#Immortal Life

[wentian]

IMMORTAL LIFE (2024) dev. YiFang Studio 🌳🌲🌿 Rain Water • End 🌦️🌷🍃 "Grass sprouts, trees bud"

[three--rings]

Immortal Life

Hey guys, here to recommend a video game. This one was recced to me by....someone on here. Sorry I can't remember who it was, but it's been a solid month or so and that post wasn't tagged (cause I was complaining about another game.)

Immortal Life is a Steam game in early access currently. It's a farming sim set in a cultivation sect. Yeah, that's right, it's Stardew Valley but Xianxia!

There's my little farm (all photos in this post are from my game).

The premise is that you are restoring a cultivation sect that was destroyed in a tragedy. So in addition to farming to provide food and to sell for $, you are gathering resources to rebuild the sect building by building.

As it goes on, you are trying to attract lecturers to improve your cultivation and "level up" your skills.

As you can see, the art is really pretty, and when combined with incredibly soothing traditional music, it's so freaking relaxing.

The setting is equally aesthetic, with a variety of shops and NPCs. All dialogue is in Chinese with well done English subtitles. I've only found a couple of typos so far in the game.

In addition to standard farming, fishing (more Animal Crossing style than SDV), and dungeon crawling, there's also crafting with wood and bamboo, and a pretty fun cooking minigame.

The dungeon crawling is fun, with cultivation based ranged and spell attacks rather than simple sword slashing.

So far it's pretty well-developed. I've been playing a LOT of early access games in the last year and this one is pretty polished and has a lot of content already. (I haven't run into any end of content yet after 15 hours.) It's a lot more complete than say Coral Island is so far, for example.

Anyway, I'm having an absolute blast with this game. I recommend it to any fans of this genre of game, but it's ESPECIALLY nice to experience being in danmei fandom and having a lot of familiarity with the setting and cultural touchstones.

It's a Chinese-made game, so it's made for an audience who understand what cultivation is. It's not explained or dumbed down for an English audience. I don't know if it would be really confusing for someone totally unfamiliar with the Xianxia genre, but the game is clear enough in walking you through the actual game tasks.

I haven't gotten far enough to really be able to speak to how the relationships develop or any romance options. So far, just getting tiny bits of approval is a little bit of a chore. But that's how it goes.

So I think it's very worth checking out. Full price is $19.99, I got it in the recent Steam sale for a little less.

[talentpiper11]

Work in Progress Wednesday

Hey all! Long time no WIPW. I moved recently and my creative juices have been running pretty low, but I’m settling in now.

I’ve been working (since before the move) on a series of small paintings for @monbons’s lovely fic, The Eternal Life of Baz Pitch. Each piece corresponds to a particular chronological point in the 42,000 word fic, highlighting inflection points in the titular character’s life experiences. Here, then, are the first 2 of a planned 5 painting set:

And a close up of the tiny Baz, pencil lead for scale:

And yes, all of the paintings are on old floppy disks! An explanation of my intentions for each after some no-pressure tags and hellos:

@monbons @rimeswithpurple @larkral @raenestee @youarenevertooold @simonsnowsfreckles @prettygoododds @roomwithanopenfire @ebbpettier and anyone else who’d like to post something but hasn’t been tagged yet!

Okay now, warning, spoilers for Eternal Life ahead:

The first piece shows Baz’s scene in the forest behind his childhood home, a variety of trinkets buried at the riverbed as his aunt had taught him. In the thin moonlight, the too-dark shadow of the darkness-called-Lamb stands in stark silhouette.

The second piece shows Baz sitting under a tree in a London park at dusk, reading. He is framed by peonies and gladioluses on either side. The odd-numbered peonies suggest love and a new beginning, but also hint at bad luck. The gladiolus variety I chose literally symbolizes “I will pierce your heart.”

[eliseliedl]

Winter ❄ Immortal Life 3 / ?

[rox-of-iu]

bought "immortal life" as a gift for myself and I'm immediately obsessed

it's stardew valley style farm sim but xianxia (said by someone who never played stardew or farm sims this is guesswork lol)

anyway it's early access now but it will come out as a full game in Jan 2024! and I guess there is a possibility that the price will go up once it's a full game cuz that happens sometimes so if ur interested now is your chance hah (its on sale rn for 11,19€)

[polargyze]

the little mermaid: eternal life

[retronation]

Xie Wentian- Immortal Life

[kirstenly]

My character in Immortal Life. I just got this outfit and I am certain it'll be the one i keep on her forever.

[writingsofwesteros]

Kink talk;

My favourite au currently is Immortal Life (tywin and Stev all together are just adorable), and with that the soft yandere femdom Stev

Oh Stev is such a yandere, she's too much and we love her

[ghooostbaby]

my favourite part of playing immortal life (xianxia-universe farming simulator game!! thanks to @muigiel for the recommendation! so happy i have a PC now!!!) so far is this fish-obsessed guy sending me unsolicited odes to fish despite us being "nodding acquaintances" only. he has my whole heart

of course this gives me he xuan head canons too... hua cheng is all "who knows what he's really thinking" but in his communication array he xuan is spamming him with deeply philosophical fish poetry

[alfredopizzaluver151]

Everyone who wants more unique farming games please go support Immortal Life and Teatopia on Steam! They are Chinese fantasy farming games and look really good. I hope they get enough support that someday they'll be on the Switch. (Or the Switch successor lol)

[wentian]

IMMORTAL LIFE (2024) dev. YiFang Studio My favorite outfits 🌸

[foxchainart]

It's anyone's guess how they got Idia to come outside Pattern on the inner tube based on Swiftcrys Rapunzel dress pattern, with her permission

[colorofinsanity]

I can't wait till Immortal Life is out long enough to have a useful wiki cause I can't find shit

[eliseliedl]

Fall 🍂 Immortal Life 2 / ?

[snarkspawn]

I also got Immortal Life in the steam sale so look at my little baby cultivator