Hasbro The Game of Life Goals Card Game – Quick-Playing Family Game for 2-4 Players Ages 8 and Up

My guilty pleasure
Life GoalsI have always enjoyed playing board games to the point that I played chess, Sorry!, Monopoly, and Jumanji against myself, sometimes even playing as 4 different player colors. Thankfully, I found a husband who helped me find more games, like Catan, Ticket to Ride, and Pandemic. Now I play a lot of other games, but sometimes I still enjoy a lot of easy, simple-to-learn-and-play, mass market games.Mass market games, or basically anything Hasbro makes, is generally looked down on. But I have a guilty pleasure: Life Goals. I’ve played this game more than 5 times – it is part of our cycle of short weeknight games.The game was on sale, and I thought, why not? Can’t hate until I’ve tried it. This game isn’t going to win any awards any time soon and it probably will be forgotten in history, but it is an easy game to play on a school night with a teenager – my 16-year-old cousin who has grown-up playing games. On a school night or work night, sometimes you just want an easy game where it doesn’t matter who wins or loses; we just want a quick laugh before going to bed. So that’s where this card game fits.Gameplay: Each player starts with a secret hand of 3 cards and 1 secret Lifestyle scoring card used at the end of the game. Life goals are drawn depending on the number of players,e.g. in a 3 player game, there are 3 Life Goals. These are public scoring objectives and when a player completes it, they immediately claim the goal which is worth points at the end of the game which cannot be taken from them.On your turn, you either draw a card OR you play a card. If you acquire a job, the number of cards you draw can change. And that’s it! The game ends when all Life Goals are completed.Pros:-I like that the game is “updated”. I like the newer jobs like Social Media Manager. Not everything is new, we still have doctor and policeman.-I like that the game is very quick – maybe 5 minutes per person.-Players choose when to end the game by completing the last Life Goal.-The symbols are very clear – There are two types of symbols per color and they have different functions at least for the Life Goals. The most thematic one is the college degree which is necessary for some jobs to be played.-Graphic design is appealing. Artwork is cute.-My favorite part is making up a continuous life story with every card I play. Even when I spend a card, it is incorporated into my story. You can imagine what my story is when I discard “Baby” for “Ski Chalet”. (Check out my image for a super long story for the last game I played).Cons:-The Lifestyle cards, which is your secret scoring card, dictates the value of the cards played into your life (or your life decisions). For example, if your lifestyle is “Workaholic”, all the career cards are worth the most points for you personally while family cards, including children, pets, and getting married, are worth the least to you. The cards are simple and thematic, but kind of boring in a way – I wish there was more pizazz.-The game can be lucky, but there is some light strategy.-The game has some prompts at the bottom which I completely ignore.Who is this game for?I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys the classic Game of Life. This game also works well for families. If you have played Monopoly Deal (a quick card game of Monopoly) you might also like this game as it has a similar concept of having some similar themes as the other game but distilled down to a quick card game that doesn’t take up a lot of space, is faster, and works great as a travel game.I also would recommend this game if you enjoy light games and no-pressure storytelling. The storytelling is only as funny/fun as you make it to be. I think a lot of hobby board gamers would probably turn up their noses at this game, but whatever. I may eat at restaurants with no prices on the menus, but I can still enjoy ordering McDonald fries.

Nice game
Can finally get my daughter to play a game with me. Took a minute to fully understand but became fun and a staple for bring us together.

Fun!
This game is so much fun. The directions were kind of hard to process but the you tube video got us playing right away and my family wanted to play over and over again.

Good kids game
I love the game of life board game. This game is fun for kids, but not much of an adults game. But it is fun for a quick, mindless game

A fun game.

Nice family game

Good product !