Growing Up: Life of the '90s - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Growing Up tells a story set in the United States during the 1990s. In this game, you will experience life as a child of an ordinary family, throughout 18 years of change and development.

Your life is in your hands! Sculpt your childhood as well as parenthood with endless choices. Take control of what you learn, who you befriend, and find that special someone in this coming-of-age game.

[Game Feature]
-Chilling in the 1990s
Lose yourself in the lavishly handcrafted sceneries straight from the 90s. In an era of rapid social change as well as the soaring rise of pop culture, your journey through life will be accompanied by both endearing friends and a nostalgic city, with more than 30 locations to explore. Visit the cinema, grab popcorn to watch "Dino Park", toss a few coins to get a tape-recorded by "Boys Next Door" from a street shop. Take your time, the city is not going anywhere.

-Unique Playthroughs
Each life is different, and each and every character you create will face different challenges and meet different people. The choices you make will result in wildly different outcomes!

-Branching Narrative
Your choices dictate the development of the narrative. With more than 1000 lines of dialogues for each character, as well as multiple endings for you and your friends, depending on your choices, every decision you make will echo through the entire journey of your character.

-Friends For Life
Playing, fighting, falling in love, few things in your journey to adulthood can be done without a friend. Growing Up features 19 characters whose stories unfold alongside yours. Forge your relationship with them in any way your heart desires, romantic or purely platonic - the choice is yours.

-Dynamic Game Experience
Growing Up features a variety of systems. Build your mind and aptitude with our handcrafted mini-game; Master the art of scheduling your daily activities; Ace your way into the best school in challenging exams; Build your character by participating in a plethora of extracurricular activities.

-In-Depth Skill System
With more than 200 skills to acquire and master, you will have the ultimate freedom to shape the future of your character and end up with one of 42 unique careers! Some are easy, some are hard to get, but how about becoming an Astronaut, a CEO of a gaming company, a famous actress... or maybe even the President of the United States of America?

[Support]
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/GrowingUp_game

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4.54 out of 5

65 ratings in United Kingdom

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I can’t get of brain map there’s no button I just started playing for first time

10/10

Honestly it is a bit overpriced but it is 100% worth it! I have spent hours on it and I love the backstories!! My only suggestion is to let high school be a bit longer to max out levels to get to A grade.

Maybe add some more stuff...

This is an absolutely amazing game but I would like to suggest some things. During middle school Richard ( if you get him as a friend) will once say he's got loads of siblings. So basically, it would be nice if you added siblings when you are born or after your born. And maybe add a family tree to look at! Apart from that, this is a fun game. I absolutely love it. As soon as I started playing with it I was obsessed with it. So great job 👍. Hope you can add something like this!

Just sad

So I was really pumped about playing this game and I got to when you should have been born and it continually kicked me of and then did not save please fix coz I really want to give it a good review

Waste of money

App crashes at the first loading screen.

Fun for what it is

I enjoyed this game, but I think it’s important to understand what it is and what it is not. Going in I expected more of an RPG/visual novel experience, “make choices to decide your future”. There are aspects of that in your interactions with your parents and friends, but it is first and foremost a simulation - a very abstract one based around scheduling studies and hobbies to raise your attributes and “exam readiness” whilst balancing “mental health” and “parental approval” stats. This leads to some weird dissonance in that your parents in the game are portrayed as kind and supportive through dialogue and cutscenes, whilst the game mechanics portray them as ruthless taskmasters who “approve” of your character working themselves to exhaustion and “disapprove” of them doing anything fun or relaxing. All in all, whilst the boardgame-style mechanics paired with the nostalgic artwork and music do provide a fun distraction for an hour or two I think a more character- and story-driven experience would have better served the sentimental childhood-nostalgia vibe the game is going for. But maybe that’s just me wishing the game was something it’s not.

Pretty dry game. Overpriced and boring

If the mechanics of this game change dramatically after preschool then I apologise and I’ll delete this review but I found this game neither remotely challenging or fun. I know the one star is harsh but I’m pretty annoyed I payed a fiver for this and got completely bored of it after half an hour of trying to work out what was supposed to be entertaining about it.

action loading times takes so longgggg

the game itself is very entertaining but picking an action and waiting for the cartoon animation to come out and have the skip button reveal sometimes takes a whole minute. this needs to be resolved. other than that best game i’ve spent

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