YouTubers Life 2

by Aethyna Oct 22, 2021 | 1 Votes | 69 Played | 0 Reviews

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Simulation

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Home Design , Life Sim , Avatar

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Raiser Games Winning the Youtubers Life contest got you a one-way ticket to NewTube, the town where all budding YouTubers make their mark. In Youtubers Life 2, you’ll not only chase trends and create quality videos for your subscribers, but you’ll also need to hustle on the side, at least at the very beginning, for some money, and build relationships with the residents of the town. Play Now Similar Games

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Summary

Winning the Youtubers Life contest got you a one-way ticket to NewTube, the town where all budding YouTubers make their mark. In Youtubers Life 2, you’ll not only chase trends and create quality videos for your subscribers, but you’ll also need to hustle on the side, at least at the very beginning, for some money, and build relationships with the residents of the town.

Plotline

You’ve won the Youtubers Life contest, a social experiment to find the most promising future YouTubers, and get a free, one-way ticket to NewTube, a town where budding YouTubers make their mark. As you play, you’ll unlock new places to go and new things to do.

Gameplay

Youtubers Life 2 is what I’d call a life simulation game. The game’s fairly casual to play. As you may expect, as an up-and-coming YouTuber, you’ll need to record videos and upload them to NewTube.

In this game, there are many different kinds of videos you can record, including gameplay videos, commentary, and even interviews. There’s a card-based mini-game linked to this as well. While recording, you will get to decide what to do from a fixed number of choices during certain situations. Your choices will affect the mood of your audience. There are five kinds of moods here and you’ll want to max out all 5 of them if possible.

This also means that you’ll be choosing the cards based on what you can get in terms of the moods you gain rather than based on the text on the cards themselves.

You’ll be required to edit your video before uploading it to NewTube. Here, you’ll then need to play another mini-game where you need to link up the video frames based on the connectors each frame have. The more connectors you can link to, the higher the editing score you’ll get. There are also plenty of editing effects that you can use to help get the most score, but you’ll need to have enough cash to unlock them first.

Once you’re done with the video, you can then publish the video by coming up with a title of your own or you could opt to go with one of the clickbaity titles the game generates for you, and just wait to see the outcome of that single video – how many subs it has earned you (or lost; it can go either way), and how much money you’ve made.

Eventually, you’ll also unlock the ability to live stream. The mini-game here is different from the version you play while recording videos – it’s more like Dance Dance Revolution, minus the dance music. In this mini-game, your reflexes will be put to the test as you’ll need to tap on the correct arrow keys the moment they reach the bar at the top.

Note that you have a limited amount of energy every day and at the start, you can only upload a video once a day without consuming any additional food. You can restore energy simply by going to sleep. You can also permanently increase the energy you have by going to the gym regularly. You’d think that you’ll lose a lot more energy that way, but the opposite is true. Plus, there’s a relationship between the energy gains you get and the food you consume as well. Healthy foods will aid energy gains, while the opposite is true for unhealthy snacks.

Besides the energy constraints, earning money through uploading videos can be a bit hard at first, since you have very few subscribers. Instead, you’ll need to run errands for the many characters in NewTube city. Most of these quests are typical fetch quests involving running from one location to another, so it’s not hard to complete even with the time limit. If you’re at loss as to where to find a character, the game’s map can be a very useful tool here. Note that quest-related people are marked with an exclamation mark there.

Social media is also a very important tool for a content creator whether it is at NewTube or in real life. Here, you’ll need to be able to capitalize on trends, much like how you would while producing videos, and capture the best photos to gain more followers on Instalife… if it isn’t obvious enough, it’s a riff on Instagram. I quite like the photo mode here and there are several poses that I can cycle through for my avatar as well.

As a life sim, Youtubers Life 2 introduces a cast of interesting townsfolk that you can interact with, whether by talking or by giving them something they desire. You can increase your relationship level with them. Of course, let’s not forget about the real stars of the game –actual content creators from YouTube-like PewDiePie, Rubius, InoxTag, GermanLetsPlay, Crainer, WillyRex, LaurenzSide, and more.

Now, the game’s fun and all, but I do have some complaints. The main complaint I have about the game is that it doesn’t seem to know whether it wants to use the word “YouTube” or “NewTube”. The game seems to use both terms so interchangeably I don’t know what’s what anymore. It’s also rather funny to me that for a game that’s based on YouTube, the game has to resort to using NewTube instead. Not sure if that’s a licensing issue or if it’s just an oversight on their part before launching the game.

I haven’t played the original game so I can say that I’m a lot more lenient coming into this game. However, from what I’ve seen, this sequel does have some features that are an improvement from the first game. It features an open-ish world and you’re no longer confined to only your room. However, there are downsides too. For example, you have less freedom to decide what kind of YouTuber you’d like to be.

Besides the number of bugs that are present during the launch, the other unfortunate thing about Youtubers Life 2 is the fact that some critical features of the gameplay aren’t as apparent and aren’t mentioned anywhere in the tutorial, such as the “going to the gym” thing. The developers did end up releasing a more detailed “how to play” guide on the game’s Steam page, but honestly, this is the kind of info that should be in the game itself.

Community

Naturally, for a game that’s based on YouTubers, most of the community here are avid fans of YouTube and YouTubers in general. Most of the community congregates around the game’s Steam discussion page so if you’re looking to give your feedback or simply to chat, that’s the place to be.

Graphics/ Sound

The graphics here are smooth and have vibrant colors that match the genre well. The avatar designs are very adorable as well. I reckon many players, me included, would have spent a whole lot of time just customizing their avatar. The soundtrack is nice too here. It’s well-varied and will change depending on where you are in the game.

Conclusion

Despite the bugs and some issues raised, Youtubers Life 2 is still a pretty solid life sim… maybe it’s a bit too casual for my tastes, but this might not be the case for other players. As long as you’re aware of the issues going in, you won’t feel shortchanged by the high price, and might just find yourself enjoying the game.