Games like Live the Life
If Live the Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are Denizen, Westlanders and The Guild 3 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bowling minigame adds variety, detailed apartment customization and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Players who liked Live the Life also play
Steam players who put hours into Live the Life also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Denizen
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Live the Life.
Top pick for Live the Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Live the Life.
Make a living for yourself in a city full of opportunity while you meet a variety of locals, explore unique locations, and work your way to the top in this open-world life simulator.
Westlanders
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Live the Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Live the Life.
Forge your legacy in the Westlands. Survive and thrive in a Wild West open world. Alone or with friends, explore, fight, and build from your customizable wagon. Expand into bustling settlements, recruit allies, and forge a network to tame the wilderness and build your legacy.
The Guild 3
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Live the Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Live the Life.
The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!
Crusader Kings III
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Live the Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Live the Life.
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Project Hospital
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Ranked #5 for Live the Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live the Life.
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Live the Life.
Ranked #6 for Live the Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live the Life.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Paralives
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Live the Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Live the Life.
Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?
KINGDOMS
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Live the Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Live the Life.
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Live the Life.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Live the Life.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Live the Life.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Live the Life.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Live the Life.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Live the Life.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Live the Life.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Live the Life
- Does Live the Life work on Steam Deck?
- Live the Life is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- What games are most similar to Live the Life?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Live the Life are Denizen, Westlanders, The Guild 3.
- Who developed Live the Life?
- Live the Life was developed by One Man Behind.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Live the Life.
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