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Is This Grand Life worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Life-simulation players who want money management to shape their characters’ choices
- Strategy-minded players who enjoy balancing weekly activities with long-term goals
- Players interested in careers, property, investing, or running a business within a life simulator
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for a fast-paced experience rather than week-by-week planning
- Players seeking a narrowly focused life story rather than interconnected needs, finances, and career systems
- Players who want a game centered on combat or exploration
Our take on This Grand Life
Instead of centering a life sim on relationships or daily routines, this game makes personal finance a main part of the weekly decision cycle. Work, study, and leisure compete for time, while taxes, debt, investments, and economic shifts influence longer-term plans.
What is This Grand Life?
This life simulator puts personal finances at the center of character-driven play.
Create a character, manage money, and pursue life goals while balancing immediate needs such as hunger, hygiene, and health against longer-term aims including education and wealth. Each week brings choices about work, study, job hunting, or special events, while economic conditions affect employment and investments. The available paths include earning a degree, working in different occupations, borrowing money, trading shares, buying or renting property, and running a business with employees. Traits can give a character advantages or disadvantages at the start. The game also includes collectibles, household possessions, subscription services, and a tutorial. Players can create custom careers, courses, locations, and possessions.
How This Grand Life plays
- 01Weekly Life Structure
- Each turn represents a week, with work and other activities competing for the character’s time.
- 02Personal Finance Systems
- Loans, taxes, investments, inflation, interest rates, and share trading shape money decisions.
- 03Education and Careers
- Degrees, diplomas, and trade-school study provide routes toward some higher-level occupations.
- 04Property and Business
- Properties can be purchased at auction for personal use or rental, while a business can hire workers and take on jobs.
- 05Customizable Content
- Players can create careers, courses, locations, possessions, and other game content.
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This Grand Life: platforms & release
Is This Grand Life worth it?
It is worth it if: life-simulation players who want money management to shape their characters’ choices. Skip it if: players looking for a fast-paced experience rather than week-by-week planning.
Where can I download This Grand Life?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens This Grand Life's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is This Grand Life on?
Windows only.
