Growing Up

If you enjoy Bitlife, you'll love this game. It's super cute, I love watching my little character grow up and taking them down the different paths available in the game. I think the most standout part is definitely the characters. I think I've encountered all of them by now, and they're all so so compelling. You really start to root for them and want to see the best in them. My favourite was Flick. Honestly, I recommend playing the game for Flick alone, I cried real tears over her. My only real problem with the game is that the difficulty when you get to high school is INSANE. I haven't managed to complete a single run without letting one of my stats drop to zero at least once, typically multiple times. I seriously can't emphasise enough how much the difficulty spikes in the last stage of the game. It's still really fun though, you should definitely give it a try.

A fun life sim with lovable side characters, though not a ton of replay value. After a few in-game lifetimes, you've basically done all there is to do. That being said, it's still an enjoyable few lifetimes, and I'd recommend it to fans of the genre.

Прикольно, но даже если игра подразумевает неоднократное прохождение с разными персонажами и концовками не уверен что захочется проходить ещё раз. Слишком упращённо, но было бы интересно увидеть более амбициозное продолжение т.к. тематика у игры интересная

Interesting spin on the "visual novel" genre that is lovingly crafted, but has its issues and is not quite as expansive as the store page makes it out to be. Still, considering the price, it is worth it, and given the casual nature and the topic, also suitable for people just interested in trying out this kind of games, or for those who would be turned off by weeb stuff. The game has some balance issues though, and it rewards min maxing waaaay too much for what should be a casual experience about (re)exploring life as a teenager.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

"Growing Up" is a simulator about - yes - growing up from baby to graduation, where your character is grown up and then you get to play your former character's baby. The game is designed to be a constant loop. First, learning is easy. As baby, you only have one or two things to learn, really. Walking and talking. But later on it gets complicated with school and limited amounts of love interests. While learning is more a "pick the correct property symbol for the class you want" puzzle game, the exams are like "Candy Crush". I loved this game, especially that you get to play the next generations over and over, until I realized, that the story starts over in the second loop. You meet the same girl, same answers as choices. So content is really limited and in the end I only played a bit over 5 hours. It's good for what it is but since there's not much story content, I would wait for a discount...

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO END THIS STUPID GAME. CAN THERE BE SUCH A MEANINGLESS DIFFICULTY LEVEL???