Life's Playground
SimProse Studios · 2018 · Casual, Simulation, Strategy, Indie, Board Game
PC
Mixed53% · 17
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About Life's Playground
NOTE: Game is 1024x768 resolution (full-screen) and may require small (96 DPI, Win 7) or Normal (100%, Win 8 and up) System Fonts to display properly. Many systems default to this setting. Also, video card settings or apps that artificially force windowed mode or "stretch" the screen may result in display issues. Please verify before requesting support or assuming the game is broken. Thanks!
Life's Playground is the board game with a unique blend of familiar mechanics from Monopoly, Life, PayDay, combined together with a flavor all its own! It's designed to be easy to learn, and yet have many decisions for the player to make to influence the outcome. And each and every game is totally different! Get and quit hundreds of different jobs, go thorugh hundreds of different little life vignettes, and more!
Features:
Life's Playground is the board game with a unique blend of familiar mechanics from Monopoly, Life, PayDay, combined together with a flavor all its own! It's designed to be easy to learn, and yet have many decisions for the player to make to influence the outcome. And each and every game is totally different! Get and quit hundreds of different jobs, go thorugh hundreds of different little life vignettes, and more!
Features:
- Random board generation every game and even every turn around the board! Only the streets stay the same each time.
- Play with 1 to 4 human or CPU controlled players via hotseat, so you can take a trip to the playground of life anytime!
- Unique old-timey music, graphics and feel.
- Play 6 different mini-games, draw from over 200 Fate cards with lots of different outcomes, and use the Fortune Point you acquire any way you like.
- Buy up to 3 randomly generated upgrades for your streets, making your opponents pay more when they land on them!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
very interesting, i like it1 found this helpful
Life’s Playground is a digital board-game simulation developed by SimProse Studios and published by Conglomerate 5 that attempts to capture the spirit of classic tabletop experiences within a retro-styled PC format. Drawing clear inspiration from long-standing family board games centered around careers, finances, and life progression, it blends familiar mechanics—rolling around a board, collecting income, paying expenses, and triggering random events—into a single cohesive experience. Rather than aiming for deep strategy or cinematic presentation, the game positions itself as a light, nostalgia-infused alternative to traditional tabletop sessions. At its core, Life’s Playground revolves around navigating a board filled with job opportunities, street investments, random events, and various financial decisions. Players move from tile to tile, accumulating money, encountering costs, and occasionally gaining bonuses. A large collection of “Fate” cards introduces unpredictability, injecting random twists that can either help or hinder progress. This element of chance is central to the game’s identity, ensuring that no two sessions play out exactly the same way. While strategic decision…
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Someone recreated Monopoly with an early 2000's copy of Microsoft Publisher, which would be charming if it didn't flicker and bug the hell out. My computer tossed up a blurb saying the program wasn't responding three times while i was still actively playing it.
this feels like something i would play randomly looking through a windows 7 laptop that was 7 min and 1$ of my life i will never get back
Run-time error '9': Subscript out of range
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