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.
Planned 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.
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/2459490/extras/20230601_UIALayoutSmall.png?t=1686103787\)
- 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.
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/2459490/extras/20230601_PreferenceSmall.png?t=1686103787\)
- 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.
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/2459490/extras/20230601_StatusSmall.png?t=1686103787\)
- 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. Retail jobs might pay higher wages while energy prices are decreasing at the same time.
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/2459490/extras/20230601_UIDashSmall.png?t=1686103787\)
- Be A Business Owner - Start your own small businesses. Hire workers, run it as a family enterprise, or do all the jobs yourself.
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/2459490/extras/20230601_FirmJobsSmall.png?t=1686103787\)
- 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.
![](https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/2459490/extras/20230601_StockResearchSmall.png?t=1686103787\)
- 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.