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Poking Water Games · Published by Poking Water Games
Very Positive — 88% positive (314 reviews) · 38 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
A money-focused life simulator. Create characters with allergies and addictions. Manage their lives through financial booms and busts. Advance their careers, start a small business, invest in real estate and stocks - or roleplay a penniless hobo.
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RPG, Simulation, Strategy · 2025 · More £5 - £15 games
In This Grand Life 2, craft unique characters with allergies and addictions, guiding them through economic booms and busts. Manage their careers, invest in real estate, or let them become penniless hobos in this 2025 RPG from Poking Water Games.
About this game
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.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows XP
- Processor: 2.0 GHz or faster processor
- Memory: 500 MB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 / AMD Radeon HD 7400G / NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 or better graphics card with OpenGL 3.3 and later support
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Update Notes For v1.03.17
This update lets you suggest your own policies. Note if you are playing an existing saved game (and have unlocked the endgame), the option will only become available at the next voting cycle.In addition, if you push any current proposal's support low enough, it can be removed from the agenda. This will open up another slot for you to suggest a new policy during the same voting cycle.Version 1.03.17Add checkbox to Birthday window and Character Sheet for disabling Birthday windowAdd ability for player to suggest a policy each voting cycleAdd slider for player to set percentage of influence points to spend each monthReduce randomly proposed policies each voting cycle from 5 to 4Reduce chance a policy is selected for repealMonthly summary item for newly enacted/repealed policies can be clicked to open the Policy viewUpdate proposed policy help button with new informationFix keyboard shortcut to open Household Financial Statement stopped workingRead full article on Community Announcements (PokingWaterGames)Patch NotesOfficial
Update Notes For v1.03.09
Fix Birthday window adolescent mood swing reversal cost is higher if saving/reloading the game before accepting the birthday changeRead full article on Community Announcements (PokingWaterGames)Patch NotesOfficial
Update Notes For v1.03.08
As discussed in the previous announcement, the Board Of Directors update is now on the default branch.Version 1.03.08Board Of DirectorsAdd Board Of Directors feature for stock market listed companiesAdd help button for Board Of DirectorsRival clans now have individual members. If the clan owns shares in a listed company, they will support their members for board of director seatsListed company's performance no longer affected by management skill until Board Of Directors are unlockedRemoved Management rating from researched stock information (replaced by new Board Of Directors rating)Other stuffMost UI windows stay open at end of month instead of auto-closing (unless someone dies or household is bankrupted)Overhauled how spreadsheets are handled to be similar to chartsSpreadsheets now update numbers liveAdd interest per month display to Savings Account window and Assets List windowWhen depositing or withdrawing from savings account, leave window open until player closes it manuallyAdd checkbox for disabling animations to Options menuAdd tooltip when hovering over charts showing exact values (works for all charts)Add chart showing net worth changes over time (new button on Asset List window)Reworked open chart buttons for more consistent behaviour (clicking button when related chart is already open will close it)Other minor improvements to chart displayAdd debug button for qualified for jobs from hours workedHome Building related activities now generate XP for character when appropriateESC key closes the birthday windowAdd list of active policies to Rivals window Current Policy Effects tabRemove household asset level displayOpening Household Financial Statement does not close some other windows automatically any moreFix missing sound effect when unlocking RivalsFix loading game with expanded Socials window not using correct background imageFix alignment issues on Monthly Summary screen when using non-default UI scalingFix able to add auto actions for purchasing capita...Read full article on Community Announcements (PokingWaterGames)AnnouncementsOfficial
Experimental Branch - Board Of Directors
This update overhauls the management system for companies listed on the stock market. There are quite a few interconnected parts to this change so it will be on the Experimental Branch for a while before releasing to the main branch.To access the Experimental Branch:Right-click the game in your Steam library -> "Properties" -> "Game Versions & Betas" select "experimental".Board Of DirectorsThe Board Of Directors guide a company's direction and will affect its performance over time. It's comprised of up to 5 members from either rival families or from your household. These members are elected every 2 years.You can nominate your household characters to the board if you own enough of the company's shares. If elected, your character will passively generate influence points. Their skills will also contribute positively or negatively to the board's overall performance.During election months, board nominees are ranked according to a variety of factors - their related experience, personal popularity, household or rival support, and share price performance since the last election.This means it's not always the most competent people elected to the board! As an example, if the economy crashes leading to a stock price collapse, the current board will have a negative offset to their ranking at the next election. Perhaps that means it's a good time to nominate your own less experienced family member, and use your owned shares to push them higher up the rankings.Other ChangesThere are other changes too, like some UI windows staying open at end of month instead of auto-closing. This is a bit of a risky one since I originally coded things assuming all windows would be closed at the end of the month, please let me know if you see any inconsistencies.Charts now have a tooltip when you hover over them showing exact values:And there is a new chart on the Assets List for examining your net worth changes over time:Read full article on Community Announcements (PokingWaterGames)Patch NotesOfficial
Update Notes For v1.02.18
Fix performance review popup's minimum performance not matching job site's minimum performance at start of monthFix performance review popup not accounting for increased minimum performance when asking for a pay raiseRead full article on Community Announcements (PokingWaterGames)
