Life and Debt: A Real Life Simulator

The game is cute, and it's nice that it gets updates. But it's wildly inaccurate and was clearly made by someone with a negative outlook on life. There are a lot of really random and completely unavoidable debts you incur (like your mom sending you a $10,000 medical debt to pay?!) and it's nearly impossible to hold any job for more than a couple weeks. Additionally, the stock market in this game doesn't perform nearly as well as any realistic market. Overall, this is a game that really makes things seem harder than they are in real life.

This game would b great if only they didn't break something every time they fix something. The updates are far and few between and most of the breaks make it unplayable. So you are left waiting for a fix for half a year. And in the mean time you can't play. As of right now the stock market is broken. Scratch tickets are broken. Financeing items is broken. Don't buy until it becomes playable again.

Life and Debt: A Real Life Simulator turns the ordinary financial pressures of adulthood into a compact management game where earning money is only half the challenge. Developed and published by Static City Games, the game begins with the familiar milestone of leaving the family home and attempting to survive independently. Instead of offering an enormous life sandbox, it concentrates on employment, spending, possessions, unexpected events, and the constant struggle to maintain positive cash flow. The result is a deliberately exaggerated interpretation of adult financial responsibility with a humorous personality beneath its numbers. The central gameplay cycle is easy to understand. Players work to generate income and then decide how that money should be used. Everyday purchases compete with the need to preserve financial stability, while the ability to buy household objects creates an amusing temptation to spend simply because something is available. The game even embraces the possibility of becoming an obsessive shopper, making unnecessary consumption part of its comedy. This creates a surprisingly appropriate conflict between immediate gratification and long-term financial secu…

If you want a real life simulator that's not like real life at all, this is the game for you. Pros: - Funny achievement names. - Rent goes up over time, mimicking cost-of-living increases. - Stock market can be lucrative (get in there early and watch it often!). - Lotto scratch-off tickets are like in real life -- you're basically wasting your money. (Except they cost WAY more in the game than you'd spend in real life). Cons: - You're fired. Constantly. Doesn't matter if job security is high or low, or if you're working a job that requires education... expect to be fired anywhere between 7 and 30 days (more commonly between 14 and 30). - If you're fired before payday, you get the pay you are owed. However, if you switch jobs before payday, it seems that you don't get the pay owed (or there was no pop-up stating as such, but it seemed to me that my cash didn't go up at all). So if you want to switch jobs but need the upcoming cash from the current job, time it well against paydays, and hope that the classifieds don't change before you switch. - You can't take on debt to get education. Haven't they heard of student loans? - The same events happen over and over. How many times can y…

This game is still buggy even after the recent updates.

Very poor game.'This Grand Life' is MUCH better.