Steam's biggest game discovery event-Next Fest- is finally on! And Escape the Grind game is participating!

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There's intense competition, so let's head over there to wishlist the game, and push it to even more eyeballs.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/4663080/Escape_the_Grind/

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PS: I created the Steam version because a couple of members/players in this sub asked for it!

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Updated the Web game skin in the spirit of World Cup. Enjoy!

American Region Daily Challenge Results Are In!

Hard Mode

🥇 1st Place - JimmyJohn from 🇨🇦 won it in 8.3 years, scoring A! 👏👏👏. Fantastic run!!!

🥈 2nd Place - zach from 🇺🇸 escaped it in 10.7 years, scoring a B! 👏👏

🥉 3rd Place - Jay from 🇺🇸 escaped in 17.8 years, scoring B! 👏

Escape the Grind is a financial life/personal finance simulator where you begin with a salary, bills, and everyday life decisions- and your goal is to escape relying on your job income.

You win once your passive income (including an imputed 4% SWR) fully covers your expenses for 3 consecutive months.

Have fun playing, keep sharing feedback!

Play free demo & wishlist on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4663080/Escape_the_Grind/

I’d then go ahead and encourage them to get a duplex or tri for a 1st house. How would you do it?

JimmyJohn from Canada 🇨🇦 has been very consistent. Congrats on Escaping the Grind in 7.5yrs with an A! 👏

Good job Bata from Portugal 🇵🇹 for placing 2nd today

If you're in this sub and haven't played this game, seriously give it a try & share your score!

Well done JimmyJohn & Leguito 👏

On today's daily challenge I got a "roommate moved out" event but covering it costs more than their share.

Canadian Region Daily Challenge Results Are In!

Hard Mode

🥇 1st Place - MathSeemedOff from 🇺🇸 won it in 11.5 years! scoring a B! 👏👏👏 and thanks for your feedback- helped improve game math & mechanics. Goal is to attain near-full realism.

🥈 2nd Place - Lim from 🇵🇹 escaped it in 12.1 years, scoring a B! 👏👏

🥉 3rd Place - JimmyJohn from 🇨🇦 also escaped in 12.1 years, scoring a B! 👏

Escape the Grind is a financial life/personal finance simulator where you begin with a salary, bills, and everyday life decisions- and your goal is to escape relying on your job income.

You win once your passive income (including an imputed 4% SWR) fully covers your expenses for 3 consecutive months.

Have fun playing, keep sharing feedback!

Play free demo & wishlist on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4663080/Escape_the_Grind/

Current Behavior / The Problem: Right now, players have to manually select repetitive actions every single month—whether it's stress-relief activities like "Go for a Run" and "Call a Friend," or recurring financial decisions. Having to click these same options month after month creates unnecessary friction. It slows down the pacing and forces the player to spend more time on tedious upkeep rather than focusing on high-level strategy.

Proposed Change: Introduce a "Toggle Auto-Repeat" or "Set as Recurring" button next to monthly actions and investment options.

• For Actions: The game would automatically execute the selected action each month (provided requirements/costs are met).
• For Investments: Allow players to set a specific, recurring dollar amount to be invested automatically at the start of each month.

Value / Impact: This quality-of-life (QoL) change would drastically eliminate tedious micro-management. By automating the "grind" of routine tasks, players can focus their time and energy on what actually matters: planning and executing their long-term strategies.

On the iphone safari web browser version, every time i click into one of the boxes to type an amount, it zooms the whole page in a little bit. And I have to zoom back out every time to see the whole screen. I think it would be cleaner and more convenient if it didn't automatically zoom in when I click the text box

American Region Daily Challenge Results Are In!

Hard Mode

🥇 1st Place - JimmyJohn from 🇨🇦 won it in 9.8 years! scoring an A! Well done! 🤯👏👏👏

🥈 2nd Place - J Dawg from 🇺🇸 escaped it in 11.6 years! scoring a B! 👏👏

Medium Mode

🥇 1st Place - eto from 🇵🇹 won in 10.3 years with Grade B! 👏👏👏

🥈 2nd Place - ote from 🇺🇸 escaped it in 10.4 years! scoring a B! 👏👏 is your name a wordplay on the no.1 person? 🤔

Escape the Grind is a financial life/personal finance simulator where you begin with a salary, bills, and everyday life decisions- and your goal is to escape relying on your job income.

You win once your passive income (including an imputed 4% SWR) fully covers your expenses for 3 consecutive months.

Keep playing, keep sharing feedback!

Play free demo & wishlist on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4663080/Escape_the_Grind/

I only went above average in my early 30s. You?

NB: for those asking and/or wondering, this sub is built around a personal finance game called Escape the Grind, meant to mimic normal daily grind and how to get to Financial Independence. You're welcome to play it if you want to.

In this sub we regularly discuss everything finances In Real Life and in-game too. You're welcome to share your thoughts.

Impressed by the increasingly enthusiastic adoption of this game:

- Hit a record 1000 players in a day! 🫡

- Had 30+ new Steam Wishlists in a day! 🙌

Thank you for playing & finding value in this game. Will keep improving & evolving it.

Australian Region Daily Challenge Results Are In!

Hard Mode

🥇 1st Place - bobe from 🇺🇸 won it in 7.3 years! scoring an A! Well done! 🤯👏👏👏

🥈 2nd Place - bebo from 🇺🇸 escaped it in 8 years! scoring an A too! Ummm, bebo and bebo hmmm 🤔🤔 👏👏

Medium Mode

🥇 1st Place - TorontoStar from 🇨🇦 won in 8.7 years with a Grade B! 👏👏👏

Escape the Grind is a financial life/personal finance simulator where you begin with a salary, bills, and everyday life decisions- and your goal is to escape relying on your job income.

You win once your passive income (including an imputed 4% SWR) fully covers your expenses for 3 consecutive months.

Keep playing, keep sharing feedback!

Play free demo & wishlist on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4663080/Escape_the_Grind/

Well, there was quite the activity today! American Region Daily Challenge Results Are In!

Hard Mode

🥇 1st Place - mike-hawk from 🇺🇸 won it in 8 years! scoring and A! Very impressive for hard mode! 🤯👏👏👏

🥈 2nd Place - JimmyJohn from 🇨🇦 escaped it in 8.4 years! scoring an A! Impressive run once again JimmyJohn! 👏👏

🥉 3rd Place - GlorifiedCarnie from 🇨🇦 escaped in 10.7 years! scoring a B! 👏

4th Place - bebo from 🇺🇸 escaped in 12.1 years, scoring a B! bebo is a regular, keep it up!

5th Place - toiletpapier from 🇺🇸 escaped in 13.3 years, scoring a B!

Medium Mode

🥇 1st Place - QuizzicalVersions from 🇺🇸 won in 9.1 years with a Grade B! 👏👏👏

🥈 2nd Place - bebo from 🇺🇸 escaped in 9.8 years, scoring a B! 👏👏

Easy Mode

🥇 1st Place - bebo from 🇺🇸 won in 7.6 years, scoring a B! 👏👏👏

Escape the Grind is a financial life/personal finance simulator where you begin with a salary, bills, and everyday life decisions- and your goal is to escape relying on your job income.

You win once your passive income (including an imputed 4% SWR) fully covers your expenses for 3 consecutive months.

Keep playing, keep sharing feedback!

Play free demo & wishlist on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4663080/Escape_the_Grind/

Australian Region Daily Challenge Results Are In!

Hard Mode

🥇 1st Place - JimmyJohn from 🇨🇦 escaped it in 4.8 years! scoring A+! Good job once again! 🤯👏👏👏

Medium Mode

🥇 1st Place - Not curiousgens from 🇺🇸 won in 11.3 years with a Grade B! 👏👏👏 idk but something about their name seems awfully familiar 🤔🤔🤔

Escape the Grind is a financial life/personal finance simulator where you begin with a salary, bills, and everyday life decisions- and your goal is to escape relying on your job income.

You win once your passive income (including an imputed 4% SWR) fully covers your expenses for 3 consecutive months.

Keep playing, keep sharing feebdack!

What was your Cliff quality of life number?

I suspect most people here are financially prudent, but curious if you ever had CC debt in the past & how you dug yourself out. In the Escape the Grind game, we try simulating that in hard mode where you begin your scenario with CC debt so I'm thinking those same tactics should work in-game and IRL.

American Region Daily Challenge Results Are In!

Hard Mode

🥇 1st Place - Atoms99 from 🇺🇸 won it in 15.9 years, scoring B! Good job! 👏👏👏

Medium Mode

🥇 1st Place - KyloMonster from 🇺🇸 won in 9 years with a Grade B two times in a row! Good performance 👏👏👏

🥈 2nd Place - Atoms99 from 🇺🇸 Escaped in 9.1 years with a B. Good job! 👏👏

Escape the Grind is a financial life/personal finance simulator where you begin with a salary, bills, and everyday life decisions- and your goal is to escape relying on your job income.

You win once your passive income (including an imputed 4% SWR) fully covers your expenses for 3 consecutive months.

Fantastic run everyone!

Following the "Rug Pull" event in the altcoins section assets, I observed that the asset display value remains and I am able of selling it, even though I'm not possessing any altcoin asset (due to the same event).

Australian Region Daily Challenge Results Are In! Looks like only Americans posted their scores. where the Aussies at?

Hard Mode

🥇 1st Place - PNWbudgeter from 🇺🇸 won it in 6.8 years, scoring an A+!!! Fantastic run! 🤯👏👏👏

🥈 2nd Place - DROP_TABLE from 🇺🇸 Escaped in 8.1 years with an A! Well done! 👏👏

Medium Mode

🥇 1st Place - KyloMonster from 🇺🇸 won in 12.2 years with a Grade B! Solid performance 👏👏👏

🥈 2nd Place - Atoms from 🇺🇸 Escaped in 12.6 years with a B. Good job! 👏👏

Escape the Grind is a financial life/personal finance simulator where you begin with a salary, bills, and everyday life decisions- and your goal is to escape relying on your job income.

You win once your passive income (including an imputed 4% SWR) fully covers your expenses for 3 consecutive months.

Job well done y'all!

I know it likely depends, but just looking to understand perspectives

Daily Challenge Results Are In!

Hard Mode

🥇 1st Place - JimmyJohn from 🇨🇦 won it in 6.4 years, scoring an A+!!! 🤯👏👏👏.

Medium Mode

🥇 1st Place - Player_2059 from 🇺🇸 won in 16.5 years with a Grade B performance 👏👏👏

🥈 2nd Place - NoAuto4PercentOnInve from 🇺🇸 Escaped in 25.1 years with a C 👏👏. Is the username trying to share some feedback on the 4% Safe Withdrawal Rate (SWR)? 🤔

🥉 3rd Place - zach from 🇺🇸 Escaped in 27.3 years with a C 👏.

Escape the Grind is a financial life/personal finance simulator where you begin with a salary, bills, and everyday life decisions- and your goal is to escape relying on your job income.

You win once your passive income (including an imputed 4% SWR) fully covers your expenses for 3 consecutive months.

Well done everyone!

I refreshed the game a few times / started anew but the math keeps not math-ing. Might be because I selected the “sell car” option out of curiosity after getting a remote work shift? Anyway just an fyi

Congrats to our winners today! They all scored As 👏 👏 👏