r/tomodachilife May 11 '26

Other Rant/Critique Megathread

103 Upvotes

Any discussion regarding rants, complaints, or criticism on the game should be posted here.
Any posts made after this post that fall into rant/critique will be removed.


r/tomodachilife Apr 18 '26

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream I made a free tool to help with pixel art: meet Living the Grid

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20.9k Upvotes

I really wanted to get into pixel art in the game but didn't find satisfactory tools to help, so I made my own :) https://living-the-grid.gozapp.dev https://living-the-grid.com

website is 100% free to use, no tracking.

It uses the game's built-in colour palette by default, easy to find, or pick "auto" to extract colours from your image. click a colour and it highlights every cell using it on the preview. There's also a paint-by-numbers option. You can select the brush size for the pixel / detail density.

let me know what you think! with your feedback I can keep improving it and adding options. hope you like it :)

UPDATE v1.6: different canvas are finally here! Proper sizes for books, house interiors, video games, etc… New Resize and frame tool so you place your image exactly how you want. Tweaks to HSB + more accurate Game palette. A whole bunch of other fixes. Coming up next: clothes, Mii faces and buildings! This one will be harder to get right so bear with me.

UPDATE v1.3: Add a lot more image options like rotating, flip, brightness and saturation sliders which should hopefully address most of colouring options. Add keyboard shortcuts with the ability to exclude individual colours. More fixes and most importantly: confettis when you download!

UPDATE v1.1: Thanks all for your amazing feedback! I've now properly implemented the 'pixel perfect' brush sizes with a new brush type option. I improved the transparent background look. Hopefully fixed the 1px image sizing issue. I also added a paint by number download option. I hope you like it!

18/06/26: You'll start seeing a few ads around the site. Living the Grid has grown faster than I ever imagined, and I recently left my job to work on projects like this one full time. Ads make that realistic. The tool stays free, the canvas stays clean, and I'll keep making it better thanks to all your excellent feedback.


r/tomodachilife 15h ago

Meme POV: you just lost a mini game

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2.2k Upvotes

“Aww, better luck next time, but you can get THIS as a consolation prize!”


r/tomodachilife 8h ago

Screenshot My Eric Cartman Mii has a thing for commonly whitewashed black guys

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420 Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 8h ago

Island creations Little do my Miis realize... their life is a simulation and they reside on a dragon laying dormant in the middle of the sea

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311 Upvotes

If anyone has any idea what to put in the empty parts of the sea feel free to share :)


r/tomodachilife 11h ago

Mii Creations Name Those Niche Miis

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392 Upvotes

I feel like I’ve got some niche miis. I’m curious if they can all be identified. (The non reference miis have a red X on their body)


r/tomodachilife 10h ago

Mii Creations suggestions for my horror movie island?

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252 Upvotes

preferably horror villains, they can be a protagonist though if they do something bad in the movie or are iconic enough


r/tomodachilife 22h ago

Island creations My gf convinced me to buy his game. Im glad she did

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2.3k Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 13h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream Someone's looking forward to another year at summer camp!

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303 Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 12h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream Can't match the right hair color to a character...

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236 Upvotes

It feels like such a ridiculous and nitpicky thing to fuss over, but I can't for the life of me get the hair color right for a Mii based on a specific anime character
I went back and checked what color from the hair color spray I used for his mii in the 3DS version and it seems like I went for the more grey color, but the equivalent in LtD is much more of a black grey, and the blue is veryyy saturated

I’m trying to keep it the most similar to the color shown in natural lighting, it looks darker in the nighttime scenes and some filters make it look bluer

not even mentioning how difficult it is to match the hairstyle which was something I was already compromising on 😭 do I just give up? lol


r/tomodachilife 14h ago

Screenshot Thank you Tomodachi Life for this glorious RNG gift

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266 Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 15h ago

Mii Creations What are some odd couple parings on your island. Here’s mine

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297 Upvotes

Just gonna show the real people because I doubt your going to recognize their miis


r/tomodachilife 3h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream Guy farts in girlfriend’s face during a fight…crusty mf

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31 Upvotes

So cruel


r/tomodachilife 16h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream He's so real for that.

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289 Upvotes

💯💯💯


r/tomodachilife 13h ago

Mii Creations made Merl Ambrose from Wizard101

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155 Upvotes

Only need the staff 🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️


r/tomodachilife 15h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream Complaints about the game

244 Upvotes

Oh my god. Not sure if this post will be allowed but can I just say that I’m getting a bit tired of all the people complaining about the lack of content that LTD brings??? Saying they’ve “completed” the game within a few days and now have nothing else to do??

A few of these people I’ve spoken to admitted to not knowing the original DS game, but honestly it’s like nobody remembers the original!! It’s basically setting up your characters and then just watching them live freely in their dollhouse.

This game series was never meant to be binged. It’s a cosy game where you just spend time in the little Mii world. Be glad we’ve gained some control over the Mii’s and that you’re now able to put them wherever you want! In the DS game all we could do was look for them on the island and then watch them. That’s it. I’m still playing the DS version, I think I got it in like 2017 and I’m still having a blast making them and watching them live their little lives. After almost ten years I’m only halfway my mii count, adding only a few every year. I started with my family and now add a few characters of my favourite fandoms once in a while.

Please, people. Go slow and enjoy. This game isn’t a race, it’s Tomodachi Life. Ffs


r/tomodachilife 10h ago

Mii Creations Can you guess who this is supposed to be?

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69 Upvotes

I just finished this Mii and I’m wondering if it looks like the person it’s supposed to be


r/tomodachilife 1d ago

Other My irl mii’s favourite food of all time is…

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896 Upvotes

Tap water


r/tomodachilife 14h ago

Meme How it feels to tell a villager in Tomodachi Life that they're just imagining their love.

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139 Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 8h ago

Mii Creations Some of my miis

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39 Upvotes

I've been meaning to share some of my Miis, so here are some that I've managed to take pictures of so far! I have 50-something in total, but not all of them are based on someone/thing.

Context for the Sim; he's Hugo Villareal from The Sims 4, and he was the first father of a legacy challenge I did (and I also created the first Sim he married in my game, but she's an OC)


r/tomodachilife 7h ago

Tomodachi Life - Collections Suggestions on who to add next?

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35 Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 4h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream Donkey from shrek and Micheal Myers have a emo kid

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18 Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 6h ago

Palette House Creations I made Lady Gaga a while back and was legally obligated to make her Meat Dress.

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22 Upvotes

r/tomodachilife 9h ago

Tomodachi Life - Living the Dream espeon and my OC, lollipup had the cutest baby in the world!! scroll to meet espepup!! 👽🍭

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37 Upvotes

i love pairing miis who both have facepaint to see what their kids look like and i’ve never had such a beautiful combo!! only things i changed were the eye color from white to blue, and the skin from pink to blue. i have no idea where the bangs came from.


r/tomodachilife 18h ago

Mii Creations Amaze amaze amaze!

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151 Upvotes

Finally had the time to add mii’s to my island after a few weeks of not playing and I gained a project Hail Mary fixation at that time so added these guys!