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A single-player, hand-drawn life sim charting a character's journey from toddler to adulthood, with career and romance shaped by your choices across roughly 22 hours.

Little Lives
A casual life-sim about balancing career, education, and relationships while building a routine in a friendly town.
2024-03-08
- Indie
- Simulator

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Games like Growing Up

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Games like Growing Up

A single-player, hand-drawn life sim charting a character's journey from toddler to adulthood, with career and romance shaped by your choices across roughly 22 hours.

Little Lives
A casual life-sim about balancing career, education, and relationships while building a routine in a friendly town.
2024-03-08
- Indie
- Simulator

I Wanna Be A Game Dev!

A casual school-life RPG about balancing classes and game development, with visual-novel storytelling and a light mystery, spanning roughly 15 hours.

2024-11-22

Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

Consume Me

A compact eight-hour life-sim RPG about navigating high school with humor and heart.

2025-09-24

Comedy
Puzzle
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Romance

Perfect Tides: Station to Station

A reflective, mouse-driven narrative adventure about 18-year-old Mara navigating young adulthood in the city, with item collecting and relationship-building at its core.

2026-01-22

Comedy
Adventure
Indie
Point-and-click
Drama
Romance

Magical Princess

In this story-rich magical-academy raising sim, your class, job, and training choices determine your daughter's future across over 50 endings, wrapped in polished presentation and deep systems.

2026-04-27

Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Simulator
Text
Role-playing (RPG)

Closer the Distance

A single-player slice-of-life simulation about a family coping with tragedy, featuring secret-uncovering and relationship-repairing choices in a roughly 8-hour story.

2024-08-01

Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Point-and-click
Drama

Pieced Together

A cozy scrapbooking simulation about friendship and growing older, where you sort items and solve gentle puzzles to piece together a heartfelt story in about three hours.

2026-03-06

Puzzle
Indie
Side view

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit

A compact, choice-driven FMV life simulation following Lu Yuan from youth to maturity, with branching decisions and dramatic story twists.

2024-02-19

Action
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Drama
Visual Novel

Volcano Princess

A single-player parenting-sim RPG about raising a future monarch through hobby choices, battle training, and citizen friendships, with decisions that shape both daughter and empire.

2023-04-20

First person
Strategy
Fantasy
Indie
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)
Drama

To Pixelia

A casual single-player life simulation RPG where you pick a career path and live out a pixel-art life, with reviewers praising its variety while noting some technical issues.

2025-05-01

Bird view / Isometric
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

A lengthy, choice-driven narrative RPG about growing up on an alien colony, mixing exploration and card-based battles with replayable branching stories.

2022-08-25

Science fiction
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Text
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game
Drama
Romance
Visual Novel

Our Life: Beginnings & Always

A cozy, free-to-play visual novel about growing from childhood to adulthood with the boy next door, with choices that shape a wholesome, potentially romantic relationship.

2020-11-16

Comedy
Indie
Simulator
Romance
Visual Novel

Little Lives