This Grand Life 2
Release date: Aug 8, 2025
Developers: Poking Water Games
Publishers: Poking Water Games
Genres: RPG, Simulation, Strategy
Categories: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Workshop, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English, German, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil

This Grand Life 2 seeks to answer the question, 'What would life be like as a ____ living in ____?' With a unique character preferences system and an inflation-driven economy, the game simulates the financial experience of different people in the modern world. Features Colony Sim-Style Management - Set priorities for your characters and watch them fulfill their desires. You make the important decisions like where to work, live and study. Character Preferences - Be an ambitious investment banker with a paperwork allergy, or a struggling single parent with a shopping addiction. The unique preferences system offers a variety of 'what-ifs' to play out. Multi-Person Household - Manage multiple characters in one household. Run a bachelor pad, nuclear family, student share house or hobo camp. Multi-Generational - Your characters will age from birth to death and accumulate status conditions as they go through life. Skills and Education - Multiple organic routes to qualify for a job, whether through experience, education or a combination of both. Cycles within cycles - Industries will go through their own booms and busts so consider your options carefully. Manufacturing jobs might pay higher wages while electricity prices are decreasing at the same time. Be A Business Owner - Start your own small businesses. Hire workers, run it as a family enterprise, or do all the jobs yourself. Real Estate - Purchase residential or commercial property and rent it out, live in it, or use it for one of your businesses. Stock Market - Research stocks. Consider industry trends, management competency, price/earnings ratios and other factors before investing. Passions - Embrace a variety of passions like painting, thievery, home building or child adoption. Rivals and Influence - Endgame competitors will support government policy changes in their own interests. Generate your own influence to do the same. Real City Pathfinding - Maps are based on real cities. Travel time depends on actual road and rail networks, as well as obstacles like rivers and mountains. Moddability - Create your own careers, courses, locations, possessions and more. All content designed to be highly moddable.