Skip to main content

Text Your Life

Text Your Life Game Cover
66%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, emotional
Most mentioned negative aspects:story, graphics
88% User Score Based on 26 reviews

Platforms

PCWindows
Buy NowGet on Steam
Text Your Life Game Cover

About Text Your Life

Text Your Life is a single player casual simulation game with a romance theme. It was developed by Pizza Writers and was released on August 25, 2024. It received positive reviews from players.

As a fourth-year Law student with a part-time job at the Catal Café, you might as well end up going bald from stress. Fortunately, you can keep in touch with your peculiar group of friends and Daniel, your long-distance boyfriend, through your favorite messaging app (). They help you see the fun side of your busy life, as well as keep every hair in its place (or not). Now you've just moved out …

Genres & Tags
Play Modes
Text Your Life screenshot
Text Your Life screenshot
Text Your Life screenshot
Text Your Life screenshot
Text Your Life screenshot
Text Your Life screenshot
Text Your Life screenshot
Text Your Life screenshot
Text Your Life screenshot
Skip Games Like Text Your Life

Games Like Text Your Life

Looking for games like Text Your Life? Here are top casual simulation recommendations with a romance focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Zarie: The Story of Sin, Guidelicious or Follow the Black Kitten.

Zarie: The Story of Sin Image
67%24reviews

Zarie: The Story of Sin

2023Action
PCWindows
Games like Zarie: The Story of Sin
Guidelicious Image
74%37reviews

Guidelicious

2023Simulation
LinuxPCMac OS+1
Games like Guidelicious
Follow the Black Kitten Image
54%19reviews

Follow the Black Kitten

2022Casual Role Playing
PCWindows
Games like Follow the Black Kitten
A Heart of Butterblue Image
57%21reviews

A Heart of Butterblue

2023Casual Management
LinuxPCMac OS+1
Games like A Heart of Butterblue
Under Maintenance Image
97%98reviews

Under Maintenance

2023Casual Simulation
LinuxPCMac OS+1
Games like Under Maintenance
Five Stages of Pink Image
98%62reviews

Five Stages of Pink

2022Action
LinuxPCMac OS+1
Games like Five Stages of Pink
Autumn Spirit Image
73%29reviews

Autumn Spirit

2024Action
PCWindows
Games like Autumn Spirit
Of Frost and Flowers Image
80%42reviews

Of Frost and Flowers

2023Casual Simulation
LinuxPCTablet+5
Games like Of Frost and Flowers
Coalescence Image

Coalescence

2022Casual Role Playing
PCMac OSWindows
Games like Coalescence
Royal Duality Image
47%10reviews

Royal Duality

2022Action
PCMac OSWindows
Games like Royal Duality
More games like Text Your Life
Skip User Reviews

Reviews

88%Audience ScoreBased on 26 reviews
humor2 positive mentions
gameplay1 negative mentions
  • Impressive effort by just two creators, showing great passion and creativity in game development.
  • Engaging and relatable storytelling with well-developed characters that draw players into their college life and friendships.
  • Unique and clever use of the chat and phone interface with personality-filled dialogue options and background sound design enhancing immersion.
  • Lack of some basic features like chat log scrolling, going back to previous messages, and saving progress makes the reading experience frustrating at times.
  • Some players find the game to be more of an interactive story or visual novel rather than a game, with limited gameplay elements.
  • The game is still incomplete and occasionally has predictable or less impactful dialogue choices, leaving players eager for more content and updates.

  • story

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The story is an engaging, choice-driven interactive narrative that feels personal and unique with each playthrough, resembling a chat conversation. While the minimalist art and format support the storytelling well, some parts can feel rushed or predictable. Overall, it offers emotional storytelling that allows players to create their own character and personality, appealing to fans of visual novels and interactive stories.

    • “Text Your Life is an interactive story game that turns your choices into a personal narrative, almost like living through a chat conversation.”
    • “The concept is simple but engaging; every decision you make shapes the story in meaningful ways, making each playthrough feel unique.”
    • “If you enjoy choice-driven narratives and emotional storytelling, Text Your Life is definitely worth a try.”
    • “The minimalist art style and chat-based format work well for the story, though some parts can feel a bit rushed or predictable.”
    • “Simply, it's a 'choose your own story' game, a visual novel, yet not visualized.”
    • “But from that moment on, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing how this group of friends unravel MC's story.”

  • humor

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game delivers genuine, cute, and funny moments, particularly through friendly banter, though it can be challenging to distinguish between the numerous characters. However, some users find the comedic appeal somewhat niche and limited in scope.

    • “A good effort at an interactive texting game, with some genuinely cute and funny moments, but there are enough characters that it was hard to tell everyone apart at first, and I'm more interested in the friendly banter than the romance routes.”

  • emotional

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The emotional aspect of the game is praised for its relatable and genuine writing, effectively exploring real-life dilemmas and relationships. Fans of choice-driven narratives and heartfelt storytelling will find it especially engaging.

    • “The writing is relatable and emotional, often touching on real-life dilemmas and relationships in a way that feels genuine.”
    • “If you enjoy choice-driven narratives and emotional storytelling, Text Your Life is definitely worth a try.”

  • graphics

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The graphics feature a minimalist art style that complements the chat-based format, effectively supporting the story. However, some visuals may feel rushed or predictable at times.

  • gameplay

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The gameplay is minimal, primarily consisting of clicking through dialogue, which many users find poorly written and unengaging, raising concerns about the overall quality and approval standards.

    • “As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay; it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, 'how did something this badly written end up on Steam?'.”

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in this game is seen as tedious and slow, likened to reading a novel where you must click repeatedly to progress each sentence instead of smoothly turning pages, making the experience frustrating and drawn-out.

Skip Game Offers

Buy Text Your Life

Skip Videos

Videos

Skip FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Text Your Life is a casual simulation game with romance theme. Common tags for Text Your Life include indie, emotional, early access, cute, free to play and others.

Text Your Life is available on PC and Windows.

Text Your Life was released on August 25, 2024.

Text Your Life was developed by Pizza Writers.

Text Your Life has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Text Your Life for its humor but disliked it for its story.

Text Your Life is a single player game.

Similar games include Zarie: The Story of Sin, Guidelicious, Follow the Black Kitten, A Heart of Butterblue, Under Maintenance and others.