The Good Life
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"!
The Good Life is an adventure developed by Grounding Inc, released 14 October 2021 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 18 hrs to finish.
What The Good Life is
The Good Life is an adventure game developed by Grounding Inc and released in 2021. It was published by PLAYISM. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Journey to Rainy Woods... a small town in Northern England surrounded by forests. Nestled in abundant nature, stone houses built in the Middle Ages still stand beside one another. The townspeople look out for each other, love their families, work hard, and enjoy nightly drinks at the local pubs. At first glance, it looks like just another normal country town, but the townspeople all say the same thing... "This is the happiest town in the world." "We're the happiest people on the planet." They don't talk about why they are so happy, or how they know that they're the happiest in the world, but they seem to really believe what they say. As an étrangère, players feel both alienated yet…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 42 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Good Life holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 14 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 18 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3470 / Ryzen 3 1200, 8 GB RAM and GeForce GTX960, Radeon RX 560. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Good Life launched on 14 October 2021, within three weeks of Age of Empires IV, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy and Far Cry 6. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Age of Empires IV, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Far Cry 6.
Official trailer
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