For a text based game with bits of real porn thrown in this game is absolutely amazing. I won't lie, it's definitely a bit grindy. And it takes a bit of time to advance things. But there are cheats to help with some of the grindy-ness included by the devs. 

This game also caters to many different fetishes, and leaves it up to you which to pursue. 

Sadly tts not yet completed, and most of the content is being added in stages. But as it stands it's still a lot of fun. I can't wait to see what get's added as time goes. 

It blows my mind how this game went from a RPG CHYOA to an EA 'lesbians are the bestest thing ever!!!' pigeon-holed type of game. It's absolutely no wonder why the best developers and mod creators abandoned this project. I just can't with this 'game' anymore. Y'all have fun.

I have played it for more than 10 hours and I never jerked off to it. This game is not porn like other games where you are in for some quick session, this is a true Life Simulation game for a girl. And it is quite marvellous. You have to care about your periods and cycle. You have to take care of condoms, pills. pregnancy test, and other things. Yes you can skip them altogether like me and many other players by becoming succubus but they are here.

You can get married, have child, have incest, have multiple freaking incest babies, become a Dominatrix, sub, or even a Switcher. You can model, train for modelling, sing in streets, upload your performance to YouTube kind of, perform live stream, and many more things I have not found. There are 3 Main areas in the game, 1 City, 1 Town, and one villiage with another smaller one. Each of them have their own characters and stories. You can even spend hours by not triggering a simple event because you never tried for it so  you will have to go to wiki to find ways to trigger some interesting events.

There is no fixed starting point but there are three general storyline. First is a normal girl, then we have a girl who found mystical beings, then we have a boy or man turned into girl due to mystical beings. Third one introduces magic fastest and is quite logical. For each of these points you have 3 time stamps or three variations on top of it, first start at school, then after school, and then at university. So in total 9 different beginnings. 

But if this is your first gameplay go to School starting, it is tiring but quite interesting. It was fun to see the world how a teenage girl may look. There are gossips, popularity contests, people trying to prey on the MC, MC trying to corrupt innocent people (For example I got a girlish boyfriend from school and he has small dick, maybe 3-4 inches, and crossdressed him and peg him every day. Another example is that as a Succubus I corrupted an innocent girl, I also corrupted stepfather and little brother so that I can have sex with them and replenish Succubus hunger when I want as Succubus can not even get pregnant so what's the harm). There are many things to do in School, you can be Nerd Queen to Beauty Queen, to Bimbo Queen of the school or just become invisible presence.

This is a solid 10/10 game. It is not erotic by any means but it allowed me to see the world from the viewpoint of women. Honestly after playing this people on this site who are only crazies for Sissy and M2F will learn how tiring the life of women are. They have to shower, shave, massage, use moisturizer, brush, and put cosmetics, all of them take time and if you don't do it you will lose attractive points. Of course after becoming Succubus it is easier, due to innate succubus charm lowest I have gone to is 9/10 attractive scale and a single shower can easily push the leve to beyond 10 or attractive state beyond max limit of 200. Overall due to so many things I had to do in this game like using tampon and looking for outfits and managing budgets I have come to appreciate the efforts of women. I liked Sissyfication as a form of corrupting Men into Women but it is not easy as a women, yes women are beautiful but there is a price attached to the beauty we Men don't really see and honestly this price is tiring, very tiring if I am this tired from only a game.

If you are searching for a more erotic game but with more Open World type go to Clean Slate where some things are done better. Clean Slate is not life sim like this. There is only 1 City, things are not on the scale of Girl Life but there are more erotic elements and real super powers to fly and even become a Vampire with real power. For example Succubus in Girl Life is not that powerful Some scenes. But if you become a Servant of a Vampire Clean Slate transforms, if you go into day and roam around your mood will worsen due to sun and even get skin rashes due to long exposure. In indoors and during night you are very powerful, you are able to hypnotize people, get their money, feed on them, and toss them away. You can even make the women bullying you into your slave and many more things. Overall Clean Slate and Girl Life are both big Open World Games, Girl Life is becoming a full fledged life simulator and Clean Slate is becoming Open World Erotic Adventure game with a lot of elements like having portal to parallel universes, mystical beings like gods and demons, there is full fledged satan in the game and many more things to enjoy.

Personally I like Clean Slate better but Girl Life is above and beyond it in the scale and Life Sim elements. There is no better Girl Life Simulator game than this one in the entire history of humanity, it is actually quite scary and commendable to see so many perverse minds gatherering and creating one of the monumental game in human history which only a few will have chance to play. If anything play this game for 3-4 hours and see the world like a women does, you will not become a feminist but you will come to appreciate them more. 

the game crashes every time I choose to start

I've played this game for years on and off, and it's probably one of the best life sims I've come across. If you don't like life sim games, however, then it's not for you (kind of like it clearly isn't for some of the other reviewers). 

You can do almost anything in Girl Life - build whatever life you want. You can be an A+ student dedicated to volleyball and to to university on a scholarship. You can turn tricks and live on the streets, or you can become a model. Pornstar, stripper, masseuse, retail employee, singer, dancer, dedicated D&D player... there's really no limit to what you can do here. And there is an immense amount of content to sift through (a decent amount of it specific to certain jobs and paths, so experiment). I really don't know what some of the other reviewers were playing, to be honest. From platonic relationships to romantic interests and a ton of locations across multiple cities/locations, and you'll have to play quite a bit before you run out of things to see. 

With all of that said, as I mentioned above, this is a life sim. You simulate life. You buy clothes (if you want - you start with some, too), eat, shower, and sleep. If you're spending all of your time grinding, you're missing out on a lot of content. It's not difficult at all to eat breakfast, do your own thing all day long, get back home around midnight, eat, and sleep. This takes like a real-world minute to get through. Play the game as a sandbox RPG and skip consistent work or school schedules, or use the cheat menu to turn off things like hunger and sleep. You choose between multiple starts, too, including one that removes you from school entirely if you so choose. 

As far as development goes, I've been following this game for many years. There are new releases frequently (every few months or so) as well as a modding community with even more content. It can be difficult to find all of the information about all characters and outcomes simply because the game is massive, and once you're through the native-written English language content, you'll find even more in machine translated Russian. Don't worry, though - this isn't a game where there's one scene of native-written English content (I'm not sure how to write this, so please excuse me - I'm not trying to be offensive) and 90% of the rest of the game is machine translated. You're looking at hundreds of scenes and dozens of characters with content that reads fluidly. 

If you have time to sink into a game and enjoy role play, you might love this game. If you're looking for something to get you off in five minutes or less, you'll likely be disappointed. The game rewards exploration. It's not a text-based game like Newlife... it's something else entirely.