My Little Life

My Little Life

Released Jan 2025

A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

89% positive · 1,170 reviews
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Low confidence
Active Development

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Evaluation

My Little Life launched on January 31, 2025 and has received a consistent stream of substantial content updates since release. Major content drops include: a Farming career update (February 28, 2025), a Scientist career update (April 11, 2025), a Chef career update (May 29, 2025), and a holiday seasonal update with 19 new Christmas items (November 7, 2025). A localization feature patch also shipped on September 29, 2025. This establishes a pattern of major content releases roughly every 1–3 months across the first year. The developer stated before launch that the game would "almost definitely" receive post-launch updates, citing many ideas they wanted to add. Every subsequent communication has been upbeat and content-focused, with no indication of development winding down. The most recent developer communication is the September 29, 2025 feature patch. As of today, September 24, 2026, that is approximately 12 months since the last post — which exceeds the established 1–3 month cadence significantly, and is beyond the 6-month silence threshold. However, the developer has not made any statement about ending development, and the prior cadence was very active. The silence is notable but there is no distress signal, no closure announcement, and no explicit statement that development has concluded. Given the strength of the prior update cadence and the absence of any wind-down communication, this sits at the boundary — but the 12-month silence now pushes beyond what the historical pattern would suggest, making development_uncertain a reasonable consideration. That said, the developer's last post (September 29, 2025) was a feature patch promoting an upcoming sister game (My Little Spider), not a farewell or completion statement. The November 7, 2025 post announced the sister game's release alongside a new seasonal update for My Little Life, suggesting active cross-promotion. No roadmap commitments remain outstanding. Given the absence of any outstanding announced content and the silence now exceeding the historical cadence window, the game reads as having completed its active content cycle — but without an explicit developer statement to that effect, some uncertainty remains. The active_development warning is retained but confidence is reduced.
Evidence
Major update added 19 new Christmas/holiday items for December unlock, alongside announcement of sister game My Little Spider.
news post · Nov 7, 2025 source content shipped
high
New Chef career added with 60 new items and consumable mechanics.
news post · May 29, 2025 source content shipped
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
9FingerGames
Achievements
23
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

My Little Life is a life simulator that lives on the bottom of your screen, allowing you to focus on other tasks while periodically checking on your own little person.

Watch as they live out their own lives:

My Little Life is built to be non-intrusive, with no loud popups or distracting events that need to be acted on immediately. This allows you to focus on other tasks while your little person lives their life automatically. While still leaving the important decisions up to you.

Watch you little person go from unemployed and living in a messy home, to living their best life in their full customized dream-home.

Build and decorate your home

Order new items for your little person, watch them get excited when they are delivered to their doorstep. Unlock and order hundreds of different items that make their house feel like a home.

Choose a Career

Choose a career and gain promotions. Your little person could become a green-thumb-farmer, an epic streamer, a shady hacker, and many more options.


The more experienced they are at their chosen career, the bigger the paycheck will be to spend on expanding and customizing their home.

Recruit more little people

Recruit more little people, each with their own hopes and dreams to accomplish. Build separate homes, or have them occupy one massive mansion.

Fulfill their dreams

Fulfill each little persons hopes and dreams to earn Fulfillment Points. Spend Fulfillment Points to unlock increasingly varied and expensive items.

Last evaluated Sep 24, 2026
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