Text Your Life - Chapters 1, 2 and 3 are now AVAILABLE! English / Spanish - ITCHIO & STEAM
Play now on Itch.io! Available in English and Spanish
(Early Access - Windows, Mac, Linux & Android)
Play now on Steam! Available in English and Spanish
(Early Access - Windows only)
This game is still in an early access state, and only Chapters 1, 2 and 3 have been released. Follow us on social media and don't miss any content update!
As a fourth-year Law student with a part-time job at the Catal Café, you might as well end up going bald from stress. Fortunately, you can keep in touch with your peculiar group of friends and Daniel, your long-distance boyfriend, through your favorite messaging app (😉). They help you see the fun side of your busy life, as well as keep every hair in its place (or not).
Now you've just moved out of home and into your new apartment, and everyone knows that means... party time! Music, alcohol, laughter, kisses... Wait, what?! Kisses?! Your memories are blurry, but somehow you clearly recall the feeling of someone's lips on yours. A warm and pleasant feeling. Hold on!! Pleasant!? 😳
Who did you kiss that night? Will you be able to find out with the help of your girlfriends-turned-detective? How will that kiss affect your relationship with Daniel? And most importantly - how much does a good wig cost 😱?
Trigger Warnings: alcohol, smoking, cheating, swearing, mention of violent acts (only in a humorous context), ghost stories, and sexual themes/jokes.
Text Your Life is a mobile phone chat simulator for android or PC that lets you put yourself in the shoes of our protagonist, a female university student with a group of eccentric friends and a love life that has suddenly turned somewhat... complicated.
* Play comfortably on your mobile phone, or on PC if you prefer, as if it were a real messaging app. Chat, receive and make calls, browse the profiles of your contacts...
* 7 different routes, and 6 unique love interests. Will you continue your relationship with Daniel, or will you catch feelings for someone else? Surely you won't end up in a love triangle with two best friends, right...?
* Shape the protagonist's personality with every choice you make, as well as her level of affinity with every character. Your personality and your choices will affect the course of the story.
* Only Chapters 1, 2 and 3 are available for now, with more than 108,600 words of content and roughly 904 choices (about 8 hours and 30 minutes for playthrough). Make a choice every 20 messages at most! Already finished the available content? Play again and change your choices to experience completely different playthroughs!
* This game was originally written in Spanish, and it's been completely translated into English.
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* Writing: Alma Moral and Vera Lobo
* Programming, icons and app UI: Vera Lobo
*English translation: CeCe and Vera Lobo
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Artificial Intelligence WAS NOT USED in any way to create this game or any of its assets.
We present you the results of the “Your TYL MC here” event on Discord! 😍 It is really amazing how every MC is so different from the others! Every time we look at it we spot a new detail hehe Thank you guys for putting so much effort and love into this, we will treasure this forever! 😘🩷
Here is the list of MC names and their respective artist:
Yue by Kim Yi
Lilium by Rice
Paola by ‧₊˚ ☁ ⋅ Y O G U .𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ☾.
Melissa by Q
Harper Moer_pie
Rose by eezy
Gardenia by Jax
Castorice by luce
Nim by RumBii
Daphne by hottub
Allie by ‼ Evie 𓏵𓏵
Orphie by Eymie
.que7133
Sum (Lucas' Wife)
Auden by ⌜MOD⌟ Peaches♡ (edited by trifove)
Lekhani by Trifove
A big thank you to Trifove, one of our servers mods and the brain behind this event! When it comes to getting creative, she’s the best! She was also in charge of coordinating all the participants and getting the final composition ready!🫶
More events will come in the future, so make sure to join Text Your Life’s server, everyone!🩷
Do each of the girls have a preferred guy they ship MC with?
Emma -> Marc. She thinks they would be the perfect romantic couple. She's seen how he looks at her, after all...
Rebeca -> Real words that came out of Rebeca's mouth: "Why choose one when you can have them all? It's like when you go buy some clothes... Would you just buy the first thing that you try on?". She got scolded by Olivia after that, of course.
Olivia -> Daniel. She's aware of the effort and dedication MC and Daniel have put into the relationship, and thinks that breaking up would be a total pity.
Nora -> Suho! It can't be coincidence that Suho came into MC's life. It's destiny! ✨Right???!
Sofía -> Lucas 😏 If she can't have him, then she wants to have some eye candy in future family reunions at least.
Mom -> She's Marc's number 1 fan, so... hehe. Totally ready for him to be her son-in-law 😅
Gabriella -> She just wishes Nicholas and MC would finally get together to get rid of all that... "tension" between them.
But hey, Sam is not alone is his battle for MC's heart... His online friends root for him from afar! 💪 Thanks for your ask, Anon! 🩷
Hi, I've found a few typos in the English translation, is there somewhere you'd prefer for these to be submitted?
Oh yeah that would be really helpful! The best way to submit them would be through Discord, on our "bug report" channel. Here's the link to our discord server.
📢 Hey everyone! There's an art event being held on our Discord server! 🎨👩🎨👨🎨 Do you want your Text Your Life's MC to appear in a cute chibi group photo with other player's MC? Then join the "Your TYL MC here!" event on TYL's server and have some fun drawing your own MC while making new friends!
Link to the Discord server here ⬅️
You can read the rules on the post dedicated to the event on the TYL forum over there 🔍
Everyone is welcomed to join 😊 Let your MC's forget about her accidental kissy-kissy by sharing a fun moment with her alter egos! 😜
❤️Mini event idea and promo picture by the lovely Trifove.
❤️Chibis that appear on the picture created by our dear Discord members: Kim Yi, Rice, YOGU, and Q.
Great Game so far, just a small little gripe. We knowmour boyfriend is in London, which I'm guessing is UK? If it is, they would call 999 not 911 just a heads up.
Hello! 😊 We searched through the script again (it's been so long since we wrote some parts that we have a difficult time remembering it all😅), but the only one who mentions 911 is the MC as far as we know.
Yeah, as you said, Daniel is indeed living in London, but the rest of the characters canonically live in another country, even if we don't specify which country, hehe. We just chose to use "911" as almost everyone in the world knows that's a number someone would call in an emergency (we are from Spain, and our emergency number is 112, but almost everyone knows about "911" from movies and series).
But every player is free to imagine which country does the Supergroup live in! 🥰Thanks for the ask, and for playing TYL! <3
Someone pointed out in the comments that Daniel does actually say 911, and they are actually right! We will leave here what we replied to them (we are so sorry @bex1920, you were totally right too 😅🙏):
"Oh I think you are referring to the moment the accident happens and Daniel says he has to hang up to call 911? Sorry, we forgot we decided to keep the number in the English translation (in Spanish it just says "the emergency number" in general).
We actually decided to keep it that way because, well, Daniel isn't really from the UK even if he's living there right now. He is speaking to MC, who is not used to UK's emergency number, so it would be weird to tell someone who is not from there a different number and start debating about what's the correct number while someone is in need of urgent help 😅 haha
We just thought it would be natural that, even if you know the number is different, the number you are used to would be the first one to come to mind when you are startled and scared, and speaking to a person who you need to understand the gravity of the moment to hang up quickly.
TL,DR: We decided to keep 911 in the English translation because Daniel is nervous at that moment and speaking to MC, who's not used to UK's energency number. Sorry for the rant 😆"
Just wanna say, this is such a fun game! <3 I absolutely love the concept of games taking place inside a phone! (Also I love Rebeca and Lucas sm they're so fun) I can't wait for the next update!!!❤️❤️
Thank you anon! 🩷 Rebeca and Lucas are a great duo 🤪 haha. We're working right now on Chapter 3! 🤭🔥
Hi, are the kiss options always narrowed down to just 2, so the first 2 that the MC says could be the kiss culprit is locked and then you can't choose any of the others? If so, it's a bit obscure in-game how the mechanics of this works & it might be helpful to make it clear there's a limit like that earlier on, so we don't have to go back to replay.
Hello anon! Umm we don't fully understand what you are asking? If you are asking if choosing as suspects of the kiss two of the LI would automatically discard the others, well it doesn't really work like that (and we don't really understand how you got to that conclusion?).
What determines which culprits you can keep as suspects or totally discard are your previous choices. A choice that's really important is if you were the one that kissed or if you were kissed by the LI (end of chapter one), which can leave you out of some routes. After that, your choices after every "investigation" also do matter. At the end of chapter two, you might end up with one, two or even three suspects in total, which will vary because of your choices.
We don't really understant how that's "obscure" at all? Actually, the fun of the game resides on trying different options to find the differences, if not, the "investigation" to find the culprit would be no fun at all (which is, actually, the main plot of the game). After all, that's why we work so hard on making the game replayable...
loving this game !!!!!!!! tho im wondering if lowering affinity with daniel is needed to get with other ROs or if there'll be an option to break up no matter how high or low the affinity is with him?
Hey there anon! Umm in most cases, you'll get the chance to break up with Daniel at the end of the common route no matter what your affinity is with him, buuuut there's a specific combination of choices that might lead you into his route pretty much directly (we can't specify which choices yet, as it is still too soon and, as the game is still in development, things can still change a lot).
About the affinity to enter the other guys' routes, it is actually a lot more important that the affinity (and some other requirements 🤫) with the specific LI is high enough for it. The affinity with Daniel does not affect that at all, but it will certainly affect Daniel's dialogue with MC during the other routes.
Hope that clears your doubts a bit! Thanks for the ask 😊💕
