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The Good Life

White Owls Inc. · PLAYISM · 2021-10-15

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IndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Oct 15, 2021 (Xbox One), Oct 14, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 15, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 15, 2021 (PlayStation 4)

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The Good Life is an Indie RPG released in 2021, priced at $29.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive sentiment (76% of 320 reviews).

2
playing now
76%
positive of 320 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
4.20★
PlayStation Store rating (142 ratings)
18h
to beat · rushed 17h
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 06:00 UTC (census sample)

The Good Life is a role-playing video game developed by Japanese studio White Owls Inc. and published by Playism for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, and released on 15 October 2021.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 45% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (62 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.4k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 320 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$39.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.89 at Steam (2026-01-17) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 11 of 17 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
545420212026Week of 2021-10-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 4 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$9.892021-10-152026-10-092021-10-15 — best price $29.992021-12-20 — best price $29.992022-01-05 — best price $29.992022-02-03 — best price $29.992022-05-28 — best price $29.992022-07-07 — best price $29.992022-09-19 — best price $29.992022-11-29 — best price $29.992022-12-10 — best price $29.992023-01-05 — best price $29.992023-01-30 — best price $29.992023-03-23 — best price $29.992023-05-27 — best price $29.992023-08-07 — best price $29.992023-11-28 — best price $29.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-02-15 — best price $29.992024-06-01 — best price $29.992024-07-11 — best price $29.992024-08-14 — best price $29.992024-09-30 — best price $29.992024-11-22 — best price $29.992025-03-20 — best price $29.992025-04-20 — best price $29.992025-06-04 — best price $29.992025-08-14 — best price $29.992025-10-06 — best price $29.992026-01-05 — best price $29.992026-01-31 — best price $29.992026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-05-24 — best price $29.992026-07-09 — best price $29.992026-09-04 — best price $39.992026-09-18 — best price $13.992026-10-02 — best price $39.992026-10-09 — best price $39.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

83212026-05-30 — 37 pageviews2026-06-03 — 42 pageviews2026-06-07 — 49 pageviews2026-06-11 — 45 pageviews2026-06-15 — 43 pageviews2026-06-19 — 53 pageviews2026-06-23 — 38 pageviews2026-06-27 — 44 pageviews2026-07-01 — 36 pageviews2026-07-05 — 54 pageviews2026-07-09 — 36 pageviews2026-07-13 — 54 pageviews2026-07-17 — 39 pageviews2026-07-21 — 45 pageviews2026-07-25 — 48 pageviews2026-07-29 — 38 pageviews2026-08-02 — 29 pageviews2026-08-06 — 37 pageviews2026-08-10 — 43 pageviews2026-08-14 — 28 pageviews2026-08-18 — 35 pageviews2026-08-22 — 70 pageviews2026-08-26 — 37 pageviews2026-08-30 — 55 pageviews2026-09-03 — 52 pageviews2026-09-07 — 38 pageviews2026-09-11 — 22 pageviews2026-09-15 — 83 pageviews2026-09-19 — 51 pageviews2026-09-23 — 46 pageviews2026-09-27 — 44 pageviews2026-10-01 — 38 pageviews2026-10-05 — 42 pageviews2026-10-09 — 33 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

42
achievements tracked
78%
earned "My First Big Scoop?!"
3.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2021-12-13, latest 2023-03-09 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)3,3821%42
Steam (Steam)6091%42
PS4 (PlayStation)3735%42
Steam (Steam)2513%33
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DRPGCrimeNatureColorfulLife SimDetectiveOpen WorldSimulationStory Rich

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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