Everlusting Life on iPhone: The Auto-Chess Gacha the App Store Won't Carry
Search the App Store for Everlusting Life and you will find life simulators, none of them this game. That is not an oversight — it is an adult isekai gacha, and the full build is not something Apple carries in any storefront I checked.
Which leaves a game with a real audience and no official way onto an iPhone.
What it actually is
Two genres bolted together, and the join is the interesting part.
The battles are auto-chess. You assemble a squad, place it on a grid, and the fight resolves on its own — no reflexes involved. Everything is decided before the first hit: who you fielded, where you put them, which synergies you leaned into. Lose a round and the fix is a different formation, not faster fingers.
The rest is an isekai visual novel. You land in a fantasy kingdom, you recruit the companions who fight for you, and you build relationships with them through conversations that unlock more of their story. Progression on the tactics board and progression in the writing are the same track.
Build 6.0.22, updated 20 July 2026.
Why the two halves work together
Auto-chess on its own is a dry genre — it is a spreadsheet you nudge between rounds. Attaching the roster to characters you have actually spent time with gives the formation screen some weight: you are not fielding unit #14, you are fielding someone whose story you are halfway through.
It is the same trick the big gacha titles run, minus the App Store’s content rules, which is precisely why it lives outside them.
Installing on iPhone
From builds.io:
- Open builds.io on the iPhone and sign in.
- Tap GET on Everlusting Life.
- Launch it and let it pull its assets on first run.
No jailbreak and no computer. Adding a first device triggers a one-time Apple processing step: usually inside a day, up to three at the outside, once rather than per install.
After that the install stays signed instead of dying on a seven-day clock. For a game whose whole point is a roster you build over weeks, that is the difference between playing it and reinstalling it — the mechanics are in why sideloaded apps stop working after 7 days.
Worth knowing
It is 18+, and it means it. The content is the reason there is no App Store version. Do not install it on a device a child uses.
It is still a gacha. Pulls, banners, timers, the usual loop. Installing it from here gets you the uncensored build — it does not turn off the economy.
Progress is local to the app. Deleting it deletes the roster you rolled for.
If this is the corner of the catalog you were looking for, the wider list is in 18+ anime & fantasy games for iPhone, and Chronicle of Immortals is the closest neighbour to this one.
Sources: genre, feature list and build number from the catalog entry (version 6.0.22, 20 July 2026); App Store absence checked against the US and UK storefronts on 18 August 2026.