Life Makeover Shrine
What is Life Makeover?
Life Makeover is a chinese gacha dress-up game developed by Archosaur Games. If you're familiar with the Nikki franchise phone game installments, Shining Nikki and Love Nikki - you'll know exactly what type of game this is, because it's kind of a rip-off! From the UI, to the way the gacha functions, to the events - more or less it's the same thing. Except... I like how it looks like better! And it has a way better, and completely free character customization aspect. For the past 6 months 2 years, I've been playing this game daily, so I figured I should have a place where I'll talk about it endlessly.
The Shining Nikki image was taken from this TheGamer article
The main goal of this game is to create your own character and dress her up! There's also a story line in which your character is a private detective solving random mysteries.
While there's a wide variety of clothes available to you, there's a few running themes - namely sparkly, girly, fantasy, historical, mythical and lolita. Trust, there is no shortage of frills, bows, butterflies and roses. Gacha sets tend to be more intricate and lean towards fantastical themes, while free event outfits tend to be more real world inspired.
The game is filled with random features such as a really good photo studio feature with a wide variety of backgrounds, poses and ingame photo editing options. You can even take pictures with friends or with another one of your characters! There's a house system that's getting better by the day, but I personally don't enjoy it that much. Aaaand there's also a pet system too if you're into that, there's a whole subcommunity of dedicated pet breeders.
Be aware though, this is a game that requires your money to be enjoyed fully. Even though it's possible to be a f2p player, saving up gems will be an incredibly long process that will likely result in you losing interest. Because of that, I have a hard time recommending it to people.