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Is Growing Up worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who enjoy life-simulation games with long-term character progression
- Story-focused players who want relationship choices and multiple endings
- Players who prefer managing schedules, skills, school activities, and careers
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a tightly focused story confined to one stage of life
- Players who prefer direct action over scheduling, exams, skill development, and relationship management
- Players looking for a game centered on a single location rather than city exploration
Our take on Growing Up
The coming-of-age framing understates the scope: the game continues through parenthood and into the next child's life. Its many systems also make it a life-management game, not only a branching personal story.
What is Growing Up?
Growing Up follows a character from toddlerhood through adulthood, parenthood, and the life of a child in the next generation.
Players choose activities, study, build skills, manage daily schedules, explore more than 30 city locations, and develop friendships or romantic relationships. Choices affect the narrative, future career, partner, available locations, characters, and some features of a future offspring. The game includes exams, extracurricular activities, a mind-focused mini-game, character customization, room changes, and more than 200 skills leading toward 42 careers. Its branching story includes multiple endings and 19 characters with stories that develop alongside the player's life.
How Growing Up plays
- 01Generational Life Cycle
- The playable story continues from adulthood into parenthood and the life of the next child.
- 02Branching Life Paths
- Choices can change relationships, story outcomes, careers, locations, characters, and aspects of a future offspring.
- 03Skill-Based Careers
- More than 200 skills can be learned and developed toward 42 different careers.
- 04City Exploration
- The 1990s setting contains more than 30 locations to visit.
- 05Character Relationships
- The game includes 19 characters whose relationships can become romantic or remain platonic.
- 06Daily Scheduling
- Players organize daily activities alongside school, exams, and extracurricular pursuits.
- 07Character Customization
- Clothing, hairstyles, and room appearance can change as the character develops.
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Growing Up: platforms & release
Is Growing Up worth it?
It is worth it if: players who enjoy life-simulation games with long-term character progression. Skip it if: players seeking a tightly focused story confined to one stage of life.
Where can I download Growing Up?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Growing Up's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Growing Up on?
Windows and macOS.
