The Good Life
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 12.7h 36.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.36/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 323 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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"!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX960, Radeon RX 560, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 33 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 45 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre. On the same math No Place Like Home ($19.99, scores 48) and Paradise Killer ($4.99, scores 87) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about The Good Life
12.7 hours to finish it, 37 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
78% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 05:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I think I'm around 2/3 done with the game, writing is really fun and if you don't mind new and unique mechanics being undercooked this has plenty, unfortunately it also has baffling design choices, overall very charming.
2 more reviews
The Good Life is one of the strangest and most charming life simulation games released in recent years, blending photography mechanics, open-world exploration, murder mystery storytelling, and supernatural transformations into an experience that constantly shifts between cozy rural adventure and bizarre psychological mystery. Created by Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro, the game carries the same eccentric personality found...
I played the demo then went straight into the game (because I bought it). Don't do that lol. I had to start over and absolutely LOVE this game!!! It's not linear and allows you to pick and choose what to do next. There are a few "urgent quests" that require you to complete them immediately and often with a timer, but otherwise, it's whenever. You do have to keep your stats up and have a time progression and have to...
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Cite this score
The Good Life scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1452500/the-good-lifeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.