Artist Life Simulator

A survival card game about making art and staying sane

Interactive Fate · Published by Interactive Fate , Placeholder Gameworks · Released Dec 13, 2022

Reviews: Mostly Positive; 79% of 179
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 0; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update on Steam: 1 year ago; Mar 25, 2025
Minimum PC: Any old at least DX10 cap…; 4 GB RAM · 2.4 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Artist Life Simulator?

A single-player roguelite set in an alternate nineteenth-century city, played in real time with pause. You combine cards to visit places, develop ideas, and turn experiences into paintings while managing money, health, and sanity. Each run follows an artist's life, with permanent death and a central goal of creating a painting that changes the world.

For you if...

+you enjoy balancing competing needs under time pressure
+you like experimenting with card combinations and discovering their consequences

Not for you if...

−you expect steady progress without sudden, permanent losses
−you want to avoid themes of addiction and mental illness

What players say

79% of 179 reviews are positive

Players praise the artist-life premise and the stories that emerge from unexpected events. The most common complaint concerns the AI-generated paintings, while some players find the setbacks too destructive or the late game tedious.

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Artist Life Simulator system requirements

Minimum: Any old at least DX10 cap…, 4 GB RAM, 2.4 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS: Windows 7 (SP1+) and Windows 10
Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
Graphics: Any old card at least DX10 capable and supports 1280x720 resolution.
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 2500 MB available space
DirectX: Version 10

Does Artist Life Simulator have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Artist Life Simulator run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 26
Steam features: Family Sharing
Languages: Full audio: English.

Does Artist Life Simulator use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam