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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 Net Worthless — 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.

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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.

2025StrategySimulationRPG13.49 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Poking Water Games
This Grand Life 2 — Steam game cover
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Automation features for passive incomeBuilding and scaling businesses to empireBusiness empires scale unpredictablyChallengingContemplativeFunny

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.

  1. 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.

    2018IndieSimulationRPG5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Net Worthless

    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.

    A satirical life-and-money sim. One turn is one month: budget your hours, work the job, ride the market, outlive inflation and your own decisions. Pick a character and make their dream come true. Or at least don't die trying.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Celebria

    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.

    From movie star to music icon, you run the show in Celebria. Guide your entertainer through landing roles, releasing music, touring the world, climbing global charts, chasing prestigious awards, and running a celebrity brand, all while navigating the pressures of fame.

    2026StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  5. Cyber Prison Management

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 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.

    2023StrategySimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Writer Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for This Grand Life 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with This Grand Life 2.

    Become a bestselling author in Writer Tycoon! Write books, grow your fanbase, and dominate the publishing industry. Track sales, manage multiple books at once, and adapt to trends. Will you create literary masterpieces or chase quick cash? Become a bestselling author and leave your mark!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Beat The Machine

    WHY THIS

    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.

    Beat the Machine is a stock trading game, corporation simulator, and job/career simulator.

    StrategySimulationEarly AccessSteam ↗
  8. Real Estate Investor

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for This Grand Life 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with This Grand Life 2.

    Real Estate Investor is a deep, turn-based economic simulation focused on realistic property investing. Hunt for bargains, haggle over the price, and turn run-down flats into a thriving portfolio. Sign the deed, collect the rent, quit the rat race and become a property millionaire.

    2027SimulationSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to This Grand Life 2

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. 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.

    2020AdventureSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2011Simulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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.

    2023IndieSimulationEarly Access9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below This Grand Life 2 at current Steam store prices.

  1. 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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under This Grand Life 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with This Grand Life 2.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine

    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.

    Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.

    2023StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗

More from Poking Water Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Poking Water Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. 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.

    2018IndieSimulationRPG5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulationDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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.

    2023StrategyRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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, Net Worthless.
Who developed This Grand Life 2?
This Grand Life 2 was developed by Poking Water Games.

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