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Aug 8, 2025·91% positive·Hot·
A money-focused life simulator. 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.
Best games like This Grand Life 2
The best games like This Grand Life 2 are This Grand Life, Big Ambitions, Timeflow – Life Sim, Growing Up, and Little Lives. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 91% positive across 257 Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Strategy, RPG, Simulation, platform support for Windows, and $17.99 pricing signal.
- This Grand Life - This Grand Life is strongly similar to This Grand Life 2 because both games are made by Poking Water Games, and both are RPG and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Time Management, Capitalism, Economy.
- Big Ambitions - Big Ambitions is closely similar to This Grand Life 2 because both are Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Management, Economy, Simulation, Capitalism, Life Sim.
- Timeflow – Life Sim - Timeflow – Life Sim is closely similar to This Grand Life 2 because both are Strategy and RPG and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Life Sim, Economy, Time Management.
- Growing Up - Growing Up is closely similar to This Grand Life 2 because both are Strategy and RPG and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Life Sim, Choices Matter, Simulation.
- Little Lives - Little Lives is closely similar to This Grand Life 2 because both are Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Life Sim, Sandbox, Character Customization, Choices Matter, Time Management.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Multi-Person Household - Manage multiple characters in one household. Run a bachelor pad, nuclear family, student share house or hobo camp.
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Multi-Generational - Your characters will age from birth to death and accumulate status conditions as they go through life.
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Skills and Education - Multiple organic routes to qualify for a job, whether through experience, education or a combination of both.
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Cycles within cycles - Industries will go through their own booms and busts so consider your options carefully. Manufacturing jobs might pay higher wages while electricity prices are decreasing at the same time.
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Be A Business Owner - Start your own small businesses. Hire workers, run it as a family enterprise, or do all the jobs yourself.
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Real Estate - Purchase residential or commercial property and rent it out, live in it, or use it for one of your businesses.
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Stock Market - Research stocks. Consider industry trends, management competency, price/earnings ratios and other factors before investing.
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Passions - Embrace a variety of passions like painting, thievery, home building or child adoption.
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Rivals and Influence - Endgame competitors will support government policy changes in their own interests. Generate your own influence to do the same.
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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.
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Moddability - Create your own careers, courses, locations, possessions and more. All content designed to be highly moddable.
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