Factsheet
- Early Access Release Date: June 20th, 2024
- Developer: Poking Water Games, solo developer based in Sydney, Australia
- On Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2459490
- On Itch.io https://pokingwatergames.itch.io/this-grand-life-2
- Platform: PC
Contact
- Enquiries – enquiries@pokingwatergames.com
- This Grand Life 2 Discord – https://discord.gg/GYZCqe3FpP
Description
A money-focused life simulation. Create characters with allergies and addictions. Manage their lives through financial booms and busts. Advance their careers, start a small business, invest in real estate and stocks – or roleplay a penniless hobo.
This Grand Life 2 seeks to answer the question, “What would life be like as a _ living in _?”
With a unique character preferences system and an inflation-driven economy, the game simulates the financial experience of different people in the modern world.
Features
- Colony Sim-Style Management – Set priorities for your characters and watch them fulfill their desires. You make the important decisions like where to work, live and study.
- Character Preferences – Be an ambitious investment banker with a paperwork allergy, or a struggling single parent with a shopping addiction. The unique preferences system offers a variety of “what-ifs” to play out.
- Multi-Person Household – Manage multiple characters in one household. Run a bachelor pad, nuclear family, student share house or hobo camp.
- Multi-Generational – Your characters will age from birth to death and accumulate status conditions as they go through life.
- Skills and Education – Multiple organic routes to qualify for a job, whether through experience, education or a combination of both.
- Cycles within cycles – Industries will go through their own booms and busts so consider your options carefully. Retail jobs might pay higher wages while energy prices are decreasing at the same time.
- Be A Business Owner – Start your own small businesses. Hire workers, run it as a family enterprise, or do all the jobs yourself.
- Real Estate – Purchase residential or commercial property and rent it out, live in it, or use it for one of your businesses.
- Stock Market – Research stocks. Consider industry trends, management competency, price/earnings ratios and other factors before investing.
- Real City Pathfinding – Maps are based on real cities. Travel time depends on actual road and rail networks, as well as obstacles like rivers and mountains.
- Moddability – Create your own careers, courses, locations, possessions and more. All content designed to be highly moddable.
Images
For the latest in-game screenshots and gifs, please check the Steam page or Itch.io page listed above.