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The Good Life

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

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IndieRPG

Modes: Single player

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

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"!

1
playing now
76%
positive of 320 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
18h
to beat · rushed 17h
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 43% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.
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 12 of 13 observed days · $30.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-12 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$9.892021-10-152026-08-282021-10-15 — 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 $29.992026-08-28 — best price $39.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

70202026-05-30 — 37 pageviews2026-06-02 — 41 pageviews2026-06-05 — 51 pageviews2026-06-08 — 52 pageviews2026-06-11 — 45 pageviews2026-06-14 — 44 pageviews2026-06-17 — 57 pageviews2026-06-20 — 45 pageviews2026-06-23 — 38 pageviews2026-06-26 — 47 pageviews2026-06-29 — 52 pageviews2026-07-02 — 34 pageviews2026-07-05 — 54 pageviews2026-07-08 — 47 pageviews2026-07-11 — 52 pageviews2026-07-14 — 42 pageviews2026-07-17 — 39 pageviews2026-07-20 — 53 pageviews2026-07-23 — 49 pageviews2026-07-26 — 42 pageviews2026-07-29 — 38 pageviews2026-08-01 — 37 pageviews2026-08-04 — 41 pageviews2026-08-07 — 31 pageviews2026-08-10 — 43 pageviews2026-08-13 — 34 pageviews2026-08-16 — 38 pageviews2026-08-19 — 35 pageviews2026-08-22 — 70 pageviews2026-08-25 — 55 pageviews2026-08-27 — 33 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

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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