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This Grand Life

Poking Water Games · 2018-04-17

Steam

IndieRPGSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 23, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

0
playing now
75%
positive of 240 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 48% of 18,324 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.0k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 240 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.39 at Steam (2023-12-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$5.992017-10-242026-08-032017-10-24 — best price $9.992018-08-02 — best price $14.992019-01-03 — best price $11.992019-11-04 — best price $11.992020-04-14 — best price $9.962020-06-04 — best price $9.962020-06-23 — best price $11.992020-07-11 — best price $11.992020-07-31 — best price $11.992020-08-18 — best price $11.992020-09-10 — best price $10.792020-10-08 — best price $11.992020-11-06 — best price $11.992020-11-24 — best price $11.992020-12-14 — best price $10.082021-01-01 — best price $10.082021-01-19 — best price $11.992021-02-05 — best price $8.992021-02-26 — best price $10.082021-03-16 — best price $10.082021-04-05 — best price $10.082021-04-24 — best price $10.082021-05-12 — best price $10.082021-05-30 — best price $10.082021-07-29 — best price $8.992021-11-02 — best price $8.992021-12-28 — best price $8.992022-03-28 — best price $7.792022-06-24 — best price $7.192022-09-12 — best price $11.992023-05-07 — best price $8.992024-01-14 — best price $9.492024-07-31 — best price $11.992025-03-13 — best price $5.992025-12-18 — best price $5.992026-08-03 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPGFunnyEconomyLife SimSurvivalEducationCapitalismManagementOpen World

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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