This Grand Life 2
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.
Achievements
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Forbidden Love
0.1%Have a same-sex couple legally married in a city where it's illegal

Robin Hood
0.4%In one game, sell $20,000 USD worth of Corporate Secrets and spend $10,000 USD on Donate To Charity

Opposites Attract
0.4%Have two characters with less than 25% compatibility fall in love

Futures Genius
1.3%Make a futures trade that doubles your initial margin investment

Pressure Cooker
1.4%Have Shareholder Activism active on a stock market company when it performs a desperate act or goes into bankruptcy

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.