Games like This Grand Life 2
If This Grand Life 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are This Grand Life, Timeflow – Life Sim and Cyber Prison Management — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its business empires scale unpredictably, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About This Grand Life 2: 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.

Players who liked This Grand Life 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into This Grand Life 2 also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
This Grand Life
WHY THIS
Shares time management and a contemplative mood with This Grand Life 2.
Top pick for This Grand Life 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with This Grand Life 2.
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.
Timeflow – Life Sim
WHY THIS
Shares time management and a contemplative mood with This Grand Life 2.
Second-strongest match for This Grand Life 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
This game will make you rich! Learn the basics of investment and life management. Your goal is to make your dream come true. You can make a career, buy real estate, run business, trade stocks, become a blogger, or make a fortune on an art market. Study, network, and plan your time for all of it.
Cyber Prison Management
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for This Grand Life 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
You are tasked with managing 8 prisoners in a flying space prison for 30 days with your camera system. You’ll need to manage the stock market, hostile ships, and keep prisoners in line. Or play as one of the prisoners, hiding and trying to escape. But be careful - danger is always around the corner.
Urban Entrepreneur
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for This Grand Life 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!
Big Ambitions
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with This Grand Life 2.
Ranked #5 for This Grand Life 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for This Grand Life 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Simulator of an 80s Japanese stock market businessman. Chill, catch a retro vibe and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.
News Tower
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with This Grand Life 2.
Ranked #7 for This Grand Life 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
Tropico 7
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for This Grand Life 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Get rich or die trying! In Tropico 7, you step into El Presidente’s shiny boots again to build your island nation and – literally – move mountains. As glorious leader you guide your loyal citizens (and your Swiss Bank Account) through the ages toward untold prosperity.
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The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with This Grand Life 2.
Reviewers of This Grand Life 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
The Sims™ 3
WHY THIS
Reviewers of This Grand Life 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with This Grand Life 2.
Reviewers of This Grand Life 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of This Grand Life 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Simulator of an 80s Japanese stock market businessman. Chill, catch a retro vibe and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below This Grand Life 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under This Grand Life 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under This Grand Life 2 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with This Grand Life 2.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under This Grand Life 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with This Grand Life 2.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under This Grand Life 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with This Grand Life 2.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under This Grand Life 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with This Grand Life 2.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under This Grand Life 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under This Grand Life 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under This Grand Life 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with This Grand Life 2.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with This Grand Life 2.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with This Grand Life 2.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with This Grand Life 2.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
The Test: Secrets of the Soul 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with This Grand Life 2.
You will answer questions that will reveal things deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to once again unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
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More from Poking Water Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Poking Water Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
This Grand Life
WHY THIS
Shares time management and a contemplative mood with This Grand Life 2.
Another title from Poking Water Games, the studio behind This Grand Life 2. Shares Simulation and RPG with This Grand Life 2.
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.
Tribe Of Pok
WHY THIS
Another title from Poking Water Games, the studio behind This Grand Life 2. Shares Strategy and Simulation with This Grand Life 2.
Tribe Of Pok is a tribal survival strategy game featuring a deeply simulated environment. You manage a tribe of hunter-gatherers, helping them survive and thrive in a savage world.
Pawsecuted
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with This Grand Life 2.
Another title from Poking Water Games, the studio behind This Grand Life 2. Shares Strategy and RPG with This Grand Life 2.
A brutal, slightly absurd tactical survival RPG. Play a rabbit escaping a koala-run convict camp in a procedurally generated, post-human apocalyptic world. Battle emus and hire kangaroo mercenaries. Scavenge supplies, gather and trade materials, recruit followers and rebuild society.
Frequently asked about This Grand Life 2
- Does This Grand Life 2 run on Steam Deck?
- This Grand Life 2 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does This Grand Life 2 cost?
- This Grand Life 2 is listed on Steam at 13.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to This Grand Life 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside This Grand Life 2 are This Grand Life, Timeflow – Life Sim, Cyber Prison Management.
- Who developed This Grand Life 2?
- This Grand Life 2 was developed by Poking Water Games.
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