YouTuber's Life 2 Review (PS4)

YouTuber’s Life 2 was reviewed on a PS4

Special thanks go to the publishers for providing us with a review code.

Developed by: U-Play Online S.L.

Published by : Raiser Games

Platforms: PS4, PC, Xbox One, Switch

Release Date: October 19, 2021

The average person might scoff at the idea of becoming a YouTuber, instead of pursuing a “normal career”. Most people think it’s a walk in the park. How hard can it be? Just uploading videos of yourself talking about random meaningless things.

What they don’t realize is how exhausting it can be. Always trying to come up with new content to make, sharpening your video-editing skills and managing multiple social media channels is a full time job. Unfortunately, I still don’t know how exhausting it really is because YouTuber’s Life 2 never bothered to flesh out its simple premise.

Turn on your ring lights, set up those microphones, and spend the next few moments learning what it means to be a YouTuber in our review of YouTuber’s Life 2.

What is YouTuber’s Life 2?

YouTuber’s Life 2 is a simulation game that explores the different aspects of being an influencer. You can spend your in-game day streaming all the latest games, taking selfies across town and doing favors for your neighbors.

While some simulation games excel at making even the most mundane professions exciting (theHunter and Snowrunner comes to mind), YouTuber’s Life 2 is the other way around. It makes the glamorous act of being famous so grindy and boring.

Pop Culture Galore

A large budget of the game is dedicated to shoving so much pop culture into the game that the most fun I had in it was discovering all the jokes, memes and parodies. The game starts with a mysterious man named Xavier, inviting you to come live in a city called New Tube City, a city that lives and breathes social media. If you refuse to do that, the game shows you the Robert D. Waide meme before starting over.

You can even stream Deity Of War on your PlayStudio Console ! The effort poured into shoving all these references into the game is admirable, and it’s actually one of the best aspects of the game, as I was always excited to find out what the game will come up with next.

It ain’t much but it’s honest work

The actual YouTube-ing however is nothing more than a boring minigame of putting pre-made clips together or by choosing your character’s reactions when they’re streaming. You edit the clips by putting them in a sequence and that’s it. Creating content for your virtual YouTube channel is very limited and doesn’t offer much in terms of customization.

On the other hand, your options are almost limitless when creating your playable character. You can easily lose hours just trying out all kinds of combinations of clothing, earrings, haircuts and shoes to create the wackiest, most bizarre character your imagination can come up with, so basically what an average YouTuber looks like.

New Tube City, Here I Come.

The game lacks any real plot besides grinding to become the world’s most famous YouTuber in New Tube City. Fortunately, New Tube City is a large open world city. You’re free to explore its every nook and cranny as you see fit.

It’s a large, gorgeous open world that gets pretty tedious and boring once you see everything it has to offer. Not to mention the horrendous loading screens that makes playing through the game a frustrating slog. Like the rest of the game, the city made a great first impression only to become an annoyance after the first few hours.

A repetitive gameplay loop i.e. the grind, is a normal part of every simulation game out there. I’ve just spent 3 hours of my life on Snowrunner trying to deliver a bunch of concrete blocks, but I enjoyed every single minute of it. The core gameplay of Snowrunner is deep and engaging enough that I would never feel as if the grind was a con of the game, but rather an integral part of it.

While in YouTuber’s Life 2, the grind is nothing more than filler fluff, designed to stretch the game as thin as a toothpick. Not a single gameplay element of the game was fleshed out enough to be compelling or fun to play. The aforementioned loading screens don’t help things much neither. It only takes a mere few hours for you to explore and see everything that YouTuber’s Life 2 has to offer.

Overall,

YouTubers Life 2 should be a fun game on paper, but the constant loading screens, the tedious grind and repetitive mission design make playing it an absolute chore. The charming and vibrant visuals, alongside the open world of New Tube City and the deep character customization are some of the best aspects of the game, but ultimately they’re not enough to make it a worthwhile experience.

Never judge a game by its cover, but that adage definitely doesn’t apply to YouTuber’s Life 2. You can probably already tell if you’d enjoy the game from its title alone. It’s not a bad game if you set realistic expectations for what awaits you in New Tube City, but for everyone else, YouTuber’s Life 2 is nothing more than a glorified mobile game that lacks any deep or complex gameplay mechanics.

You Should Play YouTuber’s Life 2 If You:

Enjoy a grindy simulation game

Love the game’s cartoonish style

Don’t mind the lack of deep gameplay mechanics

Love customizing your characters

Don’t mind the repetitive gameplay loop

Score:

5.5 / 10