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This Grand Life 2

This Grand Life 2

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.

Released Aug 8, 2025 Developer Poking Water Games Platforms Windows SimulationCapitalismEconomyTime ManagementLife Sim
View on Steam ↗ $17.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-15.

88.5%positive312 reviews
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“The community is non existent, the discord is dead and there's only a handful (about 86 mods total) but its a pretty fun game overall”

— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Game gets boring after you makes lots of money, but overall great experience”

— a player, Steam review · 76 hrs played
Not recommended · 8 found this helpful

“Played the demo and was just too intrigued to not pick it up at a discount despite my reservations at this being a bit of a dead game at this point (no new major updates and a very quiet community). For a money-focused game it’s very rough around the edges and there is no detail…”

— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.

374all-time peak
0 100 200 2025 2026 108 avg · Aug 2025

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

38achievements
11.8%median completion
0.2%rarest: Forbidden Love
51.1% of players 47.2% of players 41.8% of players 38.3% of players 32.6% of players 30.6% of players 29.5% of players 27.6% of players 25.5% of players 22.4% of players 21.1% of players 20.0% of players 19.2% of players 19.2% of players 19.1% of players 17.8% of players 17.7% of players 17.0% of players 15.7% of players 11.8% of players 11.7% of players 10.5% of players 9.4% of players 9.0% of players 8.6% of players 8.0% of players 7.8% of players 5.9% of players 4.9% of players 4.7% of players 4.5% of players 4.0% of players 2.3% of players 1.7% of players 1.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.2% of players 51.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
51.1%Learner — Complete an education course
47.2%I Feel Things — Have 3 different status effects at once on one character
41.8%Education Loan — Take out an education loan
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%Forbidden Love — Have a same-sex couple legally married in a city where it's illegal
0.5%Robin Hood — In one game, sell $20,000 USD worth of Corporate Secrets and spend $10,000 USD on Donate To Charity
0.5%Opposites Attract — Have two characters with less than 25% compatibility fall in love

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-13. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$17.99current · sampled 2026-09-26 21:12 UTC
$12.59lowest since tracking began2026-09-07
US17.99 USD
EU17.49 EUR
UK14.99 GBP
Australia26.50 AUD
Canada23.49 CAD
Japan2,000 JPY
Brazil54.99 BRL
China68.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$10 Brazil Japan Canada US Australia UK EU≈$20

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 08-13 08-21 08-31 09-08 09-17 09-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 14, 2026
Update Notes For v1.03.22

When an employee quits, display their monthly wage and hours in the Monthly Summary window Stock Market add option to sort by Earnings Per Share (%) Shift-click on scroll buttons jumps 5 pages (applie

Apr 28, 2026
Update Notes For v1.03.17

This update lets you suggest your own policies. Note if you are playing an existing saved game (and have unlocked the endgame), the option will only become available at the next voting cycle. Add chec

Mar 28, 2026
Update Notes For v1.03.09

Fix Birthday window adolescent mood swing reversal cost is higher if saving/reloading the game before accepting the birthday change

Mar 23, 2026
Update Notes For v1.03.08

As discussed in the previous announcement , the Board Of Directors update is now on the default branch. Version 1.03.08 Board Of Directors Add Board Of Directors feature for stock market listed compan

Mar 15, 2026
Experimental Branch - Board Of Directors

This update overhauls the management system for companies listed on the stock market. There are quite a few interconnected parts to this change so it will be on the Experimental Branch for a while bef

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.

GenresRPG, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsSimulation · Capitalism · Economy · Time Management · Life Sim · Tactical RPG · Sandbox · Character Customization · Moddable · Management · Choices Matter · RPG (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil
Achievements38
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows XP Processor: 2.0 GHz or faster processor Memory: 500 MB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 / AMD Radeon HD 7400G / NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 or better graphics card with OpenGL 3.3 and later support Storage: 2 GB available space