This Grand Life 2

My Steam library is full of massive, high-budget games, yet I’ve spent more time in this glorified spreadsheet than all of them combined. I’ve been playing since Early Access, and I’m now convinced the solo dev knows more about my financial habits than my bank. It looks like a simple life sim, but it’s really a masterclass in financial planning—somehow making a 40-year mortgage or choosing between a Roth IRA and a small business loan genuinely fun. My only complaint? My in-game character is way better at managing money than I am.

This would be a very promising Early Access game. Instead its a swing-and-a-miss of a full release. Nothing gives you enough information, and what information there is isn't always in a very intuitive place. A simple financial profile? Nope, just some basics, and thats in a different place to your stocks/shares. What about utilities breakdown? Time/cost analysis of public transport vs robotaxi? I have tinnitus; how do i get that treated? How do i see how much floorspace my owned items are taking up (i cooked one too many meals for my storage space, which resulted in my fridge being stolen because it was left on the street!). Also, more critically, for a Time Management game you have nowhere near enough info or control over your time management. Rimworld has faaaar more, and this game has no excuse for not at least being on par (surely it should be better). Take sleeping; it happens in 40hr chunks. A single bed is lvl1 and a double bed is lvl2; what different does that make to my ...

Im really surprise about the reviews on this one. Looks really cool so i bought it right away. But after being lost in the UI and having one of the worst tutorial i have ever seen i give up. Checked the discussion and its full of people asking question, how to do this? Where is that option? Why my married couple is bugged? So im not alone, the UI is so poorly designed that u gonna end up clicking on everything to finds it. The ai of your character is none, he wont do anything automatic for his needs. Instead, u have a system of priority 1 to 4 THATS IT. U put sleeping and playing games at 1? Hes gonna sleep and play game without eating till his death. Wtf

Don't have a single negative thing to say about this game. It's just an absolute throwback to when sim games used to be amazing and not some random unity asset flip BS with no depth. Someone else nailed it by saying it's like The Sims cross with Big Ambitions, there's just so much to it that every single play through will be so different. In the demo I got jailed for 10 years and lost EVERYTHING. In my first year (in the full game) I managed to move to a slightly nicer apartment that I started with, decided to go down the criminal route, whilst working at a car dealership. Things were going quite well, preparing for the grand heist, I could of tried to pull it off sooner but I wanted a better chance at success. Got locked up for 2 year. Got fired from both jobs. Bounced back, still had my apartment thanks to having funds saved up to keep paying the rent whilst inside. Pulled off the heist. Now I have a pilots licence, sold multiple corporate secrets and back up to ...

this was awful. terrible UI, unhelpful tutorial. possibly great idea but poor execution? but the execution was so poor i don't think i got a clear look at the real idea behind it. this is a game for the developer. someone who knows what's going on before they boot it up. not the consumer.

This game is so addictive that it's hard to find time to come up for air to make a review! I never played the first game, but I am quite pleased with this one. It is easy to learn, fast-paced yet long. It can appeal to anyone, but especially minimalistic number crunching nerds who like tediousness. It requires a little micromanagement in the beginning as you are learning. Once you learn how to set not only priorities on actions but also the number of times a day an action occurs, it begins to run on its own. While the game isn't "pretty" like the Sims, the roleplay is very much alive in this game. In the beginning, I was fired from multiple jobs and expelled several times before I learned how it worked. Tips: - Look for a bigger apartment and move before June 2025. You are going to need the space. Ordering pizza all the time is expensive and bad for your health. You'll want a heating surface (IE stove), a fridge, and cooking ingredients. Press SHIFT when you click on cooking in...

If you've ever played The Sims and wished it had less silly poses and deeper mechanics - like long-term stress and health management, or game-defining traits, or a way deeper economic simulation which doesn't make it trivial to top out at making money - this is the game for you. It's a lovely sandbox that's as deep as you want it to be. You can simply roleplay a person living a normal life - get an education, a family, a mortgage, work 9 to 5, and find ways to juggle your money, time, mental state and health. Raise children. Retire. Or you might pursue a passion to rob a bank, struggle to pay the bills while planning the heist, and discover it actually takes a lot to pull it off - and that if you don't, you can get thrown in jail - for *years* of in-game time. Or try to become a billionaire, get into running businesses - and discover a surprisingly deep economic model that makes it very satisfying to actually keep a profitable business empire. Or you can tune up the charact...

The sims but with a focus more on finance. If you're looking for a management game, this is pretty good. I think end game needs more love, and there needs to be more to do once you have fulfilled your characters' needs. Adding more characters to a household is OK I guess but I think the game needs a bit more depth.

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Good premise, but still totally unplayable. Example had one of the family member die, the other all died of a mental break, no matter how much mental therapy they got! Ui needs work to help the user uderstand what is happening, like, i can't tell if my stocks are going up, can't tell how much i'm spending on utilities etc. Random rants: - Tried to get married and never was able to finish the tasks. - Enrolling in compulsory school should be automatic, or have a pop up - Children are born with random traits, never seem to have positive traits, happiness is difficult to understand why it spirals, and difficult to fix. - No idea how to optimize tax - hard to tell what is making me or losing me money