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Growing Up

87% positive of 3,475 Steam reviews

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Released
2021
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam, GOG

Made by Vile Monarch. Published by Vile Monarch, Spiral Up Games.

About the game

This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?

Tagged by players

  • Life Sim
  • Emotional
  • LGBTQ+
  • Choices Matter
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • 1990's
  • Dating Sim
  • Management
  • Multiple Endings
  • Visual Novel
  • Hand-drawn
  • Story Rich

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What players say

  • Recommended
    NEGATIVES: • I genuinely believe this game wouldn't be AS same-y if the family aspects also generated randomly. I get how that's probably a pain to code, but I'm just saying- 1) parents' jobs affecting us 2) our sibling count 3) maybe multiple lovers - or them at least them knowing of us being in multiple relation/situationships 4) different face for us/the kid - dependent on parents n such 5) etc • I REALLY wish…

    32 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    I really love this game, even if it is a little repetitive once you've played every character's story though you can replay to romance or befriend them (or make them your enemy if you want that I guess?) and through that get all of their possible endings. And with some characters it's truly SO hard to have them succeed (so they won't end up with their bad or tragic ending :( which really devastated me on my first…

    24 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Spent two hours on this the previous night, was interesting, wanted to continue tonight but no saved files were detected. I'd have to start over? Is this a known bug? Either way, shouldn't happen, it's clearly mentioned that the game autosaves every turn.

    2 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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