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The Use of Life is a multi-ending adventure book style JRPG. The main character’s various attachments change in accordance with the choices the player makes, and the ending changes depending on “the use of life” you choose through your journey.

The Use of Life is a choose your own adventure, crpg and turn-based strategy game developed by だらねこげーむず/Daraneko Games and published by PLAYISM.
Released on May 21st 2022 is available only on Windows in 4 languages: Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English.

It has received 433 reviews of which 393 were positive and 40 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Use of Life into these genres:

Choose Your Own Adventure CRPG Turn-Based Strategy JRPG RPG 2D Turn-Based Combat Story Rich Dark Fantasy Fantasy Adventure Quick-Time Events Singleplayer Indie Early Access Multiple Endings Replay Value Choices Matter Class-Based Controller

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows7 / 8 / 10
  • Processor: 1.2 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible graphics card

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June 2025
I will preface that one of the two main routes is finished- however the fully completed main route has more than one ending- which HEAVILY depends on your decisions and choices you make throughout the course of the game. There is also a lot of little small things that do affect things later on in the story. The gameplay of this game is really awesome and definitely the highlight that kept me hooked. It's a unique combination of split-path decisions with turn based combat that has action commands (on the defensive end) that let you either outright evade/graze damage or consistently guard enemy attacks. It has a very strong mechanical focus- with what you choose to spec in very much changing up how you go about combat encounters. Combat is interesting in that you and the enemy both pick your moves in sets of three- and this ends up being really cool with how the combat system is in place with a lot of player expression in terms of strategy in how you plan out your actions and confidence in mechanical ability to engage in its defensive system. Also, this game has a pretty nice soundtrack! I love the fact that its dynamic in battle at some points as well. There were quite a few songs from the soundtrack I really enjoy. I hope an official release of the OST happens at some point. The writing, while nothing completely ground-breaking, is at least good enough to make you care a lot about the characters and some pretty interesting world building and implications. This is also a game that doesn't let you grind to overcome challenges. It's pretty difficult, all things considered. However, the gratification of overcoming the bosses FEELS SO GOOD. It's a relatively short game that doesn't overstay it's welcome. I think my first playthrough from start to end was less than 10 hours, and the repeat playthrough for the other ending of route 1 was shorter due to being able to skip lots of dialogue. I think even in its current state, it's well worth a purchase, and I'm very excited for the second route to be completed as well.
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Feb. 2025
Picked it up for the QTE gimmick a while ago, had some fun for a few hours, got frustrated that I couldn't grind things out to solve the problem of my get good not seeming to kick in. Came back to it recently and took a more methodical approach to things, picked and chose my fights, got clever with item and ability combos, and switched to blocking attacks that were too quick for me to react too. Had a significantly better time, sunk 14 hours over 2 days and got both endings. Was a genuine indie delight. This game made me popping off from carefully considered and concisely executed victories and made me tear up in both endings. The core system proves itself out past its gimmick and I hope the dev(s) don't over commit to much more past the new endings coming out any month now. With such a talent for weaving together disparate systems and narrative threads, short and tight experiences like this one without too much feature bloat will make for fantastic follow up projects.
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Nov. 2024
A unique game combining a CYOA adventure book with a turn-based battle system where you use action commands to dodge enemy attacks. There's a lot of ability to go for different builds (two different physical classes and two different magical classes, which can be combined into four different advanced classes). As of writing one of the two major story branches is complete, so you're already able to get half of the endings of the game and even if it were to not get updated again it's worth the money.
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Nov. 2024
Story heavy game with cute art style and easily customizable combat. There are several branches in the story so it's also replayable. This game is doing a lot with little. Very worth playing.
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Nov. 2024
I like this game; I love almost everything about this game. the story is good, and gameplay is good even though it a bit a hard but if you good enough it won't be any problem
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The Use of Life is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

The Use of Life is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.

The Use of Life received 393 positive votes out of a total of 433 achieving a rating of 8.42.
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The Use of Life was developed by だらねこげーむず/Daraneko Games and published by PLAYISM.

The Use of Life is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Use of Life is not playable on MacOS.

The Use of Life is not playable on Linux.

The Use of Life is a single-player game.

The Use of Life does not currently offer any DLC.

The Use of Life does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

The Use of Life does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Use of Life is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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The Use of Life
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だらねこげーむず/Daraneko Games
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Release 21 May 2022
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