
Life & Debt: A Real Life Simulator is a 2D pixel art game that challenges players to manage their finances and maintain their cashflow while navigating the challenges of new home ownership. Players must also overcome a shopping addiction and make decisions about how to furnish their home.
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Life & Debt: A Real Life Simulator is a 2D pixel art simulation game that challenges players to manage their finances and maintain their cashflow while navigating the challenges of new home ownership after moving out of their parents' house. Players must also overcome a shopping addiction and make decisions about how to furnish their home. Will you be able to have everything you want or will you end up hoarding clocks and waterbottles?
Features On Full Release
Over 30 items to collect and horde.
Over 60+ different jobs!
Over 80+ Life Events that randomize the gameplay and force you to re-stratigize
Multiple difficulties!
An Original Soundtrack composed by Christoph Gray, the composer behind Knightfall
Live Development
Life & Debt was developed live on Twitch 3 mornings a week! Since day 1, it was modified due to changes and feedback of the community. Join the development stream!

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Languages: English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, French, Spanish - Spain
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 30 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Timer/calendar goes forever (at one point it told me it was the 60th of August, and debt doesn't get paid off when I spend my money, but my money gets subtracted. Would be a really cool game if it worked.
Life and Debt from the twitch streamer Krassenstein is really well done, I very much enjoy this game, and while it has a few random moments of minor visual bugs, it didn't detract from what it was, a simulation of buying items and managing debt, if you want to tackle random events and all the evil chances of getting a 25k copy right debt from some random musical company! Seriously if you want to take and spend an hour once in awhile on a siumulation this is it, I find this to be exciting, engaging and the music I never turned off because it went so well with the game! I give this indie game a years bonus, out of 10.
This game has the same addiction level as games like Cookie Clicker however it is quite a challenge in order to complete. I played on Normal difficulty, thought I was doing really well and all of a sudden my debt caught up with me and I lost. I'll try again on other difficulties but the entire time I was playing it had my complete attention.
Out of the very few features, half of them serve no purpose (lotto, being able to walk through your house) while the other half is desperately underdeveloper. Overall there is very little strategy involved. You get randomly fired and slapped with $10,000 debt events. This is a work in progress not worth $5.
Worked for countless hours as a grocery bagger to get myself an art degree. Spent the next 2 years as a garbageman. Realism 10/10. Would steal puppy again.
After playing this game for about 3 and a half hours and beating Easy mode I can say it gets pretty intense at the end. There is real strategy to it. I loved all the random events and the fact that some of it relates to real life and some is very humorous. I look forward to playing it again with the chill music and relaxing. Basically you can play the game that way or go for a harder mode and really make it tough. The art is fun and the Game Dev really updates and fixes the game quickly if there are any changes to be made based on people playing it. This really is a fun version of a life simulator where you try to purchase items without getting too far into debt. Thank you Static City Games for being awesome! P.S. The price is very reasonable in my opinion as well. Support those indie devs yo!
I found this game to actually be very enjoyable. Unlike a straight idler/clicker type game, you really do need to pay attention to what you're doing. Just like in real life, your debt never stops! What's that? You paid it off? That's great. Enjoy that feeling, for it will be a fleeting one..... A really fun and incredibly addicting little game that's definitely worth a few bucks. It's a lot like life in that even if you're going along well, random stuff happens from out of left field and you gotta deal with it. Give it a shot!
Just played through this on my twitch stream, you can check gameplay on my youtube upload: https://youtu.be/uo2je8kmf1A. My first attempt on Medium difficulty I failed :( took about 90 mins for one play through. The second attempt on Easy was glorious. There were some ups and downs.. but I made it in the end - and it felt good! The concept itself is surprisingly well-fitted for a video game. You find yourself exclaiming / reacting to the life events, and then realise how scarily close to real life this game is for some people! This is like a clicker game in some respects, but then with some player interaction and some really entertaining script-writing. For 3-4 hours entertainment I've invested so far, I feel it was worth the cost. Developer has already addressed a few minor launch day bugs, and has plans for a few extra features being put in!
LifeAndDebt is a fun simulator where you must obtain all items in the shop and reach a debt of 0. It has random life events which will either benefit or damage your economical state. The creator has announced that more content is to be added. Watching him work on this project has been a lot of fun and I will continue to watch and give ideas, which he is really open to. The game can be quite hard so, if you're up for the challenge, go ahead! Would for sure recommend as you won't get bored whilst playing this. You might get irritated because things don't go your way but I'm guessing that's how life works ;p
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