This Grand Life
Skip · RPG · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 1h 12.9h to 100%
- Value
- $11.99/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 239 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
A life simulator that leans heavily into the personal finance aspect. Pay taxes, take out mortgages, trade stocks, buy real estate, start businesses, or grind your way to victory as an employee.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 61 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 44 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Timeflow – Life Sim ($14.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Football Life Simulator ($19.99, scores 11).
More about This Grand Life
The main story runs 1 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 13 times as long.
The drop-off
84% start to 7% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 08:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I played a game as a Cat called Dan D Lions, who was born behind a dumpster in Sydney, Australia. I became a Janitor Cat for a Corporation, working up to Paralegal Office Cat in dressy clothes. I worked too hard and got committed after going crazy from stress. It's a fun story generator and life sim. It is a bit monotonous clicking so much, but there is definitely method behind the madness. You do genuinely have to...
2 more reviews
Tons of fun for those who like games that incorporate a stock market and business aspect. I've never played the game Capitalism Plus but I have played a variety of trading and business-oriented games (Star Traders, Plutocracy, Patrician). This game incorporates a bit of sim-style management of your character's progress which sets it apart from the other aforementioned titles. Fun game and it has plenty of mods and...
really great game that involves time and money. lots of different career paths including starting your own business, investing your hard earned money in the market, clothes, possessions, or even the housing market. you even have to pay taxes, just like real life. 9/10 foot hairs, recommend to all friends
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
This Grand Life scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/695600/this-grand-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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.