Description

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!

History

Tiny Life's creator, the solo indie developer Ellpeck (who usually goes by Ell), has always loved casual life simulation games like The Sims, Story of Seasons and Stardew Valley. For multiple years, he deemed the prospect of making a complex simulation game similar to The Sims too difficult, until he started working on Tiny Life and realized that it is, indeed, quite the task. Nevertheless, he has been working on the game regularly for over a year and considers it his passion project.

Features

  • 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.

Videos

Gameplay Trailer — YouTube

Images

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Selected Articles

  • The best game like The Sims to play right now.
    Lauren Morton, PC Gamer
  • You'll be in your nostalgic element with this delightful little indie.
    Katharine Castle, Rock Paper Shotgun
  • An awesome indie game that’s a retro pixel graphics deeply moddable modern re-interpretation of The Sims 1, but is also highly unique with its own style, and stands on its own, with a mesmerizing soundtrack.
    Don Hopkins, Designer on The Sims, Twitter
  • An excellent alternative for fans of the genre both in its visual style and more open design.
    Will Nelson, PCGamesN
  • The perfect pixel family sim for any player looking for the joys of The Sims but made in the cutesy 2D-pixel art style.
    Megan Smith, Game Rant
  • A viable alternative for The Sims that captures the simple joy of the life simulator genre.
    Leah J. Williams, GamesHub
  • I had a really great time playing with this. This very much makes me feel the way that The Sims 1 did.
    Plumbella, YouTube
  • I enjoyed playing it! It's kind of what we know and what we love.
    James Turner, Formerly Known as The Sim Supply, YouTube
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About Ellpeck Games

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Ellpeck Games is a small indie studio from Neu-Ulm, run by student and programmer Ellpeck (who usually goes by Ell). We specialize in cozy games with a lot of heart and pixelart, and we've been releasing them since late 2018. Our life simulation game, Tiny Life, is currently available in Steam Early Access, and will soon arrive on consoles.
More information
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