If the back-of-box promise of a few hours full of “stress, struggle and existential despair” hits a little too close to home for some, know that The Game of Life: Quarter Life Crisis is meant to be a deliberately tongue-in-cheek depiction of twentysomething life. Heck, at least if it all gets a bit too much, you can pull a sickie and stay home to binge-watch TV shows. ![]() Instead of starting out in high-paid jobs as doctors and lawyers, players can now expect to be immediately thrown into ‘crippling’ debt totalling hundreds of thousands, before making their way around the board to work multiple jobs, struggle to take care of their family and suffer humiliating experiences, such as discovering a picture of their grandparent’s toe fungus or ending with a botched bit of ink worthy of Tattoo Fixers. The next edition of family favourite The Game of Life has apparently woken up to the plight of millennials, swapping its optimistic pursuit of fame, fortune and family for a more cynical – and arguably realistic – take on the roll-and-move classic. ![]() If you think that games provide a welcome escape from the everyday realities of working zero-hour jobs to scrape together sky-high rent, dropping your expensive smartphone in the bog and generally despairing at the state of the modern world, think again.
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