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SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim

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52%Game Brain Score
gameplay, optimization
grinding
75% User Score Based on 20 reviews

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SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim is a single player tactical management game with economy and business themes. It was developed by Billmeade Gaming and was released on March 2, 2026. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Build your empire from a basement. Trade stocks, run companies, date, raise kids, dodge the SEC, and retire a legend — or go broke trying.

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75%
Audience ScoreBased on 20 reviews
gameplay3 positive mentions
grinding1 negative mentions

  • Deep and engaging financial life simulation with exceptional options trading mechanics.
  • Variety of gameplay elements including stock trading, family, education, business networking, and launching a space company.
  • Strong potential and active developer support with plans for continued updates and modding capabilities.
  • Frequent crashes and game-breaking bugs that severely impact stability and playability.
  • Current game length is short with no opportunity to continue after character death, limiting long-term depth.
  • Balance issues with overly easy money accumulation and some nonsensical or exploitable financial mechanics.
  • gameplay
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is praised for its solid foundation in trading mechanics, market dynamics, and progression, offering a rewarding loop that includes managing portfolios with various financial elements. Players appreciate the depth added by non-financial aspects like family, education, and networking, alongside active developer support addressing bugs and concerns.

    • “First off — huge thanks to the devs. The current trading mechanics, market feel, and progression are already a solid foundation.”
    • “Gameplay: manage a sub-portfolio with margin and research (provided by the fund; players may also use their own time to do research), but no penny stocks or highly illiquid assets.”
    • “Non-financial gameplay elements including family, education, and business networking.”
  • optimization
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The provided texts do not address the aspect "optimization" in the context of game performance or technical efficiency, but rather discuss compensation and performance fees related to financial management. Therefore, no relevant summary on optimization can be derived.

  • replayability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's tiered progression system, advancing from retail trader to corporate raider, significantly enhances replayability by offering extensive long-term engagement and numerous hours of gameplay.

    • “The progression — retail trader → hedge fund analyst → fund manager → corporate raider — would easily add hundreds of hours of replayability.”
  • grinding
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in the game is viewed as tedious and repetitive, especially when accumulating large amounts of in-game currency requires excessive clicking without much variation.

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SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim is a tactical management game with economy and business themes.

SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim is available on PC, Mac OS, Windows and Linux.

SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim was released on March 2, 2026.

SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim was developed by Billmeade Gaming.

SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim for its gameplay but disliked it for its grinding.

SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim is a single player game.

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