Surprise! Tomodachi Life 'Welcome Version' Demo Is Live Now On The Switch eShop

not for the US yet....

Nice surprise! Hoping to play it later when I'm home. Let's gooooooo!

Nooo! Must... resist... wait till full release... go in blind...

I don't need a demo for this kind of greatness. Besides, I have a backlog the size of which I personally have never seen the likes of which. So, there is that. Especially now that Pokopia has entered the stage...

We're receiving a demo for what's likely to be my favourite game of the year just over three weeks before its release? COUNT ME IN NOWWWWW!!

@Aquinas
This is a game for people who have interest with life simulation by take control something, give specific treatments to watch the reaction, being creative in designing so it might not appeal to gamers who expect more actions than designing something.
In other words, this is a game for Art / Designer lover, not for Action gamers.

Does it transfer over?

This should be the only comment here until someone reliably answers it.

Edit: Just call me ol' Reliable 😉

Look, I'm not even making this **** up:

Yo! Meet my first islander, ya know?

He makes this stuff look guuud ...

@Lord It would be weird if it doesn't, considering the demo for the 3DS game allowed it, moreover the Japanese version of the 3DS game allowed to transfer from the unlocalized DS game.

@Aquinas @SuperEndriu how many times are y'all gonna say this stop dear god

oh and the demo is avaliable in the us now. close out of the eshop and go back in, it should be there now

i do not get the "im not going to buy these comments" like at least give the reason if you're going to add nothing of substance to the comments section </3

either way this is an absolute treat i cannot wait to dive into this later

no demo listed for me

handheld boost mode works on this one, strangely enough. it disables the touchscreen.

@squiddu-real
So for normal mode the touch screen is available?

@squiddu-real how is that strange? the game doesn't require touch controls so why should it not work with handheld boost?

Woohoo great!
One of my kiddos is counting the days till April 16th, so she, at least, will dive right into this demo.

@Sylamp it still has touch screen support in a few areas that aren't just ui interaction and it has felt like the boost mode is a little picky sometimes, idk

As much as I loved the 3Ds game, this game is definitely not for me.

LET'S GOOOOO!!!!!!! Cannot wait to jump in!

Woo-hoo! Looking forward to testing this out.

I'll try this out, though I don't expect to buy the full version, as I typically get bored of cozy/sim games after not too long.

Downloaded and ready to try out later! Glad there's a demo, but because I have a lot of fond memories of the first one, I'll definitely be picking this up regardless. Love how weird these games are.

@UpsideDownRowlet
Cozy games will not feel boring if you put yourself as an Artist / Designer who is working with designing something by thinking, not as Sportman who need non stop relentless actions and violence.

@Anti-Matter I can sometimes get into an artistic game (for instance, I love Planet Zoo on Steam), and I'm sure I'd have some fun with Tomodachi, I just think I'd probably drop it before I really got my money's worth. I have plenty of other games to play, anyhow.

Time to clean some space off the internal memory.

@squiddu-real
What's wrong?

Looks to me like the game's running at 1080p 30fps in both TV and Handheld mode on Switch 2. The image is sharp but rather pixelated, so probably little to no AA. Notably, you don't need Handheld Boost for the game to run at 1080p portably on Switch 2, so you might wanna turn it off here so you can use the touch screen

I'm glad they released a demo. I am really looking forward to the game.

@Pillowpants Yeah its super weird to release pokopia one month before this - I saved my building energy for Tomadashi though

Me and my son both downloaded this last night and we were. both laughing SO hard for admittedly not completely wholesome reasons!
I have preordered and I can’t wait! However I really hope the game doesn’t become a 1 trick pony and begin to bore me once the aforementioned quirkiness grows old. Hopefully I will genuinely care enough about my miis to pour multiple hours into this.

@squiddu-real Internet comment section is to comment. Would I love for Internet comment sections to die? Yep. But here we are.

@Anti-Matter As an artist myself, this is not creation, it is playing existing entertainment. Creation is where you pick up a brush and paint and make something new, not play a video game someone else already made. The developer created something.

It was cute. It made my other half laugh so much! Can't wait for the full game.

@Aquinas there is a pretty deep painting tool inside the game though - in the demo you can add face paint to Miis with brushes, there's an airbrush, locking transparent pixels and even blending modes!

Well, I made a Kris Deltarune Mii and gave my island the most cursed name I could think of.

@MiltonHolmes Good to know, thanks.