Escape the Grind
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Steam News · 4d
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...
Steam News · 4d
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...
Steam News · Sep 1
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...
Steam News · Aug 31
🔁 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...
Steam News · Aug 23
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...
Steam News · Aug 23
Many thanks to everyone that has provided feedback that went into this update, led by TheDecider & kony74!Here is what changed: Every market now has its own health systemIf you played the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Kenya, Mexico or Japan, you could not buy or raise health insurance at all.That is now built per country. Britain has the NHS with private top-up. Canada ...
Steam News · Aug 19
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 ...
Steam News · Aug 18
It's out. After months of building, Escape the Grind just launched. If you wishlisted, thank you. I hope you will enjoy this realistic game as much as I did developing it. For anyone new: this is a financial independence simulator. You start on a normal salary with normal expenses and try to build enough passive income or accumulate enough invested assets to quit your job. You'll wrestle with cred...