The Good Life is a mixture of murder mystery and life simulation from Deadly Premonition maker Swery. Accordingly, the ideas are quirky: You play a journalist who is looking for the big story in a small town and discovers that the inhabitants turn into dogs and cats at night. She can also change her shape and use her sharpened senses to investigate a murder case. Away from this, you scrape by with small jobs from the villagers or go about your daily routine, for example, by raising a garden.