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The Good Life

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2021

Should you play it?

Enjoy everyday life while solving a murder mystery in Rainy Woods - known as the "happiest town in the world" - in this all-new "Debt Repayment RPG"!

What works

  • Unique quirky story and characters
  • Large open world with exploration
  • Animal transformation mechanics
  • Photography and social media progression
  • Cozy atmosphere and humor

Things to keep in mind

  • Tedious and grindy fetch quests
  • Clunky controls and ui
  • Slow and repetitive gameplay pacing
  • Technical bugs and softlocks reported
  • Some story threads unresolved or confusing

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos

  • The Witch of Fern Island

  • holoVillage: Our Cozy Days

  • Calico

  • Wylde Flowers

  • Summer in Mara

  • Tales of Seikyu

  • Pumpkin Days

  • Märchen Forest: Mylne and the Forest Gift [Legacy ver.]

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

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  • Slow living with Princess

  • Oriental Valley

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

The Good Life: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 25/07/2026