THE GAME OF LIFE
Skip · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $6.49.
- Length
- 0.6h
- Value
- $10.82/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
THE GAME OF LIFE showcases a beautifully rendered digital game board, cards and spinner that capture the fun of the Classic game full of adventure & surprises! THE GAME OF LIFE will take players on a journey where fortunes can be won…and lost!
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.24, set in November 2019. 82 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Among the games that feel like it, THE GAME OF LIFE 2 ($12.49, scores 46) beats it on value, while it beats Ticket to Ride® ($14.99, scores 19).
This site sampled 715 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 24 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 425 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 927 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.6 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 6.7 times as long.
The drop-off
44% start to 2% rarestNo 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
4 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 02:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Pretty fun and short game, although it is quite repetitive and doesn't require any sort of strategically thinking. The boardgame is much better and if you want some more in depth gameplay THE GAME OF LIFE 2 might be more your speed. I kinda use this version as a tool if I am not sure how many children my sims familys shoul have - essentially this thing really is just a randomizer for me lol.
Seems to crash to desktop on Ryzen systems, or randomly freeze during gameplay if it happens to launch. At least that's what I'm experiencing. Had to idle the game to even post a review, I couldn't even get the game to launch. Faulty product being sold and reporting it using store page asking for a warning that it may not work on modern systems was met, as expected, with silence from Valve. If you have an Intel...
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Cite this score
THE GAME OF LIFE scores 28/100 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/403120/the-game-of-lifeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Oct 1.
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