It's an interesting game in that it's less of a sim and more of a puzzle. Here is your randomly generated character that you cannot customize. You can change its name but not its skin color, clothes, or voice pitch. Get a second character! But that specific character has a specific storyline where they don't want a career. In horizontal mode, you can have a two-story house... and everyone can share the bathroom but not the kitchen stove. But they can share the microwave.
Multiple characters make sounds and emote at each other, but that's the extent of it. With the space-sharing limitations, vertical mode makes more sense, making a multi-story building and assigning specific floors to each character. However, the scaling options are limited, so vertical mode is tiny on my screen and virtually unplayable.
I strongly dislike leaving this to idle on my screen because the sound of little people defecating interrupts my focus.
If you wanted to customize a little avatar and build them a nice house and pack that house with familiar faces, this is not the game for you. Still, I can see the appeal of some of these things. I'd recommend this to someone who likes to 100% complete idle games then never touch them again.
Game brings a little comfort to your life by having the characters just chill idle on your PC.
While I'm browsing my little dude is streaming and making more money than I ever will, GG i cry 10/10
It's ok?
I was able to get everything in under 40 hours, which is *wild* for an idle game.
I've finished two towns, maxed out all careers, completed all fulfillments, 100%ed achievements, and even figured out how to turn on Creepypasta mode. But now that all these things are done there's really not much else to do. Hoping that with a few updates there'll be more content to make it interesting again. But until then, I don't really think it's worth it.
Do not buy if you have a high resolution monitor. At 4k the interface is so small that it is effectively unplayable without moving my face right up to the monitor to see what I'm doing, and this is with a 32" monitor. I can't imagine how bad it must be with smaller monitors at the same resolution. The fact that there is no option to make the interface larger or to increase the overall zoom of the game makes this feel rushed and I'm assuming there are a bunch of other oversights and issues as well, as a result.
The game also takes an oddly long time to launch and the control over where it appears on screen is also very limited. Why not just allow us to drag it wherever we want it?
I'm sure this is probably decent on a 1080p monitor and will one day be pretty good but as mentioned, it feels very rushed and poorly tested, given that the developers clearly never tested it on high resolution screens or did, but don't care that it's not playable. I'll wait a week or so for fixes and refund if none come.
Edit: I've checked the forums and this issue seems to have been reported during a beta, and people with resolutions lower than 1080p have reported that the game takes up half the screen. Since the dev has not acknowledged any of these issues, I'm assuming there's not going to be a fix. Refunding now.
It should be mentioned on the store page that the game is only designed to be played at a narrow range of resolutions. This also means that the game is basically going to be unplayable at a time in the future when everyone is using higher resolution monitors, so beware of that.
I only have a little over an hour playing this game, but I don't think I can recommend it 100%. I think the game itself is a little unforgiving and can be incredibly frustrating. Here are some examples: say you buy props and stack it on a table, you are unable to move said table unless you can find a place to move the props or resort to selling them. The other example is not being able to move walls. I have accidentally built a shed.. I cannot move it to the main house. Don't get me wrong the game is fun, but as I said, so far I only played the game for a little over an hour and I can't recommend it fully right now.
Want to add, this game has the same concept as Rusty's Retirement and has some easter eggs in the game as well, which is a nice touch!
This gets the Rusty's Retirement seal of approval 👍
I absolutely love that I can build a massive apartment tower complex on the side of my monitor. It's a great addition to the 'Bottom-Of-Your-Screen' genre!
It's very cute and minimalist, but even then, horribly unpolished. Animations break, information/stats provided are just wrong sometimes, items in menus aren't named correctly (or even just named "error"), it's possible to click on stuff through a menu while you're using it, and even the occasional crash. Look, I don't expect any game to be perfect, but these are the types of errors I expect from games which are *a bit* more robust than this.
A smaller issue is just the game flow in general. Early game you need a ton of money and earn it super slow so you just build ugly stuff which are efficient - so you basically need to "grind" in order to get to the part of the game you actually give a fuck about: decorating the homes.
And, you can't demolish walls, so if you build somewhere you didn't mean to - too bad.
It's dirt cheap so if you can get it on 50% and are interested, then maybe. Otherwise, not really worth it, which is a shame; the idea has merit.
This is a REALLY great little game to have going while I work on writing. I'm stoked this is exactly what I wanted, I got like 5 hours of writing done because of this cute little sim. Gonna be playing this when I need to force myself to take a break from Sims to do productive things
Ehhhhhh, not a very good tutorial, also, far too tiny and hard to see unfortunately. Maybe when they introduce more scale sizes so I can see what I'm doing haha
Game has a lot to like about it! There are some deal breakers that make this not a recommend.
The people will get stuck in repeat animation cycles when interacting with things. I also had a crash on exit.
The zone system prevents people from interacting with items that meet their needs. The zone system in general probably needs a rework, either to allow overlapping zones, or shared zones. With the zone system, it feels like the game is pushing you to build duplicates of every need-satisfying item for every person, but the money rolls in slow and the cost for everything (specifically new walls) is so high that it feels like you should build an apartment with shared amenities first - which they then don't share.
If there's a rework of the zone system and some bugfixes, this would be a recommend.
It's kind of unplayable on ultrawide since the game window can't be resized or moved.
Not meant as a negative review of the game itself, just a heads up, especially for people with NVIDIA Surround/AMD Eyefinity setups.
I LOVE THIS GAME ITS SO COOL AND AWESOME I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS JUST IN DEMO...... BUT NOW... THE GAME IS OUT AND IM READY TO INDULGE IN SOME AMAZING GAMEPLAY ! ! ! ! ! ! !!
I started playing post-updates and I am enjoying the heck out of not having to actively play! My gaming dropped to zero once my semester started, and I was at a loss of something fun to do between the mountains of assignments I get per week. Enter My Little Life. My little people go about their lives at the bottom of my screen and rack up their cash as I do my college course work. I take a break every now and again to give them upgrades, build, recruit more little people, etc. and then it's back to work for me.
Running this game really cuts the tedium out of my days. It also requires very little to run, so it runs wonderfully on my 8 year old drag-around-campus laptop. Minimal effort and lots of fun!
It's a great little idle game to keep your eyes on small humans while doing other stuff.
Watching little fellows going on about their lives, decorating their new home, and leading them to their dream careers.
Seeing them poop in a bucket reminds me of the short time when my toilet was broken.
Sometimes a bucket can be your best friend.
Lots of different items are available to make the most of your space.
As mentioned by others before, I'd like to have an option to choose how my first little guy looked like and not rely on random re-rolls at the start of the game.
You can also adopt and pet your animal companions.
It took me around 15 hours to unlock everything.
Its great to leave running when you are just mindlessly on your PC. I think there should be an option to run it full screen though, as sometimes I got more involved with the game then whatever task I was SUPPOSED to be doing. Great game especially if you can design your character and flesh it out a little more. This has a ton of potential.
It's an interesting game in that it's less of a sim and more of a puzzle. Here is your randomly generated character that you cannot customize. You can change its name but not its skin color, clothes, or voice pitch. Get a second character! But that specific character has a specific storyline where they don't want a career. In horizontal mode, you can have a two-story house... and everyone can share the bathroom but not the kitchen stove. But they can share the microwave.
Multiple characters make sounds and emote at each other, but that's the extent of it. With the space-sharing limitations, vertical mode makes more sense, making a multi-story building and assigning specific floors to each character. However, the scaling options are limited, so vertical mode is tiny on my screen and virtually unplayable.
I strongly dislike leaving this to idle on my screen because the sound of little people defecating interrupts my focus.
If you wanted to customize a little avatar and build them a nice house and pack that house with familiar faces, this is not the game for you. Still, I can see the appeal of some of these things. I'd recommend this to someone who likes to 100% complete idle games then never touch them again.
Game brings a little comfort to your life by having the characters just chill idle on your PC.
While I'm browsing my little dude is streaming and making more money than I ever will, GG i cry 10/10
It's ok?
I was able to get everything in under 40 hours, which is *wild* for an idle game.
I've finished two towns, maxed out all careers, completed all fulfillments, 100%ed achievements, and even figured out how to turn on Creepypasta mode. But now that all these things are done there's really not much else to do. Hoping that with a few updates there'll be more content to make it interesting again. But until then, I don't really think it's worth it.
Do not buy if you have a high resolution monitor. At 4k the interface is so small that it is effectively unplayable without moving my face right up to the monitor to see what I'm doing, and this is with a 32" monitor. I can't imagine how bad it must be with smaller monitors at the same resolution. The fact that there is no option to make the interface larger or to increase the overall zoom of the game makes this feel rushed and I'm assuming there are a bunch of other oversights and issues as well, as a result.
The game also takes an oddly long time to launch and the control over where it appears on screen is also very limited. Why not just allow us to drag it wherever we want it?
I'm sure this is probably decent on a 1080p monitor and will one day be pretty good but as mentioned, it feels very rushed and poorly tested, given that the developers clearly never tested it on high resolution screens or did, but don't care that it's not playable. I'll wait a week or so for fixes and refund if none come.
Edit: I've checked the forums and this issue seems to have been reported during a beta, and people with resolutions lower than 1080p have reported that the game takes up half the screen. Since the dev has not acknowledged any of these issues, I'm assuming there's not going to be a fix. Refunding now.
It should be mentioned on the store page that the game is only designed to be played at a narrow range of resolutions. This also means that the game is basically going to be unplayable at a time in the future when everyone is using higher resolution monitors, so beware of that.
I only have a little over an hour playing this game, but I don't think I can recommend it 100%. I think the game itself is a little unforgiving and can be incredibly frustrating. Here are some examples: say you buy props and stack it on a table, you are unable to move said table unless you can find a place to move the props or resort to selling them. The other example is not being able to move walls. I have accidentally built a shed.. I cannot move it to the main house. Don't get me wrong the game is fun, but as I said, so far I only played the game for a little over an hour and I can't recommend it fully right now.
Want to add, this game has the same concept as Rusty's Retirement and has some easter eggs in the game as well, which is a nice touch!
This gets the Rusty's Retirement seal of approval 👍
I absolutely love that I can build a massive apartment tower complex on the side of my monitor. It's a great addition to the 'Bottom-Of-Your-Screen' genre!
It's very cute and minimalist, but even then, horribly unpolished. Animations break, information/stats provided are just wrong sometimes, items in menus aren't named correctly (or even just named "error"), it's possible to click on stuff through a menu while you're using it, and even the occasional crash. Look, I don't expect any game to be perfect, but these are the types of errors I expect from games which are *a bit* more robust than this.
A smaller issue is just the game flow in general. Early game you need a ton of money and earn it super slow so you just build ugly stuff which are efficient - so you basically need to "grind" in order to get to the part of the game you actually give a fuck about: decorating the homes.
And, you can't demolish walls, so if you build somewhere you didn't mean to - too bad.
It's dirt cheap so if you can get it on 50% and are interested, then maybe. Otherwise, not really worth it, which is a shame; the idea has merit.
This is a REALLY great little game to have going while I work on writing. I'm stoked this is exactly what I wanted, I got like 5 hours of writing done because of this cute little sim. Gonna be playing this when I need to force myself to take a break from Sims to do productive things
Ehhhhhh, not a very good tutorial, also, far too tiny and hard to see unfortunately. Maybe when they introduce more scale sizes so I can see what I'm doing haha
Game has a lot to like about it! There are some deal breakers that make this not a recommend.
The people will get stuck in repeat animation cycles when interacting with things. I also had a crash on exit.
The zone system prevents people from interacting with items that meet their needs. The zone system in general probably needs a rework, either to allow overlapping zones, or shared zones. With the zone system, it feels like the game is pushing you to build duplicates of every need-satisfying item for every person, but the money rolls in slow and the cost for everything (specifically new walls) is so high that it feels like you should build an apartment with shared amenities first - which they then don't share.
If there's a rework of the zone system and some bugfixes, this would be a recommend.
It's kind of unplayable on ultrawide since the game window can't be resized or moved.
Not meant as a negative review of the game itself, just a heads up, especially for people with NVIDIA Surround/AMD Eyefinity setups.
I LOVE THIS GAME ITS SO COOL AND AWESOME I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS JUST IN DEMO...... BUT NOW... THE GAME IS OUT AND IM READY TO INDULGE IN SOME AMAZING GAMEPLAY ! ! ! ! ! ! !!
I started playing post-updates and I am enjoying the heck out of not having to actively play! My gaming dropped to zero once my semester started, and I was at a loss of something fun to do between the mountains of assignments I get per week. Enter My Little Life. My little people go about their lives at the bottom of my screen and rack up their cash as I do my college course work. I take a break every now and again to give them upgrades, build, recruit more little people, etc. and then it's back to work for me.
Running this game really cuts the tedium out of my days. It also requires very little to run, so it runs wonderfully on my 8 year old drag-around-campus laptop. Minimal effort and lots of fun!
It's a great little idle game to keep your eyes on small humans while doing other stuff.
Watching little fellows going on about their lives, decorating their new home, and leading them to their dream careers.
Seeing them poop in a bucket reminds me of the short time when my toilet was broken.
Sometimes a bucket can be your best friend.
Lots of different items are available to make the most of your space.
As mentioned by others before, I'd like to have an option to choose how my first little guy looked like and not rely on random re-rolls at the start of the game.
You can also adopt and pet your animal companions.
It took me around 15 hours to unlock everything.
Its great to leave running when you are just mindlessly on your PC. I think there should be an option to run it full screen though, as sometimes I got more involved with the game then whatever task I was SUPPOSED to be doing. Great game especially if you can design your character and flesh it out a little more. This has a ton of potential.
