Tiny Life

A fun simulation game where you mess with people's lives

๐Ÿก 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

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  • 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

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  • Build houses and community spaces like parks and cafรฉs 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

A split banner showing a Tiny's life goals menu, as well as the interactions of a fridge
  • 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

A banner showing a relationship tooltip for a Tiny called Jeremiah Jenson, whom the currently selected Tiny is dating
  • 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

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  • 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

A split banner showing the game's custom content menu with the Example Mod installed, as well as a part of the Example Mod's code
  • 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

๐Ÿ“บ Watch the Trailer

๐Ÿ† Praise for Tiny Life

โ€œThe best game like The Sims to play right now.โ€
Lauren Morton, PC Gamer
โ€œA viable alternative for The Sims that captures the simple joy of the life simulator genre.โ€
Leah J. Williams, GamesHub
โ€œYouโ€™ll be in your nostalgic element with this delightful little indie.โ€
Katharine Castle, Rock Paper Shotgun
โ€œAn excellent alternative for fans of the genre both in its visual style and more open design.โ€
Will Nelson, PCGamesN
โ€œThe perfect pixel family sim for any player looking for the joys of The Sims but made in the cutesy 2D-pixel art style.โ€
Megan Smith, Game Rant
โ€œI had a really great time playing with this. This very much makes me feel the way that The Sims 1 did.โ€
Plumbella, YouTube

๐Ÿ”— 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!

๐Ÿ“ซ 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.

๐Ÿ“ข 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.

๐ŸŒ 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.

Cover image for post Community Showcase and Future Plans (Early Access Launch Postmortem)

Community Showcase and Future Plans (Early Access Launch Postmortem)

19 May 2023
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โš™๏ธ 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!

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Tiny Technicalities: The Pronoun Updateโ„ข

15 Apr 2023
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Tiny Technicalities: What's in an Action?

10 Feb 2023
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๐Ÿ“ฐ 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.

Cover image for post 0.45.0: Small Plants and Big Emotions

0.45.0: Small Plants and Big Emotions

29 Nov 2024
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Cover image for post 0.44.0: Set the Vibe in Lavender Park

0.44.0: Set the Vibe in Lavender Park

17 Oct 2024
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Cover image for post 0.43.0: New Plant Stuff, New Language and New Gross Stuff

0.43.0: New Plant Stuff, New Language and New Gross Stuff

09 Jul 2024
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Cover image for post 0.42.0: Plenty of Personalities and Different Difficulties

0.42.0: Plenty of Personalities and Different Difficulties

09 Jun 2024
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Cover image for post 0.41.0: Huge New Set, Babysitters, Museums, More Stings, and More

0.41.0: Huge New Set, Babysitters, Museums, More Stings, and More

14 Apr 2024
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Cover image for post 0.40.0: Lunar Grove and Populated Homes

0.40.0: Lunar Grove and Populated Homes

09 Mar 2024
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๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ 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.

๐Ÿซ‚ 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

๐Ÿง“ 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

๐Ÿ’ƒ 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

๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ 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

๐Ÿข 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

โš’๏ธ 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

๐Ÿคน 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

๐Ÿš— 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

๐Ÿ‘œ 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

๐ŸŽฎ 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.

๐Ÿท 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

๐ŸŽ„ Seasons

Eventually, we want to add seasons, weather, and holidays into the game.
Long-Term

๐Ÿ• 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

๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ 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

๐ŸŒ 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

๐Ÿง 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!