Escape the Grind

Study around your job - Night classes and courses you take while working no longer cut your pay. You keep your full salary, but studying after work adds a bit of stress each month. - Courses that work this way now say "Keep full pay" or "Paid while you train" on the card. Fixes - Some scenarios started you in a job without the diploma that job needs, so promotions stayed locked even after you fini

Fixes - Studying part-time and a job offer shows up? It's now priced off your full pay, not the half you get while you study. Before, taking one could halve your pay a second time. - "Pay halved while studying" now has a tooltip with the numbers: what you get now and what you get when you finish. - German Region: the study wording now fits degrees, not just vocational training.

Some degrees put you on part-time hours while you study, and a few make you quit your job. Until now the game only told you after you enrolled. - Course cards now show "Pay halved while studying" or "You quit your job" next to the cost. - Enrolling on one of these courses asks first. It shows your pay now, your pay while you study, and the total pay you give up over the duration of your study. Tha

- Playing in a currency that doesn't have its own market yet (Thai baht, Indian rupee, euro, and about 35 others)? if you select those currencies, you are really playing the US market, but with everything converted to that currency. We hope to keep building more regions/markets with time. - In the Career Portal, if you went part time to pursue a degree, if you accepted a new job say right after yo

Finally, the Career Portal is now available across ALL regions! - Over 1,900 careers across ten countries, each built from that country's own jobs, pay, courses and qualifications. - In Play Your Life, you can now search the full career list to find your job, for every country in that country's language. Other fixes: - Selling a rental is now a more realistic process- sell with the tenant in or wa

Lots of players asked for more depth & realism, and here we go!HomesReal listings in every market, priced from local dataMake an offer, get it inspected, and wait for the bankClosing costs are the country-specific: stamp duty in the UK, Grunderwerbsteuer in Germany, frais de notaire in FranceDeals can fall through. In England you can get gazumpedFixed rates end. When yours does, you fix again or t

Career portal is now available in the US version of Play Your Life (PYL) mode! We've also introduced a field in PYL that asks what you do for a living- the magic here is to then surface extremely relevant jobs and courses in the career portal, as opposed to random ones. The goal is you end up getting the same opportunities in-game like you would in real life, allowing you to maximize your earning

Career Portal is here!!!Your income is now something you can control and have more agency over.. The Career Portal adds a live jobs board with job openings, courses and degrees that qualify you for higher paying roles, and promotions and raises that come with time. Apply, interview, and climb from your current job to the executive suite- if you want, and pay for courses/degrees to upskill and hope

When a marriage ends you get a real decision instead of a dice roll. Where the children live, what your country's rules say you owe, and how you actually satisfy it: pay from cash, split a pension, buy your ex out against the home, sell through an agent you choose, or put the sale off until the children are grown.Researched market by market. The US works on income shares and splits a 401(k) by QDR

Japan was showing its mortgage deposit options in Japanese even if you were playing in English. Fixed! Mortgages. The shorter loan term option used to knock the same 0.625% off the rate in every country. Every market now has its own figure that shows the approx different in APY rate if say you choose a 30 year loan v. 15 year loan- and some regions do not give discounted rates if you choose a shor

Play Your Life - A mortgage you already own is now charged as a monthly bill. Previous bug was it was never deducted, so it wrongly paid itself off. - Interest rates now apply correctly. Previous bug was a mortgage entered at 6% was running at 0.06% - Large amounts are grouped as you type depending on your country's format- basically number separators like a comma for every "thousands". Japan - Ho

Play Your Life: - Your entered numbers are used exactly as typed. Every market except the US was converting them a second time, so a 300,000 yen salary started you on 21,000,000. Fixed! - The summary screen before month 1 was scaling those figures again. Fixed! - Going back from that screen could switch your market. Fixed! Auto-invest: - Setting a recurring investment back to zero (after you've ha

🔁 New Feature: Auto-InvestPlayers kept asking: if you can already set up a monthly 401(k) contribution, why not an index fund? Now you can...finally!How it works- Locate the 🔁 row on any savings or investment asset, enter your desired amount, and select Set. The game will automatically purchase that asset every month moving forward without requiring any manual clicks.It cannot put you in debt- Aut

Small follow-up to yesterday's update. Thanks to Adrian Joo and TheDecider for catching them. • Fixed a crash when selling a retirement or tax-free savings account that had grown. This affected every market, including Roth IRA, ISA, TFSA, NISA, Riester, Assurance Vie, Previdência and PPR. • Fixed a crash when pressing Back on a Play Your Life briefing screen. • Fixed the crash screen's own "Reload

Quick fix and an apology. If you started Play Your Life today, filled in your real salary and expenses, and then got asked to pay at the end, that was a bug. Play Your Life is included in the game you bought. There is nothing extra to buy in this release. If you ran into this and closed the game, please give it another go. Steam should update on its own. If it does not, restart Steam. Sorry about