The Good Life (video game)

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The Good Life
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Developer(s)
  • White Owls Inc.
  • Grounding
Publisher(s) Playism
Director(s)
Artist(s) Wataru Nishide
Writer(s)
  • Masatoshi Tokuoka
  • Kokonoe Tohno
  • Milli-Gram
  • Hidetaka Suehiro
Platform(s)
Release15 October 2021
Genre(s) Role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player

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. [1] [2]

Contents

Gameplay and plot

The Good Life revolves around Naomi Hayward, a journalist from New York. After accumulating a debt of £30 million, she is sent to investigate Rainy Woods, a small village in the north of England. Its population is able to transform into cats and dogs. Naomi learns this ability too. The player must take photographs of various things and upload them on the Internet in order to make money, and is given many side quests to complete, in addition to the main quest. [3] [4]

Development

The game was developed by Japanese studio White Owls, and the project was led by Hidetaka Suehiro, the director of Deadly Premonition who wanted to show "the great things about British culture", [5] and Yukio Futatsugi, the creator of the Panzer Dragoon series. [6] The studio launched a failed crowdfunding campaign on Fig, though a subsequent crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter was successful. [7] While the game was originally set to be published by The Irregular Corporation, Playism announced that it had taken over publishing duties in June 2021. [8] While the game was initially set to be released in 2019, it was delayed several times. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4 on October 15, 2021. [9]

Reception

The game received "mixed or average reviews" upon release according to review aggregator Metacritic. [10] [11]

References

  1. ↑ Robinson, Martin (October 18, 2021). "The Good Life review - Deadly Premonition by way of middle England". Eurogamer.net. Archived from the original on 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  2. ↑ Haske, Steve (October 18, 2021). "The Good Life review: A messy RPG as unique as it is ridiculous". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on March 14, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  3. ↑ Tom Sykes (October 18, 2021). "The Good Life review". pcgamer. Archived from the original on March 14, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  4. ↑ "The Good Life Review - Country House". Archived from the original on 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  5. ↑ "Interview with Hidetaka "SWERY" Suehiro on the Japanese games industry, White Owls, The Good Life, D4 and more". Wccftech. 10 May 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  6. ↑ Donaldson, Alex (May 3, 2018). "Swery's The Good Life Kickstarter has reached its funding goal". VG 247 . Archived from the original on March 22, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  7. ↑ Senior, Tom (May 2, 2018). "The Good Life, Swery's cats-and-dogs murder mystery game, is funded (Updated)". PC Gamer . Archived from the original on March 22, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  8. ↑ Borthwick, Ben (June 7, 2021). "The Good Life has a new publisher and is now due in Autumn". VideoGamer.com. Archived from the original on March 22, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  9. ↑ Lada, Jenni (September 20, 2021). "The Good Life Release Date Falls in October 2021". Siliconera. Archived from the original on March 22, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  10. ↑ "The Good Life reviews for Nintendo Switch". Metacritic . Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  11. ↑ "The Good Life reviews for PC". Metacritic . Retrieved March 22, 2022.
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