About This GameThis Grand Life is a personal finance simulator where you create a character, manage their money and help them achieve their life goals. Cruise your way through life with a silver spoon, or struggle endlessly to find employment as a convicted felon. You cannot control your past, but you can change your future. What choices will you make?Inspired by Sierra's 1990 game Jones In The Fast Lane, your life is divided into weeks. You try to accomplish as much as you can each week while economic conditions and special events create interesting choices to think about. Do I go to work this week, or take part in the Hot Dog Eating competition at the park? Should I spend time looking for a better job, or stick with my current job until economic conditions improve? Current Features:
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I think the game could be a lot better but it's very possible I just don't know it well enough to know better. I don't think I can recommend this game as it stands. But I was really hoping to. Update: I have now completed all the achievements for the game and can affirm my original assessment to not recommend this game. The daily grind can be fun but quickly can be monotonous and worse, it gets progressively easier. There are very little challenges in the late stages of the game. Once you acheive financial independence, success is inevitable. Another frustration is that you can simply choose to be anti-social and save yourself from the troubles of marriage and/or kids. You definitely can choose not to have kids because there is no sex drive in the game. There is also little randomness to the game, the notable exception is that theft can be a possibility but you can basically only be sick if you are unhealthy. Again, this is pretty easy to handle provided you don't go after a relationship. Bottom line, This Grand Life attempts at a life simulator that isn't an overbearing micro-manager but I think the developer missed the mark with that balance. There is a whole lot of nuance to our life's decisons and this simulator is too broad for my tastes. Specific criticisms: * Dates take too long and are ridiculously costly. I do get that it's stretched out over a week and is more of a representation of your wealth, but I did not like the optics of it. It's also strange that I have no choice in what I spend my money on?! I'd much rather propose a cheap date and be turned down then be forced into an expensive and time consuming date with a meaningly less secondary character. * There is no real choice is a spouse; one partner is the same as the other. More specifically, spouses could have qualities that benefit or hurt the family. * Spouses should have individual goals that may change. For example, you may want kids, and your spouse may not. If those goals don't match then Yahoo is off limits....except if you have contraception....and then there is a much lower risk of pregnancy - but you both have sex drives, so....choose. Happiness could be affected by how many of the goals are aligned. A house activity would be talk things out provided relationship is good. If relationship is bad, the character would need to work on that before resolving these other issues. *Goals should be permitted to be adjusted every so often. Life changes and often we have to readjust our ambitions. * A limit of four employees is laughable. A second tier of management/sales should be there to pick jobs efficiently. * Your character should dictate the influence of certain activities. For example, my lazy character should really enjoy TV - but as far as I could see, this was a static "variable". * Sex drive should be monitored. The effect of sex should vary with age, marital status, happiness, etc. * There is ZERO negative influence for having more wealth as best I can tell. I think this is problematic and especially so when it concerns happiness of both the character and his/her family. Money doesn't buy happiness.....I admit it helps but it is certainly not the end-all-be-all. * There is no influence of other people outside of family and even that is practically nil. I could probably go on for a while longer. Suffice it to say that while I allowed the game to distract me for far too long, it's a basic but still incomplete life simulator that I cannot recommend. I'll come back to it if I notice a major update but I think I've worn this one out already.. I bought this today and have spent hours playing it. It is a game of balancing your priorities. You're always needing food, which you have to buy either at the grocery store or if you purchase appliances (and they don't get stolen) you can make at home. You're always needing fun. You're always needing health improvements (excersise). You're always needing a shower, because eating, having fun or excersising makes you stink. Manage all that, plus a job. Awkward, but doable. Manage all that, plus a job, plus going to school. More intesting. You can invest your money in the stock market and get some returns from that. Loans are a little odd and it took me a while to figure them out. You borrow money for a property then bid on the property. This can actually save you money sometimes. Being able to rent out properties would be a great feature. Mods definetely make this game 100% better. There's a demo if you want to try it out first. For $10 it is a great game. For $14 it is a ok game. I'm not sure how much playablility it will be in the long run, but it's interesting. . This is not the most pretty of games...BUT...the concept and gameplay is so addictive!! It opens that other side of you that wants to either do something else with your own life. It gets you thinking about how you are already living your life and some things that you can do to change your life. (In the game and in real life) Any one that can not budget or doesnt understand how to spend their money in the real world...this will open your eyes. You can play the game slow and steady with gradual promotions or rush your way to the millions.. Fun little life simulator. Amazing how with poorly times aunt visits, rent payments and your aparment being robbed life can go south real fast. Quite accurate. Serious bit with an update. Started out with No Priviledge points, homeless and unemployed Long grind working in a fast food place and renting a place out Tried to fulfill the health need by having an excercise bike but living in a sketchy part of town meant it was robbed every two weeks. Then got a job as a bouncer for 2 years Proceeded to spend 3 years doing part-time bouncer work whilst studying for a Law diploma After finishing Law diploma I am now working as a Paralegal in the city centre with a Car and wife (as a tip wive's aren't that worth it in the short run as getting engaged and married is quite expenseive and having to keep taking them out on dates so they dont divorce you is a strain enough.) 7/10 - Would pull myself up by my bootstraps again. Probably a lot more fun with mods and if you don't mind a grind its worth a buy.. Better start play "Jones in the Fast Lane" again. It is by far much better... But to the Grand Life... I did want to have it a very long time and waited for a discount. When the lunar sales happened (-35%) I took my chance. Oh and how I am disappointed. Maybe my mistake, that I was/am too much influenced by Jones, and did hope for a "Jones 2.0". But it is maybe Jones 0.5? The graphics are boring and the map is too filled with all. Jones was simple but fun. This is "complex" but no fun. Try Jones (free and legal download), or the demo of this game (I saw it only after I did buy). But please, do not expect too much.... Do you like 1990 Sierra Entertainment's Jones in the Fast Lane? Stick to that. While This Grand Life is clearly inspired by said game, the execution is absolutely awful. Everything from the UI, stat management and graphics feels anarchic and rough around the edges. Even the core gameplay is lacking and a chore to play. It's not fun and it's not ready for release.. A rehash of the 90's classic "Jones in the Fast Lane" - with more faux-realism, but none of the quirky charm. While this game certainly has more content, I found that it doesn't actually change the gameplay loop much, with the result that all the extra "bits" really just slow things down and increase grind without actually adding anything significant to the game. Overall, if I had to go back and re-spend the 10 hours I spent playing this game, I'd probably spend them playing Jones again, rather than this one. That's not to say this one is *bad*, simply that Jones is (imo) better.
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