THE GAME OF LIFE 2

THE GAME OF LIFE 2

Skip · Multiplayer · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 46, under the fair line, at $12.49.

Reviews
78% positive
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Price
$12.49
as of Oct 1
Reviews
78%
4,643 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: DirectX 10 class GPU [1280 x 720], 604 MB of storage. Windows only.

The official sequel to the hit board game played by 50 million fans! The Game of Life 2 adds vibrant 3D animation and brand-new choices in every turn. Customise your peg, spin the spinner and build your best life!
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

What we assumed
  • Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
Holding it back
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
MonetizationIn-app purchases
Steam lists in-app purchases and nothing more is known, so a small haircut
For context
Refunds36 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

July 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $3.74. It has been discounted 58 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Just Go ($5.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Ticket to Ride® ($14.99, scores 19).

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 36 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 155 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 862 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

The drop-off

66% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

40 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 17:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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THE GAME OF LIFE 2 scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1455630/the-game-of-life-2
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMarmalade Game Studio Ltd
PublisherMarmalade Game Studio Ltd
GenreMultiplayer
Released2020
Achievements10