A fun simulation game where you mess with people's lives
🏡 About Tiny Life
Tiny Life is a fun simulation game that aims to capture the essence of games like The Sims series, but in an isometric pixelart style.
In the game, you control a set of people that live together in a household. You take care of their daily needs, build their skills, forge new relationships... or just mess up their entire life in whatever way you can think of!
Create
- Create your own characters with unique personalities and skills
- With over 100 clothing items and thousands of colors available, create your Tinies exactly how you want
- Choose from different age groups, each with their own unique interactions and gameplay
Build
- Build houses and community spaces like parks and cafés and watch households inhabit them
- Pick from hundreds of furniture items, wallpapers, tiles, roofs and more to make each building unique
- Choose items wisely to maximize skill and need gain for your Tinies, but minimize the lot's final price
Interact
- Control your household and tell your characters what to do
- Choose from many complex skills, like cooking, painting, programming, woodworking and more
- With multiple members in your household, let the AI manage your unattended Tinies for you
Build Relationships
- Have your characters interact, build relationships, grow families and live unique lives
- Explore multiple public and residential lots in the vast open world
- Control multiple households in one save file to play out your own story
Share
- Share your creations with the community by exporting lots and households from your game
- Use the Steam Workshop integration to easily upload and download custom content
- Integrate your own story into your content by writing descriptions for your Tinies and lots
Add Content
- Create additional content through the game's built-in C# modding API
- Share your mods using the game's Steam Workshop integration
- Install mods from community members to enhance your gameplay
📺 Watch the Trailer
🏆 Praise for Tiny Life
“The best game like The Sims to play right now.”
“A viable alternative for The Sims that captures the simple joy of the life simulator genre.”
“You’ll be in your nostalgic element with this delightful little indie.”
“An excellent alternative for fans of the genre both in its visual style and more open design.”
“I had a really great time playing with this. This very much makes me feel the way that The Sims 1 did.”
🔗 Social
If you want to stay up to date with Tiny Life's development, you should follow the game on Bluesky or Twitter or subscribe to the mailing list below. You can also join the Discord to ask questions or share your gameplay!
📫 Subscribe
You can also subscribe to the mailing list, which means you will be notified about future news, sneak peeks and devlog posts via email. We promise not to send too many emails, but you can always unsubscribe easily, too.
📢 Posts
Posts are organized into categories, which you can find below. If you want to receive all these posts in your inbox or your favorite feed reader, you can subscribe to the mailing list or the Atom feed.
🌍 Community Showcase
We want to dedicate this section to our community and showcase some of the awesome stuff you've created. Be it in-game content, videos, or fan art, this category is dedicated to your creations.
Community Showcase and Future Plans (Early Access Launch Postmortem)
⚙️ Tiny Technicalities
Tiny Technicalities gives you a little look behind the scenes of Tiny Life development, including explanations about the graphics, music, AI, build mode, and more!
📰 Devlogs
Along with every major update, we publish a devlog that features additional information as well as some screenshots. You can also read the full changelog.
0.43.0: New Plant Stuff, New Language and New Gross Stuff
0.42.0: Plenty of Personalities and Different Difficulties
0.41.0: Huge New Set, Babysitters, Museums, More Stings, and More
0.38.0: Get Cozy Indoors and Lock Out Your Friends
0.36.0: Retro Rarities and Stopped Starvation
Community Showcase and Future Plans (Early Access Launch Postmortem)
0.23.0: Job Choices, Aging Up and Furniture Fun
0.21.0: Two Years of Tiny Life: Cafés, Gamepad Controls and More
0.20.0: The Children Update, it's finally here!
0.17.0: Life Goals, Reward Personalities and Daily Tasks
0.14.0: Lamps, Lot Movement, Speech Sounds!
0.11.0: More Actions, More Skills, More Personalities, More Pride!
0.7.0: Breaking Furniture, Programming, and Many Improvements!
🛣️ Roadmap
There's a lot of stuff planned for the game! Everything from this list that is added into the game will be part of free updates. During Early Access, you'll also encounter little green boxes in the game that will tell you about additional planned features.
This list is not exhaustive! There are a lot of planned and work-in-progress features that we want to keep secret, and some of our plans might change or be moved around during development.
🫂 More Complex Relationships
While there's already friendship, romance, dating and cheating in the game, we'd like to include marriage and jealousy. We plan on expanding relationships even further after release by introducing open relationships, polyamory, and more.
Soon
🧓 More Life Stages
In addition to the babies, children and adults we have now, we plan on adding teenager and elder life stages to the game. Death due to old age is also planned.
Soon
💃 Social Events
Social events will include birthday parties, dinner parties, weddings, and more. You'll be able to organize them in advance, invite the people you want to attend, and earn rewards for events that go well.
Soon
🗺️ More Worlds
Along with the existing ability to create and share custom worlds, we'd like to add a few additional worlds to accompany Maple Plains City, Lunar Grove and Demoville.
Long-Term
🏢 Improvements for Jobs
Select jobs will allow the option to work from home, giving a Tiny daily tasks to complete. After release, jobs with venues that you can actively work at are also planned.
Long-Term
⚒️ More Map-Wide Employments
We plan on adding pizza deliverers, repairpeople, housekeepers and other people that you can hire to help you out.
Long-Term
🤹 Tons More Skills
We have specific plans for skills like mischief, knitting, gardening, and foraging, but more skills are on the horizon, of course!
Long-Term
🚗 Better Transport
Right now, every Tiny owns their own vehicle. We'd like to improve upon this system greatly by adding the ability to buy vehicles, as well as use various types of public transport.
Long-Term
👜 More Sets
We'd like to collaborate with more artists from the community to bring more batches of themed content your way. If you're interested in working on a set with us, don't hesitate to reach out!
Long-Term
🎮 Full and Console Release
Once Tiny Life leaves Early Access, its full release will also be available on consoles, including Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and possibly more. You'll also be able to buy it on additional stores like GOG and the Epic Games Store.
🍷 Even More Public Lots
There will be a lot more public lots in the future, as well as more complex lot types with multiple states, like festival spots and community centers.
Long-Term
🎄 Seasons
Eventually, we want to add seasons, weather, and holidays into the game.
Long-Term
🐕 Pets
Pets like cats, dogs, and possibly others, will be available in the future to join your household and make your Tinies happy.
Long-Term
🏳️🌈 Better Customizable Pronouns
Unfortunately, customizable pronouns for in-game text aren't as easy to implement as we'd like, as we discussed at length in a Tiny Technicalities post. Since gameplay features are our priority right now, this is a long-term plan.
Long-Term
🌍 Multiplayer
Steam and LAN multiplayer will allow multiple players to play together on the same save file and even in the same household. This feature will be added later down the line.
Long-Term
🧐 So Much More
This list isn't exhaustive by any means. Not only are there way more things that we'll want to add in the future, but there are also a couple of secret features that we don't want to tell you about yet. Stay tuned!
