the right people.

The career screen now has a clear way back, and the teaching path offers five kinds of school to work in.

The things you use are now written into your life story, with a richer result screen to mark the moment.

Bachelor graduates are no longer wrongly blocked by the graduate-school grade gate, Classroom Control keeps its waves varied, Spot the Odd One stays neatly inside its tiles, and the prison riot escape plays out properly.

While you are on the run, the status banner now sits neatly in place on every screen instead of drifting out of position.

Start-up is smoother, and the game now returns you to sign-in if it takes too long instead of hanging on the way in.

Night School sign-up lets you choose how to pay again, student loan reminders no longer warn about prison billing, Baccarat no longer trips over a fast reveal, parents stop sending rent reminders from an old message, and secret affairs now open in the right place.

A full tennis career is in its final round of testing right now, from your first lessons to chasing titles on the world stage. It is nearly ready and will be here soon.

The doctor can now help you plan a family on your own terms. Men can choose a vasectomy and later seek a reversal, and women can have an IUD fitted or removed when they are ready to try for a baby. Each procedure is honest about its odds, and a reversal grows less certain the longer it has been.

The dating app is now open to all adults eighteen and over rather than a narrow window, the oldest profiles have been retired so matches feel right, and even well known faces now have families of their own.

Profile cards now keep long names tidy instead of spilling over, matches span a fuller range of ages, and a Load More button brings in fresh faces with a clear "Just Added" note so you can see what is new. Typing an age into the filter no longer fights you on every keystroke.

Everyday purchases now count the cash in your wallet alongside your bank balance, so an empty account no longer blocks a buy you can clearly afford. When more than one source could cover it, you choose where the money comes from.

When you unlock several achievements at once you can now scroll through them at your own pace instead of watching each one flash by on a timer.

When someone surprises you with something you already own, they now hand over its value in cash instead of a duplicate you have no use for.

While you are on the run, the status banner now sits neatly just above whatever you are doing and stays clear of the phone's notch on every screen, instead of tucking under the top of the display.

Closing a child's savings account at sixteen now sticks. The account stays shut and no longer quietly reopens later.

The Time Capsule Opening could only ever reach a handful of characters. It now finds far more of you, so a capsule buried years ago actually comes back around.

The screen no longer jumps back to the top on its own while you play, and picking the game back up keeps you where you left off instead of scrolling away.

The MMA training session screen now shows the full reward you actually earned, rather than a smaller figure than the one that landed.

An At-Home Paternity Test now turns up properly in your belongings after you buy it, so you can use it when you need it.

Restoring a save from the cloud is more dependable across game versions, so a backup is there for you when you come back to it.

A clothing collection that was only partly recorded is now repaired cleanly as your save loads, so your wardrobe comes back intact.

A child can no longer turn down the very university focus they wanted, so backing their dream actually sends them toward it.

The bottom navigation now steps aside during a prison riot, so the moment plays out without the usual menu hanging over it.

Older characters no longer see premium celebrity or high net worth dating profiles that do not fit where they are in life.

The Shop All tab fills with every category again, streaming beef names the right rival, condom bulk buys show correctly, friend tabs land where they should after a chat, a breakup tidies your family connections, and an NPC proposal no longer blocks your wedding tasks.

If you neglect someone who loves you, year after year, they may quietly start seeing someone else. It is never random and never out of nowhere, only the cost of a cold, ignored relationship, and a partner you treat well will never wander. Keep them close, share intimate moments, and the risk stays at nothing.

Suspicion builds slowly. After a while you start to notice the small things: always on their phone, out at odd hours, a story that does not match what you saw. From their profile you can look into it your own way, check their phone for a fast but risky glance, follow them, or hire someone discreet, then confront them. Push too soon with nothing in hand and you may simply be wrong, and that hurts.

Confront them and they might break down and confess, or lie through their teeth. If they admit it, the choice is yours: walk away, forgive and stay, or give them an ultimatum. Win their attention back in time and the affair can fade on its own. Ignore it for years and one day they leave you for the other person.

Doubts about a child can now be settled. Buy an at-home test, use it from your child's profile, and learn the truth. If they are yours, peace of mind. If they are not, you decide what comes next: keep the secret, confront their mother and leave, stay and raise them anyway, or put her out and keep the child who did nothing wrong.

The shop now stocks condoms, a contraceptive pill, and a morning-after pill. Choose protection in the moment, stay on the pill as an ongoing habit with a running cost, or take the morning-after pill when something was missed. You finally get a real say in whether a night together becomes a pregnancy.

A secret affair now carries a real risk of coming to light as the years pass. Sharing intimate moments, juggling more than one affair at once, and carrying on carelessly in public all raise the odds. When an affair surfaces you get a clear moment about it instead of finding out by accident.

Discovery now reaches everyone it touches. Your own partner can learn you strayed, the wronged partner hears about it through their family, and your standing in the community takes a knock. An affair is no longer a private secret with no cost.

Someone you are seeing in secret can grow tired of waiting in the shadows. They may ask you to leave your own partner for them, and a married affair partner can even divorce their spouse to be with you. Stall them year after year and their patience wears thin.

A child born of an affair can carry a hidden parent. You might raise another person's child as your own without knowing, the truth can surface later in life, and when you continue as your heir they can discover their own true parentage. A secret affair baby stays out of your custody and never lands you with their childhood savings bill.

Not every secret affair lasts. Some simply fizzle out on their own, and you now get a quiet beat when one ends instead of it vanishing without a word.

Following a partner or hiring an investigator no longer answers you on the spot. You set it in motion, and the report finds its own way back to you as the year turns, with nothing more to do but wait. Checking their phone is still the quick, risky glance. A patient watch costs nothing but your nerves, while a professional costs money and comes back surer of what they found.

The shops now answer to the wider economy. When times are good you can buy freely, but in a downturn the high-end goods grow scarce, and in a full crash the luxuries disappear from the shelves entirely until things recover. Everyday essentials are always there when you need them.

Condoms and the pill no longer turn up filed among the sweets and snacks. Protection now sits where it belongs, so nothing meant for grown-up choices is ever set out as a treat.

The investment buy screen has been rebuilt around scannable cards you tap to expand, read, and buy, with a premium slider for choosing how much to put in. Stocks are now grouped by sector so the list is easy to scan, and each asset shows a live projection before you commit.

You can now subscribe to analyst coverage right from the buy screen, so the desk scouts every asset and you can research a position before putting money in. Forecast confidence now scales with how volatile an asset really is, and plain English tooltips explain every figure on the page.

A long pass over the affair system cleaned up the rough edges. Events now name the real wronged partner instead of saying "spouse", a caught affair can break off an engagement, the same affair is no longer discovered over and over on dates and love tasks, and affairs tied to a partner who has passed away or moved on are quietly closed instead of resurfacing.

Selling a financed home now clears its mortgage properly, real estate shows as appreciating rather than depreciating when you sell, the sellback discount on property is spelled out, and recurring subscription costs display the right figure.

A friend's baby, a cousin's baby, and a parent's engaged partner are now placed correctly in your family graph instead of showing up as strangers or as family too soon. Adding a spouse adds only the spouse, not their children, and accepting a spouse's inheritance now works as intended.

Blackjack tournament results carry on after you switch tabs, unknown names no longer slip into story text, mood no longer misreads your job performance, MBA graduates are ranked correctly, a gaming streaming career stops generating off-topic creator news, carried-over martial arts progress now queues the next belt test, and your child's Future Career Path shows the skill each path builds.

Street fights and matches no longer stall partway through, so a brawl always plays out and settles the way it should.

Picking a fight now properly changes how that person feels about you, instead of leaving the relationship as if nothing happened.

You can no longer start a street fight while completely out of energy. Rest up before you throw the first punch.

Characters in a fight now show their real clothes instead of turning all black.

The fight screen now settles into the middle of the view, so you are not left scrolling to find it.

University, trade school, and medical programs now raise your skills as they always should have, instead of quietly giving you nothing for the effort.

Roles now correctly check whether you meet their skill requirements before they take you seriously.

Graduation grades and final exam results now work out to real numbers again.

Close friends and partners now have a Do Together menu of real shared activities, from going for a run or a gym session to making music, gaming, studying, learning a skill they have mastered, or walking their pet. Each one gives genuine skill XP, happiness, or closeness, and the outcome spells out exactly what you gained. Every activity is matched to your age and theirs, so you only ever see things that make sense to do together.

Once you are close, you can ask a friend for a job referral, borrow money when you are short, or crash at their place while you are between homes, then repay what you owe to rebuild trust. Doing things together too often in one year wears a friend out, so it pays to spread your time around.

When you are under investigation, a trusted friend can now step in as a character witness and vouch for you, giving your defence real weight alongside a lawyer.

The friend menu has a fresh, premium look with activities grouped into collapsible categories, quick filters to jump to what you want or show only what you can do right now, and a clear badge for how many activities are ready with each friend.

NPCs who start a romantic moment now check that they actually feel something for you and are not already committed to someone else, with shared interests making a move more likely, so the people who pursue you make sense.

A back to top button now appears on long screens so you can return to the top with one tap, and you can turn it on or off in settings.

A wave of new careers is being finalized right now, and each one comes with its own fun minigames to play as you work. They are nearly ready, so keep an eye on the next update.

The franchise business type is now fully playable from buying in to yearly results, so you can build on an established brand instead of starting from scratch.

Each business now keeps all of its operating money in its bank account, with a clear Available to Withdraw tile so you always know what is yours to take home. Tap the balance for a plain explanation of where the money sits.

A new roadmap shows every login streak milestone ahead of you and the rewards waiting at each one, so you can see exactly what your streak is building toward.

Your daily login streak belongs to your whole account, so opening the game with any character keeps the same streak going. It now shows the right number on every character instead of sitting frozen or blank, and a sync fix means a fresh streak is no longer overwritten by an older one when you play across devices.

Napping now shows exactly what a quick rest gives you, and certain consumables can grant bonus naps so a busy year does not have to run on empty.

Two new activities join the catalogue. Hit the trails or get busy in the kitchen, and either one can grow into a genuine interest if it suits you.

Projections, valuations, and yearly reports now all come from the same engine, so the forecast you read matches the results you get. Business valuations also count everything you have earned over the years instead of only a recent window.

The analyst desk and your supplier choices now genuinely move your numbers. Market news shifts real demand, supplier quality affects how well your products sell, and the intelligence panel reflects the actual simulation instead of decoration.

Installing a new version of the game no longer risks wiping your characters. If a reset is ever truly required, a clear notice explains it up front instead of your saves quietly disappearing.

Hiring someone no longer charges a full year of salary on the spot, phantom ingredient charges are gone, service businesses no longer show impossible numbers, and yearly settlements now add up cleanly across every business type.

When a cloud save genuinely cannot be restored, the game now says so honestly and reports the failure for fixing, instead of leaving you stuck on a silent error.

Losing or leaving a job around a birthday could leave a character broken and unable to load. Employment records now clean up properly, so a setback at work stays a story beat instead of a corrupted save.

Exercising stock options from a job now sticks. Your shares are still there after closing and reopening the game.

When someone in your life surprises you with a gift, it is now a real named item that lands in your belongings instead of a vague mention.

Pushing someone out of your life now removes them everywhere, so they no longer linger in career rosters after you have cut ties.

Allowance chores now thank the parent who is actually around, a not guilty verdict shows as the good news it is, signing out returns you cleanly to the login screen, and banking transactions carry the right timestamps.

A startup crash that could stop the game from booting on some iPhones has been fixed, so the app opens reliably.

Returning on consecutive days now builds a login streak, celebrated with an animated toast each time you come back. Keep the run alive and your streak climbs through tiers. Miss a day and it resets, with a quiet note letting you know the streak has broken.

Reaching a streak milestone now opens a reward you can claim, so the habit of checking in day after day actually pays off.

The shop now has an All tab that gathers every available category in one place, so you can browse the full catalogue without hopping between sections.

Your relationships now group family the way you would expect: spouse first, then children, parents, siblings, grandparents, and wider relatives, sorted by age and name within each group.

The report for a business you are not actively managing now reads like a clean ledger, laying out revenue, payroll, rent, loan payments, tax, and the final profit or loss at a glance.

Floating tips and toast titles no longer wrap awkwardly mid phrase. The text now stays on a single line so notifications read cleanly as they appear.

Years of heavy smoking can now catch up with you. Once your lifetime cigarette count crosses a dangerous level, there is a growing chance of a cancer diagnosis as you age, and a case left untreated can spread and turn terminal over time.

A diagnosis is not always the end. The hospital can treat cancer, curing some cases outright and managing others to buy more time. When a case becomes terminal, the diagnosis now gives you an honest estimate of the time you have left so you can plan your remaining years.

A constant sweet tooth now has a cost. Eating sugary foods far beyond a sensible amount starts to chip away at your long term health, so junk food binges quietly catch up with you as you age.

Character faces are no longer hidden behind their own blink and yawn animation layers. Those layers now stay invisible until they actually play, so faces show up cleanly the rest of the time.

Character creation, settings, and the sports career view no longer get squeezed or compressed on Android devices and now lay out the way they should.

The MMA fight screen now scrolls properly on phones, so you can reach the full fight readout and action log during a bout on mobile.

Life events no longer bring up parents or family members who have left or are no longer present. Event text now checks that a relative is actually around before referencing them.

Restoring a cloud save on iPhone no longer fails partway through. A file path issue that could stop a native cloud restore has been fixed, so backups load reliably on Apple devices.

People in your life can now start romantic moments themselves. A strong connection can lead to flirting, being asked out, becoming exclusive, marriage talk, a proposal, or a serious conversation when things are falling apart. These events still check age, family ties, relationship stage, cooldowns, and your real relationship graph before appearing.

When you accept an NPC-initiated romance step, the underlying relationship now changes too. Saying yes can start dating, make the relationship official, or create an engagement. If an NPC proposes, the ring is added to your belongings so the story and inventory stay in sync.

If someone is already dating another person, romance now gives you a clear choice: ask them to leave their partner or start a secret affair. Secret dating affairs keep the public relationship intact and track who could discover it later.

Celebrity parody profiles now use their intended public-facing occupations, like Actor, Tennis Player, Content Creator, or Singer-songwriter, instead of pulling odd generic career titles from the normal NPC career generator.

Retiring from tennis now archives the career you built before resetting the active run. The league screen can open a premium career archive with your old club, record, best rank, final rank, Grand Slam count, prize money, and season history.

The tennis match minigame now captures swipes more reliably, shows swipe trails while you move, and queues early swipes so an eager shot can still resolve when the ball reaches you.

Tennis match minigames now register with the popup queue, and the sports gym application challenge uses the same registered modal path as other minigames. Random tips now stay out of the way while those sport minigames are active.

Cash gains and losses now appear in the main Changes section of event outcome popups. Event bills can also use the selected bill account or wallet even when the payment takes it negative, so the consequence shown on the event actually lands.

Workplace event selection now checks your active job workplace before choosing coworkers. When a workplace NPC is inserted into event text, the name is marked as from work so the connection is clearer.

Large save-journal payloads now route through IndexedDB on web and Filesystem on native, while the small journal index stays in local storage or Preferences. Older journal entries can still be read and cleaned up after the routing change.

Admin users can access the Travel preview without turning on developer mode, and the local Ralph dashboard no longer starts Discord polling unless the bridge is explicitly enabled.

Children who live with their other parent now need an accepted visit before everyday interactions open up. A visit is temporary instead of secretly changing custody, blocked automatic visits no longer block manual requests, and accepted requests open the visit flow right away.

Child upbringing costs still scale with wealth, but now have a yearly ceiling so rich families do not suddenly get impossible multi-million bills. Full-custody children no longer stack upbringing costs with player-paid child support, and support can end cleanly when the child moves in with you.

Choosing not to continue a pregnancy now leaves a clear outcome in the log. If you walk away from a baby, the child is still recorded so the co-parent can raise them and you can reconnect later. Affair pregnancies also surface more honest reactions when they come to light.

Relationship cards now check more of your real social graph before offering to add hidden partners or children. Divorce rolls no longer reach too broadly into visible NPCs, school friends use past-tense wording after you leave school, and relationship feelings repair broken number values before they spread.

Stream summaries now label lifetime totals as totals after the stream, so followers and earnings are easier to read. Passing out shows forfeited rewards as zero, annual merch income pays for the full year, low energy warnings no longer cover engagement buttons, a fully upgraded setup can reach 100% quality, and big creators can collaborate with smaller creators again.

The Celebrity Stylist no longer replaces the Wardrobe Upgrade. Championship jewelry now sits with clothing, luxury vehicles sit with vehicles, and fighter prestige purchases sit in real estate with the right MMA career checks. Item unlock previews now come from real activities, and Candy Variety Packs unpack into candy bars properly.

Push Away now checks your real family graph, so a person with no actual family tie can be removed. Children met through Outdoor Play no longer drift into autonomous dating, added blood relatives now read as known your whole life while an in-law married into the family reads from when they joined it, and partner acquaintances stay visible in the right places.

Dropping out of college now waits for the save to commit before closing the action. Karma spending no longer comes back after login, the final visible MMA sponsorship year pays correctly, and martial arts classes and sparring count toward exercise streaks.

Tennis seasons now produce clearer recaps and settle outstanding age-up results more reliably. MMA fight balance, fight scheduling, rivalry acceptance, sponsorship timing, and fight-money displays also got fixes so sports careers line up with what happened in the match.

Repeat-limited events now respect their limits, gym membership prompts stay away when you already have the membership, and follow-up events no longer lose the second follow-up when two are due together. The life story log also keeps reading newest-first instead of jumping order.

Refreshing the dating app now gives fresh, coherent matches instead of reusing a predictable yearly seed. Young-adult matches also get more varied careers and income, so early dating profiles feel less samey.

Synthetic job records now keep pension enrollment tied to the right job identity. This keeps career benefits from drifting away from the job that created them.

Heir transitions no longer abort just because a family NPC is missing a stored age. The game now keeps the inheritance flow moving instead of stopping on that edge case.

Paid treatment retries now roll again when you try again, instead of reusing the same year-frozen result.

Childhood life-story lines now rotate more naturally, with fewer repeated grandparent, wealth, and struggling-family phrases. NPC pregnancy stories also use different framing for family pregnancies and relationship pregnancies.

Stock and crypto buy-list prices now keep evolving even when you do not own that asset. Partial sales use the live market price, and large investment losses can now create a temporary stress mood event. Killing an opponent in a fight can now leave a mood scar too.

Energy drink results now show caffeine on the same 200-point scale the game actually uses, so the popup matches the underlying stat.

On mobile, the app can now ask for notification permission while you are still in the game, schedule a gentle comeback reminder when you leave, and clear it again when you return.

When a friend asks to borrow money, bails on prom plans, or confides a secret, it is now a real friend from your own relationships, named on screen. School drama names an actual classmate from your current school, work events name a real colleague, and romance events speak about your actual partner. If you do not have the right person in your life, the story simply waits for someone who does.

Bills now only arrive for things you actually have. No appliance repairs while you live with your parents, no roommate rent drama without a place of your own, and no vet bills without a pet. When an event says you paid or earned something, your wallet really moves, including a few old events that talked about money without ever touching it.

Gifts and encounters now leave a real mark. A gifted hamster, fish, bird, or rabbit counts everywhere pets are counted. Making a friend at the social security office or a late-in-life romance adds a real person to your relationships, and the outcome screen now shows who joined your circle. Even the suspiciously cheap watch at the market is a real watch: haggle well and it ends up in your belongings, gamble carelessly and you learn why the seller was in a hurry.

Most age-ups now pass with just your yearly summary. Story popups arrive while you live the year instead, paced by how much you are actually doing, and never more than one knock at the birthday itself. Follow-ups from earlier choices also reach you naturally during the year, so a promise of trouble in a few weeks no longer waits a full year to land.

Accepting a rivalry challenge in your fighting career had quietly stopped doing anything. The announcement now earns you the fame and followers it always promised, and the grudge match plays out in the league like it should.

A handful of stories could never actually happen because of overcautious safety filters. The first day of preschool, an imaginary companion saying goodbye, a first crush at school, homework struggles, and the science fair volcano can all now find you at the right age. The filters that protect young characters from genuinely adult content remain firmly in place.

Rarely, an event could appear with a missing name in the middle of its story. Events now refuse to show themselves unless every person in them is real and present, so what you read always makes sense.

Fresh moments fill the early years and the school days, from trying out your first words on the whole family and stomping the first puddle after the rain, to lost coats, claimed bus seats, growth spurts, jammed lockers, exam nerves, results day, and a driving test that has finally been booked. There is more to live through at every age, so the same few events stop coming round so quickly.

The stretch from eighteen to twenty two used to offer almost nothing. Now it is full of campus life for those who go on to study, dorm friction, nine o'clock lectures, all nighters, cafe jobs, the last week of the loan, and freshers fairs, alongside a separate set of young adult moments for everyone else, like the keys to a first flat, smoke in the kitchen, and being skint but somehow free. Just as importantly, these years are now part of the yearly run of life events, where before they were quietly skipped over.

A handful of events now set up a later one. A message sent to the wrong person can lead to meeting them in the hallway, a society sign-up can lead to a seat on the committee, a new neighbour can later ask you to watch their home, and a side venture eventually faces an honest reckoning. The follow-up only finds you if you lived the first part.

The long middle and later years gain new texture, from overgrown gardens and dying appliances to creeping subscriptions, asking for a raise, fading eyesight, a cough that will not clear, wedding invitations, lost wallets, and minding a grandchild for the afternoon. They return every few years rather than firing once, so the years keep finding new ways to surprise you.

Own any phone or computer and a new Financial News activity appears on it. Inside you will find the year's headlines tied to the same world events that move your investments, a market mood read, and a Markets view showing which corners of the market ran hottest and coldest this year.

A forecast of where the market is heading next year, not a recap of what already happened. Your read grows with your Intelligence: less switched-on characters get rumours that might point anywhere, while sharp minds get real takes on where things could go. No tip is ever a sure thing, so the final call is always yours. Tap the info button if you are ever unsure what it is telling you.

Each year the desk shows you whether last year's forecast actually landed, so you can see its track record build over time. The smarter your character, the more often it gets the call right.

When the desk talks about a sector you actually hold a stock in, it names your position so the guidance feels like it is about your money, not the market in the abstract.

Reading the news is free and works from a phone, so younger characters can study the market long before they can afford a computer to trade on. Do your homework and the desk's take follows you onto the Investments screen; skip it and you trade blind. A red dot appears on your device whenever there is breaking news worth reading.

The Markets view now reflects the actual world events of the year, so a pandemic really does lift healthcare and sink travel, and each sector shows whether it has been climbing or falling for several years running. The stories you read and the prices you see come from the same events.

When a major world event shakes the markets, it now finds you as a breaking news alert while you play instead of waiting quietly in the yearly recap. The alert you see is the same event moving your prices, not a random headline.

The Markets view now tracks crypto alongside the stock sectors, and the analyst desk knows when you hold coins, so its hints speak to your actual portfolio whether it is shares, crypto, or both.

Smaller market stories now appear between the big world events, and they genuinely nudge the sectors they mention. The moves are modest and capped, but they are real, so even a quiet news year gives you something to read the market by.

The yearly economy headline now carries sector tags, so a glance tells you which corners of the market a story actually touches.

The Headlines and Markets tabs picked up the same info buttons as The Year Ahead, so a quick tap explains what you are looking at and how to use it.

Over forty brand new events across babyhood, school years, and the teens, from thunderstorms and lost comfort blankets to talent shows, sleepovers, school dances, shoplifting dares, and prom drama. A set of middle school and high school moments that never appeared before now show up too, so the quiet stretch between five and seventeen is full of life.

Somewhere in your early school years your parents might surprise you with a pet of your own. It could be a hamster, a fish, a bird, or a rabbit, and which one is a surprise each life. Say yes and the naming box appears right there, so it carries your chosen name from its very first moment, and your free rename stays in your pocket.

Twenty five new events cover the years from eighteen to sixty five: noisy neighbours and fence disputes, surprise bills and small windfalls, nagging backs and health kicks, old friends resurfacing, car trouble, jury duty, and the parcel that refuses to arrive. They return every few years rather than firing once, so adult life keeps finding new ways to test you.

A sweep across every event in the game made sure the story matches your life. Events about your house, your spouse, your job, your kids, or your friends only appear if you actually have them, and a few now read differently depending on whether you own your home or rent, drive or take the bus.

The estranged parent storylines, where an absent father or birth mother resurfaces later in life, were silently blocked and could never happen. They now find the players whose stories actually call for them.

Streaming reaction events that needed a follower milestone, like family finding your channel, never fired because of a faulty check. Hit the milestone now and the conversation finds you.

The game now remembers which events you have seen across all your past lives and strongly prefers ones you have never experienced, so each new playthrough leads with moments you have not lived before.

Events now name your actual mum, dad, and classmates instead of vague strangers, and anything involving a phone, bike, console, or pet only happens if you actually own one.

Classroom events pull from your real class roster, and how those classmates feel about you shifts with what happens between you.

A new library of moral dilemmas can find you anywhere from the school years to old age, as you live your life rather than on your birthday. A found wallet, a friend's secret, a stranger who needs more than you want to give. There is rarely a clean right answer, each dilemma appears at most once in a life, and one you have faced sits out your next life entirely, so your conscience never reruns an old test.

The family tree gained a Lineage tab. When you continue as your heir, relatives who have passed beyond living memory move into a family history book, each with a memorial card recording their years, their relation to you, and how they went. Long dynasties also run smoother for it.

A random event or breaking news alert no longer barges in on top of a window you already have open. It waits politely and finds you a little later instead, and nothing gets lost along the way.

Large families were making the game crawl, with long freezes on every birthday and sluggish family screens. That slowdown is gone. Years tick over instantly and the family tree opens without a pause, no matter how big your clan has grown.

Continuing your legacy as your child now sets the new character up completely. Activities respond properly from the first tap, skills and history carry over cleanly, and a leftover co parent badge no longer lingers on family members.

Reaching Celebrity or Legend fame as a streamer no longer crashes the career screen.

Your life story now reflects when you could actually start driving, instead of jumping the gun.

Event text now matches what truly happened, so the story you read lines up with the life you lived.

I am building out a full tennis career right now, from signing with a club and training your game to climbing the world rankings through real tournaments and earning a living from it. It is not quite ready yet, but it will be out soon, so keep an eye on the updates for when it lands.

Nearly every message pop up in the game now wears a polished frosted glass design, each one tinted to match the moment, so good news, warnings, and big life events all feel clearer and more premium. Busy screens like banking and the shop keep their easy to read layout.

You can no longer start a fighting career while you are already committed to another professional sport, so your pro paths stay clear of each other.

MMA sponsorship tiers now unlock correctly as your career grows, so the deals you have earned actually become available.

Buying several of something at once now charges the right total instead of a figure that did not add up.

A bulk purchase that needs a parent's approval now keeps the full quantity you chose through the round trip, instead of dropping back to one.

NPC dating and marriage are now gated on your real in game age rather than a drifting birth year, so relationships line up with where you actually are in life.

A child or teen at play, and time spent training a martial art, now count toward your exercise streak so staying active is properly recognised.

Starting from a rich background now builds a family that is wealthy across the board, instead of mixing in relatives who do not fit the origin.

Your life story no longer tells a child they "felt like a kid again," and newly introduced people carry a consistent age so the timeline reads true.

On Android you can now sign in with Google Play Games, so your account and saves travel with your Google profile.

At eighteen a child decides about university on their own. You can plead with them to reconsider, and a child who turns it down gets a send-off into working life.

Grown children carry on improving their own skills after they leave home, with the gains tapering as they master each one.

Open a grown child to see a read-only spread of how their skills turned out and the major they chose.

A child can take up a martial art and work their way up through the belts, with belt tests you take part in.

Fund a child's yearly allowance or top up their savings straight from your own wallet.

Push a child toward a path, back the one they choose for themselves, or bribe a reluctant child onto the path you had in mind.

An action on your child's card. Choose public or private school and enroll them in activities like sports, tutoring, music, and debate. Each year there is a chance they grow the skill, bigger when it suits them and smaller when it does not.

When your child turns 18 they may ask you to fund a degree, and you pick their focus. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they have their own dreams, and what they study shapes the career they chase.

When you pass on and continue as your child, their skills, schooling, and degree carry over, not just raw talent. You inherit the estate straight into a bank account with any debts settled first.

What you spend raising a child now scales with their age and your share of custody, and you can tap the charge to see exactly what it is made of.

Event outcomes now show the real change in how each person feels and tell you which parent a reaction belongs to, instead of a flat relationship number.

Your relationship filters now survive leaving and returning to the page, with a new Direct Family Only view for your closest relatives.

Newborns, adopted children, and the partners of relatives now live in the right city instead of scattering across the map.

Custody visitation now ends when a child becomes a legal adult at 18, in step with child support, instead of offering one final visit a year too late.

Tapping your wallet balance now shortens it whatever the amount, not just for figures in the millions.

Your gym now has named teammates who train alongside you and age across the seasons. Sparring carries new narrative flavour, and skipped seasons are summarised in plain prose instead of a raw event code.

NPC cards now show how many years you have known someone, tucked into the details block alongside genetics and last contact. For relatives and friends who have passed away, the card shows how many years it has been.

Each MMA division now caps how many fights you can take in a season, and signed contracts resolve automatically so your fight schedule stays clean.

High-end shop activities now grant fame, and MMA title belts carry fame recognition that scales from a regional title up to a world championship.

Buying health insurance from the shop now reduces your doctor and treatment costs. The game uses whichever is better between your job benefits and your shop insurance.

Injury recovery options now show their real price and how much of it your medical team covers, so you can see the discount before you pay.

Streaming and sponsorship gear now lists the skill boosts each piece provides, so you know what an upgrade actually does for you.

The streaming network feed now reads in plain language with icons. Creators blow up, fall off, quit streaming, or collab, instead of showing a raw event label.

Owned items across more categories, including clothing, cosmetics, collectibles, and documents, now appear in your Assets view with proper icons and filter chips.

Interests now build through weighted progress from the activities you do, including martial arts, with related activities and your personality both nudging things along, instead of relying on a random roll.

The Account Settings screen now scrolls properly, keeping the header and action buttons in place so every option stays reachable on smaller screens.

Your mood now factors in your effective looks, including any bonuses, rather than just your base appearance stat.

NPCs who have passed away now show their age at death on their card instead of continuing to age year after year.

After scheduling an MMA fight, tapping View Accepted now scrolls straight to your accepted fights section instead of leaving you to hunt for it.

Collaboration cooldowns now measure against your character age correctly, so the cooldown timer no longer reports the wrong wait.

Sending a gift to a love interest now correctly counts both your wallet and your bank balances and asks which one to pay from, instead of only checking your cash.

Love-task results and bad-date rejection messages no longer flash up before the date result screen has finished closing.

Your current local save is no longer blocked or overwritten by an older cloud copy when the game loads.

Cleaned up MMA money overflow, fight-offer tutorial wording, event outcome header spacing, modal bottom-nav hiding, and app scroll snapping for a smoother feel throughout.

Your body type can now shift over the years based on sustained lifestyle habits. Consistent workouts and healthy eating can move you toward a more muscular build, while inactivity, poor health, junk food, and sugar can push your body in other directions.

The Health tab now shows your current body type with an info panel explaining what it means, how it changes, and how it affects combat.

NPC cards now show an estimated net worth, including savings, known home equity, retirement income, and debt. Tap the info button to see how the estimate is worked out.

Accepted job offers can now carry employee discount data into your career record, and eligible discounts show directly on your job card.

The Android build now includes the Play app signing OAuth client, which fixes the Google Sign-In misconfiguration error some Android users were seeing.

Fight warnings and fight eligibility now use your effective health, including bonuses, instead of only your raw base health. Body type is also read consistently across avatars, regular fights, and MMA.

Health and wellness now has a quick info panel explaining what Health represents and what can affect it, including illness, injuries, diet, sleep, treatment, and habits.

Opening the dating app now hides the bottom navigation properly, giving the modal the full screen space it needs.

The vehicle license test screen has improved dark mode contrast so answers and result screens are easier to read.

Tier rewards now check the real player reward state before showing unlocks, then save the unlocked reward through the normal work activity flow.

Treatment result popups now calculate before and after health more accurately, especially when item bonuses or multiple treatments are involved.

Prison sentence entries now use character age instead of real-world calendar years, keeping prison history consistent with the rest of the game.

Reputation and shop checks now read the canonical fame and follower values more consistently, preventing old sports values from skewing fame displays.

Old duplicate parent-divorce event hooks were removed so the newer family lifecycle system stays in charge of divorce, dating, engagement, and remarriage events.

Several internal systems were hardened, including functional game state updates, older save shape handling, narrative storylet loading, and the Discord bug bridge used for report triage.

New to fighting? A first time walkthrough now introduces the MMA career step by step, from training and energy costs to seasons and title fights. It shows once and you can skip it anytime.

A faster way to hit the slots. Spin inline without opening a modal, re-spin instantly, and change your bet with a built in numeric keypad. Tap the bet pill to set a custom amount.

Every stock purchase is now its own tracked lot with its own gain percentage. Holdings group by company with a per buy breakdown inside, and the expanded view shows your average cost basis, purchase count, and dividend yield. Dividend yields now drift with the economy instead of staying fixed, and your full holdings appear in the annual report. A new info button explains how dividends work.

Your streaming career now throws real story moments at you: public controversies, creator conventions, awards nights, and career conflicts. Each one carries choices that affect your stats, income, and reputation.

Fresh achievement tiers for money, children, and followers, plus an own everything goal. Every card now has a tap to expand "how to earn" hint, so you always know what to chase next.

Large balances now abbreviate so they always fit on screen. Tap your balance to expand the full amount.

Your habits panel now surfaces your current caffeine level alongside your other lifestyle stats.

The Add buttons for children are back on NPC cards, so you can grow a relative’s family directly from their card.

Martial arts now runs on real seasons. Fights count toward your season record, the league simulates around you, divisions promote and demote, and a season end recap shows how you placed. Belt names are clearer and you always get a division slot.

Skipping your remaining fights now shows the exact cost and fame penalty up front before you commit, and declining a fight counts as a forfeit. Retiring properly clears your MMA state, and a blocked gym application now explains why and what to train.

Application decisions now show your character age instead of a real world date, and a rejection tells you the reason you did not qualify.

Accepting an inheritance now shows a savings receipt, and back to back inheritances no longer overwrite each other.

School transfer screens now name the same tuition payer throughout, so there is no confusion about who is footing the bill.

Applying for a job no longer hangs on iPhone and iPad. The interview screen now opens reliably.

Fixed slot reels that could freeze partway through a spin because of a stale timer.

A compliance hold could quietly stop recurring bills from being paid. Bills now go through, and any genuine failure tells you the reason.

Your injuries are no longer lost when other medical treatment updates are applied.

Fixed several crashes that could interrupt aging up, including ones tied to streaming events, NPC interactions, and older save files.

Fixed a crash that could happen when a pet activity result tried to display.

Fixed background music that silently failed to play in prison on iOS.

Your character card now always shows your top three skills, even early on before you have trained anything.

A large behind the scenes pass made saving, loading, and yearly progression far more robust, with more consistent outcomes and safer handling of older save files.

A full casino with 6 games: Blackjack, Poker, Roulette, Craps, Slots, and Baccarat. Premium card animations, felt tables, spinning reels, and dramatic reveals. Per-game stats track your lifetime wins, losses, and win rates.

Enter poker and blackjack tournaments across five tiers: Amateur, Pro, High Roller, Championship, and Grand Championship. Compete against NPC opponents through a bracket and win prize pools by placement.

Full dark mode support across every screen in the game. Toggle it anytime from Settings. Every modal, card, popup, header, and game screen has been individually tuned for readability and style in both light and dark themes.

A new four-pillar reputation system (Social, Fame, Character, and Career) tracks how the world sees you. Six tiers from Famous to Outcast. Your reputation affects job promotions, interview success, romance, NPC interactions, sports contracts, and streaming sponsorships.

Tap your wallet card to open a full transaction history with bank-style rows and filter tabs (All, Income, Expense, Transfer). Every transaction carries a category — salary, fines, activity costs, and so on — with detailed metadata.

Set a primary bank account that gets paid first. Smart payment ordering pulls from your preferred account automatically. Student loans now show your major and full program name.

Choose between annual payouts or lump-sum withdrawals for your pension. View your full savings history. Pension contributions are deducted from salary and shown on your pay popup. Early hardship withdrawal available with a 10% tax penalty.

Each companion pet has its own arcade minigame: Hamster Wheel Runner, Bird Seed Catcher, Fish Bubble Pop, and Rabbit Burrow Hop. Procedural rounds, high score tracking, and tier-based stat rewards.

Intimacy now costs energy and rewards stat boosts. A new success screen shows relationship and mood effects. Conception chances build over consecutive attempts, with a 10% chance of twins. Babies get naming and per-baby involvement decisions for multiples.

A new Community Service activity reduces police heat, builds discipline and fitness, and contributes to redemption that feeds the Character reputation pillar.

Discover interests naturally through activities! Pet interactions can unlock Animal interests, item use unlocks related interests, and a new info panel explains how the system works. Thresholds are randomized per interest for variety.

Sign in with Apple Game Center on iOS or Google Play Games on Android. Link multiple accounts together. Your progress syncs across devices through your gaming account.

Milestone events fire when your children marry, when grandchildren are born or get married, and when great-grandchildren are born. All events tie to real NPCs in your family tree.

Murder a parent? Your inheritance gets frozen. If convicted, it transfers to siblings. Found not guilty? The freeze lifts. A proper consequence system for the worst crimes.

Use the new Add button on the family tab to generate grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Each new member gets proper genetics and family tree connections.

Affairs now store metadata instead of instantly breaking up marriages. Ask married NPCs to leave their spouse, and face confrontation modals with apologize or fight options.

20 celebrity parody characters with accurate appearance data and origin stories are now available through the dating system.

Pick your own streaming handle when you start your career. Your channel name shows in your dashboard header and identifies you in the streaming world.

Every content niche now has its own minigame. Gaming streams play Match Saga, IRL streams play Brick Breaker, creative streams play One Stroke (single-path puzzle), and react streams play Hot Take (swipe-to-react). Each niche has 5 themed content-type variants (20 total) that tweak speed, target art, and difficulty. First-time players get a MinigameHint overlay teaching the controls.

A trending content type rotates every year and grants a real income bonus while it lasts. The trending flame icon shows up on the content type picker and on your pre-stream screen.

The Network tab shows your position among the NPC creators in your niche (a rolling pool of up to ~50 creators). NPC creators grow, date, retire, and quit on their own. A combined community feed shows creator drama and active events with Active and Past badges.

The community feed surfaces creator-scene events as they happen: algorithm shifts, viral pushes, drama, and sponsor news. Each event has real gameplay effects on your income, follower growth, and sponsor offers.

When you collab with a creator, their followers show up in your stream chat. During Joint Streams, the NPC talks in your chat throughout the session. One collab per stream. Star creators get +20% collab acceptance, Legendary creators get +30%.

Breaking out of a prison riot now plays as a real-time stealth minigame instead of a random roll. Get caught and you go straight back inside; succeed and you walk out as a fugitive with the criminal record fields and HUD relocated for life on the run.

Escape a sentence and a 20 to 40 year manhunt activates with a count-up banner showing time on the run. Bond surveillance increases the chance you get spotted, and a fuzzy statute-of-limitations estimate hints at when the heat might lift.

A new Black Market unlocks once a manhunt activates. Rent a Safe House to lower bond surveillance, buy a Fake ID with an expiry countdown so you can take legitimate jobs again, and grab a Disguise Kit to bypass surveillance on tougher events. Safe house rent pauses while you are in prison.

Tap the fugitive banner to open a full status modal showing time on the run, bond surveillance level, valid Fake ID expiry, and your statute estimate. The banner uses a solid backdrop so the page never ghosts through.

Five new events specific to life on the run: patrol close calls, paperwork getting flagged, an old friend recognising you in public (with description variants that rotate by age), a neighbor putting it together, and a bounty hunter closing in. Outcomes record into NPC memory.

Sponsors now drop fighters whose fame stays low for two consecutive years. Warnings and terminations land as proper popup-card notifications instead of silent log entries. Fighter division rosters also reserve a slot for the player so there’s always a path back into competition.

NPCs now use a social graph with 5 feelings (trust, affection, respect, resentment, fear) instead of simple relationship scores. Feelings bars are visible on NPC cards. Interactions affect specific feelings based on what you do. Feelings decay realistically over time based on game years, not real-world time.

NPCs now date, get engaged, marry, break up, and have children autonomously at realistic rates. Career changes show badge notifications on NPC cards. Partner NPCs are generated from the game world instead of thin air. NPC-to-NPC conception is gated by family size caps.

Family genetics now use dominant/recessive inheritance for skin tone, eye color, and hair. Maternal and paternal family lines have consistent origin cities. Mothers are born with their own surname — marriage changes it. Step-families and in-laws are properly tracked in the family tree.

Year-opening narratives are now context-aware. They reference your actual parents, jobs, housing, pets, pregnancy, and life stage. Gender-specific pronouns replace generic placeholders. Hundreds of dead and duplicate storylets cleaned up, with vague filler text replaced with meaningful content.

Performance only drops from inactivity, not automatically. Stock options awarded on promotion. Annual performance tracking with clearer warning messaging. Career change notifications appear on NPC cards. School teacher NPCs now display proper honorifics (Mr., Mrs., Coach).

School activities give 5x more XP. Energy progress bar shows remaining energy. Tuition affordability redesigned. Transfer modals show accurate GPAs. College cards show available majors instead of generic tags. Student loans created only after major is confirmed.

The loading screen now shows fun rotating messages and a filling progress bar with percentage that tracks real boot stages. A much smoother first impression.

Tips appear every 90 seconds during active gameplay only (not during prison or modals). Tips are tappable and navigate directly to the relevant screen.

Pregnancy badges on expecting NPCs. Recently-split and partner badges. NPC age derived from birth year for accuracy. Wealth shown separately from net worth. Financial info available via tap. Career change badges flag recently-shifted NPCs. Hide individual NPCs by tapping their cards.

Criminal records redesigned with standardized formatting. Reputation pillar drops now reference convictions, not just crimes. Character pillar explained clearly in the UI.

Hover states disabled on touch devices to prevent sticky highlights. The wallet stat tile is now fully tappable to open transaction history. iOS safe areas properly handled across all screens.

Tap a creator to see personality, follower trends, relationship progress, next collab threshold, tier gap warnings, and per-action success chances. Big creators now mostly ignore small ones, so building real relationships takes years. Creator cards show personality tags, progress bars, and full sprites instead of cropped circles.

Record and Upload Video now lets you choose which platform to post to, but only platforms you have actually joined. No more posting to ViewTube before you signed up.

Dead NPCs are now tombstoned instead of fully purged so the family tree, Life Story, and graphs still resolve them. Interaction history is capped per relationship so long-running saves stay snappy. Acquaintance generation is age-targeted so your peer pool stays believable instead of leftover-pooled.

A dedicated Black Market card lives in Extras with a full catalog view, an annual-rent label and "paid through age X" status on rent items, and an Assets entry showing a valid Fake ID with its expiry countdown.

EventOutcomePopup now shows numeric feeling deltas instead of vague phrases so you can see exactly how an interaction shifted trust, affection, respect, resentment, or fear.

Complete save/load overhaul. Cloud saves are authoritative on app resume with revision-based conflict resolution. Saves compressed with gzip for faster sync. False conflict dialogs eliminated. Character IDs standardized across all save paths. Saves with corrupt graph data now fail loudly to a recovery screen instead of silently auto-repairing.

Arrest chances drastically reduced. Heat accumulates more slowly and auto-raid thresholds raised. Crime is risky but no longer punishing beyond reason. No more annual pet maintenance costs.

Fixed twin babies being lost during birth processing. Siblings get properly randomized skin tones. Baby names draw from a larger pool with no duplicates. Pregnancy data no longer erased by state sync. Per-baby involvement decisions for multiples.

Fixed job duplication, dual-termination, and performance death spirals. Work activities no longer lower performance. Promotion triggers removed from age-up path. Employment history tracked correctly. Multi-job pension enrollment fixed.

Dead NPCs can no longer be romanced or interacted with. Absent parents hidden from UI. Rogue sanitizer no longer forces all family to share the player's last name. Sibling romance properly prevented. Parent marriages create correct popups. Family members no longer miscategorized.

Fixed the profanity filter incorrectly blocking normal names containing common letters.

Fixed $undefined treatment costs. Parents now always pay children's medical bills first. Ongoing treatment system removed — conditions resolve through doctor visits and events instead.

Fixed 4 graduation bugs: GPA pulling from wrong school, high school modal getting stuck, results auto-closing, and duplicate enrollment. Private school transfers blocked when unaffordable.

Huge amount of engine work behind the scenes. NPC data migrated to a unified registry. Relationship system rebuilt on social and family graphs. Age progression split into a 21-step pipeline. App architecture restructured into modular services. All of this makes the game faster, more stable, and ready for bigger features.

A dedicated milestone fixing the long tail of save and load issues. Cloud uploads are debounced, conflicts use V3 revision tiebreak, native big saves route through Capacitor Filesystem on iOS and Android, and web big saves move into IndexedDB. Journal replay now continues past per-entry failures instead of dropping the whole save. Failures surface to a real LoadFailureScreen instead of going silent. Audit gates and content-change dedup stop self-feeding sync loops.

Fixed poker tournament tie-breaks, push results, chip awards, score margins, the final round label, the final results display, restoration after elimination, and the timing of the result reveal so the dramatic beats actually land.

Fixed crashes, empty feeds, missing popups, NaN results, NaN analytics in upload flow, the platform leave control, and safe areas on the streaming UI. Pre-stream now shows correct game names, controls, and the trending badge.

Escaping in a riot now clears your location and prison status so ordinary life events resume properly, and prison-only events can no longer fire after you have escaped. Prison sentence progression, gang roster upkeep as you age, life event gating, and inmate connection rewards are all fixed.

Heir transitions no longer inject fake retroactive education records. Heir gym subscriptions inherit cleanly. Transitioned children keep their savings financing. Dead NPC loan court enforcement is fixed so estates settle properly.

Marketing campaigns no longer linger on closed or open shops after age-up. Business service staff equipment maps correctly. Duplicate shop subscription billing stopped. Debt management full payoff balances now zero. Activity wealth and net worth gates fixed.

Splash screen now waits for full boot completion and preferences before hiding. Theme flash on mobile load is gone because dark mode applies before React renders. UI freezing during load, character creation, and streaming career resolved.

Hundreds of self-healing guards across the codebase have been removed, along with around two dozen legacy migration steps in the hydrate pipeline and the deprecated SaveManager. The game now fails loud instead of silently papering over bad data, which has shaken out a long list of real bugs.

Fixed family and friend NPCs staying stuck in dating forever with no engagements, marriages, or kids. The lifecycle timer was being seeded from when the game first noticed they were a couple instead of when they actually started dating, so the years-dating count never caught up to the threshold for the next step. They now progress naturally based on how long they have actually been together.

Fixed nursing graduates being marked as unqualified for nursing roles even when they had the degree, the stat requirements, and prior medical experience. Field-qualified degree titles like "Bachelor's Degree in Nursing" are now recognized as Bachelor-level by the education check.

Fixed the confirmation popup wrongly saying you could not afford grad school after applying a partial scholarship. The game was only checking your wallet for the leftover tuition. If you have a bank account, applying a partial scholarship now opens the account picker so you can pay the balance from there.

Added full cat ownership support with 30 breeds, species tabs in Pet Store/Shelter, dedicated Cat cards/detail views, and integrated cat event routing.

Added cat competition systems with dedicated minigame flows for Championship, Premiership, Household Pet, and Agility tracks.

Added cat breeding UI and systems including stud service actions, lineage support, event outcomes, and progression hooks.

Introduced companion pets (hamsters, rabbits, birds, fish) with dedicated sprites, cards, detail pages, and integration into PetsView, store, shelter, and render flows.

Companion lifecycle processing is now wired into age progression and the event queue, including health state progression and death event handling.

Companion acquisition now enforces species-appropriate habitat/equipment requirements (including fish tank requirements) before buy/adopt completion.

Added new work minigame content for expanded Business/Education career ladders, including strategy and operations-focused gameplay loops.

Aligned Health & Vet structures across dog, cat, and companion flows so major sections and action behavior follow a shared visual system.

Expanded companion coverage/checkup/vaccination/condition plan action flows to better mirror dog/cat interaction patterns and clarity.

Brush-and-hold grooming received stronger touch/pointer handling so hold interactions are more reliable on iOS and Android devices.

Competition modals received safe-area and spacing tuning for notch devices, plus clearer instruction styling and better action readability.

Companion cards were refined for better alignment, chip placement, and information consistency with dog/cat card presentation.

Companion sprite visuals were refined with stronger color differentiation, stage handling, and better white-coat visibility.

Fixed rally trial progression issues where wrong-move handling could stall advancement on mobile paths instead of resolving strikes correctly.

Hardened minigame score handoff behavior so result cards more reliably reflect completed run scores after close/continue paths.

Resolved multiple companion-specific inconsistencies where action cards and outcomes behaved differently than equivalent dog/cat interfaces.

Hardened touch handling paths to reduce passive event listener warnings during interactive minigame input.

Buy dogs from the Pet Store or adopt from the Shelter! Choose from 30 breeds with unique chibi-style SVG sprites, personalities, and traits. Pick your favorite coat color before buying. Dogs age alongside you with realistic lifespans.

Feed, walk, play with, groom, and train your dogs through interactive minigames! Dogs have hunger, happiness, health, and bond stats. Neglect causes stat decay. Bond drops without walks or play, and low hunger drains health. A Pet Care Guide explains all mechanics.

Random events happen during walks, play, and feeding! Your dog might chase a squirrel and get hurt, find a hidden treat, or have a heartwarming moment. Medical events create real injuries that need vet treatment.

Dogs develop breed-appropriate diseases that start hidden. You'll notice stat drops and sad expressions before a vet checkup reveals the diagnosis. Visit the vet for checkups, emergency care, and vaccinations. Untreated illness worsens over time.

When a dog's quality of life declines severely, a compassionate euthanasia option is available in the Health & Vet tab. A difficult but realistic end-of-life decision.

Enter Agility, Obedience, Rally, Conformation (Showing), and Working Trials, each with its own minigame! Win titles from Novice to Grand Champion and earn prize money. Ringcraft training skill scales with competition tier.

Subscribe to training equipment kits (agility courses, obedience mats, rally cones, show rings, working gear) in 4 tiers from the shop. Equipment boosts training XP. Upgrading auto-cancels lower tiers.

Earn title badges displayed on your dog's card and detail view. Track progress per competition type with visual progress bars. Titles unlock higher competition tiers with a dual requirement of title rank and Ringcraft level.

Breed dogs with your own dogs, NPC studs, or premium studs. Puppies inherit coat colors, stats, and health risks from parents. A litter birth celebration shows each puppy with trait inheritance. Keep or sell individually.

Puppies can inherit health predispositions from parents. Inherited risks show as pills in the litter modal and increase disease onset chance (5x weight). Health testing before breeding reduces risk.

List championship dogs as studs for passive income! Receive offers with accept, counter-offer, and decline options. Stud fees scale with titles, health clearances, and dog credentials. Sire history tracks total puppies fathered.

Earn global achievements for competition milestones like first title, first champion, multi-discipline titles, and more. Achievement badges tracked across all competition types.

Your character sprite now shows visual changes based on life status! Genetic and hormonal acne appears during teen years (~30% of characters are acne-prone, peaking ages 13-16). More visual effects coming soon.

Over 20 NPC interaction event types now adapt to both your age and the NPC's age. Chatting with your grandparent feels completely different from hanging out with a friend your age, with age-pair context in every interaction.

Bank accounts are now protected by automatic snapshots and anomaly detection. If accounts are accidentally lost during a save, the system silently restores them. Combat-financial repair catches edge cases too.

Set a unique username for your account! Managed through Firebase with a streamlined settings experience.

Child support now uses the stronger of your wealth or annual income as the calculation base. No more $0 obligations when you have a job but low savings. The modal shows whether support is based on income or wealth.

Feed minigame: dog moves around the arena, 8 hits to win. Play minigame: tap-to-aim fetch throwing with the dog wandering when idle. Walk minigame extended to 30 seconds. All minigames feel more interactive and engaging.

Dog profiles now have organized sub-tabs: Care & Interaction, Health & Vet, Championship, and Breeding. Each tab shows relevant stats, actions, and information. Info button next to dog name opens a full care guide popup.

Filter your dogs by life stage (puppy, adult, senior) and sex (male, female) using quick-tap chips in the Pets tab. Makes managing large dog collections much easier.

Breeding tab shows parent cards with trait badges, health risk pills, and titled bloodline badges. Breeding info explainer panel breaks down genetics, compatibility, and health testing.

Babies can't buy pets. Children (30% base) and teens (50% base) need parent permission to adopt or buy, boosted by charisma skill. Adults buy freely.

Unemployed NPCs now find jobs annually based on age and economy. NPC cards correctly distinguish students from employed NPCs. Teachers and professors stay in their roles realistically.

Bankruptcy detection now runs through a single shared function across age-up and the Business Dashboard. Fixes a modal race condition with year-based resolved tracking.

Financial displays now show detailed breakdowns including assets, properties, investments, and inventory valuation instead of just a single net worth number.

Fighting moves now have energy costs and style-specific restrictions. Taekwondo and Judo maintain their distinct move sets with proper cost balancing.

Character sprite rendering overhauled with improved avatar component. NPC profile pictures handle edge cases better. Modern character sprite CSS updated for cleaner visuals.

Shelter now features special needs dogs with pre-existing conditions and lower adoption fees. Shelter UI improved with better breed information and coat color selection.

GPA scaling targets retuned so high minigame scores produce meaningful GPA movement instead of barely changing the number.

Banking operations (account management, loan court, debt cancellation, early payments) now persist reliably through the parent action system instead of redundant save calls.

Fixed a critical bug where bank accounts could vanish when switching characters. Added loss detection in hydration and financial repair to the strict repair system.

Fixed timeline safety issues in NPC memory validation and interaction context. Relationship duration calculations now use proper game-year arithmetic instead of raw date math.

Title tier promotions now correctly take effect next season instead of mid-season, preventing unexpected difficulty jumps during an active competition.

The child support ending message now correctly shows the partner name instead of "undefined's children" when obligations expire at age 18.

The narrative system now has explicit allowlisting for parent death event claims, preventing phantom parent death events from firing incorrectly.

Stud service payments now correctly use the offered fee vs asking fee, ensuring breeders receive the agreed-upon amount.

Extended family events and family display now handle edge cases better. Missing family members, broken links, and lifecycle transitions are handled gracefully.

Multiple hydration and sanity check improvements prevent data corruption during save/load cycles. Dog system state self-heals on load for old saves.

Night School is now a proper two-year program with enforced prerequisites! The game pauses age progression if you have unpaid Year 2 tuition or a pending final exam, with a new modal directing you to complete your education first.

Teens aged 14-17 can now flip thrift store finds online for profit! Earn Business Skills XP and cash ($20-$55 scaling with skill level). Works even better with a phone or laptop.

Brand new logic puzzle replacing the old Career Fair tap-matching game. Use process-of-elimination clues to match job roles with required skills across Tech, Finance, Marketing, Design, and Consulting.

New math puzzle replacing the old Tutor Triage game. Arrange number and operator tiles to build an equation that hits the target value, with difficulty scaling across rounds.

If your parent remarries and enough time passes, they might have another child — giving you a new half-sibling! A special event announces the new baby.

New businesses available: Auto Repair Shop, Hair Salon, Bakery, Clothing Boutique, Bookstore, Pet Store, and Hardware Store — each with unique equipment, staff caps, and customer profiles.

Neglecting your Love Tasks can now trigger divorce court! A completely separate dialogue path with unique confrontation choices, lawyer advice, and court outcomes tailored to relationship neglect.

Taking an overdue NPC borrower to court now shows a dedicated outcome screen with the verdict, amount recovered or cancelled, how long the loan was overdue, and relationship impact.

The buzz cut got a complete visual upgrade across all ages. The old flat dome is replaced with a realistic textured crop featuring hair follicle depth, side fade gradients, a defined hairline, and a subtle crown wave.

A new narrative routing system ensures events and activities always get the right flavor text. No more mismatched stories — the game now understands your full life context when picking what to say.

Parent relationships are now governed by realistic timing: couples must be married at least 6 years before divorce, and parents wait 3 years after divorce or widowhood before dating again.

When a spouse dies, the surviving partner now correctly keeps the family home instead of losing half of it to the inheritance split among children.

NPC income, expenses, and pension calculations can no longer accidentally run twice in the same year. Fixes potential wealth inflation and incorrect death pension calculations.

Toggling Easy Exam Mode in Settings now takes effect immediately in minigames without needing to restart or reload.

Community College, Medical School, and Law School completions now properly show the certificate UI in grade results instead of just a plain grade slip.

All marriage, divorce, and dating changes now flow through a single source of truth. Spouse death properly clears ghost relationships, and mismatched romance data self-heals on load.

Cafe base revenue fixed from $7,500 to $10,000 to prevent perpetual losses. Equipment limits, customer profiles, and staff caps retuned across all business types.

Taekwondo and Judo now have distinct fighting moves! Taekwondo gets Spin Kick, Axe Kick, and fast kicks. Judo gets Throws, Trips, and Grapples — no more sharing the same kick buttons.

NPC cards now show "Retired" with annual retirement income for NPCs age 65+. Their net worth also uses a full estate estimate (home equity + pension + liquid assets) for more accurate figures.

Pension enrollment popup now shows your actual employer match percentage and cap instead of always saying "Premium Employer Match." Self-employed players no longer get a misleading match offer.

When contacts move between relationship categories (friend becomes enemy, etc.), their cards now fade out smoothly instead of vanishing instantly.

Higher education GPA now displays to 2 decimal places (e.g., 3.67) for more accurate academic tracking. High school stays at 1 decimal.

Character selection screen has a cleaner layout with a fixed header that stays visible while scrolling through your characters.

Fixed a bug where allowance payment toasts or school expulsion modals could reappear as phantom popups after reloading the game. Transient flags are now properly stripped before saving.

The "Your allowance has ended" notification now correctly shows at age 18 even when a pending raise challenge was active.

If you graduated Night School, old "Failed" entries from before the grading system was improved no longer clutter your Education History.

Character selection cards no longer show raw wallet/money/cash/bank fields as if they were skills. Net worth now displays as a single clean number.

Final exam answers are no longer hidden behind the mobile keyboard. The modal now detects when the keyboard opens and scrolls the input field into view.

Mismatched spouse links, stale dating flags, and broken reciprocal relationships are now automatically detected and repaired on game load.

The age-up animation no longer dismisses before processing is complete. Tapping through too fast can no longer cause a blank or broken screen.

Gift and transaction result modals now show the correct feeling changes (including resentment from spam gifts) instead of zero or wrong values.

Swiping to close the grade results modal no longer accidentally triggers "Continue Your Journey" at the same time.

Relationship notification toasts now wait for active modals (fights, romance, etc.) to close before appearing, preventing overlapping popups.

Players age 16+ with a phone can now open a Dating App! Browse randomly generated match profiles with names, ages, personalities, interests, and careers. Like profiles to save them, then tap Match to add them to your acquaintance list.

Use filters to narrow matches by age range, gender, and appearance from within the Dating App.

Matched profiles become real NPCs in your acquaintance list. Date them, give Love Tasks, and progress through the full romance system — just like anyone you meet in person.

Discover personal interests by doing activities! Complete 5 related activities to unlock interests like Sports, Music, Art, Technology, Cooking, and 20+ others. Your interests affect romantic compatibility with NPCs.

Remove unwanted people from your interaction list with the new Push Away option. A confirmation modal warns you before permanently distancing that relationship.

Completing elite activities like TED Talks, Bestselling Books, and World Tours now actually reward cash (up to $1M), fame, followers, achievements, health, happiness, relationship boosts, career level skips, and salary raises!

Unlock achievements by completing elite activities! Earn titles like Marathon Runner, Published Researcher, Ironman Finisher, Philanthropist, Mountain Conqueror, and Bestselling Author.

Take overdue NPC borrowers to court! A dedicated court outcome modal shows the verdict, amount recovered or cancelled, overdue duration, and relationship impact.

Removed spammy threshold toasts that fired on every feeling change. Now you only see meaningful notifications when relationships actually shift — new friend, new enemy, romance ended, etc.

Romantic compatibility now factors in shared interests, personality traits, and background. The more you have in common, the better the match quality.

New confirmation modals for romance actions show context and background info before you commit. No more accidental proposals or breakups.

All wallet fields (wallet, wealth, money, cash) are now kept perfectly in sync across every system. No more phantom balances or missing funds after loading an old save.

Achievements now handle both old and new save formats automatically. No more crashes or missing achievements when loading legacy saves.

Wealth requirements in the Activities tab now count your bank account balances, not just wallet cash. If you can pay bills from your bank, you can afford activities too.

Activities requiring specific careers (manager, executive, entrepreneur) now actually work. Flexible matching checks your job title, level, and business ownership.

Activities requiring fame or followers now check all sources — not just sports career. Fame earned from elite activities counts toward unlocking higher-tier activities.

Streaming revenue, sponsorship payouts, merchandise sales, and ad revenue deposit logic simplified and more reliable.

Working no longer pays you per click on top of your annual salary. Salary is now paid once per year during age-up, as intended.

Players transitioning from middle school to high school were sometimes incorrectly flagged as dropouts. This no longer happens — dropout status only triggers for actively enrolled students.

Executive Training, Professional Conference, Celebrity Networking, and World Tour were impossible to unlock due to a broken career check. Now fixed.

The Work Analytics activity could sometimes appear available without owning a business. Business ownership is now properly enforced.

Fixed Teen Video Games activity using a non-existent category, which could cause it to be hidden from the activity list.

Removed the legacy Gang Ops interaction button and reward logic. Old saves that still reference it are safely filtered out.

Choose between Free Clinic, Private Doctor, or Specialist for medical treatment. Better doctors cost more but have higher success rates.

Kids under 18 now automatically use their parents' money for doctor visits. Parents pay first so children aren't blocked from treatment.

Base treatment success rates raised across the board. Your Resilience skill now provides a bonus to annual health recovery. Doctor tier impact is clearly shown in the treatment UI.

All save loading now goes through one unified pipeline with 19 validation steps. Data migrations are versioned so repairs only run once per save — faster, safer loads.

Word puzzle sections now use clean, readable scrambled letters instead of confusing backwards Unicode characters. 20 possible words for variety each playthrough.

School GPA now calculates correctly even for old saves with unusual enrollment data. The year-end GPA display shows the real before/after change.

Fixed a bug where exam sections could score zero even when you got answers correct. Race condition in section completion is now prevented.

High school finals now have a word puzzle section and a math section instead of the old critical thinking and sentence building format.

Non-school activities were sometimes being counted in your GPA calculation. Activity filtering now correctly only includes education activities.

Minigame mastery progress now correctly persists at the player level across all your characters.

Fixed pregnancy indicator not showing the correct month count. Now accurately displays 9 months at birth time.

Players now receive a notification when a family member becomes pregnant, so new babies no longer appear out of nowhere.

Kids under 18 now automatically use their parents' money for martial arts classes instead of checking the child's funds first.

Fixed contradictory origin stories that combined incompatible snippets. Narratives now respect the player's actual age and family situation.

NPC cards now display clean abbreviated amounts ($2.3M, $182k) instead of long raw numbers.

Improved text contrast on personality type cards so strengths, weaknesses, and descriptions are easier to read.

The "Script error" crash report alert is no longer shown to players. Error data is now logged silently for developers.

Fixed a bug where private schools appeared blocked even when parents could afford them. Now correctly uses family net worth.

Fixed parent dating, engagement, and step-sibling events getting stuck after selecting a choice. Added full support for step-parent intros, sibling pregnancy, and sibling marriage events.

Fixed the shop appearing in both the bottom nav and the lifestyle section at the same time.

Fixed a bug where savings accounts set up by parents never earned interest. Existing saves are automatically corrected.

Community messages now track at the player level so each message only shows once per player across all devices.

Braids, Bob, and Curly hairstyles added for female characters - each with a unique look on the character sprite at every age!

You can now add the Shop to your bottom navigation bar from Settings for quick access.

Save flows were unified behind SaveCoordinator with durable journal support for safer persistence.

Cloud/local conflicts now route through a unified resolver with safer merge behavior and conflict handling UI.

Schema validation, checksum verification, and save telemetry added to catch corruption risks earlier.

New child and teen events, streaming drama storylines, extended family events, and health events for richer gameplay.

Every hairstyle now renders uniquely on your character - curly has bouncy ringlets, braids show plaited strands, bob is chin-length. Works at all ages including seniors.

Activity results and event outcome popups have been redesigned for a cleaner, more polished look.

Load flow now supports journal replay and backup snapshot rollback for more reliable recovery after interrupted saves.

Pre-serialization fast paths improve app background/resume save behavior under tight lifecycle timing.

Improved memory pressure handling and state performance guards for smoother gameplay on all devices.

Education progression reliability and martial arts rank progression refined for smoother long-term advancement.

City territory interactions streamlined - city clicks open territory details with improved readability.

Improved duplicate character detection and player ID mismatch recovery for safer account management.

Children under 6 can no longer access the shop. Age restrictions now enforced across all entry points.

Fixed TDZ (temporal dead zone) errors that could crash the app on iOS devices during startup.

Fixed GAPI CORS errors on iOS Capacitor and improved native authentication reliability.

Fixed a race condition during character creation where two cloud syncs could conflict with each other.

Character deletion now handles permission errors gracefully instead of showing error messages.

Fixed corrupted minigame mastery data that could cause infinite progression or display issues.

Leaderboard wealth now includes investments, properties, and stashed cash for accurate rankings.

High school recovery flow no longer gets stuck on the K-12 gate.

Karma-based cash bonuses now persist and apply correctly to the player wallet.

Wallet and bank parsing edge cases in smart payment checks were fixed to avoid incorrect affordability outcomes.

Player personality selection is now part of character creation, with shared modifiers affecting romance, skills, and relationship dynamics.

Gameplay setting unlocks easier exam questions across all school minigames for a more casual experience.

Loan cards now include status badges and dual Pay Now/Pay Off actions, plus a new Pay Maintenance flow with clear info text.

You can choose whether to sign a prenup before the wedding, which affects divorce wealth outcomes.

Player multi-dating is supported through the SSOT relationship flow with better partner tracking and date relinking.

Single-parent wording, clearer wallet display, and affordability checks now make family support prompts more accurate.

Ring requirement detection, engagement consistency, marriage audits, and spouse UI checks are now more reliable.

GPA and failed-high-school logic tightened, education hierarchy expanded, and school badge selection improved.

Choose a primary job from your badges with the new selection modal and improved job badge actions.

Licenses now save and load correctly through the cloud pipeline.

Header and button visibility are fixed on small screens so actions are no longer cut off.

Wallet never goes negative, deposit sources are normalized, Cash on Hand is now Wallet, and maintenance alerts reflect wallet + bank totals.

Months pregnant tracking and NPC pregnancy progress indicators now display consistently.

Async subsystem isolation, safe array helpers, and migration/version checks improve save safety and recovery.

Wrong-answer visual feedback makes the minigame clearer and more responsive.

Performance raises are capped correctly and promotions reliably grant pay increases.

Allowance now ends only once at adulthood and cannot reactivate after age 18.

If a school selection was saved without enrollment, the selection modal reappears instead of getting stuck.

Transfers to private schools now retain the correct private badge and metadata.

Relationship stage and progress no longer reset when a player or NPC gives birth.

Ex-spouses are removed from the family list and relationship levels drop dramatically on divorce.

Graduation failure modals no longer repeat year after year once recorded.

Starting cash perks from the karma store now reliably apply to wallet cash on new lives.

Toggle in Settings to always pass exams! Perfect for casual players who want to enjoy the story without school stress.

NPCs now show colorful Dating and Engaged badges so you can see their relationship status at a glance!

Status pills now show partner's full name (e.g., "Dating Sarah Smith") and support triplets!

All relationship changes now flow through one centralized system - no more inconsistent states between NPCs.

Game now validates and repairs marriage data every time you load - broken saves self-heal automatically.

NPCs now limited to 2 marriages lifetime with slower relationship progression - more realistic!

Consolidated all NPC/parent relationship logic into single source of truth for consistent behavior.

Maternal maiden name now guaranteed to differ from family surname - no more confusing identical names.

Home screen now shows your actual school level instead of always saying "High School".

Fixed edge case where family members could appear as dating options after complex heir takeovers. Now blocked and auto-repaired.

Fixed game hanging on load for saves that hadn't completed elementary school.

NPCs can now properly divorce after remarrying - no more stuck marriages!

Fixed ring detection during proposals and loading state issues.

Batch marriage reservation system prevents NPCs from getting multiple spouses simultaneously.

New batch dating system validates all dating relationships and repairs broken links automatically.

Can no longer marry siblings, half-siblings, step-siblings, cousins, or ANY family members. New centralized validator blocks all inappropriate relationships.

NPCs can no longer marry multiple people at once. Marriages are now atomic - both NPCs update together.

Fixed the bug where you could end up with 3+ parents after heir takeover. Now properly limited to 0-2 parents.

Heir takeover now deduplicates family BEFORE transformation, preventing grandparents from becoming parents.

Family members no longer appear in your "Meet People" encounters after heir takeover. Your aunts are safe now.

Old saves with corrupted spouse data or array spouseIds are automatically self-healed on load.

When your parent starts dating someone new, they'll introduce you! The partner appears in your acquaintances so you can build a relationship before they become your step-parent.

Parent's partner shows as "Mom's Partner" or "Dad's Partner" in acquaintances. Interact with them before the wedding to build your relationship!

When you play as your heir, your step-parent becomes your step-grandmother or step-grandfather. The relationship you built with them is preserved!

New centralized system uses family tree traversal to detect ALL blood relatives - even distant cousins can't marry anymore.

All 4 marriage paths (player proposal, NPC dating, autonomous pairing, romance modal) now use the same centralized validator.

Step-siblings are now tracked permanently - even after your parents divorce, you still can't marry your former step-siblings.

Post-takeover validation now runs multiple checks: parent count, family uniqueness, no family in encounters, correct generational roles.

If any family tree corruption is detected, the game automatically fixes it and logs warnings for debugging.

Step-grandmother and Step-grandfather now display correctly in family views with proper gender handling.

"Start New Life" button now works properly - you can play again!

Fixed auto-enrollment crash that was blocking middle school transitions.

3-round MMA fights now correctly determine winners.

Choose Academic, Athletic, or Arts focus at age 11! Each specialization gives unique activities and career bonuses.

Same 3 specializations with even bigger bonuses. Stack with middle school for up to +17% salary boost!

Job offers now show exactly how much your private education boosted your starting salary.

Private schools unlock special activities: Math Olympiad, Rowing, Orchestra, Debate Team, and more!

Private school NPCs come from richer backgrounds - better networking!

School interface now shows whether you're attending a public or private school.

See what careers each private school specialization leads to before enrolling.

Pay full private school tuition at enrollment - no annual payments during attendance.

School transfer history now properly tracked and displayed.

Private schools now correctly show "Private" instead of "Public" in selection.

These activity mini-games now load properly instead of showing errors.

Education completion now properly recognizes auto-graduated status.

Your gym name now shows correctly on the leaderboard instead of "Independent".

Cleaner layout with belt colors, W-L records, and knockout stats at a glance.

Bottom nav now allows 6 buttons max. Message shown at top of settings.

Removed confusing time displays (2 hours, 1 day, etc.) from all activities. Just energy cost now!

Fixed bug where you could exercise the same stock options multiple times. Now correctly tracks exercised shares.

Can't afford tuition? Take out a student loan with payments deferred until graduation! Earn scholarships based on your GPA to reduce costs.

New modal lets you choose how to pay for education: cash, scholarship, student loan, or a combination. Student loans now affect your credit score!

Companies now grant stock options when you join! Options vest over time - exercise them when the price is right. Now available for Level 3-4 employees too!

Jobs now come with real benefits! Health insurance discounts, 401(k) matching, parental leave, and employee discounts at career-related shops.

Discover new interests through activities and leveling up skills! Your interests affect compatibility with potential partners.

Shared interests shown as colorful badges on relationship cards. Low compatibility can cause arguments - too many may lead to breakups!

See when you last played each character and their current career right on the selection card.

Every minigame now shows how-to-play instructions before you start!

Modals now properly avoid the Dynamic Island, notch, and punch-hole cameras on all devices.

Studying with more energy gives better grades! School activity XP also increased 5x for meaningful progression.

NPCs now have realistic salaries based on their occupation (100+ jobs supported). Wealth scales properly with age.

Opponents are significantly harder - train up! Sponsorships limited to 2 active with better expiration tracking.

School transfers now celebrate with confetti! Transfer cost removed from notifications.

Partner relationship no longer disappears after having a baby. All relationship statuses preserved during birth flow.

Accounts that were stuck frozen now self-heal properly. Salary deposits work on frozen/locked accounts.

Fixed incorrect student loan repossession during age-up.

If you work in healthcare, your employee discount now correctly applies to medical treatments.

Fixed multiple errors that could cause crashes during age progression.

Fixed mastery level never advancing. Budget Catch game now plays continuously.

Fixed false marriage status when an NPC marries someone else.

Stock options now properly granted when accepting job offers.

Tap your health stat to instantly open the doctor view - no more navigating through menus!

Energy drinks now show how your current diet affects their effectiveness.

See your energy level while at school with a visual progress bar near activities.

Ages 6-12 now have appropriate social options: Play Together, Share Toys, Help with Homework, and more!

Event outcome popups redesigned with category-based theming and improved grammar.

Division-based opponent difficulty, proper energy consumption for fights, skill-based contract negotiations, and full 14-fight seasons.

Draws now count in standings, fight earnings persist correctly, and miss penalties apply properly.

School activity XP increased 5x for meaningful progression. Energy now contributes to GPA with 1.5x multiplier.

Random tips are now clickable! Tap a tip to navigate directly to the relevant screen and selection.

Karma points now always visible in Character Stats and loads your actual account balance (not just current game).

Medical consultations and maintenance payments now withdraw from multiple bank accounts if needed.

Expanded baby name pool and prevents duplicate sibling names.

Fixed NPCs showing married to wrong people. New validation system auto-repairs broken marriages on load.

Can no longer accidentally date or marry siblings, half-siblings, or step-siblings. Proper incest prevention.

All NPCs now age properly during player age-up, not just some arrays.