The Good Life, Swery's cats-and-dogs murder mystery game, is funded (Updated)

Update: And just like that, it's done: The Kickstarter campaign is now sitting at $622,000 in backing on a roughly $619,000 goal. (The campaign's native currency is actually Japanese Yen, so the conversion can fluctuate somewhat.) That leaves a little over two days for the $800,000 Nintendo Switch stretch goal, which leads me to think that it isn't likely to happen. Assuming that's the case, White Owls said the overage will go toward creating extra content for the game, like more outfits, seasonal content, and music. Details on that will be revealed in a future update.

Original story:

A week ago it looked like The Good Life wasn't going to make it, but the release of a free demo and a late burst of enthusiasm has brought the Kickstarter drive, at the time of writing, to $582,000. The game will be funded at $619,000. 

There are 61 hours to go, and it's an all or nothing drive. That means if the fund doesn't meet the target, backers aren't charged and the devs don't get anything.

The devs describe The Good Life as "a Daily Life Simulator x SWERISM." SWERY, aka Hidetaka Suehiro, wrote and directed wobbly cult fave Deadly Premonition, and made part of a cancelled episodic story game called D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, which we quite liked. Both games are feature odd social situations and screwball humour. 

Tom Senior

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.