Walk of Life
by Porcelain Fortress · Apr 30, 2026
78 downloads
About the Game
Walk of Life is the ultimate competitive life simulator! Play with up to six players and do whatever it takes to make it to the top! Dive headfirst into the rat race and crush your friends (or our stupid bot players!) in Walk of Life!
Do your best to juggle your health, education, career and personal hygiene, all while dodging the hilarious curveballs life throws your way! Will you be a fry cook, a bank manager, or simply rely on the lottery for your income? Compete against friends or bots in a series of boardgame-inspired turns to determine who’s the champion!
The opulence! The artistry! The swag! Decorate your apartment to flex your material wealth! Nothing screams ‘success in life’ like a sleek designer couch and a weaponized robot vacuum to protect it from covetous intruders! Leave your friends in awe as you transform your apartment into a veritable Shangri-La of consumer products!
You will also be able to express yourself in the literal sense! How multifaceted!
Take on one of many roles with vastly different playstyles and embark on not-so-epic quests to score some sweet bonus points! Will you climb to the top of the corporate ladder as the Workaholic, scrounge up valuable artifacts as the Scavenger, or follow your horoscopes as the Mystic?
A brand-new engine allows for all sorts of new possibilities, including improved visuals, more fluid gameplay and a slew of other modern features. This cutting-edge technology will leave your eyeballs bulging from the excitement overflowing from your brain!
Just take a look at the animations in the Arcade!
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Can you believe it?
My younger coworker doesn't know who Gene Hackman is! What an outrage!
Oh, I also guess it's time for Walk of Life's first content update after full release! This one is packed with features, many of which have been on Santa's wishlist for quite some time now! Let's get right into it!
Improved Save/Load System
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You've been waiting for this feature for a long time, but as promised, our new and improved save/load system is finally ready! You may now save your game manually and store multiple saved games, for both local and online games!
New Role: The Hacker!
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The community voted for it, and now the Hacker has arrived! This no-good cybercriminal can hack into locations to gain advantages, such as increasing their salary, boosting their chances of winning the lottery, or even downloading a car! Be careful not do overdo it, however, as the feds may catch you if your heat becomes too high!
New Global Event: Kaiju Battle!
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Clucker's and the Stock Market are duking it out! Choose a side and aid one of these titans to victory by doing quests and hanging up propaganda posters. If your side is victorious, you might just be rewarded (in addition to directly influencing the economy and the Stock Market!)
New Pet: Pig!
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As returning favorite from No Time to Relax, the pig is making a return to Walk of Life. This porkball will allow you to eat fast food with a minimal time cost and will improve your sleep action: perfect for anyone pursuing a slacker lifestyle!
Other Changes
Before we get to the complete changelog, please consider shooting us a Steam review if you haven't already. It really helps smaller developers like us!
Now here's the complete changelog!
Changelog v1.1
Added a new Role, The Hacker! Hack locations for benefits and try to avoid the Feds.
New Save Game System! Games can now be saved every round, in both online and offline games.
A new Rejoin-Online-Games-System streamlines the way players rejoin games. Added the ability to drop players too.
If you disconnect from a game, we now show a robot head that invites you to rejoin that game when you enter the Online Menus on the Main Menu.
New Global Event: Kaiju Battle! Choose which giant monster to side with and help them conquer the town.
New Pet: The Pig! Who's a cuddly wuddly piglet?
Changed the font used for Thai and fixed glyph problems. This is still a work in progress and we will continue to polish this.
The Player Pawn now gives off smoke particles again when moving around on the map.
The Senior's Complain action now costs less time.
The Arcade's Practice Gaming Skill action now costs less time.
Changed how inventory items are sold. We now start by selling the lowest-count stack of that item in your inventory. In the previous behavior you could get stuck with multiple stacks, which was annoying.
A few pieces of text were not being localized correctly, fixed that and polished some older translations.
The Undecided Voter Achievement was bugged and should now be fixed for everyone.
Fixed a bug where the Shopaholic Coupon Card wouldn't hide or show itself correctly.
Can you believe it?
My younger coworker doesn't know who Gene Hackman is! What an outrage!
Oh, I also guess it's time for Walk of Life's first content update after full release! This one is packed with features, many of which have been on Santa's wishlist for quite some time now! Let's get right into it!
Improved Save/Load System
[img src="{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45297662/8753de1c2e76f19de10869481088f80946f66e25.png"]
You've been waiting for this feature for a long time, but as promised, our new and improved save/load system is finally ready! You may now save your game manually and store multiple saved games, for both local and online games!
New Role: The Hacker!
[img src="{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45297662/ade0796e1222fd21b6e3f46f990d71b902d6cb25.png"]
The community voted for it, and now the Hacker has arrived! This no-good cybercriminal can hack into locations to gain advantages, such as increasing their salary, boosting their chances of winning the lottery, or even downloading a car! Be careful not do overdo it, however, as the feds may catch you if your heat becomes too high!
New Global Event: Kaiju Battle!
[img src="{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45297662/73a003123c216e6b9d27ac41f640fc569b276738.png"]
Clucker's and the Stock Market are duking it out! Choose a side and aid one of these titans to victory by doing quests and hanging up propaganda posters. If your side is victorious, you might just be rewarded (in addition to directly influencing the economy and the Stock Market!)
New Pet: Pig!
[img src="{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45297662/22d85e91d83e2d3c1d2740174761c95ca2819c4e.png"]
As returning favorite from No Time to Relax, the pig is making a return to Walk of Life. This porkball will allow you to eat fast food with a minimal time cost and will improve your sleep action: perfect for anyone pursuing a slacker lifestyle!
Other Changes
Before we get to the complete changelog, please consider shooting us a Steam review if you haven't already. It really helps smaller developers like us!
Now here's the complete changelog!
Changelog v1.1
Added a new Role, The Hacker! Hack locations for benefits and try to avoid the Feds.
New Save Game System! Games can now be saved every round, in both online and offline games.
A new Rejoin-Online-Games-System streamlines the way players rejoin games. Added the ability to drop players too.
If you disconnect from a game, we now show a robot head that invites you to rejoin that game when you enter the Online Menus on the Main Menu.
New Global Event: Kaiju Battle! Choose which giant monster to side with and help them conquer the town.
New Pet: The Pig! Who's a cuddly wuddly piglet?
Changed the font used for Thai and fixed glyph problems. This is still a work in progress and we will continue to polish this.
The Player Pawn now gives off smoke particles again when moving around on the map.
The Senior's Complain action now costs less time.
The Arcade's Practice Gaming Skill action now costs less time.
Changed how inventory items are sold. We now start by selling the lowest-count stack of that item in your inventory. In the previous behavior you could get stuck with multiple stacks, which was annoying.
A few pieces of text were not being localized correctly, fixed that and polished some older translations.
The Undecided Voter Achievement was bugged and should now be fixed for everyone.
Fixed a bug where the Shopaholic Coupon Card wouldn't hide or show itself correctly.
Fixed Thai Language glyph rendering. Specifically how phonetic marks are rendered. We also added enhanced support for Thai line breaks so long unbroken texts should properly split into multiple lines! This is a work in progress and if you see any weird word breaks in Thai then let us know.
Added 3 new music tracks to Chailand!
Updated main menu flow for controllers and added controller button glyphs!
Added voice overs to the Mystic Role!
A wider range of actions now fall under Mystic Quests. Making them easier to finish.
The Mystic Role Quest status now updates immediately.
Fixed visual issues with Quest duration Icons.
Fixed Info box in the location UI showing scrambled info when bots are playing.
Fixed bots not understanding how to finish some quest types.
Fixed some localization issues in the Character Sheet.
Newspaper button should no longer show button glyphs on controller if it isn't your turn.
Fixed alignment of the pond asset in the Park, it was a bit off.
Fixed NPC animations in the Arcade.
Fixed the Metro building animations in Chailand.
Adjusted background train animation speed in Chailand.
Another day and another bugfix and polish update. We continue to plan bigger features and updates but until then at least we have this one.
Changelog for v1.0.2
Fixed a bug where Newspapers would sometimes not show up in online games for some players.
Fixed a bug where the Drifter would try to get Traits for Jobs that have no Traits (like the naked jobs).
Fixed a bug connected to Quests and locations.
Fixed a bug with where the Vote to End menu could be triggered twice.
Fixed a bug where Peons would try to access the map before it was loaded.
Fixed some missing or wrong localization strings in various languages.
'Vote To End' and 'Bathroom Break' texts on buttons were not localized in In Game Menu.
Buy Pets can no longer be performed if the button is disabled (grayed out).
Job Office Ambience has been tweaked to be less annoying.
Cyclical navigation added for the Character Sheet.
Optimized project and did some major asset cleanup and optimization.
Controller icons were shown on the 'Vote To End' and 'Bathroom Break' buttons, even though they did nothing.
A few rare Chinese glyphs were missing from our font and would show up as a square.
Active opponent mouse cursor is no longer shown when bots are acting in online games.
About screen was too long for the scroll view and would not scroll all the way down.
DirectX and Visual C++ Redist were not being installed alongside the project. Fresh installs should now install them if they are missing.
It's the day after launch, which we are celebrating with a small bug-fix and polish update.
We hope you are enjoying the game and we will continue to monitor it and get these bug fixes out as soon as possible.
v1.0.1 Changelog
Reduced the amount of score you receive for the Arcade
The Broken Toaster furniture item would not show up in the apartment after you had bought it. That's fixed now.
Fixed a bug where your cut from Racoon raids could be negative (and take money from you).
Some pets had incorrect pictures in the menu and the frogs got mixed up. That should be fixed now.
Fixed some image overlaps in the fancy apartment.
Reference to the Mall icon could get lost in the Scavenger sheet, this has been fixed.
Fixed missing title text in Global Event Newspaper.
Spanish and Portuguese translations had been incorrectly swapped in a few places. That's fixed now.
Added missing localizations for the Magnet and Master fishing poles.
Added missing localizations for quest item.
Added missing localizations for some Scavenger Treasure Maps.
Fixed some localization formatting issues.
Fixed a bug where if your username was less than 3 characters the Arcade menus could break.
What's that? The world's most competitive life simulator, Walk of Life, has completed its Early Access development and officially launched version 1.0 of the game? This news would probably threaten my very concept of reality, if I wasn't one of the developers!
Like a passenger plane going through intense turbulence, the ride here has been fun and bumpy! Whether you've waded through the bug-infested swamps of Early Access with us or are just joining us now, we're sure you'll have a blast with Walk of Life.
What's New in the 1.0 Update?
Our full release patch is way over the weight limit, packed with content that includes the Chailand map, the brand new Mystic role, new and updated pets, an expanded fishing system, the Arcade location and more. The patch marks the implementation of every feature promised on Walk of Life's Early Access Roadmap (apart from mod support. We know, we know! It's coming!)
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Check out the full patch notes below if you want all of the changes in detail, or just blindly dive in and get pleasantly surprised by all the new content the game has to offer. Also make sure to swing by our official Discord, where you can join our community of players that range from cozy gamers to incredible tryhards!
What's Next for Walk of Life?
As the dust of full release settles, there are still things we hope to add to the game. We have not forgotten our promise of mod support, and we have ideas for content, ranging from grounded to straight up bonkers, that we are workshopping right now! Make sure to stay tuned to our Steam dev blogs in the coming days for more info!
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Finally, we just want to give a mushy, tear-jerking THANK YOU to all of you for giving our silly game a chance. The reviews you've given us so far have been very moving, so if you haven't let us know how you feel about the game, make sure to let us know in the Steam reviews!
That's it. That's the blog. Now go play Walk of Life.
PATCH NOTES:
* Game is out of Early Access!!
* Chailand, a new map is now available! It's bigger and full of new locations.
* Pets 2.0! New and distinct pets, all with different bonuses (everything from birds to rocks, and that one that ahhh... we'll allow you to discover 'that' one). We also added animations to them.
* Pet choices now rotate every turn in the pet store.
* New Role: The Mystic. The stars have spoken and they want you to buy lottery tickets.
* New Feature: Vote to End Game. Players can now vote to end a game early.
* New Feature: Bathroom Break. Do you need to go to the bathroom? Is your pasta about to go from al dente to all mushy? Hit that button for a much needed break time in online games.
* New Global Event: The Big Game is coming to town, support your team, or else.
* New Building: Arcade, come here to play video games and eat... what I think is pizza. For now only available in Chailand.
* Chailand now has specific buildings for Clothes, Electronics, Pets and Furniture. These locations all have new jobs and job traits.
* New courses at the University! For example Wilderness Survival.
* Fishing update! More poles, education and bait.
* New special furniture added. For example Magic Mirror, Fish in a Barrel and a Slush Machine.
* Even more Avatars to choose from.
* Lots of small and big balance fixes. These extend to just about everything in the game.
* Stock profits now also give you some score. What are you waiting for? Sell, sell, sell!
* Increased rewards for Vexcorp quests.
* Global event UI polished, and active global events can now be accessed by pressing the Newspaper button in the HUD.
* Game Browser and Lobby menus in the Main Menu were overhauled.
* Emoji overhaul. New fancy Emoji menu, players pop in all around to send you their regards.
* The round transition has been changed with fancy graphics and lots of bugs fixes and polish.
* Peons (the people and cars of the world) are back in the game, filling the maps with life.
* We now show a special menu when your items get Auto-Pawned.
* Swapped out the Player Info Card for a nifty Wallet. It's made from ethically sourced pixels.
* Location art and UI got a facelift, oh so pretty!
* New In-Game Menu (with the End Game Vote and Bathroom Break buttons).
* Animations and interactions have been polished, added and fixed all over the place.
* New Music and SFX added and mixed.
* Lots of game-breaking bugs have been squashed!
* Soooo many big, medium and small bugfixes, the programmers wanted them all listed but that would just fill the screen with a never-ending list.
* Fixed some broken Achievements.
* Fixed a bunch of Save Game and Rejoin bugs.
* Choice Events that depend on furniture (PC, TV) work correctly now.
Hotfix 1 (Released yesterday)
- Fixed game freezing after around round 10 because of Extreme Global Event Frequency.
Hotfix 2
- Fixed Bot sometimes getting stuck after buying PVP action and trying to enter it´s jobs building straight after.
- Fixed Bots getting Hard Quests that they could not finish.
- Fixed Localization for Scavenger Trait in Character Overview.
We are currently testing the Bots more for issues and will be adding more hotfixes if we find any.
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